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"In Lowestoft a boat was laid, Mark well what I do say!": Rare first edition of Rudyard Kipling's The Fringes of the Fleet
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Fringes of the Fleet.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1915.
First edition of this collection of nautical essays and poems. 12mo, original illustrated wrappers. In near fine condition. A very sharp example.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 122463
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"Revolution, Revolution, Get your fresh hot revolution here": First edition, first printing of Jymi Jones' Guerilla Warfare in Philly
JONES, Jymi.
Guerilla Warfare In Philly.
Elkins Park, Pennsylvania: Uhuru/Publications, 1970.
First edition of the Philadelphia activist's first book of poetry. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 134011
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First edition of Richard Hoggart's Auden: An Introductory Essay; inscribed by Richard Hoggart
HOGGART, Richard. [W.H. Auden].
Auden: An Introductory Essay.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1951.
First edition of Hoggart's full-length critical study of Auden's work. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece portrait of Auden. Signed by the author on the title page, "with very kind regards Richard Hoggart." Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 127903
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"The best-printed American writer": First edition of Joseph Blumenthal's Robert Frost and His Printers
BLUMENTHAL, Joseph.
Robert Frost and His Printers.
Autin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1985.
First edition of this work on Frost's relationships with his printers. Large octavo, original cloth, illustrated. One of 1000 copies printed at the letterpress of A. Colish with plates made and printed by the Meriden Gravure Company. Typography by Joseph Blumenthal. Fine in a fine slipcase.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 121466
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"The frayed sojourn of the secret price of sorrow simmers on the slow fire of remembrance where the onion plays the lead": First edition of Contemporary Poetry and Prose: Picasso Poems Number 4 & 5
PICASSO, Pablo; Salvador Dail; Andre Breton; E. E. Cummings; Kenneth Allott; Dylan Thomas; et al.
Contemporary Poetry and Prose: Picasso Poems Number 4 & 5.
London: The Farleigh Press, 1936.
First edition of this scarce pamphlet containing six poems by Picasso and additional contributions by Dali, Dylan Thomas, Andre Breton, and E. E. Cummings. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 125908
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"Fly over the valley when the winds are keen, and nestle where the earth receives another generation of exhausted leaves": First edition of Edgar Lee Masters' Starved Rock
MASTERS, Edgar Lee.
Starved Rock.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1919.
First edition of the this early collection of poetry. Octavo, original cloth. Inadvertently inscribed on the final free endpaper, "For S.D. Green...Edgar Lee Masters." In very good condition.
Price: $65.00 Item Number: 96230
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"Sand dunes stretched along the lake for miles": First edition of Edgar Lee Masters' The Great Valley; inscribed by him
MASTERS, Edgar Lee.
The Great Valley.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1916.
First edition of Masters' early collection of poetry. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For S.D. Green with the friendship of Edgar Lee Masters January 24-1928." In near fine condition. An exceptional example.
Price: $65.00 Item Number: 96231
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First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Limits and Renewals
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Limits and Renewals.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1932.
First American edition of the Kipling's final collection of stories and poems. Octavo, original publisher's decorated cloth. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $60.00 Item Number: 120680
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First edition, first issue of Muriel Spark's The Fanfarlo and Other Verse
SPARK, Muriel.
The Fanfarlo and Other Verse.
Aldington: The Hand and Flower Press, 1952.
First edition, first issue of Spark's first book of verse, preceding her first novel by five years. Octavo, original wrappers. In fine condition.
Price: $60.00 Item Number: 127039
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"ENOUGH FOR ME IN DREAMS TO SEE AND TOUCH THY GARMENTS' HEM- THY FEET HAVE TROD SO NEAR TO GOD, I MAY NOT FOLLOW THEM": FIRST EDITION OF RUDYARD KIPLING'S MANY INVENTIONS
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Many Inventions.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1893.
First English edition of this collection of Kipling's poems and tales. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt. In very good condition.
Price: $55.00 Item Number: 123061
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"Heart-break house in the heart: love's broken flesh arrows festerflower-ing rainbow-rimmed moon": First edition of Irving Stettner's On The 2nd Avenue Patrol: Selected Poems
STETTNER, Irving.
On The 2nd Avenue Patrol: Selected Poems.
New York: Home Planet Publications, 1976.
First edition of this collection of Stettner's selected poems. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by the poet on the verso of the front panel. Illustrated by Pierre Jacquemon. Foreword by Seymour Krim. In fine condition. Cover photograph by Mike Woods.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 122588
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"Brown and bright as agate, mountain-cool, Eurotas singing slips from pool to pool": First edition of Aldous Huxley's Leda
HUXLEY, Aldous.
Leda.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1920.
First edition of Huxley's classic collection of poems. Octavo, original cloth and paper spine label. In good condition.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 139026
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First edition of Kipling's Poems Edited, with an Introductory Essay, by Wallace Rice
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Kipling’s Poems. Edited, with an Introductory Essay, by Wallace Rice.
Chicago: George M. Hill Company, 1899.
First edition, second issue of Wallace Rice's anthology of Kipling's poems. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece portrait of Kipling. Fully annotated, index of first lines. In near fine condition.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 121762
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"Oh love, love, what is love? How can I know?": First Edition of the Lost Plays of Eugene O'Neill
O'NEILL, Eugene. Introduction by Lawrence Gellert.
Lost Plays (1913-1915).
New York: New Fathoms Press Ltd, 1950.
First edition of this collection of the playwright's early plays, written as a young man. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 100014
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"Come you back to Mandalay, Where the old Flotilla lay. Can’t you ‘ear their paddles chunkin’ from Rangoon to Mandalay": First edition, first impression of the New India Paper Edition of Rudyard Kipling's Verse
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Rudyard Kipling’s Verse: Inclusive Edition 1885-1926.
London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1927.
First edition, first impression of the New India Paper Edition of Rudyard Kipling's Verse: The Inclusive Edition 1885-1926 which includes thirty-four poems written between 1918 and 1926 and one poem hitherto not published. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in the scarce original dust jacket which is in very good condition.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 136120
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First Edition of The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer
FROST, Robert.
The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963.
First edition of the collected correspondence between Frost and lifelong friend and fellow poet Louis Untermeyer. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Author photograph by Warren Rothschild.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 137256
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First edition of Charles Stuart Calverley's Verses and Translations
CALVERLEY, Charles Stuart.
Verses and Translations.
Cambridge: Deighton, Bell, and Co., 1862.
First edition of Calverley's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. In good condition. Bookplate and ownership inscription. Rare.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 124183
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"He knew another place, a wood, and in it, tall as trees, were cliffs; and if he stood on one of these 'twould be among the tops of trees": First edition of Robert Frost's The Lone Striker
FROST, Robert.
The Lone Striker.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1933.
First edition of Frost's classic poem, written in South Shaftsbury, Vermont. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Number eight of The Borzoi Chap Books. Designs by W.A. Dwiggins. In fine condition.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 137284
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First edition of Charles Stuart Calverley's Verses and Translations
CALVERLEY, Charles Stuart.
Verses and Translations.
Cambridge: Deighton, Bell, and Co., 1862.
First edition of Calverley's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. In good condition. Ownership inscription. Rare.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 124130
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Scarce first Canadian edition of Rudyard Kipling's Stalky & Co.
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Stalky & Co.
Toronto: George N. Morang & Company, 1899.
First Canadian edition of Kipling’s collection of school stories. Octavo, original wrappers, illustrated. In very good condition. Ownership inscriptions.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 123055
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"The greatest short story writer of his day": First edition of Rudyard Kipling: A Literary Appreciation by R. Thurston Hopkins
HOPKINS, R. Thurston. [Rudyard Kipling].
Rudyard Kipling: A Literary Appreciation by R. Thurston Hopkins.
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd, 1915.
First edition of R. Thurston Hopkins' anthology and appreciation of Kipling's works. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, illustrated. In very good condition.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 121670
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"Men often do their best work blind, for someone else's sake": First edition of Kipling Calendar: A Quotation from Kipling's Writings for Every Day in the Year
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Kipling Calendar.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. .
English printing of the Kipling Calendar, containing a Kipling verse for each day of the year. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 126065
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First edition of J.M.S. Tompkins' The Art of Rudyard Kipling
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Art of Rudyard Kipling.
London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1959.
First edition of Tompkins' work on Kipling. Octavo, original cloth. Good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Stamps and tape remnants to the front and rear pastedowns.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 135772
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First edition of The Selected Letters of Robert Frost
FROST, Robert. Edited by Lawrence Thompson.
Selected Letters of Robert Frost.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964.
First edition of this illuminating collection of over 500 of Frost's personal letters. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by P.J. Conkwright. Author photograph by Yousuf Karsh.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 137215
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"Who dost though love O seer in thy vision? Women I love, slender and strange and stately waiting untroubled for the years to bear them": First Edition of Sir George Macmunn's Kipling's Women
MACMUNN, Sir George [Rudyard Kipling].
Kipling’s Women.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd., n.d..
First edition of the former President of the Kipling Society's study of the women portrayed in Kipling's song and story. Octavo, original publisher's cloth with gilt titles and central gilt emblem to the front panel. Very good in the rare original dust jacket which is in good condition.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 135257
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"Come in this hour to set my spirit free": First edition of Siegfried Sassoon's Selected Poems
SASSOON, Siegfried.
Selected Poems.
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1925.
First edition of Sassoon's 1925 poetry collection. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition with toning to the spine.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 124735
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First Tauchnitz edition of Rudyard Kipling’s The Seven Seas
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Seven Seas.
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1897.
First Tauchnitz edition of Kipling’s collection of songs and poems dedicated to voyages on the high seas which includes A Song of the English and Hymn Before Action. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition. Ownership inscriptions.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 123492
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"No gift can alter the grey sea's mind, but she serves a strong man well": First edition of Selected Poems from Rudyard Kipling
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Selected Poems From Rudyard Kipling.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1931.
First edition of this collection of Kipling's poems which includes A Departure, The Last Lap, The Oldest Song, Dane-Geld, and The End. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 123167
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"The mountain had first claim to the name Bread Loaf": First edition of Bread Loaf Anthology; with a preface by Robert Frost
FROST, Robert; Robert Francis; Jeanette Martin.
Bread Loaf Anthology.
Middlebury, Vermont: Middlebury College Press, 1939.
First edition of the first anthology of poems by poets associated with the Bread Loaf School of English. Octavo, original quarter buckram. Preface by Robert Frost. Illustrated by Edward Sanborn. In very good condition.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 137242
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"For all we have and are, for all our children's fate, stand up and meet the war, the Hun is at the gate!": The Special limited edition of Twenty Poems From Rudyard Kipling
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Twenty Poems From Rudyard Kipling.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1936.
Special limited edition of Twenty Poems From Rudyard Kipling. Octavo, original boards. Seventh edition. In fine condition. Rare.
Price: $25.00 Item Number: 123607
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First edition of W. Arthur Young and John H. McGivering's A Kipling Dictionary
YOUNG, W. Arthur & John H. McGivering. [Rudyard Kipling].
A Kipling Dictionary.
New York: Macmillan, 1967.
First edition of t McGivering's revision of Young's essential Kipling Dictionary. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $25.00 Item Number: 123112
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"When writing of authors, show them, if you can, in their relation to life as well as their relation to literature": First edition of Hilton Brown's Rudyard Kipling: A New Appreciation
BROWN, Hilton. Foreword by Frank Swinnerton.
Rudyard Kipling: A New Appreciation.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1945.
First edition of Brown's appreciation of the legendary Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece portrait of Kipling. In very good condition.
Price: $12.00 Item Number: 136157
