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“For last year's words belong to last year's language, And next year's words await another voice”: First Folio Society edition of T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets
ELIOT, T.S.
Four Quartets.
London: The Folio Society, 1968.
First Folio Society edition of Eliot's self-regarded masterpiece. Octavo, original full buckram, printed paper labels to the spine, front panel, and rear pastedown. In near fine condition. Ownership name.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 133432
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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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"Kipling's first collection of Verse": Rudyard Kipling's Departmental Ditties and Other Verses
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Departmental Ditties and Other Verses.
Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co, 1890.
Fourth edition of Kipling's first collection of verse. Octavo, original blue cloth decorated in gilt. Ownership inscription.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 122638
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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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COFFIN, Robert P. Tristam.
The Third Hunger & The Poem Aloud.
Denton, TX: Texas State College For Women, 1949.
First edition. Octavo, original green cloth. Inscribed by the author, "For Frangeon Jones/ Fellow Poet/ Fellow Teacher/ who honors my books as well as I do/ with kindest regards/ Robert P. Tristan Coffin". Coffin has also drawn two birds along with the inscription. Near fine in a good dust jacket.
Price: $55.00 Item Number: 1980
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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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"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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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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"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 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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"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 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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"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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"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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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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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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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
