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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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“Come you back, you British soldier, come you back to Mandalay": The India Paper One Volume Edition of Rudyard Kipling's Verse: Inclusive Edition 1885-1918.
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Rudyard Kipling’s Verse: Inclusive Edition 1885-1918.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, Ltd., n.d..
First edition, early impression of the India Paper One Volume Edition of Rudyard Kipling’s Verse: The Inclusive Edition 1885-1918, which includes the famed poems If.- and Mandalay. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in the scarce original dust jacket which is in very good condition.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 136108
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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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"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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"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 Robert Frost's You Come Too: Favorite Poems for Young Readers
FROST, Robert.
You Come Too: Favorite Poems for Young Readers.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1960.
First edition, second printing of this collection of 51 poems. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Woodcuts by Thomas W. Nason.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 137807
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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
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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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First edition of A New Directions Reader; Inscribed by James Laughlin
EDITED BY HAYDEN CARRUTH & JAMES LAUGHLIN,.
A New Directions Reader.
1964: New Directions, Norfolk, Connecticut.
First edition of this collection of stories, poems, and excerpts published in celebration of the publishing firms 25th Anniversary. Octavo, a paperback original. Presentation copy. Inscribed by James Laughlin, founder of New Directions Publishing, on the half-title page in the year of publication, "For Herb, from J. Christmas 1964." In near fine condition. Cover design by Alvin Lustig. A nice example.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 89028
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Let the organ moan her sorrow to the roof- I have told the naked stars the grief of man!" First edition of A Choice of Songs From the Verse of Rudyard Kipling
KIPLING, Rudyard.
A Choice of Songs From the Verse of Rudyard Kipling.
London: Methuen & Co, Ltd, 1925.
First English edition of this collection of Kipling's songs. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition.
Price: $25.00 Item Number: 121544
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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
