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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
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First edition of G. C. Beresford's Schooldays With Kipling
KIPLING, RUDYARD.
Schooldays With Kipling.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1936.
First edition of Beresford’s homage to the legendary man of letters. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. In near fine condition.
Price: $15.00 Item Number: 135197
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"A Stone's throw out on either hand from that well-ordered road we tread, and all the world is wild and strange": First edition of John Palmer's Rudyard Kipling
PALMER, JOHN.
Rudyard Kipling.
London: Nisbet & Co. Ltd 1915.
First edition of Palmer’s warm biography of the famed Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece portrait of Kipling. In very good condition. Bookplate.
Price: $20.00 Item Number: 136201
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"You have a strong spirit, Ibu. Would you like to be a priestess?": First edition of Joyce Cary's The African Witch
CARY, JOYCE.
The African Witch.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd 1936.
First edition of Cary’s first popular novel. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition.
Price: $20.00 Item Number: 124131
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First edition of Lucile Russell Carpenter's Rudyard Kipling: A Friendly Profile
CARPENTER, LUCILE RUSSELL.
Rudyard Kipling: A Friendly Profile.
Chicago: Argus Books 1942.
First edition of Lucile and William Carpenter’s work on Kipling’s life in Vermont, his travels around the world, and school days. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $20.00 Item Number: 123558
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First Edition of Christopher Isherwood's Down There On a Visit
ISHERWOOD, CHRISTOPHER.
Down There On a Visit.
New York: Simon and Schuster 1961.
First edition of this novel from the author of Goodbye Berlin and what many consider his finest novel. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $20.00 Item Number: 112391
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Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape, Anna Christie, The First Man
O'NEILL, EUGENE.
The Hairy Ape and Other Plays.
London: Johnathan Cape 1930.
Early printing of this collection of three plays by the Nobel Prize-winning playwright. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition.
Price: $20.00 Item Number: 111321
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First edition of R. Thurston Hopkins' Kipling's Sussex
HOPKINS, R. THURSTON. [RUDYARD KIPLING].
Kipling’s Sussex.
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd. 1921.
First edition of Thurston’s work on Kipling in Sussex. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. In good condition.
Price: $20.00 Item Number: 135205
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First Edition of Lawrence Durrell's The Best of Antrobus
DURRELL, LAWRENCE.
The Best of Antrobus.
London: Faber and Faber Limited 1974.
First edition of the best twenty Antrobus stories from Lawrence Durrell’s three paperbacks. Octavo, original blue cloth, illustrated with drawings by Nicolas Bently. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $20.00 Item Number: 145171
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Isaac Bashevis Singer's The King of the Fields
SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS.
The King of the Fields.
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux 1988.
Early printing of Singer’s masterful historical novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by John Alcorn. Author photograph by Nancy Crampton.
Price: $20.00 Item Number: 126208