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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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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
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"Just follow along, okay?": First edition of Brian Moore's Cold Heaven
MOORE, BRIAN.
Cold Heaven.
London: Jonathan Cape 1983.
First edition of Moore’s supernatural thriller. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Hans Wendler. Author photograph by Jerry Bauer.
Price: $20.00 Item Number: 126409
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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 John O'Hara's Lovely Childs
O'HARA, JOHN.
Lovey Childs: A Philadelphian’s Story.
New York: Random House 1969.
First edition of this novel by the author of Appointment in Samarra. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Muriel Nassar.
Price: $20.00 Item Number: 126114
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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