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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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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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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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"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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First Edition of Lawrence Durrell's Constance or Solitary Practices
DURRELL, LAWRENCE.
Constance or Solitary Practices.
London: Faber and Faber 1982.
First edition of the third novel in Lawrence Durell’s Avignon Quintet. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by David Gentleman.
Price: $20.00 Item Number: 138734
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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