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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 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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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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"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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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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"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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First Edition of Vladimir Nabokov: A Tribute
QUENNELL, PETER.
Vladimir Nabokov: A Tribute.
New York: William Morrow and Company 1980.
First edition of this tribute to Nabokov. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Edited by Peter Quennell. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $20.00 Item Number: 36337