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"Ingle-go-jang, my joy, my joy! Ingle-go-jang, my joy!": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Debits and Credits
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Debits and Credits.
Toronto: S. B. Gundy, 1926.
First Canadian edition of one of the Nobel Prize-winning author's most sorrowful collections. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, black stamped ship vignette to the front panel. In very good condition.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 194552
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Mark Twain's A Murder, a Mystery, and A Marriage with
TWAIN, Mark. [Samuel Clemens].
A Murder, A Mystery, and A Marriage.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2001.
Early printing of Twain's entertaining tale, published for the first time in 2001. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrations by Peter de Seve. Foreword and Afterword by Roy Blount Jr. From the collection of William Safire, although not marked. William Safire was an important American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixon’s campaign for the 1960 Presidential race, and supported him again in 1968. After Nixon’s 1968 victory, Safire served as a speechwriter for him and Spiro Agnew. He authored several political columns in addition to his weekly column “On Language” in The New York Times Magazine from 1979…
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 128640
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First Edition of Veronica Mole and Dave Elliott's Enterprising Innovation: An Alternative Approach
MOLE, Veronica and Dave Elliott.
Enterprising Innovation: An Alternative Approach.
London: Frances Pinter, 1987.
First edition of the scholars' work on the implications of technological innovations. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 128263
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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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"He was powerless because he had no precise desire, and this tortured him because he was vainly seeking something to desire": First edition in English of Nabokov's first novel Mary
NABOKOV, Vladimir. Translated from the Russian by Michael Glenny.
Mary.
New York: McGraw-Hill International, Inc, 1970.
First edition in English of Nabokov's debut novel. Octavo, original black cloth, mustard yellow endpapers. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A very bright example.
Price: $45.00 Item Number: 89051
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First British Edition of Portrait of A Romantic; Signed by Steven Millhauser
MILLHAUSER, Steven.
Portrait of a Romantic.
London: Routledge Y Kegan Paul, 1978.
First British edition of the author's second book. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Steven Millhauser on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $45.00 Item Number: 61014
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"The accursed day when Anton Petrovich made the acquaintance of the Berg existed only in theory": First Edition of Nabokov's Quartet in The Original Dust Jacket
NABOKOV, Vladimir.
Nabokov’s Quartet.
New York: Phaedra Publishers, 1966.
First edition of this collection of Nabokov's short stories. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Photographic portrait of Nabokov by J.M. Schlemmer on rear panel.
Price: $45.00 Item Number: 139288
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"Let me issue a warning to anyone who is tempted to settle for a peaceful life on what is called the cote d'azur": First Edition of Graham Greene's J'Accuse: The Dark Side of Nice
GREENE, Graham.
J’Accuse: The Dark Side of Nice.
London: The Bodley Head, 1982.
First edition of Greene's pamphlet on the civic government's role in organized crime in Nice which provoked a libel lawsuit. Octavo, original wrappers, illustrated, text in English and French. In near fine condition.
Price: $45.00 Item Number: 117041
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"As one drags along through this inexplicable existence one realizes how such qualities stand out": First edition of Theodore Dreiser's Twelve Men
DREISER, Theodore.
Twelve Men.
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919.
First edition of Dreiser's early work of nonfiction. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition.
Price: $45.00 Item Number: 95807
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First edition of R.H. Campbell and A.S. Skinner's Adam Smith
CAMPBELL, R.H. and A.S. Skinner.
Adam Smith.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982.
First edition of Campbell and Skinner's accessible study of the father of modern economics, Adam Smith. Octavo, original boards. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $45.00 Item Number: 126943
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"History's most romantic airplane - the fabulous flying clipper": First edition of Ken Follett's Night Over Water; from the collection of Erica Jong
FOLLETT, Ken.
Night Over Water.
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc, 1991.
First edition of the New York Times bestselling author's classic novel of international suspense. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers. From the collection of Erica Jong with her invitation to the book's publication party laid in. Erica Jong remains best known for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying which became famously controversial for its portrayal of female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism. Written in the first person and narrated by its protagonist, 29-year-old American poet Isadora Wing, Fear of Flying was written in the throes of the Sexual Revolution of the 1970s and encapsulated the…
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 142574
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First Edition of Graham Greene's Lord Rochester's Monkey Being The Life Of John Wilmot, Second Earl Of Rochester
GREENE, Graham .
Lord Rochester’s Monkey Being The Life Of John Wilmot, Second Earl Of Rochester.
London: Bodley Head, 1974.
First British edition of this work on John Wilmot. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 48748