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"Nicholas Tarvin sat in the moonlight on the unrailed bridge that crossed the irrigating ditch above Topaz, dangling his feet over the stream": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's The Naulahka
KIPLING, Rudyard with Wolcott Balestier.
The Naulahka: A Story of West and East.
London: William Heinemann, 1892.
First British edition of Kipling’s ambitious narrative. Octavo, original publisher’s decorative cloth. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise slipcase.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 120549
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Rare First Neely's Booklet Library edition of Rudyard Kipling's The Drums of The Fore and Aft
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Drums of The Fore and Aft.
London : F. Tennyson Neely, 1899.
First Neely’s Booklet Library edition of Kipling’s classic military tale. Octavo, original wrappers as issued, frontispiece portrait of Kipling. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 120480
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First edition of Rudyard Kipling's With Number Three, Surgical & Medical and New Poems
KIPLING, Rudyard.
With Number Three, Surgical & Medical and New Poems. Also Letters from Julian Ralph, Charles E. Hands and Douglas Story.
Santiago: Hume & Co, 1900.
First edition of this unauthorized collection of seven Kipling poems and two articles. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise slipcase. Rare.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 120640
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"First to follow truth and last to leave old truths behind, France beloved of every soul that loves its fellow-kind": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's France At War On The Frontier Of Civilization
KIPLING, Rudyard.
France At War. On The Frontier Of Civilization.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915.
First American edition of Kipling’s second collection of military poems and short stories. Octavo, original boards with paper spine label and large paper label to the front panel decorated with the British Admiralty and French Flags. In fine condition. Small bookplate to the pastedown. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise slipcase.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 120244
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"When the water's countenance blurs 'twixt glance and second glance... hear the Channel Fleet at sea, Libera nos domine!": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Traffics and Discoveries
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Traffics and Discoveries.
New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1904.
First American edition of this collection of twenty-four poems and short stories. Octavo, original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, top edge gilt. In near fine condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 120541
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"The Cities are full of pride, challenging each to each - this from her mountain-side, that from her burdened beach": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's East of Suez
KIPLING, Rudyard. Illustrated by Donald Maxwell.
East of Suez. Being a Selection of Eastern Verses from the Poetical Works of Rudyard Kipling.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1931.
First edition of this beautifully illustrated collection of Kipling’s Eastern Verses. Octavo, original blue cloth, illustrated with 24 coloured plates in addition to in-text illustrations by Donald Maxwell. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 120158
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“The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny": Milton and Rose Friedman's Free to Choose; Inscribed by them
FRIEDMAN, Milton & Rose.
Free To Choose: A Personal Statement.
New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1980.
First edition, early printing of Friedmans’ persuasive argument for the free market, based on the PBS series Free to Choose. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by both authors on the half-title page in the year of publication, “For Cliff and Dorothy With our best wishes Rose Friedman” signed “Milton Friedman March 12, 1980.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Gamarello.
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 119692
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“FREEDOM IS THE FUNDAMENTAL REQUIREMENT OF MAN’S MIND”: SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION OF AYN RAND'S CAPITALISM: THE UNKNOWN IDEAL
RAND, Ayn; Essays by Nathaniel Branden.
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal.
New York: New American Library, 1966.
Signed limited first edition of this collection of essays—which Rand, in her introduction, characterizes as “a nonfiction footnote to Atlas Shrugged.” Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Ayn Rand. Number 8 of 700 signed copies. Fine in a very good slipcase. With additional articles by Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, and Robert Hessen.
Price: $1,850.00 Item Number: 120812
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First Edition of Rudyard Kipling's Indian Verses
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Indian Tales.
New York : H. M. Caldwell Company, 1899.
First edition of this classic collection by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original red cloth decorated in gilt, black and beige, sixteen black and white plates. Illustrations by L.J. Bridgman. In near fine condition. Tanselle #99.17. A very sharp example.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 120679
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CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER; INSCRIBED BY TOM CLANCY
CLANCY, Tom.
Clear and Present Danger.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Son's, 1989.
First edition, early printing of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 120649
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Gift From the Sea; Signed By both Anne Morrow and Charles Lindbergh
LINDBERGH, Anne Morrow.
Gift From The Sea: An Answer to the Conflicts In Our Lives.
New York: Pantheon, 1955.
First edition, early printing of this modern inspirational classic. Octavo, original half blue cloth. Signed by Anne Morrow Lindbergh on the title page. Additionally inscribed by Charles Lindbergh on the front free endpaper, “To Mrs. J.F.T. Crawford With appreciation and best wishes from Charles A. Lindbergh.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Illustrations by George W. Thompson. Rare and desirable signed by both.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 120706
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"I was shocked with the sudden certainty which could not be mistaken - his countenance in a few minutes became nearly black": Rare first edition, first issue of Lord Byron's Mazeppa
BYRON, Lord George Gordon.
Mazeppa. A Poem.
London: John Murray, 1819.
First edition, first issue, of Byron’s heroic poem with imprint on p. 70, leaf of advertisements and the 8 page catalogue dated July, 1819. Half title present. Octavo, original wrappers.
Price: $1,400.00 Item Number: 120608
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“Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth, the Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life": First edition of Lord Byron's Manfred; in the original wrappers
BYRON, Lord George Gordon.
Manfred, A Dramatic Poem.
London: John Murray, 1817.
First edition, second issue of Byron’s haunting drama with no quotation from Hamlet to the title page. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. In fine condition. Housed in a custom buckram clamshell box by Esper.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 120503
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"The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you:" From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler; Inscribed by E.L. Konigsburg
KONIGSBURG, E. L.
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.
New York: Atheneum, 1967.
First edition, early printing of the author’s Newbery Award-winning novel. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Konigsburg. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Diantha Dawkins from the Mixed-up E.L. Konigsburg 3-29-69.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing. An exceptional example, first editions are rare signed.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 120903
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"In gratitude for her care of Books!": Special Limited First Edition of the Author’s Classic Work; Warmly Inscribed By Anne Morrow Lindbergh
LINDBERGH, Anne Morrow.
Gift From The Sea: An Answer to the Conflicts In Our Lives.
New York: Pantheon, 1955.
Special limited first edition of this modern inspirational classic. Octavo, original half blue cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Betsy Wall, In gratitude for her care of Books! Anne Morrow Lindbergh April 17, 1989 Darien, Conn.” Near fine in the original slipcase which is in very good condition. Illustrations by George W. Thompson. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $1,850.00 Item Number: 120902
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Lord Byron's English Bards and Scotch Reviewers; in the original boards
BYRON, Lord George Gordon.
English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers; A Satire.
London: James Cawthorn, 1810.
Early edition of Byron’s satiric response to the negative review of his first book, Hours of Idleness, in the Edinburgh Review. Octavo, original boards. In very good condition. Housed in a custom slipcase.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 119205