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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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Signed limited edition of John Masefield's Tristan and Isolt: A Play in Verse
MASEFIELD, JOHN.
Tristan and Isolt: A Play in Verse.
New York: The Macmillan Company 1937.
First edition of John Masefield’s adaptation of the great chivalric romance. Octavo, original half-cloth. One of 350 numbered copies signed by the author on the limitation page, this is number 69. In very good condition.
Price: $20.00 Item Number: 115649
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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 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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"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 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