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First Edition of Mary Oliver's The Truro Bear and Other Adventures
OLIVER, Mary.
The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays.
Boston: Beacon Press, 2008.
First edition of this collection by the award-winning poet. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Bob Kosturko.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 146880
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First edition of Aylmer Maude's Tolstoy on Art: and its Critics
MAUDE, Aylmer. [Leo Tolstoy].
Tolstoy on Art: and its Critics.
London: Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press, 1925.
First edition of this collection of Maude's essays, including one of "one of the finest pieces of criticism of the nineteenth century", Tolstoy's What is Art? (The Empire Review). Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 128538
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LATER PRINTING OF PHILIP PULLMAN'S THE SHADOW IN THE NORTH; INSCRIBED BY HIM
PULLMAN, Philip.
The Shadow in the North.
London: Scholastic Ltd, 1999.
Later printing of Philip Pullman’s second book in his Sally Lockhart Quartet. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Inscribed by the author on the title page, “Good luck to Eileen, Philip Pullman.” In near fine condition.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 88119
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First Edition Collection of Bruce Catton's American Heritage: The Magazine of History
CATTON, Bruce.
American Heritage: The Magazine of History.
New York: American Heritage Publishing Co, 1954-1958.
First edition collection of this historical magazine. Quarto, 6 volumes, original pictorial boards, illustrated throughout with photographs and drawings, the collection consists of: Volume. VI No. 1 (December 1954); Volume. VII No. 6 (October 1956); Volume VIII No. 6 (October 1957); Volume IX No. 3 (April 1958); Volume IX No. 6 (October 1958); Volume X No. 1 (December 1958). In very good condition.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 146066
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FIRST EDITION OF J.K. ROWLING'S THE CASUAL VACANCY
ROWLING, J.K.
The Casual Vacancy.
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2012.
First edition of this “positively propulsive read” (Wall Street Journal). Octavo, original boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mario J. Pulice. Jacket illustration by Joel Holland.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 137044
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First Edition of W. Hodgson Burnet's Quite So Stories
BURNET, W. Hodgson.
Quite So Stories.
London: Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1918.
First edition of Burnet's comedic parody of Rudyard Kipling's classic collection of children's tales, Just So Stories. Octavo, original stiff illustrated wrappers, illustrated by E. T. Reed. In very good condition.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 125407
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First Edition of John Knowles' The Private Life of Axie Reed; Inscribed by Him in the year of publication
KNOWLES, John.
The Private Life of Axie Reed.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1986.
First edition of this work by the author of A Separate Peace. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "To Lee- With all best regards- John Knowles L.I March 31, 1986." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by David Gatti.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 121398
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"Talking, when you think about it, is a very strange business indeed": First Edition of Bill Bryson's The Mother Tongue
BRYSON, Bill.
The Mother Tongue: English & How It Got That Way.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1990.
First edition of this remarkable history of the English language from the author of 'The Lost Continent.' Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Gamarello. Jacket painting by Tom Carry. Author photograph by Jerry Bauer.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 145214
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First edition of Alfred Duggan's Count Bohemond
DUGGAN, Alfred. Preface by Evelyn Waugh.
Count Bohemond.
London: Faber and Faber, 1964.
First edition of Duggan's classic historical novel. Octavo, original cloth. Preface by Evelyn Waugh. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Inscription. Jacket design by Edward Bawden.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 136049
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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.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1904.
First British edition of this collection of twenty-four poems and short stories. Octavo, original cloth with gilt elephant vignette to the front panel. In near fine condition.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 121994
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First Edition of Patrick Leigh Fermor's Between the Woods and the Water
FERMOR, Patrick Leigh.
Between the Woods and the Water.
London: John Murray, 1986.
First British edition of the author's second book in the author's trilogy that began with A Time of Gifts. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a fine price-clipped dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by John Craxton.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 110261
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"Along with most of my fellow fliers, I believed that aviation had a brilliant future. Now we live, today, in our dreams of yesterday; and, living in those dreams, we dream again": Charles Lindbergh's The Spirit of St. Louis
LINDBERGH, Charles A.
The Spirit of St. Louis.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953.
First edition, early printing of Lindbergh's autobiographical account about the events leading up to and including his 1927 solo trans-Atlantic flight. Octavo, original blue cloth, illustrated endpapers, illustrated. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 147135
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First edition of Bonamy Dobree's Rudyard Kipling
DOBREE, Bonamy. [Rudyard Kipling].
Rudyard Kipling.
London: Published for The British Council and the National Book League by Longmans, Green & Co., 1951.
First edition of Dobree's work on Kipling, the man and the writer. Octavo, original wrappers, frontispiece portrait of Kipling. In near fine condition.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 126348
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"The tale tells that all was dark there, and Jurgen could see no one": James Branch Cabell's Jurgen
CABELL, James Branch.
Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice.
London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, 1923.
Early printing of Cabell's famed fantasy novel. Octavo, original cloth, top edge red. In very good condition.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 101682
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First Edition of Len Deighton's Second Secret File, Horse Under Water
DEIGHTON, Len.
Horse Under Water.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1963.
First edition of Deighton's second spy novel. Octavo, original red cloth, pictorial endpapers featuring crossword puzzles and clues, a running motif of Deighton's novels. Very good in a good dust jacket. Jacket design by Raymond Hawkey.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 146604
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First Edition of Revolutionary Wealth; Inscribed by Alvin Toffler
TOFFLER, Alvin and Heidi.
Revolutionary Wealth: How It Will Be Created and How It Will Change Our Lives.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
First edition of this work by the author of Future Shock. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Alvin Toffler on the front free endpaper, "For Mike from Alvin Toffler." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 106438
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"Brown and bright as agate, mountain-cool, Eurotas singing slips from pool to pool": First edition of Aldous Huxley's Leda
HUXLEY, Aldous.
Leda.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1920.
First edition of Huxley's classic collection of poems. Octavo, original cloth and paper spine label. In good condition.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 139026
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"Who hath desired the sea? Her excellent loneliness rather than forecourts of kings": First Edition of Rudyard Kipling's The Five Nations
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Five Nations.
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1903.
First American edition of Kipling’s notable poetry collection. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, black stamped vignette to the front panel. In very good condition.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 121348
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"As a young painter you are overwhelmed by the complexity of your subject. Every crease, every dimple, is an equally startling revelation": First Edition of John Berger's A Painter of Our Time
BERGER, John.
A Painter of Our Time.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959.
First edition of the Booker prize-winning writer's debut novel. Octavo, original red half cloth, top stain red. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 145491
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First Edition of Golda Meir's A Land of Our Own: An Oral Autobiography
MEIR, Golda; Edited by Marie Syrkin.
A Land of Our Own: An Oral Autobiography.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1973.
First edition of this oral autobiography by the former prime minister of Israel. Octavo, original black cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Honi Werner.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 146605
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“There is peace in despair in exactly the same way as there is despair in peace": First edition of Jean Rhys's Tigers Are Better-Looking with a selection from The Left Bank
RHYS, Jean.
Tigers Are Better-Looking with a Selection from The Left Bank.
London: Andre Deutsch Limited, 1968.
First edition of this collection incorporating the author's earliest and most mature short stories. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine a very good price-clipped dust jacket with light rubbing to the extremities. Jacket design by Barbara Brown.
Price: $45.00 Item Number: 145495
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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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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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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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First Edition of Sorche Nic Leodhas' Claymore and Kilt
LEODHAS, Sorche Nic [LeClaire Gowans Alger].
Claymore and Kilt.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967.
First edition of Sorche Leodhas' beloved collection of historical tales, never before recorded. Octavo, original half cloth. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Leo and Diane Dillon.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 137529
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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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Uncorrected Proof of the First Edition of The Hotel New Hampshire
IRVING, John.
The Hotel New Hampshire.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1981.
Uncorrected proof of the first edition of the author's fifth novel. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition with the review information laid in.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 144884
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First edition of Barrie Pitt's The Crucible of War: Western Desert 1941
PITT, Barrie.
The Crucible of War: Western Desert 1941.
London: Book Club Associates, 1980.
First edition of the first volume in Pitt's masterful history of the war in the Western Desert. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. Near fine in very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Mon Mohan.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 124377
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First edition of Beryl Bainbridge's Watson's Apology
BAINBRIDGE, Beryl.
Watson’s Apology.
London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., 1984.
First edition of the award-winning author's investigation of the Stockwell Murder. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 126810
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First Edition of Laurence Irving's Henry Irving: The Actor and His World
IRVING, Laurence.
Henry Irving: The Actor and His World.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1952.
First edition of the author's major biography of his grandfather, Henry Irving. Octavo, original boards, frontispiece portrait of Henry Irving in color by Jules Bastien-Lepage. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket lettering by Charlotte Young. Small ownership inscription. Housed in the original slipcase which is in good condition.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 115678
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“A GOLDEN AGE OF POETRY AND POWER OF WHICH THIS NOONDAY’S THE BEGINNING HOUR”: FIRST EDITION OF FROST’S IN THE CLEARING
FROST, Robert.
In the Clearing.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962.
First edition of Frost’s final book of poetry. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a good dust jacket with some dampstaining. Jacket photograph by David H. Rhinelander.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 146068
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"The greatest short story writer of his day": First edition of Rudyard Kipling: A Literary Appreciation by R. Thurston Hopkins
HOPKINS, R. Thurston. [Rudyard Kipling].
Rudyard Kipling: A Literary Appreciation by R. Thurston Hopkins.
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd, 1915.
First edition of R. Thurston Hopkins' anthology and appreciation of Kipling's works. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, illustrated. In very good condition.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 121670
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First American edition of V. S. Pritchett's The Turn of the Years; one of 500 copies signed by him
PRITCHETT, V. S. Introduction by Paul Theroux.
The Turn of the Years: The Season’s Course Selected Engravings by Reynolds Stone As Old as the Century.
New York: Random House, 1980.
Signed limited edition of Pritchett's reflective essay written on the occasion of his eightieth birthday. Small octavo, original cloth, illustrated with engravings by Reynolds Stone. On of 500 numbered copies signed by the author on the half-title page, this is number 105. Fine in the original slipcase.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 115061
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"I simply raise the curtain on the human comedy I have witnessed, and present what I have seen, and heard, often in whispers and asides": First edition of Paul Johnson's Brief Lives
JOHNSON, Paul.
Brief Lives.
Hutchinson: London, 2010.
First edition of this personal portrait of the twentieth century. Octavo, original black boards. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Author portrait by Catrina Bovill.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 145153
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"Ingle-go-jang, my joy, my joy! Ingle-go-jang, my joy!": First American edition of Rudyard Kipling's Debits and Credits
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Debits and Credits.
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926.
First 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: 123815
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Macmillan's Colonial Library edition of Rudyard Kipling's Actions and Reactions
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Actions and Reactions.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1909.
Macmillan's Colonial Library edition of Kipling's Actions and Reactions, intended for circulation only in India and The British Colonies. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 121490
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First edition of James Dugan's The Great Mutiny
DUGAN, James.
The Great Mutiny.
New York: G. P. Putnams Sons, 1965.
First edition of the author's account of one of the few successful military mutinies in recorded history. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, top edge red. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 119226
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First edition of Saul Estrin's Self-Management: Economic Theory and Yugoslav Practice
ESTRIN, Saul.
Self-Management: Economic Theory and Yugoslav Practice.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
First edition of Estrin's work on self-management in Yugoslavia. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 128151
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First Edition of Kurt Vonnegut's Deadeye Dick
VONNEGUT, Kurt.
Deadeye Dick.
New York: Delacorte Press, 1982.
First edition of this work by the award-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by James L. McGuire. Author photograph by Jill Krementz.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 146409
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"Men often do their best work blind, for someone else's sake": First edition of Kipling Calendar: A Quotation from Kipling's Writings for Every Day in the Year
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Kipling Calendar.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. .
English printing of the Kipling Calendar, containing a Kipling verse for each day of the year. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 126065
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First edition of Alain Colas' Around the World Alone; from the library of explorer and adventurer Steve Fossett
COLAS, Alain. Translated by J. F. Bernard.
Around the World Alone.
New York: Barron's/Woodbury, 1978.
First edition of Colas' riveting account of his 1978 voyage around the world aboard his 70-foot trimaran the Manureva. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with 20 color plates. From the library of of James Stephen “Steve” Fossett with his bookplate to the pastedown. American businessman and record-setting aviator Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in 2002 in his 10-story high balloon Spirit of Freedom. He completed the 2002 trip in 13 days, 8 hours, and 33 minutes and set records for both the Longest Distance Flown Solo in a Balloon and Fastest…
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 115225
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First edition of Charles Stuart Calverley's Verses and Translations
CALVERLEY, Charles Stuart.
Verses and Translations.
Cambridge: Deighton, Bell, and Co., 1862.
First edition of Calverley's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. In good condition. Ownership inscription. Rare.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 124130
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First Edition of Graham Greene's The Human Factor
GREENE, Graham.
The Human Factor.
London: The Bodley Head, 1978.
First edition of this espionage novel, which was later adapted into the 1979 film, directed by Otto Preminger using a screenplay by Tom Stoppard. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Michael Harvey.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 10098
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"Listen...Can you hear the thunder of ghostly hooves? The Demon Huntsman has come to claim his prey!" First Corgi Yearling edition of Philip Pullman's first children's edition
PULLMAN, Philip.
Count Karlstein, or The Ride of the Demon Huntsman.
London: Corgi Yearling Books, 1998.
First Corgi Yearling edition of Pullman's first children's novel. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated. Inscribed by the author on the title page, "Greetings to Eileen - Philip Pullman." Cover illustration by Peter Bailey. Illustrations by Patrice Aggs. In near fine condition.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 88117
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First edition of Sir George MacMunn's Rudyard Kipling: Craftsman
MACMUNN, George. [Rudyard Kipling].
Rudyard Kipling: Craftsman.
London: Robert Hale & Company, 1937.
First edition of MacMunn's homage to Kipling. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece portrait of Kipling. In very good condition.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 135157
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First edition of J.M.S. Tompkins' The Art of Rudyard Kipling
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Art of Rudyard Kipling.
London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1959.
First edition of Tompkins' work on Kipling. Octavo, original cloth. Good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Stamps and tape remnants to the front and rear pastedowns.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 135772
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"For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others": First Edition of Prisoner In The Garden
MANDELA, Nelson.
Prisoner In The Garden.
London: Viking, 2005.
First edition of this work dedicated to Mandela's archive. Octavo, original boards, illustrated throughout. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 138566
