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“You have tried to destroy me and though I perish daily, I shall not be moved": Maya Angelou’s Phenomenal Woman
ANGELOU, Maya.
Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women.
New York: Random House, 1994.
First edition, early printing of this acclaimed group of four poems by the famed poet. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Author photograph by Steve Dunwell.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 145178
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First Edition of Tasha Tudor's Favorite Christmas Carols
TUDOR, Tasha and Linda Allen.
Tasha Tudor’s Favorite Christmas Carols.
New York: David McCay Company, 1978.
First edition of this classic work. Quarto, original red cloth, illustrated throughout. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 140687
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"But he’s a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid": Arthur Miller's Pultizer Prize-Winning Classic The Death Of A Salesman
MILLER, Arthur.
Death Of A Salesman.
New York: The Viking Press, 1981.
First edition of the special illustrated edition of the first play to win all three major drama awards upon its opening in 1949: the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Tony Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by One + One Studio.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 146319
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“Either war is finished, or we are": First Edition of War and Remembrance
WOUK, Herman.
War and Remembrance.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1978.
First edition of Wouk's sequel to The Winds of War. Thick octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 146719
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First edition of Dennis Wheatley's The Rape of Venice
WHEATLEY, Dennis.
The Rape of Venice.
London: Hutchinson & Co., 1959.
First edition of the sixth book in the best-selling author's Roger Brook espionage series. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Sax.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 128105
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First edition of Kenneth Brown's The Medchester Club
BROWN, Kenneth.
The Medchester Club.
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1938.
First edition of the author's collection of hunting reminiscences and tales of horsemanship. Octavo, original cloth with labels to the spine and front panel lettered in gilt, illustrated by Smithson Broadhead. One of 950 numbered copies, this is number 814. In near fine condition.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 116384
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"He wrote us verse of all our sweet, familiar things, of religions, of working-folk, of man and maid and philosophies": Sir George MacMunn's Rudyard Kipling: Craftsman
MACMUNN, Sir George. [Rudyard Kipling].
Rudyard Kipling: Craftsman.
London: Robert Hale Limited, 1938.
New and revised edition of MacMunn's biography of Rudyard Kipling. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece portrait of Kipling. In near fine condition.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 122047
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First Edition of Tom Wolfe's A Man in Full
WOLFE, Tom.
A Man In Full.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.
First edition, early printing of this "masterpiece" (The Wall Street Journal). Octavo, original illustrated boards. Fine in a fine jacket. Jacket art by Daniel Lee. Jacket design by Susan Mitchell.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 147402
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First Edition of Eugene O'Neill's Lazarus Laughed and Dynamo
O'NEILL, Eugene.
Lazarus Laughed and Dynamo: Two Plays by Eugene O’Neill.
London: Johnathan Cape, 1929.
First edition of this collection of two of the great playwright's works including the long theo-philosophical meditation, Lazarus Laughed, which called for more than one hundred actors making up a masked chorus. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine. In near fine condition.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 111219
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First Edition of The Ghost in the Music; Signed by John Nichols
NICHOLS, John.
A Ghost in the Music.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979.
First edition of Nichols' fifth novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by John Nichols on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design and illustration by Neil Stuart.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 95882
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"The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason": T.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral
ELIOT, T.S.
Murder in the Cathedral.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1936.
First edition, early printing of Eliot's dramatization of the murder of Thomas Becket at Canterbury. Octavo, original boards. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 145271
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First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Two Forewords; One of 950 copies
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Two Forewords.
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1935.
First edition of this collection of two letters written by Kipling to Frank Nelson and Nelson Doubleday. Octavo, original publisher's half cloth over marbled boards. One of 950 copies. Fine in the original slipcase which is in near fine condition.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 123463
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"Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish not to take delight in it while we have it": W. Somerset Maugham's Our Betters
MAUGHAM, W. Somerset.
Our Betters.
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1924.
Later printing of this incredible comedy in three acts. Octodecimo, original red cloth. In very good condition. In very good condition, name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 145200
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First edition of Sir Walter Scott 1771-1832: An Edinburgh Keepsake; with contributions by Eric Linklater, C.S. Lewis, Hesketh Pearson, and Ludovic Kennedy
FRAZER, Allan. [Sir Walter Scott; C.S. Lewis].
Sir Walter Scott 1771-1832: An Edinburgh Keepsake.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1971.
First edition of this compilation of speeches delivered by the annual President of the Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club. Octavo, original boards. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 132075
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First Edition of Aldous Huxley's Two or Three Graces and Other Stories
HUXLEY, Aldous.
Two or Three Graces and Other Stories.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1926.
First edition of this early collection of stories by the author of Brave New World. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 120661
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"During this period Kipling's fame and the demand for his work were constantly growing": Revised edition of Rudyard Kipling in New England
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Rudyard Kipling in New England.
Brattleboro: The Book Cellar, 1951.
Revised edition of Howard Rice’s Rudyard Kipling in New England. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 123411
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Magali Boisnard's Le Roman de La Kahena
BOISNARD, Magali.
Le Roman de La Kahena: d’Après Les Anciens Textes Arabes.
Paris: Édition d'Art, 1925.
Later edition of this work by the French poet and novelist. Octavo, bound in full crushed levant morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, ornamentation by Paul Zenker, original wrappers bound in. In very good condition.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 145217
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First edition of Richard E. Danielson's Martha Doyle and Other Sporting Memories
DANIELSON, Richard E.
Martha Doyle and Other Sporting Memories.
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1938.
First edition of Danielson's collection of sporting memories. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated by Edwin Megargee. One of 1250 numbered copies, this is number 775. In near fine condition.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 116031
