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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 Lionel Tiger's The Pursuit of Pleasure; Inscribed by Him
TIGER, Lionel.
The Pursuit of Pleasure.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1992.
First edition of this work by the famed anthropologist. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To William Rogers I hope this provides you pleasure! Lionel Tiger." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Steve Snider.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 117834
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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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First Edition of Nabokov: Selected Letters, 1940-1977
NABOKOV, Vladimir.
Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters, 1940-1977.
New York: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, 1989.
First edition of this collection of letters by Nabokov. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Edited by Dmitri Nabokov and Matthew J. Broccoli.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 117891
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"Knock, and it shall be opened unto you": First Edition of Sean O'Casey's I Knock At The Door
O'CASEY, Sean.
I Knock At The Door: Swift Glances Back at Things That Made Me.
London: Macmillan & Co, 1939.
First edition of this autobiography by the famed Irish playwright. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. In near fine condition.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 112333
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First edition of Morton Cohen's Rudyard Kipling to Rider Haggard: The Record of a Friendship
COHEN, Morton.
Rudyard Kipling to Rider Haggard: The Record of a Friendship.
London: Hutchinson, 1965.
First edition of the first edited collection of the unpublished correspondence between the two great men of letters. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 135911
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First Edition of Arthur C. Clarke's 2010: Odyssey Two
CLARKE, Arthur C.
2010: Odyssey Two.
New York: Ballentine Books, 1982.
First edition of the second volume in Clarke's acclaimed Odyssey series. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Gary Friedman. Cover painting by Michael Whelan.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 145180
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First edition of Paul Scott's The Corrida at San Feliu
SCOTT, Paul.
The Corrida at San Feliu.
London: Secker & Warburg, 1964.
First edition of Paul Scott's rich, multi-layered novel. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Peter Rudland.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 138733
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First Edition of Jane Jacobs' Cities and the Wealth of Nations
JACOBS, Jane.
Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life.
New York: Random House, 1984.
First edition of this eye-opening analysis of economics. Octavo, original red publisher's cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 146415
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"It was as a writer of short-stories that Kipling first established his fame": First edition of Walter Morris Hart's Kipling: The Story-Writer
HART, Walter Morris. [Rudyard Kipling].
Kipling: The Story-Writer.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1918.
First edition of Walter Morris Hart's survey of the Kipling's short stories. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition.
Price: $25.00 Item Number: 125277
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First edition of James Goodwin's Burwash and the Sussex Weald
GOODWIN, James [Rudyard Kipling].
Burwash and the Sussex Weald. (“An English History in Miniature.”).
Turnbridge Wells: Printed for the Author by The Courier Printing & Publishing Co. Ltd., n.d.
First edition of work on the history and landscape of the Sussex Weald where Rudyard Kipling resided from 1902 until his death in 1936. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. In very good condition.
Price: $25.00 Item Number: 136107
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William Attwood's Making It Through Middle Age; inscribed by him
ATTWOOD, William.
Making it Through Middle Age: Notes While in Transit.
New York: Atheneum, 1982.
First edition, second printing of this work by the award-winning journalist. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Muriel Nasser.
Price: $25.00 Item Number: 142304
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First Edition of George Bernard Shaw's The Apple Cart: a Political Extravaganza
SHAW, George Bernard.
The Apple Cart: A Political Extravaganza.
London: Constable and Company, 1930.
First edition of this classic play by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition.
Price: $25.00 Item Number: 138394
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First Edition of James Tobin's Asset Accumulation and Economic Activity: Reflections on Contemporary Macroeconomic Theory
TOBIN, James.
Asset Accumulation and Economic Activity: Reflections on Contemporary Macroeconomic Theory.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1980.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $25.00 Item Number: 142144
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First edition of Evelyn Anthony's The Silver Falcon
ANTHONY, Evelyn.
The Silver Falcon.
London: Hutchinson, 1977.
First edition of Anthony's suspenseful Derby novel. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Patrick McCreeth. Jacket photograph by Gerry Cranham. Author photograph by Mark Gerson.
Price: $25.00 Item Number: 124384
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Brian Boyd's Vladimir Nabokov : The Russian Years
BOYD, Brian [Vladimir Nabokov].
Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990.
Early printing of this biography on Nabokov. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $25.00 Item Number: 87069
