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First Edition of The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer
FROST, Robert.
The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963.
First edition of the collected correspondence between Frost and lifelong friend and fellow poet Louis Untermeyer. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Author photograph by Warren Rothschild.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 137256
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First Edition of Philip Pullman's Once Upon a Time in the North
PULLMAN, Philip.
Once Upon a Time in the North.
Oxford: David Fickling Books, 2008.
First edition of this masterful prequel to Pullman's 'His Dark Materials' trilogy. Duodecimo, original cloth with gilt title and pictorial cover labels to the front panel, illustrated with in-line engravings by John Lawrence, immersive full-page facsimile documents, and folding pamphlets in a pocket adhered to the rear pastedown. In near fine condition.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 146926
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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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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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"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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"The American dream was not supposed to look like this": First Edition of Nelson DeMille's The General's Daughter
DEMILLE, Nelson.
The General’s Daughter.
New York: Warner Books, 1992.
First edition of this unforgettable military mystery novel and basis for the 1999 film of the same name, starring John Travolta and Madeleine Stowe. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Anthony Russo. Jacket illustration by Stanislaw Fernandez.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 146906
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Publisher's advance proof and retained file copy of Joyce Cary's A Fearful Joy
CARY, Joyce.
A Fearful Joy.
London: Michael Joseph Limited, n.d..
Publisher's advance proof and retained file copy of the author's fine historical novel. Octavo, original wrappers. The publisher's retained file copy with their stamp to the title page, "File Copy Michael Joseph Ltd." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Nichols.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 127443
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"Vietnam Vietnam Vietnam, we've all been there": First Edition of the Everyman's Library of Dispatches
HERR, Michael.
Dispatches.
New York: Everyman's Library, 2009.
First edition of the everyman's library of "the best book to have been written about the Vietnam War" (The New York Times Book Review). Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Introduction by Robert Stone.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 147185
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First Edition of Philip Roth's Sabbath’s Theater
ROTH, Philip.
Sabbath’s Theater.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1995.
First edition of Roth's second National Book Award-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Milton Glaser.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 147418
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First edition of The Country Life Press; with a complete index of the authorized American editions of Rudyard Kipling's works
[KIPLING, Rudyard].
The Country Life Press.
Garden City: Printed for the friends of Doubleday, Page & Company, 1919.
First edition of this history of Doubleday, Page & Company with a complete index of the authorized American editions of Rudyard Kipling's works. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 123407
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Rare German edition of Rudyard Kipling's Puck
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Puck: Geschichten aus alten Sagen. Ein Buch fur groke und heine Leute.
Berlin-Charlottenburg: Bita Deutsches Berlagshaus, n.d..
Rare German edition of Kipling's collected Puck stories. Octavo, original publisher's decorated cloth, illustrated by H.R. Millar. Translated into German by E. Rosenbach. In near fine condition.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 123493
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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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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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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 Modern Library edition of Eleven Plays of Henrik Ibsen; from the library of American actor Zachary Scott
IBSEN, Henrick. Introduction by H. L. Mencken.
Eleven Plays of Henrik Ibsen.
New York: The Modern Library, .
First Modern Library edition of Ibsen's collected plays. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of American actor Zachary Scott, the first husband of Elaine Scott who later married writer John Steinbeck. Scott is best remembered for his many roles as villains and “mystery men” in dozens of musical comedies, film noirs, and psychological thrillers throughout the 1940s and 50s including Hollywood Canteen, The Unfaithful, Shotgun, Man in the Shadow, and The Young One. In very good condition with Scott’s bookplate to the pastedown.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 114678
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First Folio Society of The Spy's Bedside Book
GREENE, Graham and Hugh.
The Spy’s Bedside Book.
London: The Folio Society, 2006.
First Folio Society edition of this sampler of excerpts from some of the greatest spy novelists of all time. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine slipcase.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 141349
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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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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 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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First Edition of Memories from a Sinking Ship: A Novel; Inscribed by Barry Gifford
GIFFORD, Barry.
Memories from a Sinking Ship: A Novel.
New York: Seven Stories Press, 2007.
First edition of this novel by author of Wild at Heart. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Brett a few new memories for you- Barry Gifford." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jess Morphew.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 104899
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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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British Edition of Alan Sullivan's In The Beginning
SULLIVAN, Alan.
In The Beginning.
London: Hurst & Blackett, Ltd, [c. 1936].
Early British edition of this historical fiction novel. Duodecimo, original publisher's cloth, illustarted with black and white map. In very good condition.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 147875
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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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"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 Elliot L. Gilbert's Kipling and the Critics
KIPLING, Rudyard. [Edited with an Introduction by Elliot L. Gilbert].
Kipling and the Critics.
London: Peter Owen, 1966.
First British Commonwealth edition, second impression of this compilation of the best pieces of Kipling criticism with contributions by Max Beerbohm, T. S. Eliot, C. S. Lewis, George Orwell, and Oscar Wilde. Octavo, original cloth. Edited and with an introduction by Elliot L. Gilbert. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 126772
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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 Philip Roth's Nemeses
ROTH, Philip.
Philip Roth Nemeses [Everyman; Indignation; The Humbling; Nemesis].
New York: Library of America, 2013.
First edition of the ninth Roth volume in the Library of America series. Octavo, original green cloth, patterned endpapers, original silk ribbon. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Very light bumping to the foot of the spine. Light bumping to the crown and foot of the spine, botom edge of the front and rear panels. Edited by Ross Miller.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 145727
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First Edition of Kenneth S. Lynn's Mark Twain and Southwestern Humor
LYNN, Kenneth S.
Mark Twain and Southwestern Humor.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1959.
First edition of Lynn's work examining the literary artistry of the legendary American writer. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a good dust jacket. Jacket design by Allan Seide.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 139811
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First edition of David Benedictus' The Fourth of June
BENEDICTUS, David.
The Fourth of June.
London: Anthony Blond, 1962.
First edition of Benedictus' first novel. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Chopping.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 121643
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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 John Dos Passos' Chosen Country
DOS PASSOS, John.
Chosen Country.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1951.
First edition of this work by Dos Passos. Octavo, original cloth. Advanced review copy with the slip laid in, near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Samuel H. Bryant.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 101669
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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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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 Louis L. Cornell's Kipling In India
CORNELL, Louis L. [Rudyard Kipling].
Kipling In India.
London: Macmillan, 1966.
First edition of Cornell's study of Kipling's apprenticeship in India. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $35.00 Item Number: 135841
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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 Estella Cave' Ant Antics; with accompaniments by Stanley Baldwin, Beverley Nichols, and Rudyard Kipling
CAVE, Estella. [Rudyard Kipling; Stanley Baldwin; Beverley Nichols].
Ant Antics.
London: John Murray, 1933.
First edition of this charming collection of ant stories for children. Octavo, original cloth. With contributions by Stanley Baldwin, Basil Cave, Baden-Powell, Beverly Nichols, and Rudyard Kipling. In very good condition.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 123072
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"I think all those rules are boring. About what people can and can't wear. Surely everyone should be able to wear whatever they like": First Edition of David Walliams' The Boy in the Dress
WALLIAMS, David.
The Boy in the Dress.
London: HarperCollins Children's Books, 2008.
First edition of the award-winning sketch actor's first children's book. Octavo, original pictorial boards, illustrations by Quentin Blake. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 145190
