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Stuart Mason's Bibliography of Oscar Wilde
MASON, Stuart.
Bibliography of Oscar Wilde.
London: T. Werner Laurie Ltd., n.d..
Later printing of Mason's renowned bibliography of the works of Oscar Wilde. Octavo, bound in full cloth, illustrated. With a note by Robert Ross. In very good condition.
Price: $80.00 Item Number: 140208
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"The sole revenge that maturity can take upon youth for the sin of being young is to preach to it": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Independence: Rectorial Address Delivered at St. Andrews, October 10, 1923
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Independence: Rectorial Address Delivered at St. Andrews, October 10, 1923.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1923.
First edition of Kipling's October 1953 address delivered to the students of St. Andrews discussing the challenges and necessity of individuality and independence. Octavo, bound in full cloth with gilt titles to the front panel. In near fine condition.
Price: $80.00 Item Number: 135674
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"Revolution, Revolution, Get your fresh hot revolution here": First edition, first printing of Jymi Jones' Guerilla Warfare in Philly
JONES, Jymi.
Guerilla Warfare In Philly.
Elkins Park, Pennsylvania: Uhuru/Publications, 1970.
First edition of the Philadelphia activist's first book of poetry. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 134011
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First edition of Tchertkoff's The Last Days of Tolstoy
TCHERTKOFF, Vladimir. [Leo Tolstoy].
The Last Days of Tolstoy.
London: William Heinemann, 1922.
First edition of Chertkov's illuminating biographical work including numerous excepts from Tolstoy's personal diaries and letters. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 133949
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First Edition of Diane Johnson's Le Mariage; Signed by Her
JOHNSON, Diane.
Le Mariage.
New York: Dutton Book, 2000.
First edition of this "splendid entertainment... Johnson is one of our most astute cultural critics" (The New York Times Book Review). Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Diane Johnson on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mary E. O'Boyle. Jacket illustration by Nina Berkson.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 110599
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First edition of the Star Wars: Punch-Out and Make-It Book; designed by Ib Penick and illustrated with Instructional Drawings by Charlotte Staub
PENICK, Ib [Designer]. Illustrated by Patricia Wayne; Instructional Drawings by Charlotte Staub.
Star Wars: Punch-Out and Make-It Book. Based on the film by George Lucas.
Glasgow and London: Collins, 1978.
First edition of this classic 70s punch-out and make-it book. Quarto, original pictorial wrappers. Designed by Ib Penick. Illustrated by Patricia Wayne. Instructional Drawings by Charlotte Staub. In fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 145053
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"You go your way I'll go your way too": First Edition of Leonard Cohen's Book of Longing
COHEN, Leonard.
Book of Longing.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2006.
First Canadian edition and true first of Cohen's provocative book of poetry. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 147182
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"So that's your diary-that's your private mind translated into shirt-sleeved history": Siegfried Sassoon's Satirical Poems
SASSOON, Siegfried.
Satirical Poems.
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1933.
Early printing of Sassoon's classic collection. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 124681
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First Edition of Jack Whittingham's Sabu of the Elephants
WHITTINGHAM, Jack.
Sabu of the Elephants.
London: Hurst & Blackett, 1938.
First edition of Whittingham's account of the filming of "Toomai of the Elephants." Small quarto, original cloth, illustrated. In near fine condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 126935
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First Edition of The Last King of Scotland; Signed by Giles Foden
FODEN, Giles.
The Last King of Scotland.
London: Faber and Faber , 1998.
First edition of this exceptional piece of historical fiction, the basis for the 2006 adaptation by the same name starring Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy, Kerry Washington, Simon McBurney, and Gillian Anderson. Octavo, original flexible wrappers. Signed by Giles Foden on the title page beneath his typed name, which he has stricken out. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Steve Caplin.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 146632
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First Edition of Rudyard Kipling's Songs For Youth From Collected Verse
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Songs For Youth From Collected Verse.
London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, [1924].
First edition this selection of Kipling's songs for children. Octavo, original cloth, illustrations by Leo Bates. In near fine condition. Bookplate to the pastedown.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 121607
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Rare first edition of Rudyard Kipling's The Just So Song Book
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Just So Song Book: Being Songs From Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories. Set to Music by Edward German.
Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc: Garden City, 1903.
First edition of Kipling's Just So Song Book. Quarto, original illustrated boards. In very good condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 123113
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First Edition of Stephen Sondheim's Collected Lyrics
SONDHEIM, Stephen.
The Collected Lyrics of Stephen Sondheim. Look, I Made a Hat.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
First edition of the collected lyrics of Stephen Sondheim. Quarto, original boards, illustrated throughout. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 146134
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First edition of Aldous Huxley's Brief Candles
HUXLEY, Aldous.
Brief Candles.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1930.
First English edition of the author's fifth collection of short fiction. Octavo, original red boards with gilt titles and ruling to the spine, top stain red. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 145277
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First edition of Bernard Darwin's Dickens; the 11th book in the Duckworth Great Lives Series
DARWIN, Bernard.
Dickens.
London: Duckworth, 1933.
First edition of Bernard Darwin's concise biography of literary master Charles Dickens. Small octavo, original cloth. Very good in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition. Name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 117034
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First Edition of E.L. Doctorow's The March; Inscribed by Him
DOCTOROW, E.L.
The March.
New York: Random House, 2005.
First edition of this novel, which won The National Book Critics Circle and Pen/ Faulkner Awards. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Ken Reubens E.L. Doctorow." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Royce M. Becker. Author photograph by Nancy Crampton.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 119781
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First edition of Frank Norris's Harper Prize-winning novel Tower in the West
NORRIS, Frank.
Tower in the West.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1957.
First edition of the author's Harper Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original cloth. Number 110 of a limited presentation edition signed by the author on the colophon. In very good condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 115647
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First Edition of Indignation; From the library of Fellow Writer John Barth
ROTH, Philip [John Barth].
Indignation.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008.
First edition of Roth's twenty-ninth book. Octavo, original boards. From the library of fellow novelist John Barth, with his signature to the half-title page. Barth won the National Book Award in fiction for his novel Chimera. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Milton Glaser.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 144685
