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First Edition of Graham Greene's The Comedians
GREENE, Graham.
The Comedians.
London: The Bodley Head, 1966.
First edition of this novel set in Haiti under the rule of “Papa Doc” Duvalier, which explores the political suppression and terrorism through the figure of an English hotel owner, Brown. Octavo, original green cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. Jacket design by Ivan Lapper.
Price: $60.00 Item Number: 123659
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First Edition of Vladimir Nabokov's Bend Sinister
NABOKOV, Vladimir.
Bend Sinister.
New York : McGraw-Hill Company , 1973.
First McGraw-Hill edition of Nabokov's first novel written in America. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Stan Skardinski.
Price: $60.00 Item Number: 73094
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First Edition of Eric Rohmer's Six Moral Tales
ROHMER, Eric.
Six Moral Tales.
New York: A Seaver Book / The Viking Press, 1980.
First American edition of the basis for the masterful series of films, The Bakery Girl of Monceau, Suzanne's Career, La Collectionneuse, My Night at Maud's, Claire's Knee, and Love in the Afternoon; translated from the original French by Sabine d'Estrée. Octavo, original gilt half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Roy Kuhlman.
Price: $60.00 Item Number: 146842
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First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Limits and Renewals
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Limits and Renewals.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1932.
First American edition of the Kipling's final collection of stories and poems. Octavo, original publisher's decorated cloth. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $60.00 Item Number: 120680
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Signed Limited edition of Gordon Bottomley's Festival Preludes; one of 110 numbered copies signed by him
BOTTOMLEY, Gordon.
Festival Preludes.
London: The Fanfrolico Press, 1930.
Signed limited edition of this anthology of verse. Octavo, original half cloth over patterned boards. One of 110 copies signed by the author on the colophon, this is number 63. In near fine condition.
Price: $60.00 Item Number: 115056
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First edition of W. Somerset Maugham's Six Comedies
MAUGHAM, W. Somerset.
Six Comedies.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1937.
First edition of this collection of Maugham's six most famous comedies. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $60.00 Item Number: 136581
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“It's best to be ruthless with the past": First Edition of Stephen King's Rose Madder
KING, Stephen.
Rose Madder.
New York: The Viking Press, 1995.
First edition of this King thriller. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Neil Stuart. Author photograph by Tabitha King.
Price: $55.00 Item Number: 116997
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First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Toomai of the Elephants; with illustrations from the 1937 film Elephant Boy
KIPILNG, Rudyard.
Toomai of the Elephants.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1937.
First separate edition Kipling's story of Toomai, a young elephant-handler, the basis for the 1937 film "Elephant Boy" starring Sabu Dastagir, India's first child actor. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with photographs from the film by Mrs. F. H. Flaherty. Very good in the original dust jacket which is in good condition.
Price: $55.00 Item Number: 121393
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"ENOUGH FOR ME IN DREAMS TO SEE AND TOUCH THY GARMENTS' HEM- THY FEET HAVE TROD SO NEAR TO GOD, I MAY NOT FOLLOW THEM": FIRST EDITION OF RUDYARD KIPLING'S MANY INVENTIONS
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Many Inventions.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1893.
First English edition of this collection of Kipling's poems and tales. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt. In very good condition.
Price: $55.00 Item Number: 123061
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First edition of Alan Dean Foster's Star Wars: The Force Awakens
FOSTER, Alan Dean.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
London: Century, 2016.
First edition of the New York Times bestselling author's novelization of the seventh installment in the Star Wars film franchise. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with an 8-page color photo insert of images from the film. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $55.00 Item Number: 145010
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First Edition of John Updike's Self-Consciousness: Memoirs; Inscribed by Him
Self-Consciousness: Memoirs
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author to noted book collector Stratford Carter on the half title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $55.00 Item Number: 19053
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"You only live twice: Once when you're born And once when you look death in the face": Ian Fleming's You Only Live Twice
FLEMING, Ian .
You Only Live Twice.
London: The Book Club, 1964.
First book club edition of the final James Bond novel published during Fleming's lifetime and the eleventh in the series. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $55.00 Item Number: 147129
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“IS THIS REALITY, THE FINAL REALITY, OR JUST A NEW DECEPTIVE DREAM?”: FIRST EDITION OF VLADIMIR NABOKOV'S KING, QUEEN, KNAVE
NABOKOV, Vladimir.
King, Queen, Knave.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1968.
First British edition of this early Nabokov novel. Octavo, original black cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by George Mayhew. Photograph of Nabokov on the rear panel by Philippe Halsman. Translated by Dmitri Nabokov. A nice example.
Price: $55.00 Item Number: 89070
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First Edition of Eric Ambler's The Care of Time; Warmly inscribed by Him
AMBLER, Eric.
The Care of Time.
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1981.
First edition of this novel by the author of The Mask of Dimitrios. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Anna Sklar, with best wishes from the conspirator, Eric Ambler." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Janet Halverson. Jacket photograph by Stephen Cornwell.
Price: $55.00 Item Number: 106379
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First edition of Cyril Falls' Rudyard Kipling: A Critical Study
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Rudyard Kipling: A Critical Study.
London: Martin Secker, 1915.
First edition of Falls' tribute to Kipling. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt, top edge gilt with others untrimmed, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece portrait of Kipling from the portrait by William Nicholson. In good condition.
Price: $55.00 Item Number: 125404
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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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First Edition of Nell Freudenberger's Lost and Wanted; Signed by Her
FREUDENBERGER, Nell.
Lost and Wanted.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
First edition of this "intelligent and moving novel" (Los Angeles Times Review of Books). Octavo, original boards. Signed by Nell Freudenberger. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Abby Weintraub.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 127638
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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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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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Signed Limited Edition of Reynolds Price's Blue Calhoun: A Novel
PRICE, Reynolds.
Blue Calhoun: A Novel.
New York : Atheneum, 1992.
Signed limited first edition. Octavo, bound in cloth, original slipcase. Signed by Reynolds Price. From the library of publisher Howard Kaminsky. Fine in a fine slipcase.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 87342
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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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Limited First Edition of Gore Vidal's Empire; Signed by Him
VIDAL, Gore.
Empire.
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1987.
Signed limited first edition of the fourth historical novel in the 'Narratives of Empire' series, privately printed exclusively for members of The Signed First Edition Society. Octavo, Smyth-sewn and bound in full top-grain leather specially processed for fine books by the Cromwell Leather Company with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in four compartments within raised bands, gilt decoration to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, silk ribbon laid in, marbled endpapers, frontispiece portrait of Gore Vidal in a period setting by Mark Summers executed in an intricate scratchboard technique and specially commissioned by The Franklin Press…
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 146890
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First edition of R. Thurston Hopkins' Rudyard Kipling: The Story of a Genius
HOPKINS, R. Thurston. [Rudyard Kipling].
Rudyard Kipling: The Story of a Genius.
London: Cecil Palmer, 1930.
First edition of Hopkins' biography of Rudyard Kipling. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Very good in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 122049
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First Edition of Egg and Spoon; Signed by Gregory Maguire
MAGUIRE, Gregory.
Egg and Spoon
Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2014.
First edition of this work by the author of Wicked. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Gregory Maguire on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 4522
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First Edition of Thomas Flanagan's The End of the Hunt; Inscribed by Him in the year of publication
FLANAGAN, Thomas.
The End of the Hunt.
New York: Dutton, 1994.
First edition of the final novel in the author's acclaimed trilogy. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page in the year of publication, "For Karl- with the very good wishes of Rob's friend, Tom Flanagan June 1994." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 104779
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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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“The basic purpose of art is not to teach, but to show—to hold up to man a concretized image of his nature and his place in the universe": First Edition of Ayn Rand's The Romantic Manifesto
RAND, Ayn.
The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature.
New York: The World Publishing Company, 1969.
First edition of this collection of essays regarding the nature of art. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with light wear to the extremities. Jacket design by Tom Lincoln.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 144994
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"The cat sat on his lap and purred with mirth, the dog lay at his feet, and peace was on earth": First Edition of Ludwig Bemelmans' Sunshine
BEMELMANS, Ludwig.
Sunshine: A Story About the City of New York.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1950.
First edition of this story about the city of New York by the author of Madeline. Quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated throughout. In very good condition.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 146781
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The Heritage Press Limited Edition of Rudyard Kipling's Tales of East and West
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Tales of East and West.
Avon: The Heritage Press, 1973.
The Heritage Press Edition of this collection of classic Kipling tales, selected by Bernard Bergonzi. Quarto, original half cloth over marbled boards, green topstain. Illustrated by Charles Raymond. Near fine in the original green marbled slipcase which is in near fine condition. With the Heritage Press issue of Sandglass present.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 121400
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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: A Quotation from Kipling’s Writings for Every Day in the Year.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923.
First edition of the Kipling Calendar, containing a Kipling verse for each day of the year. Octavo, original half cloth. Very good in a good dust jacket.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 122065
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"Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life": First Edition of Mary Oliver's West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems
OLIVER, Mary.
West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997.
First edition of this collection of moving poems. Octavo, original blue half cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Closed tear to the rear pastedown with a small red mark to the top edge. Jacket design by Anne Chalmers.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 145156
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"To see a thing and tell it in plain words is the greatest thing a soul can do": First Edition of Edward Bok's Twice Thirty; in the rare original dust jacket
BOK, Edward.
Twice Thirty: Some Short and Simple Annals of the Road.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925.
First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth over decorated boards, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece portrait of the author. Very good in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 123941
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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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Rare unrevised proof of The Portable Kipling
KIPLING, Rudyard. Introduction by Irving Howe.
The Portable Kipling.
New York: The Viking Press, 1982.
Rare unrevised proof of The Portable Kipling. Octavo, original wrappers with the publisher's date and price inscribed on the front panel. In fine condition. Rare.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 124503
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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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First Edition of John Hersey's The War Lover
HERSEY, John.
The War Lover.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959.
First edition of this aviation history classic, basis for the 1962 film starring Steve McQueen, Robert Wagner and Shirley Anne Field. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a good dust jacket, owner name. Jacket design by Guy Fleming.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 141482
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"Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me": First Edition of Kurt Vonnegut's Jailbird
VONNEGUT, Kurt.
Jailbird.
New York: Delacorte Press, 1979.
First edition of Vonnegut's "Watergate novel." Octavo, original black cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. Jacket photograph by Jill Krementz.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 146652
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First edition of G. F. Monksood's Rudyard Kipling: The Man and His Work
MONKSHOOD, G. F. and George Gamble.
Rudyard Kipling: The Man and His Work. An Attempt at Appreciation.
London: Greening & Co., Ltd., 1902.
Third and enlarged edition of Monkshood's homage to the legendary man of letters. Octavo, original cloth, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait. In very good condition.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 135217
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"History's most romantic airplane - the fabulous flying clipper": First edition of Ken Follett's Night Over Water; from the collection of Erica Jong
FOLLETT, Ken.
Night Over Water.
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc, 1991.
First edition of the New York Times bestselling author's classic novel of international suspense. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers. From the collection of Erica Jong with her invitation to the book's publication party laid in. Erica Jong remains best known for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying which became famously controversial for its portrayal of female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism. Written in the first person and narrated by its protagonist, 29-year-old American poet Isadora Wing, Fear of Flying was written in the throes of the Sexual Revolution of the 1970s and encapsulated the…
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 142574
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"Oh love, love, what is love? How can I know?": First Edition of the Lost Plays of Eugene O'Neill
O'NEILL, Eugene. Introduction by Lawrence Gellert.
Lost Plays (1913-1915).
New York: New Fathoms Press Ltd, 1950.
First edition of this collection of the playwright's early plays, written as a young man. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 100014
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First edition of John Le Carre's The Naive and Sentimental Lover
LE CARRE, John.
The Naïve and Sentimental Lover.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1971.
First edition of le Carré's classic sixth novel. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Tony Geddes.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 146206
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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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First Edition of T.H. White's England Have My Bones
WHITE, T.H.
England Have My Bones.
London: Collins, 1936.
First edition of the author's classic memoir. Octavo, original cloth, with 8 full page woodcut illustrations by the author. In near fine condition, bookplate to the front pastedown.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 136017
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“Everything about life is a joke. Don't you know that?”: First Edition of Kurt Vonnegut's Bluebeard
VONNEGUT, Kurt.
Bluebeard.
New York: Delacorte Press, 1987.
First edition of Vonnegut's best-seller, which describes the late years of fictional Abstract Expressionist painter Rabo Karabekian. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Jeff Adams.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 146222
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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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"ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL COLLABORATIONS BETWEEN A GREAT WRITER AND A GREAT PHOTOGRAPHER EVER PUBLISHED": Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes' THE SWEET FLYPAPER OF LIFE
DECARAVA, Roy and Langston Hughes.
The Sweet Flypaper of Life.
New York: First Print Press, 2018.
Later printing of the classic collaboration between Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes. Small octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 147018
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"From my mouth to God's ear, I swear it; I want only to be a song": First Edition of Mary Oliver's What Do We Know
OLIVER, Mary.
What Do We Know: Poems and Prose Poems.
Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2002.
First edition of this magnificent poetry collection from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning poet. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 147072
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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 Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy
WAUGH, Evelyn.
The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1948.
First edition of Waugh's short satirical novel about a Los Angeles funeral parlor. Octavo, original boards, marbled endpapers, illustrated by Stuart Doyle. Near fine in a good dust jacket. Ownership inscription.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 122418
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First Edition of Graham Greene's Lord Rochester's Monkey Being The Life Of John Wilmot, Second Earl Of Rochester
GREENE, Graham .
Lord Rochester’s Monkey Being The Life Of John Wilmot, Second Earl Of Rochester.
London: Bodley Head, 1974.
First British edition of this work on John Wilmot. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 48748
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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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"Oh, friend of my heart, it is good to see you": Rudyard Kipling's In Black and White
KIPLING, Rudyard.
In Black and White.
New York: Hurst and Company, n.d..
Rare separate edition of this classic Kipling tale, which first appeared in Soldiers Three. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece portrait of Kipling. In very good condition.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 123071