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"The curse of all art is that the devotee or disciple is always more certain than the priest": First edition of Charles Carrington's Rudyard Kipling: His Life and Work
CARRINGTON, Charles. [Rudyard Kipling].
Rudyard Kipling: His Life and Work.
London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1955.
First edition of Carrington's survey of Kipling's life and work. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with photographs and a map, frontispiece portrait of Kipling. Near fine in the original dust jacket which is in very good condition.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 121913
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Scarce first Canadian edition of Rudyard Kipling's Stalky & Co.
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Stalky & Co.
Toronto: George N. Morang & Company, 1899.
First Canadian edition of Kipling’s collection of school stories. Octavo, original wrappers, illustrated. In very good condition. Ownership inscriptions.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 123055
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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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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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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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"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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"Ingle-go-jang, my joy, my joy! Ingle-go-jang, my joy!": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Debits and Credits
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Debits and Credits.
Toronto: S. B. Gundy, 1926.
First Canadian 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: 194552
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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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Macmillan's Colonial Library edition of Rudyard Kipling's Actions and Reactions
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Actions and Reactions.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1909.
Macmillan's Colonial Library edition of Kipling's Actions and Reactions, intended for circulation only in India and The British Colonies. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 121490
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First Edition of Graham Greene's The Human Factor
GREENE, Graham.
The Human Factor.
London: The Bodley Head, 1978.
First edition of this espionage novel, which was later adapted into the 1979 film, directed by Otto Preminger using a screenplay by Tom Stoppard. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Michael Harvey.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 10098
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Uncorrected Proof of the First Edition of The Hotel New Hampshire
IRVING, John.
The Hotel New Hampshire.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1981.
Uncorrected proof of the first edition of the author's fifth novel. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition with the review information laid in.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 144884
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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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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 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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"The greatest short story writer of his day": First edition of Rudyard Kipling: A Literary Appreciation by R. Thurston Hopkins
HOPKINS, R. Thurston. [Rudyard Kipling].
Rudyard Kipling: A Literary Appreciation by R. Thurston Hopkins.
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd, 1915.
First edition of R. Thurston Hopkins' anthology and appreciation of Kipling's works. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, illustrated. In very good condition.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 121670
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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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First Edition of Thomas Merton's Seasons of Celebration: Meditations on the Cycle of Liturgical Feasts
MERTON, Thomas.
Seasons of Celebration: Meditations on the Cycle of Liturgical Feasts.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965.
First edition of this work by Merton. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 69959
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First Edition of Isak Dinesen's Last Tales
DINESEN, Isak [Karen Blixen].
Last Tales.
New York: Random House, 1957.
First edition of this classic collection of short stories. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a good dust jacket, bookplate to the front free endpaper with loss and closed tears to the spine and extremities. Jacket design by Jeanyee Wong.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 145706
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"THE LIGHT MUSIC OF WHISKY FALLING INTO GLASSES MADE AN AGREEABLE INTERLUDE": James Joyce's Dubliners
JOYCE, James.
Dubliners.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1946.
Later printing of Joyce’s first prose work, his great collection of short stories. Octavo, original cloth. In good condition. Ownership signature.
Price: $40.00 Item Number: 115487
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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 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 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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"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 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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"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 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 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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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 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 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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"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 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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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 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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“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 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 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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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 Nelson Demille's Wild Fire; Signed by Him
DEMILLE, Nelson.
Wild Fire.
New York: Warner Books, 2006.
First edition of this novel by DeMille. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Nelson DeMille on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by George Cornell and Anne Twomey.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 44839
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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 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 Roger Lancelyn Green's Kipling: The Critical Heritage
GREEN, Roger Lancelyn. [Rudyard Kipling].
Kipling: The Critical Heritage.
New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc., 1971.
First edition of Green's critical history of the great British author. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 126889
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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
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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
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"Novices must learn to skim over matter if they want matter to stay at the exact level of the moment. Transparent things, through which the past shines!" First edition of Nabokov's Transparent Things
NABOKOV, Vladimir.
Transparent Things.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1972.
First edition of Nabokov's 1972 novella. Octavo, original black cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, inscription to the front free endpaper. Photographic portrait of Nabokov on the rare panel of dust jacket by Halsman.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 140097
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"Who dost though love O seer in thy vision? Women I love, slender and strange and stately waiting untroubled for the years to bear them": First Edition of Sir George Macmunn's Kipling's Women
MACMUNN, Sir George [Rudyard Kipling].
Kipling’s Women.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd., n.d..
First edition of the former President of the Kipling Society's study of the women portrayed in Kipling's song and story. Octavo, original publisher's cloth with gilt titles and central gilt emblem to the front panel. Very good in the rare original dust jacket which is in good condition.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 135257
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“Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world": First Edition of Jimmy Buffett's A Salty Piece of Land
BUFFETT, Jimmy .
A Salty Piece of Land.
New York: Little, Brown, and Company, 2004.
First edition of this classic novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Lonnie Busch.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 145150
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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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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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"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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First Edition of Nabokov: Selected Letters, 1940-1977
NABOKOV, Vladimir.
Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters, 1940-1977.
New York: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, 1989.
Uncorrected proof of the first edition of this collection of letters by Nabokov. Octavo, original half cloth. In fine condition. Edited by Dmitri Nabokov and Matthew J. Broccoli.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 116901
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"True experience, not fantasy - reality, not lies - is what saves us in the end": First Edition of Philip Pullman's Lyra's Oxford
PULLMAN, Philip.
Lyra’s Oxford.
London: Corgi Books, 2007.
First edition of this exciting fantasy novella. Duodecimo, original wrappers, illustrated with in-line engravings by John Lawrence and a folding travel pamphlet tipped in to page 16. In near fine condition.
Price: $30.00 Item Number: 146925
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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
