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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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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 C. A. Bodelsen's Aspects of Kipling's Art
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Aspects of Kipling’s Art.
Manchester: University Press, 1964.
First edition of Bodelsen's homage to Nobel Prize-winning author Rudyard Kipling. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 135881
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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 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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First edition of Edward Allcard's Temptress Returns; from the library of adventurer and explorer Steve Fossett
ALLCARD, Edward C.
Temptress Returns.
London: Putnam & Co., Ltd, 1952.
First edition of English yachtsman Edward C. Allcard’s detailed account of his second solo trip across the Atlantic aboard the yawl Temptress. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, frontispiece, illustrated. From the library of James Stephen “Steve” Fossett with his bookplate to the pastedown. American businessman and record-setting aviator Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in 2002 in his 10-story high balloon Spirit of Freedom. He completed the 2002 trip in 13 days, 8 hours, and 33 minutes and set records for both the Longest Distance Flown Solo in a Balloon and Fastest Balloon…
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 115755
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First Edition of Paul Theroux's The Pillars of Hercules; Signed by Him
THEROUX, Paul.
The Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1995.
First edition of this "dazzling work" (TIME). Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers. Signed by Paul Theroux on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by One Plus One Studio.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 130738
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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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First Edition of W. Hodgson Burnet's Quite So Stories
BURNET, W. Hodgson.
Quite So Stories.
London: Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1918.
First edition of Burnet's comedic parody of Rudyard Kipling's classic collection of children's tales, Just So Stories. Octavo, original stiff illustrated wrappers, illustrated by E. T. Reed. In very good condition.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 125407
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"Grub's Up!": First Edition of Roald Dahl's Even More Revolting Recipes
DAHL, Roald; Felicity Dahl; Lori-Ann Newman.
Even More Revolting Recipes.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2001.
First edition of this collection of scrumdiddlyumptious treats from Dahl's famous children's stories. Medium octavo, original pictorial boards, illustrated with drawings by Quentin Blake and photographs by Jan Baldwin throughout. In very good condition. Recipes by Lori-Ann Newman.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 147106
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First edition of Mark Salisbury's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
SALISBURY, Mark [Stephen Sondheim].
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
London: Titan Books, 2007.
First edition of the in-depth companion volume to the big-screen adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's award-winning musical thriller. Quarto, original boards, patterned endpapers, illustrated. From the collection of Bill Zwecker. A member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association, Zwecker was a longtime entertainment and celebrity journalist. A Chicago native and second-generation newspaper star (his late mother, Peg Zwecker, was the fashion editor of the Sun-Times and Chicago Daily News), Zwecker began his journalism career in the 1980s and has since interviewed some of the most renowned celebrities across a breadth of industries. He has been a frequent contributor to numerous national…
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 140217
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Gerald Sussman's The official sex manual: A modern approach to the art and techniques of coginus
SUSSMAN, Gerald.
The Official Sex Manual: A Modern Approach to the Art and Techniques of Coginus.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1965.
First edition, early printing. Small octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Near fine in very good price-clipped dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper. Illustrated by Sam Salant.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 146101
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"If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today": First Edition Of Mikhail Gorbachev’s Memoirs
GORBACHEV, Mikhail.
Memoirs.
New York: Doubleday, 1996.
First edition of Gorbachev's autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with photographs, Foreward by Martin McCauley. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mario J. Pulice. Jacket photograph by Eddie Adams.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 145194
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Eddie Rickenbacker's Seven Came Through
RICKENBACKER, Captain Edward V.
Seven Came Through: Rickenbacker’s Full Story Including His Message to America.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc, 1943.
First edition, early printing of Rickenbacker's autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 145973
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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
