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First Edition of Rudyard Kipling's A Song of The English; With 30 Mounted Color Plates by W. Heath Robinson
KIPLING, Rudyard.
A Song of The English.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1909.
First edition of this wonderfully illustrated work by Robinson. Quarto, original blue cloth, gilt pictorial to the front panel, gilt titles and tooling to the spine. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson with 30 mounted color plates, lettered tissue guards. In near fine condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 120821
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"We were then strung out in a six-mile line, thirty ships, all heading westwards": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's A Fleet in Being
KIPLING, Rudyard.
A Fleet in Being: Notes on Two Trips with the Channel Squadron.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1898.
First edition of this collection of articles written by Kipling when he joined the fleet of the Royal Navy at sea in 1898. Octavo, original illustrated cloth. In very good condition. Cover illustration by Norman Wilkinson.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 121444
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Rare collection of four first edition Kipling indexes
[KIPLING, Rudyard].
Something of Rudyard Kipling and His Works [with] The Kipling Index.
London, Edinburgh, and Garden City: Various Publishers, 1914-1917.
Rare collection of four first edition Kipling indexes. Small octavo, four volumes, original wrappers. Contains: The Kipling Index [London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1914], Something of Rudyard Kipling and His Works with an Index to the Volumes Published by Macmillan & Co., Ltd. [Edinburgh: R & R Clark, n.d.], The Kipling Index: Being a Guide to Authorized American Trade Edition of Rudyard Kipling's Works [Saxton, Gene F. Garden City: Doubleday, Page and Company, n.d.], and The Less Familiar Kipling, and Kiplingana [Monkshood, G. F. London: Jarrold & Sons, 1917]. In very good to near fine condition. Essential for the Kipling…
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 126447
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First edition of Richard Ford's A Piece of My Heart; signed by him
FORD, Richard.
A Piece of My Heart.
London: Collins Harvill, 1987.
First English edition of Ford's first novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "Richard Ford July 2. 1987 London." From the collection of British photojournalist Sally Soames. Soames worked for The Sunday Times from 1968 until 2000 and was highly regarded for her exclusively black and white portraits of many of the most prominent figures of the 20th century including Menachem Begin, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Thatcher, Sean Connery, Rudolf Nureyev, Alec Guinness and Andy Warhol. Soames, who was known to be a warm and personal journalist, performed extensive research…
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 124920
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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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First edition of Elizabeth Gaskell's My Lady Ludlow, and Other Tales
GASKELL, Elizabeth. [Mrs. Gaskell].
My Lady Ludlow, and Other Tales; Included in “Round the Sofa.”
London: Sampson Low, Son and Co., 1861.
First edition of Elizabeth Gaskell's 1861 novella which first appeared in Household Words in 1858. Octavo, original cloth elaborately stamped in blind. In good condition. Ownership inscriptions.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 125281
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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 Frank De Felitta's The Entity; Signed by Him
DE FELITTA, Frank.
The Entity.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1978.
First edition of this classic work, basis for the 1982 film starring Barbara Hershey. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Frank De Felitta on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by The New Studio. Cover illustration by Charles Moll. First editions are rare and desirable signed.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 120345
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First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Without Benefit of Clergy
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Without Benefit of Clergy.
New York: Doubleday and McClure Company, 1899.
First separate edition of Kipling's Without Benefit of Clergy. Octavo, original illustrated cloth. In very good condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 121504
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First edition of Robert Stone's Outerbridge Reach
STONE, Robert.
Outerbridge Reach.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1992.
First edition of Stone's fifth novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Sally recalling a lovely, morning in London - wishing all the best. Bob Stone London May 19, 1992." The recipient, British photojournalist Sally Soames, worked for The Sunday Times from 1968 until 2000 and was highly regarded for her exclusively black and white portraits of many of the most prominent figures of the 20th century including Menachem Begin, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Thatcher, Sean Connery, Rudolf Nureyev, Alec Guinness and Andy Warhol. Soames, who was known to be a warm and…
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 123971
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"A brilliant record of hazardous adventure": C. Leonard Woolley and T. E. Lawrence's The Wilderness of Zin
WOOLLEY, C. Leonard and T. E. Lawrence.
The Wilderness of Zin.
London: Stacey International, 2003.
Revised edition of the authors comprehensive account of their daring 1914 military mapping expedition in southern Palestine. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Preface by Jonathan Tubb. Introduction by T. Sam N. Moorehead. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 124354
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"One of the most famous in all the small gallery of true heroes of the war": T. E. LAWRENCE'S REVOLT IN THE DESERT
LAWRENCE, T. E.
Revolt in the Desert.
Garden City: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc, 1927.
Early American printing of Lawrence’s own abridgment of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, which achieved immediate popular success. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, frontispiece portrait of Lawrence. In very good condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 123444
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First edition of George A. Henty's Beric the Briton: The Story of the Roman Invasion
HENTY, George A. [G.A.].
Beric the Briton: The Story of the Roman Invasion.
London: Blackie & Son, Limited, 1893.
First edition of Henty’s classic adventure tale. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, with twelve illustrations by W. Parkinson. In very good condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 122962
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First edition of George A. Henty's No Surrender! A Tale of the Rising in La Vendee
HENTY, George Alfred [G.A.].
No Surrender! A Tale of the Rising in La Vendee.
London: Blackie & Son, Limited, 1900.
First edition of Henty’s classic adventure tale. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, with eight illustrations by Stanley L. Wood. In very good condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 122099
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"Lone heart, learning by one light burning, slow discerning of worldhood's worth": First edition of Siegfried Sassoon's Vigils
SASSOON, Siegfried.
Vigils.
London: William Heinemann, Ltd, 1935.
First trade edition of Sassoon's classic collection of poems. Octavo, original boards. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 123749