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London : Heinemann, 1977.
First edition of the third book in Wilbur Smith’s original Courtney trilogy. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket.
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London 1915.
First edition of this short patriotic speech. Quarto, unpaginated single sheet of stiff white paper folded once. Delivered at the Mansion House on January 27, 1915. In very good condition.
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London : International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa, 1979.
Early edition of Mandela’s classic Rivonia Speech. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. In fine condition.
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London : Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1959.
Publisher’s advance proof of the author’s second book. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition.
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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.
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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.
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New York : Simon & Schuster, 1997.
First edition of this practical and witty guide to the party scene. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrations by Susan Davis. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the flyleaf, “To Bill and Idelene, you don’t need any guidance from me about being great hosts or great guests – you’re the best! Much love SallyContinue reading "The Party: A Guide to Adventurous Entertaining."
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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.
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London : Picador, 1999.
First edition by the author described as ‘undoubtedly the finest writer afloat since Conrad’ (Geoffrey Moorhouse, Guardian). Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, with the Inside Passage North and South maps adhered to the front pastedown. Boldly signed by Jonathan Raban on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Author photograph by Marion Ettlinger.
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London : Michael Joseph Ltd., 1939.
First British edition of Wells’ dark political satire depicting the rise of an ordinary man into a ruthless dictator, written as a warning against the growing threats of authoritarianism in the years preceding the Second World War. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. From the collection of British science fiction author Christopher Priest. Priest’s most famous worksContinue reading "The Holy Terror."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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,Continue reading "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street."
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2001.
First edition of this companion volume to the documentary by Ken Burns. Quarto, original original cloth, illustrated. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson.
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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.
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London : Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1995.
First edition of this collection of four games based on the author’s award-winning childrens story ‘Father Christmas.’ Square octavo, original pictorial boards, illustrated with artwork by Sara Silcock. In very good condition.
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New York : Harper & Brothers, 1947.
First edition of Benchley’s collection of humorous essays. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with unique drawings by Gluyas Williams. Very good in a good dust jacket. Author photograph by Ben Pinchot.
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London : Victor Gollancz Ltd & The Cresset Press Ltd, 1934.
First edition of the second volume of Wells’s expansive autobiographical work, in which he reflects on the experiences, intellectual influences, and philosophical conclusions that shaped his life and career as one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers and social thinkers. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. From the collection of British science fiction author Christopher PriestContinue reading "Experiment in Autobiography: Volume II Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain."
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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 toContinue reading "Temptress Returns."
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New York : The Penguin Press, 2015.
First edition of the author’s fifth work. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Suzanne Dean.
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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.
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London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1914.
First edition of The Kipling Index. 12mo, bound in cloth covered boards with the original wrappers bound in. In very good condition.
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New York : Simon & Schuster, 2019.
First edition of this work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian. Octavo, original boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jackie Seow.
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