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Thy Servant A Dog.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1930.

First British edition of Kipling’s beloved children’s classic, as told by Boots the dog. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by G. L. Stampa. Near fine in the scarce original dust jacket w...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-121847

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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 illustratio...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-121444

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Leland, Charles G

The Breitmann Ballads.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd., 1902.

Early printing of Leland’s classic collection of poems, including several of Rudyard Kipling’s personal favorites. 12mo, original cloth, top edge gilt. In very good condition.

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-123543

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Hibi, Yuichi. [Robert Frank]

A Weekend With Mr. Frank: A Book of Five Reproductions and One Original Print.

Tuscon, Arizona: Nazarelli Press, 2006.

Signed limited edition of the companion book to Yuichi Hibi’s 2001 documentary on the life and work of Robert Frank. Small octavo, original boards, containing five reproductions of black and whi...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-122098

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Aeschylus; E.D.A Morshead [Translator]

The Suppliant Maidens, The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, and The Prometheus Bound of Aeschylus.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1921.

First edition, early printing of the Golden Treasury Series of four ancient Greek tragedies by Aeschylus. Duodecimo, original publisher’s blue cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-151787

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Morley, Christopher. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham

Where the Blue Begins.

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1922.

First edition of Morley’s classic canine story, wonderfully illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Quarto, original publisher’s cloth, top edge gilt, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with four col...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-137414

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Doctorow, E.L

The March.

New York: Random House, 2005.

First edition of this novel, which won The National Book Critics Circle and Pen/ Faulkner Awards. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page,...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-119781

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Asimov, Isaac

Robots and Empire.

New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1985.

First edition of the fourth and final book in Asimov’s Robot series. Octavo, original publisher’s half-cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Barclay Shaw.

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-150167

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Scott, Paul

A Male Child.

London : Eyre & Spottiswoode (Publishers) Ltd, 1956.

First edition of Paul Scott’s third novel. Octavo, original boards. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-138732

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Kipling, Rudyard

Independence: Rectorial Address Delivered at St. Andrews, October 10, 1923.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1923.

First English edition of Kipling’s October 1923 address delivered to the students of St. Andrews discussing the challenges and necessity of individuality and independence. Octavo, original wrapp...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-123116

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Kipling, Rudyard

‘They’ and the Brushwood Boy.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1925.

First edition of this collection of two Kipling stories. Octavo, original cloth elaborately decorated in gilt, with illustrations in color by F. H. Townsend. In very good condition.

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-121873

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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. Very good in a good dust jacket.

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-146931

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Hardy, Thomas

Tess of the d’Urbervilles.

New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, .

Early edition of Thomas Hardy’s twelfth published novel. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, frontispiece, with black and white illustrations. In very good condition, ownership...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-148192

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Duggan, Alfred

Three’s Company.

London: Faber and Faber LTD, 1958.

First edition of this historical novel following Lepidus as he mediates between Antony and Octavius after Caesar’s murder. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jack...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-151752

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Southern, Terry

Texas Summer: A Novel by Terry Southern.

New York: Arcade Publishing/Little Brown And Company, 1991.

First edition of Southern’s powerful critique of cultural and economic forces that shaped America. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket painting and design by Wendell...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-148446

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Hopkins, R. Thurston. [Rudyard Kipling]

The Kipling Country.

London: Cecil Palmer, 1924.

First edition of Hopkins’ illustrated homage to Kipling’s home in rural Burwash and its surrounds. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with drawings by Captain Irvine B. Bately and Gordon...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-135263

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Yogananda, Paramhansa

Autobiography of a Yogi.

New York: The Philosophical Library, 2005.

Reprint of one of the most important spiritual books of the twentieth century, Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition.

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-135452

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Gordimer, Nadine; Edited by Stephen Clingman

Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1988.

First British edition of this collection of writing by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Edited and...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-546

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Fielding, Henry

Amelia.

New York: White and Stokes, 1882.

Finely bound example of Fielding’s fourth and final novel. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gil...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-101438

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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.

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-126935

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Sharp, Evelyn. Illustrated by Charles Robinson

The Story of the Weathercock.

London: Blackie & Son Limited, n.d..

Early printing of Sharp’s children’s classic. Quarto, original publisher’s decorated cloth, illustrated with sixteen color plates and numerous black-and-white illustrations by Charle...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-135422

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Kipling, Rudyard

Wee Willie Winkie and Other Stories. [Baa, Baa, Black Sheep; His Majesty the King; The Drums of Fore and Aft]

Allahabad: Published by Messrs. A. H. Wheeler & Co, n.d.

Later printing of this classic collection of Kipling’s tales for children. Octavo, original cloth. Contains Wee Willie Winkie, Baa Baa Black Sheep, His Majesty the King, and The Drums of Fore an...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-135005

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Kennedy, William

The Ink Truck.

New York: Viking, 1985.

First printing of the re-issue of the author’s first book. Octavo, original publisher’s full cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by William Kennedy on the title page, “For Joel, Will...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-149751

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Kipling, Rudyard

“Teem”- A Treasure-Hunter.

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1938.

First edition of Kipling’s beloved dog story. Octavo, original cloth. Frontispiece illustration by Marguerite Kirmse. Near fine in the scarce original dust jacket.

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-121883

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