Kipilng, Rudyard

Toomai of the Elephants.

London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1937.

First separate edition Kipling’s story of Toomai, a young elephant-handler, the basis for the 1937 film “Elephant Boy” starring Sabu Dastagir, India’s first child actor. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with photographs from the film by Mrs. F. H. Flaherty. Very good in the original dust jacket which is in good condition.

Vizzini, Ned

Be More Chill.

New York : Hyperion Books, 2004.

First edition, second printing of Vizzini’s groundbreaking novel that inspired the Broadway musical. Octavo, original boards. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket art by Timothy Saccenti.

Galbraith, Robert. [J.K. Rowling]

The Silkworm.

London : Sphere, 2014.

First edition of the second novel in Rowling’s Cormoran Strike Series, published under the pen name Robert Galbraith. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Sian Wilson.

Price, Reynolds [Madeleine Albright]

A Generous Man.

New York : Atheneum, 1966.

First edition, early printing of this Southern Gothic novel. Octavo, original cloth, top stain red, bookplate to the front pastedown from ‘The Private Collection of Secretary Madeleine K. Albright’. Madeleine K. Albright, was the first woman to serve as the U.S. Secretary of State. She acted under President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001, leadingContinue reading "A Generous Man."

Yates, Richard

Cold Spring Harbor.

New York : Delacorte Press, 1986.

First Edition of the author’s last novel. Octavo. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

Self-Consciousness: Memoirs

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1989.

First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author to noted book collector Stratford Carter on the half title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

Cooper, Artemis [Patrick Leigh Fermor]

Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure.

London : John Murray, 2012.

First edition, early printing of this biography on bestselling travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated with photographs and maps. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

Rowling, J.K

The Casual Vacancy.

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.

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,Continue reading "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street."

Burroughs, Edgar Rice

Tarzan the Terrible.

Chicago : A. C. McClurg & Co., 1921.

First edition of the eighth book in the ‘Tarzan’ series. Octavo, original red cloth, frontispiece and nine illustrations by J. Allen St. John. In good condition, with speckled loss to the cloth and wear, signature to the front free endpaper.

Durrell, Lawrence

Tunc.

London : Faber and Faber, 1968.

First edition of this novel by the author of The Alexandria Quartet. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.

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.

Smith, Wilbur

A Sparrow Falls.

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.

Wells, H.G

Love and Mr. Lewisham.

London : Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1940.

Nelson’s Library edition of Wells’ first major fictional work outside the science fiction genre, an early social novel that explores youthful ambition, education, class mobility, and the emotional complications of love through the experiences of the idealistic young schoolmaster Mr. Lewisham. Duodecimo, original publisher’s red cloth, frontispiece. In very good condition.

Monkshood, G. F. and George Gamble

Rudyard Kipling: The Man and His Work. An Attempt at Appreciation.

London : Greening & Co., Ltd., 1902.

Third and enlarged edition of Monkshood’s homage to the legendary man of letters. Octavo, original cloth, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait. In very good condition.

Flanagan, Thomas

The End of the Hunt.

New York : Dutton, 1994.

First edition of the final novel in the author’s acclaimed trilogy. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page in the year of publication, “For Karl- with the very good wishes of Rob’s friend, Tom Flanagan June 1994.” Fine in a fine dust jacket.

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.

Wells, H.G

Tales of Life and Adventure.

London and Glasgow : Collins Clear-Type Press, 1923.

Library of Classics edition of Wells’ collection of imaginative tales exploring adventure, speculation, and the complexities of human experience through a series of inventive and thought-provoking short stories. Octavo, original publisher’s leather bound black boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, pictorial endpapers, frontispiece. From the collection of British science fiction author ChristopherContinue reading "Tales of Life and Adventure."

O'Neill, Eugene. Introduction by Lawrence Gellert

Lost Plays (1913-1915).

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.

Benchley, Robert

Benchley -Or Else!

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.

Maude, Aylmer. [Leo Tolstoy]

Tolstoy on Art: and its Critics.

London : Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press, 1925.

First edition of this collection of Maude’s essays, including one of “one of the finest pieces of criticism of the nineteenth century”, Tolstoy’s What is Art? (The Empire Review). Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition.

Collins, Joseph

Taking the Literary Pulse: Psychological Studies of Life and Letters.

New York : George H. Doran Company, 1924.

First edition of this work analyzing modern authors and their literary characters through a psychological lens. Octavo, original publisher’s red cloth, illustrated with tipped in plates. In near fine condition, bookplate to the front pastedown.

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.

Miller, Arthur

Death of A Salesman.

New York : The Viking Press, 1998.

First edition of the 50th anniversary edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Martin Ogolter. Original drawing of Willy Loman by Joseph Hirsch. Photograph of Arthur Miller by Esther Handler.