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London : Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd., n.d..
First edition of the former President of the Kipling Society’s study of the women portrayed in Kipling’s song and story. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles and central gilt emblem to the front panel. Very good in the rare original dust jacket which is in good condition.
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London : Chatto and Windus, 1928.
First edition of this posthumous collection of short stories, poems, and sketches written by Amy Catherine Wells (“Jane”), the wife of H.G. Wells. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, and tipped-in frontispiece. From the collection of British science fiction author Christopher Priest with his ownership signature to the frontContinue reading "The Book of Catherine Wells."
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London : Methuen & Co Ltd, 1959.
First edition of Tompkins’ work on Kipling. Octavo, original cloth. Good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Stamps and tape remnants to the front and rear pastedowns.
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London : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1985.
First edition of this collection of poems by the Nobel Prize-winning poet. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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New York : Random House, 2000.
First edition of this majestic work of art and poetry. Duodecimo, original pictorial boards, illustrated throughout with paintings by the French Post-impressionist artist Paul Gauguin. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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Cambridge : Deighton, Bell, and Co., 1862.
First edition of Calverley’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. In good condition. Ownership inscription. Rare.
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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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London : Chatto & Windus, 1920.
First edition of Huxley’s classic collection of poems. Octavo, original cloth and paper spine label. In 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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Aldington : The Hand and Flower Press, 1952.
First edition, first issue of Spark’s first book of verse, preceding her first novel by five years. Octavo, original wrappers. In fine condition.
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Elkins Park, Pennsylvania : Uhuru/Publications, 1970.
First edition of the Philadelphia activist’s first book of poetry. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition.
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London : William Heinemann Ltd, 1933.
Early printing of Sassoon’s classic collection. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
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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.
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Autin : W. Thomas Taylor, 1985.
First edition of this work on Frost’s relationships with his printers. Large octavo, original cloth, illustrated. One of 1000 copies printed at the letterpress of A. Colish with plates made and printed by the Meriden Gravure Company. Typography by Joseph Blumenthal. Fine in a fine slipcase.
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London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1915.
First edition of this collection of nautical essays and poems. 12mo, original illustrated wrappers. In near fine condition. A very sharp example.
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New York : Henry Holt and Company, 1945.
First edition of this work by Frost. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
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London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1906.
First edition of this collection of two of Arnold’s most notable works. Octavo, original cloth stamped in gilt, with illustrations by E. H. New including tissue-guarded frontispiece. In near fine condition.
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Tennessee : Concept Productions, 2006.
First edition of this diary by the famed actress of James Bond’s Goldfinger. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated. Signed by the author on the title page, “Best wishes Shirley Eaton Enjoy.” In fine condition. Foreword by Roger Moore.
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Boston : Beacon Press, 2004.
First edition of this work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Sara Eisenman.
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New York : The Macmillan Company, 1926.
First edition of Masters’ play about Robert E. Lee at the dawn of the American Civil War. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For William W. Pineos with the compliments of Edgar Lee Masters December 3 – 1928.” In very goodContinue reading "Lee: A Dramatic Poem."
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London : William Heinemann Ltd, 1927.
First edition of Sassoon’s classic poetry collection. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the original dust jacket which is in very good condition.
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Leipzig : Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1926.
First Tauchnitz edition of one of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s most sorrowful collections. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition.
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Little Rock : The Incunabula Bookshop, 1920.
Limited edition of this poem, originally printed in the magazine “The Author”, London, July 1, 1891 . Octavo, original publisher’s gray wrappers. One of 100 numbered copies, this is number 73. In near fine condition with light toning and creasing to the top right corner.
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London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1900.
First English edition of this collection of Kipling’s essays about his 1889 travels from India to Burma, China, Japan, and the United States en route to England. Octavo, original red cloth with gilt titles to the spine and gilt elephant emblem to the front panel, top edge gilt. In very good condition with rubbing toContinue reading "From Sea to Sea and Other Sketches. Letters of Travel."
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