Literature

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.

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.

Quite So Stories.

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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.

Kipling, Rudyard

Puck of Pook’s Hill.

Leipzig : Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1906.

First Tauchnitz edition of Kipling’s collection of historical fantasy tales. Octavo, original wrappers. In good condition.

Henty, George Alfred [G.A.]

Both Sides the Border: A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower.

London : Blackie & Son, Limited, 1899.

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 Ralph Peacock. In very good condition. Ownership inscription.

Durand, Ralph. [Rudyard Kipling]

A Handbook of the Poetry of Rudyard Kipling.

London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1914.

First edition of Durand’s definitive handbook to Kipling’s poetry. Royal octavo, original quarter buckram over paper-covered boards, paper spine label, top edge gilt. In very good condition.

Kipling, Rudyard

Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling.

London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1912.

First edition of the definitive collection of Kipling’s verse. Royal octavo, original quarter buckram over paper-covered boards, paper spine label, top edge gilt. In very good condition. Bookplate.

Arnold, Matthew

The Scholar-Gipsy and Thyrsis.

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.

Fido, Martin. [Rudyard Kipling]

Rudyard Kipling.

London : Hamlyn, 1974.

First edition of the great biographer’s lively and absorbing study of the life and work of Rudyard Kipling. Quarto, original cloth, marbled endpapers, illustrated. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

Pamuk, Orhan

Other Colors: Essays and A Story.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.

First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Orhan Pamuk on the title page and additionally signed three times by jacket designer Chip Kidd, on the front panel, on the title page and the rear jacket flap. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by ChipContinue reading "Other Colors: Essays and A Story."

Updike, John

Terrorist.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.

First edition of this novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by John Updike on the title page and additionally signed three times by jacket designer Chip Kidd, on the front panel, on the title page and the rear jacket flap. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by ChipContinue reading "Terrorist."

Kipling, Rudyard

Rudyard Kipling in New England.

Brattleboro : The Book Cellar, 1951.

Revised edition of Howard Rice’s Rudyard Kipling in New England. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket.

O'Hara, John

Lovey Childs: A Philadelphian’s Story.

New York : Random House, 1969.

First edition of this novel by the author of Appointment in Samarra. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Muriel Nassar.

[Channing, Carol]

Carol Channing Hello, Dolly! Signed Life Magazine.

New York : Life Magazine, 1964.

April 3, 1964 issue of Life Magazine signed by legendary musical actress Carol Channing. Folio, original wrappers, illustrated. Inscribed by Channing on the front cover which features a photograph of her performing in the 1964 Broadway musical Hello, Dolly!, “XXX Carol Channing.” In very good condition.

Henty, George A. [G.A.]; Manville Fenn; John A. Higginson

Through Fire and Storm: Stories of Adventure and Peril.

London : S. W. Partridge & Co., 1898.

First edition of Henty’s classic adventure tale. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, patterned endpapers, illustrated. In near fine condition. Bookplate.

Kipling, Rudyard

Under the Deodars.

New York : John W. Lovell Company, 1890.

First authorized Lovell edition of Kipling’s Under the Deodars. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition.

Pritchett, V. S

A Careless Widow and Other Stories.

New York : Random House, 1989.

First American edition, second printing of Pritchett’s classic short story collection. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, signed by the author on the title page and inscribed on the half-title page, “For Sally Soames with admiration from V. S. Pritchett March 1993.” The recipient, British photojournalist Sally Soames, worked for The Sunday Times from 1968Continue reading "A Careless Widow and Other Stories."

Kipling, Rudyard

Abaft the Funnel.

New York : Doubleday, Page & Company, 1909.

First authorized edition of Kipling’s 1909 short story collection with the author’s note noting Dodge’s previously unauthorized edition “issued without my knowledge or sanction”. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth.

Kipling, Rudyard. Introduction by Irving Howe

The Portable Kipling.

New York : The Viking Press, 1982.

Rare unrevised proof of The Portable Kipling. Octavo, original wrappers with the publisher’s date and price inscribed on the front panel. In fine condition. Rare.

Bok, Edward

Twice Thirty: Some Short and Simple Annals of the Road.

New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925.

First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth over decorated boards, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece portrait of the author. Very good in a very good dust jacket.

Hamsun, Knut

Mysteries.

London : Alfred A. Knopf, 1927.

First American edition of Hamsun’s second novel. Octavo, original cloth. Translated from the Norwegian of Knut Hamsun by Arthur G. Chater. In very good condition. Rare.

Kipling, Rudyard

Puck: Geschichten aus alten Sagen. Ein Buch fur groke und heine Leute.

Berlin-Charlottenburg : Bita Deutsches Berlagshaus, n.d..

Rare German edition of Kipling’s collected Puck stories. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth, illustrated by H.R. Millar. Translated into German by E. Rosenbach. In near fine condition.

Hazlitt, W. Carew. [William Hazlitt]

Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of His Correspondence.

London : Richard Bentley, 1867.

First edition of W. Carew Hazlitt’s authoritative biography of his grandfather, great English critic and philosopher William Hazlitt. Octavo, two volumes, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, engraved frontispiece to each volume. In near fine condition.

Murakami, Haruki

Men Without Women.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.

First edition of this collection of seven tales about men who have lost women by internationally best-selling author Haruki Murakami. Octavo, original cloth. Signed three times by dust jacket designer Chip Kidd on the title page and both the front panel and rear flap of the dust jacket. Translated from the Japanese by Phillip GabrielContinue reading "Men Without Women."