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New York: D. Appleton & Company. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1896. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A handsome first (American) edition, published October 30, 1896, the same day as the English edition. Only predeced by 6 printed copies of the copyright edition on September 9. Richards A92, Livingston 130, Stewart 139. Very Good+ in the… Read more about this item

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd.. Very Good. 1918. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. A charming first English edition in Very Good condition, very light bluish card wrappers with French flaps, top part of front wrapper beginning to separate. Livingston 433, Richards A308; Although all the poems in the volume had appeared in previous Kipling poetry collections or… Read more about this item

London: MacMillan and Co., Limited. Fine. 1923. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. A charming first English edition in Fine condition, grayish blue card wrappers. Ruled and lettered in dark blue. 20,000 copies printed. Also issued in red cloth. Livingston 486, Richards A343; Kipling became Rector of St. Andrews in 1922 and gave this rectorial address at his… Read more about this item

London: MacMillan and Co., Limited. Near Fine. 1923. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. A first English edition, gilded title on original red cloth in just about near Fine condition, showing little rubbing and sunning to spine. Also issued in gray paper wrappers. Livingston 486; Rectorial address delivered at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland on October… Read more about this item

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1924. Second Edition. Hardcover. A most handsome Second American edition in just about Fine condition with only limited signs of edgewear. Issued in sage-green boards, the front cover lettered in green upon a white paper label. Lightly browned dust-jacket shows portrait of Kipling… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1988. 1st US Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 0394573978 . A beautiful unread first American edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dustjacket. SIGNED by author and Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer directly on the title page; A collection of 23 biographical and autobiographical essays written from… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2000. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 0375410538 . A beautiful first US edition/first printing, minute indent to front board, else in unread Fine condition in alike dustjacket. SIGNED by author Michael Ondaatje directly on title page; Set in Sri Lanka (Ondaatje's birthplace) during the country's late… Read more about this item

New York: Scribner. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1999. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 0684849216 . An attractive first edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dust-jacket; Both revealing self-portrait and dramatic fictional chronicle of his final African safari, Ernest Hemingway's last unpublished work was written when he returned from Kenya in 1953. Edited by his… Read more about this item

Oxford: Oxford University Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1980. First Edition; Later Printing. Hardcover. 0192122134 . First edition in gray boards with deep red spine lettering and endpapers in Fine condition in alike dustjacket with only minor shades of use; In the early nineteenth century booklets produced for children were of such quality that even intellectuals… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1988. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0224025341 . A beautiful unread first edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dustjacket. Light foxing to page edges. Dustjacket shows slight wear to edges and foxing at flap edges; A collection of 23 biographical and autobiographical essays written from the 1950s to… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2005. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0375831444 . A handsome first edition/first printing in unread Fine condition in alike dustjacket. Slight bumping of bottom corners, front and back; "Drawing on string theory and space-time, quantum physics and chaos, entanglement and cold dark matter, award-winning science writers … Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket. 2005. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0375831444 . A stunning first edition/first printing in Very Fine condition in alike dust jacket; "Drawing on string theory and space-time, quantum physics and chaos, entanglement and cold dark matter, award-winning science writers Mary and John Gribbin reveal the real science… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket. 2007. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0307266354 . A beautiful first US edition/first printing in unread Very Fine /Very Fine condition; Award-winning writer Ondaatje's latest novel connects a young girl named Anna with a long forgotten writer from rural France. Their shared passions and sorrows shape survival… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket. 2007. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0307266354 . A beautiful first US edition/first printing in unread Very Fine /Very Fine condition, SIGNED by author Michael Ondaatje on title page; Award-winning writer Ondaatje's latest novel connects a young girl named Anna with a long forgotten writer from rural… Read more about this item

London: Harpercollinspublishers. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1991. Second Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. 0261102028 . An attractive HarperCollins edition/second printing in Fine condition in alike unpriced dustjacket; The first volume in J. R. R. Tolkien's "History of Middle Earth" was the first major work of imagination by J. R. R. Tolkien, in 1916, when he was 25… Read more about this item

London: Harpercollins Publishers. As New in As New dust jacket. 2007. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0007178352 . A beautiful first UK edition/first printing in As New/As New condition, SIGNED by author Tracy Chevalier directly on the title page; Historical novelist Tracy Chevalier uses two English families---the country born Kellaways and the street smart Butterfields---to depict… Read more about this item

London: Harpercollinspublishers. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1991. Second Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. 0261102044 . An attractive HarperCollins edition/second printing in Fine condition in alike unpriced dustjacket; The fourth volume of "History of Middle Earth" contains prose fragments following the 'Lost Tales', the earliest 'Silmarillion' (Sketch of the Mythology) ; the 'Quenta' ('Quenta Noldorinwa', the second… Read more about this item