Indianapolis, IN & New York, NY: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. "Detroit Is My Own Home Town is as sprightly a collection of stories and portraits as ever came under the classification of memoirs. Malcolm W. Bingay probably knows more Detroit lore than any other man alive, and it's people he is interested in- not dry dates and statistics. Now editorial director of the Detroit Free Press, the..... More
[Item #3693]
New York, NY: New Amsterdam Book Company, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Subtitled "Being a Biographical Sketch of Rudyard Kipling, With an Appreciation and Some Anecdotes" with an exemplary late-Victorian flourish, this interesting volume about the great British author Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was written by Will M. Clemens, a possible distant relative (or at least apparently an acquaintance) of Samuel Clemens a/k/a Mark Twain. With seven chapters devoted to various aspects..... More
[Item #4224]
Avon, Connecticut: The Limited Editions Club/ The Cardavon Press, 1975. Limited First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Signed by Illustrator Robert Shore. "It was with (An Outcast of the Islands) that Conrad decided his life, which was to be congruent with his art. He doubted, after Almayer's Folly (1895), whether he "should write another line for print." He might have gone back to sea and dreamed away his life in doubt and..... More
[Item #4222]
New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1930. First American Edition. Hardcover. "This terrifying first novel by a young American is the story of a boy who recoils from everything, has no positive feeling of respect or affection or relationship of any sort. He is representative, horribly representative, of the bottom-dog strata of America, wherein men and women drift, with no will to live or even to exist, but with merely..... More
[Item #3369]
New York, NY: The Limited Editions Club, 1978. Limited First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Signed by Illustrator May Neama. "When a man, however endowed he may be, concerns himself only with telling the story, when he does not take into account that true literary power does not lie in the fact but indeed in the manner of preparing, presenting, and expressing it, he has no sense of art. The profound and..... More
[Item #4250]
Cullowhee, NC: New Native Press, 2013. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by publisher Thomas Rain Crowe. "The word "beautiful" is the perfect metaphor for what Caleb Beissert has made of the poems of (Pablo) Neruda and (Federico) Garcia Lorca in this collection-- some of which are well-known, if not "celebrities" of the late 20th and early 21st century literary canon. (Caleb) Beissert has brought, in his translations of these two international..... More
[Item #4103]
Buffalo, NY: White Pine Press, 2019. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by editor Thomas Rain Crowe. "Yvan Goll is one of the great lyric poets and authors of the twentieth century and is at the same time arguably the most neglected poet of the twentieth century. Goll was in the avant-garde of various literary scenes from the beginning. A central figure in the German world of Dada and Expressionism in Berlin..... More
[Item #4013]
Buffalo, NY: White Pine Press, 2004. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by co-translator Thomas Rain Crowe. "10,000 Dawns is an extremely rare and touching book that documents two poets of equal artistry writing poems to each other with deep intimacy and serious play of language for that which is often beyond words. Deeply translated by Thomas Rain Crowe and Nan Watkins, this illuminating correspondence is as essential a work of hard-core..... More
[Item #3909]
London, England: The Folio Society, 2014. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. "From Clee to heaven the beacon burns,/ The shires have seen it plain,/ From north and south the sign returns/ And beacons burn again." (Part I, "1887," first stanza, pg. 3) The popular poem cycle by Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936), the great British classical scholar & poet. Housman's evocations of the disappointed aspirations of youth in the English countryside contain..... More
[Item #4265]
New York, NY; London, England: Harper & Brothers; MacMillan & Co. Ltd., 1910; 1955. First Editions. Hardcovers. Two venerable critical biographies of the lives & works of the canonical American humorist & writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens a/k/a Mark Twain (1835-1910); & the great British author Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936): (1) My Mark Twain: Reminiscences and Criticisms by William Dean Howells (1837-1920), a close friend of Twain & himself a very prolific..... More
[Item #4444]
Seattle, WA: Wood Works, 2000. Limited First Softcover Edition. Sewn Wrappers in Over-Wrap. "Juan Ramon Jimenez's Naked Woman is a classic celebration of love, conveyed upon breaking waves of passion and despair, with evocative, shadowy asides that draw us close to the excited, humbled poet, till we share his perceptions, his agony and joy." (from back cover) A stately, passionate four-part masterpiece of poetry by Juan Ramon Jimenez (1881-1958), the..... More
[Item #3595]
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1966. First "Pirated Edition" Thus. Stapled Wrappers. "The moon's greygolden meshes make/ All night a veil,/ The shorelamps in the sleeping lake/ Laburnum tendrils trail.// The sly reeds whisper to the night/ A name- her name-/ And all my soul is a delight,/ A swoon of shame." ("Alone," unpaginated) An officially unauthorized facsimile of the slender chapbook of poems by James Joyce (1882-1941), the..... More
[Item #4563]
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. First American Edition. Hardcover. A varied & rich collection of short stories & poems by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), the canonical British author & journalist. Kipling was one of the world's most popular writers for children & adults during the later 19th- earlier 20th centuries; & he remains so today despite his now-unfashionable celebration of colonialism & the old British Empire. The structure..... More
[Item #4364]
Philadelphia, PA: Henry Altemus, n/d (Circa 1895). First Edition Thus (?). Hardcover. A volume of stories by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), the great British poet, novelist & story-writer whose prolific output celebrated the colonial British Empire. Current censure (if not outright censoring & "cancelling") of imperialism & native cultural appropriation (which he indeed upheld & practiced) aside, the quality & adventuresome excitement of Kipling's evocative writings bestow on them a time-tested..... More
[Item #4239]
New York, NY: The Century Co., 1895; 1898. Early Edition; First American Edition. Hardcovers. The classic novel-in-stories & its sequel by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), the canonical British author & journalist. While Kipling may not be favored by our current, intolerantly "liberal" literary establishment for his indeed pronounced advocacy of colonial imperialism & what is now viewed as the appropriation of native cultures, his writings, with their quality & adventurous excitement..... More
[Item #4276]
New York, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1901. First American Edition. Hardcover. The iconic novel by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), the canonical British author & journalist whose prolific output epitomized & celebrated the colonial British Empire. While he may be out-of-favor if not entirely "canceled" by our current, intolerant "liberal" literary establishment for his indeed extreme advocacy of colonial imperialism & what is now often viewed as appropriation of native cultures..... More
[Item #4261]
New York, NY: D. Appleton and Company, 1898. First American Edition, Third(?) Printing. Hardcover. "The cities are full of pride,/ Challenging each to each-/ This from her mountain-side,/ That from her burthened beach." ("Dedication To the City of Bombay," first stanza, pg. v) Thus begins this collection of stirring poems by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), the great English poet, novelist, story-writer & journalist whose prolific output epitomized & celebrated the colonial..... More
[Item #4220]
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. "I have collected in this volume practically all the verses and chapter-headings scattered through my books, with the exception of the Jungle Books and the Just So Stories. In several cases where only a few lines of verse were originally used I have given in full the song, etc., from which they were taken." (author's Preface) A compilation of..... More
[Item #4354]
New York, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. "This is the last bit of writing left by Rudyard Kipling, a story as memorable as any animal story he ever wrote. It now appears in America as a first edition in book form...As an epilogue to his writing life, (Kipling) left this magnificent story of a stunted, earnest little tyke who was an artist in the esoteric..... More
[Item #4383]
New York, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1909. First American Edition. Hardcover. A speculative, fantastical science-fiction story by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), the great British writer most known for his works of fabulist fiction that concern the British Empire & its then-colony (Raj) of India. Here we believe that Kipling was inspired, or competing with, his contemporary H.G. Wells (1866-1946), who with his futuristic novels such as War of the Worlds..... More
[Item #4308]
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Two works by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), the canonical British author & journalist, in one rare volume: Kim, the novel which is among Kipling's most acclaimed & famous works, in which Kim (Kimball O'Hara), an Irish orphan living by his wits in British-ruled India during the late 19th century, gets deeply involved in adventures as he is brought into..... More
[Item #4333]
New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, Inc., 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. "D.H. Lawrence stands in the first rank of letter writers; his drive and vitality, his overflow of creative energy, is expressed as forcefully in his correspondence as in his many volumes of prose and poetry. Diana Trilling...offers here a major selection of his letters. She has restored many names and references deleted from earlier collections, and in her..... More
[Item #3409]
Avon, CT: The Limited Editions Club, 1975. Limited First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Signed by illustrator Sheila Robinson. A novel by D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence (1885-1930), the great British poet & writer. First published in 1913, this early work in the Lawrence oeuvre was at the cutting edge, indeed way ahead of its time with its deep, relatively explicit treatment of the sexual, emotional & psychological issues of its protagonists. The initial..... More
[Item #4295]
New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. "If I could have/ Two things in one:/ The peace of the grave,/ And the light of the sun;" ("Moriturus," first stanza, pg. 3) A vintage, classic collection of poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), the canonical American poet, quintessential Greenwich Village bohemian & LGBT icon. Hardcover in boards with cloth spine & corners, first edition as stated on..... More
[Item #4520]
New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Edna St. Vincent Millay. A play in three acts by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), the canonical American poet, quintessential Greenwich Village Bohemian & LGBT icon. The text here became the libretto for an opera by the venerable composer & critic Deems Taylor (1885-1966), which was presented at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City to popular acclaim..... More
[Item #4549]