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

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

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. "Hart Crane's life was notoriously turbulent, persistently nonconformist, and tragically short. Born in 1899, Crane became one of the most significant modernist American poets, yet his self-destructive tendencies--violent outbursts, massive drinking binges, and dangerous sexual pursuits--came to a catastrophic conclusion when at only thirty-two he threw himself from the stern of an ocean liner into the Gulf of Mexico. This..... More

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

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

Shelton, CT: The First Edition Library/ Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., n/d (c. 2000). First Edition Thus. Hardcover. "Sam Spade is a knock-out detective and yet, personally, he cares not a hoot for the law; so little so that constantly is he just on the verge of being pulled by the 'Frisco cops. When Spade goes out after anything neither lead slugs, women, nor the Old Nick himself can stop him..... More

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

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

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

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

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

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

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