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, 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

New York, NY; London, England: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.; The Artemis Press, 1927; 1955. First Editions Thus. Hardcovers. Two rarities by Knut Hamsun (1859-1952), the Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian author whose literary innovations were & remain acclaimed & influential- but whose legacy is forever darkened by his having supported Adolf Hitler & the Nazis during World War II (as with Louis Ferdinand Celine, Ezra Pound et al.): (1) Mysteries, first American..... More

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

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

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

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

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

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

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