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Sakoontala, or The Lost Ring; An Indian Drama
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Sakoontala, or The Lost Ring; An Indian Drama

by Kalidasa [Monier Williams, translator]

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Hertford: Stephen Austin, 1855. First Thus. Finely bound in full blue crushed morocco by Donnelley of Chicago. Gilt to spine and boards. Edges and turndowns all brightly gilt. Ornately decorated endpapers. Front joint cracked but holding. Faint offsetting to preliminaries. Binder's tag tipped in behind the front endpaper. Internally a clean, beautiful copy with fresh margins and bright floral borders. Housed in a quarter morocco slipcase.  A celebrated Indian drama translated from the Sanskrit, Sakoontala tells the story of the beautiful but innocent Sakoontala. She entrances a visiting king who marries her but must depart; before leaving he gives her a ring to signify their marriage and present to him. Only with this ring can Sakoontala claim her rightful place as queen. Trouble ensues when she loses the ring while traveling to meet him. A widely admired play, both within India as well as the rest of the world due to its influence on Goethe. .
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English Women of Letters: Biographical Sketches (In Two Volumes)
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English Women of Letters: Biographical Sketches (In Two Volumes)

by Kavanagh, Julia

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London: Hurst & Blackett, 1863. First Edition. Near Fine. Contemporary half vellum over marbled boards, with gilt to spine and top edges. Mild shelfwear to extremities and small split to the crown of Vol I holding well. Marbled endpapers with the bookplate of Robert Heysham Sayre, chief engineer of the Lehigh Valley Railroad (1824-1907) and the ownership signature of the same on the front endpaper of each volume; Volume II extra-opened between the title and table of contents, but text block tight. Collates: (Vol I) iv, 331 pages, (Vol II) iv, 353: complete, but for the publisher's adverts at the rear of Vol II. Internally, both volumes are exceptionally clean, neat, and pleasing examples of this rare book, which appears twice in the auction record, in 1978 and 1958. Written as a companion piece to French Women of Letters, Kavanagh's English Women of Letters became an influential reference guide for literary scholars. Rather than focus broadly on women's historical accomplishments, as her… Read More
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The New Preceptor, or, Young Lady's & Gentleman's True Instructor in the Rudiments of the English...
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The New Preceptor, or, Young Lady's & Gentleman's True Instructor in the Rudiments of the English Tongue

by Kay, R.

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New Castle: M. Angus & Son, 1801. First edition. Featuring eight woodcuts by Thomas Bewick. Nineteenth century pebbled cloth with gilt to spine. Yellow coated endpapers. Corners gently bumped and some bubbling to cloth of front board; rear hinge a bit tender and rear pastedown faintly soiled. Internally pleasing, with some offsetting to the title page and occasional light scattered foxing as is typical in imprints of this period. Some leaves unopened. A scarce work on educating both men and women in elocution, OCLC reports copies at only 10 institutions in the U.S. At the turn of the century, there was a strong sense that a good citizen must be an eloquent citizen. To train the rising generation, elocution and rhetoric manuals began to flood the market. Yet women were often neglected by the authors of these manuals writers, who focused on helping young men "rise in the world by demonstrating how to speak correctly and confidently...Most elocution texts only considered males, as they alone were being… Read More
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Typed Letter Signed on his return home from visiting William S. Burroughs in Mexico, reflecting...

Typed Letter Signed on his return home from visiting William S. Burroughs in Mexico, reflecting on leaving New York

by Kerouac, Jack

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Rocky Mount, NC, 1952. One page Typed Letter Signed "Jack" in pencil with an additional 4 lines added in his hand. On 8.5 x 11" onionskin paper, with original fold lines. Near Fine condition. Neither the letter or its recipient Rose Enoch Rotberg appear in Jack Kerouac: The Selected Letters or in Jack Kerouac: A Biography. The content places this letter at the time of Kerouac's return home from his trip to Mexico City, as he entered into one of the most productive periods of writing in his life. Reflecting on his travels home from Mexico City, where he had been visiting fellow Beat William S. Burroughs, Kerouac already sounds like the writer who will produce On the Road. "I rode the bus to within 38 miles of home and then they wanted me to wait 5 hours for 'the next bus connection' -- So I quickly took my bag and walked out on the rode and got a truck ride from an okie Florida cracker character and got home 4 hours before the bus -- Which proves that you just throw your money away when you pay bus… Read More
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On the Road
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On the Road

by Kerouac, Jack

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New York: The Viking Press, 1957. First edition. Near Fine/Very Good +. A Near Fine copy with a small spot to the closed foredge of the text block, internally clean and unmarked. In a Very Good+ unrestored first issue jacket. Spine a bit faded, small chips and tears at the spine ends and extremities, otherwise an attractive example. Housed in a blue clamshell case. "It changed my life like it changed everyone else's," Bob Dylan said of On The Road. Jack Kerouac's classic Roman A Clef, published in 1957, was the defining work of the beat generation. It follows the travels of Sal Paradise, a stand in for Kerouac himself, and is based on a series of journeys Kerouac took from 1947 to 1950. The work was typed up on a continuous "scroll" of sheets that Kerouac had taped together. On The Road appears on both Modern Library's list of the 100 best novels of the century and on Time Magazine list of the 100 best English language novels from 1923-2005. "[I]ts publication is a historic occasion... the most… Read More
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The Town and the City
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The Town and the City

by Kerouac, John [Jack]

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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950. First edition. Fine/Very Good +. A Fine, bright copy of the book with dark blue top-stain. In a Very Good+ dust jacket with some chips at tears at the spine and a faint dampstain, mostly visible from the verso. Slight chip on the rear panel close to the portrait of Kerouc. This work was heavily influenced by the writing of Tom Wolfe and intensely edited. The following year Kerouac would write his second novel, On the Road, marking a dramatic shift in writing style to the quintessential voice of Beat literature. An interesting first novel from one of the most important and influential writers to come out of the mid-twentieth century. "In this big, rambling first novel, Kerouac tells of a Massachusetts family that is gradually dissolved by the recent war, the forces of modern life and the passage of time... a rough diamond of a book" (Contemporary New York Times Review). Fine in Very Good + dust jacket.
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Big Sur
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Big Sur

by Kerouac, Jack

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New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1962. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. A lovely copy of the book. Just about Fine, with a few spots to the lower edge of the closed text block and a touch of sunning to the top-stain. In a Near Fine jacket with only trivial wear and discoloration to the jacket. "In this 1962 novel, Kerouac's alter ego Jack Duluoz, overwhelmed by success and excess, gravitates back and forth between wild binges in San Francisco and an isolated cabin on the California coast where he attempts to renew his spirit and clear his head of madness and alcohol. Only nature seems to restore in him a sense of balance" (Saroyan). Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.
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Sometimes a Great Notion
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Sometimes a Great Notion

by Kesey, Ken

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New York: Viking, 1964. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. A Fine copy of the book, clean, fresh and unread. Price clipped jacket Near Fine on account of a bit of rubbing to the jacket, mostly near the spine extremities. First issue with the publisher's logo on the first half-title and the photographer's name misspelled on the rear flap: "Hank Krangler." Kesey's epic novel about the Stamper family's place in history. Sometimes a Great Notion tells the story of a labor strike in coastal Oregon's logging industry. The Stampers are not part of the union, whose members go on strike to demand fewer hours and better pay due to decreased demand for their labor. The Stampers decide to cross the picket line and supply the mills with lumber. Kesey's novel digs into the fractious relationships that arise from this labor crisis, both within the community as well as within the Stamper family itself. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Signed Limited Edition)
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Signed Limited Edition)

by Khayyam, Omar. Edmund Dulac (illustrator), Edward Fitzgerald (translator)

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London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1909. First Thus. Limited to 750 copies, numbered and signed by the artist (this copy being 68). Large quarto (12 5/16 x 9 7/8 inches; 313 x 250 mm.). [124] pages (including inserted title). Original vellum over boards pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Later silk ties. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Tan end-papers stamped in light olive green with a repeated peacock feather design. Ink name on front paste-down. Twenty color plates mounted on buff vellum-like paper with gilt over tan decorative borders. With descriptive tissue guards. Text printed on rectos only within a brown decorative border. Minimal discoloration to vellum, front board very slightly bowed, otherwise a Near Fine copy. "In point of excellence of art, popularity, distinction and profit the crowning achievement... was the publication of the Fitzgerald version of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám illustrated by Edmund Dulac. The book was a joy and a treasure. Its public… Read More
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Songs From Books
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Songs From Books

by Kipling, Rudyard

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Garden City: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1912. First Edition. Fine/Very Good +. A Fine copy of the book that has been exquisitely preserved in its original dust jacket. Dust jacket is Very Good +, with a large chip at the base of the spine and price-clipped, but otherwise in excellent condition. A rare survivor. Kipling's compilation of songs from his various children's books. This is the authoritative guide to Kipling's charming poetic works; and it provides an opportunity for readers to indulge in nursery rhymes and songs outside of their narrative contexts. Songs from Books has become a perennial family bedtime favorite. Fine in Very Good + dust jacket.
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Captains Courageous
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Captains Courageous

by Kipling, Rudyard

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London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd, 1897. First U.K. edition. Near Fine. An attractive copy of Kipling's classic tale of the Grand Banks. A Nearly Fine copy of the book with a contemporary gift inscription on the half-title and very slight foxing throughout. An extremely bright, pleasing copy in the original cloth, all edges gilt. A fantastic coming-of-age story set on the rough seas. Famously adapted for the screen in 1937, for which Spencer Tracy won a best actor Oscar. A maritime coming of age story, Captains Courageous follows Harvey Cheyne from his spoiled and privileged childhood, to a life-changing experience on the sea that transforms him into a good man. After falling overboard off a luxury liner and being rescued by the crew of a fishing boat, Harvey's eyes are opened to different cultures and classes of the world. He learns the value of hard work and gains a new appreciation for adventure and loyalty. Near Fine.
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The Jungle Book & The Second Jungle Book
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The Jungle Book & The Second Jungle Book

by Kipling, Rudyard

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London: Macmillan, 1895. First editions. Near Fine. Original publisher's cloth bindings with gilt to spines and boards. All edges gilt. Dark green endpapers. Book one Near Fine, book two just slightly less, but a well-matched set overall. Spines bright and unfaded, with just a bit of wear at the spine ends and corners. A few spots to the front cover of book one and the occasional spot of foxing throughout. Book 2 with heavier foxing at pages 208-09, obscuring a few words, and rear inner hinge splitting, but holding well. Overall, an attractive pair of Kipling's most memorable works. Housed in a custom clamshell box that is a little worse for wear. Based on folk tales and legends that Kipling learned during his childhood in India but written while in Vermont. This work of several inter-related short stories met with huge success upon publication and continues to enthrall readers of all ages to this day. According to Professor Edwin L. Miller, their publication "caused even severe critics of… Read More
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Letters to the Family
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Letters to the Family

by Kipling, Rudyard

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Toronto: Macmillan Company, 1908. First edition. Original printed wraps, measuring 170 x 117mm and complete in 72 pages. Chipping, wear, and staining to spine and wrap edges; splitting to both joints near the foot of spine. Light toning internally, else unmarked. A scarce piece. Housed in a custom slipcase with chemise, with mottling and wear to cloth. Written during a 1907 trip to Canada, Letters to the Family captures the author's commitment to the British Empire and those who are his "family" through it -- indeed, it is among Kipling's most overt and bare examples of Imperialist propaganda. "These articles are scarcely a travelogue, rather a series of political essays on matters Imperial" and an assertion of Britain's so-called civilizing influence on those nations it colonized (Kipling Society).
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A Song of the English
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A Song of the English

by Kipling, Rudyard. W. Heath Robinson (illustrator)

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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1909. First trade edition. Original blue cloth with front cover pictorially stamped in gilt on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Large quarto (10 15/16 x 8 5/8 inches; 278 x 219 mm.). [64] leaves. Thirty color plates (including frontispiece), mounted on leaves with color border decorations. Descriptive tissue guards, each with a miniature line illustration. Pictorial title and fifty-nine black and white line illustrations in the text (half-page or smaller). Title printed in red and black. An excellent copy of the first trade edition. "This poem originally appeared in The English Illustrated Magazine, May, 1893, prior to its inclusion in The Seven Seas, 1896" (Martindell). It is classic Kipling, beautifully illustrated by Robinson. Beare 61b. Lewis 215. Livingston 321. Martindell 133 (giving the date of publication as 1913). Stewart 151.
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Captains Courageous
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Captains Courageous

by Kipling, Rudyard

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New York: The Century Co, 1897. First edition. Near Fine. Preceding the first British edition. An attractive copy of Kipling's classic tale of the Grand Banks. Original publisher's cloth binding stamped in gilt, red, and black. Top edge gilt. A Nearly Fine copy of the book on account of a small spot to the front joint else a square and bright, retaining its gilt and colors; internally fresh and unmarked. A fantastic coming-of-age story set on the rough seas, it was famously adapted for the screen in 1937, for which Spencer Tracy won a best actor Oscar. A maritime coming of age story, Captains Courageous follows Harvey Cheyne from his spoiled and privileged childhood, to a life-changing experience on the sea that transforms him into a good man. After falling overboard off a luxury liner and being rescued by the crew of a fishing boat, Harvey's eyes are opened to different cultures and classes of the world. He learns the value of hard work and gains a new appreciation for adventure and loyalty. Near Fine.
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Kim
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Kim

by Kipling, Rudyard

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London: Macmillan, 1901. First UK edition. Near Fine. Original publisher's cloth binding with gilt to spine and front board. Top edge gilt. A Near Fine example retaining its brightness and shape; internally with some foxing to title page and preliminaries. Kim stands as a separate character from the other books that had made Kipling's name -- "'Not much of a story' may perhaps be the verdict of the ruthless boy reader who revels in the Jungle Book and Captains Courageous...Kim is, in fact and upon the surface, but an insignificant fragment of human history; a bit out of the biography of a little vagabond of Irish parentage, orphaned when a baby, and left to shift for himself in infinite India," wrote a contemporary reviewer for The Atlantic. That said, it is a book that more mature readers could connect with in the story of a boy growing into manhood, seeking out experiences and relationships to shape and define him. "Kim is a work of genius," that same Atlantic reviewer concludes, because it is… Read More
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Letters on Marriage, on the Causes of Matrimonial Infidelity, and on the Reciprocal Relations of...
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Letters on Marriage, on the Causes of Matrimonial Infidelity, and on the Reciprocal Relations of the Sexes (in 2 vols.)

by Kitchener, Henry Thomas

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London: C. Chapple, 1812. First edition. Bound in 19th century three-quarter morocco over calf with boards ruled in gilt; spines with five raised bands embossed in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Light scattered foxing throughout, though with less than is typical of imprints of this period. Collates xxiv, 333, [1, blank]; xv, [1, blank], 396: complete including titles of both. Scarce at institutions and in trade, this surprisingly progressive marriage guide is recorded at only 12 institutions in the U.S. and has appeared only four times at auction since 1973 (with the copy in 2001 being defective). This is presently the only copy on the market. An etiquette book composed in the popular epistolary fashion, Letters on Marriage presents readers with a long-running conversation between two male correspondents on marital duties, how and why marriages break apart, and the extent to which both husband and wife must give each other support and respect. Early chapters in Volume I often replicate much of the… Read More
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