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[Norman Kane]

TENNYSON, FREDERICK.  POEMS OF THE DAY AND YEAR.  London: John Lane; Chicago: Stone & Kimball, 1895.  First edition.  Kramer 66.  Original reddish cloth spine stamped in gold, very good.  Attractive vignette title page.  (Brother of the Laureate, co-author of their first book, "Poems By Two Brothers.") $50.00

DAWE, W[ILLIAM] CARLETON [L.].  KAKEMONOS. TALES OF THE FAR EAST.   N.Y. & London: John Lane, 1897.  First N. Y. edition of this collection by an Anglo-Australian author.  Original cloth, top edge gilt, just slight wear. (Dawe's fiction often explored race relations in the East, giving "straightforward accounts of interracial sex ('the love of the white for the yellow.')"  This N. Y. edition is not in OCLC. $75.00

COLLINS, JAS. H.  THE GREAT TAXICAB ROBBERY, A TRUE DETECTIVE STORY WRITTEN FROM THE RECORDS AND PERSONAL ACCOUNTS ...
N. Y.: John Lane, 1912.  First edition.  Original pictorial cloth, a few faded spots, one illustration missing, otherwise very good. Inscribed by Geo. S. Dougherty (outstanding detective of his day who first introduce the use of fingerprints in police work)  to Col. J. H. Haager, Chief of Police in Lexington, Ky. Also with the stamp and tipped-in presentation of the Standard Detective Agency. $75.00

O'CONOR, NORREYS J.  CELTIC MEMORIES.  N.Y.: John Lane, 1914.  First U.S. edition of the first book by this N.Y.-born poet. Original cloth/boards, very good, in the worn but largely intact dust wrapper. Nice signed inscription by O'Conor. $50.00

WELLS H. G.  SELECT CONVERSATIONS WITH AN UNCLE. REMINISCENCES.
London: John Lane; N.Y.: Merriam, 1895. First U.S. edition (sic) of Wells' first literary work. Original decorated cloth, bright, top edge gilt, blank bookplate on end paper, vignette title page, a few margins rough, one or two marginal tears, partly unopened. (The Theory of Perpetual Discomfort of Humanity, The Art of Being Photographed, The Pains of Marriage, &c.)   Scarce. $125.00

HOUSMAN, LAURENCE.  GREEN ARRAS.  London: John Lane; Chicago: Way and Williams, 1896. First edition.  Original decorated cloth with an overall gilt design on front cover and spine, very good.  Frontispiece, vignette title page, initial letters & 5 plates by the author. Errata slip opposite p.viii. Largely unopened. 16 pages of advts. for Lane publications.  A very attractive book. $175.00

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