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Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: A Few Great Books at Considerable Discounts 

Wanting some quick cash, we today offer the books specified below at
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Books are returnable for 15 days from buyer's receipt.

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Best Wishes,

Stephen

Stephen Johnson
Allington Antiquarian Books, LLC
Rare and Collectible Books, both Antiquarian and Modern
www.allingtonbooks.com
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*Discounted Books*


del Valle-Inclán, Ramón María [Valiente, Luisa Díaz Sáenz] . *La Biblioteca
de Autores Españoles desde la formación del lenguaje hasta nuestros días.
Historiadores primitivos de Indias. Colección dirigada é ilustrada. Por Don
Enrique De Vedia. Tomo Primero y Tomo Segundo [Tomo Primero (1858) and Tomo
Segundo (1862)*], Each Signed; Together With an Autograph Love Poem Signed.
Madrid: M. Rivadeneyra - Impresor - Editor, 1858;1862. First edition.
PRESENTLY DISCOUNTED. WAS $3,450. NOW $550.     A Very Good + or better
copy of the first edition, first printing, bound in elegant tree calf,
INTIMATELY SIGNED BY VALLE-INCLAN on the half-title of each Volume to Luisa
Díaz Sáenz Valiente. (Each Volume has rubbing to the outer board corners,
the rear joint of Tomo Primero appears to have been expertly repaired, and
Tomo Segundo shows a little scuffing to the spine. Tomo primero lacks the
first front free endpaper, and a prior owner has darkened what appears to
be a prior bookseller's stamp from each half- title --- neither the
pastedowns nor the pages show any signs of being ex-library.) Tomo primero
is signed "A mi Princesa / x x x / Valle-Inclán" and Tomo segundo is
SIGNED, INSCRIBED, DATED, and PLACED BY VALLE-INCLAN as follows: "x x x / A
Mi Princesa [underscored twice by Valle-Inclan] / x x x / Valle-Inclán /
11-V-1910 / Buenos Aires."  Dramatist, novelist, and a member of the
Spanish Generation of 98, Valle-Inclan was a Spanish Literary giant whose
works influenced later generations of Spanish dramatists. The books contain
Valle-Inclan's history of the conquest of the Aztecs by Hernando Cortes and
the conquest of the Incas by Francisco Pizarro González. TOGETHER WITH an
ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH LOVE POEM BY VALLE INCLAN, loosely laid in to Tomo
primero and written on a single sheet of paper titled by him "Para Señorita
Luisa Díaz Sáenz Valiente" which begins as follows: "Hoy me canta en el
fecho tu recuerdo, Argentina,/ Con il canto de una alondra matutina...."
(The poem is in Near Fine condition, although somewhat brittle at the
folds, and shows some fold lines and a short closed split where the folds
meet in the center of the paper, as well as a short tear at the top.) [As
best we can determine, the Poem has never been published.] Luisa Díaz Sáenz
Valiente was a prominent journalist in Argentina and married to a prominent
Argentinean lawyer and diplomat. In 1910, Valle Inclan and his wife
traveled for 6 months through Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, and
Bolivia, and it appears that he particularly enjoyed his time in Argentina.
Having a notable Provenance, these items were owned by actor Jack Palance
and each volume bears the bookplate from the 2006 sale of his Personal
Property. A remarkable copy of this two-volume work, INTIMATELY SIGNED IN
EACH VOLUME BY RAMON MARIA DEL VALLE-INCLAN, TOGETHER WITH AN ORIGINAL LOVE
POEM FROM VALLE-INCLAN loosely laid in to one of the Volumes. Books signed
by Valle-Inclan are exceedingly scarce to the market and original signed
Poems written and signed by Valle-Inclan are rare. A
collection-distinguishing set and QUITE RARE. [NOTE: International Shipping
must be by Priority Mail. The set is somewhat heavy and the actual cost of
shipping will be charged.] Very Good +. Hardcover. (#00003515) $550.00


Eucken, Rudolf [Gell-Mann, Murray]. *Die Lebensanschauungen der grossen
Denker* [Unterzeichnet; Signed by Eucken; Murray Gell-Mann's Copy] [T*he
Problem and Development of Human Life as Viewed by the Great Thinkers from
Plato to the Present*] eine Entwicklungsgeschichte des Lebensproblems der
Menschheit von Plato bis zur Gegenwart von Rudolf Eucken, Professor in
Jena. Leipzig: Verlag Von Veit & Comp, 1899. First edition thus. PRESENTLY
DISCOUNTED. WAS $2,250.  NOW $525.     A Very Good copy of the revised and
expanded (by Eucken) edition, bound in three-quarter leather with elegant
decorative board and with the compartmented spine lettered, decorated, and
lined in gilt and having a red title label and a green author label and the
page block's closed edges stained red (some minor edge rubbing, light
scuffing to the rear board leather near the spine, some scuffing to the red
spine label, outer board corners rubbed through, front board lightly curved
at the leading extremities, mild damage to and light residue on the front
pastedown evidently from a bookplate's removal, top portion of the page
facing the title page clipped off), SIGNED BY RUDOLF EUCKEN on the title
page -- text in German; Murray Gell-Mann's copy with Gell-Mann's bookplate
to the front free endpaper. First published in 1890, Eucken, as he explains
in his second and third forwards, revised and expanded the work in 1896 and
then again in 1899. Eucken won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Literature "in
recognition of his earnest search for truth, his penetrating power of
thought, his wide range of vision, and the warmth and strength in
presentation with which in his numerous works he has vindicated and
developed an idealistic philosophy of life". One of Eucken's best-known and
most important works, the book presents and critiques the views of great
philosophers on the problem of human life, including the views of such
thinkers as Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Spinoza, Descartes, Kant, and
others. Eucken himself maintained that humans have souls, that they
consequently were at the junction between nature and spirit, and that they
should seek to overcome their non-spiritual natures and work to achieve a
more spiritual life. Murray Gell-Mann won the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics
"for his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of
elementary particles and their interactions". Gell- Mann coined the name
"Quark" for certain elementary particles, naming them after a line in James
Joyce's "Finnegans Wake". [Having determined the sound for the word he
would coin for his discovery, Gell-Mann was for a time uncertain of how he
would choose to spell it, considering, among other possibilities, spelling
the sound as "kwork" until, in what he called one of his "occasional
perusals of Finnegans Wake", he came across the phrase: "Three quarks for
Muster Mark! / Sure he has not got much of a bark / And sure any he has
it's all beside the mark." Thus was born a new and important Scientific
term.] Thus we have one Nobel Prize-winner's copy of another Nobel
Prize-winner's signed book -- an excellent Association copy.  Signed copies
of Rudolf Eucken's works are exceedingly difficult to find and our search
of the auction records reveals only one of his signed books having come to
auction since 1960. A Very Good copy of Rudolf Eucken's masterpiece, SIGNED
BY RUDOLF EUCKEN and with an excellent PROVENANCE, BEING THE COPY OF NOBEL
PRIZE-WINNER MURRAY GELL-MANN. A REMARKABLE AND RARE COPY OF THIS NOTABLE
WORK. Very Good. Hardcover. (#00003971) $525.00


Frederic Remington. *Pony Tracks* [Remington's Debut Book]. New York:
Harper & Brothers, 1895. First edition. PRESENTLY DISCOUNTED. WAS $925.
NOW $125.     A Near Fine copy of the first edition, first printing, of
Frederic Remington's debut book with a frontispiece and 69 additional
illustrations by Remington and one page of undated ads to the rear (modest
edge rubbing and some minor handling soil, spine darkened, some spotting to
the closed page block's top edge, contemporary gift inscription to the
front free endpaper -- although this is a heavy book, the endpapers are not
cracked). While Remington had previously illustrated the work of other
authors, this is the first book that Remington wrote, a work born when
Remington suggested to a Century editor that someone should be sent out to
author an Indian story for Remington to illustrate and the editor suggested
that Remington do it himself. A Near Fine copy of Frederic Remington's
debut book --- a meaningfully better copy than usually is seen and rather
uncommon, especially when in a condition as nice as is this copy. Near
Fine. Hardcover. (#5652) $125.00


Crowe, Cameron. *Fast Times at Ridgemont High* [Advance Uncorrected Proofs
-- Quite Scarce and Likely Rare]. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981. First
edition. PRESENTLY DISCOUNTED. WAS $1,000. NOW $175.     A Near Fine copy
of the ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOFS (within called the BOUND GALLEY) for the
first edition, first printing of this highly-notable book (minor sticker
residue to the front wrapper's upper right corner -- otherwise Fine with
light soiling and with toning to the spine and a faint crease line to each
wrapper's lower leading corner) and containing a few samples of the
illustrations planned to be used in the book; Crowe's tale of his 1979
return under an assumed name to Clairemont High School in San Diego -- a
School that he had briefly attended. While there, the youthful-looking
Crowe (who had graduated from high school in 1972 at the age of 15) mingled
freely with the students both at school and at their homes and hangouts.
The book -- optioned for a film even before it was published -- provided
the basis for the 1982 film of the same name starring Sean Penn, Jennifer
Jason Leigh (in her breakthrough film), Judge Reinhold, Phoebe Cates, Brian
Backer, Robert Romanus, and Ray Watson. The film also provided minor roles
for Nicholas Cage (in his debut film) and Forest Whitaker ( in his first
on-screen performance of note). In 2005, the film was selected by the
Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film
Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
In our experience, copies of the Advance Uncorrected Proofs for this debut
novel are as scarce as hen's teeth. A Near Fine copy of the ADVANCE
UNCORRECTED PROOFS (within called the BOUND GALLEY) for this notable debut
novel. QUITE SCARCE INDEED and, in our opinion, likely RARE. (#5687) $175.00


Berry, Wendell. *A Place on Earth* [Signed]. New York: Harcourt, Brace &
World, Inc., 1967. First edition. PRESENTLY DISCOUNTED. WAS $1,550. NOW $425.
    A Fine copy of the first edition, first printing (modest pushing to the
spine ends, common dust soiling to the closed page block's top edge and
slight foxing to the leading edge -- considerably less than we have seen on
other copies), in a Fine dust jacket (spine lightly sunned, tiny tear to
the front panel's upper edge, spine verso (interior) toned, light foxing to
the verso of the dust jacket's panels), SIGNED BY WENDELL BERRY on the
front free endpaper; Wendell Berry's quite scarce second novel, a tale set
Port William in Kentucky's hill country during the last six months of World
War II. The novel is scarce to the market -- especially when in the dust
jacket, copies in a condition as nice as is this copy are quite a bit
scarcer, signed copies are quite scarce indeed, and signed copies in the
dust jacket and in a condition nice as is this copy are, in our experience,
as scarce as hen's teeth. A Fine copy of Wendell Berry's scarce second
novel, SIGNED BY WENDELL BERRY. QUITE SCARCE INDEED. Fine in fine
dust-jacket. Hardcover. (#5738) $425.00


Brodsky, Joseph. *A Part of Speech* [Signed Review Copy]. New York: Farrar,
Starua and Giroux, 1980. First edition. PRESENTLY DISCOUNTED. WAS $300. NOW
$95.   A Near Fine copy of the first edition, first printing of this
Publisher's Review Copy (light fading to the spine ends, otherwise Fine),
in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED, DATED, AND PLACED BY JOSEPH BRODSKY on the
half-title as follows: "Joseph Brodsky / Nov 16th 1993 / Chicago" with the
PUBLISHER'S REVIEW SLIP loosely laid in; Brodsky's fifth collection of
Poetry. Persecuted in his Russian homeland (where a Leningrad newspaper
called his Poetry "pornographic and anti-Soviet", Brodsky was interrogated,
his papers were seized, he was twice put in a mental institution.
Ultimately, he was arrested and charged with "parasitism", with the
authorities describing him as "a pseudo-poet in velveteen trousers" who
failed to fulfill his "constitutional duty to work honestly for the good of
the motherland." Tried in secret, he was convicted and, after protests of
this action both in the Soviet Union and elsewhere, his sentence was
commuted. Brodsky then returned to Leningrad where he continued to be
harassed, both for his writing and for being Jewish. He was expelled by his
homeland in 1972 and, with the help of W. H. Auden, moved to Ann Arbor,
Michigan. His fame grew and, in 1987, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature
for his body of work and "for all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity
of thought and poetic intensity." [In announcing the Award, the Swedish
Academy noted his fear of losing his native tongue by stating that "[t]he
change of environment and language after Brodsky had left the Soviet in
1972 naturally involved a severe nervous strain for the poet. In the poem
1972 (in the collection A Part of Speech 1980) he depicts how he will
gradually lose hair, teeth, consonants, verbs, and endings."] In 1991, the
United States named him its Poet Laureate. Signed copies of "A Part of
Speech" are not at all common to the market, and signed Review Copies are
scarcer still. An essentially Fine copy of this PUBLISHER'S ADVANCE REVIEW
COPY, SIGNED, DATED, AND PLACED BY NOBELIST AND POET LAUREATE JOSEPH
BRODSKY. SCARCE. Bookseller Inventory # 5749 Near Fine in fine dust-jacket.
Hardcover. (#5749) $95.00


Brodsky, Joseph. *A Part of Speech* [Signed Uncorrected Page Proof]. New
York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Wrappers. 1980. PRESENTLY DISCOUNTED. WAS
$600. NOW $195.    A Fine copy of the UNCORRECTED PAGE PROOF for the first
edition, first printing, SIGNED, DATED, AND PLACED BY JOSEPH BRODSKY on the
half-title as follows: "Joseph Brodsky / Nov 16th 1993 / Chicago.
[underscored]"; Brodsky's fifth collection of Poetry. Persecuted in his
Russian homeland where a Leningrad newspaper called his Poetry
"pornographic and anti-Soviet", Brodsky was interrogated, his papers were
seized, he was twice put in a mental institution. Ultimately, he was
arrested and charged with "parasitism", with the authorities describing him
as "a pseudo-poet in velveteen trousers" who failed to fulfill his
"constitutional duty to work honestly for the good of the motherland."
Tried in secret, he was convicted and, after protests of this action both
in the Soviet Union and elsewhere, his sentence was commuted. Brodsky then
returned to Leningrad where he continued to be harassed, both for his
writing and for being Jewish. He was expelled by his homeland in 1972 and,
with the help of W. H. Auden, moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan. His fame grew
and, in 1987, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his body of work and
"for all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic
intensity." [In announcing the Award, the Swedish Academy noted his fear of
losing his native tongue by stating that "[t]he change of environment and
language after Brodsky had left the Soviet in 1972 naturally involved a
severe nervous strain for the poet. In the poem 1972 (in the collection A
Part of Speech 1980) he depicts how he will gradually lose hair, teeth,
consonants, verbs, and endings."] In 1991, the United States named him its
Poet Laureate. Signed copies of "A Part of Speech" are not at all common to
the market, and signed copies of the Uncorrected Page Proof are quite
scarce, especially when in a condition as nice as is this copy. A Fine copy
of the UNCORRECTED PAGE PROOF, SIGNED, DATED, AND PLACED BY NOBELIST AND
POET LAUREATE JOSEPH BRODSKY. QUITE SCARCE INDEED. Bookseller Inventory #
5750 Near Fine. Wrappers. (#5750) $195.00


Harris, Thomas. *Black Sunday*. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1975. First
edition. PRESENTLY DISCOUNTED. WAS $150. NOW $40.     A Very Good copy
(slightly canted, some shelf wear to the board bottoms, spine ends pushed,
some tearing to the rear pastedown at the gutter, slight lean), in a Very
Good dust jacket (light wear, light toning, a few white spots to the black
lettering) of Thomas Harris' prescient debut novel about a Vietnam veteran
and POW seeking revenge against the world he sees as having savaged him by
working with an Arab terrorist group to detonate a powerful bomb at a
football stadium during the Super Bowl, with the President of the United
States in attendance. Harris was inspired to write the novel after watching
the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany during which Palestinian terrorists
took a number of Israeli athletes hostage and murdered them. As have all of
Harris' novels which followed it, "Black Sunday" was made into a film, this
one released in 1977 and starring Robert Shaw and Bruce Dern. A Very Good
copy of this notable Debut. Very Good in very good dust-jacket. Hardcover.
(#5807) $40.00

Saylor, Steven. *Roman Blood* [SIGNED SCARCE UNCORRECTED PROOFS]. New York:
St. Martin's Press, 1991. First edition. PRESENTLY DISCOUNTED. WAS $750.
NOW $145.     A Very Good + to Near Fine copy of the SCARCE ADVANCE
UNCORRECTED PROOF for the first edition, first printing (spine lightly
sunned, light pushes to the wrapper leading edges and leading corners,
minor soiling), SIGNED BY STEVEN SAYLOR on the title page; Steven Saylor's
notable debut book: a novel set in the final decades of the Roman Empire,
also being the first work in his Roma Sub Rosa historical mystery series.
In the novel, Cicero, while defending the character Sextus Roscius from
charges of patricide, hires the Roman sleuth Gordianus the Finder to assist
him in determining the truth of the matter. The novel is based on a trial
oration given by Cicero in his real-life 80 BC successful defense of Sextus
Roscius against the charge that he had killed his father. Copies of the
Advance Uncorrected Proofs are rather scarce, and signed copies are, in our
experience, quite scarce indeed. A Near Fine copy of the ADVANCE
UNCORRECTED PROOFS OF THIS NOTABLE DEBUT, SIGNED BY STEVEN SAYLOR. QUITE
SCARCE INDEED. Near Fine. Wrappers. (#5818) $145.00


Stoppard, Tom. *Albert's Bridge and Other Plays* [Signed]. New York: Grove
Press, 1977. First edition. PRESENTLY DISCOUNTED. WAS $250. NOW $75.     A
Fine copy of the first edition, first printing, in a Fine dust jacket,
SIGNED BY TOM STOPPARD on the tipped-in front free endpaper. The volume
includes the Plays "Albert's Bridge", "If You're Glad I'll Be Frank",
"Artist Descending a Staircase", "Where Are They Now", and "A Separate
Peace", none of which were published until they appeared together in this
volume. A Fine copy, SIGNED BY TOM STOPPARD. Fine in fine dust-jacket.
Hardcover. (#5823) $75.00


Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth. *Seek the House of Relatives* The Blue Cloud
Quarterly, Vol. 29, No. 4. Marvin, South Dakota: Blue Cloud Abbey, 1983.
First edition. PRESENTLY DISCOUNTED. WAS $65. NOW $20.     A Fine copy of
the first edition, first printing (modest toning to the edges, light rust
to the staples, date stamp to front and rear wrappers, presumably placed
there by the American Indian Information Center to which the book is
addressed, short crease line to the rear wrapper's upper left corner);
Elizabeth Cook-Lynn's scarce second book, containing poetry and one short
story, published by Blue Cloud Abbey, one of the 20th Century's most
important forces in the development of Native American literature. A Fine
copy. Fine. Wrappers. (#5830) $20.00

Brookner, Anita. *A Start in Life* [Scarce Uncorrected Proof]. London:
Jonathan Cape, 1981. First edition. PRESENTLY DISCOUNTED. WAS $250. NOW $55.
    A Fine copy of the uncommon Uncorrected Proof for the first edition,
first printing (spine lightly sunned and slight fading to the wrapper
edges, light pushing to the spine head and leading corners, light soiling,
two small ink marks); Anita Brookner's debut novel, which followed the
publication of a number of her nonfiction works. [Brookner was an academic
for a great deal of her life.] Copies are, in our experience, quite scarce
and are especially scarce when in a condition as nice as is this copy. A
Fine copy of this Booker Prize-winning author's debut work of fiction.
QUITE SCARCE INDEED. Fine. Wrappers. (#5833) $55.00


Kipling, Rudyard. *Many Inventions* [Rare Copy in the Dust Jacket -- True
First Edition, First Issue]. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1893. First
edition. PRESENTLY DISCOUNTED. WAS $5,245. NOW $3,245.     A Fine copy of
the first American edition, first printing, first issue -- being the TRUE
FIRST EDITION published prior to the first UK edition, bound in the
Publisher's original strong red cloth illustrated on the spine and front
board in light gray, and with the spine and front board lettered in gilt --
Kipling himself approved the front board's winged-creature design. The book
is in Fine condition with the spine ends modestly pushed, a modest bump to
the front board's top edge, quite slight rubbing to the spine ends and
board corners, slight fading to the spine head's upper right matching a
small dust jacket chip, and wears its original Very Good + example of the
RARE DUST JACKET with general toning, a small chip to the spine panel head,
some edge rubbing, a tiny hole to each spine edge at its turn as well as at
the each panel's turn to its respective flap fold, minor chipping to the
spine tail and panel corners, small tape repairs to the top and bottom of
the spine and flap turn, small pencil note to the front flap), being a
collection of two poems and fourteen short stories, with four pages of
advertisements to the rear. Ten of the stories previously appeared in
periodicals. Of "Many Inventions", literary historian, scholar, critic, and
professor of rhetoric and English literature at the University of
Edinburgh, George Saintsbury stated: "Many Inventions is not only good, but
very good. I am inclined to think it, using words carefully, the best
volume that Mr. Kipling has done." Mark Twain had a copy of the book in his
personal library, as did Ernest Hemingway in his. The Pall Mall Gazette
asserted that the work "...would confirm Mr. Kipling's reputation....Here
is the completest book that Mr. Kipling has yet given us in workmanship,
the weightiest and most humane in breadth of view." The Chicago Post
declared it to be "...undoubtedly Mr. Kipling's best book." The Kipling
Society notes that: "Published in America and Britain in 1893, the
collection includes stories whose original publication dates from February
1890 through the date of the collection's American publication, May 1893.
It was thus Kipling's first collection of stories all of which had been
written after his departure from India in March 1889. Eight were written in
England before his marriage and six in the United States, after he and
Caroline Balestier had married and settled in Vermont". Notably, the book
includes "In the Rukh" Kipling's first story about Mowgli. The Kipling
Society also states: In the Rukh"...has a form similar to that of "The
Bridge Builders" and "The Tomb of His Ancestors" in The Day's Work; "A
Conference of the Powers" introduces 'The Infant', who reappears in "Slaves
of the Lamp, II" and other 'Stalky' stories; "'Brugglesmith'" introduces
McPhee who (we will learn in "'Bread upon the Waters'" in The Day's Work),
is married to a woman "who succeeded Dinah in my heart; for Dinah was half
a world away," and "Judson and the Empire" is the first Royal Navy story.
Looking back, "My Lord the Elephant," "His Private Honour" and "'Love o'
Women'" are all Soldiers Three stories; indeed, "'Love o' Women'", which
strives for the kind of feeling at which "The Courtship of Dinah Shadd"
aimed, is the last of them. Arguably, too, "A Matter of Fact" might have
appeared in Abaft the Funnel, while "The Lost Legion" would have fit snugly
into The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Eerie Tales, and "One View of the
Question" as seamlessly into In Black and White. In retrospect, one can see
that the collection looks forward and back....the many inventions in the
collection include the last from Kipling's old world and look forward to
the Jungle Books, the sea stories, and the boys and old boys of the United
Services College." In 1907, Kipling became the first English language
writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him at that time the
youngest winner ever of that estimable Prize. As noted above, this copy is
the first printing, first issue, of the TRUE FIRST EDITION, having been
published in the US on May 31, 1893. [The first UK edition was published on
June 6, 1893 -- in a binding considerably more plain than that which graced
the first American edition -- with the UK first having a decorative gilt
band to the upper portion of the volume but lacking the beautiful
winged-creature and bold fancy gilt lettering of the American first,
features which gave the American first a considerably more elegant
appearance. Richards did not find any copy of the UK first edition in a
dust jacket.] QUITE NOTABLY, the copy here is the earliest example of a
Kipling book in its original dust jacket possibly now and hereafter to be
available to the collector. The only other Kipling titles noted by Richards
as issued in a dust jacket prior to this true first edition of "Many
Inventions" were the first UK edition of "The Naulahka" (1892) which was
issued in a jacket of white thin tissue paper -- with Richards finding no
copy of the first American edition in a dust jacket, and the first UK
edition of "Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses" (also 1892) issued in
thin off-white paper, unlettered and undecorated -- with Richards finding
no copy of the first American edition (titled "Ballads and Barrack Room
Ballads) in a dust jacket. [As Richards makes no mention of decoration or
letting to the dust jacket for "The Naulahka", but does mention lettering
and decoration appearing on the American first of "Many Inventions" as well
as on later Kipling works, we presume that the dust jacket for the first UK
edition of "The Naulahka" was like that of the first UK edition of
"Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses" and lacked lettering and
decoration.] The dust jackets issued for the English firsts of "The
Naulahka" and "Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses" were no doubt
exceedingly ephemeral and we would be surprised to see either title in its
dust jacket come to market. Except as noted above, Richards did not find
any other titles earlier than "Many Inventions" with a dust jacket. While
other earlier titles may have been, or even likely were, issued in dust
jackets, except as noted above we have found no record of the sale or
existence of any other titles issued in a dust jacket earlier than our copy
of "Many Inventions". We thus conclude that the True First Edition, first
printing, first issue, of "Many Inventions" herein described may be the
earliest Kipling work in its original dust jacket that the collector likely
ever will be able to find on the market. A Fine copy of the TRUE FIRST
EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, FIRST ISSUE OF THIS IMPORTANT EARLY KIPLING WORK
AND QUITE POSSIBLY, IF NOT LIKELY, THE EARLIEST KIPLING DUST JACKET TO
BECOME AVAILABLE ON THE MODERN MARKET. AN EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE TO RARE
COLLECTION-DISTINGUISHING COPY. Fine in very good + dust-jacket. Hardcover.
(#5836) $3,245.00
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