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New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2000. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 0375410538 . A beautiful first US edition/first printing, minute indent to front board, else in unread Fine condition in alike dustjacket. SIGNED by author Michael Ondaatje directly on title page; Set in Sri Lanka (Ondaatje's birthplace) during the country's late 20th century civil war, this is the story of Western-trained Anil Tissera, a forensic anthropologist who returns to her homeland as a member of an international human-rights group trying to prove that an unidentified skeleton was the victim of government assassination. During the process, she and her archaeologist colleague Sarath Diyasena both face ghosts of their own; 8vo; [viii], 311, [1] pages; Signed by Author .

London: Harpercollinspublishers. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1991. Second Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. 0261102028 . An attractive HarperCollins edition/second printing in Fine condition in alike unpriced dustjacket; The first volume in J. R. R. Tolkien's "History of Middle Earth" was the first major work of imagination by J. R. R. Tolkien, in 1916, when he was 25 years old, and left incomplete several years later. It stands at the beginning of the entire conception of Middle-Earth and Valinor, for the Lost Tales were the first form of the myths and legends that came to be called The Silmarillion; The History of Middle-Earth; Vol. 1; 8vo .

London: Harpercollins Publishers. As New in As New dust jacket. 2007. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0007178352 . A beautiful first UK edition/first printing in As New/As New condition, SIGNED by author Tracy Chevalier directly on the title page; Historical novelist Tracy Chevalier uses two English families---the country born Kellaways and the street smart Butterfields---to depict the mood of London in 1792. William Blake, London poet, visionary, and revoloutionary, serves as a common bond between the two families. Chevalier's title Burning Bright is taken from one of Blake's great poems; 8vo; Signed by Author .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket. 2007. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0307266354 . A beautiful first US edition/first printing in unread Very Fine /Very Fine condition; Award-winning writer Ondaatje's latest novel connects a young girl named Anna with a long forgotten writer from rural France. Their shared passions and sorrows shape survival for experiences in the future Author Michael Ondaatje's novel The English Patient won the Booker Prize in 1992; 8vo .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket. 2007. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0307266354 . A beautiful first US edition/first printing in unread Very Fine /Very Fine condition, SIGNED by author Michael Ondaatje on title page; Award-winning writer Ondaatje's latest novel connects a young girl named Anna with a long forgotten writer from rural France. Their shared passions and sorrows shape survival for experiences in the future Author Michael Ondaatje's novel The English Patient won the Booker Prize in 1992; 8vo; Signed by Author .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1988. First US Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 0394573978 . A beautiful unread first American edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dustjacket. SIGNED by author and Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer directly on the title page; A collection of 23 biographical and autobiographical essays written from the 1950s to 1985 on writing, censorship and South African politics. A South African native, Nobel Prize Laureate Gordimer provides an intimate picture of that country and the changing life under apartheid. She believes that racial prejudice is abhorrent, especially when sanctioned by the government, and that it is the writer's job to speak the truth; 8vo; viii, 356, [2] pages; Signed by Author .

London: Jonathan Cape. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1988. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0224025341 . A beautiful unread first edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dustjacket. Light foxing to page edges. Dustjacket shows slight wear to edges and foxing at flap edges; A collection of 23 biographical and autobiographical essays written from the 1950s to 1985 on writing, censorship and South African politics. A South African native, Nobel Prize Laureate Gordimer provides an intimate picture of that country and the changing life under apartheid. She believes that racial prejudice is abhorrent, especially when sanctioned by the government, and that it is the writer's job to speak the truth; 8vo; viii, 356, [4] pages .

London: MacMillan and Co., Limited. Near Fine. 1923. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. A first English edition, gilded title on original red cloth in just about near Fine condition, showing little rubbing and sunning to spine. Also issued in gray paper wrappers. Livingston 486; Rectorial address delivered at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland on October 10, 1923. Originally published as "Man's Desire for Independence" in The London Times. Kipling became Rector of St. Andrews in 1922. "The sole revenge that Maturity can take upon Youth for the sin of being young, is to preach at it. When I was young I sat and suffered under that dispensation." ; 16mo; 32 pages .

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1924. Second Edition. Hardcover. A most handsome Second American edition in just about Fine condition with only limited signs of edgewear. Issued in sage-green boards, the front cover lettered in green upon a white paper label. Lightly browned dust-jacket shows portrait of Kipling on front and original price of $1.00 on inside flap. Livingston 487; Rectorial address delivered at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland on October 10, 1923. Originally published as "Man's Desire for Independence" in The London Times. Kipling became Rector of St. Andrews in 1922. "You know that there is no loneliness equal to the loneliness of youth at war with its surroundings in a world that does not care." ; 8vo; 33 pages .

London: MacMillan and Co., Limited. Fine. 1923. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. A charming first English edition in Fine condition, grayish blue card wrappers. Ruled and lettered in dark blue. 20,000 copies printed. Also issued in red cloth. Livingston 486, Richards A343; Kipling became Rector of St. Andrews in 1922 and gave this rectorial address at his inauguration the University of St. Andrews in Scotland on October 10, 1923. Originally published as "Man's Desire for Independence" in The London Times. "The sole revenge that Maturity can take upon Youth for the sin of being young, is to preach at it. When I was young I sat and suffered under that dispensation." ; Small 8vo; 32 pages .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2005. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0375831444 . A handsome first edition/first printing in unread Fine condition in alike dustjacket. Slight bumping of bottom corners, front and back; "Drawing on string theory and space-time, quantum physics and chaos, entanglement and cold dark matter, award-winning science writers Mary and John Gribbin reveal the real science behind Philip Pullman's bestselling fantasy trilogy in clear and entertaining prose." (from the dust-jacket) ; 8vo .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket. 2005. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0375831444 . A stunning first edition/first printing in Very Fine condition in alike dust jacket; "Drawing on string theory and space-time, quantum physics and chaos, entanglement and cold dark matter, award-winning science writers Mary and John Gribbin reveal the real science behind Philip Pullman's bestselling fantasy trilogy in clear and entertaining prose". (from the dust-jacket); 8vo .

New York: D. Appleton & Company. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1896. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A handsome first (American) edition, published October 30, 1896, the same day as the English edition. Only predeced by 6 printed copies of the copyright edition on September 9. Richards A92, Livingston 130, Stewart 139. Very Good+ in the light grayish olive, dotted-line cloth, little rubbing along edges, book-plate to front pastedown. Top edges gilt. In the rare light grayish yellowish brown dusts-jacket, gilt lettering and decoration replicating the design on front and spine panels on binding, spotting and light soiling, small chip to front panel; Rudyard Kipling, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1907, wrote this book shortly after his famous Jungle books and dedicated it to the city of Bombay. Contains 209 pages of poems and ballads of sailing and the sea ; 8vo; [2], vii, 209, [9] pages .

London: Harpercollinspublishers. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1991. Second Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. 0261102044 . An attractive HarperCollins edition/second printing in Fine condition in alike unpriced dustjacket; The fourth volume of "History of Middle Earth" contains prose fragments following the 'Lost Tales', the earliest 'Silmarillion' (Sketch of the Mythology) ; the 'Quenta' ('Quenta Noldorinwa', the second version of 'The Silmarillion') , with the poem 'The Horns of Ylmir'; the 'Ambarkanta'; the 'earliest Annals of Valinor'; and the 'earliest Annals of Belariand'; The History of Middle-Earth; Vol. 4; 8vo .

New York: Scribner. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1999. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 0684849216 . An attractive first edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dust-jacket; Both revealing self-portrait and dramatic fictional chronicle of his final African safari, Ernest Hemingway's last unpublished work was written when he returned from Kenya in 1953. Edited by his son Patrick, who accompanied his father on the safari, True at First Light offers rare insights into the legendary American writer; 8vo; 319, [1] pages .