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The Grapes of Wrath.

London: William Heinemann, 1939.

First English edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco chemise and clamshell box.

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-143492

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Beerbohm, Max

The Harlequin edition of the collected works of Max Beerbohm. Octavo, ten volumes bound in three quarter calf by Henry Sotheran Ltd. with gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gi...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-145008

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Dickens, Charles

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1839.

First edition of one of Dickens’ most popular novels. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, gilt medallion portrait of Dickens on...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-130269

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Churchill, Winston S

Steg for Steg 1936-1939. [Step by Step 1936-1939]. [Winston Churchill’s Copy]

Stockholm: Skoglunds Bokforlag, 1939.

First Swedish edition and Churchill’s own copy of the last book he published before the outbreak of the Second World War. Octavo, in the publisher’s rare full morocco presentation binding...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-146028

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Tucker, George; [Thomas Jefferson]

The Life of Thomas Jefferson, Third President of the United States; With Parts of His Correspondence Never Before Published, and Notices of his Opinions on Questions of Civil Government, National Policy, and Constitutional Law.

London: Charles Knight and Co, 1837.

First British edition of this classic biography of the United States’ third president, published simultaneously with the American edition in Philadelphia. Royal octavo, original publisher’...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147403

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Sinclair, Upton

The Jungle.

New York: Doubleday, Page, & Company, 1906.

First edition of this classic political work. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to t...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150046

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Faulkner, William

The Wild Palms.

New York: Random House, 1939.

Signed limited edition, number 14 of only 250 examples. In near fine condition, without the usual fading accustomed to this title. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase. Uncommon in this condition.

$2,750.00 Item Number: RRB-142141

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Scott, Sir Walter

The British Poets: Sir Walter Scott

London: British Literary Society, n.d.

The extra-illustrated Crown edition of the poems of Sir Walter Scott, limited to ten numbered and registered sets. Duodecimo, five volumes, publisher’s exquisite deluxe full morocco binding with gilt...

$2,750.00 Item Number: RRB-151524

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[de Carrara, Cajetau-Louis-Antoine]

18th Century French Nobility Patent.

:, November 13, 1710.

Rare 18th century French Patent of Nobility for Cajetau-Louis-Antoine de Carrara. Folio, bound in full velvet, the patent is comprised of five vellum leaves, the first with calligraphy within an elabo...

$2,750.00 Item Number: RRB-133430

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Starr, Ringo

Photograph.

Surrey, England: Genesis Publications, 2014.

Signed limited edition of this curated photographic memoir from the drummer of the Beatles, Ringo Starr. Thick quarto, bound in three-quarters Italian leather with gilt titles to the spine, gilt rulin...

$2,750.00 Item Number: RRB-151562

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The Book of Common Prayer and Administration to the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of The United Church of England and Ireland: Together with the Proper Lessons For Sundays and Other Holy-Days. [Double Fore-edge Painting].

Oxford: Printed at the Oxford University Press, 1863.

Finely bound Oxford University printing of the Book of Common Prayer and Administration to the Sacraments decorated with a double disappearing fore-edge painting. Small octavo, bound in full pebbled m...

$2,750.00 Item Number: RRB-138444

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White, E.B.; Illustrated by Garth Williams

Stuart Little.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1945.

First edition, first printing, with code “I-U” on copyright page of the author’s classic work. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the s...

$2,750.00 Item Number: RRB-147118

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Adams, Richard

Watership Down.

New York: Macmillan, 1972.

First American edition of the author’s first and most beloved work. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within rai...

$2,750.00 Item Number: RRB-149709

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Jackson, Rev. William

The Constitutions of the Several Independent States of America; The Declaration of Independence; and The Articles of Confederation Between the Said States.

London: Printed for J. Stockdale, in Piccadilly, 1783.

Rare second English edition, “the best English edition” (Howes), of the Constitutions of the thirteen newly independent American states, published only one year after the first English edi...

$2,750.00 Item Number: RRB-151249

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Rand, Ayn

The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature.

New York: The World Publishing Company, 1969.

First edition of this collection of essays regarding the nature of art. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in five compartments within raise...

$2,600.00 Item Number: RRB-151966

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[Martin, George R.R.]. [The Harcourt Bindery]

Complete A Song of Ice and Fire Custom Half Morocco Clamshell Box Collection Made By The Harcourt Bindery.

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Fine collection of custom half morocco clamshell boxes hand made by The Harcourt Bindery to house each of the five signed first editions in George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones series. Octavo,...

$2,600.00 Item Number: RRB-152283

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Fielding, Henry

The Novels of Henry Fielding: The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams; The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great; The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling; Amelia.

Oxford: Basil Blackwell Publisher to the Shakespeare Head Press, 1926.

The Shakespeare Head Press limited edition of the novels of Henry Fielding, limited to one thousand and thirty copies. Octavo, ten volumes bound in full red morocco with gilt titles to the spine in si...

$2,600.00 Item Number: RRB-149372

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Dickens, Charles

The Christmas Books: The Chimes; The Battle of Life; Cricket on the Hearth; The Haunted Man and The Ghost’s Bargain.

London: Chapman and Hall/Bradbury & Evans, 1845-1848.

First editions of the four final novellas in Charles Dickens’ Christmas Book series. Octavo, 4 volumes bound in full morocco by Root & Son with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartm...

$2,600.00 Item Number: RRB-148129

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Crantz, David

The History of Greenland: Containing a Description of the Country, and Its Inhabitants.

London: Printed for the Brethren's Society, 1767.

First edition in English of Crantz’s elaborate account of the history of Greenland. first published in German in 1765. Octavo, two volumes bound in full period-style full speckled calf with moro...

$2,600.00 Item Number: RRB-150760

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Fitzgerald, Edward; Illustrated by F. Sangorski and G. Sutcliffe

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

London: Siegle, Hill & Company, 1910.

Signed limited first edition of this work reproduced in color from the manuscript written and illuminated by Francis Sangorski & George Sutcliffe, number 247 of 550 copies signed by the publisher....

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-108452

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Dabit, Eugene

L’Hotel du Nord.

Paris: Robert Denoël, 1929.

First edition of the author’s immensely popular novel. Octavo, bound in full crushed levant morocco by Valmard with gilt titles to the spine, marbled endpapers and additional patterned silk endl...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-144043

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Radcliffe, Anne

A Sicilian Romance.

Philadelphia: Printed For Henry and Patrick Rice, 1795.

First American edition of Radcliffe’s classic 18th century gothic novel. Octavo, bound in full contemporary calf, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gilt ruling to the spine. In good conditio...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151221

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Hersey, John

Hiroshima.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946.

First edition of Hersey’s classic work, which has sold over three million copies. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in compartments with...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151265

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Bunyan, John

The Pilgrim’s Progress From This World to that Which is to Come.

London: Routledge, Warne and Routledge, 1861.

Finely bound edition of one of the most significant works of religious English literature. Octavo, bound in full crushed teal levant morocco by Bayntun Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-139796

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Fine Bindings & Rare Book Collections or Sets for Sale Online

The Grapes of Wrath.

The Works of Max Beerbohm.

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.

Steg for Steg 1936-1939. [Step by Step 1936-1939]. [Winston Churchill’s Copy]

The Life of Thomas Jefferson, Third President of the United States; With Parts of His Correspondence Never Before Published, and Notices of his Opinions on Questions of Civil Government, National Policy, and Constitutional Law.

The Jungle.

The Wild Palms.

The British Poets: Sir Walter Scott

18th Century French Nobility Patent.

Photograph.

The Book of Common Prayer and Administration to the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of The United Church of England and Ireland: Together with the Proper Lessons For Sundays and Other Holy-Days. [Double Fore-edge Painting].

Stuart Little.

Watership Down.

The Constitutions of the Several Independent States of America; The Declaration of Independence; and The Articles of Confederation Between the Said States.

The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature.

Complete A Song of Ice and Fire Custom Half Morocco Clamshell Box Collection Made By The Harcourt Bindery.

The Novels of Henry Fielding: The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams; The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great; The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling; Amelia.

The Christmas Books: The Chimes; The Battle of Life; Cricket on the Hearth; The Haunted Man and The Ghost’s Bargain.

The History of Greenland: Containing a Description of the Country, and Its Inhabitants.

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

L’Hotel du Nord.

A Sicilian Romance.

Hiroshima.

The Pilgrim’s Progress From This World to that Which is to Come.