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The Adventures of Augie March.

New York: The Viking Press, 1953.

First edition of Bellow’s first National Book Award winning novel. Octavo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, handmade Italia...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-117859

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King Jr., Martin Luther

Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1967.

First edition of King’s “last grand expression of his vision” (Cornel West). Octavo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear p...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-135189

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Goldsmith, Oliver. With Prefatory Memoir by George Saintsbury

The Vicar of Wakefield.

London: John C. Nimmo, 1886.

Finely bound example of one of the most popular and widely read novels among Victorians. Octavo, bound in full crushed levant morocco by Bayntun Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six co...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-139375

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Dickens, Charles

Our Mutual Friend.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1865.

First edition of this classic novel that explores effects of capitalism and the arbitrary nature of social hierarchy. Octavo, bound in full polished calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in s...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149951

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Kipling, Rudyard

Poems 1886-1929.

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1930.

Signed limited edition of the definitive collection of Kipling’s poetry. Quarto, three volumes, original japon-backed boards with red paper labels to spines lettered gilt, gilt motifs to front c...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149539

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott

The Last Tycoon. An Unfinished Novel. Together with The Great Gatsby and Selected Stories.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1941.

First edition with the Scribner’s A and the publisher’s seal on the copyright page. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, 22 karat gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six co...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151217

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Alexander, William

Picturesque Representations and the Dress and Manners of the Chinese. Illustrated with Fifty Coloured Engravings, with Descriptions.

London: Printed for James Goodwin, c. 1829.

Finely bound example of Alexander’s profusely illustrated work on t19th century China. Octavo, original full straight-grain morocco richly decorated in gilt, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, a...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-133048

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Carson, Rachel

Silent Spring.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962.

First edition of Carson’s landmark work. Octavo, bound in half morocco, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands. Drawings by Lois and Louis Darling. In fine condition.

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-140434

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Bacon, Francis

The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord High Chancellor of England.

London: J. Johnson, 1803.

Large octavo, 10 volumes. Bound in full contemporary calf. Gilt titles and tooling to the spine, edges speckled. Frontispiece of Francis Bacon in volume one. With the early armorial bookplate of J. La...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-43014

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Dickens, Charles

Master Humphrey’s Clock.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1840-1841.

First edition of this classic collection of short stories. Royal octavo, 3 volumes, bound in full calf by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148213

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Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George

The Last Days of Pompeii.

London: Richard Bentley, 1834.

First edition of Bulwer-Lytton’s most celebrated work, a classic of historical fiction and the basis for the 1935 Hollywood film of the same name directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack and Merian C. C...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149376

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Moliere, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin

Oeuvres Completes de Moliere.

Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1878.

Finely bound set of Moliere. Quarto, 5 volumes, bound in full red morocco, illustrated with plates, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, all edges gilt, original wrappers bound in, inner dentelles, m...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-104673

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Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel De

El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha, Compuesto por Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. [The History of Don Quixote].

New York: The Hispanic Society of America, c. 1905.

The Hispanic Society of America’s notable, limited, and highly regarded facsimile edition of Don Quixote. Octavo, three volumes, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the spine, a...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150967

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Blake, William O

Pictorial National Records: Embracing Descriptions of European and Asiatic Nations: A Statistical View of the United States of America; and a History of the Great Rebellion.

Columbus, Ohio: Gilmore and Brush, 1863-1866.

Complete first edition set of Blake’s scarce history of the American Civil War. Quarto, two volumes, original publisher’s gull morocco, elaborately decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers, al...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-133068

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The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David.

University of Oxford: Printed by John Baskett, 1716.

Rare 18th Century Oxford Book of Common Prayer printed by John Baskett. Octavo, bound in full contemporary morocco richly decorated in gilt with gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within ra...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-140601

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Tennyson, Alfred

Enoch Arden, etc. [Fore-Edge Painting].

London: Edward Moxon & Co., 1867.

Finely bound example of one of Tennyson’s most famous poems. Duodecimo, bound in full red morocco with gilt titles and elaborate tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, ela...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151178

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Balfour, Arthur James

Nationality and Home Rule.

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1913.

First edition of this work by the British Prime Minister and issuer of the Balfour Declaration of 1917. Octavo, bound in full tan russia by Harrods Ltd., original printed wrappers bound in, marbled en...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-116882

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Lewis, C.S

Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold.

London: Geoffrey Bles, 1956.

First edition of Lewis’ final novel retelling of Cupid and Psyche, based on its telling in a chapter of The Golden Ass of Apuleius. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt ti...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-141307

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Wright, Richard

Native Son.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1940.

First edition, first issue with “A – P” on the copyright page. Octavo, bound in full calf, marbled endpapers, housed in a full calf slipcase. A beautiful presentation.

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146347

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Ruth, Babe

The Babe Ruth Story.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1948.

First edition of Babe Ruth’s autobiography. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt rul...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-152122

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Goldsmith, Oliver; Edmund Burke; Sir H. Walpole; et al

A Collection of Poems, Mostly Original, by Several Hands.

Dublin: Printed for the Editor by M. Graisberry, 1789.

First edition of this rare collection of early English literature. Octavo, bound in full calf, elaborate gilt tooling to the spine, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon boun...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-137226

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Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George. Introduction by Edgar Johnson

The Last Days of Pompeii.

The Officina Bodoni Verona: Printed For The Members of the Limited Editions Club, 1956.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of Bulwer-Lytton’s most celebrated work, a classic of historical fiction and the basis for the 1935 Hollywood film of the same name directed by E...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149522

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Buckingham Palace Bound List of Subscribers.

:, 1927.

Finely bound list of subscribers to Mr. J. Parr’s farewell gift, presented on his retirement , 31 March 1927. Octavo, bound by Truscott & Son in full crushed scarlet morocco with gilt titles...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-125737

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Dickens, Charles

Oliver Twist.

London: Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars, 1846.

First single volume edition of “the most perfect of all the Dickens novels” (Virginia Woolf). Octavo, bound in full polished calf by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spine i...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149159

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