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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1839.

First edition in book form of one of Dickens’ most popular novels. Octavo, bound in contemporary three quarters calf, morocco spine label, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, steel-engraved fronti...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-120414

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Dickens, Charles

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.

London: Oxford University Press, 1968.

Elaborately bound Oxford illustrated edition of one of Dickens’ most popular novels. Octavo, bound in full crushed blue morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spi...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-129073

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Fitzpatrick, Percy

Jock of the Bushveld.

London: Longmans, Green and Company, 1907.

First edition, first issue with drawings of a dung beetle pushing his load with his front legs rather than his back on pages 65, 337 and 457. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco, gilt titles and t...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-64984

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Maugham, W.Somerset

The Maugham Reader.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1950.

First edition of this collection by the author of The Razor’s Edge. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Bayntun, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-134572

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Mead, Shepherd

How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying: The Dastard’s Guide to Fame and Fortune.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952.

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

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-146086

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Eliot, T.S

The Cocktail Party.

London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1950.

First edition of the most popular of Eliot’s seven plays published during his lifetime. First issue with “here” for “her” on page 29, line 1. Octavo, bound in full morocc...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-152121

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Edwards, Jonathan

A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections. In Three Parts.

Elizabeth-Town, NJ: Printed by Shepard Kollock, for Robert Hodge, 1787.

Early edition of Edwards’ Great Awakening classic. Octavo, bound in full contemporary calf with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised bands. In very good condition with wear, book...

$1,050.00 Item Number: RRB-151179

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Dickens, Charles

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1839.

First edition in book form of one of Dickens’ most popular novels. Octavo, bound in three quarters calf over boards, gilt titles to the spine. First issue points with “visiter” for “...

$1,050.00 Item Number: RRB-117498

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Lord Byron; Thomas Moore

The Works of Lord Byron: His Life and Poems.

London: John Murray, 1851.

Finely bound collection of the works of Lord Byron. Octavo, sixteen volumes, contemporary full calf, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, front and rear panels, marbled endpapers, frontispiece to eac...

$1,050.00 Item Number: RRB-3289

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Halford, Frederic M

Making a Fishery.

London: Horace Cox, 1895.

Signed limited first edition of Frederick Halford’s extensive guide on the creation of river and stream fisheries for sport. One of 150 numbered copies signed by Halford, this is number 35. Larg...

$1,050.00 Item Number: RRB-88001

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White, T.H

T. H. White Verses.

Alderney: Privately Printed For The Author, 1962.

Signed limited edition of the final book published during White’s lifetime. Royal octavo, original publisher’s half vellum with gilt titles to the spine, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt w...

$1,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151235

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Kipling, Rudyard

Kim.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1901.

First English edition of what many consider Kipling’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Illustrated with photographs of clay reliefs by John Lockwood Kipling including tissue-guarded frontispiece,...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-134755

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Dumas, Alexandre [Alexander]

Les Trois Mousquetaires.

Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1921.

Finely bound example of Dumas’ classic work in the original French. Octavo, two volumes bound in three quarter crimson crushed levant morocco with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six comp...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-145243

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Long, William Simon

Five Thousand Miles Around the Southern Cross: A Popular Review of Life and Customs in Cuba, Jamaica, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Ancient Yucatan, with a Survey of the Great Panama Canal.

Camden, NJ: The Long Photographic Art Studios, 1912.

First edition of this early twentieth century travelogue of Caribbean islands and Latin American countries. Quarto, original blue cloth with gilt titles to the front panel, triple ruling stamped in bl...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-148826

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Sassoon, Siegfried

The Heart’s Journey.

New York: Crosby Gaige, 1927.

First signed limited edition of Sassoon’s classic poetry collection. Octavo, bound in full tan crushed morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compa...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-149133

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Spenser, Edmund

The Fairy Queen. With a Glossary, Explaining the Old and Obscure Words.

London: J. and R. Tonson, 1758.

Finely bound edition of this classic work. Octavo, 2 volumes, bound in full calf, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, with nine full page engraved plates by Louis du Geurnier. In very...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-144293

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Sophocles; Translated by Elizabeth Wyckoff; Harry Bennett [Illustrator]

Sophocles: Antigone.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1975.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of Sophocles’ classical Greek tragedy. Quarto, bound in three-quarters modern morocco by Morrell over cloth covered boards with gilt titles to th...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-148542

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Freeman, Frederick

The History of Cape Cod: The Annals of Barnstable County and of Its Several Towns. Including the District of Mashpee.

Boston: Printed For the Author, 1858-1863.

First edition of the classic history of Cape Cod. Octavo, ten parts as issued bound into four volumes in half morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles to the spine, illustrated with tissue-guarded...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-130559

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Dickens, Charles

Little Dorrit.

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857.

First edition, first issue in book form of one of Dickens’ most outstanding novels with the three line errata on page xiv, “William” for “Frederick” on page 317 line 27, B2 ins...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-149676

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Kingsley, Charles

The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby.

London and Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1863.

First edition of this Victorian moral fantasy. Octavo, bound in three-quarter crushed levant over marbled boards with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, gilt...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-151121

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Scott, Sir Walter

The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott. [Fore-Edge Painting].

London: Frederick Warne and Co, n.d.

The Lansdowne Poets edition of the poetical works of Sir Walter Scott. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, inner dentelles, all edges gilt, illustrated, tissue...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-136573

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Pickard, Samuel T. [John Greenleaf Whittier]

The Writings of John Greenleaf Whittier.

Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1895.

Riverside edition of the collected writings of abolition advocate John Greenleaf Whittier. Octavos, nine volumes bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-109568

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Copland, Robert [Translator] Wynkyn de Worde; Robert Hoe

The History of Helyas Knight of the Swan.

The City of New York: The Grolier Club, 1901.

Limited edition of the Grolier Club’s beautiful and literal facsimile reprint of Robert Hoe’s unique copy of the 1512 edition of the classic medieval tale. Octavo, original publisher...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-147203

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Richardson, Lady Constance Stewart

Dancing, Beauty and Games.

London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1913.

First edition of this work exploring the relationship between physical movement, dance, and beauty. Octavo, bound in full crushed purple morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with gilt titles to the sp...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-147845

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