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Smollett, Tobias; John Austen [Illustrator]

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle in Which is Included Memoirs of a Lady of Quality.

New York : The Limited Editions Club, 1936.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of Smollett’s second novel. Quarto, two volumes, bound in full modern morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe / Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles and numbers to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, top edges gilt, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, frontispieces, title page vignettes, with color illustrations throughout.Continue reading "The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle in Which is Included Memoirs of a Lady of Quality."

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$1,250.00
Item Number: RRB-148809
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Steinbeck, John

Of Mice and Men: A Play in Three Acts.

New York : Covici Friede Publishers, 1937.

First edition of Steinbeck’s dramatization of his poignant novel. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good first issue dust jacket with the publisher’s price of $2.00. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise clamshell box. A very sharp example.

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$1,400.00
Item Number: RRB-143012
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Buchan, John

Augustus.

London : Hodder and Stoughton LTD, 1937.

Finely bound edition of this historical novel of the first Roman Emperor. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, The Downs School vignette stamped in gilt to the front panel, top edge gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece, with a folding map to the rear. In veryContinue reading "Augustus."

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$250.00
Item Number: RRB-148956
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France, Anatole; Sylvain Sauvage [Illustrator]

The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard.

New York : The Limited Editions Club, 1937.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of Anatole France’s first novel. Quarto, bound in full modern morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe / Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, all edges gilt, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, frontispiece, with water-color illustrations. Boldly signed by illustrator SylvainContinue reading "The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard."

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$800.00
Item Number: RRB-148552
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Hemingway, Ernest

To Have and Have Not.

New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937.

First edition of Hemingway’s classic novel about smuggling, intrigue, and love. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and ruling to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, gilt signature to the front panel, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition.

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$1,500.00
Item Number: RRB-130514
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Hemingway, Ernest. [Lauren Bacall]

To Have and Have Not.

New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937.

First edition of Ernest Hemingway’s fourth novel. 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 ruling to the front and rear panels, signature stamp to the front panel, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers,Continue reading "To Have and Have Not."

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$2,800.00
Item Number: RRB-151967
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Cellini, Benvenuto; Fritz Kredel [Illustrator]

The Life of Benvenuto Cellini: Written By Himself.

New York : The Limited Editions Club, 1937.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of this autobiographical account by the Italian Renaissance sculptor, goldsmith, and writer Benvenuto Cellini. Quarto, bound in full modern morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe / Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rearContinue reading "The Life of Benvenuto Cellini: Written By Himself."

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$850.00
Item Number: RRB-148544
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Woolf, Virginia

The Years.

London : Hogarth Press, 1937.

First edition of the most successful of Woolf’s later novels, often viewed as her masterpiece. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and ruling to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, gilt signature to the front panel, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. InContinue reading "The Years."

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$1,650.00
Item Number: RRB-140038
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Dickens, Charles

Complete Set of the Works of Charles Dickens Nonesuch Press.

London : The Nonesuch Press, 1937-38.

The complete set of Charles Dickens by the Nonesuch Press, one of only 877 sets. Octavo, 24 volumes, original cloth, woodcut illustrations, original variously colored buckram by Leighton Straker. Edited by Arthur Waugh, Hugh Walpole, Thomas Hatton and Walter Dexter. In near fine condition. A very sharp set.

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$9,800.00
Item Number: RRB-140200
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Church, Albert Cook

Whale Ships and Whaling.

New York : W. W. Norton & Co., 1938.

First edition of Church’s work on the history of whaling. Octavo, bound in full gilt-decorated morocco, illustrated with numerous photographs of whaling operations at sea and whaleship plans, pictorial endpapers reproducing two facing pages from the logbook of whaler Royal William dated 1834. In fine condition.

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$275.00
Item Number: RRB-130850
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Greene, Graham

Brighton Rock.

London : William Heinemann LTD, 1938.

First British edition of Greene’s chilling expose of violence and gang warfare in the pre-war underworld is a classic of its kind. Octavo, bound in half goatskin over cloth boards with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels. In near fine condition.

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$475.00
Item Number: RRB-149699
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Hemingway, Ernest. [John Steinbeck]

The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories.

New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938.

First edition, second printing of this famed Hemingway anthology, containing his only published play as well as the first appearance in book form of The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, and Night Before Battle. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Association copy, inscribed on the pastedown by Carol Brown Steinbeck to herContinue reading "The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories."

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$6,500.00
Item Number: RRB-145913
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Brantome [Pierre de Bourdeille]

Les Vies Des Dames Galantes. [Lives of the Gallant Ladies].

Paris : Éditions de la Belle Etoile, 1938.

First edition of Brantôme’s sensational work on 17th century Parisian court life. Quarto, 2 volumes, original wrappers, illustrations in color by Jacques Touchet. One of 1250 numbered copies. this is number 940. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare, particularly so in the original wrappers.

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$1,250.00
Item Number: RRB-132808
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Wilder, Thornton

Our Town: A Play in Three Acts.

New York : Coward McCann, 1938.

First edition of the author’s second Pulitzer Prize-winning 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 the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Presentation copy,Continue reading "Our Town: A Play in Three Acts."

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$2,500.00
Item Number: RRB-149898
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Hurston, Zora Neale

Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica.

Philadelphia : J.P. Lippincott Company, 1938.

First edition of Hurston’s personal experiences in Haiti and Jamaica. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles to the spine, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, raised bands, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, 26 illustrations. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.

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$2,000.00
Item Number: RRB-141718
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Dinesen, Isak [Karen Blixen]

Out of Africa.

New York : Random House, 1938.

First American edition of the author’s masterpiece, a lyrical meditation of the years she lived in Kenya. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and ruling to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptionalContinue reading "Out of Africa."

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$1,600.00
Item Number: RRB-141302
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Isherwood, Christopher

Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties.

London : Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1938.

First edition of Isherwood’s semi-autobiographical novel about bohemian London in the 1920s. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom full morocco clamshell box.

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$850.00
Item Number: RRB-104893
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Maugham, W. Somerset; John Sloan [Illustrator]

Of Human Bondage.

New York : The Limited Editions Club, 1938.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of Maugham’s masterpiece and one of the most important novels of the 20th century. Octavo, two volumes, bound in full modern morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt numbers to the spine, all edges gilt, gilt turn-ins andContinue reading "Of Human Bondage."

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$1,400.00
Item Number: RRB-148515
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Abbott, Berenice

Changing New York.

New York : E.P. Dutton & Company, 1939.

First edition stated on copyright page of this classic work. Quarto, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt ruled inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt.Continue reading "Changing New York."

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$1,250.00
Item Number: RRB-145815
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Huxley, Aldous

After Many A Summer.

London : Chatto & Windus, 1939.

First edition of this classic novel. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, frontispiece, illustrated. Founded overContinue reading "After Many A Summer."

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$1,100.00
Item Number: RRB-151687
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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 by Nordiska Bokhandelns Bokbinderi with gilt ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt rulingContinue reading "Steg for Steg 1936-1939. [Step by Step 1936-1939]. [Winston Churchill’s Copy]"

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$2,800.00
Item Number: RRB-146028
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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.

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$2,750.00
Item Number: RRB-142141
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Balzac, Honoré de

Droll Stories: Thirty Tales By Honoré de Balzac.

New York : The Heritage Press, 1939.

The Heritage Press edition of collection of satirical tales. Octavo, bound in three-quarters morocco by Morrell with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, frontispiece, with black and white illustrations. In fine condition. Translated into modern English by Jacques Le Clercq. Illustrated by Boris Artzybasheff.

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$375.00
Item Number: RRB-148802
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West, Nathanael

The Day of the Locust.

New York : Random House, 1939.

First edition of West’s masterpiece. Octavo, original bound in full leather, raised bands, title to the spine and front panel. In near fine condition.

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$750.00
Item Number: RRB-140694
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