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Dead Souls.

London: Vizetelly & Co., n.d..

Finely bound example of Gogol’s masterwork, “the first novel from which the world began to form its ideas of 19th-century Russia” (Hornstein, 139). Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over m...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-132581

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Oliphant, Margaret

The Makers of Venice: Doges, Conquerors, Painters and Men of Letters. [Fore-edge Painting].

London: Macmillan and Co, 1893.

Finely bound example of the Scottish historian’s classic work on the foundation of Venice. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles to the spine, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-138708

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Wilde, Oscar

Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime. A Study of Duty.

[London]: Privately Printed, 1904.

First separate edition of Wilde’s classic collection of of mystery tales; a pirated edition produced by Leonard Smithers. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt tit...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-140581

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Johnstone, James [Translator]

The Norwegian Account of Haco’s Expedition Against Scotland.

Copenhagen: Printed for the author, 1782.

Rare first edition of this classic account of Haco’s campaign against Alexander III of Scotland in 1263, a campaign that culminated in the Battle of Largs and resulted in Håkon’s death. Sm...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-146130

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Irving, Washington

Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography. [Fore-edge Painting].

London: Henry G. Bohn, 1861.

Finely bound example of Goldsmith’s biography of the famed novelist. 16 mo, bound in full polished calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, do...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-138922

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Auchincloss, Louis; Gary Hart; Michael F. Holt; George McGovern; Garry Wills; Et. Al

Collection of biographies of the presidents of the United States. Octavo, forty-one volumes, frontispiece portrait to each volume, original boards. Each are near fine to fine in near fine to fine dust...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-146356

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Churchill, Winston S

Lord Randolph Churchill.

New York and London: Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1906.

First editions of Winston S. Churchill’s biography of his father. Octavo, 2 volumes, original cloth bound, gilt titles to the spine, engraved frontispiece portrait of Sir Randolph Churchill afte...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-130791

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Chaucer, Geoffrey

Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer.

London: George Bell and Sons, 1878.

Finely bound set of Chaucer’s poetical works. Small octavos, four volumes bound in three quarters morocco by Bayntun Bindery with gilt tooling to the spine and red morocco spine labels lettered...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-90435

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Sterne, Laurence

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy.

London: T. Becket, 1777.

Finely bound set of Sterne’s Tristram Shandy. Octavo, 6 volumes, bound in contemporary full polished brown calf, black morocco spine labels, smooth spines with gilt rules and decorations, marble...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-89417

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Greene, Graham

The Honorary Consul.

London: The Bodley Head Ltd, 1973.

First edition of one of Greene’s own favorite works. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gil...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-146489

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Jerrold, Douglas

A Man Made of Money.

London: Punch, 1848-49.

First edition of this work. Octavo, original, six volumes, illustrated wrappers. Illustrated with 12 engraved plates by John Leech. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell bo...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-121345

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France, Anatole

Le Puits de Sainte Claire.

Paris: Calmann Levy, 1895.

First edition of this novel by the Nobel Prize-winning French writer regarding tales based on Italian historical characters and events. Octavo, original printed wrappers and glassine wrapper, Presenta...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-82311

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Forester, C.S

C.S. Forester Collection.

London and New York: Various publishers, .

Rare collection of 24 first editions and early printings of the novels of C.S. Forester. Octavo, 27 volumes, original cloth, 15 volumes in dust jackets. The collection includes a first English edition...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-131846

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Scopoli, Giovanni Antonio [Carl Linnaeus]

Flora Carniolica: Exhibens Plantas Carnioliae Indigenas et Distributas in Classes, Genera, Species, Varietates, Ordine Linnaeano. Volume I.

Vienna: Johann Paul Krauss, 1772.

Second edition, enlarged and revised, of one of the most important 18th-century botanical works documenting the flora of Carniola following Carl Linnaeus’s system of plant classification. Octavo, writ...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-149464

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Steinbeck, John

Cannery Row.

New York: The Viking Press, 1945.

First edition, first state of this classic work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Dust jacket design by Arthur Hawkins, Jr....

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-151340

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James, William

A Full and Correct Account of the Chief Naval Occurrences of the Late War Between Great Britain and The United States of America; Preceded by a Cursory Examination of the American Accounts of Their Naval Actions Fought Previous to That Period.

London: Printed for T. Egerton, 1817.

First edition of James’ naval history of the War of 1812, which inspired Theodore Roosevelt’s account from the American perspective: The Naval War of 1812. Octavo, bound in full contempora...

$900.00 Item Number: RRB-132919

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Besant, Walter Sir

The Survey of London. Complete in 10 volumes: Mediaeval London; Historical & Social; Ecclesiastical; London in the Time of the Tudors; London in the Time of the Stuarts; London in the Eighteenth Century; London in the Nineteenth Century.

London: Adam & Charles Black, 1903-1912..

First editions of this work on the great city of London. Quarto, original red cloth, 10 volumes, with titles the spine in gilt and front panel, gilt topstain, illustrated throughout. Each volume is in...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-2847

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Conrad, Joseph

Laughing Anne.

London: The Morland Press, 1923.

The Vine Books limited edition of this dramatic play about a former Parisian club singer struggling in the South Seas. Octavo, bound in full parchment with gilt titles to the spine, top edge gilt, tit...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-151856

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Boynton, Henry Walcott

Two Editions of the Golfer’s Rubaiyat.

Chicago/ New York: Herbert S. Stone/ Duffield, 1901, 1907.

Both the first and second editions of the Golfer’s Rubaiyat. Octavo, original cloth, two volumes, illustrated throughout. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-75645

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Mottelay, Paul F. and T. Campbell-Copeland

The Soldier in Our Civil War: A Pictorial History of the Conflict, 1861-1865. Illustrating the Valor of the Soldier as Displayed on the Battle-Field.

Richmond and New York: Stanley Bradely Publishing Company, 1890.

First edition of both volumes in this profusely illustrated set, containing large engraved portraits of Lincoln, Grant, McClellan and numerous battle scenes. Folio, 2 volumes, original cloth decorated...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-134950

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Jones, James

The Thin Red Line.

New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1962.

First edition of Jones’classic sequel to his first novel, From Here to Eternity. Octavo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, blind...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-149839

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Henderson, W. A. [William Safire]

The Housekeeper’s Instructor; Or, Universal Family-Cook: Being a Full and Clear Display in all its Branches… To Which is Added, The Complete Art of Carving.

London: Printed for Thomas Kelly, [1823].

Early printing of Henderson’s bestselling English cookery book. Octavo, bound in three quarter contemporary calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, illustrated with engravings, lacking t...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-123841

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Sienkiewicz, Henryk; Salvatore Fiume [Illustrator]; Giovanni Mardersteig [Printer]

Quo Vadis?

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1959.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of Sienkiewicz’s international best-selling historical novel. Octavo, bound in full modern morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe/Zaehnsdorf with g...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-148528

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Massingham, Dorothy. In Conjuction with Murray MacDonald [Katharine Hepburn]

The Lake: A Play in Three Acts.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1933.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles to the spine, marbled endpapers, raised bands, speckled edges. Presentation copy, inscribed by Katherine Hepburn who star...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-147963

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Fine Bindings & Rare Book Collections or Sets for Sale Online

Dead Souls.

The Makers of Venice: Doges, Conquerors, Painters and Men of Letters. [Fore-edge Painting].

Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime. A Study of Duty.

The Norwegian Account of Haco’s Expedition Against Scotland.

Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography. [Fore-edge Painting].

The American Presidents.

Lord Randolph Churchill.

Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer.

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy.

The Honorary Consul.

A Man Made of Money.

Le Puits de Sainte Claire.

C.S. Forester Collection.

Flora Carniolica: Exhibens Plantas Carnioliae Indigenas et Distributas in Classes, Genera, Species, Varietates, Ordine Linnaeano. Volume I.

Cannery Row.

A Full and Correct Account of the Chief Naval Occurrences of the Late War Between Great Britain and The United States of America; Preceded by a Cursory Examination of the American Accounts of Their Naval Actions Fought Previous to That Period.

The Survey of London. Complete in 10 volumes: Mediaeval London; Historical & Social; Ecclesiastical; London in the Time of the Tudors; London in the Time of the Stuarts; London in the Eighteenth Century; London in the Nineteenth Century.

Laughing Anne.

Two Editions of the Golfer’s Rubaiyat.

The Soldier in Our Civil War: A Pictorial History of the Conflict, 1861-1865. Illustrating the Valor of the Soldier as Displayed on the Battle-Field.

The Thin Red Line.

The Housekeeper’s Instructor; Or, Universal Family-Cook: Being a Full and Clear Display in all its Branches… To Which is Added, The Complete Art of Carving.

Quo Vadis?

The Lake: A Play in Three Acts.