Waugh, Evelyn
Officers and Gentlemen.
Boston : Little, Brown, 1955.
First American edition. Octavo, original blue boards. Fine in a very good dust jacket.
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Item Number: RRB-1948
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Fuentes, Carlos
Terra Nostra.
New York : Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, 1976.
First edition of the author’s magnum opus. Octavo, original half cloth. Some foxing to the page edges in an excellent dust jacket that shows light wear. Signed and dated by the author. Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden.
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Item Number: RRB-1922
Powers, Richard
The Gold Bug Variations.
New York : William Morrow and Company, 1991.
First Edition of the author’s third and breakthrough novel. Octavo. Fine in a fine dust jacket without wear.
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Item Number: RRB-1749
Vargas Llosa, Mario; Edited and translated by John King
Making Waves: Essays.
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giraux, 1997.
First edition of this collection of essays by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Mario Vargas Llosa on the title page.
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Item Number: RRB-1736
Yates, Richard
Cold Spring Harbor.
New York : Delacorte Press, 1986.
First Edition of the author’s last novel. Octavo. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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Item Number: RRB-1701
Roth, Philip
The Breast.
New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972.
Uncorrected proof of the author’s comic novella which features David Kapesh’s transformation into a 155 pound breast. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by Philip Roth on the title page. In very good condition.
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Item Number: RRB-1625
Vargas Llosa, Mario
The Green House.
London : Jonathan Cape, 1969.
First British edition of the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original green cloth. Signed by Mario Vargas Llosa on the title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket that shows light rubbing to the spine crown.
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Item Number: RRB-1573
Le Clezio, J.M.G
Desert.
Boston : A Verba Mundi Book, 2009.
First American edition of what many consider the author’s breakthrough novel. Octavo, original boards. Signed by J.M.G. Le Clezio on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Ghost. Translated from the French by C. Dickson.
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Item Number: RRB-1555
Coetzee, J.M
Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews.
Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1992.
First edition of this collection of essays and interviews by the Nobel Prize winning author. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. In very good condition. Signed by J.M. Coetzee on the title page.
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Item Number: RRB-1497
![Discursos De Estocolmo [Nobel Lecture].](https://i0.wp.com/raptisrarebooks2.bvbeta.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/1503.jpg?fit=1000%2C800&ssl=1 "Discursos De Estocolmo [Nobel Lecture].")
Saramago, Jose
Discursos De Estocolmo [Nobel Lecture].
Lisbon : Caminho, 1999.
First edition of the author’s Nobel Prize speech given in 1998. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers as issued. Presentation copy, inscribed by Jose Saramago. In fine condition.
Read more$850.00
Item Number: RRB-1503
Coetzee, J.M
What Is Realism.
Bennington, VT : Bennington College Chapbooks, 1997.
First edition of this essay by J.M. Coetzee. Octavo, original wrappers, as issued. Although not called for, this copy is signed by Coetzee. Fine in wrappers.
Read more$225.00
Item Number: RRB-1366
Saramago, Jose
A Bagagem Do Viajante: Cronicas.
Lisboa : Ed. Futura, 1973.
First edition of this early collection of essays by the future Nobel Prize- winning author. Octavo, original wrappers, as issued. Inscribed and dated by Jose Saramago.
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Item Number: RRB-1334
Irving, John
Setting Free the Bears.
New York : Random House, 1968.
First edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed [5 line inscription] by John Irving on the half- title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carl Weiss. Illustration by Robert Dale. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
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Item Number: RRB-1351
Bellow, Saul
Humboldt’s Gift.
New York : The Viking Press, 1975.
First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Karyl, with love I could never have done it without your patient help Saul.” The recipient, Karyl Kylie typed the manuscript of this novel. Fine in a near fine dust jacketContinue reading "Humboldt’s Gift."
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Item Number: RRB-1289
Vidal, Gore
Visit to a Small Planet and Other Television Plays.
Boston : Little, Brown & Co., 1956.
First edition of the author’s play that was later made into the 1960 motion picture starring Jerry Lewis as Kreton. Octavo. Signed by Gore Vidal on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Laid in is a ticket stub at a play that Vidal appeared at.
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Item Number: RRB-1264
Xingjian, Gao
One Man’s Bible.
New York : Harper Collins, 2002.
First American edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s second novel published in English. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Gao Xingjian on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Roberto de Cicq de Cumptich. Jacket painting by Gao Xingjian.
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Item Number: RRB-1236
Theroux, Paul
The Consul’s Fire.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1977.
First edition. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Paul Theroux on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light wear to the spine extremities.
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Item Number: RRB-1126
Stone, Robert
A Hall of Mirrors.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967.
First edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Stone who has additionally added the line from this title as follows, “They killed my girl,” Rheinhardt said, walking down the street. “I’m gonna to bust up the bar. Robert Stone.” Laid in a program from a literary festival signed by StoneContinue reading "A Hall of Mirrors."
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Item Number: RRB-1108
Robinson, Marilynne
The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1998.
First edition of this collection of essays by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Octavo, original half cloth. Warmly inscribed by Marilynne Robinson on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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Item Number: RRB-1002
Marias, Javier
Los Dominios del Lobo.
Barcelona : Edhasa, 1971.
First edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers as issued. Signed by Javier Marias on the title page. In near fine condition.
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Item Number: RRB-994
O'Brien, Tim
Northern Lights.
New York : Delacorte Press, 1975.
First edition of the author’s second book. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the title page as follows, “Peace Tim O’Brien “I guess we’re really brothers, aren’t we? Don’t know what that means, except it means that some of the same things we remember.” Near fine a near fine dust jacket with aContinue reading "Northern Lights."
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Item Number: RRB-940
Millhauser, Steven
Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1972.
First edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Millhauser on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with the lightest of wear. Jacket design by Alice and Martin Provensen.
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Item Number: RRB-885
Mailer, Norman
The Naked and the Dead.
London : Allan Wingate, 1949.
First British edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For ________ ________, Spent a winter once in Jamaica, Vermont, back in 1949, Loved it. Cheers Norman Mailer.” Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by James Holland.
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Item Number: RRB-833
Lessing, Doris
Martha Quest, A Proper Marriage, A Ripple from the Storm, Landlocked, The Four-Gated City.
London : Michael Joseph, 1952-1969.
First editions of the author’s Children of Violence Series. Octavo, 5 volumes. Original cloth. Each of the five volumes are signed by Doris Lessing. Near fine in very good to near fine dust jackets.
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Item Number: RRB-796
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