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Matchstick Men: A Novel of Petty Crimes.

New York: Random House, 2002.

First edition of this novel, basis for the 2003 cult film directed by Ridley Scott starring Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell, Bruce Altman and Alison Lohman. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Eric G...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-152097

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Cervantes, Miguel de

The History of the Valorous and Witty Knight Errant Don Quixote of the Mancha.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1908.

Finely bound English translation of Cervantes’ masterpiece. Octavo, three volumes, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, top edge gilt, mar...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-140084

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Hemingway, Ernest

Death in the Afternoon.

Charles Scribner's Sons: New York, 1932.

Early printing of Hemingway’s work on bullfighting. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Zaehnsdorf for Asprey, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the spine, front and rear panels...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-108979

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Nabokov, Vladimir

Lolita.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1955.

First American edition and first trade edition of Nabokov’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Photograph of Nabokov by Maclean Dameron. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custo...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-119451

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Carr, Lucien [Helen Weaver] [Jack Kerouac]

Lucien Carr Autograph Letter Signed to Helen Weaver.

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Autograph letter signed by American journalist and editor Lucien Carr. One page, handwritten to Jack Kerouac’s former girlfriend Helen Weaver on a yellow legal pad page and dated “Sept. 04...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-149953

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Stoppard, Tom

Pizza.

London: The Cuckoo Press for John Sandoe Books, 2010.

First edition, one of only 200 copies printed given as a Christmas gift of this sketch was written for The Laws of War, a Cries from the Heart production in support of the charity Human Rights Watch,...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-150927

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Oliver, Mary

Why I Wake Early.

Boston: Beacon Press, 2004.

First edition of this collection by the Pulitzer prize-winning poet. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Mary Oliver on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Sara Eisenman.

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-124501

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Steinbeck, John

The Moon Is Down.

New York: The Viking Press, 1942.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s classic work. The first edition has a large period between “talk” and “this” on page 112, line 11. Octavo, bound in full moroc...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-151684

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Pashayan Khan, Garabed

Occupational Medicine in Schools for Pupils and Teachers.

Alexandria, Egypt: Published by the author, 1906.

Rare work on occupational medicine self-published by Armenian physician and scholar Garabed Pashayan Khan. Octavo, original half cloth over paper-covered boards, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait o...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-141034

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Crews, Harry

Karate Is a Thing of the Spirit.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1971.

First edition of the author’s classic fourth novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Dear Michael– Good and dear friend...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-142087

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Updike, John [Erica Jong]

Rabbit At Rest.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990.

First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Erica Jong, one more trip to...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-142983

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Heller, Joseph

Something Happened.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974.

First edition of this classic work by the author of Catch-22. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Doreen Phelan, With pleasure + go...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-142470

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Beardsley, Aubrey; Sir Thomas Malory; William Caxton; John Rhys; Aymer Vallance

[Morte D’Arthur]. The Birth Life and Acts of King Arthur of His Noble Knights of the Round Table Their Marvellous Enquests and Adventures the Achieving of the San Greal and in the End Le Morte Darthur with the Dolourous Death and Departing Out of This World of Them All.

Edinburgh: Turnbull & Spears, 1927.

Limited Beardsley illustrated edition of perhaps the best-known work of Arthurian literature in English, containing two additional illustrations not appearing in the second edition, in addition to the...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-146914

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Wallace, Lew. Illustrated by Eric Pape

The Fair God: A Tale Of The Conquest of Mexico.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1899.

First edition of Union General Lew Wallace’s first novel. Octavo, two volumes, original publisher’s embossed morocco with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, rebacked, top edge gilt,...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-109623

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Sparks, Nicholas [Kevin Costner]

Message in a Bottle.

New York: Warner Books, 1998.

First edition of this novel, basis for the 1999 film directed by Luis Mandoki, starring Kevin Costner, Robin Wright and Paul Newman. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the a...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-150125

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Stoppard, Tom. [Gary Oldman]

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead.

London: Faber & Faber, 1967.

First paperback edition (issued simultaneously in hardback) of the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed by Academy Award-winning actor Gary Oldman on the front free end...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-151743

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Kazantzakis, Nikos; Translated by Peter A. Bien

Report to Greco: An Autobiographical Novel.

Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1965.

First edition of Kazantzakis’ deeply personal semi-autobiographical classic testament. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed and dated by the translator on the half-titl...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-136597

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[Cruikshank, George; William Thackeray; Albert Smith; Gilbert A. Beckett; The Brothers Mayhew]

The Comic Almanack: An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, Containing Merry Tales, Humorous Poetry, Quips, and Oddities.

London: John Camden Hotten, 1835-1853.

First editions of the first and second series of The Comic Almanack; illustrated by George Cruikshank. Octavo, four volumes, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards by Root & Son, gilt...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-137167

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Rendell, Ruth

The Best Man to Die.

London: John Lang, 1969.

First edition of the fourth Inspector Wexford novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Ruth Rendell on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light wear. Jacket design by William Randell...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-61004

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Eliot, George

The Mill On The Floss.

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1860.

First edition of Eliot’s most deeply autobiographical work. Octavo, three volumes bound in full polished calf by H. Sotheran & Co. with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartment...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-147792

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Dickens, Charles

The Old Curiosity Shop: A Tale.

London: Chapman And Hall, Strand, 1841.

First edition of Dickens’s classic novel. Octavo, bound in half calf, full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, all edges gilt, with il...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-147630

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Faulkner, William

These Thirteen (13).

New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1931.

First edition of Faulkner’s first collection of stories. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, blue topstain. Near fine in a good dust jacket with loss to the spine. Jacket design by Arth...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-100021

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Stephani, Roberti. [Robert Estienne]

Lexicographorum Principis Thesaurus Linguae Latinae in IV. Tomos Divisus.

Basileae: Typis & Impensis E. & J.R. Thurnisiorum, 1740.

Rare 1740 edition of Robert Estienne’s “greatest monument of Latin scholarship.” Folio, four volumes bound in full vellum with spine labels decorated and titled in gilt, woodcut prin...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-149194

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Roubayyat de Hafiz et d’Omar Khayyam. [The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám].

Paris: Francis LeBegue, [1921].

Finely bound example of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Octavo, bound in full levant morocco with gilt titles to the spine, gilt Art Deco style decorations to the front and rear panel, gilt turn-ins and...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-127096

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