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The Enchanted April.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923.

Signed limited edition of this classic novel, one of only 377 copies. Octavo, original vellum, original slipcase. Near fine in a very good dust jacket in a very good slipcase. Rare and desirable.

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-142579

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Cortazar, Julio

Hopscotch.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1966.

First edition of the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the translator Gregory Rabassa, who has written the opening line of this title, “Would I find La Maga?” F...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-5713

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Conroy, Pat

First edition, second printing of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by both Pat Conroy and his father Donald Conroy on the title and half-title pages respectively. Lengthily in...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-146097

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Abish, Walter

Duel Site.

New York: Tibor de Nagy Editions, 1970.

First edition of the award winning poet’s first book. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, illustrated. One of 300 copies, 1 to 0 of which are signed. Signed by the author on the title page. In...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-128294

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Irving, John

The World According to Garp.

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1978.

First edition of Irving’s fourth and breakthrough novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by John Irving in a contemporary hand on the half-title page, Near fine in a near fine dust ja...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-136457

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Eliot, George

The Mill On The Floss.

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1860.

First edition, first issue of Eliot’s classic work without the advertisement leaf to volume I and with the seventh edition of Adam Bede cited in the advertisements at rear of volume III. Octavo,...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-140537

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Bellow, Saul

Seize The Day.

New York: The Viking Press, 1956.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s fourth book. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-142270

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Mosley, Nicholas

Accident.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1965.

First edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by Nicholas Mosley on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket that shows light wear. Jacket design by J...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-1409

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Morpurgo, Michael

War Horse.

Kingswood, UK: Kaye & Ward Ltd, 1982.

First edition of this powerful novel that follows the journey of a horse during WWI. Octavo, original publisher’s pictorial boards. In near fine condition. Cover design by Victor Ambrus.

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-141014

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Klein, William

Tokyo.

New York: Crown Publishers, 1964.

First edition of the fourth volume in Klein’s acclaimed series of “city” books. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Preface by Maurice Pinguet...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-121339

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Schulberg, Budd

Waterfront.

New York: Random House, 1955.

First edition of Schulberg’s novel adapted from his Academy Award–winning screenplay. Octavo, original beige cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the fr...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-131837

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Hughes, Langston

Langston Hughes Signed Howard University Sorority Afternoon Forum Program.

[Washington, D.C.]: [Howard University], [1947].

Original Howard University Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Afternoon Forum Program signed by Langston Hughes. One page, quarto, folded sheet, typescript, contemporary copy of typed program for forum organi...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-147803

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Dickens, Charles

Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi. Edited by “Boz.”

London: Richard Bentley, 1838.

First edition in the rare original cloth of Dickens’ popular retelling of the memoirs of celebrated English clown Joseph Grimaldi. Octavo, two volumes, original pink cloth with floral design sta...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-149060

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Fuentes, Carlos

Cambio de Piel. [A Change of Skin].

Mexico: Joaquin Mortiz, 1967.

First edition of this work which defines existentially a collective Mexican consciousness by exploring and reinterpreting the country’s myths. Octavo, original wrappers. Association copy, lengthily in...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-132766

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Foster Wallace, David; James Salter; T.C. Boyle; et al

Prize Stories 1989: The O. Henry Awards. [Includes David Foster Wallace’s Here and There].

New York: Doubleday, 1989.

First edition of this collection of short stories. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by David Foster Wallace on the front free endpaper. Included in this volume is the story “Here and There...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-136204

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Conrad, Joseph

Tales of Unrest.

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1898.

First edition of Conrad’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition, pictorial bookplate, ownership signature to half-title page. Housed in a contemporary clamshell and chemis...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-139203

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Tennyson, Alfred

Idylls of the King. [Fore-edge Painting].

London: Strahan and Co., Publishers, 1869.

Finely bound example of Tennyson’s “long-meditated great task” which brought him to fame; decorated with a concealed fore-edge painting of the great court of Trinity College (Baugh, 1388). Octavo, bou...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-139645

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Buechner, Frederick

The Book of Bebb: Lion Country, Open Heart, Love Feast, Treasure Hunt.

New York: Atheneum, 1979.

First edition of the compilation of the four books that make up the Bebb Quartet. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to his Aunt and Uncle, “For Aunt Betty, Uncle...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-2679

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Wallace, David Foster & Mark Costello

The Missouri Review : Signifying Rappers, Volume XIII, Number 2.

New York: Ecco Press, 1990.

First edition. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Signed by David Foster Wallace. In near fine condition. The first article is 20 page essay from David Foster Wallace and Mark Costello on Rap music,...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-4117

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Atwood, Margaret

Surfacing.

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1972.

First edition of the author’s classic second novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Rachel- Margaret Atwood June 4 1982.” F...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-146203

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Baudelaire, Charles

Oeuvres de Charles Baudelaire.

Paris: Club de Livre, 1985.

The Club de Livre deluxe limited illustrated edition of the works of Charles Baudelaire. Quartos, 3 volumes, bound in full violet elaborate fuschia and black inlay designs to the panels, black endpape...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-94702

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Kipling, Rudyard

Lettres du Japon.

Paris: Rene Kieffer, 1925.

Deluxe limited edition of Kipling’s collected letters written during his 1889 travels in Japan. Octavo, original wrappers, decorated by H. Tirman. One of 50 copies printed on Japan paper. Transl...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-122943

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Basso, Hamilton [Norman Maclean]

Sun in Capricorn.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942.

First edition of Basso’s classic Southern novel. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, “For Norman MaClea...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-132988

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Fleming, Ian

The Spy Who Loved Me.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1962.

First edition of the ninth novel in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series. Octavo, original black cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Chopping.

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-138826

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Rare & Classic, American or English Literature Books for Sale Online

The Enchanted April.

Hopscotch.

The Great Santini.

Duel Site.

The World According to Garp.

The Mill On The Floss.

Seize The Day.

Accident.

War Horse.

Tokyo.

Waterfront.

Langston Hughes Signed Howard University Sorority Afternoon Forum Program.

Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi. Edited by “Boz.”

Cambio de Piel. [A Change of Skin].

Prize Stories 1989: The O. Henry Awards. [Includes David Foster Wallace’s Here and There].

Tales of Unrest.

Idylls of the King. [Fore-edge Painting].

The Book of Bebb: Lion Country, Open Heart, Love Feast, Treasure Hunt.

The Missouri Review : Signifying Rappers, Volume XIII, Number 2.

Surfacing.

Oeuvres de Charles Baudelaire.

Lettres du Japon.

Sun in Capricorn.

The Spy Who Loved Me.