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You’re you, Charlie Brown.

New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968.

First edition. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Charles M. Schulz on the front panel. In very good condition. Rare and desirable signed.

$1,150.00 Item Number: RRB-148171

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Burns, Robert

Poems and Songs of Robert Burns. [Fore-edge Painting]

London: George Routledge & Sons, 1867.

Finely bound example of the poetical works of Robert Burns decorated with a concealed fore-edge painting. Octavo, bound in full crushed levant morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six...

$1,150.00 Item Number: RRB-138654

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Fermor, Patrick Leigh

A Time To Keep Silence.

London: John Murray, 1957.

First edition of the author’s third book, regarding his experiences in various monasteries. Octavo, original blue cloth. Illustrated by John Craxton. Association copy, inscribed by the author on...

$1,150.00 Item Number: RRB-2641

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Spark, Muriel

The Girls of Slender Means.

London: Macmillan, 1963.

First edition of Spark’s novella, which follows female inhabitants of London’s May of Teak Club in the summer of 1945. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Muriel Spark on the title page. Ver...

$1,150.00 Item Number: RRB-59076

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Rackham, Arthur

Mother Goose: The Old Nursery Rhymes.

London: William Heinemann, n.d. [1913].

First edition of Arthur Rackham’s illustrated rendition of the classic nursery rhyme collection. Octavo, bound in full polished calf Zaehnsdorf with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt vignett...

$1,150.00 Item Number: RRB-135055

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Frost, Robert

A Masque of Mercy.

New York: Henry Holt, 1947.

Signed limited first edition, one of 751 numbered copies, this is number 690. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition and the original slipca...

$1,150.00 Item Number: RRB-110648

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Rabelais, Francois

Oeuvres De Maitre Francois Rabelais, suivies des Remarques publiees en anglois par M. le Motteux, et traduites en francois par C. D. M. Nouvelle edition ornee de 76 gravures.

Paris: Chez Ferdinand Bastien, 1798.

First edition illustrated, three volumes, octavos. In good condition, all edges gilt, tooling to the spine, expertly rebacked. All plates present. An attractive set.

$1,150.00 Item Number: RRB-2045

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Gaines, Ernest J

Catherine Carmier.

New York: Atheneum , 1964.

First edition of Gaines’ first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by the author on the title page with the added words, “When Brother got out of the car, the two Cajuns sitting on t...

$1,150.00 Item Number: RRB-29006

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Proulx, E. Annie

The Shipping News.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993.

First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Joel Turner E. Annie Proulx....

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-149491

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Beerbohm, Max

Zuleika Dobson or An Oxford Love Story.

London: William Heinemann, 1911.

First edition of Beerbohm’s classic and only novel. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. Bookplate. Housed in a custom chemise clamshell box. A very nice example.

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-131261

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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 fro...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-151687

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Hemingway, Ernest

Death in the Afternoon.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932.

First edition of early work on bullfighting. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, blind ruled to the front and rear panels, gilt signature of Er...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-122893

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Moore, Thomas

The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore. [Fore-Edge Painting].

London: Frederick Warne and Co., n.d..

The Albion edition of Moore’s poetical works. Octavo, bound in full polished tree calf with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine label...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-129405

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Huxley, Aldous

Grey Eminence: A Study in Religion and Politics.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1956.

First collected edition of Huxley’s biography of French monk François Leclerc du Tremblay. Octavo, bound in full crushed red morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to th...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-130128

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Stevens, Wallace

Harmonium.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923.

Rare first edition of this landmark Modernist poetry collection. Octavo, original publisher’s blue cloth-backed paper-covered patterned boards, paper titles to the spine, top stain red. In very...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-151850

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Lawrence, D.H

Women in Love.

New York: Privately Printed for Subscribers Only, 1920.

First edition of the author’s classic work which many consider his masterpiece, one of only 1250 examples. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine. In near fine condition, name to the f...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-139392

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Frost, Robert

Steeple Bush.

New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1947.

First edition, first printing of this spiritually-themed Frost collection. Octavo, original half cloth over boards, front panel decorated in gilt. One of 751 copies signed by the author on the limitat...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-110271

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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 to fellow writer R.P. Dickey on the...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-138005

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Churchill, Winston S

Savrola: A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania.

New York: Longmans, Green and Co, 1900.

First American edition (which precedes the British first) of Churchill’s singular attempt at full-length fiction. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. In near fi...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-129733

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Homer; TRANSLATED BY ALEXANDER POPE

The Iliad.

London: The Nonesuch Press, 1931.

The Nonesuch Press limited edition of Alexander Pope’s monumental translation of Homer’s Iliad. Royal octavo, bound in full russet morocco with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within rais...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-148778

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Berger, Thomas

Crazy In Berlin.

New York: Charles Scribner's, 1958.

First edition of Berger’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Thomas Berger on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Sydney Butchkes. Housed in...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-142436

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Mead, Shepherd

How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying: The Dastard’s Guide to Fame and Fortune.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised bands, gilt ruling to the front a...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-146086

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Fitzpatrick, Percy

Jock of the Bushveld.

London: Longmans, Green and Company, 1907.

First edition, first issue with drawings of a dung beetle pushing his load with his front legs rather than his back on pages 65, 337 and 457. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco, gilt titles and t...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-64984

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Kipling, Rudyard

Letters of Marque.

Allahabad: A. H. Wheeler & Co, 1891.

Rare first edition of this collection of letters published without Kipling’s permission and so quickly suppressed. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth. One of one thousand copies,...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-120684

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