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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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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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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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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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Schulz, Charles M

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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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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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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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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Bysshe Shelley, Percy

The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Revised by William Michael Rossetti.

London: E. Moxon, Son, & Co, 1870.

Finely bound example of the Poetical Works of Shelley. Octavo, 2 volumes. Bound in full contemporary calf by Zaehnsdorf, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, morocco spine labels, gilt ruled, raised...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-95863

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Frost, Robert

A Boy’s Will.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1934.

Second American edition of Frost’s first published work. Octavo, original beige linen cloth, engraved title page. Signed and dated by the poet on the title page, “Robert Frost February 25...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-130124

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Tolstoy, Leo

The Cossacks: A Tale of the Caucasus in 1852.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1878.

First edition in English of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Translated by Eugene Schuyler. In very good condition.

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-123937

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Goldsmith, Oliver

The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B. and Professor of Ancient History in the Royal Academy of the Arts. [Fore-edge Painting].

London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846.

Finely bound example of Goldsmith’s complete poetical works, decorated with a fore-edge painting of a golfing scene. Octavo, bound in full pebbled morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spi...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-140226

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Hardy, Thomas; Agnes Miller Parker [Illustrator]

Jude the Obscure.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1969.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of the last completed novel by Hardy. Octavo, bound in full modern morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe / Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles and tooling to th...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-148808

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Dickens. Charles

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1839.

First edition in book form of one of Dickens’ most popular novels. Octavo, bound in contemporary three quarters calf, morocco spine label, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, steel-engraved fronti...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-120414

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Eliot, T.S

The Cocktail Party.

London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1950.

First edition of the most popular of Eliot’s seven plays published during his lifetime. First issue with “here” for “her” on page 29, line 1. Octavo, bound in full morocc...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-152121

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Select Poetry. Chiefly on Subjects Connected with Religion. [Fore-Edge Painting].

London: Printed for L. B. Seeley and Son, 1825.

Finely bound poetry collection decorated with a concealed fore-edge painting. 18mo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gi...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-141053

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West, Nathanael

The Dream Life of Balso Snell.

Paris and New York: Contact Editions, 1931.

First edition of the author’s first novel. Octavo, finely bound in full morocco by The Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands, gi...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-146620

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Maugham, W.Somerset

The Maugham Reader.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1950.

First edition of this collection by the author of The Razor’s Edge. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Bayntun, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-134572

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