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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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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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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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Flynn, Gillian

Gone Girl.

New York: Crown Publishers, 2012.

First edition of this “instant classic” (Vanity Fair), basis for the film starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Gillian Flynn and Academy Award-winning...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-131752

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Mailer, Norman

The Naked and the Dead.

New York: Henry Holt, 2005.

First edition of the 50th anniversary edition of the author’s classic first novel. Thick octavo, original boards. Lengthily inscribed by the author on the half-title page, who has transcribed th...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-842

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Pasternak, Boris

The Year 1905.

Moscow: State Publishing House, 1927.

First edition of this collection of poems and prose written during the Russian Revolution. Sextodecimo, original pictorial wrappers, in the original Russian. In very good condition. A very sharp examp...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-147958

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Ellroy, James. [Russell Crowe]

L.A. Confidential.

New York: The Mysterious Press, 1990.

First edition of Ellroy’s neo-noir classic, adapted into the 1997 film of the same name starring Russell Crowe, Kevin Spacey, Kim Basinger, and Danny DeVito. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-152098

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Kerouac, Jack

The Town and the City.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950.

First edition of Kerouac’s first book. Octavo, original red cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Leo Manso.

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-138596

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Chesterton, G.K

The Innocence of Father Brown.

London: Cassell and Company, 1913.

First edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition. From the collection of Dr. John Talbot Gernon with his red leather and gilt bookplate to the pastedown...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-150906

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Dickens, Charles

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.

London: Oxford University Press, 1968.

Elaborately bound Oxford illustrated edition of one of Dickens’ most popular novels. Octavo, bound in full crushed blue morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spi...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-129073

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Andrews, Raymond

Appalachee Red. Rosiebelle Lee Wildcat Tennessee. Baby Sweet’s [The Muskhogean Trilogy].

New York: The Dial Press, 1978, 1980, 1983.

First edition of each novel in Raymond Andrews’ famed yet elusive Muskhogean Trilogy. Octavo, three volumes, original half cloth, illustrations by Benny Andrews. Association copies, inscribed by...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-122389

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Dick, Philip K

The Divine Invasion.

New York: Timescape Books, 1981.

First edition of the second book in Dick’s gnostic VALIS trilogy. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Philip K. Dick on the publisher’s official bookplate produced for this edition. Fin...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-123684

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Conrad, Joseph

The Rover.

London: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd, 1923.

First British edition of the last complete novel by Joseph Conrad. Octavo, finely bound in full morocco by Bayntun, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, double gilt ruled, inner dentell...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-119454

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Twain, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens]

The Prince and the Pauper. A Tale For Young People of All Ages.

James R. Osgood and Company: Boston, 1882.

First edition, first issue of of the author’s first historical novel with the Franklin imprint on the copyright page. BAL 3402. Johnson pp. 39-41. Octavo, bound in three quarter burgundy morocco...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-150845

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Armstrong, Louis

Louis Armstrong Signed Program.

New York: Associated Booking Corp, n.d.

‘Louis Armstrong and his Concert Group’ program. Quarto, original wrappers, 20 pages, illustrated with black and white photographs of the band and its members. Boldy signed by Louis Armstrong on...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-146533

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Woolf, Virginia

Flush: A Biography.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1933.

First edition of Woolf’s fictional “stream of consciousness” tale by Flush, a dog, telling the story of his owner, Elizabeth Browning. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt B...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-146583

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King, Stephen [Ray Bradbury; Gerald Ford; Jim Harrison; Norman Mailer; Joyce Carol Oates; John Updike; Eudora Welty; et al]

Lord John Signatures.

Northridge, California: Lord John Press, 1991.

First deluxe limited edition of this collection of author photographs and signatures. Oblong octavo, original half cloth with faux navy morocco spine, gilt titles to the spine, gilt ruling to the fron...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-150137

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Bryant, William Cullen

William Cullen Bryant Autograph “The Voice of Autumn” Poem Signed.

November 21, 1853:, .

Rare autograph poem in the hand of William Cullen Bryant sent by him to magazine publisher George R. Graham for inclusion in his literary periodical Graham’s Magazine with the accompanying trans...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-142753

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