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    The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.

    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...
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    $1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-120414
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    The Maugham Reader.

    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...
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    $1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-134572
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    Beowulf: A New Verse Translation.

    Heaney, Seamus

    Beowulf: A New Verse Translation.

    London: Faber and Faber, 1999.

    First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and ruling to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear...
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    $1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-142996
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    Exodus: A Novel of Israel.

    Uris, Leon

    Exodus: A Novel of Israel.

    New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1958.

    First edition, early printing of the author’s magnum opus. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page to historian Arnold Kra...
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    $1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-115423
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    Tenting on the Plains or General Custer in Kansas and Texas.

    Custer, Elizabeth B

    Tenting on the Plains or General Custer in Kansas and Texas.

    New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1887.

    First edition of Elizabeth Custer’s famous defense of Custer. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated green cloth, patterned endpapers, engraved tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait and 28...
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    $1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-150708
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    The Favourite Game.

    Cohen, Leonard

    The Favourite Game.

    London: Secker & Warburg, 1963.

    First printing of this edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To John Abbott all the best Leonard Cohe...
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    $1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-140854
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    A Maugham Reader.

    Maugham, W.Somerset

    A 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 Sangorski and Sutcliffe, frontispiece of Maugham, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, dou...
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    $1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-134702
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    The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.

    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 three quarters calf over boards, gilt titles to the spine. First issue points with “visiter” for “...
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    $1,050.00 Item Number: RRB-117498
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    The Works of Lord Byron: His Life and Poems.

    Lord Byron; Thomas Moore

    The Works of Lord Byron: His Life and Poems.

    London: John Murray, 1851.

    Finely bound collection of the works of Lord Byron. Octavo, sixteen volumes, contemporary full calf, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, front and rear panels, marbled endpapers, frontispiece to eac...
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    $1,050.00 Item Number: RRB-3289
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    The Town and the City.

    Kerouac, Jack [John]

    The Town and the City.

    New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950.

    First edition of the Jack Kerouac’s first book. Octavo, original red cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, bookplate to the front free endpaper.
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    $1,050.00 Item Number: RRB-149218
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    T. H. White Verses.

    White, T.H

    T. H. White Verses.

    Alderney: Privately Printed For The Author, 1962.

    Signed limited edition of the final book published during White’s lifetime. Royal octavo, original publisher’s half vellum with gilt titles to the spine, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt w...
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    $1,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151235
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    Trout Fishing in America.

    Brautigan, Richard

    Trout Fishing in America.

    New York: A Delta Book/ Dell Publishing, 1967.

    First edition of this work “that has very little to do with trout fishing and a lot to do with the lamenting of a passing pastoral America . . . an instant cult classic” (Financial Times). Octavo, ori...
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    $975.00 Item Number: RRB-133793
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    The Wall.

    Hersey, John

    The Wall.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950.

    First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Harold Merry ‘We are involved in the struggle of Hu...
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    $975.00 Item Number: RRB-140379
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    The New Saturday Night at Moody’s Diner.

    Sample, Tim; Introduction by Stephen King

    The New Saturday Night at Moody’s Diner.

    Camden, Maine: Down East Books, 1996.

    First printing of the second edition. Octavo, original wrappers, as issued. Inscribed by Tim Sample on the title page. Additionally signed by Stephen King, who wrote the introduction to this volume. I...
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    $975.00 Item Number: RRB-19022
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    Summer of the Monkeys.

    Rawls, Wilson

    Summer of the Monkeys.

    Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976.

    First edition of this award-winning novel by the author of Where the Red Fern Grows. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Sincerely, Wilson Rawls....
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    $975.00 Item Number: RRB-128142
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    The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

    Dickens, Charles

    The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

    London: Chapman & Hall, 1870.

    First edition from the original parts Dickens’ final novel, with them bound in the rear. Octavo, bound in three quarters calf over marbled boards, frontispiece portrait of dickens, 12 wood-engra...
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    $975.00 Item Number: RRB-133997
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    Morte D’Urban.

    Powers, J.F

    Morte D’Urban.

    Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1962.

    Review copy of the first edition of the author’s masterpiece, winner of the National Book Award. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by J.F. Powers. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Slip laid in fr...
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    $975.00 Item Number: RRB-137471
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    The Price of Prosperity.

    Bernstein, Peter. L

    The Price of Prosperity.

    New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1962.

    First edition of the Wall Street legend’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Paul- Best wishes for much prosper...
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    $975.00 Item Number: RRB-511
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    Il Corbaccio. [The Crow].

    Boccaccio, Giovanni

    Il Corbaccio. [The Crow].

    Paris: Federigo Morello, 1569.

    Rare sixteenth century edition of this literary work in the original Italian. Duodecimo, original full vellum. In near fine condition with light splitting to the front interior hinge.
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    $975.00 Item Number: RRB-146435
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    Marjorie Morningstar.

    Wouk, Herman

    Marjorie Morningstar.

    Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1955.

    First edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Herman Wouk on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. Jacket design by...
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    $975.00 Item Number: RRB-110555
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    Dusklands.

    Coetzee, J.M

    Dusklands.

    Johannesburg: Raven Press, 1974.

    First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the title page. Near fine in an excellent dust jacket that shows some light soiling...
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    $975.00 Item Number: RRB-224
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    Son of Dracula.

    Starr, Ringo & Harry Nilsson

    Son of Dracula.

    : Blackwood Music, 1974.

    First edition of this original work. Quarter, original wrappers. Signed and dated by Ringo Starr on the front panel, “Love Ringo 05.” In near fine condition.
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    $975.00 Item Number: RRB-3245
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    Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs.

    Jarrell, Randall; Illustrated by Burkert, Nancy Burkert

    Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs.

    New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972.

    First edition of this classic illustrated retelling of the tale from the Brothers Grimm. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Signed by the illustrator Nancy Ekholm Burkert on the half-titl...
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    $975.00 Item Number: RRB-108773
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    Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman.

    Murakami, Haruki

    Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman.

    New York: Alfred A Knopf, 2006.

    First edition of this collection of twenty-four stories by Haruki Murakami. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Haruki Murakami on the title page and additionally three times by illustrator Chip Ki...
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    $975.00 Item Number: RRB-122387
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