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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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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.

$1,050.00 Item Number: RRB-149218

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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 three quarters calf over boards, gilt titles to the spine. First issue points with “visiter” for “...

$1,050.00 Item Number: RRB-117498

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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...

$1,050.00 Item Number: RRB-3289

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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...

$1,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151235

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Cornwell, Bernard

Sharpe’s Company. Richard Sharpe and the Seige of Badajoz, January to April 1812.

London: Collins, 1982.

First edition of the third book in the Richard Sharpe series. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author who has added the first lines of this book as follows, “Wit...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-1812

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Copland, Robert [Translator] Wynkyn de Worde; Robert Hoe

The History of Helyas Knight of the Swan.

The City of New York: The Grolier Club, 1901.

Limited edition of the Grolier Club’s beautiful and literal facsimile reprint of Robert Hoe’s unique copy of the 1512 edition of the classic medieval tale. Octavo, original publisher...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-147203

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Auel, Jean M

Earth’s Children: The Clan of the Cave Bear; The Valley of Horses; The Mammoth Hunters; The Plains of Passage.

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1980-1990.

First editions of the first four volumes of the author’s acclaimed Earth’s Children series, each inscribed by Jean Auel. Octavo, four volumes, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers....

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-147750

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Heller, Joseph

Something Happened.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974.

First edition of this classic work by the author of Catch-22. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Stacy Hunt, With good wishes, to...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-142094

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Collins, Max Allan [Tom Hanks]

Road to Perdition.

New York: Onyx Books/ The New American Library, 2002.

First edition of this work, basis for the film starring Tom Hanks and Jude Law. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated. Boldly signed by Max Allan Collins and Academy Award-winning actor T...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-150303

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Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

The General in His Labyrinth.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990.

Signed limited first edition of this “fascinating tour de force and a moving tribute to an extraordinary man” (Margaret Atwood, New York Times Book Review). Octavo, bound in full leather. Boldly...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-130969

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Olivier, Laurence and Vivien Leigh

Original Caesar and Cleopatra/Antony and Cleopatra Signed Playbill.

New York: Laurence Olivier Productions Ltd, 1952.

Rare original playbill from the February 25th 1952 performance of the Caesar and Cleopatra/Antony and Cleopatra repertory at the Ziegfeld Theatre starring Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. Octavo, il...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-90375

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Kingsley, Charles

The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby.

London and Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1863.

First edition of this Victorian moral fantasy. Octavo, bound in three-quarter crushed levant over marbled boards with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, gilt...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-151121

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Gurnah, Abdulrazak

Paradise.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1994.

First edition of the work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original boards. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, small ownership name to the front free endpaper.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-129499

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Saramago, Jose

The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis.

Orlando: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1991.

First American edition of the Nobel-Prize winning author’s second book to be translated into English. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed and dated by the author on the title page,...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-133715

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Sondheim, Stephen; Burt Shevelove

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1963.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Kurt Rowley, with best wishes from Stephen Sondheim.”...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-136038

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Irving, John

The World According to Garp.

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1978.

First edition of the author’s fourth breakthrough novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Hilary John Irving.” Near fine...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-149614

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Christie, Agatha

The Hollow.

London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1946.

First edition of this classic country-house mystery. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. From the collection of Dr. John Talbot Gernon. A sharp example.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-149968

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