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Crazy Heart.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1987.

First edition of this work which “might be the finest country-western novel ever written, bar none” (Houston Post), basis for the 2009 film starring Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Colin...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-137411

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Spenser, Edmund

The Fairy Queen. With a Glossary, Explaining the Old and Obscure Words.

London: J. and R. Tonson, 1758.

Finely bound edition of this classic work. Octavo, 2 volumes, bound in full calf, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, with nine full page engraved plates by Louis du Geurnier. In very...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-144293

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Dickens, Charles

Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi. Edited by “Boz.”

London: Richard Bentley, 1838.

First edition of Dickens’ popular retelling of the memoirs of celebrated English clown Joseph Grimaldi. Octavo, 2 volumes, original publisher’s decorated dark green cloth with gilt titles and gi...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-121730

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Didion, Joan

The Year of Magical Thinking.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.

First edition of the account of the year following the death of the author’s husband. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Joan Didion on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket....

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-151720

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Stein, Gertrude

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.

New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1933.

First edition of Gertrude Stein’s most famous work; one of the richest biographies ever written. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated from photographs. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-135222

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Bulfinch, Thomas

The Age of Fable; Or, Stories of Gods and Heroes.

Boston: Sanborn, Carter, and Bazin, 1855.

First edition, first state of the first installment in Bulfinch’s famed Mythology; with the names of both the printer and the stereotyper on copyright page. Octavo, original publisher’s cl...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-139871

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Saramago, Jose

Manual De Pintura E Caligraphia [Manual of Painting and Calligraphy].

Lisboa: Moraes Editores, 1976.

First Portuguese edition and true first of this early work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Inscribed and dated Jose Saramago. In very good condition with some...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-2630

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Frost, Robert

Robert Frost Reading His Own Poems.

Chicago: The National Council of Teachers of English, c.1949.

Original LP of Robert Frost reading his poetry. Inscribed by the author on the front panel Frost to Gladys Schmidt dated Jan. 18 1952. The recipient Gladys Schmidt was a professor of English at Carneg...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-120198

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Abdulrazak Gurnah

Memory of Departure: A Novel.

New York: The Grove Press, 1988.

First edition of the author’s first novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration and design by Bascove.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-129533

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Kovic, Ron

Born on the Fourth of July.

New York : McGraw-Hill, 1976.

First edition of this classic book, basis for the 1989 film directed by Oliver Stone. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author in the year of publication, “...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-138131

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Goldsmith, Oliver

The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale. [Fore-edge Painting].

London: Bickers and Son, 1880.

Finely bound example of one of the most popular and widely read novels among Victorians. Octavo, bound in full pebbled morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and panels, gilt turn-ins and i...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-138744

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