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Fontaine, Jean de La; Edward Marsh [Translator]; Stephen Gooden [Illustrator]

The Fables of Jean de La Fontaine.

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1931.

Signed limited edition of Jean de La Fontaine’s classic fables. Royal octavo, two volumes, bound in full vellum with gilt titles to the spine, tissue-guarded title page vignette, genuine deckled...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-148845

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Kipling, Rudyard

Abaft the Funnel.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1909.

First authorized edition of Kipling’s 1909 short story collection with the author’s note noting Dodge’s previously unauthorized edition “issued without my knowledge or sanction...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-122341

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Hayes, Billy with William Hoffer. [Oliver Stone]

Midnight Express.

New York: Thomas Congdon Books/E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1977.

First edition of Hayes’ classic true story of survival and escape. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Oliver Stone on the title page. Stone adapted the memoir into a screenplay for the 197...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-140323

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Halberstam, David

The Best and the Brightest.

New York: Random House, 1972.

First edition, early printing of the author’s magnum opus. Octavo, original blue cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Rik and Margaret with esteem and...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-144036

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Transtromer, Tomas; Translated by Robert Bly

First edition of the first work in English to be translated by the Nobel Prize-winning poet, one of only 1000 copies. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by both Thomas Tran...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-147497

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Walton, Izaak and Charles Cotton

The Complete Angler: Or, Contemplative Man’s Recreation, being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-ponds, Fish, and Fishing.

London: Henry Washbourne, 1842.

The Washbourne edition of this classic of English literature, being a reprint of the 5th Major edition and including a facsimile reproduction of title page of the first edition of 1653. Octavo, bound...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-149781

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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,...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-124119

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Le Clezio, J.M.G

Desert.

Paris: Gallimard, 1980.

First French edition of what many consider the author’s breakthrough novel. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by J.M.G. Le Clezio on the title page. In very good condition with some shelf wear a...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-5402

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Boccaccio, Giovanni

Il Filostrato, Poema.

Paris: Presso Franc. Ambr. Didot Il Miaggiore, 1789.

Eighteenth century edition of this marvelous narrative poem. Octavo, bound in three quarter contemporary brown calf over blue marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, marbled endpaper...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-146404

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Publius Vergilius Maro [Virgil]; Bruno Bramanti [Illustrator]; Giovanni Mardersteig [Printer]

The Georgics.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1952.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of Virgil’s classic didactic poem. Quarto, bound in full modern morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe / Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles and tooling to...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-148543

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel

The Marble Faun: or, the Romance of Monte Beni.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860.

First edition, first issue, with 16-page catalog dated March, 1860 inserted at rear of Volume one of Hawthorne’s last major work of fiction. Octavo, original cloth, 2 volumes. In near fine condition....

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-119422

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Schulz, Charles M

Happiness Is A Sad Song.

San Francisco: Determined Productions, 1967.

First edition of this wonderfully illustrated work from the creator of Peanuts. Small Octavo, original pictorial boards, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by Charles Schulz on the f...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-149115

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Porter, Katherine Anne

Ship of Fools.

Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1962.

First edition of this classic bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize-winner which dramatizes the rise of totalitarianism in the 1930s in a sweeping story of a transatlantic cruise featuring a cast of unfo...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-150622

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Wolfe, Tom

The Right Stuff.

New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1979.

First edition of Wolfe’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth with titles to the spine in silver. Presentation copy, lengthily and warmly inscribed by the author in the year of publication on t...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-151079

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The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches.

Cambridge: Printed by John Archdeacon, 1771.

Rare 18th century Book of Common Prayer. Small octavo, bound in full contemporary calf tie gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, double gilt ruing and cornerpieces to the...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-118145

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Christie, Agatha

The Mystery of the Blue Train.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1928.

First American edition of Christie’s classic work of detective fiction. Octavo, original publisher’s blue cloth. In good condition, loss to the front free endpaper. From the collection of...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-149992

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McMurtry, Larry

Terms of Endearment.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1975.

First edition of one of McMurtry’s best and most popular novels. Octavo, original half cloth Presentation copy, humorously inscribed by the author in a contemporary hand on the front free endpap...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-124903

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Doyle, Richard [John Maynard Keynes] [J.M.]

Manners and Customs of ye Englyshe.

London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., 1876.

Finely bound edition of this satirical collection of 40 humorous sketches and illustrations that parody mid-19th-century Victorian life, from the collection of British economist John Maynard Keynes. O...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-150643

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Milne, A. A. Decorations by Ernest Shepard

Now We Are Six.

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1960.

Finely bound example of the third book in Milne’s beloved Pooh series. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spine i...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-129436

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Proulx, Annie; Larry McMurtry; Diana Ossana

Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay.

New York: Scribner, 2005.

First Scribner trade edition of this collection of essays on the process of adapting the critically acclaimed story for film, signed by all three contributors. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Larry...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-139493

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Kierkegaard, Søren. Translated by A. S. Aldworth & W. S. Ferrie

Consider The Lilies: Being the Second part of “Edifying Discourses in a Different Vein”, published in 1847 at Copenhagen, by S. Kierkegaard.

London: The C. W. Daniel Company, Ltd., 1940.

First English edition of the elaboration and conclusion of Kierkegaard’s important existential discourses of 1847. Octavo, original cloth. Translated from the Danish by A. S. Aldworth & W. S...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-144009

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Warren, Robert Penn

Blackberry Winter: A Story Illustrated by Wightman Williams.

Cummington, Massachusetts: The Cummington Press, July 1946.

Signed limited edition of the author’s highly acclaimed short story. Octavo, original publisher’s quarter leather over paper-covered boards, illustrated by Wightman Williams. One of three...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-144817

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Eliot, George

Felix Holt: The Radical.

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1866.

First editions of this classic work. Octavo, 3 volumes, original cloth, half-title to each volume, 4 pp publisher’s ads at rear of volume 3. Publisher’s orange-brown cloth, spines lettered...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-148184

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Colette, Sidonie-Gabrielle

Les Quatre Claudine.

Paris: Pierre de Tartas, 1972-73.

Deluxe illustrated edition of Colette’s four Claudine books with the original lithographic frontispiece portrait by Jean Cocteau. Quartos, 4 volumes, bound in full gilt-decorated pebbled morocco...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-94691

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Rare & Classic, American or English Literature Books for Sale Online

The Fables of Jean de La Fontaine.

Abaft the Funnel.

Midnight Express.

The Best and the Brightest.

Twenty Poems.

The Complete Angler: Or, Contemplative Man’s Recreation, being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-ponds, Fish, and Fishing.

Letters of Marque.

Desert.

Il Filostrato, Poema.

The Georgics.

The Marble Faun: or, the Romance of Monte Beni.

Happiness Is A Sad Song.

Ship of Fools.

The Right Stuff.

The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches.

The Mystery of the Blue Train.

Terms of Endearment.

Manners and Customs of ye Englyshe.

Now We Are Six.

Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay.

Consider The Lilies: Being the Second part of “Edifying Discourses in a Different Vein”, published in 1847 at Copenhagen, by S. Kierkegaard.

Blackberry Winter: A Story Illustrated by Wightman Williams.

Felix Holt: The Radical.

Les Quatre Claudine.