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Baltasar and Blimunda.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1987.

Advanced reading copy of the first American edition of Saramago’s first book to be translated into English. Octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed and dated by the author on the title page,...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-133612

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[Steinbeck, John]

Two Russian Books From the Library of John Steinbeck.

Moscow: Various, c. 1960.

Two volumes in Russian from the library of American literary master John Steinbeck. Quarto, two volumes including a book of early Russian Orthodox paintings with many in color and a folio of loose pla...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-117588

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Steinbeck, John

Cannery Row.

New York: The Viking Press, 1945.

First edition, first state of this classic work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Dust jacket design by Arthur Hawkins, Jr....

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-151340

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Chaucer, Geoffrey

Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer.

London: George Bell and Sons, 1878.

Finely bound set of Chaucer’s poetical works. Small octavos, four volumes bound in three quarters morocco by Bayntun Bindery with gilt tooling to the spine and red morocco spine labels lettered...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-90435

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Greene, Graham

The Honorary Consul.

London: The Bodley Head Ltd, 1973.

First edition of one of Greene’s own favorite works. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gil...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-146489

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Faulkner, William

Knight’s Gambit.

New York: Random House, 1949.

First edition of this short story collection by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Review copy with the slip laid in, fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by E.McKnight...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-100822

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Adams, Henry

The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918.

First edition of this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, with the date of 1918 to the title page. Octavo, original cloth, gilt topstain. In near fine condition. First printings are scarce, especially in...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-119824

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Dickens, Charles

The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

London: Chapman & Hall, 1870.

First edition, bound from the original parts of Dickens’ final novel. Octavo, original bound in full calf, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, double gilt ruled to the front and rear panels...

$925.00 Item Number: RRB-131055

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Baum, L. Frank

The Lost Princess of Oz.

Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co, 1917.

First edition of the eleventh book in Baum’s celebrated Oz series. Quarto, original publisher’s light blue cloth with large pictorial paper onlay to the front panel (Bienvenue and Schmidt...

$900.00 Item Number: RRB-151940

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Bolano, Roberto [Natasha Wimmer; Charlotte Strick]

2666.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.

First edition of the author’s masterpiece published posthumously in English, which was named one of the New York Times’ 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated en...

$900.00 Item Number: RRB-148774

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Falconer, William

The Poetical Works: With a Fore-Edge Painting of a British Flagged Frigate. [Fore-Edge Painting].

London: William Pickering, 1836.

Octavo, bound in straight-grain full green morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, all edges gilt. With a fore-edge painting of a British-flagged three-masted frigate, sails full, with land on...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-52023

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Hemingway, Ernest; Mary Hemingway; Taylor Williams

Ernest Hemingway, Mary Hemingway, and Taylor Williams Photograph.

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Rare original black and white photograph of legendary American writer Ernest Hemingway. Black and white glossy photograph of Hemingway with his wife Mary and fishing guide Taylor Williams in front of...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-150098

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Heller, Joseph

Harbrace Handbook of English and The Random House Handbook.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1941.

Joseph Heller’s copies of The Handbook of English, with his signature. Octavo, 2 volumes, original boards. From the library of Joseph Heller.

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-3735

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Coetzee, J.M.] Jean-Pierre Durix

Commonwealth: Essays and Studies, J.M. Coetzee, Waiting For the Barbarians.

Dijon, France: Editions Universitaires De Dijon, 1992.

First edition of this collection of essays regarding the Nobel Prize-winning author’s classic Waiting For the Barbarians. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Association copy, inscribed by the...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-43010

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Dickens, Charles

Charles Dickens Gilt Bronze Relief Portrait.

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Original gilt bronze relief portrait of Charles Dickens. Framed. The entire piece measures 14.5 inches by 12 inches. In near fine condition. A unique example.

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-92795

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Aesop; Stephen Gooden [Illustrator]

Aesop’s Fables.

London: George G. Harrap and Company Ltd, 1936.

Signed limited edition of Aesop’s Fables. Royal octavo, bound in full vellum with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, gilt ruling and detailing to the f...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-148561

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Ghosh, Amitav

Ibis Trilogy: Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke, and Flood of Fire.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008-2015.

First American editions of this critically acclaimed trilogy. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the title page of each volume. River of Smoke is inscribed and da...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-149661

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Vizinczey, Stephen

In Praise of Older Women: The Amorous Recollections of András Vajda.

Toronto: Contemporary Canada Press, 1965.

First edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Richard Needham, hoping he’ll enjoy it...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-128915

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. [Fore-edge Painting].

London: George Routledge & Sons, 1877.

Finely bound example of the collected poetical works of Longfellow. Octavo, bound in full contemporary crushed levant morocco with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine and panels, morocco spine label l...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-138812

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[Rackham, Arthur]

Little Folks: A Magazine For Young People.

London: Cassell and Company Limited, 1899.

Finley bound collection in book form of stories and poems from Little Folks Magazine, featuring Arthur “Rackham’s 1st printed colour plate” (Riall, p. 212), Up a Tree, used as the fr...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-142843

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Gluck, Louise

Poems 1962-2012.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.

First edition of this collection of poems by the Nobel Prize-winning poet. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed Louise Gluck on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Gretchen...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-146120

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Plato; Eugene Karlin [Illustrator]

Dialogues On Love and Friendship: Lysis, or Friendship; The Symposium; Phaedrus.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1968.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of Plato’s dialogues on love and friendship. Octavo, bound in full modern morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-148529

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Bierce, Ambrose

The Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1967.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of this gothic novella. Quarto, bound in full modern morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe / Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles to the spine, all edges gilt, g...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-148686

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table.

Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1858.

First edition of the first book in the the series that gained Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. international fame. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles and four gilt rings to the spine a...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-119502

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