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Laughing Anne.

London: The Morland Press, 1923.

The Vine Books limited edition of this dramatic play about a former Parisian club singer struggling in the South Seas. Octavo, bound in full parchment with gilt titles to the spine, top edge gilt, tit...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-151856

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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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Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan

The Yearling.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938.

First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing and wear, bookplate to the front pastedown.

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-53043

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Harriman Case, Margaret

This Vicious Circle: The Story of the Algonquin Round Table.

New York: Rinehart & Co. Inc, 1951.

First edition of the lively entertaining work of Harriman. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, inscription to the front free endpaper. Illustrated by A...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-149023

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Cooper, William

From Early Life.

London: Macmillan, 1990.

First edition of Cooper’s collection of early recollections. Octavo, original maroon cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page in the year of publication to Sally Soames...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-124537

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Dunning, John

Two O’Clock, Eastern Wartime.

New York: Scribner, 2001.

The Binder’s Copy of the author’s manuscript signed limited edition of John Dunning’s classic work, with two pages of the original typed manuscript tipped in and inscribed by the aut...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-142781

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Bellow, Saul

Dangling Man.

London: John Lehmann, 1946.

First British edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Saul Bellow on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with the lightest of wear. Jacket design by Rob...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-190

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Trollope, Anthony

The Claverings.

London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1867.

First edition of this work by Trollope. Octavo, two volumes, bound in half leather. In very good condition. With Sixteen Illustrations by M. Ellen Edwards.

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-110699

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Adam, Helen

Turn Again To Me and Other Poems.

New York: Kulchar Foundation, 1977.

First edition of the first book by Adam. Quarto, original boards. Boldly signed by the author on the front free endpaper, “All good wishes Helen Adam.” In near fine condition.

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-127711

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Bond, Michael

Paddington At Work.

London: Collins, 1966.

First edition of this early title in the author’s beloved Paddington series. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Peggy Fortnum. Boldly signed by Michael Bond on the front free endpaper. Near...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-152995

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Burroughs, William S

The Ticket That Exploded.

London: The Olympia Press, 1962.

First edition, first printing. Octavo, original green wrappers. Signed by William Burroughs on the title page. In fine condition. A superior example.

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-5719

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