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    Stalky & Co.

    Kipling, Rudyard

    Stalky & Co.

    London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd, 1899.

    First British edition of Kipling’s collection of school stories. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and gilt medallion displaying an elephant to the from panel, top edge gilt....
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    $850.00 Item Number: RRB-96106
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    Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage.

    Murakami, Haruki

    Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.

    First edition of this “piercing and compact story about friendship and loneliness” (St. Louis Dispatch). Octavo, original boards. Signed by Haruki Murakami on the half-title page and three times...
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    $850.00 Item Number: RRB-123828
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    Imperial Bedrooms.

    Ellis, Bret Easton

    Imperial Bedrooms.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.

    First edition of the sequel to Easton’s bestselling literary debut, Less Than Zero. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Megh...
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    $850.00 Item Number: RRB-151202
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    The Naïve and Sentimental Lover.

    Le Carre, John

    The Naïve and Sentimental Lover.

    London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1971.

    First edition of le Carré’s classic sixth novel. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by John le Carre on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Tony Geddes.
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    $850.00 Item Number: RRB-136318
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    The Mandelbaum Gate.

    Spark, Muriel

    The Mandelbaum Gate.

    London: Macmillan, 1965.

    First edition of this classic novel by Spark. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Muriel Spark on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light toning.
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    $850.00 Item Number: RRB-57014
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    Behold The Bridegroom.

    Kelly, George [Raymond Chandler]

    Behold The Bridegroom.

    New York: Samuel French, 1927.

    First French Standard Library Edition of this three-act play written by George Kelly in 1927. Octavo, original publisher’s wrappers. Raymond Chandler ownership stamp on the front cover page. In...
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    $850.00 Item Number: RRB-149063
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    Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties.

    Isherwood, Christopher

    Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties.

    London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1938.

    First edition of Isherwood’s semi-autobiographical novel about bohemian London in the 1920s. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom full morocco clamshe...
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    $850.00 Item Number: RRB-104893
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    Selected Works of Anthony Trollope. [The Bertrams, The Macdermots of Ballycloran, Mary Gresley and An Editor’s Tales].

    Trollope, Anthony

    Selected Works of Anthony Trollope. [The Bertrams, The Macdermots of Ballycloran, Mary Gresley and An Editor’s Tales].

    London: Chapman and Hall, 1872.

    Finely bound collection of a selection of three of Trollope’s best-known works. Octavo, three volumes bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spin...
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    $850.00 Item Number: RRB-110524
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    Tales from Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales Done Into Prose by Eleanor Farjeon.

    Chaucer, Geoffrey. [Eleanor Farjeon]

    Tales from Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales Done Into Prose by Eleanor Farjeon.

    London: The Medici Society, 1930.

    First edition of Eleanor Farjeon’s modern adaptation of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raise...
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    $850.00 Item Number: RRB-119841
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    The Moon and Sixpence.

    Maugham, W. Somerset

    The Moon and Sixpence.

    New York: The Heritage Press, 1941.

    Finely bound Heritage Press illustrated edition of this classic novel. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised bands,...
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    $850.00 Item Number: RRB-148387
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    Direct Descent.

    Herbert, Frank

    Direct Descent.

    New York: Ace Books, 1980.

    First mass market edition of this standalone novella from the author of Dune. Octodecimo, original pictorial wrappers, with black and white illustrations throughout. Boldly signed by Frank Herbert on...
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    $850.00 Item Number: RRB-150240
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    Living.

    Green, Henry

    Living.

    London and Toronto: J.M. Dent & Sons LTD, 1929.

    First edition of this classic novel. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. In very good condition. With a note laid in from Heywood Hill Booksellers saying this is the first first edition copy the...
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    $850.00 Item Number: RRB-150733
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    The Right Stuff.

    Wolfe, Tom

    The Right Stuff.

    New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1979.

    First edition of Wolfe’s classic work. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with titles to the spine in silver. Boldly signed by Tom Wolfe on the second front free endpaper. Very good in a v...
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    $850.00 Item Number: RRB-152105
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    The Triumph of Achilles.

    Gluck, Louise

    The Triumph of Achilles.

    New York: The Ecco Press, 1985.

    First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s classic work, her most anthologized. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Louise Glück on the title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped...
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    $850.00 Item Number: RRB-137436
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    Alexis Zorba ou le Rivage de Crete [Zorba The Greek].

    Kazantzakis, Nikos [Kazantzaki]

    Alexis Zorba ou le Rivage de Crete [Zorba The Greek].

    Paris: Editions Du Chene, 1947.

    First French edition of Zorba the Greek, published one year after the first Greek edition and six years prior to the first English translation. Octavo, original wrappers. Kazantzakis traveled to Paris...
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    $850.00 Item Number: RRB-4634
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    The Thin Red Line.

    Jones, James

    The Thin Red Line.

    New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1962.

    First edition of Jones’classic sequel to his first novel, From Here to Eternity. Octavo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, blind...
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    $850.00 Item Number: RRB-149839
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    Beau Geste [with] P.C. Wren Typed Letter Signed.

    Wren, Percival Christopher [P.C.}

    Beau Geste [with] P.C. Wren Typed Letter Signed.

    London: John Murray, 1927.

    First limited edition of this classic adventure novel. Octavo, original publisher’s half-cloth with paper spine label, top edge gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece of the author, illustrated throu...
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    $850.00 Item Number: RRB-148591
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    Giant.

    Ferber, Edna

    Giant.

    Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1952.

    First edition of this “powerful story…truly as big as its subject” (Los Angeles Times). Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Edna Ferber.  Near fine in an excellent dust jacket with lig...
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    $850.00 Item Number: RRB-114531
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    House of Light.

    Oliver, Mary

    House of Light.

    Boston: Beacon Press, 1990.

    First edition of this work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Cover design by Dede Cummings. Rare.
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    $850.00 Item Number: RRB-146866
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    The Phantom Blooper: A Novel of Vietnam.

    Hasford, Gustav

    The Phantom Blooper: A Novel of Vietnam.

    New York: Bantam Books, 1990.

    First edition of the author’s sequel to The Short-Timers, basis for the film Full Metal Jacket. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper...
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    $850.00 Item Number: RRB-110439
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    Barrack-Room Ballads.

    Kipling, Rudyard

    Barrack-Room Ballads.

    :, 1892.

    Scarce unauthorized edition of perhaps Kipling’s most popular poetry collection. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition. This collection was so popular upon publication in 1892 it was...
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    $850.00 Item Number: RRB-120604
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    George Macdonald: An Anthology.

    Lewis, C.S

    George Macdonald: An Anthology.

    London: Geoffrey Bles: The Centenary Press, 1946.

    First edition of C.S. Lewis’ anthology of extracts from the sermons and writings of George Macdonald. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by...
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    $850.00 Item Number: RRB-132399
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    The Skin of Our Teeth: Play in Three Acts.

    Wilder, Thornton [Vivien Leigh]

    The Skin of Our Teeth: Play in Three Acts.

    New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1942.

    Early edition of this Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Octavo, original cloth and labels. Signed by actress Vivien Leigh on the front free endpaper. One of the most iconic actresses of the 20th century, k...
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    $850.00 Item Number: RRB-145370
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    From Early Life.

    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...
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    $850.00 Item Number: RRB-119505
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