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Zara’s Tales: Perilous Escapades in Equatorial Africa.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.

First edition of this classic photobook. Octavo, original boards, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed and with his writing and handprint on the front jacket panel, his writi...

$800.00 Item Number: RRB-150129

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Vassilikos, Vassilis

Z.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968.

First American edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original black cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Matthew with my love, Vassilis...

$800.00 Item Number: RRB-44632

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Milosz, Czeslaw

Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1968.

First edition of the re-issue of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Czeslaw Milosz on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacke...

$800.00 Item Number: RRB-142086

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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 near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by To...

$800.00 Item Number: RRB-146204

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Didion, Joan

South and West: From A Notebook.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.

First edition of this collection of writings from the acclaimed author of Slouching Towards Bethlehem. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Joan Didion. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacke...

$800.00 Item Number: RRB-144137

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Baldwin, James

The Fire Next Time.

New York: The Dial Press, 1963.

First edition of one of the most influential works on race relations published in the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing to the extremit...

$800.00 Item Number: RRB-124915

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France, Anatole; Sylvain Sauvage [Illustrator]

The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1937.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of Anatole France’s first novel. Quarto, bound in full modern morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe / Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles to the spine in...

$800.00 Item Number: RRB-148552

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Waugh, Evelyn

Decline and Fall.

London: Chapman & Hall, 1931.

Pocket edition of Waugh’s first published novel. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, illustrated, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt b...

$800.00 Item Number: RRB-147545

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Kelland, Clarence Budington; Music by Frank R. Denke; [Herbert Hoover]

The Cosmic Jest: A Grove Play.

San Francisco: Bohemian Club, 1949.

First edition of this Bohemian Club Grove play. Octavo, original half cloth with pictorial boards, printed with music by Frank R. Denke. Boldly signed by Herbert Hoover and the author, Clarence Buding...

$800.00 Item Number: RRB-146694

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Kipling, Rudyard

Barrack-Room Ballads, Departmental Duties, and The Seven Seas.

London: Methuen and Co. and George Newnes, 1899.

Finely bound early printings of Kipling’s collections of songs and poems regarding the late-Victorian British Army and voyages on the high seas. Octavo, three volumes, bound in three quarters mo...

$800.00 Item Number: RRB-96168

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Monroe, Anne Shannon

Singing in the Rain: Essays for Thoughtful People.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc, 1930.

First edition of this collection of the author’s popular articles on beautiful living. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. Presentation copy, inscribed by the a...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-115861

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Redford, Robert [F. Scott Fitzgerald]

1974 GQ: Gentlemen’s Quarterly “Gatsby Flair” with Robert Redford Cover Illustration.

New York: Gentlemen's Quarterly, 1974.

Rare March 1974 Gentlemen’s Quarterly “Gatsby Flair” issue with the cover illustration of Robert Redford in a pink Ralph Lauren suit leaning against a yellow Rolls Royce. The issue f...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-149111

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Maugham, W. Somerset

Cosmopolitans.

London: William Heinemann LTD, 1936.

Signed limited edition of this collection of short stories, originally published in Cosmopolitan Magazine during the 1920s Jazz Age. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the sp...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-150498

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Bussard, Paul

The Sacrifice.

Saint Paul: The Leaflet Missal, 1939.

First edition of this liturgical work. Octavo, original wrappers. In good condition. Rare.

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-147011

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel; Carl Strauss [Illustrator]

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

Zurich: Fretz Brothers, 1931.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of Hawthorne’s last major work of fiction. Octavo, two volumes, bound in full modern morocco with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within r...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-148391

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Conroy, Pat

The Great Santini.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976.

First edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed and dated by the author on the half-title page, “To Virginia Norwood, Merry Christmas to B...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-117671

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Smith, Betty

Maggie-Now.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1958.

First edition of this unforgettable masterpiece from one of the twentieth century’s greatest talents and author of A Tree Grows In Brooklyn. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Betty Smith...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-150549

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Kipling, Rudyard

Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1912.

First limited edition De Luxe of the definitive collection of Kipling’s verse. Royal octavo, bound in full limp vellum with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel, top edge gilt, d...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-150966

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Straub, Peter

Ghost Story.

New York: Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1979.

First edition of this classic novel, the basis for the 1981 film directed by John Irvin – widely regarded as Peter Straub’s masterpiece and one of the foundational works of the modern Amer...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-152000

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Douglas, Norman

South Wind.

London: Martin Secker, 1917.

First edition of the author’s classic work based on the island of Capri. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise case.

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-142093

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Grass, Gunter

Dog Years.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1965.

First British edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s third and final novel in his acclaimed Danzig Trilogy. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed and dated in the year of publication by Gun...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-145663

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Collins, Billy

The Art of Drowning.

Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995.

First edition of this early work by Collins. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Stephen whose poetry rocks. Billy.” The recipient Step...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-104532

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Sedaris, David

Naked.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1997.

First edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Annette So sorry I missed you in p...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-151628

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Flaubert, Gustave

Oeuvres Completes Illustrees de Gustave Flaubert.

Paris: Librairie de France, 1922-1924.

The Edition du Centenaire of the complete illustrated works of Gustave Flaubert. Quarto, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-137205

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