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Captains Courageous. A Story of the Grand Banks.

London: Macmillan, 1897.

First edition of Kipling’s richly detailed tale of American deep-sea fishing, with frontispiece and 21 illustrations by I.W. Taber. Octavo, original blue cloth elegantly stamped in gilt. In near fine...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-144073

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Boswell, James

The Life of Samuel Johnson.

London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd, 1891.

Octavo, 6 volumes, bound in three quarters red morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, top edge gilt, illustrated with portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds. In near fine condition. An attractively...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-2542

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Voltaire [AROUET, Francois-Marie]

Candide.

New York: Hermitage House, 1949.

Hermitage House limited edition of Voltaire’s satirical masterpiece. Octavo, bound in full modern morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe / Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six com...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-148560

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Heller, Joseph

We Bombed In New Haven.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967.

First edition of Heller’s classic first play. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Bob Thomas To help complete your collection...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-115898

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Herbert, Frank

The Illustrated Dune.

New York: Berkley Publishing Corporation, 1978.

First illustrated edition of the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers, fully illustrated by John Schoenherr. In near fine condition, bookplate to the verso of the front pa...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-150361

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Twain, Mark [Samuel Clemens] and Charles Dudley Warner

The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-Day.

Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1878.

Early printing of Twain and Dudley’s satirical work on greed and political corruption in post-Civil War America which has appeared in more than 100 editions since its original publication. Octav...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-127448

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Moore, Roger

Roger Moore As James Bond: Roger Moore’s Own Account of Filming Live and Let Die.

London: Pan Books, 1973.

First British edition of Moore’s diary regarding the making of Live and Let Die. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated. Boldly signed by Roger Moore on the title page. In near fine condit...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-133641

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Powell, Anthony

The Kindly Ones.

London: Heinemann, 1962.

First edition of this classic work in the author’s Dance to the Music of Time series. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by James Broom-Lynne. Housed in a cust...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-143029

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Furst, Alan

Night Soldiers: A Novel.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1988.

First edition of “one of the very best novels ever written about the inner world of Soviet intelligence” (Thomas Powers). Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers. Presentation...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-144298

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Isherwood, Christopher

Down There On a Visit.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961.

First edition of this novel from the author of Goodbye Berlin and what many consider his finest novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page,...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-110673

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Stein, Gertrude

Geography and Plays.

Boston: The Four Seas Company Publishers, 1922.

First edition of this work by the author of The Autobiography of Alice Toklas. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Joanna Graham f...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-118469

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Faulkner, William

Unvanquished.

New York: Random House, 1938.

First edition of this novel which tells the story of the Sartoris family, who first appeared in the novel Sartoris. Octavo, original cloth, top stained red, illustrated by Edward Shenton. Near fine in...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-147394

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Twain, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens]

Life on the Mississippi.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1883.

First edition, first issue of Twain’s provocative portrait of the great Mississippi River which preceded the first American edition. First issue with the publisher’s advertisements at rear...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-150454

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Yezierska, Anzia

Bread Givers: A Novel.

Doubleday, Page & Company: Garden City, NY, 1925.

Signed limited first edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. One of 500 examples signed by Anzia Yezierska. In very good condition.

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-125779

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Browning, Robert

Men and Women.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1855.

First edition of one of Browning’s finest collections, in the primary binding with pale cream-colored endpapers. Octavo, two volumes, original publisher’s olive green cloth stamped in blin...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-136291

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Farah, Naruddin

Sardines.

London: Allsion & Busby, 1981.

First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author, “To Greg: Always a pleasure: a friend, someone I admire. Stay well. Naruddin Farah Toronto 23 Oct 1998.” Fine in a near fine...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-4591

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Astaire, Fred

Steps In Time.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1959.

First edition. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated endpapers, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Paul- Fred.” Near fine in a near fine dus...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-148555

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Lee, Harper

To Kill A Mockingbird.

Philadelphia & New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1960.

First edition, ninth impression of one of the most important American novels of the 20th century which had an initial first printing of only 5,000 copies and went on to earn Harper Lee the 1961 Pulitz...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-151584

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Pinter, Harold

The Collection and the Lover.

London: Methuen and Co, 1963.

First edition of this classic work by the Nobel Prize-winning playwright. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco chemise and clamshell box. An ex...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-143521

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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. Warmly Inscribed by the author on the title page, “For George with my friendship, Vassilis Vassilikos....

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-1164

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Lewis, Sinclair

Cass Timberlane.

New York: Random House, 1945.

First edition of this work, basis for the 1947 classic film directed by George Sidney and starring Spencer Tracy, Lana Turner and Zachary Scott. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Sinclair Lewis...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-146020

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Spark, Muriel

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

London: Macmillan, 1961.

First edition of Muriel Sparks’ eighth and best-loved novel. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Victor Reinganum. An exceptional example.

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-116307

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Marias, Javier

Tu rostro mañana: 1 Fiebre y lanza.

Madrid: Alfaguara, 2002.

First Spanish edition and true first of the first novel in the author’s acclaimed trilogy. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed by Javier Marias on the title page. Near fine in a very g...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-138042

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Flaubert, Gustave

A Simple Heart.

Paris: Societe des Beaux Arts, n.d. [ca. 1895].

The limited Salon edition of Flaubert’s classic novella. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling with red morocco onlays to the spine...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-139337

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