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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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Asimov, Isaac. Illustrated by Bernard Colonna

The Heavenly Host.

New York: Walker and Company, 1975.

First edition of Asimov’s classic juvenile science fiction adventure. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Bernard Colonna. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page,...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-142300

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Saramago, Jose

First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed and dated by Jose Saramago on the title page. Additionally signed twice by jacket designer Claudine...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-148275

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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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Powell, Anthony

The Military Philosophers.

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1968.

First edition of the ninth novel in the ‘A Dance to the Music of Time’ series. Octavo, original red cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Light rubbing to the extremities of the cloth an...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-145149

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Donleavy, J.P

The Ginger Man.

New York: McDowell, Obelensky, 1958.

First American edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the half-title page, “J.P. Donleavy Washington D.C. March 1994.” Fine in a near fin...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-3965

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Koestler, Arthur

Arrival and Departure.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1943.

First edition of the third novel in the author’s classic trilogy. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the month of publication on the half-title page, “El...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-5695

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McMurtry, Larry

Cadillac Jack.

New York : Simon and Schuster, 1982.

First edition of “the best novel Larry McMurtry ever wrote.” Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Larry McMurtry in full on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-150406

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Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]

Extract From Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1909.

First edition of the last work published by Twain during his lifetime with C-F on the copyright page. Octavo, original half cloth over pictorial boards, paper spine label, frontispiece in blue and whi...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-129139

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West, Nathanael

The Day of the Locust.

New York: Random House, 1939.

First edition of West’s masterpiece. Octavo, original bound in full leather, raised bands, title to the spine and front panel. In near fine condition.

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-140694

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Leonard, Elmore

Be Cool.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1999.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Elmore Leonard and inscribed on the dedication page by the book’s dedicatees, “for Hannah with all the bes...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-148374

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Wharton, Edith

Ethan Frome.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911.

First edition, first issue with “wearily” in perfect type on penultimate line of page 135 and with four pages of publisher’s advertisements at rear, of Wharton’s greatest tragic story, a “grim tale of...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-150097

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Dickens, Charles

Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi. Edited by “Boz.”

London: G. Routledge & Co, 1853.

Finely bound example of Dickens’ popular retelling of the memoirs of celebrated English clown Joseph Grimaldi. Octavo, bound in full crimson crushed levant morocco by Baytun with morocco spine l...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-119805

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Bellow, Saul

Mr. Sammler’s Planet.

New York: The Viking Press, 1970.

First edition of the author’s third and final National Book Award-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Saul Bellow on the title page. Review copy, with the slip laid in, fine in...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-184

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LORD BYRON. [GEORGE GORDON BYRON]

Poems.

London: Printed for John Murray, 1816.

First edition of this collection of poems and verses. Octavo, bound in contemporary half morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine. In near fine condition.

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-89120

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Saramago, Jose

The Double.

Orlando: Harcourt, 2004.

First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Valerie Jose Saramago 29.10.2008....

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-149868

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Roberts, Lord Frederick Sleigh

Forty-One Years in India: From Subaltern to Commander in Chief.

London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1898.

First edition of Commander-in-Chief of the British Army Lord Robert’s memoirs. Octavo, 2 volumes bound in full vellum with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt and gilt tooling to the spines, d...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-111058

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Greene, Graham

The End of the Affair.

London: William Heinemann, 1951.

First edition of the Graham Greene novel William Faulkner called, “one of the best, most true and moving novels of my time, in anybody’s language.” Octavo, original cloth. Near fine...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-148710

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Sondheim, Stephen; James Lapine; Illustrated by Hudson Talbott

Into The Woods.

New York: Crown Publishers, 1989.

First edition of this classic work, basis for the Broadway musical and later film. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page,...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-131386

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Evanier, Mark [Charles M. Schulz; Chip Kidd]

The Essential Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz: The Greatest Comic Strip of All Time.

New York: Abrams ComicArts, 2025.

Signed limited first edition of this landmark deluxe anniversary volume celebrating the seventy-fifth anniversary of Peanuts. Rectangular quarto, pictorial boards and endpapers, illustrated with over...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-152047

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