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Life in the Tomb.

Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1977.

First edition in English of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the translator on the half-title page, “To A. Roger Well until tomorrow then,...

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-124581

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Matthiessen, Peter

Race Rock.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1954.

First edition of the National Book Award-winning author’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Peter Matthiessen on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rear jac...

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-151063

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Vidal, Gore

Washington, D.C.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1967.

First edition of the final volume in Vidal’s Narratives of Empire, his acclaimed six-volume series of historical novels about the American past. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscrib...

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-125449

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Schulberg, Budd and Elia Kazan

On the Waterfront Final Shooting Script

Hollywood and New York: Samuel French, 1980.

Signed limited first edition of this classic Academy Award–winning screenplay, one of only 300 copies, this is number 82. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by Budd Schulberg and Elia Kazan....

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-135323

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Butler, Samuel

The Way of All Flesh.

London: Grant Richards, 1903.

First edition of Butler’s semi-autobiographical Bildungsroman. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell and chemise box.

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-110721

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Russo, Joseph Louis. [John Steinbeck; Elaine Steinbeck]

Present Day Italian.

Boston: D.C. Heath and Company, 1947.

First edition of Joseph Louis Russo’s Present Day Italian, from the library of John and Elaine Steinbeck with Elaine’s ownership signature and marginal notes throughout. In very good condi...

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-114534

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Select Poetry: Chiefly on Subjects Connected with Religion. [Fore-Edge Painting].

London: R. B. Seeley, 1830.

Finely bound poetry collection decorated with a concealed fore-edge painting. 18mo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt fleuron cornerpieces to the front and rear pan...

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-142387

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McCarthy, Mary

Birds of America.

New York: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, 1971.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Harlan Umansky my thanks, Mary McCarthy November 5, 1984.” Nea...

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-142315

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Williams, Tennessee

Cat On A Hot Tin Roof.

New York: New Directions, 1955.

First edition, first issue of one of Williams’s best-known works and his personal favorite. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Alvin Lustig.

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-147041

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Schwimmer, Rosika [Eleanor Roosevelt]

Tisza Tales.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc, 1928.

First edition of this enchanting work of Hungarian folklore. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles and detailing to the spine and front panel, pictorial endpapers, frontispiece wit...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-147722

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Kidd, Chip; Dave Taylor

Batman: Death by Design.

Burbank, California: DC Comics, 2012.

First edition of this graphic novel following the Dark Knight as he investigates a string of deadly “accidents” and architectural sabotage hindering a massive construction renaissance in G...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-151986

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Koppelman, Amy. [Joan Didion]

Hesitation Wounds: A Novel.

New York: The Overlook Press, 2015.

First edition of the author’s third book. Octavo, original half cloth. With an autograph note signed by the author tipped in which reads in full, “Dear Ms. Didion, You probably won’t...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-141063

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Roth, Philip

Prague Orgy.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1985.

First edition of this novella by the Pulitzer-Prize winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Philip Roth on the title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Lil...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-12005

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Jones, Edward P

The Known World.

New York: HarperCollins, 2003.

First edition of this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, which was named one of the New York Times’ 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Edward P. Jones...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-146333

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Aronofsky, Darren and Selby, Jr., Hubert Selby [Jared Leto]

Requiem For A Dream.

London: Faber and Faber, 2000.

First edition of the screenplay of this 2000 classic film directed by Darren Aronofsky, starring Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans and Ellen Burstyn. Octavo, illustrated wrappers. Boldly si...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-147710

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Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Uncle Tom’s Cabin: or, Life Among the Lowly.

New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1879.

Early edition of Stowe’s enormously influential work, widely considered the book that precipitated the American Civil War. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers with advertisements to the versos o...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-148642

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Christie, Agatha

The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side.

London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1962.

First edition of this classic Miss Marple murder mystery novel. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket. From the collection of Dr. John Talbot Gernon with his r...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-149985

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Maupassant, Guy De

Bel-Ami.

New York: The Heritage Press, 1968.

First edition of the Heritage Press edition of this classic work. Quarto, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands. illustrations by Bern...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-142808

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Goldman, William

Which Lie Did I Tell You? More Adventures in the Screen Trade.

New York: Pantheon Books, 2000.

First edition of the sequel to Adventures in the Screen Trade. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by William Goldman on the half-title page to George Christy, former reviewer an...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-15073

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Cooper, Susan

The Grey King.

New York: Atheneum, 1975.

First edition of the the fourth volume in the author’s acclaimed “Dark Is Rising” series and Newberry award winning novel. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, ins...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-146165

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Pamuk, Orhan

Snow.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.

First American edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Orhan Pamuk on the title page and three times by dust jacket designer Chip Kidd (on the title page, rear jacket flap...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-119589

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Kipling, Rudyard

The Day’s Work.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1914.

The Bombay edition of this collection of 13 Kipling short stories mainly written between 1893 and 1896 while Kipling was living in Vermont. Octavo, bound in three-quarters morocco over cloth covered b...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-151116

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Cruikshank, George

George Cruikshank’s Omnibus.

London: Tilt and Bogue, 1842.

First edition of George Cruikshank‘s Omnibus. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Riviere & Son with elaborate gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, tripl...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-133420

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Marshall, Paule

Soul Clap Hands and Sing.

New York: Atheneum, 1961.

First edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by the author in the year of publication, “Paule Marshall Dec. 1961.” Fine in a near fine dust...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-144354

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