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The Festival of Insignificance: A Novel.

New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2015.

First edition of Kundera’s eleventh fictional work. Octavo, original boards. Inscribed and dated by Milan Kundera in the the year of publication. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Translated from the...

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-26003

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Diamant, Anita

The Red Tent.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.

First edition, later printing of this historical reimagining of the biblical story of Dinah. Octavo, original half-cloth. Boldly signed by Anita Diamant on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket....

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-148513

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Geoffrion, Alan [Robert Duvall, Scott Cooper, Olivia Cheng]

Broken Trail.

Golden, Colorodo: Fulcrum, .

First edition of the paperback original. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by Alan Geoffrion on the title page, additionally signed by Scott Cooper and Olivia Cheng a...

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-117349

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Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

One Hundred Years of Solitude.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1970.

First English edition of the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Toni Evora.

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-137048

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Falconer, Ian

Olivia.

New York: Atheneum Books, 2000.

First edition, early printing of the author’s first book. Quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, ” To He...

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-140970

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Weegee

Weegee by Weegee: An Autobiography.

New York: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1961.

First edition of the famed photographer’s autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Frances...

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-2292

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Waugh, Evelyn

Brideshead Revisited.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1946.

First American trade edition of Waugh’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket drawing by Lester M. Peterson.

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-124337

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Vidal, Gore

Burr.

New York : Random House, 1973.

First edition of this classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “Valerie — love — Gore.” The recipient, Valerie G...

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-126791

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Lowell, Robert

History.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Charles Skaggs. Housed in a custom half morocco slip...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-143031

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Sophocles. With a new translation by EF Walting [Raymond Chandler]

The Theban Plays.

Great Britain: Penguin Books, 1947.

First Penguin Classics edition of the thrilling trilogy about the fate of the royal family Thebes. 16mo, original wrappers. From the library of Raymond Chandler with his library stamp to the front fre...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-149033

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Geisel, Theodor Seuss. [Dr. Seuss]

Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories.

New York: Random House, 1958.

First edition, first printing of this collection of three of Seuss’s most memorable tales with the 1950, 1951 and 1958 copyright dates. In a first issue dust jacket with thumbnails of fourteen p...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-149502

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Browning, Robert

Dramatis Personae.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1864.

First edition of Browning’s popular poetry collection. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition. Ownership inscription. Small chip to the front free endpaper. With a note from H. Sotheran...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-124109

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Flagg, Fannie

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe.

New York: Random House, 1987.

First edition of this classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Jerry Ann Fannie Flagg.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Ja...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-125782

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Vidal, Gore

1876: A Novel.

New York : Random House, 1976.

First edition of this classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the “Kit love Gore.” The recipient, Katherine “Kit” Vidal was Eugene Vidal’s secon...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-131323

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Sackler, Howard. [Jack Johnson]

The Great White Hope: A Play.

New York: The Dial Press, Inc, 1968.

First edition of the author’s Pulitzer and Tony award-winning play based on the career of heavyweight champion Jack Johnson, basis for the 1970 film. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, i...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-140735

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Mead, Margaret

From the South Seas: Studies of Adolescence and Sex in Primitive Societies.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1939.

First edition, third printing of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Hardin S. Rarny Margaret Mead May 6, 1946....

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-143499

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LE CARRÉ, John

John le Carré Annotated Page From The Constant Gardener.

:, November 12, 2020.

Rare annotated page from the author’s classic spy thriller. Octavo, one page on the first page of Chapter 19 of ‘The Constant Gardener,’ annotated by the author around the chapter he...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-146559

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Roberts, Kenneth

Kenneth Roberts Signed Letter Collection.

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Collection of typed letters signed by American author Kenneth Roberts. The collection includes two typed letters signed by Roberts and addressed to Malcolm Decker dated May 21, 1937 and May 16, 1946....

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-114028

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Tolstoy, Leo

What Shall We Do?

London: The Free Age Press, n.d..

The Free Age Press edition of Tolstoy’s critique of social conditions in Russia. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition. Rare.

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-127628

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Causley, Charles

Farewell, Aggie Weston.

Aldington: The Hand and Flower Press, 1951.

First edition of Causley’s first collection of poems. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “for Philip Abrams from Charles Causley Novem...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-128138

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Rowling, J.K

Harry Potter and the Goblet Of Fire.

London: Bloombsbury, 2000.

First edition of Rowling’s fourth book in the Harry Potter series. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Cover illustration by Giles Greenfield. Cover design by Richard Horn...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-152071

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Bolano, Roberto

The Savage Detectives.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.

First edition of this modern classic, which was named one of the New York Times’ 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by the translator Natasha Wimmer on the...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-146485

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Towles, Amor

A Gentleman In Moscow.

New York: Viking, 2016.

First edition of the New York Times bestselling author’s second novel. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Amor Towles on the title page and with his custom-designed stamp of the Kremlin o...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-149445

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Ruskin, John. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham

The King of the Golden River.

London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1932.

Signed limited edition. Octavo, original limp vellum, gilt titles and decoration to front cover, illustrated endpapers, top edge gilt, color frontispiece and three plates, illustrations in the text, a...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-117643

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