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Soul Mountain.

New York: Harper Collins, 2000.

First edition in English of the author’s magnum opus, which led to him winning the Nobel Prize in literature in 2000. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on t...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-150599

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Morrison, Toni

Jazz.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.

First edition of the author’s classic sixth novel. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Toni Morrison on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by R.D. Scudellari...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-139772

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Naipaul, V.S

A House For Mr. Biswas.

London: Andre Deutsch, 1961.

First edition of the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a good dust jacket with chips and wear. Jacket design by Stephen Russ.

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-146208

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Ghosh, Amitav

The Circle of Reason.

New York: Viking, 1986.

First edition of the author’s classic first novel. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth. Boldly signed by Amitav Ghosh on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Ne...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-149436

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Grogan, Emmett. [Peter Coyote]

Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1972.

First edition of “the best and only authentic book written on the sixties underground” (Dennis Hopper). Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Peter Coyote on the half-title page....

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-151075

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Ball, John

In The Heat of The Night.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1965.

First edition of the author’s classic mystery drama which was adapted into the Academy Award-winning film of the same name starring Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger and Lee Grant. Octavo, original ha...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-151369

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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 Paule Marshall on the title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Susan...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-129197

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Cheever, John

The Wapshot Scandal.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1964.

First edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Anita Scott.

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-142313

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Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Dearly Beloved.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1962.

First edition of the author’s classic bestselling novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author, “For Ruth with love from Anne May, 1962.” The recipient,...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-48732

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Hardy, Thomas

Selected Poems of Thomas Hardy.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1924.

Finley bound early printing of the Golden Treasury Series Selected Poems of Thomas Hardy. Small octavo, bound in full crushed crimson levant morocco by Bayntun with gilt titles and tooling to the spin...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-118019

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Christie, Agatha

Cat Among the Pigeons.

London: Collins Crime Club, 1959.

First edition of this classic novel by the Queen of crime. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-150695

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Follett, Ken [Erica Jong]

The Third Twin: A Novel.

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1996.

First edition of Follett’s New York Times bestseller. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half title page, “To Erica and Ken with love – Ke...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-142322

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Reich, Steve; Edited by Paul Hillier

Writings on Music, 1965-2000.

New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

First edition of Reich’s collection of music from 1965-2000. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author, “For Peter Happy Birthday! Steve Reich.” Fine in a f...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-2220

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Hayes, J. Gordon

Antarctica: A Treatise on the Southern Continent.

London: The Richards Press, 1928.

First edition of Hayes’ seminal work on Antarctica. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated with plates after photographs, charts and maps, many folding. From the library of James Stephen “Steve” Fo...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-111268

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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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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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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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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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