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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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Follett, Ken

Lie Down With Lions.

New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc, 1986.

First edition of Follett’s riveting New York Times Best Seller. Octavo, original half-cloth, cartographic endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-142243

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Thigpen, Corbett H.; Hervey M. Cleckley

The Three Faces of Eve.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1957.

Special edition of this classic work, basis for the 1957 Academy Award-winning film starring Joanne Woodward. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed and inscribed by both authors on the front free endpap...

$550.00 Item Number: RRB-150283

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Hazlitt, W. Carew. [William Hazlitt]

Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of His Correspondence.

London: Richard Bentley, 1867.

First edition of W. Carew Hazlitt’s authoritative biography of his grandfather, great English critic and philosopher William Hazlitt. Octavo, two volumes, original cloth with gilt titles to the...

$550.00 Item Number: RRB-124128

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Baldwin, James

The Fire Next Time.

New York: The Dial Press, 1963.

First edition of one of the most influential works on race relations published in the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. Jacket ph...

$550.00 Item Number: RRB-146299

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James, Henry

The Other House.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1896.

First American edition of this terse and startling novel, written just before The Spoils of Poynton and What Maisie Knew, is the story of a struggle for possession—and of its devastating consequences....

$550.00 Item Number: RRB-80007

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Malamud, Bernard

A New Life.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1961.

First edition of Malamud’s third novel. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Susie and Paul, Old friends, Everything good Bern...

$550.00 Item Number: RRB-100098

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Bellow, Saul

To Jerusalem and Back: A Personal Account.

New York: The Viking Press, 1976.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s account of his journey to Jerusalem. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the y...

$550.00 Item Number: RRB-86448

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Frost, Robert

A Masque of Reason.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1945.

First edition of this work by Frost. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Robert Frost to Samuel Plotkin.” Near fine in a near fi...

$550.00 Item Number: RRB-97478

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Naipaul, V.S

A House For Mr. Biswas

New York: Everyman's Library/ Knopf, 1995.

First edition of the Everyman’s Library of the author’s most well-known work. Octavo, original red cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by V.S. Naipaul on the title page.

$550.00 Item Number: RRB-2188

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Trilling, Lionel

The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society.

New York: The Viking Press, 1950.

First edition of one of the influential works of criticism published in the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication, “To...

$550.00 Item Number: RRB-22071

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