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Dark Green, Bright Red.

New York : E.P. Dutton & Company, 1950.

First edition of this “[w]ell-written work” (Kirkus). Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Valerie from Gore, June 1954.” The reci...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-126599

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Vargas Llosa, Mario

The Green House.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1968.

First edition of the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original green cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To John Mario Vargas Llosa.” Near fine in...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-144690

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West, Rebecca

The Fountain Overflows.

New York: The Viking Press, 1956.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “My love to Beatrice and Bruce- who first gave the Fountain...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-145967

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Powell, Anthony

At Lady Molly’s.

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1957.

First edition of this classic work in the author’s ‘Dance to the Music of Time’ series. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Broom-Lynne. Housed i...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-145804

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Anspacher, Louis K

Anspacher

New York: Brentano's, 1904.

Rare signed limited edition of the author’s adaptation of the great chivalric romance. Octavo, original boards. One of one hundred copies printed on Imperial Japanese vellum, this is number 93....

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-115508

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Davies, Valentine; Tomie dePaola [Illustrator]

Miracle On 34th Street.

San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984.

First illustrated edition of this modern Christmas classic with paintings by beloved illustrator Tomie dePaola. Square octavo, original publisher’s red cloth with titles to the spine and front p...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-149046

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Remington, Frederic

Pony Tracks.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1895.

First edition of Remington’s first book. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated throughout after Frederic Remington, including frontispiece with tissue-guard. In very good condition, bookplate. How...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-125652

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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 to his cousins, “For Min and Marshall, In appreciation...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-119682

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Wilde, Oscar

Impressions of America.

Sunderland: Keystone Press, 1906.

First edition of Wilde’s report on his lecture tour throughout America in 1882. Octavo, original stiff paper wrappers. One of fifty numbered copies, this is number 24. Very good with the majorit...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-140212

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Schenkkan, Robert

The Kentucky Cycle.

New York: Plume Books, 1993.

First edition of this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, lenghtily inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Adrienne Rogers, ‘R...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-144531

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Seton, Grace Thompson

Chinese Lanterns.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1924.

Early printing of Grace Thompson Seton’s work on Chinese lanterns. Octavo, original illustrated cloth, illustrated with photographs, many taken by the author. Inscribed by the author on the fron...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-96116

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Asimov, Isaac

Murder at the ABA: A Puzzle in Four Days and Sixty Scenes.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1976.

First edition of Asimov’s wonderfully woven, old-fashioned murder mystery. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Stephen Isaac Asim...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-142352

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Priestley, J.B. [Raymond Chandler]

The Plays of J.B. Priestley: Volume III.

London: William Heinemann, 1950.

First edition of Priestley’s works on realism with elements of psychological insight and social critique. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. From the library of Raymond Chandler with his...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-149027

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Baker, Dorothy

Young Man with a Horn.

Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938.

First edition of this novel, which was the basis for the classic 1950 American film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day, Hoagy Carmichael, and Juano Hernande...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-140685

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Hardy, Thomas; Clare Leighton [Illustrator]

The Return of the Native.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1929.

Macmillan signed limited edition of Hardy’s sixth published novel. Octavo, bound in half vellum over boards with gilt titles to the spine, top edge gilt, frontispiece, with black and white woodcut ill...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-148848

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McInerney, Jay [Chip Kidd]

A Hedonist in the Cellar: Adventures in Wine.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.

First edition of this entertaining, irresistible book that is essential for anyone enthralled by the myriad pleasures of wine. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Jay McInerney on the title page...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-149798

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Harrison, Jim

Dead Man’s Float.

Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press, 2016.

First limited edition of Harrison’s last published work. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with the title stamped in blind on the front panel. One of 150 numbered copies, this is number 3...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-150162

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Tolstoy, Leo

The Christian Teaching.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1898.

First American edition of Tolstoy’s work the history and influence of Christianity, inspired by his own spiritual awakening. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel,...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-124255

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Vidal, Gore

The Second American Revolution and Other Essays (1976-1982).

New York: Random House, 1982.

First edition of this collection of essays. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “Kit all love Gore Vidal.” The recipient, Katherine...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-125211

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Wilder, Thornton

The Ides of March.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1948.

First edition of this classic work of historical fiction. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page in the year of publication, “To Mrs. Chapman with t...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-132599

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Fermor, Patrick Leigh

Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece.

London: John Murray, 1966.

First edition of the author’s travelogue companion piece to Mani. Octavo, original cloth, a map, and illustrated with black and white photographs. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jac...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-150828

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Brown, Ivor [H.G. Wells]

H.G. Wells.

London: Nisbet & Co. LTD., 1923.

First edition of Ivor Brown’s early critical biography of H.G. Wells, offering contemporary assessment of the author’s life and literary influence. Octodecimo, original publisher’s cloth, photograph o...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-151160

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Hardy, Thomas

Jude the Obscure.

London: Osgood, McIlvane and Co, 1896.

First edition, early printing of the last completed novel by Hardy. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, gilt tooling to the front panel, top edge gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece, m...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-148577

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Coetzee, J.M

Dusklands.

London: Penguin Press, 1982.

First paperback edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s first book. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Ken Hubner with best w...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-129678

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