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Ironweed.

New York: The Viking Press, 1983.

First edition of Kennedy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original half gray cloth. Signed by William Kennedy on the title page. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Nei...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-132767

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Malamud, Bernard

Rembrandt’s Hat.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973.

First edition of this collection of short stories by the author of The Natural. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publica...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-112873

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[Hemingway, Ernest; Gregory Peck; Susan Hayward; Ava Gardner]

Ernest Hemingway’s The Snows of Kilimanjaro Theatre Lobby Card Poster.

: 20th Century-Fox Film Corp., 1952.

Rare original lobby card poster for the 1952 film The Snows of Kilimanjaro produced exclusively for display in theatres. One page, printed in color, featuring a still from the film of Peck and Hawyard...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-124199

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Robinson, Edwin Arlington

Tristram.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927.

Signed limited edition of this popular Pulitzer prize-winning Arthurian narrative poem. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth, top edge gilt. One of three hundred and fifty copies signed by Ed...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-145430

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Baker, Carlos [Ernest Hemingway]

Hemingway: The Writer as Artist.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1952.

First edition of this work on Ernest Hemingway. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “Inscribed to Gibson Car...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-146140

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McMurtry, Larry

Cadillac Jack.

New York : Simon and Schuster, 1982.

First edition of “the best novel Larry McMurtry ever wrote.” Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Larry McMurtry. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by George Corsillo...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-147139

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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 on the title page in the year of publication, “For Friedel and P...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-114233

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Trollope, Anthony

The Macdermots of Ballycloran.

London: Chapman and Hall, nd.

Finely bound example of Trollope’s first published novel. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over pebbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, marbled endpapers. In very good c...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-115533

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Anthony, Evelyn

Evelyn Anthony First Edition Collection. Including: The Poellenberg Inheritance, The Persian Ransom, The Return, The Company of Saints, and Voices on the Wind.

London: Hutchinson, 1972-1985.

A fine collection of five first editions of Evelyn Anthony novels. Octavo, original cloth, 5 volumes. The collection includes: The Poellenberg Inheritance (1972), The Persian Ransom (1975), The Return...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-119088

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Kipling, Rudyard

Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine: The Light That Failed.

London: Ward, Lock, and Co., 1891.

The January 1891 issue of Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine containing the first appearance of Kipling’s early novel, The Light That Failed. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition....

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-121480

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Theroux, Paul, [William Safire]

The London Embassy.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983.

First edition of the sequel to The Consul’s File. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For William Safire This is the companion volume...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-127355

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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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Kerouac, Jack

Vanity of Duluoz.

New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1968.

First edition of this classic work by the author of On the Road. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. An exceptional example, uncommon...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-132201

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Tarkington, Booth

Monsieur Beaucaire.

New York: McClure, Philips, 1900.

First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s second novel, basis for the classic 1946 film starring Bob Hope. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author, “A...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-137803

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Lindbergh, Charles A

We.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1927.

First edition of Lindbergh’s definitive autobiography. Octavo, original pictorial cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket and glassine.

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-112449

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Stone, Oliver

Nixon: An Oliver Stone Film.

New York: Hyperion, 1995.

First edition of the screenplay which was the basis for the work by the legendary director. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Boldly signed by Oliver Stone on the title page. In fine condition. E...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-133168

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