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I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997.

First edition of this powerful memoir. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on front free endpaper, “April 1998 For with all good wishes, Livia Bitton-Jackson....

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-105841

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Pamuk, Orhan

My Name Is Red.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.

Advanced reader’s edition of this “fabulously rich novel, highly compelling” (The Independent). Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed by Orhan Pamuk and twice by dust jacket...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-126789

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Twain, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens]

Punch, Brothers, Punch! And Other Sketches by Mark Twain.

New York: Slote, Woodman & Co., 1878.

First edition, second issue of Twain’s collection of short stories with the author’s name in facsimile autograph, undecorated cream end-papers, and second state scrap book illustration to...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-127364

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Maurois, Andre. [Lord Byron]

Byron.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1930.

First edition of Maurois’ appreciation of Byron. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt tooling to the spine, quadruple gilt ru...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-136270

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Ford, Richard

Independence Day.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.

First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the title page,...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-150635

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Christie, Agatha

The Murder at the Vicarage.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1930.

First American edition of this classic detective novel introducing one of Christie’s most enduring and influential detectives, Miss Marple. Octavo, original publisher’s green cloth, cartog...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-149981

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Buchan, John

Huntingtower.

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1946.

Finely bound edition of this classic adventure novel, the first to follow Dickson McCunn. Duodecimo, bound in three quarters calf over marbled boards with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-150774

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Verne, Jules

The Mysterious Island: Wrecked in the Air.

New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co., 1875.

First American edition, first English language edition in book form, and first authorized edition of the first part of the crossover sequel to Verne’s famous Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Se...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-128454

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Zafon, Carlos Ruiz; Translated by Lucia Graves

Marina.

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2013.

Signed limited first edition of Zafón’s gothic tale for all ages. Octavo, original pictorial boards. One of 500 numbered copies signed by the author on the limitation page, this is number 188. I...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-145039

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Meltzer, Brad

The Tenth Justice.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1997.

First edition of the author’s classic first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Brad Meltzer on the title page. Additionally signed by legendary designer Chip Kidd; on the front...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-149889

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Roth, Philip

When She Was Good.

New York: Random House, 1967.

First edition of Roth’s second novel. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of Christopher Lasch, with his name to the front free endpaper. Lasch was a historian, moralist, and social critic...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-117571

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Le Guin, Ursula K. [LeGuin]

The Left Hand of Darkness.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1992.

Signed collector’s edition of the author’s classic Nebula and Hugo award-winning novel. Octavo, original publisher’s full leather with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, front and...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-150178

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Polacek, Karel

Povidky Pana Kockodana.

: Nakladatelstvi Polygrafie V Brne, 1922.

First edition of this work by the famed Czech writer, humorist and journalist. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. In near fine condition. Rare.

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-133507

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DeLillo, Don

The Names.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982.

First edition of this “brilliant… a powerful, haunting book” (The New York Times Book Review). Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front fr...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-140609

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Cheever, John

The Wapshot Chronicle and the Wapshot Scandal.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1979.

First edition of the collected reissue of Cheever’s National Book Award and William Dean Howells Medal-winning Wapshot novels. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by t...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-143273

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Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]

Extract From Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven.

New York: Harper & Brothers, n.d..

Early printing of the last work published by Twain during his lifetime. Octavo, original cloth with titles in white and vignette in black, frontispiece in blue and white, no publication date to the ti...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-127530

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Blume, Judy

Soupy Saturdays with the Pain and the Great One.

New York: Delacorte Press, 2007.

First edition of this collection of seven warm-hearted stories which give readers a peek at how a brother and sister relate to each other. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by the author on t...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-144144

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Uris, Leon

Exodus: A Novel of Israel.

New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1958.

First edition, early printing of the author’s magnum opus. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers. Boldly signed by Leon Uris on the title page. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dus...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-150183

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Anderson, Sherwood

A Story Teller’s Story.

New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1924.

First edition of this autobiographical classic. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell and chemise box.

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-150636

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Tolstoy, Leo

The Christian Teaching.

London: Horace Marshall & Son, 1898.

First edition in English 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 pane...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-124036

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Heaney, Seamus

Saw Music Broadside.

Northfield, Massachusetts: Swamp Press, 2006.

Original broadside by the Nobel Prize-winning poet, one of 200 numbered examples, signed by Seamus Heaney, designed by Shawna Parker and Wyn Cooper of Green River Press and printed with Ed Rayher at S...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-150814

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Amis, Kingsley [Writing as Robert Markham]

Colonel Sun.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1968.

Rare uncorrected proof of the first edition of the first Bond title published by Kingsley Amis. Duodecimo, original light green pictorial wrappers. In very good condition.

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-151095

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Kipling, Rudyard

Many Inventions.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1913.

The Bombay edition of this collection of Kipling poems and tales. Octavo, bound in three-quarters morocco over cloth covered boards by Morrell with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartme...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-151115

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Boccaccio, Giovanni

Il Decamerone.

Amsterdam: Giovanni Ghiara, 1703.

Early eighteenth century edition of Giovanni Boccaccio’s masterpiece. Duodecimo, original full brown calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, marbled endpapers, all edges speckled blue, illustr...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-146400

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