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Kimmel, Eric A.; Illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman

Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins.

New York: Holiday House, 1989.

First edition of this Caldecott Honor-winning classic. Quarto, original half cloth, illustrated. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, To Ann, Eric A. Kimmel.” Additionally signed...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-103993

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Ford, Richard

The Ultimate Good Luck.

London: Collins Harvill, 1989.

First edition of Ford’s second published novel. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page to Sally Soames who contributed the author photograph for the...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-123277

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Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de

Wind, Sand and Stars.

New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1939.

First British edition of Saint-Exupery’s philosophical memoir of flight. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Decorations in color by John O’Hara Cosg...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-150742

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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. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, “Sept. 7, 1967 NYC To Jack K...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-115622

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Achebe, Chinua

Another Africa.

New York: Anchor Books/ Doubleday, 1998.

First edition of this work with essays and poems by Chinua Achebe. Quarto, original boards, illustrated. Boldly signed by Chinua Achebe on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-130393

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Neale Hurston, Zora

Their Eyes Were Watching God.

Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1991.

University of Illinois Press edition of this seminal work of African American and feminist literature that explores themes of love, self-discovery, and voice. Octavo, original publisher’s half-c...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-151619

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Lesage, Alain-René

Histoire De Gil Blas De Santillane, Par Lesage.

Paris: De L'Imprimerie De Didot Jeune, n.d.

Finely bound example of Lesage’s famed picaresque novel. Octavo, four volumes bound in three quarter crushed levant morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six c...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-145006

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Irving, John

3 By Irving: Setting Free the Bears; The Water-Method Man; The 158-Pound Marriage.

New York: Random House, 1980.

First edition of this compilation of the author’s first three novels. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page to his editor David Kent, “Fo...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-37055

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Nisbet, Robert

Sounds of the Town.

United Kingdom: Alun Books, 1982.

First edition of this collection of short stories about Welsh life and culture. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Ew...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-148342

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Updike, John

Tossing and Turns: Poems.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977.

First edition of this collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author with a large drawing of a birthday cake in the year of pu...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-150242

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Asimov, Isaac

More Tales of the Black Widowers.

Garden City, NY: Published For The Crime Club By Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976.

First edition of the second book in Asimov’s Black Widowers series. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Stephen Isaac Asimov.”...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-142873

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DeLillo, Don

Underworld.

New York: Scribner, 1997.

First edition of this work by DeLillo, which in a 2006 survey of eminent authors and critics conducted by The New York Times found it to be the runner-up for the best work of American fiction of the p...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-111211

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Scott, Paul

The Chinese Love Pavilion.

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1960.

Early printing of this dramatic story by the author of The Raj Quartet which many consider to be his best novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free en...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-120224

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Burgess, Anthony

Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare’s Love-life.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1964.

First edition of this fictionalized, stylistically experimental reimagining of William Shakespeare’s life. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the ti...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-150047

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Smith, Betty

Maggie-Now.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1958.

First edition of this unforgettable masterpiece from one of the twentieth century’s greatest talents and author of A Tree Grows In Brooklyn. Octavo, original half-cloth, title page vignette. Bol...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-151439

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Kushner, Harold S

When Bad Things Happen To Good People.

New York: Schocken Books, 1981.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Judge Silber with my best wishes Rabbi Harold S. Kushner....

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-146450

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Sartre, Jean-Paul

Being and Nothingness.

New York: The Philosophical Library, 1956.

First edition of Sartre’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth with titles and vignette stamped in black. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-151539

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Mailer, Norman

Advertisements for Myself.

New York: Putnam and Sons, 1959.

First edition of this classic collection of essays. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For David Cheers Norman Mailer Feb. ’81...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-142397

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Young, Stark [William T. Sherman]

So Red the Rose.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934.

First edition of this incredible Civil War novel; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo, original red cloth. P. T. Sherman’s bookplate to the front free endpaper beneath a gift i...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-145877

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Fermor, Patrick Leigh

Between the Woods and the Water.

London: The Folio Society, 2006.

First Folio edition of the author’s second book in the author’s trilogy that began with A Time of Gifts. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Leigh Fermor on the title page. Fine in a fine sl...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-38087

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Shanken, Marvin R

Cigar Aficionado’s Pocket Guide.

New York: M. Shanken Communications, 1997.

First edition of this work by the legendary Marvin Shanken. Small octavo, original boards, illustrated. Boldly signed by Marvin R. Shanken on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-150197

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Early English Prose Romances I-III: Robert the Deuyll, Robin Hood, and Fryer Bacon.

Edinburgh: Otto Schulze & Co, 1904.

Finely bound edition of this collection of three prose romances from early English literature. Quarto, three volumes, original publisher’s half-cloth, title page vignettes in red and black, pict...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-149489

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Sante, Luc

Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York.

New York: Farrar Strauss Giroux, 1991.

First edition of Sante’s classic work, which tells the story of New York’s Lower East Side, circa 1840-1920. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Boldly signed by Luc Sante on the...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-138180

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Wodehouse, P.G

Nothing Serious.

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1950.

First edition of Wodehouse’s dynamically humorous collection of short stories. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Frank Ford. Uncommon in this c...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-145048

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