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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Cather, Willa

Death Comes for the Archbishop; Alexander’s Bridge; Shadows on the Rock.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company; Alfred A. Knopf, 1922-1931.

Finely bound collection of three of the author’s best-known works, including her first novel: Death Comes for the Archbishop. Octavos, three volumes bound in three quarters morocco over marbled...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-105420

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Herr, Michael

Walter Winchell.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990.

First edition of this novel by the author of Dispatches. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Jim, Best wishes Michael Herr 26 Feb 93....

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-120899

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Henty, George A. [G.A.]

Beric the Briton: The Story of the Roman Invasion.

London: Blackie & Son, Limited, 1893.

First edition of Henty’s classic adventure tale. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, with twelve illustrations by W. Parkinson. In very good con...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-122962

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Stephenson, Neal

Cryptonomicon.

New York: Avon Books, 1999.

First edition, first printing of this extraordinary first volume in an epoch-making masterpiece. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Neal Stephenson on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-151276

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Stanton, Stephen Berrien [William Tecumseh Sherman]

Soul and Circumstance.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910.

First edition of this philosophical work; gifted by the author to Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Duodecimo, original navy blue boards. P. T. Sherman’s bookplate to the front free endpaper beneath hi...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-145984

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Ginsberg, Allen

Kaddish and Other Poems: 1958-1960.

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1965.

Fourth edition of this significant collection of poems—including the title piece, part lamentation for his mother, part protest of American society. Duodecimo, original wrappers as issued. Presentatio...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-148780

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