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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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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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Whittier, John Greenleaf

Snow-Bound. A Winter Idyl.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866.

First edition, first issue of this poetic description of the pleasant isolation of “the inmates of the family at the Whittier homestead” with the final page properly numbered 52. Octavo, original clot...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-137359

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Gaiman, Neil

American Gods.

New York: William Morrow, 2001.

First edition, early printing of Gaiman’s classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Neil Gaiman on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Russell Gordon.

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-141802

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Winn, Marie

Red-Tails in Love: A Wildlife Drama in Central Park.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1998.

First edition of this “engaging work…Dr. Zhivago with feathers” (The Boston Globe). Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the au...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-148001

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Bitton-Jackson, Livia

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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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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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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