The Quest of the Silver Fleece.
Chicago: McClurg, 1911.
First edition of this landmark novel. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. In near fine condition.
$475.00
Item Number: RRB-118769
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Red Pottage.
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1899.
First edition of this classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. Scarce in this condition.
$475.00
Item Number: RRB-122599
Brighton Rock.
London: William Heinemann LTD, 1938.
First British edition of Greene’s chilling expose of violence and gang warfare in the pre-war underworld is a classic of its kind. Octavo, bound in half goatskin over cloth boards with gilt titl...
$475.00
Item Number: RRB-149699
Priestley, J.B. [Raymond Chandler]
Bright Day.
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1946.
First edition of Priestley’s profound take on nostalgia and social commentary. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. From the library of Raymond Chandler with his library stamp to the front...
$475.00
Item Number: RRB-149019
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 half-title page, “For Susie and Paul...
$475.00
Item Number: RRB-100043
All Aboard for Ararat.
London: Secker & Warburg, 1940.
First edition of the last of Wells’ utopian novels. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket. From the collection of British science fiction author Christopher Priest with hi...
$475.00
Item Number: RRB-149249
The Goldfinch.
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2013.
First edition of the bestselling author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “especially...
$475.00
Item Number: RRB-141045
Stanton, Stephen B. [William T. Sherman]
The Fourth in the Furnace.
New York : Minton, Balch & Company, 1927.
First edition of this poetical book of philosophy; gifted by the author to Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Duodecimo, original black cloth. P. T. Sherman’s bookplate to the front pastedown. Ownership...
$475.00
Item Number: RRB-145982
Collected Poems 1947-1980.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1988.
First Perennial Library edition of this collection of poems. Octavo, original red wrappers. Association copy, lengthily inscribed by the author to his cousin Gene Levy and his wife on the title page,...
$475.00
Item Number: RRB-146470
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
Walton, Izaak and Charles Cotton. Introduction by James Russell Lowell
The Complete Angler, or the Contemplative Man’s Recreation, of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1889.
Limited edition of this classic of English literature. Octavo, two volumes, original publisher’s cloth decorated in gilt, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece to each volume, illustrated with en...
$475.00
Item Number: RRB-149802
Soldiers Three.
New York: The Minerva Publishing Company, 1892.
Rare early separate edition of Kipling’s second collection of short stories. Octavo, original wrappers. The Marco-Botsaris Series No. 10. In very good condition.
$475.00
Item Number: RRB-126908
The Temptation To Do Good.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1984.
First edition of this “convincing and haunting novel” (Publishers Weekly) by the father of modern management. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Peter Drucker on the front free endpa...
$475.00
Item Number: RRB-142036
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
