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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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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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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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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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Anglund, Joan Walsh

A Christmas Book.

New York: Random House, 1983.

First edition of the revered children’s book author’s charming children’s tale. Quarto, original illustrated boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated by the author. Presentation copy...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-123670

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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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Bloch, Robert

Twilight Zone: The Movie.

New York: Warner Books, Inc , 1983.

First edition of the novelization of the classic film. 12mo, original pictorial wrappers, illustrated with a 16-page insert of black and white photographs from the film. Boldly signed by Robert Bloch...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-148054

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Davies, Valentine; Tomie dePaola [Illustrator]

Miracle On 34th Street.

San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984.

First illustrated edition of this modern Christmas classic with paintings by beloved illustrator Tomie dePaola. Square octavo, original publisher’s red cloth with titles to the spine and front p...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-149044

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Buchan, John

The Island of Sheep.

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1948.

First Thomas Nelson and Sons edition, early printing of this fifth and final thriller novel following Richard Hannay. Octavo, bound in three quarters calf over marbled boards with gilt titles to the s...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-150777

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Lewis, Sinclair

Arrowsmith.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925.

First trade edition of this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original publisher’s blue cloth stamped in orange. In near fine condition with light rubbing.

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-151552

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Paz, Octavio

Vuelta.

Mexico: Editorial Seix Barral, S.A, 1976.

First edition of this collection of poems that were written between 1969 and 1975. Octavo, original wrappers. Association copy, inscribed on the half-title page to his good friend, “A Sergio Muñ...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-133281

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Goldbeck, Sedrick Arlington

I Sing Sonnets & Other Forms: About Things Everywhere.

Bronx, NY: The Bird Press, 1996.

First edition of the poet’s collection of sonnets. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “1996 to Gary, Regards Sedrick A. Gold...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-115382

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Burgess, Anthony

Enderby Outside.

London: William Heinemann, 1968.

First edition of the second novel in the author’s acclaimed Enderby series. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, ” The recipient, Rolland...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-125843

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Paterson, Katherine

Bridge To Terabithia.

New York: Thomas Crowell, 1977.

Early printing of the author’s first Newbery-Award winning novel. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Donna Diamond. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For K...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-137988

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Stephenson, Neal

Quicksilver, The Confusion, The System of the World.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 2003-2004.

First editions of each novel in the author’s classic Baroque trilogy. Octavo, original half cloth. Each volume is signed by Neal Stephenson on the title page. Fine in near fine to fine dust jack...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-144303

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Chaucer, Geoffrey

Chaucer’s Romaunt of the Rose Troilus and Creseide and the Minor Poems.

London : William Pickering, 1846.

First edition of this exemplary collection of poems. Octavo, three volumes, bound in full contemporary tan calf with blue and black morocco labels stamped in gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-146339

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Bellow, Saul

Something to Remember Me By. Three Tales. The Bellarosa Connection, A Theft, Something To Remember Me By.

New York: The Viking Press, 1991.

First edition of this trio of short works by the Nobel laureate and “greatest writer of American prose of the twentieth century” (James Wood, The New Republic). Octavo, original half cloth. Presentati...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-118778

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Hamill, Pete

The Invisible City: A New York Sketchbook.

New York: Random House, 1980.

First edition of the author’s classic collection of sketches encapsulating the essence of New York. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with drawings by Susan Stillman. Signed by Pete Hamil...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-124308

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Rice, Anne

The Vampire Lestat.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985.

First edition of the second book in Anne Rice’s best-selling Vampire Chronicles. Octavo, original publisher’s half-cloth. Boldly signed by Anne Rice on the title page. Very good in a very...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-151517

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Zagajewski, Adam

Without End: New and Selected Poems.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.

First edition of this collection of poems. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page to fellow writer Peter Matthiessen, “To Peter Matthiessen- mos...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-4688

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