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    Don’t Drink the Water.

    Allen, Woody

    Don’t Drink the Water.

    London/ New York: Samuel French, 1967.

    First English edition of Allen’s rapid-fire dialogue. 16mo, original wrappers. Boldly signed by Woody Allen on the front free endpaper. In near fine condition.
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    $450.00 Item Number: RRB-149022
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    Operation Shylock: A Confession.

    Roth, Philip

    Operation Shylock: A Confession.

    New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.

    First edition of Roth’s 19th book. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Philip Roth opposite the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paula Scher...
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    $450.00 Item Number: RRB-125369
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    Audubon: A Vision.

    Warren, Robert Penn

    Audubon: A Vision.

    New York: Random House, 1969.

    First edition of this original work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Richard Perry all the best Rob...
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    $450.00 Item Number: RRB-146146
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    Voces Populi.

    Anstey, F. [Thomas Anstey Guthrie]

    Voces Populi.

    London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1890.

    First edition of Guthrie’s collection of short comedic plays which originally appeared in Punch magazine. Octavo, two volumes bound in three quarters vellum by Morrell with morocco spine labels...
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    $450.00 Item Number: RRB-112304
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    Idiots First.

    Malamud, Bernard

    Idiots First.

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Company, 1963.

    First edition of this collection of stories. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Susie and Paul Old and good friends Bern.” T...
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    $450.00 Item Number: RRB-10017
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    Micah Clarke: His Statement.

    Doyle, Arthur Conan

    Micah Clarke: His Statement.

    London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1889.

    First edition of Doyle’s third novel. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, patterned endpapers, 16 pp. publisher’s advertisements at rear. In very good con...
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    $450.00 Item Number: RRB-127396
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    The Human Stain.

    Roth, Philip

    The Human Stain.

    Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.

    First edition of Roth’s award-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Philip Roth on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, inscription to the front free endp...
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    $450.00 Item Number: RRB-150246
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    George Gershwin’s Song-Book.

    Gershwin, George

    George Gershwin’s Song-Book.

    New York: Simon and Schuster Inc, 1932.

    First edition of Gershwin’s classic songbook, with stunning full-page illustrations by Constantin Alajalov. Quarto, original half-cloth, frontispiece photograph of Gershwin playing the piano taken by...
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    $450.00 Item Number: RRB-149433
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    Places I Never Meant To Be: Original Stories By Censored Writers.

    Blume, Judy

    Places I Never Meant To Be: Original Stories By Censored Writers.

    New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.

    First edition of this collection of censored writings. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the editor in the year of publication on the title page, “To Lorrie Love, Judy...
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    $450.00 Item Number: RRB-144168
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    Twice-Told Tales.

    Hawthorne, Nathaniel

    Twice-Told Tales.

    New York: The Heritage Press, 1966.

    The Heritage Press edition of Hawthorne’s first major collection of short fiction. Royal octavo, bound in three-quarters morocco by Morrell with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within rai...
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    $450.00 Item Number: RRB-148795
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    The Green House.

    Vargas Llosa, Mario

    The Green House.

    London: Jonathan Cape, 1969.

    First British edition of the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original green cloth. Signed by Mario Vargas Llosa on the title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket that shows light ru...
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    $450.00 Item Number: RRB-1573
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    Cakes and Ale.

    Maugham, W. Somerset. [Raymond Chandler]

    Cakes and Ale.

    New York: The Modern Library, 1950.

    First Modern Library edition of Maugham’s classic satire.  Small octavo, original publisher’s cloth, patterned endpapers. From the library of Raymond Chandler with his library stamp to the...
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    $450.00 Item Number: RRB-148369
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    The Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy.

    Sterne, Laurence

    The Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy.

    London: Williams and Norgate, 1910.

    Finely bound example of Sterne’s popular travelogue which helped establish the genre of travel writing and Sterne as the “most eminent novelist of the period” (Baugh, 1022). Quarto,...
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    $450.00 Item Number: RRB-138940
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    The Vicar of Bullhampton.

    Trollope, Anthony

    The Vicar of Bullhampton.

    London: Bradbury, Evans, and Co, 1870.

    First edition in book form of Anthony Trollope’s controversial novel. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over pebbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments wi...
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    $450.00 Item Number: RRB-112316
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    The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott. Complete. [Lay of the Last Minstrel; Marmion; The Lady of the Lake; Rokeby; Lord of the Isles].

    Scott, Sir Walter

    The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott. Complete. [Lay of the Last Minstrel; Marmion; The Lady of the Lake; Rokeby; Lord of the Isles].

    New York and Boston: Charles S. and Joseph H. Francis, 1841.

    Francis’ revised complete edition of Scott’s poetical works. Octavo, 10 volumes bound into 5 in three quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, marbled...
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    $450.00 Item Number: RRB-137035
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    After Hours with P.G. Wodehouse.

    Usborne, Richard [P.G. Wodehouse]

    After Hours with P.G. Wodehouse.

    New York: James H. Heineman Inc, 1991.

    First American edition of this record of Usborne’s involvement with the unmatched comedic novelist P.G. Wodehouse. Octavo, original boards. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front...
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    $450.00 Item Number: RRB-145360
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    The Calendar In Rime.

    King, Ethel

    The Calendar In Rime.

    Portland, Maine: Falmouth Publishing House, 1947.

    First edition of this collection of poems. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, “With my compliments- Ethel King.” Near fine in the rare original glassi...
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    $450.00 Item Number: RRB-114523
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    The Old Wives’ Tale.

    Bennett, Arnold

    The Old Wives’ Tale.

    London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1927.

    Signed limited edition of Bennett’s masterpiece. Quarto, bound in original half vellum, gilt titles to the spine, gilt topstain. One of 5oo copies, signed by Arnold Bennett. Near fine in the rar...
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    $450.00 Item Number: RRB-114732
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    Northwest Passage.

    Roberts, Kenneth

    Northwest Passage.

    Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1937.

    First edition of Kenneth Roberts’ historical novel which follows the exploits of Robert Rogers, the leader of a colonial force fighting with the British during the French and Indian War. Octavo,...
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    $450.00 Item Number: RRB-95360
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    Memoirs of an Infantry Officer.

    Sassoon, Siegfried

    Memoirs of an Infantry Officer.

    London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1930.

    First edition of the second volume in Sassoon’s semi-autobiographical Sherston trilogy. Octavo, original publisher’s blue cloth. Very good in a good dust jacket.
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    $450.00 Item Number: RRB-149131
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    The Holy War.

    Kipling, Rudyard

    The Holy War.

    London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, [1917].

    First separate British edition of Kipling’s homage to John Bunyan which first appeared in Land and Water Magazine, December 1917, printed by Methuen and Co. to secure copyright protection. Small...
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    $450.00 Item Number: RRB-121059
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    Kim.

    Kipling, Rudyard

    Kim.

    New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1901.

    First edition with the chapter-heading rhymes for only chapters VII and VIII as called of what many consider Kipling’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth, embossed black and gilt to the front p...
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    $450.00 Item Number: RRB-122738
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    Blow: How a Small-Town Boy Made 0 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and Lost it All.

    Porter, Bruce. [Ted Demme]

    Blow: How a Small-Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and Lost it All.

    New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1993.

    First St. Martin’s Griffin edition of Porter’s thrilling retelling of the story of George Jung, adapted into the 2001 film of the same name directed by Ted Demme and starring Johnny Depp a...
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    $450.00 Item Number: RRB-123485
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    A Walk on the Wild Side.

    Algren, Nelson

    A Walk on the Wild Side.

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1956.

    First edition of Algren’s “most critically acclaimed and best-known novel” (ANB). Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Nelson Algren on the front free endpaper. Fine in a ne...
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    $450.00 Item Number: RRB-76436
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