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Earthly Powers.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980.

First edition of this epic masterpiece by the author of A Clockwork Orange, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the f...

$450.00 Item Number: RRB-115443

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Wiesel, Elie

The Jews of Silence: A Personal Report on Soviet Jewry.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966.

First edition of this powerful work by the Nobel Laureate. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Elie Wiesel on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Translated by Neal Kozodoy. Unc...

$450.00 Item Number: RRB-151704

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Kipling, Rudyard

Puck of Pook’s Hill.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1914.

The Bombay Edition of Kipling’s collection of historical fantasy tales. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over cloth covered boards by Morrell with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in s...

$450.00 Item Number: RRB-151124

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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...

$450.00 Item Number: RRB-146146

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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.

$450.00 Item Number: RRB-149022

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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...

$450.00 Item Number: RRB-125369

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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...

$450.00 Item Number: RRB-112304

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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...

$450.00 Item Number: RRB-10017

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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...

$450.00 Item Number: RRB-127396

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Fischer, Bobby

“I Was Tortured in a Pasadena Jailhouse!”

np: Published by Bobby Fischer, 1982.

First edition of Bobby Fischer’s notorious self-published pamphlet, a raw and unsettling account of his 1981 detention by the Pasadena police, among the strangest and most sought-after artifacts...

$425.00 Item Number: RRB-152067

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Vidal, Gore

Visit to a Small Planet and Other Television Plays.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1956.

First edition of the author’s play that was later made into the 1960 motion picture starring Jerry Lewis as Kreton. Octavo. Signed by Gore Vidal on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacke...

$425.00 Item Number: RRB-1264

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Bellow, Saul

Partisan Review. Volume X, No. 5. September-October, 1943.

New York: Partisan Review, 1943.

Octavo, original Wrappers. Signed by Saul Bellow on the front panel. In near fine condition. Contains the Notes of a Dangling Man, an 18 page excerpt, with some revisions to create a cohesive story, f...

$425.00 Item Number: RRB-5665

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Bellow, Saul

Mosby’s Memoirs and other Stories.

New York: Viking Press, 1968.

First edition of the author’s first collection of short stories. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Saul Bellow on the title page. Fine in a near fine jacket that shows very light rubbing to...

$425.00 Item Number: RRB-180

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Besant, Walter and Henry James

The Art of Fiction.

Boston: Cupples, Upham & Company, 1885.

First edition of this classic essay. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition, contemporary name to the front free endpaper.

$425.00 Item Number: RRB-78042

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Li, Yiyun

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers.

New York: Random House, 2005.

First edition of Li’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “Life provides more happiness than we ever know. We have to train ou...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-102837

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Mamet, David

On Directing Film.

New York: Viking, 1991.

First edition of Mamet’s insightful guide to directing. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, “For Gl...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-119879

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Turner, Frederick. [Elaine Steinbeck]

Spirit of Place: The Making of an American Literary Landscape.

San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1989.

First edition of the award-winning author’s work on the great American novelists; from the library of Elaine Steinbeck. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper,...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-131433

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Shem, Samuel

Man’s 4th Best Hospital.

New York: Berkley Books, 2019.

First edition of the sequel to The House of God. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For James Best wishes, Shem.” Near fine in a near fi...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-141533

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Eden, Emily; Introduction by Anthony Eden

The Semi-Attached Couple.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1947.

First edition of the Honorable Emily Eden’s brilliant comedy of manners. Octavo, original publisher’s pictorial cloth with central botanical flourish, illustrated by Suzanne Suba. Associat...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-145160

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Kazantzakis, Nikos

Spain [In Greek].

Athena:, 1937.

Rare first Greek edition of this early travelogue by Kazantzakis. Octavo, bound in half morocco over cloth. In very good condition.

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-23009

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Conan Doyle, Arthur

The Adventures of Gerard.

New York: McClure, Phillips & Co, 1903.

First edition of the second book of Conan Doyle’s Brigadier Gerard stories. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth decorated in gilt, illustrated by W. B. Wollen. In near fine condition. A ver...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-137265

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Browning, Robert

The Poetical Works of Robert Browning.

London: Smith, Elder. & Co, 1897.

Finely bound example of Browning’s collected poetical works. Octavo, two volumes bound into one in full polished calf, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-138644

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Huxley, Aldous

Eyeless in Gaza.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1936.

First edition of Huxley’s classic work, which many consider one of his finest. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. An exceptional example.

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-138804

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Pinter, Harold

The Caretaker.

London: Methuen & Co, 1960.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-144233

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