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I Married A Communist.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Philip Roth on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Milton Glaser.

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-132747

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Tolstoy, Leo

What Is Art?

London: The Brotherhood Publishing Company, 1898.

First edition of this work by the Russian master. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of Tolstoy. In near fine condition, contemporary name to the half-title page. Translated by A. Maude.

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-133803

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Malamud, Bernard

The Stories of Bernard Malamud.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1983.

First edition of this collection of stories. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Susie and Paul Old and dear friends- a long l...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-99856

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Irving, John

The Hotel New Hampshire.

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1981.

First edition of the author’s fifth novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, “For John & Maggie...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-150633

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Ellis, Bret Easton

The Shards.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.

First edition of this New York Times bestselling thriller from the author of American Psycho. Octavo, original publisher’s half-cloth. Signed by the author on the second free endpaper, “Br...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-151153

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Saramago, Jose

Stone Raft.

New York: Harcourt, 1995.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s third book to be translated into English. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page,...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-140682

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Herrick, Robert

The Poetical Works of Robert Herrick.

London: The Cresset Press Ltd, 1928.

The Cresset Press limited edition of Herrick’s collected poems. Octavo, four volumes bound in full publisher’s parchment with gilt titles to the spine, top edge gilt, frontispieces and dec...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-148572

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Dunne, Dominick [Erica Jong]

People Like Us.

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1988.

First edition of Dunne’s richly textured novel of New York society in the eighties. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Erica...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-142904

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Boccaccio, Giovanni

Novelle Ventotto.

Padua: Giuseppe Comino, 1769.

Eighteenth century edition of Giovanni Boccaccio’s twenty-eighth novella from his ‘Decameron.’ Octavo, original full vellum, engraved frontispiece portrait of Boccaccio. In very good...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-146403

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Vargas Llosa, Mario

The War of The End of The World.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1984.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Mario Vargas Llosa on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A pamphlet from Gergetown University for a symposium...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-148333

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Wren, Percival Christopher

Beau Geste.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, 1926.

The screenplay edition of this classic adventure novel. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, frontispiece, illustrated with scenes from the 1926 Paramount Pictures film. Very good in a good price...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-148590

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Bailey, D. R. Shackleton. [Bernard Knox]

Cicero.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971.

First American edition of Baileys classic work on Cicero. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. From the library of Bernard Knox with his ownership signature to the front free endpaper. English classi...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-134285

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Macaulay, Thomas Babington

Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review by Lord Macaulay.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1878.

Finely bound new edition of the historical essays of Macaulay. Octavo, 3 volumes, bound in full polished tree calf with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-138519

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Updike, John [Erica Jong]

Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.

First edition of Updike’s sixth collection of essays and literary criticism. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Association copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the title page, “For E...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-142377

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Follett, Ken [Erica Jong]

Code to Zero.

New York: Dutton, 2000.

Advance reading copy of the first edition of Follett’s page-turning thriller. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page,”To Ken...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-142730

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Barnes, P.R. Foreword by Sara D. Roosevelt

Crum Elbow Folks.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1938.

First edition of Barnes’ classic tale of the small Quaker settlement of Crum Elbow with a foreword by Sara D. Roosevelt. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by Sara D....

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-100315

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Christie, Agatha

The Clocks.

London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1963.

First edition of this classic murder mystery. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Michael Harvey.

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-150711

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Havel, Vaclav

Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels.

Frankfurt: Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels, 1989.

Early printing of this work by the legendary Czech poet and politician. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Boldly signed by Vaclav Havel with a drawing of a heart. In near fine condition.

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-141282

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Ware, Chris

Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth.

New York : Pantheon Books, 2000.

First edition of the author’s inventive first book, which Publishers Weekly called “graphically inventive, wonderfully realized.” Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Signed and dat...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-123992

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Roth, Philip [Milton Glaser]

Exit Ghost.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2007.

First edition of the author’s final novel in his acclaimed Zuckerman series. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Philip Roth on the title page. Additionally signed by artist Milton Glaser on...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-71974

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Irving, John

Weary Kingdom In The Boston Review.

Cambridge, MA: Boston Review, 1968.

First edition of this early appearance by the author of The World According to Garp. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition with a small crease to the bottom front panel. Signed twice by Jo...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-2850

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor; Introduction and Notes by T. Ashe

The Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

London: George Bell and Sons, 1885.

The Aldine edition of Coleridge’s poetical works, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Duodecimo, two volumes bound in three quarter calf over gilt boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spi...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-146831

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Parker, Dorothy

Not So Deep as a Well: The Collected Poems of Dorothy Parker.

New York: The Viking Press, 1936.

First edition of the collected poems of Dorothy Parker. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, inscription to the front free endpaper.

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-148062

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Segal, Erich [Ali MacGraw]

Love Story.

New York, Evanston, and London: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1970.

First edition of the author’s best-selling novel, a “sweet, sad, and, in its closing sentences, startlingly sentimental” work (John Barkham). Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Ali Ma...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-150094

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