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Station Eleven.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.

First edition of this iconic novel, basis for the post-apocalyptic dystopian fiction television miniseries created by Patrick Somerville. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Emily St. John M...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-147032

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Byron, Lord George Gordon

Werner. A Tragedy.

London: John Murray, 1823.

First edition, first state of Byron’s retelling of Kruitzner, or the German’s Tale in Harriet Lee’s Canterbury Tales without “the end” and the imprint on page 188 and wit...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-120540

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Bellow, Saul

Him With His Foot In His Mouth and Other Stories.

New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1984.

First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication. Fine in a near fine dust jacket wit...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-7344

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Vidal, Gore

Vidal in Venice.

New York : Summit Books, 1985.

First edition of this wonderful overview of Venice. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “Valerie from 1/2 brother Gore Vidal.”...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-126474

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Roth, Philip

The Professor of Desire.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977.

First edition of Roth’s second book in a series portraying the life of the fictional professor David Kapesh. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Philip Roth on the title page. Fine in a nea...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-151092

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Robinson, Kim Stanley

The Ministry for the Future.

Burton, Michigan: Subterranean Press, 2023.

Signed limited edition of this New York Times bestselling science fiction novel set in the near future. Thick octavo, original publisher’s cloth, pictorial endpapers. One of 400 numbered copies...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-151423

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Asimov, Janet and Isaac

Norby and The Queen’s Necklace.

New York: Walker and Company, 1986.

First edition of the fifth book in the Asimovs’ Norby series. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Isaac Asimov on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Laur...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-142934

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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...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-149258

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Kipling, Rudyard

The Maltese Cat: A Polo Game of the ‘Nineties.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1936.

First edition of Kipling’s tale of a polo pony living among the British in India. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Lionel Edwards, frontispiece and plates in color. Near fine in the rare o...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-122493

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Ozick, Cynthia [David Goldblatt]

The Messiah of Stockholm.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.

First edition of this “truly intriguing mystery…Ozick brings off effects comparable to those of Isaac Bashevis Singer” (The New York Review of Books). Octavo, original half cloth. As...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-145821

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Roberts, Kenneth J

Black Magic: An Account of its Beneficial Use in Italy, of its Perversion in Bavaria, and of Certain Tendencies Which Might Necessitate its Study in America.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1924.

Early printing of Roberts’ work on fascism in the 1920s. Octavo, original black cloth, gilt titles to the spine and front panel, frontispiece of Mussolini. Presentation copy, inscribed by the au...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-96104

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Lethem, Jonathan

Gun, with Occasional Music.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1994.

First edition of the author’s first novel which won The Locus Award for Best First Novel and was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, ins...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-123214

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Buchan, John

Castle Gay.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1930.

First edition of this gripping adventure novel, the second to include Dickson McCunn. Octavo, bound in half morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles to the spine in five compartments within gilt b...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-150775

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Shaara, Michael

The Broken Place.

New York: The New American Library, 1968.

First edition of the author’s first novel, preceding his Pulitzer Prize-winning work The Killer Angels. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the second free endp...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-138681

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Jong, Erica

The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1993.

First edition of Jong’s appreciation of the life and legacy of Henry Miller. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page in the year of publication to her...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-142504

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Kipling, Rudyard

The Five Nations.

London: Methuen and Co, 1903.

Large paper edition of Kipling’s notable poetry collection. Large octavo, original quarter parchment over paper-covered boards. One of 200 copies on handmade paper. In fine condition. Housed in...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-120150

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Grossman, David. [Sally Soames]

The Smile of the Lamb.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1991.

First edition in English of David Grossman’s debut novel The Smile of the Lamb. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to Sally Soames on the half-t...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-152263

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Tartt, Donna

The Little Friend.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.

First edition of this work “destined to become a special kind of classic” (The New York Times Book Review). Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-140777

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Whitehead, Colson

The Nickel Boys.

New York: Doubleday, 2019.

Signed limited first edition from the Powell’s series. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Colson Whitehead on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom slipcase with...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-144172

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Stanton, Stephen Berrien [William Tecumseh Sherman]

Collected Poems.

New York: Minton, Balch & Company, 1930.

First edition of this collection of poems; gifted by the author to Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Duodecimo, original cloth. P. T. Sherman’s bookplate to the front free endpaper beneath his ownershi...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-145986

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Rice, Anne

Lasher.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.

First edition of the second book in the author’s Lives of the Mayfair Witches series. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Anne Rice on the front free endpaper and additionally signed t...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-151288

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Marshall, Paule

Triangular Road: A Memoir.

New York: Basic Civitas Book, 2008.

Uncorrected proof of the first edition of the famed author’s insightful memoir. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated. Boldly signed by Paule Marshall on the the title page. In near...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-129301

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Didion, Joan

After Henry.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.

First edition of this collection of eleven essays. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Joan Didion on the colophon page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-151447

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Roth, Philip

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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