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Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard.

New York: The Heritage Press, 1961.

The Heritage Press edition of what many consider to be Conrad’s masterpiece. Quarto, bound in three-quarter modern morocco by Morrell with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within rai...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-148681

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Fuentes, Carlos

La Voluntad y La Fortuna. [Destiny and Desire].

Ciudad de México: Santillana Ediciones Generales (Alfaguara), 2008.

First edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page to his close friend Sergio Munoz. Fuentes met...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-133440

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Holmes, John Clellon

Go.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952.

First edition of the novel that launched the Beat Generation’s literary legacy and describes the world of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Neil Cassady and “one of the best novels about t...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-138914

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Stephens, James

The Crock of Gold.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1926.

Signed limited edition of this whimsical and philosophical novel. Quarto, quarter vellum over cloth boards with gilt titles to the spine, printed on hand-made paper, tissue-guarded frontispiece, with...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-148485

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Kipling, Rudyard

France At War. On The Frontier Of Civilization.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915.

First American edition of Kipling’s second collection of military poems and short stories. Octavo, original boards with paper spine label and large paper label to the front panel decorated with...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-120244

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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 and additionally signed by legendary artist and...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-151729

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Baldwin, James

Another Country.

London: Michael Joseph, 1963.

First edition of Baldwin’s classic work, nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-137599

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Collins, Colin

The Human Mole.

London: Greening & Co., Limited, 1909.

Rare first edition of this early science fiction novel. Octavo, original pictorial cloth, tissue-guarded frontispiece, with black and white illustrations. In near fine condition.

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-148057

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Grass, Gunter

Hundejahre. [Dog Years].

Munich: Hermann Luchterhand Verlag, 1963.

First German edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s third and final novel in his acclaimed Danzig Trilogy. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, silk ribbon bound in. Boldly signed by G...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-151918

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Jones, Howard

Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Revised edition of the basis for the 1997 film Amistad directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins, and Matthew McConaughey. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by the auth...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-135992

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Burroughs, John

Wake-Robin.

New York: Published by Hurd and Houghton at the Riverside Press, 1871.

First edition of the author’s first commercially published book in BAL’s binding A; the most elaborate of the three variant first edition bindings, of which there is no known priority. BAL...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-139475

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Maugham, W. Somerset

A Writer’s Notebook.

New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1949.

Signed limited edition of Maugham’s semi-autobiographical confessional. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, top edge gilt, frontispiece. One of 1,000 numbered...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-150519

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Raskin, Ellen

Figgs and Phantoms.

New York : E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc, 1974.

First edition of the author’s Newbery Honor book. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Norine – My...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-96261

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Hardy, Thomas; Agnes Miller Parker [Illustrator]

Far From The Madding Crowd.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1958.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of Thomas Hardy’s fourth published novel. Octavo, bound in three-quarters modern morocco by Morrell with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments w...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-148807

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Greene, Robert

The Laws of Human Nature.

New York: Penguin Books, 2019.

First paperback edition of this classic work. Octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed by Robert Greene on the front free endpaper. In fine condition.

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-149790

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Buchan, John

The House of the Four Winds.

London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1935.

First British edition, early printing of the last book in the Dickson McCunn trilogy. Octavo, bound in three-quarters morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compa...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-151379

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Updike, John [Erica Jong]

The Afterlife.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.

First edition of this work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Erica J. These stories are more...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-142974

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Ginsberg, Allen

White Shroud Poems 1980-1985.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1987.

First Perennial Library edition of this collection of poems. Octavo, original publisher’s wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by the author to his cousin Gene Levy and his wife on title-page,...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-146471

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Gordimer, Nadine

The Conservationist.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1974.

First edition of the author’s Booker Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nadine Gordimer. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Craig Dodd.

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-84277

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Vidal, Gore

Myra Breckinridge.

Boston: Little, Brown, & Company, 1968.

First edition of this satirical novel by written in the form of a diary. Octavo, black cloth. Signed by Gore Vidal on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, name to the half-title page....

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-98977

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Schulberg, Budd

The Harder They Fall.

New York: Random House, 1947.

First edition of Schulberg’s second book, basis for the 1956 film directed by Mark Robson, featuring Humphrey Bogart’s final film role. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Budd Schulberg on...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-120678

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Vidal, Gore

Screening History.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992.

First edition of this work by the award-winning novelist. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “Valerie, love, Gore Vidal.” The recipient, V...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-126011

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Butler, Samuel

Hudibras, In Three Parts, Written in the Time of The Late Wars: Corrected and Amended. With Large Annotations, and a Preface, by Zachary Grey, L.L.D. Adorn’d with a new Set of Cuts.

Cambridge: Printed by J. Bentham, Printer to the University, for W. Innys, A. Ward, Mess. J. and P. Knapton, D. Browne, S. Birt, et al, 1744.

18th century large annotated edition of Butler’s acclaimed mock romance, the “best edition” according to Lowndes. Octavo, two volumes bound in full calf with red morocco spine labels...

$375.00 Item Number: RRB-130125

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Roth, Philip

The Humbling.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.

First edition of Roth’s 30th book, concerning “an aging stage actor whose empty life is altered by a ‘counterplot of unusual erotic desire’.” Octavo, original boards. Bol...

$375.00 Item Number: RRB-138184

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