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A Philip Roth Reader.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1980.

First edition of this important compilation of Roth’s writings. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Philip Roth on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design b...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-130271

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Le Clezio, J.M.G

Desert.

London: Atlantic Books, 2009.

First British edition of what many consider the author’s breakthrough novel. Octavo, original boards. Signed by J.M.G. Le Clezio on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket with the wrap aroun...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-774

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Le Clezio, J.M.G

Le Proces-verbal.

Paris: Gallimard, 1963.

True first edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s first book. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition.

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-145956

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Kipling, Rudyard

Traffics and Discoveries.

New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1904.

First American edition of this collection of twenty-four poems and short stories. Octavo, original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, top edge gilt. In near fine condition.

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-120541

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Cheever, John

The Wapshot Chronicle.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957.

First edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a good dust jacket.

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-125758

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Robinson, Marilynne

The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.

First edition of this collection of essays by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Octavo, original half cloth. Warmly inscribed by Marilynne Robinson on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-1002

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Wouk, Herman

The Caine Mutiny.

Franklin, PA: The Franklin Library, 1977.

Signed limited first edition of Wouk’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, bound in full leather, gilt titles to the spine, front and rear panels, raised bands, all edges gilt, silk endpapers,...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-146370

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Kipling, Rudyard

Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses Together With Departmental Ditties.

New York: United States Book Company, 1892.

Scarce early printing of perhaps Kipling’s most popular poetry collection. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. In near fine condition. Exceptionally rare.

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-119266

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Moynihan, Danny; Damien Hirst

Boogie-Woogie.

London: Duckworth Literary Entertainments Ltd, 2000.

First edition of Moynihan’s satirical debut novel set in the contemporary art world of 1990s New York. Octavo, original cloth, patterned endpapers. One of 500 numbered copies signed by the autho...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-124404

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Greene, Graham

The End of the Affair.

London: William Heinemann, 1951.

First edition of the Graham Greene novel William Faulkner called, “one of the best, most true and moving novels of my time, in anybody’s language.” Octavo, original cloth. Near fine...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-146288

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Conrad, Joseph

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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Potok, Chaim

Wanderings: Chaim Potok’s History of the Jews.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978.

First edition of this wonderfully illustrated work by the author of The Chosen. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on...

$375.00 Item Number: RRB-147749

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M'Naughton, Peter [Ossian]

The Poems of Ossian: Literally Translated from the Gaelic in the Original Measure of Verse.

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1887.

First edition of Peter M’Naughton’s translation of the poems of Ossian. Small octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine. In very good condition. Uncommon.

$375.00 Item Number: RRB-116541

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