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    Exit Ghost.

    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...
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    $400.00 Item Number: RRB-151729
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    Another Country.

    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...
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    $400.00 Item Number: RRB-137599
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    The Human Mole.

    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.
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    $400.00 Item Number: RRB-148057
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    Hundejahre. [Dog Years].

    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...
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    $400.00 Item Number: RRB-151918
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    Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy.

    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...
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    $400.00 Item Number: RRB-135992
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    Wake-Robin.

    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...
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    $400.00 Item Number: RRB-139475
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    A Writer’s Notebook.

    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...
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    $400.00 Item Number: RRB-150519
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    The Afterlife.

    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...
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    $400.00 Item Number: RRB-142974
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    Figgs and Phantoms.

    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...
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    $400.00 Item Number: RRB-96261
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    Far From The Madding Crowd.

    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...
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    $400.00 Item Number: RRB-148807
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    The Laws of Human Nature.

    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.
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    $400.00 Item Number: RRB-149790
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    The House of the Four Winds.

    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...
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    $400.00 Item Number: RRB-151379
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    White Shroud Poems 1980-1985.

    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,...
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    $400.00 Item Number: RRB-146471
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    The Conservationist.

    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.
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    $400.00 Item Number: RRB-84277
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    Myra Breckinridge.

    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....
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    $400.00 Item Number: RRB-98977
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    The Harder They Fall.

    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...
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    $400.00 Item Number: RRB-120678
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    Screening History.

    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...
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    $400.00 Item Number: RRB-126011
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    Animal Farm.

    Orwell, George

    Animal Farm.

    New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1946.

    Early printing of Orwell’s timeless allegorical novel—a scathing satire on a downtrodden society’s blind march towards totalitarianism. Octavo, original black cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jack...
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    $400.00 Item Number: RRB-146283
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    Nibble Nibble Mousekin: A Tale of Hansel and Gretel.

    Anglund, Joan Walsh

    Nibble Nibble Mousekin: A Tale of Hansel and Gretel.

    New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1962.

    First edition of Anglund’s beloved children’s classic. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by the author. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper with an orig...
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    $400.00 Item Number: RRB-123646
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    The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta.

    Vargas Llosa, Mario

    The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta.

    New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986.

    First edition of this novel by “one of the master storytellers of our time” (Denis Lynn Heyck, Chicago Tribune Book World). Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by Mario Vargas Llosa. Fine in...
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    $400.00 Item Number: RRB-142
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    The Heart of the Matter.

    Greene, Graham

    The Heart of the Matter.

    London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1948.

    First edition of what many consider the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original blue cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with toning to the spine.
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    $400.00 Item Number: RRB-146309
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    Is Shakespeare Dead? From My Autobiography.

    Twain, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens]

    Is Shakespeare Dead? From My Autobiography.

    New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1909.

    First edition, first printing of Twain’s work regarding the Shakespeare-Bacon controversy, without the advertisement for the Greenwood book. BAL 3509. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with tw...
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    $400.00 Item Number: RRB-150455
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    African Nights.

    Gallmann, Kuki

    African Nights.

    London: Viking, 1994.

    First edition of the sequel to the author’s I Dreamed of Africa. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by the author in the year of publication on the title page, “Kuki Gallmann 1994....
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    $375.00 Item Number: RRB-131841
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    Autobiography (Burlesque) First Romance, and Memoranda.

    Twain, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens]

    Autobiography (Burlesque) First Romance, and Memoranda.

    Toronto: James Campbell & Son, [1871].

    Rare unauthorized edition of Twain’s witty collection of satirical sketches; this edition possibly containing the first appearance of My Late Senatorial Secretaryship. BAL 3334. Octavo, original...
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    $375.00 Item Number: RRB-137267
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