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Trains Of Thought: Memories Of A Stateless Youth.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2002.

First edition of this “beautifully cadenced work of art―it will remind some readers of Nabokov’s classic Speak, Memory” (Joyce Carol Oates). Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated....

$375.00 Item Number: RRB-147923

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Eighner, Lars

Travels With Lizbeth: Three Years on the Road and on the Streets.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993.

First edition of this modern classic. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Lars Eighner on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Front cover photograph by Martha Grenon.

$375.00 Item Number: RRB-148268

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Balzac, Honoré de

Droll Stories: Thirty Tales By Honoré de Balzac.

New York: The Heritage Press, 1939.

The Heritage Press edition of collection of satirical tales. Octavo, bound in three-quarters morocco by Morrell with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, top edge gilt, ma...

$375.00 Item Number: RRB-148802

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Morrison, Toni

Paradise.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.

First edition of this novel hailed by The New Yorker as, “Morrison at her novelistic best.” Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Toni Morrison on the title page. Fine in a fine dust ja...

$375.00 Item Number: RRB-150623

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Carlyle, Jane Welsh; Thomas Carlyle; David G. Ritchie [Editor]

Early Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle Together with a Few of Later Years and Some of Thomas Carlyle.

London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co, 1889.

First edition of this collection of letters reflecting Victorian life. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, t...

$375.00 Item Number: RRB-149134

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Wells, H.G

The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1914.

First edition of this Edwardian novel. Octavo, original publisher’s green cloth with titles stamped in gilt and botanical detailing stamped in blind. In near fine condition. Bookplate to the fro...

$375.00 Item Number: RRB-149390

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Malaparte, Curzio

The Skin.

London: Alvin Redman Limited, 1952.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Translated from the Italian, La Pelle, by David Moore. Very good in the rare original dust jacket.

$375.00 Item Number: RRB-116391

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Walker, Alice

The Color Purple.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992.

First edition of tenth anniversary edition of Walker’s third novel, in which she became the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Al...

$375.00 Item Number: RRB-151745

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Al-Azzawi, Fadhil

Miracle Maker: Selected Poems of Fadhil Al-Azzawi.

Rochester: Boa Editions, 2003.

First edition of this collection of poems by the award-winning author. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by the author on the half-title page, “with my Love Fadhil Al-Azzawi and again below in A...

$375.00 Item Number: RRB-138262

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Kazantzakis, Nikos

Tertsines.

Athens: Konstantinidis and Michalas Press, 1960.

First Greek edition of this collection of poems by the author of Zorba the Greek. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. Signed by Helen Kazantzakis.

$375.00 Item Number: RRB-117523

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Conrad, Joseph

Suspense.

London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1925.

First English edition of Conrad’s final, unfinished novel. Octavo, original cloth. Introduction by Richard Curle. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some wear to the spine. Jacket art by...

$375.00 Item Number: RRB-130717

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L'Engle, Madeleine

Camilla Dickinson.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1951.

Rare first edition of the reader’s edition of this early novel by the author of A Wrinkle In Time about the first romance of two teenagers from dysfunctional families in New York City. Octavo, o...

$375.00 Item Number: RRB-145768

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Brosnan, Pierce

Pierce Brosnan Signed Photograph.

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Photograph of actor Pierce Brosnan, as James Bond. Semi-glossy photograph of Brosnan in the iconic black and white tuxedo of the secret agent James Bond with a Walther PPK in his right hand. British S...

$375.00 Item Number: RRB-149417

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LORD BYRON. [GEORGE GORDON BYRON]

The Poetical Works of Lord Byron.

London: Frederick Warne and Co, c. 1890.

The Poetical Works of Lord Byron. Octavo, bound in half vellum over cloth, frontispiece, morocco spine label, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, marbled endpapers top edge gilt. In ne...

$375.00 Item Number: RRB-111329

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Rhodes, Richard

How to Write: Advice and Reflections.

New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1995.

First edition of this writing primer from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author.. Octavo, original publisher’s half-cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “T...

$375.00 Item Number: RRB-149151

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Faulkner, William

A Fable.

New York: Random House, 1954.

First edition of the first novel to win both Pulitzer and National Book Award. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Riki Levinson. Inscription to the front fr...

$375.00 Item Number: RRB-150881

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Saramago, Jose

All the Names.

New York: Harcourt, 2000.

First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Doris Jose Saramago 29 October 2008...

$375.00 Item Number: RRB-140688

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Johnston, Mary

Lewis Rand.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1908.

First edition of Mary Johnston’s classic historical romance. Octavo, original cloth, full color frontispiece after a painting by F. L. Yohn. One of 500 copies. Signed by the author. Very good in...

$375.00 Item Number: RRB-88023

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Malamud, Bernard

The Fixer.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966.

First edition, early printing of the author’s fourth novel, which went on to win the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Bernard Malamud on the h...

$375.00 Item Number: RRB-140811

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Perry, Sarah

The Essex Serpent.

London: Serpent's Tail, 2016.

First edition of this modern classic, basis for the miniseries starring Claire Danes and Tom Hiddleston. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Sarah Perry on the title page. Near fine in a near fi...

$375.00 Item Number: RRB-142273

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Paton, Alan

Cry, the Beloved Country: A Story of Comfort in Desolation.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1948.

First edition of Paton’s classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.

$375.00 Item Number: RRB-140264

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Briggs, Raymond

Gentleman Jim.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1980.

First edition of Briggs’ somber look into the daily struggles of the working class. Folio, original illustrated boards. Signed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper, “Raymond...

$375.00 Item Number: RRB-92540

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Coetzee, J.M

Life & Times of Michael K.

South Africa: Ravan Press, 1983.

First edition of the author’s first Booker Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by J.M. Coetzee on the title page. Some bleedthrough on the bottom pages, near fine in a near fine...

$375.00 Item Number: RRB-100092

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