Hallowe’en Party.
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1969.
First edition of Christie’s classic murder mystery. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
$350.00
Item Number: RRB-150692
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All My Friends Are Going To Be Strangers.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972.
First edition of this early work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Larry McMurtry on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket desig...
$350.00
Item Number: RRB-150861
Carroll, Lewis; Illustrated by Barry Moser
Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There.
Berkely: Published by the University of California Press, 1983.
First Pennyroyal Press edition of Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. Quarto, original half cloth, illustrated by Barry Moser. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
$350.00
Item Number: RRB-140106
Metroland.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1980.
First edition of the Booker Prize-winning author’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Julian Barnes on the title page. Fine in a fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Craig...
$350.00
Item Number: RRB-127617
Faust, Irvin [Richard Benjamin]
The Steagle.
New York: Random House, 1966.
First edition. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Richard Benjamin on the title page, who starred in the 1971 film bearing the same name. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by B...
$350.00
Item Number: RRB-133107
Bacchylides Complete Poems.
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First edition of this translation of this classic text. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by translator Robert Fagles on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Foreword by Sir Mauri...
$350.00
Item Number: RRB-136979
The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. With an introduction by Sir Herbert Read. Translated from the French...
$350.00
Item Number: RRB-135389
Lives of the Hunted.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901.
First edition of this collection of stories. Octavo, original cloth, with over 200 drawings. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To S.D. Green with best wishes of Ernest Seton-T...
$350.00
Item Number: RRB-79038
The Heart of the Matter.
New York: The Viking Press, 1948.
First American edition of what many consider the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. Jacket design by Edgard Cirlin.
$350.00
Item Number: RRB-131747
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia [Chip Kidd]
Until August.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2024.
First edition of this extraordinary rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize–winning author of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude—a moving tale of female desire and abandon....
$350.00
Item Number: RRB-149873
At Home: Essays 1982-1988.
New York: Random House, 1988.
First edition of this collection of essays by the award-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “Gore Vidal, for Kit, with love....
$350.00
Item Number: RRB-126989
The Tailor of Panama.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1996.
First edition of this “tour de force in which almost every convention of the classic spy novel is violated” (The New York Times). Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers. Boldly i...
$350.00
Item Number: RRB-149905
Margaret Ogilvy.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1869.
First British edition of the author of Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie’s classic memoir of his mother. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine, top edge gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece. In nea...
$350.00
Item Number: RRB-109891
Operation Shylock: A Confession.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.
First edition of Roth’s 19th book. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by the Philip Roth on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paula Scher.
$350.00
Item Number: RRB-158
The Mirror of the Sea: Memories and Impressions.
London: Methuen & Company, 1906.
First British edition of Conrad’s first volume of autobiographical non-fiction. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles and tooling to the spine. In very good condition.
$350.00
Item Number: RRB-55033
The Twelve.
New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1931.
First edition and signed limited edition of Blok’s controversial long poem. Quarto, original quarter morocco with gilt titles to the spine, illustrated with lithographs by George Biddle. Transla...
$350.00
Item Number: RRB-134252
Robert Henryson The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables.
London: Faber & Faber, 2009.
First British edition of Heaney’s translation of Henryson’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Seamus Heaney on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Hand lettering...
$350.00
Item Number: RRB-4179
A Son of the Circus.
New York: Random House, 1994.
First edition of “his most entertaining novel since Garp” (The New York Times Book Review). Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the title page...
$350.00
Item Number: RRB-140440
The Professor of Desire.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977.
First edition of this “thoughtful and elegant novel” (The New York Times Book Review) . Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Philip Roth on the title page. A very...
$350.00
Item Number: RRB-159
Money in the Bank.
London: Herbert Jenkins, n.d.
First edition of the author’s delightful and entertaining comedic mystery. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Frank Ford.
$350.00
Item Number: RRB-145015
Indignation.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008.
First edition of Roth’s twenty-ninth book. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Philip Roth on the title page and by legendary designer Milton Glaser on the front panel of the dust jacket. Fine in...
$350.00
Item Number: RRB-102836
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La Gerusalemme Liberata di Torquato Tasso. [Jerusalem Delivered].
Milano: Nicolo Bettoni, 1824.
Finely bound example of Torquato Tasso’s epic poem La Gerusalemme Liberata, or Jerusalem Delivered. Octavo, two volumes bound into one in three quarters vellum over marbled boards with gilt titl...
$350.00
Item Number: RRB-111064
Eyeless in Gaza.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1936.
First edition of Huxley’s classic work, which many consider one of his finest. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
$350.00
Item Number: RRB-150147
The Tale of the Body Thief: The Vampire Chronicles.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.
First edition of this work in the Vampire Chronicles. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Anne Rice on the title page and additionally three signed by Chip Kidd on the title page, the jacket fron...
$350.00
Item Number: RRB-151287
