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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

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Barrie, J.M

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

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Vidal, Gore

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

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Roth, Philip

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

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Conrad, Joseph

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

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Blok, Alexander. [Aleksandr]. Translated by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky. Lithographs by George Biddle

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

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Heaney, Seamus

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

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Irving, John

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

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Roth, Philip

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

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Wodehouse, P. G

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

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Roth, Philip

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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Tasso, Torqato

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

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Huxley, Aldous

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

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Rice, Anne

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

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Atwood, Margaret

Cat’s Eye.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1988.

First Canadian edition and true first of this “brilliant, three-dimensional mosaic… the story of Elaine’s childhood is so real and heartbreaking you want to stand up in your seat and...

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-138067

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe

The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley.

London: Edward Moxon, 1854.

Finely bound example of the works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Royal octavo, bound in three quarters vellum over marbled boards, elaborate gilt tooling to the spine, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt,...

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-141208

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Arthur, Anthony (John Updike)

Literary Feuds.

New York: St. Martins Press, 2002.

First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the half title page, “For John Updike, with admiration- Anthony Arthur.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Updike is featured in...

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-5767

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James, Henry

The Ambassadors.

New York: The Heritage Press, 1963.

The Heritage Press edition of this dark comedy, which Henry James considered his finest work. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco by Morrell with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments withi...

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-148860

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Tolstoy, Leo N

Stories & Dramas.

London and Toronto: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., 1926.

First edition of this rare collection of thirteen of Tolstoy’s short stories including The Dream and The Nihilist; the publisher’s retained copy with their ‘File Copy’ label to...

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-123449

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Durant, Will

Transition: A Sentimental Story of One Mind and One Era.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1927.

Early printing of Durant’s classic work on the Great Change. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Will Durant on the front free endpaper. In very good condition, ownership name.

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-125078

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Kingsley, Charles

Andromeda and Other Poems.

London: John W. Parker and Son, 1858.

First edition of this collection centered on the Greek myth of Andromeda’s rescue from a sea monster by Perseus. Duodecimo, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards by Tout & Sons with...

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-151106

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Mitford, Mary Russell; illustrations by C. Brock

Our Village.

London: J.M. Dent and Co., 1904.

Octavo, Three quarters green leather over marbled boards. Gilt tooling to the spine, top edge gilt.

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-3008

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Dickens, Charles

Master Humphrey’s Clock.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1840-41.

First edition of this collection of short stories which originally appeared as a weekly periodical of the same name. Large octavo, 3 volumes bound into one in three quarters contemporary morocco, gilt...

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-147633

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Faulkner, William

Hunting Stories.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1988.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of two of Faulkner’s hunting tales: “The Bear” and “The Old People.” Folio, bound in quarter black morocco over linen boards wi...

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-148573

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