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Lady Chatterley’s Lover: Including My Skirmish with Jolly Roger.

Paris: Privately Printed [LeCram Press], 1929.

The unabridged popular edition was the second authorized edition of D.H. Lawrence’s most ambitious, significant, and explicit work on sex and romance. Octavo, rebound in full cloth with gilt tit...

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-148341

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Buchan, John

Prester John.

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd., .

Finely bound edition of classic adventure novel. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, marbled endpapers, c...

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-150839

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Balzac, Honoré de

Eugénie Grandet.

New York: The Heritage Press, 1961.

The Heritage Press edition of Balzac’s short novel, later revised to be included in his ambitious project, La Comédie humaine. Royal octavo, bound in three-quarters morocco by Morrell with gilt titles...

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-148792

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Sandburg, Carl. [William Safire]

Good Morning America.

New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928.

Signed limited first edition of Sandburg’s classic poem, originally delivered at Harvard as a Phi Beta Kappa poem. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six...

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-127368

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Murphy, Richard

The Last Galway Hooker.

[Dublin]: The Dolmen Press, 1961.

First and signed limited edition of the Irish poet’s classic poem. Octavo, original quarter parchment. One of 200 copies signed by the author. In near fine condition.

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-128143

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Kertesz, Imre

A Kudarc.

Budapest: Magveto, 1988.

First Hungarian edition and true first. Octavo, original boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Imre Kertesz on the title page.

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-1489

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Wells, H.G

The New America: The New World.

London: The Cresset Press, 1935.

First British edition of this sociopolitical commentary of the United States during the interwar period. Octavo, original publisher’s blue cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket with toning...

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-149250

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Hughes, Langston

Something in Common and Other Stories.

New York: Hill and Wang, 1963.

First edition, advance reading copy of this collection of thirty-seven of Hughes’ tales, eleven of them appearing in book form for the first time. Octavo, paperback issue, original pictorial wra...

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-139752

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Di Donato, Pietro

Christ in Concrete.

New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1939.

First edition of this classic portrait of Lower East Side of Manhattan in the 1920s. Octavo, original black cloth. Warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a good dust j...

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-1871

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Cisneros, Sandra

The House on Mango Street.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.

First hardcover edition of this modern classic of Chicano literature. Duodecimo, original purple cloth, top edge blue. Near fine in a fine dust jacket, mark to the topstain. Jacket painting by Nivia G...

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-146874

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Voltaire (Arouet, François-Marie)

Vie de Moliere.

Lausanne: Chez Francois Grasset & Comp, 1772.

Early edition of Voltaire’s biography of one of the most influential and widely translated writers of all time. Octavo, bound in full sprinkled sheepskin. Gilt titles and tooling to the spine, p...

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-95126

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Williams, Kit

Masquerade.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1979.

First edition of this bestelling interactive picture book that had sparked a real life treasure hunt. Imperial octavo, original pictorial wrappers, illustrated throughout by the author. In near fine.

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-147950

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Irving, John

The Cider House Rules.

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1985.

Signed limited first edition of Irving’s sixth novel. Octavo, original leather, gilt titles and tooling, raised bands, all edges gilt, frontispiece by Scott Reynolds. Boldly signed by John Irvin...

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-117269

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Buchan, John

Mr. Standfast.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1919.

First edition of this classic WWI spy thriller novel, the third to follow Richard Hannay. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over cloth covered boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in...

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-150846

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Paz, Octavio

A Draft of Shadows.

New York: A New Directions Book, 1979.

Early printing of this collection of poems published in English and Spanish. Octavo, original wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by the author to friend and fellow writer Sergio Muñoz Bata, “...

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-133278

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Wasserstein, Wendy

The Heidi Chronicles.

San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1990.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Marc- All best- Wendy Wasserstein.” Fine in a near fi...

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-150206

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Kidd, Chip

Judge This: A Ted Original.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015.

First edition of this classic TED Talk original. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed three times Chip Kidd; on the front panel of the dust jacket, on the title page and rear flap of the dust jacket...

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-149742

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Lewis, Sinclair

Elmer Gantry.

New York: Harcourt Brace, 1927.

First edition, second issue of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s controversial bestseller and basis for the Academy Award-winning film. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a good dust jacket wit...

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-150877

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Naylor, Gloria

The Women of Brewster Place.

New York: The Viking Press, 1982.

First edition of Naylor’s National Book Award-winning debut novel. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Jeanne Gloria Naylor.” Near fine in a ne...

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-125318

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Kerouac, Jack

Vanity of Duluoz.

New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1968.

First edition of this classic work by the author of On the Road. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-131320

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Xingjian, Gao

Snow in August.

Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2003.

First edition in English of the Nobel Laureate’s play that is based on the legendary Huineng, the sixth patriarch of Zen Buddhism in the Tang Dynasty. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed and dated...

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-1234

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Waugh, Evelyn

A Tourist in Africa.

London: Chapman & Hall Ltd, 1960.

Rare uncorrected proof of the first edition of Waugh’s classic work inspired by his 1959 tour of East Africa. Octavo, original wrappers. In good condition.

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-146384

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Kertesz, Imre

Sorstalansag [Fatelessness].

Budapest: Szepirodalmi, 1975.

Second Hungarian edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Imre Kertesz on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfw...

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-72014

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Roger, Fred [Mr. McFeely]

You Are Special: Words of Wisdom from America’s Most Beloved Neighbor.

New York: Viking, 1994.

First edition of this collection of quotes from Rogers‘ writings throughout his career. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Mr. McFeely on the half-title page, “To...

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-133480

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