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Bouvier, Jacqueline and Lee [Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis]

One Special Summer.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1974.

First edition of this delightful memoir written by the Bouvier sisters about their summer in Europe. Folio, original marbled blue paper boards, illustrated with drawings and decorations by both author...

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-141411

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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, “Valerie love Gore.” The recipient Valerie...

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-126590

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James, Henry

The Outcry.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911.

First American edition, published simultaneously with the British edition of James’ final novel. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition, bookplate, library markings in pen to the first t...

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-80037

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Bolaño, Roberto

La Pista de Hielo. [The Skating Rink].

Alcalá de Henares: Fundación Colegio Del Rey, 1993.

First edition of this prize-winning crime novella in the original Spanish. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. In near fine condition. Cover painting by Hilla Schürholz. Accompanied by the original p...

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-146928

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Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

The Rivals; The Critic; The Duenna.

London: Printed for A. Millar, W. Law, and R. Cater, 1797.

Finely bound editions of three of Sheridan’s most well known and popular comic plays. Duodecimo, three volumes, bound in full red pebbled morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in thr...

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-149481

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Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]

The Innocents Abroad, Or The New Pilgrims’ Progress.

New York: The Heritage Press, 1962.

The Heritage Press edition of the author’s second book, one of the best-selling travel books of all-time. Octavo, bound in three-quarters morocco by Morrell with gilt titles to the spine in six compar...

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-148723

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Vidal, Gore

Duluth.

New York : Random House, 1983.

First edition of this novel by the award-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “Kit – all love – Gore Vidal.” The...

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-126272

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Le Clezio, J.M.G

The Giants.

New York: Atheneum, 1975.

First American edition of the author’s sixth novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by J.M.G. Le Clezio on the title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with minor wear. Jacket de...

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-775

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Lawrence, D.H

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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Barrett, William E

The Lilies of the Field.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1962.

First edition of the author’s classic retelling of the true story of the Sisters of Walburga, adapted into the Academy Award winning film of the same name starring Sidney Poitier, his performanc...

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-122344

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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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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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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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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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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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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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