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Ravelstein.

New York: The Viking Press, 2000.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s final novel. Octavo, original half cloth. With a Viking Press ‘compliments of the author’ card signed by Bellow tipped in. From the...

$325.00 Item Number: RRB-127950

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Matthiessen, Peter

Far Tortuga.

New York: Random House, 1975.

First edition. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Peter Matthiessen on the title page. Near fine in an excellent price-clipped dust jacket that is lightly rubbed.

$325.00 Item Number: RRB-3917

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McElroy, Joseph

Hind’s Kidnap.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1969.

First edition of this “distinguished work of the imagination” (J. G. Farrell). Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by James Spanfeller. Uncommon in...

$325.00 Item Number: RRB-140026

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Roth, Philip

When She Was Good.

New York: Random House, 1967.

First edition of Roth’s second novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Philip Roth on the title page in a contemporary signature. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Roy Kuhl...

$325.00 Item Number: RRB-112689

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Wodehouse, P. G

Uncle Dynamite.

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1948.

First edition of Wodehouse’s hilarious and nonsensical novel. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket, inscription to the front free endpaper. Jacket illustration by Frank F...

$325.00 Item Number: RRB-145043

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Welty, Eudora

The Ponder Heart.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1954.

First edition and advance review copy of Welty’s third novel. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with drawings by Joe Krush. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. With the publisher’...

$325.00 Item Number: RRB-90417

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Morrison, Toni

A Mercy.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.

First edition of “one of Morrison’s most haunting works yet” (The New York Times). Octavo, original half-cloth. Boldly signed by Toni Morrison on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust j...

$325.00 Item Number: RRB-151545

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Martin, George R.R. [Rick Berry]

Signed limited first edition of this award winning novella by master storyteller George R.R. Martin. Octavo, original cloth, with black and white illustrations by Rick Berry. Boldy signed by the autho...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-147754

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Palgrave, Francis T

The Treasury of Sacred Song: Selected from the English Lyrical Poetry of Four Centuries.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1889.

First trade edition of Palgrave’s treasury of the lyrical poems of the finest English poets. Octavo, original publisher’s gilt-stamped half vellum, top edge gilt with others untrimmed. In...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-111084

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Bentley, Edmund C

Trent’s Last Case.

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, n.d. [c. 1913].

First edition of Bentley’s groundbreaking detective novel, “one of the three best detective stories ever written” (Agatha Christie). Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gil...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-137405

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Grass, Gunter

Die Vorzüge der Windhühner.

Berlin: Luchterhand, 1956.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s first book. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Fine in illustrated wrappers as issued. Signed by Gunter Grass on the title page.

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-574

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Thomas, Keith

Religion and the Decline of Magic.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Diane Large.

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-144493

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Perelman, S.J

The Beauty Part.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1963.

Rare uncorrected proof of the first edition of this marvelous play in two acts. Thin quarto, original wrappers and comb binding. In very good condition with a spot of toning to the front and rear pane...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-146913

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Jones, James

The Thin Red Line.

New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1962.

First edition of Jones’ sequel to his first novel, From Here to Eternity. Octavo, original black cloth, cartographic endpapers. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Leonard Slonevsky...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-149814

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Christie, Agatha

A Pocket Full of Rye.

London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1953.

First edition of Christie’s ingenious murder mystery. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket, in good condition with losses to the spine and front panel. From the col...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-149982

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Irving, John

A Widow for One Year.

New York: Alred A. Knopf, 1998.

First Canadian edition of Irving’s powerful ninth novel. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Ken With my appreciation John Irving....

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-137631

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Webb, Charles [Richard Benjamin]

The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1970.

First edition of this novel, basis for the 1971 film starring Richard Benjamin and Joanna Shimkus, directed by Larry Turman. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by actor Richard Benjamin on the titl...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-143069

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Conrad, Joseph

Last Essays.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926.

First edition of this posthumous collection of twenty essays. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, frontispiece facsimile of “The Last Words That Conrad Wrote.” Near fine in the origi...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-147542

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Nabokov, Vladimir

Nikolai Gogol.

London: Editions Poetry London, 1947.

First British edition of Nabokov’s criticism of the work of Russian literary master Nikolai Gogol. Octavo, original cloth. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Gogol. Near fine in a good dust jacke...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-118463

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Twain, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens]

The £1,000,000 Bank-Note and Other New Stories.

New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1893.

First edition, second issue of Twain’s classic short story collection. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, tissue-guarded frontispiece by Dan Beard and 9 pages of publisher’s adverti...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-150790

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Catullus, Gaius Valerius. [Translated by Sir Richard Francis Burton]

The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus.

New York: Privately Printed for Subscribers Only, 1928.

Limited edition of The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus, translated by Sir Richard F. Burton and Leonard C. Smithers. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with eight full page plates, rebacked. One...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-128056

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Cruikshank, George

Illustrations of Smollett, Fielding and Goldsmith, in a Series of Forty-One Plates, Designed and Engraved by George Cruikshank.

London: Charles Tilt, 1832.

First edition of this collection of illustrations depicting iconic characters and scenes from the 18th-century novels of Tobias Smollett, Henry Fielding, and Oliver Goldsmith. Duodecimo, bound in the...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-151180

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Bellow, Saul

Mr. Sammler’s Planet.

New York: The Viking Press, 1970.

First edition of the author’s third and final National Book Award-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Saul Bellow on the front free endpaper. Fine in a very good dust jacket. J...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-42977

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Faulkner, William [Madeleine Albright]

Absalom, Absalom!

United States of America: Random House , 1951.

Modern Libraray editon of this story that explores the themes of race, identity, and the burden of history. 18 mo, original publisher’s cloth. From the library of Madeleine K. Albright. Albright...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-149078

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Rare & Classic, American or English Literature Books for Sale Online

Ravelstein.

Far Tortuga.

Hind’s Kidnap.

When She Was Good.

Uncle Dynamite.

The Ponder Heart.

A Mercy.

The Skin Trade.

The Treasury of Sacred Song: Selected from the English Lyrical Poetry of Four Centuries.

Trent’s Last Case.

Die Vorzüge der Windhühner.

Religion and the Decline of Magic.

The Beauty Part.

The Thin Red Line.

A Pocket Full of Rye.

A Widow for One Year.

The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker.

Last Essays.

Nikolai Gogol.

The £1,000,000 Bank-Note and Other New Stories.

The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus.

Illustrations of Smollett, Fielding and Goldsmith, in a Series of Forty-One Plates, Designed and Engraved by George Cruikshank.

Mr. Sammler’s Planet.

Absalom, Absalom!