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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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Bellow, Saul

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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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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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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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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Tennyson, Alfred

The Works of Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1884.

Finely bound example of the works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Octavo, bound in a full contemporary polished emerald green calf prize-binding, gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-141528

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Updike, John [Erica Jong]

Bech at Bay: A Quasi-Novel.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.

First edition of the third installment in the Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s Bech series. Octavo, original cloth. With an autograph postcard and typed letter signed by Updike to Erica Jong laid...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-143620

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Berryman, John

The Dispossessed.

New York: William Sloane Associates, Inc., 1948.

First edition of the first general collection of the poems of John Berryman. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of renowned American poet, critic, and Princeton professor, Theodore (Ted) Weiss a...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-143526

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Naipaul, V.S

Collected Short Fiction.

New York: Everyman's Library, 2011.

First edition of this collection of fiction by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by V.S. Naipaul on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. With an introduction by the...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-56745

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White, Patrick

The Vivisector.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1970.

First edition of this work by “one of the great magicians of fiction . . . White’s scope is vast and his invention endless” (The Observer). Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dus...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-115811

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Bird, Larry

Larry Bird Signed 1988 Sports Illustrated.

New York: Time Inc, 1988.

March 1988 issue of Sports Illustrated signed by American basketball legend Larry Bird. Octavo, original wrappers with Larry Bird in his Celtics uniform on the front panel, illustrated with advertisem...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-152278

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Halberstam, David

The Best and the Brightest.

Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2005.

Signed limited edition of the author’s magnum opus. Octavo, bound in full leather, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, front and rear panels, all edges gilt. Signed David Halberstam. In fine c...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-144148

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Thompson, Ruth Plumly; Founded on and continuing the Famous Oz Stories by L. Frank Baum

Pirates in Oz.

Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co, 1931.

Early printing of Thompson’s eleventh fantastical continuation of Frank Baum’s world of Oz. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition. Illustrated plates by John R. Neill.

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-145099

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Malamud, Bernard

God’s Grace.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1982.

First edition of Malamud’s eighth and final novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Susie and Paul Old friends with a...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-100056

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Stevenson, Robert Louis

Kidnapped: Being the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751.

London: Humphrey Milford/ Oxford University Press, 1930.

First edition of this wonderfully illustrated edition. Quarto, original cloth, slipcase, illustrated by Rowland Hilder. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. The slipcase is in near fine condition.

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-138086

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Cheever, Susan [Erica Jong]

Note Found in a Bottle: My Life as a Drinker.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.

First edition of Cheever’s frank and moving autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, “Ne...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-142607

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Gordimer, Nadine

July’s People.

South Africa: Ravan Press/ Taurus, 1981.

First South African edition and true first of one of the author’s most beloved titles. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket des...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-84673

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Jerrold, Blanchard. [George Cruikshank]

The Life of George Cruikshank. In Two Epochs.

New York: Scribner and Welford, 1882.

First American edition of the definitive biography of famed illustrator and satirist George Cruikshank. Octavo, two volumes, bound in three-quarters early morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the s...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-148378

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Chosen and Edited by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch

The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1918.

London: Oxford University Press, 1966.

Finely bound edition of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch’s The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1918, the new edition. Duodecimo, bound in full modern morocco by Bayntun-Riviere with gilt titles and to...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-148873

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Buchan, John

The Courts of the Morning.

London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD, 1929.

First edition of this classic adventure thriller. Octavo, bound in half morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles to the spine in five compartments within gilt bands, illustrated with a map. In nea...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-150851

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott [Jackson R. Bryer]

F. Scott Fitzgerald. Novels and Stories 1920-1922: This Side of Paradise, Flappers and Philosophers, The Beautiful and Damned, and Tales of the Jazz Age.

New York: The Library of America, 2000.

First edition of the Library of America compilations of the works fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald from 1920-1922. Octavo, original publisher’s green cloth, pictorial endpapers, silk ribbon bound...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-151939

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Le Clezio, J.M.G

Desert.

Boston: A Verba Mundi Book, 2009.

First American edition of what many consider the author’s breakthrough novel. Octavo, original boards. Signed by J.M.G. Le Clezio on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-1555

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