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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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Jean-Aubry, G. [Joseph Conrad]

Joseph Conrad: Life and Letters.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1927.

First American edition of this work on Conrad. Octavo, two volumes, original cloth, top edge gilt with others untrimmed, illustrated, tissue-guarded frontispiece to each volume. Near fine in the origi...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-147716

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France, Anatole. Translated by Robert B. Douglas. Illustrated by Frank C. Pape

Thais.

New York: John Lane, 1926.

First Frank C. Pape illustrated edition of Anatole France’s novel based on the life of Saint Thais of Egypt. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-90458

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Trollope, Anthony

Ralph the Heir.

London: Strahan & Co. Publishers, 1871.

First illustrated edition of Trollope’s account of a corrupt Parliamentary election, based on his own experiences as a candidate. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco with gilt tooling to the...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-110321

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Dreiser, Theodore

America is Worth Saving.

New York: Modern Age Books, 1941.

First edition, second printing of this work by the author of Carrie. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, “Si...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-112359

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O'Neill, Eugene

The Emperor Jones.

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1928.

Signed limited first edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author, this is number 274. Quarto, original boards. Signed by Eugene O’Neill. Illustrated by Alexander King. Near fine in a...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-117631

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Twain, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens]

The Prince and the Pauper: A Tale of Young People of All Ages.

Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1881.

First Tauchnitz edition of Twain’s first attempt at historical fiction, first published in Canada in 1881. 12mo, 2 volumes bound into one in half cloth over marbled boards. From the library of America...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-135741

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Swinburne, Algernon Charles

Auguste Vacquerie.

Paris: Librarie Nouvelle, 1875.

First separate edition of this rare Swinburne title. Octavo, original wrappers. Wise 87. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and folding chemise slipcase.

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-141049

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Frost, Robert

North of Boston.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1926.

Early printing of Frost’s second published book. Octavo, original cloth, tissue-guarded frontispiece of Aroldo Du Chene’s plaster bust of Frost. Very good in the rare original dust jacket...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-115403

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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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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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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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