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The Power-House.

Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1916.

First edition of this fast-paced thriller. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, marbled endpap...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-151375

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Seuss, Dr. [Theodor Geisel]

Oh Say, Can You Say? “Oh my brothers! Oh my sisters! These are Terrible Tongue Twisters!”

New York: Random House, 1979.

First edition of this book of tongue twisters by Dr. Seuss. Octavo, original laminated boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated throughout. In very good condition, without dust jacket as issued.

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-139022

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Hilton, James. Illustrations by H.M. Brock

Good-bye, Mr. Chips.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1940.

Early printing of Hilton’s novella about a beloved schoolteacher. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to tooling to the spine, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the fron...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-95886

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Aiken, Conrad

Selected Poems.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929.

First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of poetry and verse. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. With a partial rare original wrap around band.

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-112323

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Kingsley, Charles

Westward Ho!

Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1855.

First edition of Kingsley’s historical novel based on the Preston Somers Expedition of 1595. Small octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards by Tout & Sons with gilt titles...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-151107

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Gipson, Gred

Hound-dog Man.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949.

First edition of this work, basis for the 1959 film directed by Don Siegel, starring Fabian, Carol Lynley, and Stuart Whitman. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, contemporar...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-142079

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Huxley, Aldous

Brief Candles.

New York: The Fountain Press, 1930.

First edition and signed limited edition of Huxley’s fifth collection of short fiction. Octavo, original black cloth. Boldly signed by Aldous Huxley on the half-title page. In very good conditio...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-143082

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Conrad, Joseph

Laughing Anne and One Day More.

London: John Castle, 1924.

First British edition of two plays from prolific writer Joseph Conrad. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Introduction by John Galsworthy. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-147552

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Parker, Dorothy

Enough Rope: Poems.

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927.

Early printing of Parker’s poignant collection of poetry exploring the complexities of human nature. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth over marbled paper covered boards. Near fine in...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-148065

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Sondheim, Stephen; James Lapine; Adapted and Illustrated by Hudson Talbott

Into The Woods.

New York: Crown Publishers, 1988.

First edition of this classic work, the basis for the Broadway musical and subsequent film. Quarto, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Adapted and illustrate...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-152145

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Nabokov, Vladimir

Despair.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1966.

First American edition of this inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime–his own murder. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine price-clipp...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-140005

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Updike, John

Brazil.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.

First edition of Updike’s sixteenth novel, a retelling of the ancient tale of Tristan and Isolde. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper,...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-142734

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Roth, Philip

The Great American Novel.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Philip Roth on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-150318

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Herbert, Frank

The Dosadi Experiment.

New York: Berkley Publishing Corporation, 1977.

Berkley edition of this standalone science fiction novel from the author of Dune. Octodecimo, original pictorial wrappers. Boldly signed by Frank Herbert on the title page beneath his name. In very go...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-150245

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Murakami, Haruki

Kafka on the Shore.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.

Advanced reader’s edition of the first edition of Murakami’s award-winning novel. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed twice by dust jacket illustrator, once on the front panel an...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-125773

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Hurst, Fannie

Back Street.

New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1951.

First edition of the bestselling story behind Ross Hunter’s classic melodrama starring Susan Hayward and John Gavin. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, contemporary name to...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-142081

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Uyenishi, S.K. [Raku]; Word Portrait of the author by Percy Longhurst

The Text-Book of Ju-Jutsu As Practised in Japan: Being a Simple Treatise on the Japanese Method of Self-Defence.

London: Athletic Publications Ltd, c. 1940.

Later edition of this comprehensive wrestling text-book. Octavo, original green cloth with black lettering and decoration, illustrated with several black-and-white plates. Near fine in a very good dus...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-145250

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Conrad, Joseph

Tales of Hearsay.

London: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd, 1925.

First British edition of the first and last short stories Joseph Conrad wrote. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, preface by R. B. Cunninghame Graham. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-147553

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Rushdie, Salman

Midnight’s Children.

London: The Folio Society, 2009.

The Folio Society edition of the author’s Booker Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original pictorial cloth, frontispiece, with nine color illustrations. In fine condition. Illustrations by Anna Bhus...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-148340

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Kipling, Rudyard

The New Army in Training.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1915.

First collected edition, first issue of this anthology which first appeared in 6 separate pamphlets in America of which only a few of each were printed. 16mo, original wrappers. With The Service Kipli...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-121084

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Pamuk, Orhan

Other Colors: Essays and A Story.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.

First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Orhan Pamuk on the title page and additionally signed three times by jacket designer Chip Kidd, on...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-123428

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Koestler, Arthur

The Yogi and the Commissar.

London: Hutchinson of London, 1965.

First Danube edition of this classic work by the author of Darkness at Noon. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Karl and Diane from Arthur....

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-142677

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Bellow, Saul

The Victim.

New York: The Vanguard Press, 1947.

First edition of the author’s second novel. Octavo, original black cloth. An excellent example in a near fine dust jacket.

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-88346

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Morrison, Toni

God Help the Child.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.

First edition this powerful novel which explores themes of race, identity, and the lasting impact of childhood trauma. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Toni Morrison on the title page. Fi...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-150665

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