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Freedom.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, boards. Boldly signed by Jonathan Franzen on the title page and additionally signed by jacket designer Charlotte Strick on the front panel of the dust jacke...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-150173

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Henty, George Alfred

A Knight of the White Cross: A Tale of the Siege of Rhodes.

London: Blackie & Son, Limited, 1896.

First edition of Henty’s classic adventure tale. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles and decorations to the spine and front panel, with twelve illustrations by Ralph Peackock and a pla...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-122361

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Christie, Agatha

13 for Luck!: A Selection of Mystery Stories.

London: Collins, 1966.

First edition of this collection of short mystery stories by the master of mystery. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-150370

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Vidal, Gore

Matters of Fact and of Fiction (Essays 1973-1976).

New York: Random House, 1977.

First edition of this collection of essays by the award-winning novelist. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “Gore Vidal all love to Kit.” The re...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-126757

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Trollope, Anthony

The Small House at Allington.

London: Smith, Elder, and Co, 1864.

Finely bound edition the fifth novel in Trollope’s Chronicles of Barsetshire series. Octavo, two volumes bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-112301

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Dumas, Alexandre

Les Quarante-Cinq. [The Forty-Five Guardsmen].

Paris: A. Le Vasseur et Cie, Editeurs, nd.

Le Vasseur’s “Alexandre Dumas Illustré” edition of third and final work in Dumas’ Valois trilogy. Quarto, original wrappers, frontispiece, illustrations by d’Alphonse de...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-117946

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Michener, James A. and Jack Levine

Facing East.

New York : Maecenas Press/Random House, 1970.

Signed limited edition of this work by the award-winning author, signed by James Michener and illustrator Jack Levine. Folio, original cloth. lithographs and woodcuts by Jack Levine enclosed in a silk...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-118821

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Hull, Raymond

How to Write A Play.

Cincinnati, OH: Writer's Digest Books, 1983.

First edition of this work on how to write a play. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “Mary Greetings and b...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-142459

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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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Gordimer, Nadine

July’s People.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1981.

First edition 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.

$275.00 Item Number: RRB-543

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Herbert, Frank

The Santaroga Barrier.

New York: Berkley Publishing Corporation, 1968.

Berkley Medallion 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....

$275.00 Item Number: RRB-150249

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Nabokov, Vladimir

Notes on Prosody.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, 1964.

First edition of Nabokov’s analysis of poetic prosody from the commentary of his translation of Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.

$275.00 Item Number: RRB-88174

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Woolf, Virginia

Contemporary Writers.

London: The Hogarth Press, 1965.

Rare proof copy of the first edition of collection of 46 essays and book reviews by Virginia Woolf, published posthumously. Small octavo, original wrappers with publication date written in ink to the...

$275.00 Item Number: RRB-151263

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Garcia Marquez, Gabriel; Edith Grossman

Living To Tell the Tale.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.

First edition in English of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s memoir. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Edith Grossman on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Caro...

$275.00 Item Number: RRB-133748

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Knopf, Alfred A. [Blanche W. Knopf]

The Borzoi 1925: Being a Sort of Record of Ten Years of Publishing.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1925.

First edition of this commemorative volume that showcases the publishing house’s first decade. Octavo, publisher’s original cream half-cloth over marbled boards, Borzoi Books logo with Rus...

$275.00 Item Number: RRB-149169

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James, Henry

Portraits of Places.

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1884.

First edition of James’ later collection of travel accounts throughout Europe and the United States. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine. In very good condition.

$275.00 Item Number: RRB-81257

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Murakami, Haruki

Men Without Women.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.

First edition of this collection of seven tales about men who have lost women by internationally best-selling author Haruki Murakami. Octavo, original cloth. Signed three times by dust jacket designer...

$275.00 Item Number: RRB-123764

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