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Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer.

New York: Crown, 1996.

Uncorrected proof of the first edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize- winning novel. Octavo, original beige wrappers. Signed by Steven Millhauser on the title page. In fine condition.

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-887

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White, Patrick

Voss.

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1957.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s fifth novel and what many consider to be his finest. Octavo, original blue cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket art by famed Aust...

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-131223

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Cheever, John

The Enormous Radio and Other Stories.

New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1953.

First edition of this work by the award-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Grace James.

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-142887

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Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Men of Our Times or Leading Patriots of the Day.

Hartford: Hartford Publishing Company, 1868.

First edition of this work by the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Octavo, bound in contemporary calf, raised bands, morocco spine labels, illustrated with 18 engraved plates. In very good condition...

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-142076

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Pinter, Harold

Original The Caretaker Playbill.

London: Proscenium Publications, 1991.

Original Playbill from the May 1991 performance of Harold Pinter’s The Caretaker performed at the Alhambra Theatre. Small octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Rehearsal photographs by Ivan Kyn...

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-88116

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Day, Laraine [Leo Durocher]

Day with the Giants.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1952.

First edition of Day’s account of her experiences as “The First Lady of Baseball”. Octavo, original cloth, with drawings by Leo Hershfield. Signed by Lairaine Day and Leo Durocher on...

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-123480

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Tennyson, Alfred

Enoch Arden and The Two Locksley Halls.

Boston: D.C. Heath & Co, 1897.

Finely bound example of three of Tennyson’s most famous poems. Duodecimo, original publisher’s cloth, frontispiece of Tennyson. In very good condition. Edited with notes by Calvin S. Brown...

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-149047

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Harrison, Jim

Farmer.

New York: The Viking Press, 1976.

First edition of Harrison’s third novel. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth, top stain yellow. Boldly signed by Jim Harrison on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket desi...

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-150156

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Coetzee, J.M

Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life.

London: Secker & Warburg, 1997.

First edition of this fictionalized autobiography by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the title page, “J.M. Coetzee Cape Town, 1999.” Fine in...

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-132418

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Lessing, Doris

The Diaries Of Jane Somers.

London: Michael Joseph, 1984.

First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Doris Lessing on the title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Phil Kay.

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-50071

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Johnson, Adam

The Orphan Master’s Son.

New York: Random House, 2012.

First edition of this emotionally rousing novel, which went on to win the Pulitzer Prize. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Johan...

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-147177

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Kipling, Rudyard

Day By Day.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1913.

First edition of this selection of lines from Kipling’s works for each day of the year. Duodecimo, bound in full suede with gilt titles to the front panel, pictorial endpapers, frontispiece port...

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-149048

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Styron, William

The Confessions of Nat Turner.

New York: Random House, 1967.

First edition of Styron’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Gene Barnett best wishes William Styron....

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-127426

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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 near fin...

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-132699

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Powys, John Cowper

The Inmates.

London: Macdonald & Co., 1952.

First edition of the author’s astonishing tale, set in a madhouse. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Roy Sanford.

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-128106

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Roth, Philip

The Human Stain.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.

First edition, second printing of Roth’s award-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Philip Roth on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by...

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-150374

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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 near fin...

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-146095

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Wolfe, Tom

Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine And Other Stories, Sketches, and Essays.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976.

First edition of this collection of essays. Octavo, original cloth, sketches by the author. Boldly signed by Tom Wolfe on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jan...

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-141279

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Jones, James

Some Came Running.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1957.

First edition of the author’s major second novel about an aspiring Army veteran writer. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth. Jacket design by Greta Franzen. Near fine in a near fine du...

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-147568

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Kadare, Ismail

The General of the Dead Army.

New York: Grossman, 1972.

First American edition of the author’s classic first book to be translated into English. Octavo, original cloth, top stain black. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by McKean, K...

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-152111

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Shem, Samuel

The Spirit of the Place.

Kent, OH: The Kent University Press, 2008.

First edition of this ambitious novel about the complicated relationships between mothers and sons, doctors and patients, the past and the present, and love and death. Octavo, original boards. Present...

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-142111

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James, Henry

The Private Life, Lord Beaupre, The Visits.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1893.

First edition of this collection of novellas published at the height of James’ career. Octavo, original illustrated cloth, in near fine condition.

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-80104

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Conrad, Joseph

The Rover.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923.

First American edition of the last complete novel by Joseph Conrad. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket, bookplate to the front pastedown.

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-147454

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Ford, Richard

Wildlife.

New York: Collins Harvill, 1990.

First British edition of this work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “Sally So finally with love. From R....

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-121321

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