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Terrorist.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.

First edition of this novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by John Updike on the title page and additionally signed three times by jacket designer Chip Kidd,...

$225.00 Item Number: RRB-123402

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Carpenter, Scott

The Steel Albatross.

New York: Pocket Books, 1991.

First edition of the first novel written by astronaut Scott Carpenter. Octavo, original half-cloth. Boldly signed by Scott Carpenter on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design b...

$225.00 Item Number: RRB-150630

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Coetzee, J.M. [Translated and Introduced by]

Landscape with Rowers: Poetry from the Netherlands.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.

First edition of this collection of poetry translated and introduced by Nobel Prize-winning author J.M. Coetzee. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by J.M. Coeztee on the title page. Fine in a fine d...

$225.00 Item Number: RRB-129194

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Wells, H.G

Meanwhile, The Picture of a Lady.

New York: George H. Doran, 1927.

First American edition of Wells’ widely translated best-selling novel. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, facsimile signature stamped in blind to the front panel. In near fine...

$225.00 Item Number: RRB-149420

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Coetzee, J.M

What Is Realism.

Bennington, VT: Bennington College Chapbooks, 1997.

First edition of this essay by J.M. Coetzee. Octavo, original wrappers, as issued. Although not called for, this copy is signed by Coetzee. Fine in wrappers.

$225.00 Item Number: RRB-1366

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Wodehouse, P.G

Uncle Dynamite.

London: Herbert Jenkins, n.d.

First edition of Wodehouse’s hilarious and nonsensical novel. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a good dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Frank Ford.

$225.00 Item Number: RRB-145042

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Christie, Agatha

Postern of Fate.

London: The Crime Club, 1973.

First edition of Christie’s final novel. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Margaret Murray.

$225.00 Item Number: RRB-150739

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Rendell, Ruth

A Judgement in Stone.

London: Hutchinson, 1977.

First edition of the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a fine dust jacket.

$225.00 Item Number: RRB-4619

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Bagot, Richard

Casting of Nets.

Bernhard Tauchnitz: Leipzig, 1901.

Finely bound example of Bagot’s early novel. Octavo, bound in three quarters vellum with red morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gilt tooling to the spine. Ownership names. In near fine condit...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-114706

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New Brunswick Readers: The Second Reader.

Toronto: W. J. Gage & Company, 1900.

First edition of The Second Reader in the New Brunswick Readers series, prescribed by the Board of Education for use in the Schools of New Brunswick. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Very good in...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-115364

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Kipling, Rudyard

Letters to the Family (Notes on a trip to Canada).

Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada, Limited, 1908.

First edition in book form of this collection of Kipling’s letters which first appeared in Newspapers during the spring of 1908 after a trip to Canada undertaken in the autumn of 1907. 12 mo, or...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-122384

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Bierce, Ambrose

The Shadow on the Dial and Other Essays.

San Francisco: A.M. Robertson , 1909.

First edition of this work by the award-winning author. Quarto, original cloth. Edited by S.O. Howes. Near fine in the uncommon original dust jacket.

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-141348

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Diamond, John

C: Because Cowards Get Cancer Too…

London: Vermilion, 1998.

First edition of Diamond’s story of his battle with throat cancer. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To dearest Sally with thanks and...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-124373

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Theroux, Paul

Half Moon Street.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984.

First edition of this work by the award-winning novelist. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Sally Soames with best wishes Pa...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-119623

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Sassoon, Siegfried

Vigils.

London: William Heinemann, Ltd, 1935.

First trade edition of Sassoon’s classic collection of poems. Octavo, original boards. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-123749

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Gardner, John

Role of Honour.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1984.

First edition of this Bond novel. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. Jacket art by Trevor Scobie.

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-127589

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Christie, Agatha

Postern of Fate.

London: The Crime Club, 1973.

First edition of Agatha Christie’s Postern of Fate, the final novel published during her lifetime and the last appearance of her beloved detective duo Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. Octavo, original pu...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-151304

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Cheever, Susan

A Handsome Man.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981.

First edition of this work by the award-winning author. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “April 30 New York For Burrows...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-142364

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Stanton, Stephen Berrien [William Tecumseh Sherman]

The Essential Life.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908.

First edition of this poetical guide to a fulfilling life; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Duodecimo, original navy blue cloth. P.T. Sherman’s bookplate to the front free endpaper...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-145983

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Cruikshank, Isaac Robert

The Lady and the Saints: In Three Cantos.

London: Edward Bull, 1839.

First edition of this poetic narrative. Octavo, bound in three quarters calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, title...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-148889

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Locker, Frederick

London Lyrics.

London: John Wilson, 1868.

Rare privately printed edition of Locker’s first book. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page in the year of publication, “Joh...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-124134

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Diamond, John

C: Because Cowards Get Cancer Too…

London: Vermilion, 1998.

First edition of Diamond’s story of his battle with throat cancer. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by John Diamond on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Author photograph by Sally...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-141524

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Vargas Llosa, Mario

Captain Pantoja and the Special Service.

New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1978.

First edition of this early novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Mario Vargas Llosa on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket illustr...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-142083

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Wilder, Thornton

The Angel That Troubled the Waters and Other Plays.

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1928.

Signed limited edition of this collection of three-minute plays by American playwright and novelist Thornton Wilder. Imperial octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and gilt ruling to th...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-145425

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