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The Angel That Troubled the Waters and Other Plays.

New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1928.

Signed limited first edition of this collection of three-minute plays by American playwright and novelist Thornton Wilder. Imperial octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, tissue-guarded frontisp...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-145431

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Henty, George Alfred [G.A.]

The Lost Heir.

London: James Bowden, 1899.

First edition of Henty’s classic adventure tale. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, illustrated by Ernest Pater. In near fine condition. Bookplate....

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-122963

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Enright, D. J

Selected Poems 1990.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.

First edition of this collection containing many of Enright’s finest poems. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the poet on the title page, “For Sally So...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-124389

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Halberstam, David

The Next Century.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1991.

First edition of this work by the award-winning journalist. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author in the year of publication, “For Sandy and Virginia wit...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-144104

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Updike, John

A Month of Sundays.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975.

First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to his neighbors Ken and Jane Field. A very sharp copy of Updike’s seventh novel.

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-3600

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le Carre, John

Our Game.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1995.

First edition, second printing of this novel by the author of The Spy Who Came In From the Cold. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, ribbon bound in. Boldly signed by John le Carre on the...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-146510

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Ullmann, Liv [Erica Jong]

Choices.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.

First edition of Liv Ullmann’s quietly and beautifully written autobiography. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publica...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-142818

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Kepnes, Caroline

You Love Me: A You Novel.

New York: Random House, 2021.

First edition of the third book in the best-selling ‘You’ series, which spawned the popular Netflix show by the same name starring Penn Badgley as Joe Goldberg. Octavo, original half cloth...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-145435

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Boorstin, Daniel J

The Daniel J. Boorstin Reader.

New York: The Modern Library, 1995.

First edition of this compilation of the works of Daniel Boorstin. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Boldly signed by Daniel J. Bernstein on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket....

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-68963

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Nichols, Beverley

Cats’ A.B.C.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1960.

First British edition of this charming children’s book about the lives, personalities, and quirks of cats. Royal octavo, original pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated throughout by...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-147943

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Gaiman, Neil and Roger Avary

Beowulf: The Script Book.

San Diego: IDW Publishing, 2007.

First edition of this illustrated work of Beowulf. Octavo, original wrappers. illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Neil Gaiman on the title page. In fine condition. Art and cover by Gabriel Rodrig...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-116056

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Rowling, J.K

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

London: Bloomsbury, 2003.

First adult edition of the fifth novel in J.K. Rowling’s enormously popular best-selling Harry Potter Series. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by William Webb. Jacket...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-151259

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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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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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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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