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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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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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Lucas, St. John

The Oxford Book of French Verse.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908.

First edition of Lucas’ compilation of the verse from the greatest French poets of the 13th and 14th centuries. Octavo, bound in half vellum for Christ’s Hospital boarding school with thei...

$175.00 Item Number: RRB-114537

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Wolfe, Tom

I Am Charlotte Simmons.

New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2004.

First edition of this “hilarious, exclamation-point filled novel” (John Freeman). Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Tom Wolfe on the title page. Laid in is the original program...

$175.00 Item Number: RRB-147194

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Hardy, Thomas

Desperate Remedies. [and] Far from the Madding Crowd.

Chicago and New York: Rand, McNally & Company, .

Alpha Library editions of Thomas Hardy’s famous works. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles, top edges gilt. In very good condition.

$175.00 Item Number: RRB-148156

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Ketchum, Richard M. [Barbara Bray]

Second Cutting: Letters From The Country.

New York: The Viking Press, 1981.

First edition of this reflective portrait of New England rural life. Octavo, original half-cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author and his wife on the half-title page, “For Ruth...

$175.00 Item Number: RRB-149214

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Lehane, Dennis

Mystic River.

New York : William Morrow and Company, 2001.

First edition of this novel, basis for the 2003 film directed and scored by Clint Eastwood, and starring Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, and Laura Linney. O...

$175.00 Item Number: RRB-121479

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[Kipling, Rudyard]

The Salvation Army British Empire Exhibition Handbook.

New York: St. Albans, 1924.

First edition of this article with this title. Octavo, original wrappers, illustrated. Appearing on pp. 17-18 is a first appearance article by Rudyard Kipling titled Empire Building. It appeared in 19...

$175.00 Item Number: RRB-132448

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Hardy, Thomas

A Group of Noble Dames.

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1891.

First edition of this collection of stories. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, front panel, illustrated. In near fine condition.

$175.00 Item Number: RRB-133304

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Irving, John

Trying to Save Piggy Sneed.

New York: Arcade Publishing, 1996.

First edition of this collection of short stories. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by John Irving on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jeffrey Fisher. Author photog...

$175.00 Item Number: RRB-138144

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Brosnan, John [Ian Fleming]

James Bond in the Cinema.

London: Tantivy Press, 1972.

First edition of this uncommon book by the Australian author and journalist, a regular columnist with the popular UK film magazine Starburst. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Fine in a near fine d...

$175.00 Item Number: RRB-149885

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Kipling, Rudyard

Kipling on the Japanese: An Unpublished Letter Written at the Time of the Russo-Japanese War to William Joshua Harding R. N. 2 September 1903.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Houghton Library, 1943.

First edition in book form of this previously unpublished letter, written by Kipling to William Joshua Harding seeking an army commission for his son, John. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. One of...

$175.00 Item Number: RRB-122437

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Symonds, John Addington

The Escorial. A Prize Poem. Recited in the Theatre, Oxford, June 20, 1860.

Oxford: T. and G. Shrimpton, 1860.

First edition of Symonds’ first book, published when he was 20 years old. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition.

$175.00 Item Number: RRB-125596

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Dahl, Roald

Kiss Kiss.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Charles E. Skaggs.

$175.00 Item Number: RRB-149904

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Hamsun, Knut

Mysteries.

London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927.

First American edition of Hamsun’s second novel. Octavo, original cloth. Translated from the Norwegian of Knut Hamsun by Arthur G. Chater. In very good condition. Rare.

$175.00 Item Number: RRB-123741

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Updike, John

Rabbit, Run.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960.

First edition, second printing of the first book in the Rabbit quartet. Octavo, original publisher’s blue cloth, stamp of number 23 to the top of the textblock and “Library Copy” to...

$175.00 Item Number: RRB-151385

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Kessel, Joseph. Translated by Patrick O'Brian

The Horsemen.

London: Arthur Barker Limited, 1968.

First edition in English of the basis for the 1971 American adventure film starring Omar Sharif and directed by John Frankenheimer. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket...

$175.00 Item Number: RRB-135224

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