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The Ink Truck.

New York: The Dial Press, 1969.

First edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, original boards. Signed by William Kennedy on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear.

$175.00 Item Number: RRB-2622

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Kepnes, Caroline

You: A Novel.

New York: Atria/Emily Bestseller Books, 2014.

First edition of the first 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...

$175.00 Item Number: RRB-146059

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Wescott, Glenway

The Babe’s Bed.

: Harrison of Paris, 1930.

Signed limited edition of Glenway Wescott’s short novel. Octavo, original cloth. One of 375 numbered copies signed by the author, this is number 252. Near fine in the original slipcase.

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-115108

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Groom, Winston

Gump & Co.

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1995.

Signed limited first edition. Octavo, original leather, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, front and rear panels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Boldly signed by Winston Groom. In fine conditio...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-138538

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Zagajewski, Adam

Another Beauty.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.

First edition of the author’s memoirs. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Matthew Adam Zagajewski Boston, October 2004.” F...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-147467

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Beerbohm, Max

A Survey.

London: William Heinemann, 1921.

Signed limited edition of this work, number 237 of 275 copies. Quarto, original cloth, frontispiece and 51 tipped-in chromolithographed plates, all edges gilt. Signed by Max Beerbohm to limitation. In...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-118774

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Douglas, Norman

Nerinda.

Florence: G. Orioli, 1929.

Signed limited edition of this work, one of 475 numbered copies, this is number 272. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition.

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-121677

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Michener, James A

Miracle in Seville.

New York: Random House, 1995.

Signed limited edition by James Michener. Octavo, original cloth. Number 391 of 500 copies. Fine in a fine slipcase, still in the original shrinkwrap.

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-107453

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Gordimer, Nadine

A Soldier’s Embrace.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1980.

First edition. Review copy with slip laid in. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-539

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Updike, John

Rabbit At Rest.

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1990.

First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, privately printed exclusively for members of The Signed First Edition Society. Octavo, Smyth-sewn and bound in full top-grain leather...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-147057

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Benchley, Robert; Dorothy Parker; Edna Ferber; Alexander Woollcott. Edited by Robert E. Drennan

The Algonquin Wits.

New York: The Citadel Press, 1968.

First edition of The Algonquin Wits. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with a portrait photograph of each author. Fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket desi...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-148532

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Greene, Graham

It’s A Battlefield.

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1934.

First edition of this early novel by Greene. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition.

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-119772

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Trollope, Anthony

The Last Chronicle of Barset.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1867.

First American edition of the final novel in Trollope’s acclaimed Barsetshire series. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, with illustrations by George H. Thomas. In very good conditi...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-124063

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Bellow, Saul

The Dean’s December.

New York: Harper & Row, 1982.

First edition of the first novel Bellow published after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976. Octavo, original green cloth. Signed by Saul Bellow on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust j...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-19006

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Vargos Llosa, Mario

A Fish In The Water: A Memoir.

New York: : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994.

First edition. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Mario Vargas Llosa on the title page. Review copy with material laid in. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-112

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Rogers, Lebbeus Harding

The Kite Trust (A Romance of Wealth).

New York: Kite Trust Publishing Company, 1900.

First limited author’s edition of this novel critiquing wealth and its societal impact. Octavo, original pictorial cloth, tissue-guarded frontispiece with author’s signature facsimile. One...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-148064

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Kipling, Rudyard

Life’s Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1891.

First edition of Kipling’s collection of short stories on the British in India. Octavo, original red cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. In good condition. Ownership inscription...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-123804

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Kipling, Rudyard

Puck of Pook’s Hill.

Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1906.

First Tauchnitz edition of Kipling’s collection of historical fantasy tales. Octavo, original wrappers. In good condition.

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-125313

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Albee, Edward. [Alan Schneider]

The Lady From Dubuque.

New York: Atheneum, 1980.

First edition of Albee’s late play. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of the director Alan Schneider with his ownership signature to the front free endpaper. Schneider directed the play’s Broad...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-152183

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Roth, Philip

Deception.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990.

First edition of this “extraordinary, elegant novel” (Fay Weldon, The New York Times). Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Philip Roth on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jack...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-144392

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Bellow, Saul

The Dean’s December.

New York: Harper & Row, 1982.

Signed limited first edition of the first novel Bellow published after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Saul Bellow. Fine in a fine slipcase and in the...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-120568

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Kipling, Rudyard

Life’s Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1891.

First edition of Kipling’s collection of short stories on the British in India. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt. In very good condition.

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-121804

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Gordimer, Nadine

Burger’s Daughter.

New York: The Viking Press, 1979.

First edition of this powerful novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Nadine Gordimer on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Blan...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-133293

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Gordimer, Nadine

Selected Stories.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1975.

First British edition. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-552

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