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The Lorenzo Bunch.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1936.

First edition of this work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “Booth Tarkington, Indianapolis, May 9. 194...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-65791

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Burgess, Anthony [John Updike]

Little Wilson and Big God.

New York: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1987.

Uncorrected proof of the first edition. Octavo, original wrappers. John Updike’s copy, with a signed letter from the editor to Updike laid in. In very good condition. From the library of John Up...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-102117

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Dubus III, Andre

The Cage Keeper and Other Stories.

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1989.

Uncorrected proof of the first edition of the author’s first book, a well-received collection of stories. Octavo, original orange wrappers. Signed by Andre Dubus III on the title page. In fine c...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-37658

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Henty, George Alfred [G.A.]

Condemned As A Nihilist: A Story of Escape From Siberia.

London: Blackie & Son, Limited, 1893.

First edition of Henty’s classic adventure tale. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, all edges gilt, illustrated by Walter Paget. In nea...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-199244

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Rodgers, Richard and Oscar Hammerstein

First edition of the book companion to the sixth stage collaboration between Rodgers and Hammerstein. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with photographs by Fred Fehl. Near fine in a near fine dust j...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-137268

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Phillips, Scott

The Ice Harvest.

Tuscon: Dennis McMillan Publications, 2000.

First edition and publisher’s presentation copy of Phillip’s debut novel. Octavo, bound in the original quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles to the spine. Dust jacket and i...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-101301

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Hunt, Leigh

Stories From the Italian Poets: With Lives of the Writers.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1846.

First edition of this collection of 19th-century prose retellings and analyses of epic tales from famous Italian poets. Octavo, two volumes, original publisher’s blue cloth with gilt titles to t...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-151826

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Wodehouse, P.G

Spring Fever.

London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, n.d.

First edition of Wodehouse’s brilliantly comedic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Frank Ford.

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-145023

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le Carre, John

Single & Single.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1999.

First edition of this “exciting spy story” (New York Times Book Review). Octavo, original boards. Signed by John le Carre on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-146442

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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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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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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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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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Voltaire. [Arouet, François-Marie]

L’Ingénu: Histoire Veritable Tiree Des Manuscrits Du Pere Quesnel 1767.

Paris: Librairie d'Amateurs, n.d.

The Libraire d’Amateurs edition of Voltaire’s satirical novella. Quarto, bound in three quarter crushed morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compart...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-137212

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Doyle, Arthur Conan

The Maracot Deep.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1929.

First edition of Conan Doyle’s seminal collection of short stories. Octavo, original cloth. In good condition.

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-137525

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Shepard, Sam

Five Plays: Chicago; Icarus’s Mother; Red Cross; Fourteen Hundred Thousand. Melodrama Play. Shepard, Sam.

Indianapolis : The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1967.

First edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Patrick Sullivan from photographs by Hope Wurmfeld.

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-141325

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Tyler, Anne

Breathing Lessons.

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1988.

Signed limited first edition of this 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...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-147060

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Reeve, Philip

Infernal Devices.

London: Scholastic Press, 2005.

First edition of the third novel in Reeve’s award-winning Mortal Engines quartet. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Signed by Philip Reeve on the title page. Near fine in a near fine...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-126739

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Rare & Classic, American or English Literature Books for Sale Online

The Lorenzo Bunch.

Little Wilson and Big God.

The Cage Keeper and Other Stories.

Condemned As A Nihilist: A Story of Escape From Siberia.

Me and Juliet.

The Ice Harvest.

Stories From the Italian Poets: With Lives of the Writers.

Spring Fever.

Single & Single.

The Babe’s Bed.

Gump & Co.

Another Beauty.

A Survey.

Nerinda.

Rabbit At Rest.

Miracle in Seville.

A Soldier’s Embrace.

The Algonquin Wits.

L’Ingénu: Histoire Veritable Tiree Des Manuscrits Du Pere Quesnel 1767.

The Maracot Deep.

Five Plays: Chicago; Icarus’s Mother; Red Cross; Fourteen Hundred Thousand. Melodrama Play. Shepard, Sam.

Breathing Lessons.

Infernal Devices.