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Felix Walking.

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1958.

First edition of the first book published under Youd’s pseudonym Hilary Ford. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Contempora...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-96197

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Nabokov, Vladimir

The Eye.

New York: Phaedra, 1965.

First edition of this short novel by the author of Lolita. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Translated by Dmitri Nabokov.

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-144481

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DeLillo, Don

Cosmopolis.

New York: Scribners, 2003.

First edition of DeLillo’s thirteenth novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Don Delillo on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by John Fullbrook III.

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-68031

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Kipling, Rudyard

The Brushwood Boy.

New York: Doubleday and McClure Company, 1899.

First separate American edition of Kipling children’s classic. Octavo, original illustrated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, pictorial endpapers, illustrated by Orson Lowell, tissu...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-121634

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Oz, Amos

Touch the Water Touch the Wind.

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: New York, 1973.

First edition of this work by the award-winning novelist. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Amos Oz on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Translated from the Hebrew by Nic...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-5679

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Gores, Joe

Hammett.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1975.

First edition of this cult classic detective novel. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Boldly signed by Joe Gores on the title page beneath his name. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacke...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-148830

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Wells, H.G

Brynhild.

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1937.

First edition of Wells’ early dramatic work, marking one of his earliest experiments in literary form prior to his major novels. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. From the collection of Britis...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-151119

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James, Henry

The Real Thing.

New York and London: Macmillan & Co, 1893.

First edition of this fine collection of James’ tales. Octavo, original decorated cloth with gilt titles to the spine. In very good condition.

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-101014

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Henty, George Alfred [G.A.]

Both Sides the Border: A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower.

London: Blackie & Son, Limited, 1899.

First edition of Henty’s classic adventure tale. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, with twelve illustrations by Ralph Peacock. In...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-122688

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Nabokov, Vladimir et al

On Translation.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1959.

First edition of this extensive volume on translators, translating and works of translation. Octavo, original boards, near fine in a very good dust jacket.

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-89096

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O'Neill, Eugene

The Emperor Jones.

Cincinnati: Stewart Kidd, 1921.

First separate edition of the play that established O’Neill as a successful playwright. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition.

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-118107

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Rankin, Ian; Alexander McCall Smith; Irvine Welsh. Introduction by J. K. Rowling

One City.

Edinburgh: Polygon, 2005.

First edition of this collection initiated by four of Edinburgh’s most famous authors to benefit One City Trust, a charity committed to tackling social injustice and inequality in Edinburgh. Oct...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-125273

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Wells, H.G

Marriage.

London: W. Collins Sons & Co. LTD., 1923.

Early edition of Wells’ twentieth novel. Octavo, original publisher’s red cloth stamped in black. From the collection of British science fiction author Christopher Priest. Priest’s most fa...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-151433

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Wharton, Edith

The Descent of Man and Other Stories.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904.

First edition of this early collection of Wharton’s short stories. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, woodcut border to the title page, top edge gilt. In near...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-110354

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Parkman, Trevor

Prose Improvements.

Brighton, England: Degree Zero, 2017.

First edition of this work by the award-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Trevor Pateman on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Cover art by Ilva Kalnberza.

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-147892

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Shaw, George Bernard [John Steinbeck]

Saint Joan: A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1936.

Early printing of one of Shaw’s major works. Octavo, original cloth, with illustrations from the play as presented by Katharine Cornell courtesy of Vandamm Studio. From the library of American a...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-114807

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Follett, Ken

Whiteout.

London: Macmillan, 2004.

First edition of Follett’s internationally bestselling novel, a high-stakes thriller of human betrayal, medical peril, and a race against time. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with black and white...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-150758

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Wells, H.G

The Sea Lady: A Tissue of Moonshine.

London: Methuen & Co., 1902.

First edition of this whimsical tale about the mermaid Miranda. Octavo, original publisher’s red cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. From the collection of British science ficti...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-151010

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Pynchon, Thomas

Mason & Dixon.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1997.

First edition of this “amazing achievement…the novel of our time” (Robert L. McLaughlin). Thick octavo, original publisher’s half-cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with the orig...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-151750

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[Rackham, Arthur]

The Harmsworth Monthly Pictorial Magazine. Volume II. February – July, 1899.

London: Published by Harmsworth Bros., Limited, 1899.

The second volume of the collected issues of the Harmsworth Monthly Pictorial Magazine. Quarto, Vol. II, original publisher’s cloth decorated in gilt, profusely illustrated with photographs and...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-142672

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Wells, H.G

Ann Veronica.

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1909.

First British edition of this Edwardian era novel. Octavo, original publisher’s red cloth with titles stamped in gilt, along with “Vita sine litteris mors est” written in golden gilt on th...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-150887

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Updike, John

Memories of the Ford Administration.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.

First edition of this work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by John Updike on the front free endpaper. Additionally signed by jacket designer Chip Kidd on the rear...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-133586

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Shawn, Allen [Charles Strouse]

Arnold Schoenberg’s Journey

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.

First edition of this acclaimed portrait of the composer Arnold Schoenberg by composer and pianist Allen Shawn. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth, illustrated with music stanzas and black-...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-152214

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Frayn, Michael

The Trick Of It.

London: Viking, 1989.

First edition of of Frayn’s reverential novel. Octavo, original boards. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Sally with best wishes from Michael Frayn 15 Augus...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-119338

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