The Eye.
New York: Phaedra, 1965.
First edition of this 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-117561
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Markham, Robert. [Kingsley Amis]
Colonel Sun: A James Bond Adventure.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1968.
First edition of the first James Bond continuation novel published after Ian Fleming’s 1964 death. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket de...
$125.00
Item Number: RRB-129046
Hold Back the Night.
Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1952.
First edition of this classic account of The Korean War. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket.
$125.00
Item Number: RRB-139414
Views and Reviews: Now First Collected.
Boston: The Ball Publishing Company, 1908.
First edition of this series of literary essays written in James’ earlier style. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine, gilt topstain. Introduction by Le Roy Phillips. In near fine co...
$125.00
Item Number: RRB-78043
Revolt in the Desert.
Garden City: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc, 1927.
Early American printing of Lawrence’s own abridgment of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, which achieved immediate popular success. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, frontispiece portrait of Lawrenc...
$125.00
Item Number: RRB-123444
Vittorini, Elio; Introduction by Ernest Hemingway
In Sicily.
Pennsylvania: New Directions, 1949.
First edition of this seminal work of Italian literature. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Introduction by Ernest Hemingway. Translated by Wilfrid David.
$125.00
Item Number: RRB-148442
My Little Husband and If Only.
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1894-1904.
Finely bound example Philips’ two collections short stories. Octavo, two volumes bound into one in three quarters vellum over marbled boards with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt tool...
$125.00
Item Number: RRB-114507
Glaude, Jr., Eddie [James Baldwin]
Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own.
New York: Crown, 2020.
First edition, early printing of this “unparalleled masterpiece of social criticism” (Imani Perry). Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Eddie Glaude on the title page. Fine in a fine...
$125.00
Item Number: RRB-117519
The Cornhill Booklet Volume One, Number Two: Occasional Poems by Rudyard Kipling.
Boston: Alfred Bartlett, 1900.
Rare August 1900 issue of The Cornhill Booklet containing Rudyard Kipling’s “Occasional Poems.” Duodecimo, original wrappers, volume one, number two, printed in red and black, illust...
$125.00
Item Number: RRB-149566
His Apologies.
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1932.
First edition of Kipling’s classic poetic tribute to his beloved Scottie. Octavo, original half cloth over illustrated boards. With drawings by Cecil Alden. In very good condition. Ownership nam...
$125.00
Item Number: RRB-123048
No Other Life.
London: Bloomsbury, 1993.
First edition of the award-winning novelist’s gripping drama. Octavo, original cloth, ribbon bound in. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Sally Soames L...
$125.00
Item Number: RRB-126419
The Maxims of Methuselah: Being the Advice Given by the Patriarch in his Nine Hundred Sixty and Ninth Year to his Great Grandson at Shem’s Coming of Age in Regard to Women.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1907.
First edition of the humorist’s colorful take on the Battle of the Sexes. Octavo, original half cloth, with illustrations, decorations, and cover design by Louis D. Fancher. Very good in the rar...
$125.00
Item Number: RRB-119078
The Sportswriter.
New York : Vintage Books, 1986.
First edition of this paperback original as issued. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author, “For Elias Kanner with the very warmest wishes. Richard For...
$125.00
Item Number: RRB-120536
African Road: New Writing from Southern Africa 2006.
Claremont, SA: Spearhead/ New Africa Books, 2006.
First edition of this collection of short stories. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed by J.M. Coetzee on the title page, who selected these stories.
$125.00
Item Number: RRB-2478
From Sea to Sea and Other Sketches. Letters of Travel.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1900.
First English edition of this collection of Kipling’s essays about his 1889 travels from India to Burma, China, Japan, and the United States en route to England. Octavo, original red cloth with gilt t...
$125.00
Item Number: RRB-122350
The Game.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1905.
First Edition, second issue of London’s tragic boxing tale with the magazine rubberstamp of Metropolitan Magazine Co. to the copyright page. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, with ill...
$125.00
Item Number: RRB-128146
Dusklands.
London: Vintage Books, 2004.
Early printing of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s first book. Octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed by J.M. Coetzee on the title page. In fine condition.
$125.00
Item Number: RRB-131087
God Knows.
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1984.
The Franklin Library signed limited edition of this humorous retelling of King David’s life story from his own perspective, privately printed exclusively for the members of The Signed First Edit...
$125.00
Item Number: RRB-151605
Suddenly Sixty: And Other Shocks of Later Life.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.
First edition of this comical work by the author of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Small octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Laurie Rosenwald. Presentation copy, inscr...
$125.00
Item Number: RRB-142476
Escape on Venus.
Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc, 1946.
First edition of the fourth book in the ‘Venus’ series. Octavo, original cloth, top edge red, frontispiece and four illustrated plates by John Coleman Burroughs, cartographic endpapers des...
$125.00
Item Number: RRB-145058
Son.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2012.
First edition of the thrilling conclusion to ‘The Giver’ quartet. Octavo, original half-cloth. Signed by the author on the title page, “with best wishes Lois Lowry.” Fine in a...
$125.00
Item Number: RRB-145163
Great Balls of Fire.
Chicago: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969.
First American edition of the poet’s 1969 collection. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Shelly a [Great] idea… Gary C...
$125.00
Item Number: RRB-129719
Songs From Books.
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1912.
First edition of this selection of songs from Kipling’s children’s stories. Octavo, original illustrated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. In near fine condition.
$125.00
Item Number: RRB-121421
A March On London: Being a Story of Wat Tyler’s Insurrection.
London: Blackie & Son, Limited, 1898.
First edition of Henty’s classic historical adventure tale. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, with eight illustrations by W. H. Margetson. In...
$125.00
Item Number: RRB-122907
