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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

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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

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Kipling, Rudyard

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

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Kipling, Rudyard

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

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Moore, Brian

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

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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

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Burgess, Gelett

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

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Ford, Richard

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

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Burroughs, Edgar Rice

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

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Lowry, Lois

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

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Kipling, Rudyard

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

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London, Jack

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

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Coetzee, J.M

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

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Heller, Joseph

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

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Viorst, Judith

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

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Padgett, Ron

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

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Irving, John

A Widow for One Year.

Toronto: Alred A. Knopf, 1998.

First Canadian edition of Irving’s powerful ninth novel. Octavo, original boards. Signed by John Irving on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Honi Werner.

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-230

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Kipling, Rudyard

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

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Henty, George Alfred [G.A.]

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

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Ruskin, John

Sesame and Lilies.

London: George Allen, 1893.

Finely bound example of Ruskin’s classic anthology including Of King’s Treasures, Of Queen’s Gardens, and The Mystery of Life and Its Arts. Octavo, bound in full vellum with morocco spine labels, gilt...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-114418

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Kipling, Rudyard

Abaft the Funnel.

New York: B. W. Dodge & Company, 1909.

First edition, first issue of of Kipling’s 1909 short story collection with gold lettering to the spine and front panel. Octavo, original blue cloth with gold titles to the spine and front panel. In f...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-122911

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Burroughs, Edgar Rice

Tarzan the Untamed.

Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co, 1920.

First edition of the seventh book in the ‘Tarzan’ series. Octavo, original green cloth, frontispiece and eight illustrations by J. Allen St. John. In very good condition.

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-145107

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Durand, Ralph. [Rudyard Kipling]

A Handbook of the Poetry of Rudyard Kipling.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1914.

First edition of Durand’s definitive handbook to Kipling’s poetry. Royal octavo, original quarter buckram over paper-covered boards, paper spine label, top edge gilt. In very good conditio...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-126349

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Kingsley, Charles

Two Years Ago.

Cambridge: Macmillan and Co, 1857.

First edition of the author’s classic work, containing some of his most profound passages of descriptive imagery. Small octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards by Tout &...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-151104

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