No Hiding Place.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1942.
First edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition.
$95.00
Item Number: RRB-150247
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Cartas de Mujeres.
Madrid: Librería Y Casa Editorial Hernando, 1932.
Finely bound example of this work from the Nobel Prize-winning dramatist. Duodecimo, bound in full marbled calf with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, p...
$95.00
Item Number: RRB-145262
The Victim.
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1947.
First edition of the author’s second book. Octavo, original black cloth. In near fine condition. A Burgess 99 title.
$95.00
Item Number: RRB-33548
Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected and a New Edition of the Diary of an Ennuyée.
London: Saunders and Otley, 1834.
Rare first edition of Mrs. Jameson’s Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad. Octavo, volume III only of four volumes bound in three quarters vellum over marbled boards with gilt tooling to the s...
$95.00
Item Number: RRB-114061
The New Moon with the Old.
London: Heinemann, 1963.
First edition of the author’s charming third novel. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket, lacking free endpaper. Jacket design by Peter Ward.
$95.00
Item Number: RRB-151818
Nabokov, Vladimir. Introduction by Conrad Brenner
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight.
Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1959.
First edition of the reissue of Nabokov’s first novel in English. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Ivan Chermayeff. Drawing by Michael Train. A nice...
$95.00
Item Number: RRB-89025
A Masque of Reason.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1945.
First edition of this work by Frost. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
$85.00
Item Number: RRB-136531
There is a Door.
Paris: Edward W. Titus, 1931.
First signed limited subscriber’s edition of Coyle’s short novella. Octavo, original boards. One of five hundred twenty-five numbered copies signed by the author, this is number 506. Very...
$80.00
Item Number: RRB-96774
Bibliography of Oscar Wilde.
London: T. Werner Laurie Ltd., n.d..
Later printing of Mason’s renowned bibliography of the works of Oscar Wilde. Octavo, bound in full cloth, illustrated. With a note by Robert Ross. In very good condition.
$80.00
Item Number: RRB-140208
Livingstone’s Companions.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1972.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. Fine in a fine price-clipped dust jacket.
$80.00
Item Number: RRB-2572
Imago.
New York: Warner Books, 1989.
First edition of the gripping climax to Butler’s acclaimed Xenogenesis trilogy. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Don Puckey. Cover illustration by Wayne...
$80.00
Item Number: RRB-144356
Pack My Bag.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1952.
First edition, second printing of this self-portrait. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket and a couple of small losses to the crown of the spine and front pa...
$80.00
Item Number: RRB-150648
Independence: Rectorial Address Delivered at St. Andrews, October 10, 1923.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1923.
First edition of Kipling’s October 1953 address delivered to the students of St. Andrews discussing the challenges and necessity of individuality and independence. Octavo, bound in full cloth wi...
$80.00
Item Number: RRB-135674
Drury, W. P. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
The Peradventures of Private Pagett.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1911.
New edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with pictorial onlay to the front panel, illustrated with frontispiece and 7 plates by Arthur Rackham. In very...
$80.00
Item Number: RRB-142319
The Good Solider: A Tale Of Passion.
New York: Vintage Books, 1955.
Later printing of this modernist novel that explores the themes of deception. 18 mo, original pictorial wrappers. From the library of Madeleine K. Albright. Albright was the first woman to serve as th...
$80.00
Item Number: RRB-149077
Guerilla Warfare In Philly.
Elkins Park, Pennsylvania: Uhuru/Publications, 1970.
First edition of the Philadelphia activist’s first book of poetry. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition.
$75.00
Item Number: RRB-134011
The Dash For Khartoum: A Tale of The Nile Expedition.
London: Blackie & Son, Limited, 1892.
First edition of Henty’s classic adventure tale of the Nile Expedition. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, with ten illustrations by Jose...
$75.00
Item Number: RRB-123068
Punch, or The London Charivari: Vol. 129.
London: Published at the Office and Sold by All Booksellers, 1905.
Volume 129 of Punch weekly containing numerous illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Quarto, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated by numerous artists including 10 illustrations by Rackham in issue...
$75.00
Item Number: RRB-142537
The Accident.
New York: Hill and Wang, 1962.
First edition of the author’s final book in his acclaimed Night Trilogy. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket, stamp of the Judah Magnes Museum to the front free endpaper...
$75.00
Item Number: RRB-147439
The Kiss of the Unborn and Other Stories.
Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1977.
First edition of the author’s timeless short story collection. Octavo, original cloth. Translated and with an Introduction by Murl G. Barker. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
$75.00
Item Number: RRB-126497
Apache Devil.
Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., 1933.
First edition of the second book in Burroughs’ realistic historical ‘Apache’ series. Octavo, original cloth with red top stain. In very good condition.. Lacking the front free endpap...
$75.00
Item Number: RRB-145106
Sondheim, Stephen and Hugh Wheeler; Christopher Bond; Harold Prince
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
New York: Random House, 1979.
First edition of this Tony Award for Best Musical. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket art by Frank Verlizzo.
$75.00
Item Number: RRB-151496
The New Machiavelli and The Food of the Gods.
London: Odhams Press Limited, 1911.
Odhams Press Limited edition of Wells’ semi-autobiographical political novel exploring the tensions between personal desire and public responsibility in early twentieth-century England. Octavo, origin...
$75.00
Item Number: RRB-151712
Love, Roger.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1969.
First edition of this brilliant absurdist comedy from the author of ‘The Graduate.’ Octavo, original blue cloth, orange top stain, frontispiece by Tomi Ungerer. Boldly signed by Charles We...
$75.00
Item Number: RRB-145170
