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
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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
Bergonzi, Bernard [H.G. Wells]
The Early H.G. Wells: A Study of the Scientific Romances.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1961.
First edition of this later social novel in which Wells examines the divergent lives of two brothers against the backdrop of a changing modern society. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, fronti...
$95.00
Item Number: RRB-151706
Tinsel.
New York : Delacorte Press, 1979.
First edition, second printing of Goldman’s novel regarding Hollywood. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by William Goldman opposite the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket...
$95.00
Item Number: RRB-81342
Death of an Expert Witness.
London: Faber and Faber, 1977.
First edition of this mystery by the author of A Mind to Murder. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Terry Trott. Photograph of the author by Jerry Bauer...
$95.00
Item Number: RRB-147305
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
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
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
Bend Sinister.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1960.
First British edition of Nabokov’s first novel written in America. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a very good dust jacket with toning to the spine. Jacket design by Eric Ayers.
$75.00
Item Number: RRB-133254
Love and Mr. Lewisham: The Story of a Very Young Couple.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924.
Early Scribner’s reprint of one of Wells’ first fictional writings outside the science fiction genre. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth elaborately stamped in blind. In very good co...
$75.00
Item Number: RRB-141534
Two On A Tower.
London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1895.
Early edition of Thomas Hardy’s twelfth published novel. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, top edge gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece, with a map of Wessex to the rear. In very goo...
$75.00
Item Number: RRB-148175
The Special Prisoner.
New York: Random House, 2000.
First edition, second printing of Lehrer’s fascinating war story. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Helene & Bill – With l...
$75.00
Item Number: RRB-135274
Open Season.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1988.
First edition of the author’s first novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. Jacket design by Walter Harper.
$75.00
Item Number: RRB-140494
The Genius and the Goddess.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1955.
First edition of this classic Huxley novella. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Emil Antonucci.
$75.00
Item Number: RRB-107884
Brief Candles.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1930.
First English edition of the author’s fifth collection of short fiction. Octavo, original red boards with gilt titles and ruling to the spine, top stain red. Near fine in a very good dust jacket...
$75.00
Item Number: RRB-145277
The New Machiavelli.
London: The Bodley Head, 1911.
First edition of Wells’ ambitious political novel tracing the rise and downfall of an idealistic reformer whose personal passions and public ambitions collide in Edwardian England. Octavo, original pu...
$75.00
Item Number: RRB-151282
Eagle in the Sky.
London: Heinemann, 1974.
First edition of this powerful novel from the author of ‘When the Lion Feeds.’ Octavo, original light blue cloth. Very good in the very good dust jacket.
$75.00
Item Number: RRB-147333
