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Sabu of the Elephants.

London: Hurst & Blackett, 1938.

First edition of Whittingham’s account of the filming of “Toomai of the Elephants.” Small quarto, original cloth, illustrated. In near fine condition.

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-126935

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Gordimer, Nadine; Edited by Stephen Clingman

Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1988.

First British edition of this collection of writing by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Edited and...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-546

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Sharp, Evelyn. Illustrated by Charles Robinson

The Story of the Weathercock.

London: Blackie & Son Limited, n.d..

Early printing of Sharp’s children’s classic. Quarto, original publisher’s decorated cloth, illustrated with sixteen color plates and numerous black-and-white illustrations by Charle...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-135422

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Kipling, Rudyard

Wee Willie Winkie and Other Stories. [Baa, Baa, Black Sheep; His Majesty the King; The Drums of Fore and Aft]

Allahabad: Published by Messrs. A. H. Wheeler & Co, n.d.

Later printing of this classic collection of Kipling’s tales for children. Octavo, original cloth. Contains Wee Willie Winkie, Baa Baa Black Sheep, His Majesty the King, and The Drums of Fore an...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-135005

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Kennedy, William

The Ink Truck.

New York: Viking, 1985.

First printing of the re-issue of the author’s first book. Octavo, original publisher’s full cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by William Kennedy on the title page, “For Joel, Will...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-149751

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Kipling, Rudyard

“Teem”- A Treasure-Hunter.

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1938.

First edition of Kipling’s beloved dog story. Octavo, original cloth. Frontispiece illustration by Marguerite Kirmse. Near fine in the scarce original dust jacket.

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-121883

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Wells, H.G

Men Like Gods.

London: Cassell and Company Ltd, 1923.

First edition of Wells’ speculative work exploring the political and social direction of the modern world. Octavo, original cloth with titles and floral ruling stamped in blind to the spine and front...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-151147

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Hardy, Thomas

Tess of the d’Urbervilles.

New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1895.

Early edition of Thomas Hardy’s twelfth published novel. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, frontispiece, with black and white illustrations. In good condition with light rubb...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-148194

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Norris, Frank

Tower in the West.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1957.

First edition of the author’s Harper Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original cloth. Number 110 of a limited presentation edition signed by the author on the colophon. In very good condition.

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-115647

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Wells, H.G

The Undying Fire: A Contemporary Novel.

London: Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1919.

First British edition of Wells’ philosophical reimagining of the Book of Job set against the moral and scientific crises of the modern world. Octavo, original publisher’s green cloth. In very go...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-151168

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Galbraith, Robert. [J.K. Rowling]

The Silkworm.

London: Sphere, 2014.

First edition of the second novel in Rowling’s Cormoran Strike Series, published under the pen name Robert Galbraith. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Sian Wilson.

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-137033

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Coxwell, Charles Fillingham [Ivan Krylov]

Krilòff’s Fables.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., LTD, c. 1900.

Early edition of this collection of fables by Russian fabulist Ivan Krylov. Duodecimo, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated with four black and white plates. In near fine condition. Translate...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-148323

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Green, Henry

Loving.

London: The Hogarth Press, 1945.

First edition, second printing of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition.

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-149842

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Kipling, Rudyard

Songs For Youth From Collected Verse.

London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, [1924].

First edition this selection of Kipling’s songs for children. Octavo, original cloth, illustrations by Leo Bates. In near fine condition. Bookplate to the pastedown.

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-121607

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Kipling, Rudyard

The Fringes of the Fleet.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1915.

First edition of this collection of nautical essays and poems. 12mo, original illustrated wrappers. In near fine condition. A very sharp example.

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-122463

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Whyte-Melville, George J

“Bones and I;” or, The Skeleton at Home.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1869.

Rare second edition of the author’s melancholy novel. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition.

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-124179

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Donoso, Jose

La Desesperanza.

: Seix Barral, Biblioteca Breve, 1986.

First edition. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Signed and dated in 1988 by Jose Donoso on the front free endpaper. In very good condition.

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-18008

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Feibleman, Peter

Lilly: Reminiscences of Lillian Hellman.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1988.

First edition of Feibleman’s intimate memoir of the playwright Lillian Hellman. Octavo, original half cloth. From the library of Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award-winning composer Charles Strouse and his w...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-152239

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Cheever, Susan

The Cage.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1982.

First edition of the author’s third novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “New York May 31. 1983 For Ken Burrows...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-142682

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Asimov, Isaac

Banquets of the Black Widowers.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1984.

First edition of the fourth book in Asimov’s Black Widowers series. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Al Nagy.

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-142875

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Greene, Graham

A Burnt-Out Case.

London: Heinemann, 1961.

First edition of this Greene novel set in a leproserie on the upper reaches of a tributary of the Congo River in Africa. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Dust jacket desig...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-115799

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Darwin, Bernard

Dickens.

London: Duckworth, 1933.

First edition of Bernard Darwin’s concise biography of literary master Charles Dickens. Small octavo, original cloth. Very good in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition....

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-117034

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Lever, Charles

Charles O’Malley: The Irish Dragoon.

London: James Nisbit & Co., Limited, 1899.

Later printing of this tale illustrated by Arthur Rackham very early in his career. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated by Arthur Rackham with frontispiece and 15 plates. In very goo...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-142691

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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 very good dust jacket. Translated by Dmitri Nabokov.

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-75006

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