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The Moon and Sixpence.

New York: The Heritage Press, 1941.

The Heritage Press illustrated edition of this classic novel. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, floral stamped detailing to the front panel, top stain brown, pictorial endpapers, frontispiece...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-149773

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Johnson, Diane

Le Mariage.

New York: Dutton Book, 2000.

First edition of this “splendid entertainment… Johnson is one of our most astute cultural critics” (The New York Times Book Review). Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Diane John...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-110599

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Glazer, Nathan

From a Cause to a Style: Modernist Architecture’s Encounter with the American City.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007.

First edition of this work by the co-author of The Lonely Crowd. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page in the year of publication, “To Chris a...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-44001

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Wolfe, Thomas

The Hills Beyond.

New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1941.

First edition of Wolfe’s acclaimed posthumously published short story collection. Octavo, original dark blue cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, embossed stamps.

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-120308

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Sondheim, Stephen

The Collected Lyrics of Stephen Sondheim. Look, I Made a Hat.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.

First edition of the collected lyrics of Stephen Sondheim. Quarto, original boards, illustrated throughout. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-146134

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Gardner, John

Licence Renewed.

London: Jonathan Cape , 1985.

First edition of John Gardner’s License Renewed. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mon Mohan, using a commissioned watercolor painting by Richard Chopping...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-127673

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Loti, Pierre. Introduction by Henry James

Impressions.

Westminster: Archibald Constable and Co, 1898.

First edition of Pierre Loti’s Impressions. Octavo, original green pictorial buckram, woodcut pictorial title page, woodcut initials. In near fine condition.

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-109487

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Blumenthal, Joseph, [Robert Frost]

Robert Frost and His Printers.

Autin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1985.

First edition of this work on Frost’s relationships with his printers. Large octavo, original cloth, illustrated. One of 1000 copies printed at the letterpress of A. Colish with plates made and...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-121466

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Hardy, Thomas

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

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Nabokov, Vladimir

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

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Wells, H.G

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

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Huxley, Aldous

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

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Lehrer, Jim [William Safire]

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

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Mayor, Archer

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

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Huxley, Aldous

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

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Smith, Wilbur

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

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Wells, H.G

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

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Roth, Philip [John Barth]

Indignation.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008.

First edition of Roth’s twenty-ninth book. Octavo, original boards. From the library of fellow novelist John Barth, with his signature to the half-title page. Barth won the National Book Award i...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-144685

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Sassoon, Siegfried

Satirical Poems.

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1933.

Early printing of Sassoon’s classic collection. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-124681

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Williamson, Henry

How Dear Is Life.

London: Macdonald & Co., 1954.

First edition of the fourth novel in the author’s semi-autobiographical Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight series. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Broom Lynne...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-128068

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Pullman, Philip

The Tiger in the Well.

London: Scholastic, 1999.

Early printing of Philip Pullman’s third book in his Sally Lockhart Quartet. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Inscribed by the author on the title page, “Best Wishes to Eileen, Phili...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-88118

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Pritchett, V. S

A Careless Widow and Other Stories.

New York: Random House, 1989.

First American edition, second printing of Pritchett’s classic short story collection. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, signed by the author on the title page and inscribed on the...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-124590

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Wodehouse, P. G

Pigs Have Wings.

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1952.

First edition of Wodehouse’s dreadfully funny novel. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a good price-clipped dust jacket with loss to the front panel, rear panel, and spine of the dust jacket....

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-145030

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Kipling, Rudyard

Thy Servant A Dog.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1930.

First British edition of Kipling’s beloved children’s classic, as told by Boots the dog. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by G. L. Stampa. Near fine in the scarce original dust jacket w...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-121847

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