A Male Child.
London : Eyre & Spottiswoode (Publishers) Ltd, 1956.
First edition of Paul Scott’s third novel. Octavo, original boards. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
$75.00
Item Number: RRB-138732
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‘They’ and the Brushwood Boy.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1925.
First edition of this collection of two Kipling stories. Octavo, original cloth elaborately decorated in gilt, with illustrations in color by F. H. Townsend. In very good condition.
$75.00
Item Number: RRB-121873
The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1948.
First edition of Waugh’s short satirical novel about a Los Angeles funeral parlor. Octavo, original boards, marbled endpapers, illustrated by Stuart Doyle. Very good in a good dust jacket.
$75.00
Item Number: RRB-146931
Tess of the d’Urbervilles.
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, .
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 very good condition, ownership...
$75.00
Item Number: RRB-148192
Three’s Company.
London: Faber and Faber LTD, 1958.
First edition of this historical novel following Lepidus as he mediates between Antony and Octavius after Caesar’s murder. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jack...
$75.00
Item Number: RRB-151752
Texas Summer: A Novel by Terry Southern.
New York: Arcade Publishing/Little Brown And Company, 1991.
First edition of Southern’s powerful critique of cultural and economic forces that shaped America. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket painting and design by Wendell...
$75.00
Item Number: RRB-148446
Hopkins, R. Thurston. [Rudyard Kipling]
The Kipling Country.
London: Cecil Palmer, 1924.
First edition of Hopkins’ illustrated homage to Kipling’s home in rural Burwash and its surrounds. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with drawings by Captain Irvine B. Bately and Gordon...
$75.00
Item Number: RRB-135263
Autobiography of a Yogi.
New York: The Philosophical Library, 2005.
Reprint of one of the most important spiritual books of the twentieth century, Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition.
$75.00
Item Number: RRB-135452
Amelia.
New York: White and Stokes, 1882.
Finely bound example of Fielding’s fourth and final novel. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gil...
$75.00
Item Number: RRB-101438
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
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
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
![Wee Willie Winkie and Other Stories. [Baa, Baa, Black Sheep; His Majesty the King; The Drums of Fore and Aft]](https://i0.wp.com/raptisrarebooks2.bvbeta.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/RRB-135005.jpg?fit=1024%2C819&ssl=1 "Wee Willie Winkie and Other Stories. [Baa, Baa, Black Sheep; His Majesty the King; The Drums of Fore and Aft]")
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
