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Asimov, Isaac

Robots and Empire.

New York : Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1985.

First edition of the fourth and final book in Asimov’s Robot series. Octavo, original publisher’s half-cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Barclay Shaw.

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Item Number: RRB-150167
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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.

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$75.00
Item Number: RRB-137033
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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.

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$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.

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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.

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Item Number: RRB-124179
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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 introduced by Stephen Clingman.

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Item Number: RRB-546
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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, Philip Pullman Sept. 99.” In near fine condition.

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Item Number: RRB-88118
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Hardy, Thomas

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 signature to the front free endpaper.

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Item Number: RRB-148192
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Wilson, Angus

Late Call.

London : Seeker & Warburg, 1964.

First edition of Wilson’s satirical comedy. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Ralph Mabey. A sharp example.

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Item Number: RRB-96194
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Henty, George Alfred [G.A.]

On the Irrawaddy: A Story of The First Burmese War.

London : Blackie & Son, Limited, 1897.

First edition of Henty’s classic adventure tale. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, with eight illustrations by W. H. Overend. In good condition.

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Item Number: RRB-122334
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Gordimer, Nadine

Sport of Nature.

London : Jonathan Cape, 1987.

First British edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Brian Robins.

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Item Number: RRB-4160
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Bellow, Saul

Seize the Day.

New York : The Viking Press, 1956.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s fourth novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Name to the front free endpaper, near fine in a good dust jacket with some wear. Jacket design by Bill English.

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Item Number: RRB-90869
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Waugh, Evelyn

The Loved One: First Apperance in Print, Published in Horizon Volume XVII, No. 98, February 1948.

London : Horizon, A Review of Literature and Art, 1948.

First appearance of Evelyn Waugh’s The Loved One, first published in the literary magazine Horizon, volume XVII, No. 98, February 1948. Octavo, original publisher’s wrappers. In very good condition.

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Item Number: RRB-148351
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Katz, Menke

Burning Village.

New York : The Smith, 1972.

First edition of the acclaimed poet’s crowning achievement; a harrowing account of his experience as a boy in Lithuania during WWII. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Feb 3rd 1977 For Prof. Chimieu Abronsky from Menke Katz.” Katz has also added a large illustration of flowers. NearContinue reading "Burning Village."

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Item Number: RRB-124015
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Pullman, Philip

Philip Pullman Collection.

London : Various Publishers, 2000-2004.

Fine collection of first editions by children’s book author Philip Pullman. Quarto, 3 volumes, original boards and wrappers, illustrated. The collection includes a two first edition of Puss in Boots (London: Doubleday: 2000), a first Picture Corgi edition of Puss in Boots (London: Picture Corgi Books, 2000), and a first edition of Aladdin and theContinue reading "Philip Pullman Collection."

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Item Number: RRB-117733
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Hardy, Thomas

A Changed Man: The Waiting Supper and Other Tales Concluding with the Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid.

New York and London : Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1913.

Early edition of this final collection of short stories by Thomas Hardy exploring themes of fate, love, and social change. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles, tissue-guarded frontispiece, with a black and white map of Wessex to the rear. In very good condition, signature to the front free endpaper. Bookseller’s ticket to the rear pastedown.

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Item Number: RRB-148191
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Kipling, Rudyard

The Brushwood Boy.

London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1907.

First separate edition of this Kipling children’s classic. Octavo, original blue cloth with gilt titles and vignette to the front panel, illustrated by F. H. Townsend, tissue-guarded frontispiece. In near fine condition.

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Item Number: RRB-121482
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Herbert, A.P

Holy Deadlock.

London : Methuen and Co, 1934.

First edition of this novel of two young people in search of a divorce after seven years of marriage. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in very good dust jacket.

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Item Number: RRB-117239
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Roth, Philip

The Human Stain.

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.

First edition, early printing of Roth’s award-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Michaela Sullivan.

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Item Number: RRB-146852
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Cahall, Lois

The Many Lives & Loves of Hazel Lavery.

New York : Historium Press, 2024.

First edition of The Many Lives & Loves of Hazel Lavery. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Signed by author Lois Cahall on title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

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$60.00
Item Number: RRB-149082
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Spark, Muriel

The Fanfarlo and Other Verse.

Aldington : The Hand and Flower Press, 1952.

First edition, first issue of Spark’s first book of verse, preceding her first novel by five years. Octavo, original wrappers. In fine condition.

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Item Number: RRB-127039
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Gallo, Leah; [Designed by] Holly C. Kempf; Tim Burton; Ransom Riggs

The Art Of Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children: A Tim Burton Film.

Philadelphia, PA : Quirk Books, 2016.

First edition of this lavishly illustrated companion of Tim Burton’s adaptation of the Ransom Riggs novel ‘Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children’. Quarto, original pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated throughout with color photographs, foreword by Ransom Riggs, introduction by Tim Burton. In fine condition.

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Item Number: RRB-147941
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Vizzini, Ned

Be More Chill.

New York : Hyperion Books, 2004.

First edition, second printing of Vizzini’s groundbreaking novel that inspired the Broadway musical. Octavo, original boards. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket art by Timothy Saccenti.

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$55.00
Item Number: RRB-150032
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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.

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Item Number: RRB-151222
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