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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 Robin...

$65.00 Item Number: RRB-4160

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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...

$65.00 Item Number: RRB-148351

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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 conditio...

$65.00 Item Number: RRB-122334

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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.

$65.00 Item Number: RRB-96194

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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 a...

$65.00 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 B...

$65.00 Item Number: RRB-117733

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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 pictor...

$60.00 Item Number: RRB-147941

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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.

$60.00 Item Number: RRB-127039

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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.

$60.00 Item Number: RRB-149082

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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.

$55.00 Item Number: RRB-151222

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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...

$55.00 Item Number: RRB-150032

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Price, Reynolds [Madeleine Albright]

A Generous Man.

New York: Atheneum, 1966.

First edition, early printing of this Southern Gothic novel. Octavo, original cloth, top stain red, bookplate to the front pastedown from ‘The Private Collection of Secretary Madeleine K. Albright’. M...

$55.00 Item Number: RRB-147897

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King, Stephen

Rose Madder.

New York: The Viking Press, 1995.

First edition of this King thriller. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Neil Stuart. Author photograph by Tabitha King.

$55.00 Item Number: RRB-116997

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Kipilng, Rudyard

Toomai of the Elephants.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1937.

First separate edition Kipling’s story of Toomai, a young elephant-handler, the basis for the 1937 film “Elephant Boy” starring Sabu Dastagir, India’s first child actor. Octavo...

$55.00 Item Number: RRB-121393

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Cooper, Artemis [Patrick Leigh Fermor]

Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure.

London: John Murray, 2012.

First edition, early printing of this biography on bestselling travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated with photographs and maps. Fine in a fine dust...

$55.00 Item Number: RRB-151446

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Nabokov, Vladimir

King, Queen, Knave.

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1968.

First British edition of this early Nabokov novel. Octavo, original black cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by George Mayhew. Photograph of Nabokov on the rear panel by Philippe Ha...

$55.00 Item Number: RRB-89070

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Self-Consciousness: Memoirs

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989.

First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author to noted book collector Stratford Carter on the half title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

$55.00 Item Number: RRB-19053

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Kipling, Rudyard

In Black and White.

New York: Hurst and Company, n.d..

Rare separate edition of this classic Kipling tale, which first appeared in Soldiers Three. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece portrait of Kipling. In very good condition.

$50.00 Item Number: RRB-123071

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Kipling, Rudyard

The Five Nations.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1903.

First American edition of Kipling’s notable poetry collection. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, black stamped vignette to the front panel. In very good condition.

$50.00 Item Number: RRB-121348

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Kipling, Rudyard

Kipling Calendar: A Quotation from Kipling’s Writings for Every Day in the Year.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923.

First edition of the Kipling Calendar, containing a Kipling verse for each day of the year. Octavo, original half cloth. Very good in a good dust jacket.

$50.00 Item Number: RRB-122065

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Huxley, Aldous

Leda.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1920.

First edition of Huxley’s classic collection of poems. Octavo, original cloth and paper spine label. In good condition.

$50.00 Item Number: RRB-139026

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Collins, Joseph

Taking the Literary Pulse: Psychological Studies of Life and Letters.

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1924.

First edition of this work analyzing modern authors and their literary characters through a psychological lens. Octavo, original publisher’s red cloth, illustrated with tipped in plates. In near...

$50.00 Item Number: RRB-151569

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Rowling, J.K

The Casual Vacancy.

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2012.

First edition of this “positively propulsive read” (Wall Street Journal). Octavo, original boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mario J. Pulice. Jacket illustration by Joel Holland.

$50.00 Item Number: RRB-137044

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Burroughs, Edgar Rice

Tarzan the Terrible.

Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1921.

First edition of the eighth book in the ‘Tarzan’ series. Octavo, original red cloth, frontispiece and nine illustrations by J. Allen St. John. In good condition, with speckled loss to the...

$50.00 Item Number: RRB-145114

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