Roth, Philip
Our Gang.
New York : Random House, 1971.
First edition of Roth’s fifth book. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Philip Roth on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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Item Number: RRB-156
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Vargas Llosa, Mario
The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta.
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986.
First edition of this novel by “one of the master storytellers of our time” (Denis Lynn Heyck, Chicago Tribune Book World). Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by Mario Vargas Llosa. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Translated by Alfred MacAdam.
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Item Number: RRB-142
Boswell, James
The Life of Samuel Johnson.
London : George Routledge & Sons, Ltd, 1891.
Octavo, 6 volumes, bound in three quarters red morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, top edge gilt, illustrated with portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds. In near fine condition. An attractively bound set.
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Item Number: RRB-2542
Saramago, Jose
La Flor Mas Grande Del Mundo.
Madrid : Alfaguara, 2001.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s only children’s book. Thin quarto, original boards, illustrated throughout. Signed and dated by Jose Saramago. In fine condition.
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Item Number: RRB-141
Kertesz, Imre
A Kudarc.
Budapest : Magveto, 1988.
First Hungarian edition and true first. Octavo, original boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Imre Kertesz on the title page.
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Item Number: RRB-1489
Le Clezio, J.M.G
The Interrogation.
London : Hamish Hamilton, 1964.
Uncorrected proof of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s first book. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by J.M.G. Le Clezio on the title page. In good condition with spotting to the front panel and a small stain to the page edges.
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Item Number: RRB-18044
Oz, Amos
Touch the Water Touch the Wind.
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich : New York, 1973.
First edition of this work by the award-winning novelist. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Amos Oz on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange.
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Item Number: RRB-5679
Le Clezio, J.M.G
Desert.
Paris : Gallimard, 1980.
First French edition of what many consider the author’s breakthrough novel. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by J.M.G. Le Clezio on the title page. In very good condition with some shelf wear and toning to the extremities.
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Item Number: RRB-5402
Bellow, Saul
Partisan Review. Volume X, No. 5. September-October, 1943.
New York : Partisan Review, 1943.
Octavo, original Wrappers. Signed by Saul Bellow on the front panel. In near fine condition. Contains the Notes of a Dangling Man, an 18 page excerpt, with some revisions to create a cohesive story, from Saul Bellow’s soon to be published first novel, Dangling Man, which was later published by Vanguard in 1944.
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Item Number: RRB-5665
