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Wells, H.G

Bealby: A Holiday.

London : Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1940.

Later edition of this classic children’s book. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with titles to the spine and front panel stamped in black. In near fine condition.

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$25.00
Item Number: RRB-150682
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Nabokov, Vladmir

Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle.

Taipei City : Royal Books Co., Ltd, 1969.

First Taiwanese edition of what many consider to be Nabokov’s masterpiece. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Very good in a good dust jacket. Author photograph by Halsman.

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$30.00
Item Number: RRB-152109
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Rand, Ayn

The Fountainhead.

New York : Signet, 1971.

Signet edition, later printing of Rands’ breakthrough work and her first major literary success. Duodecimo, original publisher’s pictorial wrappers, all edges stained yellow. In near fine condition.

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$30.00
Item Number: RRB-151408
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Nabokov, Vladimir

Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters, 1940-1977.

New York : Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, 1989.

Uncorrected proof of the first edition of this collection of letters by Nabokov. Octavo, original half cloth. In fine condition. Edited by Dmitri Nabokov and Matthew J. Broccoli.

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$30.00
Item Number: RRB-116901
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Stephenson, Neal

Termination Shock.

New York : William Morrow, 2021.

First edition of this speculative science fiction novel by New York Times bestselling author Neal Stephenson. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth, cartographic endpapers. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Owen Corrigan. Author photograph by Brady Hall.

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$30.00
Item Number: RRB-150689
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McGuane, Thomas

Keep the Change.

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1989.

First edition of this sharply observed contemporary American novel of the modern West. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Dust jacket design and illustration by Fred Marcellino. Author photograph by Bruce Weber.

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$30.00
Item Number: RRB-150724
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Wells, H.G [Christopher Priest]

Experiment in Autobiography: Volume II Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain.

London : Faber and Faber Limited, 1984.

First edition of the second volume of Wells’s expansive autobiographical work, in which he reflects on the experiences, intellectual influences, and philosophical conclusions that shaped his life and career as one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers and social thinkers. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. From the collection of British science fiction author Christopher PriestContinue reading "Experiment in Autobiography: Volume II Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain."

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$30.00
Item Number: RRB-151634
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Cornell, Louis L. [Rudyard Kipling]

Kipling In India.

London : Macmillan, 1966.

First edition of Cornell’s study of Kipling’s apprenticeship in India. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.

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Item Number: RRB-135841
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Danielson, Richard E

Martha Doyle and Other Sporting Memories.

New York : The Derrydale Press, 1938.

First edition of Danielson’s collection of sporting memories. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated by Edwin Megargee. One of 1250 numbered copies, this is number 775. In near fine condition.

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$30.00
Item Number: RRB-116031
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le Carre, John

A Delicate Truth.

New York : Viking, 2013.

First American edition of this New York Times bestselling spy thriller. Octavo, original publisher’s boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Buckley and Kulick.

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$30.00
Item Number: RRB-151135
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Boisnard, Magali

Le Roman de La Kahena: d’Après Les Anciens Textes Arabes.

Paris : Édition d'Art, 1925.

Later edition of this work by the French poet and novelist. Octavo, bound in full crushed levant morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, ornamentation by Paul Zenker, original wrappers bound in. In very good condition.

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Item Number: RRB-145217
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Cohen, Morton

Rudyard Kipling to Rider Haggard: The Record of a Friendship.

London : Hutchinson, 1965.

First edition of the first edited collection of the unpublished correspondence between the two great men of letters. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.

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Item Number: RRB-135911
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Kipling, Rudyard

Rudyard Kipling in New England.

Brattleboro : The Book Cellar, 1951.

Revised edition of Howard Rice’s Rudyard Kipling in New England. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket.

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Item Number: RRB-123411
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Buffett, Jimmy

A Salty Piece of Land.

New York : Little, Brown, and Company, 2004.

First edition of this classic novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Lonnie Busch.

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$30.00
Item Number: RRB-145150
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Scott, Paul

The Corrida at San Feliu.

London : Secker & Warburg, 1964.

First edition of Paul Scott’s rich, multi-layered novel. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Peter Rudland.

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Item Number: RRB-138733
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Macmunn, Sir George [Rudyard Kipling]

Kipling’s Women.

London : Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd., n.d..

First edition of the former President of the Kipling Society’s study of the women portrayed in Kipling’s song and story. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles and central gilt emblem to the front panel. Very good in the rare original dust jacket which is in good condition.

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Item Number: RRB-135257
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Kipling, Rudyard

Plain Tales From the Hills.

Leipzig : Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1890.

First Tauchnitz edition of Kipling’s first short story collection. Octavo, original wrappers. In good condition.

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Item Number: RRB-126749
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Walliams, David

The Boy in the Dress.

London : HarperCollins Children's Books, 2008.

First edition of the award-winning sketch actor’s first children’s book. Octavo, original pictorial boards, illustrations by Quentin Blake. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

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Item Number: RRB-145190
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Green, Roger Lancelyn. [Rudyard Kipling]

Kipling: The Critical Heritage.

New York : Barnes & Noble, Inc., 1971.

First edition of Green’s critical history of the great British author. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

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$30.00
Item Number: RRB-126889
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Maugham, W. Somerset

Our Betters.

London : William Heinemann Ltd, 1924.

Later printing of this incredible comedy in three acts. Octodecimo, original red cloth. In very good condition. In very good condition, name to the front free endpaper.

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$35.00
Item Number: RRB-145200
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Dos Passos, John

Chosen Country.

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1951.

First edition of this work by Dos Passos. Octavo, original cloth. Advanced review copy with the slip laid in, near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Samuel H. Bryant.

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$35.00
Item Number: RRB-101669
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Wheatley, Dennis

The Rape of Venice.

London : Hutchinson & Co., 1959.

First edition of the sixth book in the best-selling author’s Roger Brook espionage series. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Sax.

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$35.00
Item Number: RRB-128105
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Guth, Dorothy Lobrano [E.B. White]

Letters of E.B. White.

New York : Harper & Row, Publishers, 1976.

First edition of this collection of letters from beloved children’s author E.B. White. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light bumping. Collected and edited by Dorothy Lobrano Guth. Jacket design by Muriel Nasser.

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$35.00
Item Number: RRB-148628
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Nichols, John

A Ghost in the Music.

New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979.

First edition of Nichols’ fifth novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by John Nichols on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design and illustration by Neil Stuart.

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Item Number: RRB-95882
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