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Mac Liammoir, Michael; Preface by Orson Welles

Put Money In Thy Purse: A Diary of the Film Othello.

London: Methuen, 1952.

First edition of this work on the film Othello. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of Welles as Othello. Association copy, inscribed by Orson Welles and with a painting (self-portrait) done by him a...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-43050

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Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Tiresias and Other Poems.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1885.

First edition of this collection of poems by one of the most famous poets of the Victorian era. Duodecimo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Association copy, inscribed by Lord Alfred Tenn...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147858

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Rankin, Ian; Alexander McCall Smith; Irvine Welsh. Introduction by J. K. Rowling

One City.

Edinburgh: Polygon, 2005.

First edition of this collection initiated by four of Edinburgh’s most famous authors to benefit One City Trust, a charity committed to tackling social injustice and inequality in Edinburgh. Oct...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-124173

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James, P.D

Cover Her Face.

London: Faber and Faber, 1962.

First edition of the author’s classic first book. Octavo, original green cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Charles Mozl...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149382

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Nostradamus, Michael

True Prophecies or Prognostications of Michael Nostradamus Physician to Henry II. Francis II. and Charles IX. Kings of France, and one of the best Astronomers that ever were. A Work full of Curiosity and Learning.

London: Thomas Radcliffe and Nathaniel Thompson, 1672.

First edition in English of Nostradamus famous prophetical work. Folio, contemporary calf, title page printed in red and black. In very good condition. Rare and desirable in contemporary calf.

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-129189

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McCullers, Carson

The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1940.

First edition, first printing with the date of 1940 on the title page of the author’s first novel and masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. With a note laid in from the author which reads,...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-138095

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott

All the Sad Young Men.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926.

First edition, first issue of Fitzgerald’s third collection of short stories. Octavo, original green cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell case.

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-139276

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Malamud, Bernard

The Natural.

New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1952.

First edition of the author’s first book, and one of the greatest baseball novels of all time. Octavo, original cloth. Advance review copy with the slip laid in for a release date of August 21,...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-100076

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Gibran, Kahlil

Sand and Foam: A Book of Aphorisms.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927.

Signed limited edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original half cloth over marbled boards, number 33 of 95 copies, signed by Kahlil Gibran. Illustrated with seven drawings by the auth...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-131582

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Dante Alighieri; Translated by Henry Boyd

The Divina Commedia of Dante Alighieri: Consisting of the Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso. [The Divine Comedy].

London: Printed by A. Strahan for T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, in the Strand, 1802.

First edition of the first full translation of Dante’s Divine Comedy into English, translated with preliminary essays, notes, and illustrations by the Rev. Henry Boyd. Octavo, three volumes, bou...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150482

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Kipling, Rudyard

Many Inventions.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1893.

First English edition of this collection of Kipling’s poems and tales. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt. Association copy, inscribed by Rudyard Kipling on the title page in the year of p...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-123441

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Coetzee, J.M

In the Heart of the Country.

London: Secker and Warburg, 1977.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s second book. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page to his first wife, “Philippe- Love from John.”...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147975

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Baldwin, James

Giovanni’s Room.

New York: The Dial Press, 1956.

First edition of this landmark novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by James Baldwin on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch a shelfwear. Jacket design by Seymour...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-140400

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Herbert, Frank

Analog: Science Fiction and Fact. [Containing the First Appearance of Children of Dune, The Mind Bomb, Seed Stock, and Come to the Party].

New York: Analog: Science Fiction and Fact, 1969-1978.

First editions of seven issues of Analog: Science Fiction and Fact magazine containing the first appearance of Frank Herbert’s Children of Dune in four parts, later published as a novel, and his short...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150272

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McCarthy, Cormac

All the Pretty Horses; The Crossing; Cities of the Plain.

London: Picador, 1992-1998.

First British editions of each title in the author’s acclaimed Border Trilogy. Octavo, original half cloth, three volumes. All three volumes are signed by Cormac McCarthy and additionally signed...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-145942

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Ovid

Ovid’s Metamorphosis Englished by G. S.

London: Printed by William Stansby, 1626.

First edition of George Sandys’ famous verse translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, with engraved title page. Small folio, bound in contemporary calf, illustrated with engraved title by T. Cecil, and fu...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-146369

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Fielding, Henry

The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling.

London: Printed for A. Millar, 1749.

First edition, first issue of one of the most influential English novels, one only 2,000 copies printed. Octavo, bound in full contemporary polished calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in s...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-139551

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Carroll, Lewis [Alice Hargreaves]

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland [and] Through The Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1932-1935.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of Lewis Carroll’s beloved children’s classic. Octavo, two volumes, bound in full leather with gilt titles and elaborate tooling to the spine in six co...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-152054

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Brunt, Samuel

A Voyage to Cacklogallinia: with a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of that Country.

London: J. Watson, 1727.

First edition of this early 18th century satire published in imitation of Jonathan Swift’s masterpiece Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, or, Gulliver’s Travels. Octavo, bou...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-36011

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Irving, Washington

The Works of Washington Irving: The Autograph Edition [The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; Rip Van Winkle].

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1895–97.

The Works of Washington Irving: The Author’s Autograph edition. Octavo, 40 volumes, uniformly bound in full morocco by the Knickerbocker Press, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, top edge gil...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-86738

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Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan

The Yearling.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938.

First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, uniquely and lengthily inscribed by the author across three pages; on the front free endp...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147651

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Williams, Tennessee

A Streetcar Named Desire.

New York: New Directions, 1947.

First edition of Williams’ classic play, which won Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Boldly signed by Tennessee Williams on the title page. Near fine in an v...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151080

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Kerr, Judith

The Tiger Who Came To Tea.

London: Collins, 1968.

First edition of this classic, one of the best selling children’s book of all-time. Quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated throughout. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. An exceptional e...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-142030

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