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Anne of the Island.

Boston: The Page Company, 1915.

First edition, first printing of the third title in Montgomery’s beloved Anne of Green Gables series with all first issue points including stated first impression on copyright page, 1915 date in...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-135042

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Handel, George Frideric and Charles Jennens

Messiah. An Oratorio. As it is Performed at the Theatre Royal in the Hay-Market. Set to Music by Mr. Handel.

[London]: Sold at the Theatre only, [1769].

Rare 18th century printing of the Handel’s Messiah as it was performed at the Theatre Royal in the Hay-Market. Ocravo, bound in contemporary wrappers. Handel composed Messiah in 1741. It was fir...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149233

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Kerouac, Jack

Jack Kerouac Autograph Letter Signed.

:, 1954.

Rare autograph letter signed by Jack Kerouac to close friend Ed White. Bifoliate leaf, one page covered; pencil. With envelope addressed in autograph, postmarked Jamaica, New York. The letter reads in...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-145634

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Kadare, Ismail [Seamus Heaney]

The General of the Dead Army.

New York: Grossman, 1972.

First American edition of the author’s first book to be translated into English. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to fellow writer Seamus Heaney on the half-titl...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148099

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Silverstein, Shel

The Giving Tree.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1964.

Early printing of this classic work. Octavo, original illustrated boards, illustrated. Boldly signed by Shel Silverstein on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Inscription to th...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147387

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Kazantzakis, Nikos

Ο Τελευταίος Πειρασμός. [The Last Temptation].

Athens: Δίφρος [Difros Press], 1955.

First edition in Greek of one of Kazantzakis’ most famous and controversial works, first published in a French translation in 1954. Octavo, bound in full cloth with morocco spine labels lettered in gi...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151530

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Tolstoy, Leo. (Count Lyof N Tolstoi)

War and Peace. A Historical Novel.

New York: William S. Gottsberger, 1886.

First editions in English of Tolstoy’s masterpiece; one of the most important novels in world literature and widely considered the greatest novel ever written. Small octavo, six volumes, bound i...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-96223

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Stephenson, Neal

Snow Crash.

New York: Bantam Books, 1992.

First edition of this “brilliantly realized” (The New York Times Book Review) breakthrough novel from visionary author Neal Stephenson, a modern classic that predicted the metaverse and inspired gener...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151811

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Deighton, Len

The Ipcress File.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1962.

First British edition of Deighton’s first novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily signed by the author on the title page, “Maybe its not wise to make too many friends i...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-138473

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Flaubert, Gustave

Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners.

Paris: Michel Lévy frères, 1857.

True first edition of the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, two volumes, bound in three quarters leather. In near fine condition. A very sharp example.

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-140448

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Richardson, Henry Handel [Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson]; [Ernest Hemingway]

The Fortunes of Richard Mahony.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1931.

First collected edition of this foundational work in Australian literature. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the spine and gilt author’s initials to the front panel....

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148697

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Dickens, Charles

A Tale of Two Cities.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1859.

First edition, first issue of one of Dickens’ most enduring works. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands,...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149304

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Garner, Alan

The Weirdstone of Brisingamen.

London: Collins, 1960.

First edition of one of the greatest fantasies of all-time. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers by Charles Green. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication to his...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-117102

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Vanderbilt, Amy; Drawings by Andy Warhol

Amy Vanderbilt’s Complete Cookbook.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1961.

First edition, early printing of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrations by Andy Warhol. Signed three times by Warhol, inscribed on the front free endpaper, “To Rickey Andy...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148051

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Trenc, Milan [Robin Williams; Chip Kidd]

The Night at the Museum.

New York: Barron's, 1993.

First edition of this work, basis for the 2006 film directed by Shawn Levy starring Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Carla Gugino, Dick Van Dyke, Mickey Rooney, and Bill Cobbs. Quarto, original illustrate...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151707

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Russell, Bertrand

Marriage and Morals.

New York: Horace Liveright, 1929.

First edition of this work by Russell, in which he questions the Victorian notions of morality regarding sex and marriage. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the fron...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-54042

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Murdoch, Iris

Under the Net.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1954.

First edition of Murdoch’s first novel which announced “the emergence of a brilliant talent” (Times Literary Supplement). Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Iris Murdoch on the...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-142046

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Gernsback, Hugo

Ralph 124C 41+.

Boston: The Stratford Company, 1925.

First edition of “arguably the first major work of American science fiction” (The Economist). Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, “With the compl...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-108026

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Miles, Sylvia

Sylvia Miles Original Working Script Collection.

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Sylvia Miles’ personal collection of over 50 working shooting and play scripts used by her, with her ownership signatures, and with her annotations throughout. Approximately 50 volumes, scripts...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-110785

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Dickens, Charles

The Christmas Books: A Christmas Carol; The Chimes; The Battle of Life; Cricket on the Hearth; The Haunted Man and The Ghost’s Bargain.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1843-60.

Early printings of all five of Charles Dickens’ Christmas Books, finely bound. Octavo, 5 volumes, bound in full calf with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gi...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-121293

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Baum, L. Frank; Illustrated by John R. Neill

The Scarecrow of Oz.

Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1915.

First edition, second printing of the ninth Oz book in L. Frank Baum’s celebrated Oz series. Quarto, original publisher’s full emerald green cloth with pictorial label affixed to the front board, pict...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151937

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Disney, Walt

Walt Disney’s Cinderella.

Stuttgart: Bluchert-Verlag, 1951.

First German edition of the classic retelling of one of the most celebrated Disney films. Octavo, original illustrated boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Walt Disney...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-106556

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Doyle, Arthur Conan

Our African Winter.

London: John Murray, 1929.

First edition of this classic travelogue by the author of Sherlock Holmes. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page. Near fine in the rare original dust jac...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151579

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Baum, L. Frank

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz.

Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co. Publishers, 1908.

Rare first edition, second printing of the fourth book in Baum’s Oz series, in the exceptionally rare dust jacket. Quarto, original publisher’s light blue cloth (Bienvenue and Schmidt...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151926

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