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On A Chinese Screen.

London: William Heinemann, 1922.

First edition of this classic travel book by the author of The Razor’s Edge. Octavo, original publisher’s gilt-decorated cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the...

$4,200.00 Item Number: RRB-149575

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Rand, Ayn

The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature.

New York: The World Publishing Company, 1969.

First edition of this collection of essays regarding the nature of art. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Ayn Rand on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket desig...

$4,200.00 Item Number: RRB-150604

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Naipaul, V.S

A House For Mr. Biswas.

London: Andre Deutsch, 1961.

First edition of the author’s magnum opus. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by V.S. Naipaul on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a small chip to the crown and foot of the s...

$4,200.00 Item Number: RRB-2909

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Wallace, David Foster & Mark Costello

Signifying Rappers.

New York: Ecco Press, 1990.

First edition of the first book to seriously consider rap and its position as a vital force in American culture. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers as issued. Boldly signed by David Foster Wallace...

$4,200.00 Item Number: RRB-104837

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Dickens, Charles

Charles Dickens Autograph Letter Signed.

London:, 1859.

Autograph letter signed by great Victorian novelist Charles Dickens. One page, dated Sunday, Seventeenth July, 1859, on Gad’s Hill Place stationery, with a small pressed flower on the lower left...

$4,200.00 Item Number: RRB-151833

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Canin, Ethan. [Jeff Bezos]

The Palace Thief.

New York: Random House, 1994.

Jeff Bezos’ special thank-you print run of his favorite book. Octavo, original boards. Signed by the author and by Jeff Bezos on the title page. Laid in is a letter from Bezos on amazon.com lett...

$4,200.00 Item Number: RRB-123037

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Graves, Robert

I, Claudius [and] Claudius The God and His Wife Messalina.

London: Arthur Barker, 1934.

First editions of Graves’ celebrated Claudius novels. Octavo, 2 volumes, original cloth. Both volumes are near fine in very good to near fine dust jackets. Rare in the dust jackets and particula...

$4,200.00 Item Number: RRB-144894

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Baldwin, James; Malcolm X; Martin Luther King, Jr; Kenneth B. Clark

The Negro Protest.

Boston: The Beacon Press, 1963.

First edition of this collection of interviews done by Kenneth B. Clark. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by James Baldwin on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a small clo...

$4,200.00 Item Number: RRB-149928

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Fermor, Patrick Leigh [Xan and Daphne Fielding]

A Time To Keep Silence.

London: The Queen Anne Press, 1953.

Limited first edition of the author’s third book, one of 500 numbered copies, this is number 75, regarding his experiences in various monasteries. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by John Cra...

$4,200.00 Item Number: RRB-150279

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Schulz, Charles M

You Don’t Look 35, Charlie Brown.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1985.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author with a large drawing of Snoopy with a heart on the front free endpaper,...

$4,200.00 Item Number: RRB-149337

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Eliot, T.S

The Cocktail Party.

London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1950.

First edition of the most popular of Eliot’s seven plays published during his lifetime. First issue with “here” for “her” on page 29, line 1. Octavo, original cloth. Pres...

$4,200.00 Item Number: RRB-148139

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Johnson, Crockett

Harold and the Purple Crayon.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1955.

First edition of the first book in Crockett Johnson’s Harold series. 12 mo, original half cloth, illustrated throughout. Fine in a very good dust jacket without the price to top of front flap, with co...

$4,200.00 Item Number: RRB-107552

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Tagore, Rabindranath

Creative Unity.

London: MacMillan & Company , 1925.

First edition, later printing. Octavo, original cloth. Signed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper, “Rabindranath Tagore Feb. 26, 1932.” In very good condition with some wear...

$4,200.00 Item Number: RRB-22096

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Silverstein, Shel

Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings.

New York: Harper & Row, 1974.

First edition, early printing of the author’s first collection of children’s poetry. Small quarto, original brown cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by the author on the front free endpaper...

$4,200.00 Item Number: RRB-120856

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Dylan, Bob

The Philosophy of Modern Song.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2022.

First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning songwriter, destined to be a classic. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Bob Dylan on the half-title page in person. Fine in a...

$4,200.00 Item Number: RRB-152871

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Wallace, David Foster

Infinite Jest: A Novel.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1996.

First edition of the author’s magnum opus. Thick octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by David Foster Wallace on the title page. Fine in a fine first state dust jacket with Vollmann misspe...

$4,200.00 Item Number: RRB-146160

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Connell Jr., Evan S

Mrs. Bridge and Mr. Bridge.

New York: The Viking Press, 1959 & 1969.

First editions of the author’s classic work and its sequel. Octavo, 2 volumes, original cloth. Lengthily signed by the author, who has added the last line of this work, “Hello? Hello out t...

$4,200.00 Item Number: RRB-151012

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Pinter, Harold. [Alan Schneider]

The Birthday Party and Other Plays.

London: Methuen & Co, 1960.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning playwright’s modern classic, director Alan Schneider’s own working copy, inscribed to him by the Nobel Prize-winning playwright. Octavo, original c...

$4,200.00 Item Number: RRB-152172

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Steinbeck, John

Of Mice and Men.

New York: Covici-Friede, 1937.

First edition, first issue with the word “pendula” present on page 9 and the dot between the 8’s on p. 88 of Steinbeck’s “marvelous picture of the tragedy of loneliness...

$4,200.00 Item Number: RRB-115598

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Kerouac, Jack [Allen Ginsberg]

Visions of Cody.

New York: New Directions, 1960.

Signed limited first edition one of only 750 examples of this novel by the author of On The Road. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Jack Kerouac. Fine in the original acetate dust jacket, with the ori...

$4,200.00 Item Number: RRB-148010

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Wright, Richard

Native Son.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1940.

First edition with “A – P” on the copyright page of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-150188

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Schulz, Charles M

You Don’t Look 35, Charlie Brown.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1985.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author with a large drawing of Charlie Brown on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fin...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-146002

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Hughes, Langston

Three Autograph Poems Signed By Langston Hughes.

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Three original autograph poems by Langston Hughes. Quarto, three pages, one typed and two handwritten in green ink for Marshall Bean. Each boldly signed by Langston Hughes. The first, “Personal...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-148255

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Steinbeck, John

Speech Accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature.

New York: The Viking Press, 1962.

First edition of Steinbeck’s Nobel Lecture. Octavo, original wrappres. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For the Waldmanns with pleasure John Steinbeck.”...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-122693

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