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    The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson.

    Stevenson, Robert Louis

    The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson.

    London: Printed by T. and A. Constable For Longmans Green and Co: Cassell and Co. Seeley and Co: Chas. Scribner's Sons and Sold by Chatto and Windus, 1894.

    The Edinburgh edition of the works of Robert Louis Stevenson. Octavo, 33 volumes bound in three quarter crushed levant morocco over marbled boards by Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles and tooling to the spi...
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    $4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149208
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    Good-Bye To All That.

    Graves, Robert

    Good-Bye To All That.

    London: Jonathan Cape, 1929.

    First edition, first issue of Graves’ classic autobiography with Siegfried Sassoon’s poem on pp. 341-343. Octavo, original red cloth, frontispiece of Graves, illustrated with maps and phot...
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    $4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151361
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    Of Human Bondage.

    Maugham, W. Somerset

    Of Human Bondage.

    London: William Heinemann, 1915.

    First edition, first printing which includes list of other “Works” by Maugham facing half-title, plus publisher’s ad page for works by other authors on half-title verso, with the misprint on page 257,...
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    $4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-136601
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    The Last Leaf. Poem. By Oliver Wendell Holmes.

    Holmes, Oliver Wendell

    The Last Leaf. Poem. By Oliver Wendell Holmes.

    Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin & Co. The Riverside Press, 1886.

    First edition of Holmes’ classic poem. Folio, original publisher’s half vellum with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and panels, top edge gilt, illustrated by George Wharton Edwards an...
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    $4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-138225
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    The First Men in the Moon.

    Wells, H.G. [Buzz Aldrin]

    The First Men in the Moon.

    Indianapolis : The Bowen-Merrill Company Publishers, 1901.

    First edition of Wells’s classic work of science fiction. Octavo, original publisher’s gilt-decorated blue cloth, illustrated with plates by E. Hering. With a card signed by Buzz Aldrin la...
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    $4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-148027
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    Rabindranath Tagore Signed Photograph.

    Tagore, Rabindranath

    Rabindranath Tagore Signed Photograph.

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    Rare original silver gelatin print of Nobel Prize-winning author Rabindranath Tagore. Signed by Rabindranath Tagore below the photograph. The entire piece measures 5 inches by 3 inches.
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    $4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-120647
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    Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar.

    Burroughs, Edgar Rice

    Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar.

    Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co, 1918.

    First edition, first printing of the fifth book in Burroughs’ epic Tarzan series with with “Published, April, 1918” and W. F. Hall on the copyright page. Octavo, original green cloth...
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    $4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-96782
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    Dr. No.

    Fleming, Ian

    Dr. No.

    London: Jonathan Cape, 1958.

    First edition in the first-issue dust jacket with Fleming’s name printed in black on the spine of the sixth Bond thriller, with the desirable silhouette of a dancing girl brown-stamped on the fr...
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    $4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149040
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    The Old Man and the Sea.

    Hemingway, Ernest

    The Old Man and the Sea.

    New York: Charles Scribner's & Sons, 1952.

    First edition, first issue of Hemingway’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and one of his most famous works. Octavo, original blue cloth, first issue with “A” and publisher’s seal...
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    $4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151671
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    The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.

    Dickens, Charles

    The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.

    London: Chapman and Hall, 1837.

    First edition in book form of Dickens’ first novel and one of his greatest works. Octavo, bound in full twentieth-century olive morocco with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in five compartme...
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    $4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-148735
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    Old-New Land [“Altneuland”].

    Herzl, Theodor. Translated by Lotta Levensohn. Preface by Stephen S. Wise [David Ben-Gurion]

    Old-New Land [“Altneuland”].

    New York: Bloch Publishing Co, 1941.

    First edition in English of Herzl’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. A gifted copy accompanied by a slip from the first prime minister of the State of Israel, David Ben-Gurion, laid in, “Wi...
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    $4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149223
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    Mind of My Mind.

    Butler, Octavia E

    Mind of My Mind.

    Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1977.

    First edition of Butler’s second book; the chilling “pre-sequel” to Patternmaster. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Ron...
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    $4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-134199
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    You Don’t Look 35, Charlie Brown.

    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...
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    $4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-146002
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    Three Autograph Poems Signed By Langston Hughes.

    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...
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    $4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-148255
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    Native Son.

    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...
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    $4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-150188
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    In The Heat of The Night.

    Ball, John

    In The Heat of The Night.

    New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1965.

    First edition of the author’s classic mystery drama which was adapted into the Academy Award-winning film of the same name starring Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger and Lee Grant. Octavo, original ha...
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    $4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-144307
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    Speech Accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature.

    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.”...
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    $4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-122693
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    King John.

    Shipley, Joseph T. [James Joyce]

    King John.

    New York: Greenberg, Publisher, Inc, 1925.

    First limited edition of this classic work inspired by King John. Octavo, original half-cloth. One of 500 numbered copies, this is number 8. Association copy, inscribed by the author to fellow writer...
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    $4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151568
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    Under The Sunset.

    Stoker, Bram

    Under The Sunset.

    London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1882.

    Rare second edition of Bram Stoker’s first book. Octavo, original publisher’s green cloth lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, patterned endpapers, with illustrations by W. Fitzgerald and W....
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    $4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-146259
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    The Color Purple.

    Walker, Alice

    The Color Purple.

    New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982.

    First edition of Walker’s classic third novel, in which she became the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by A...
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    $4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151794
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    The Missing Piece Meets the Big O.

    Silverstein, Shel

    The Missing Piece Meets the Big O.

    New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1981.

    First edition of this work of poetry by the author on The Giving Tree. Small quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author with a large drawing of a hand w...
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    $4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-145791
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    Herzog.

    Bellow, Saul

    Herzog.

    New York: The Viking Press, 1964.

    First edition of the author’s second of three National Book Award winning novels, which was and remains an unprecedented literary accomplishment. Octavo, original blue cloth. Association copy, i...
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    $4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-3538
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    The Exorcist.

    Blatty, William Peter [Kitty Winn]

    The Exorcist.

    New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1971.

    First edition of Blatty’s landmark horror novel, basis for the 1973 film. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by William Peter Blatty and actress Kitty Winn, who starred in...
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    $4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-147935
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    The Works of Sir Walter Scott, Including The Waverley Novels and The Poems.

    Scott, Walter

    The Works of Sir Walter Scott, Including The Waverley Novels and The Poems.

    Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912.

    Finely bound complete set of the Works of Sir Walter Scott. Octavo, 50 volumes, bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards, raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. In fine condition. A...
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    $4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-56742
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