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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...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-134199

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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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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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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...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-144307

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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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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...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151568

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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....

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-146259

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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...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151794

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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...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-145791

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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...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-3538

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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...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-147935

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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...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-56742

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Dickens, Charles

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.

London: Curtis Guild, 1882.

First Curtis Guild extra-illustrated edition of one of Dickens’ greatest works. Octavo, two volumes, bound in full morocco by F.P. Hathaway with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to spine i...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-99841

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Joyce, James

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

London: The Egoist Ltd, 1917.

First English edition of Joyce’s classic stream-of-consciousness work, his first novel, one of about 1000 copies. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and ch...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-142971

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Heller, Joseph

Catch-22.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961.

First edition of Heller’s classic first book. Octavo, original blue cloth. Signed by the author on the title page and additionally signed by dust jacket designer Paul Bacon on the rare jacket flap. Ve...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151640

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King-Smith, Dick

The Sheep-Pig.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1983.

First edition, first issue of the basis for the Oscar-winning film ‘Babe’. Octavo, original cloth. Illustrated by Mary Rayner. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, “With...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-131618

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Rowling, J.K

The Ickabog.

London: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2020.

First edition of this work by Rowling. Octavo, original decorated boards, with illustrations by the winners of The Ickabog Illustration Competition. Signed by J.K. Rowling on the half-title page. With...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-132148

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Fermor, Patrick Leigh

A Time To Keep Silence.

London: John Murray, 1957.

First edition of the author’s third book, detailing his experiences in various monasteries. Octavo, original cloth. Illustrated by John Craxton. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-135041

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Greene, Graham

A Burnt-Out Case.

London: Heinemann, 1961.

First edition of this Greene novel set in a leproserie on the upper reaches of a tributary of the Congo River in Africa. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-102563

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Butler, Octavia E

Xenogenesis Trilogy: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, Imago.

New York: Warner Books, Grand Central Publishing, 1987-1989.

First editions of each volume in Butler’s acclaimed Xenogenesis trilogy. Octavo, 3 volumes, original half cloth. Each are signed or inscribed by Octavia E. Butler. Each are fine in a fine dust j...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-137805

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Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton; Harris Nicolas

The Complete Angler or the Contemplative Man’s Recreation Being a Discourse of Rivers Fish-Ponds Fish and Fishing Written by Izaak Walton and Instructions on How to Angle For A Trout of Grayling in a Clear Stream by Charles Cotton.

London: William Pickering, 1836.

First Nicolas edition of this classic of English literature. Quarto, two volumes bound in full morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, triple gilt r...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-135618

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Melville, Herman

Omoo.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1847.

First edition of this classic Melville work. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco chemise slipcase. BAL 13656. A sharp example.

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-144159

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Mishima, Yukio

The Sound of Waves.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956.

First edition in English, preceding the British first by one year of “this classic work, its action might take place at any point across a thousand years” (The New York Times). Octavo, ori...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-131297

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