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The Ginger Man.

Paris: The Olympia Press, 1955.

First edition, first issue with the words, Special Volume, Francs: 1.500 to the rear panel. Small octavo, original green wrappers as issued. Boldly signed by the author on the half-title page, “...

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-110478

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Silverstein, Shel

Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1974.

First edition of the author’s first collection of children’s poetry. Small quarto, original brown cloth, illustrated. With a signed slip of paper boldly signed by Shel Silverstein laid in....

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-150892

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Wolfe, Tom

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.

New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1968.

First edition of the classic account of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters during their bus trip across America in the late 1960’s. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Tom Wolfe and Larry M...

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-130974

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Disney, Walt; Ward Greene

Lady and the Tramp: The Story of Two Dogs.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1953.

First edition of this classic work, basis for the Walt Disney film. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gi...

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-149702

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Dahl, Roald; Illustrated by Quentin Blake

The BFG: Illustrations by Quentin Blake.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1982.

First edition, early printing of this Dahl classic, which has sold over 20 million copies. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Quentin Blake. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-...

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-142114

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Morrell, David [Sylvestor Stallone]

Rambo.

New York : The Mysterious Bookshop, 2008.

Signed limited first edition, one of only 100 copies of this work, basis for the 1982 film starring Sylvestor Stallone. Small octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by David Morrell and Sylvestor Stall...

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-152021

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Crichton, Michael

The Lost World.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.

First edition of Crichton’s sequel to Jurassic Park. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by Michael Crichton on the half-title page, “To Mrs....

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-146453

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Camus, Albert

Les Justes: Piece en Cinq Actes. [The Just Assassins: A Play in Five Acts].

Paris: Gallimard, 1950.

First edition, early printing of Camus’ classic examination of the moral issues associated with murder and terrorism. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the...

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-137191

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Hall, Oakley

Warlock.

New York: The Viking Press, 1958.

First edition of this classic of American West literature. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gil...

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-143509

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Dickens, Charles

Master Humphrey’s Clock.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1840-1841.

First edition in the scarce original parts of this classic collection of short stories. Royal octavo, 88 weekly parts as issued, original white wrappers printed in black with wood-engraved title, engr...

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-149070

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Grass, Gunter

The Tin Drum.

London: Secker and Warburg, 1962.

The uncorrected proof of the first British edition of the author’s first novel. Octavo, original green wrappers as issued. Signed by the author on the title page. In near fine condition showing...

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-560

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Camus, Albert

The Stranger.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946.

First American edition of Camus’ first novel and masterpiece. Octavo, original beige cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket with a single closed tear. Jacket design by Warren Chappell. Translated by...

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-150923

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Levin, Ira

Rosemary’s Baby and Son of Rosemary.

New York: Random House and E/P. Dutton & Company, 1967 & 1997.

First edition and of its sequel of this influential horror classic, which helped launch the “horror boom.” Octavo, 2 volumes, original half cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by th...

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-150117

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Knight, Maxwell. Illustrated by David Corwell [John le Carre]

Talking Birds.

London: G. Belll & Sons, Ltd, 1961.

First edition of Knight’s work on the varying capabilities of talking birds; illustrated by David Cornwell (John le Carre) and one of his earliest appearances in print. Octavo, original cloth, i...

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-131508

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LE CARRÉ, John

John Le Carré Original Painting of ‘Rumpelstiltskin.’

:, 1952.

Rare original watercolor painting by British author John le Carré of a scene from the German fairy tale Rumpelstiltskin. Gouache and watercolor painting depicting Rumpelstiltskin incensed that the nea...

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-146524

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Ojike, Mbonu [Eleanor Roosevelt]

My Africa.

New York: The John Day Company, 1946.

First edition of this work by the Nigerian novelist and nationalist, inscribed by him to Eleanor Roosevelt. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front...

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-102465

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Kundera, Milan

The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1984.

First edition of Kundera’s magnum opus. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Peter Milan Kundera.” Fine in a fine dust jack...

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-119818

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Fonda, Peter; Dennis Hopper; Terry Southern

Easy Rider.

New York: Signet, 1969.

First edition of the complete script, with a selection of black white and color stills, interviews and articles. Octavo, original wrappers as issued, illustrated. Boldly signed by Peter Fonda and Denn...

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-151515

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Heinlein, Robert A

The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag.

Hicksville, New York: The Gnome Press, Inc, 1959.

First edition of this thrilling collection of science fiction stories. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Robert A. Heinlein on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some rub...

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-145369

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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

The Confessions of J.J. Rousseau: With the Reveries of the Solitary Walker.

London: Printed for J. Bew, 1783.

Rare first edition in English of the author’s classic work. Duodecimo, 2 volumes, bound in three-quarters contemporary calfskin over marbled boards with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in fi...

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-149924

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Carter, Forrest

The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales.

Ganit, Alabama: Whipporwill Publishers, 1973.

First edition of this Western novel, adapted into the 1976 film The Outlaw Josey Wales by Clint Eastwood. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. One of only 75 copies of the true first edition. Nea...

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-148846

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Thomas, Dylan

Death and Entrances.

London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1946.

First edition of Thomas’ most well-known collection of poetry. Small octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Charles Fox from Dyl...

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-144289

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Grass, Gunter

The Tin Drum.

London: Secker and Warburg, 1962.

First British edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s classic first novel. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed and dated in 1986 by Gunter Grass on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fin...

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-25016

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Scott, Walter [Ulysses S. Grant]

Waverley Novels. Woodstock.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863.

Two volumes from the library of Ulysses S. Grant, published the same year The Civil War was raging. Octavo, 2 volumes, bound in three quarters calf over marbled boards with gilt titles to the spine, m...

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-119455

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