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East of Eden.

New York: The Viking Press, 1952.

First edition, first issue of Steinbeck’s epic and moving story of a modern Cain and Abel. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. An exceptionally fresh example.

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-140275

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Vonnegut, Kurt

First edition of Vonnegut’s classic satire of the clash between science and religion in the nuclear age. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine...

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-146009

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Warhol, Andy

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again).

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975.

First edition, early printing of this work by Warhol. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed in green by Andy Warhol on the half-title page. Additionally inscribed by Warhol on the title page, “T...

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-146539

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Clarke, Arthur C. and Stanley Kubrick [Keir Dullea]

2001: A Space Odyssey.

London: Hutchinson, 1968.

First British edition of the novel of the landmark “proverbial good science fiction movie” he and Stanley Kubrick created, starring Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly s...

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-150203

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Twain, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens]

A Dog’s Tale.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1904.

First edition of Twain’s “powerful indictment of cruelty to animals.” Octavo, original pictorial cloth, illustrated with four color plates by W.T. Smedley including tissue-guarded frontispiece....

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-150701

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Hugo, Victor

La Légende des Siècles. [The Legend of the Ages: First Series].

Bruxelles: 1859, Edition Hetzel.

First Brussels edition and true first edition of the first series of Hugo’s epic work. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Provenance: from the library of H. Bradley Martin (his sale, Soth...

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-142580

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Dahl, Roald

Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964.

First edition, first issue with the six line colophon on the last page. First-issue dust jacket, without the ISBN number on the rear panel. Octavo, original red cloth. Illustrated by Joseph Schindelma...

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-150946

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Sondheim, Stephen; James Lapine; Adapted and Illustrated by Hudson Talbott

Into The Woods.

New York: Crown Publishers, 1989.

First edition of this classic work, the basis for the Broadway musical and subsequent film. Quarto, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by Stephen Sondheim o...

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-124779

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Frost, Robert

North of Boston.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1929.

Early printing of Frost’s second published book. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper with an excerpt from his poem, The Wood P...

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-109521

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Joyce, James

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1916.

First American edition of Joyce’s classic stream-of-consciousness work, his first novel. Octavo, original publisher’s blue cloth, titles stamped in blind to the front panel. In very good conditi...

$3,000.00 Item Number: RRB-152253

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Dickens, Charles

Charles Dickens Autograph Note.

:, 1841.

Rare autograph note by great Victorian novelist Charles Dickens. One page, dated ninth June, 1841 and signed in the third person to John Critchley Prince. The note reads in full, “From Mr. Charl...

$3,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149428

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Albee, Edward. [Alan Schneider]

A Delicate Balance.

New York: Atheneum, 1966.

First edition of Albee’s Pulitzer Prize–winning drama, a remarkable association copy linking the play to its original Broadway production. Octavo, original black cloth. Association copy, inscribed by...

$3,000.00 Item Number: RRB-152178

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Gordimer, Nadine [V.S. Naipaul]

Burger’s Daughter.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1979.

First edition of this powerful novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author, from the library of fellow Nobel Prize-winning author V.S. Naipaul, with his signature to the front free endpaper. Octavo, origi...

$3,000.00 Item Number: RRB-138017

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Neale Hurston, Zora

Jonah’s Gourd Vine.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1934.

First edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles to the spine, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, raised bands, inner dentelles,...

$3,000.00 Item Number: RRB-141711

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Muir, John

The Cruise of the Corwin: Journal of the Arctic Expedition of 1881 In Search of De Long and the Jeannette.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917.

First edition, large paper copy, one of five hundred and fifty copies, this is number 260. Octavo, original cloth. Edited by William Frederic Badè. Illustrated with plates from photographs and from sk...

$3,000.00 Item Number: RRB-97365

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott.; Edited by Edmund Wilson

The Crack-Up.

New York: New Directions, 1945.

First edition of this collection of essays by Fitzgerald, published posthumously. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by Edmund Wilson, who served as editor to this posthumous Fitzgerald work,...

$3,000.00 Item Number: RRB-2212

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Fleming, Ian

The Spy Who Loved Me.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1962.

First edition of the ninth novel in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series. Octavo, original black cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Chopping. An exceptional example.

$3,000.00 Item Number: RRB-148037

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Rand, Ayn

El Manantial [The Fountainhead].

Barcelona: Editorial Planeta, 1958.

First Spanish edition of Rands’s breakthrough work and her first major literary success. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Ayn Rand on the dedication page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

$3,000.00 Item Number: RRB-150597

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Butler, Octavia E

Wild Seed.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1980.

First edition of the fourth book in the Patternist series. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Octavia E. Butler on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by John Cayea....

$3,000.00 Item Number: RRB-127822

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McCullers, Carson

The Member of the Wedding.

New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1946.

First edition of McCullers’ classic coming-of-age story like no other about a young girl’s fascination with her brother’s wedding, which has been compared to The Catcher in the Rye a...

$3,000.00 Item Number: RRB-134589

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Herbert, Frank; John W. Campbell [Editor]

Analog: Science Fiction and Fact. [Containing the First Appearance of the Dune Novels].

New York: Analog: Science Fiction and Fact, 1963-1965.

First editions of eight issues of Analog: Science Fiction and Fact magazine containing the first appearance of Frank Herbert’s Dune, later published as a novel and adapted into the two blockbus...

$3,000.00 Item Number: RRB-148315

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Greene, Graham

The Comedians.

London: The Bodley Head, 1966.

First edition of this novel set in Haiti under the rule of “Papa Doc” Duvalier, which explores the political suppression and terrorism through the figure of an English hotel owner, Brown....

$3,000.00 Item Number: RRB-98568

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Kertesz, Imre

Sorstalansag [Fatelessness].

Budapest: Szepirodalmi, 1975.

First Hungarian edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s masterpiece. Small octavo, original cloth. Signed by Imre Kertesz on the title page. Also, laid in is an original pamphlet on this wor...

$3,000.00 Item Number: RRB-5057

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Oates, Joyce Carol [Annie Dillard]

Them.

New York: The Vanguard Press, 1969.

First edition of the third in Oates’ Wonderland Quartet and winner of the National Book Award. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Ann...

$3,000.00 Item Number: RRB-146934

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Rare & Classic, American or English Literature Books for Sale Online

East of Eden.

Cat’s Cradle.

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again).

2001: A Space Odyssey.

A Dog’s Tale.

La Légende des Siècles. [The Legend of the Ages: First Series].

Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.

Into The Woods.

North of Boston.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

Charles Dickens Autograph Note.

A Delicate Balance.

Burger’s Daughter.

Jonah’s Gourd Vine.

The Cruise of the Corwin: Journal of the Arctic Expedition of 1881 In Search of De Long and the Jeannette.

The Crack-Up.

The Spy Who Loved Me.

El Manantial [The Fountainhead].

Wild Seed.

The Member of the Wedding.

Analog: Science Fiction and Fact. [Containing the First Appearance of the Dune Novels].

The Comedians.

Sorstalansag [Fatelessness].

Them.