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Brave New World.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1932.

First edition of Huxley’s masterpiece. Octavo, bound in full leather by Exeter Bookbinders in a unique binding of a blue suit jacket and three titanium skull-shaped buttons to the front panel, g...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149102

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Hueffer, [Ford] Ford Madox

The Good Soldier. A Tale of Passion.

London: John Lane Company, 1915.

First edition, first issue without the 16 pp. of advertisements of this literary highspot, one of the great novels of the first half of the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine cond...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-142068

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Salter, James

A Sport And A Pastime.

Garden City, NY: Paris Review Editions/ Doubleday, 1967.

First edition of this modern classic, hailed as a masterpiece. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by James Salter on the title page. With a publisher’s compliments of the author laid in, fine i...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-146210

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Verne, Jules

Jules Verne Autograph Letter Signed.

Amiens:, 12 July, [no year].

Rare autographed letter signed by the father of science fiction Jules Verne. One page in French, 32mo, addressed “Cher Monsieur,” the letter reads in full (translated), “Amiens, July...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147412

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Lessing, Doris [V.S. Naipaul]

The Golden Notebook.

London: Michael Joseph, 1962.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s magnum opus. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of fellow Nobel Prize-winning author V.S. Naipaul on the front free endpaper. V.S. Naipaul...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149113

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Wodehouse, P.G

The Clicking of Cuthbert.

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1926.

Early printing of this classic collection of short stories. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To James Douglas With the author...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-124787

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Dickey, James [John Boorman and Jon Voight]

Deliverance.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970.

First edition of Dickey’s first and most famous novel, basis for the classic John Boorman directed film, starring Jon Voight and Burt Reynolds. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-136477

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Hueffer, (Ford) Ford Madox

The Good Soldier. A Tale of Passion.

London: John Lane Company, 1915.

First edition, first issue without the 16 pp. of advertisements.of this literary highspot, one of the great novels of the first half of the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine cond...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-81026

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Joyce, James

Ulysses.

New York: Random House, 1934.

First American edition of Joyce’s masterpiece. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in four compartments within raised bands, double gilt rul...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149451

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Poe, Edgar Allan

The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. Publishers, 1902.

The Virginia edition of the works of Edgar Allan Poe, edited by James A. Harrison. Octavo, 17 volumes, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-138956

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Remington, Frederic

John Ermine of the Yellowstone.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1902.

First edition of this thought-provoking work of a young Native American man who is torn between his traditional way of life and the rapidly changing world around him. Octavo, original cloth, frontispi...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147725

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[Livingstone, David]

The Life and Explorations of David Livingstone, LL.D. Carefully Compiled From Reliable Sources.

London and Newcastle: The Tyne Publishing Company, Limited, c. 1875.

First edition of this magnificently illustrated and bound compendium of David Livingstone’s life and explorations. Folio, bound in full black morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six c...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151484

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Keats, Ezra Jack

The Snowy Day.

New York: The Viking Press, 1962.

First edition of The Snowy Day, which is considered “one of the most important American books of the 20th century” (Diefendorf, ed. The New York Public Library’s Books of the Century...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151626

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Collins, Billy

Pokerface.

Los Angeles: Kenmore Press, 1977.

First edition of Collins’ first collection of poetry. Oblong octavo, original wrappers. One of 400 numbered copies, this is number 302. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title pa...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-140906

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Adams, Richard

Watership Down.

New York: Macmillan, 1972.

First American edition of the author’s first and most beloved work. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within rai...

$2,750.00 Item Number: RRB-149709

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Giovanni, Nikki

Black Judgement.

Detroit, MI: Broadside Press, 1968.

First edition, first printing of one of Giovanni’s earliest works, containing her famous poem, “Nikki-Rosa”. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Boldly signed by Nikki Giovanni be...

$2,750.00 Item Number: RRB-151915

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Baldwin, James

Just Above My Head: A Novel.

London: Michael Joseph, 1979.

First edition of Baldwin’s final novel “the work of a born storyteller at the height of his powers” (The New York Times Book Review). Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by James Baldwin on th...

$2,750.00 Item Number: RRB-131579

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White, E.B.; Illustrated by Garth Williams

Stuart Little.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1945.

First edition, first printing, with code “I-U” on copyright page of the author’s classic work. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the s...

$2,750.00 Item Number: RRB-147118

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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. Boldly signed by Shel Silverstein on the front free endpaper. Fine in a nea...

$2,750.00 Item Number: RRB-148195

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Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

Cien Años de Soledad. [En Revista De La Cultura De Occidente. Febrero De 1967].

Bogota, Colombia: Librería Buchholz, 1967.

First edition of the February 1967 issue of Revista De La Cultura De Occidente containing the first appearance of a fragment of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Cien Años de Soledad. Octavo, original pi...

$2,750.00 Item Number: RRB-138401

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Ellison, Ralph

Invisible Man.

New York: Random House, 1952.

Association copy of the author’s landmark first novel, which went on to win the National Book Award. Octavo, original black and tan cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on title page...

$2,750.00 Item Number: RRB-147961

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Lee, Harper

To Kill a Mockingbird.

New York: Harper Collins, 2010.

First edition of the 50th anniversary edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by Harper Lee on the front free endpaper, “With best wish...

$2,750.00 Item Number: RRB-149938

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Beckett, Samuel

En Attendant Godot. Pièce en Deux Actes.

Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1952.

First edition, one of 2500 copies printed of the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original wrappers printed in blue and black. In excellent condition with light rubbing to the extremities.

$2,750.00 Item Number: RRB-109378

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Steinbeck, John

The Red Pony.

New York: The Viking Press, 1945.

Signed limited first edition of Steinbeck’s classic novel, one of 699 copies. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, with illustrations by Wesley Dennis. Fine in the rare original slipcase...

$2,750.00 Item Number: RRB-150085

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