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Missale Romanum.

Madrid: Typis Societatis, 1799.

Rare 18th century Spanish printing of the Roman Missal. Folio, bound in full velvet with silver cornerpieces and central ornament bearing the Sacred Heart, silver clasps, ribbons bound in, printed in...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149607

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Trollope, Anthony

The Prime Minister.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1876.

First edition of this classic work, which examines one of the most enduring questions in government; whether a morally scrupulous gentleman can make an effective leader. Octavo, original cloth, four v...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-131836

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Solzhenitsyn, Alexander. [Solzhentizyn]

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1963.

First British edition of the Nobel Prize-winner’s first published work. Octavo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles to the spine, titles to the front panel, all edges gilt. Housed in a custom clamshell...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-142203

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Baldwin, James

The Fire Next Time. [with] James Baldwin Signed Postcard.

New York: The Dial Press, 1963.

First edition of one of the most influential works on race relations published in the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth, top stain red. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by P...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149213

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Didion, Joan

Play It As It Lays.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1970.

First edition of Didion’s classic third book. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Joan Didion on the second endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Janet Halverson....

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151345

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Wilde, Oscar

The Works of Oscar Wilde. [Double Fore-Edge Painting].

London: Collins, 1931.

First Naschen edition of Oscar Wilde’s collected works, decorated with a concealed double fore-edge painting. Octavo, bound in twentieth-century light brown morocco with gilt titles and five raised ba...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-152272

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Waugh, Evelyn

The Sword of Honour Trilogy: Men At Arms; Officers and Gentlemen; Unconditional Surrender.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1952-1961.

First editions of each volume in the author’s acclaimed Sword of Honour Trilogy. Octavo, 3 volumes, finely bound in full morocco by The Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and ruling to the spine...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146619

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Malamud, Bernard

The Fixer.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966.

First edition of the author’s fourth novel, which went on to win the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-tit...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-99846

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Fitzgerald, Edward; Illustrated by F. Sangorski and G. Sutcliffe

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

London: Siegle, Hill & Company, 1910.

Signed limited first edition of this work reproduced in color from the manuscript written and illuminated by Francis Sangorski & George Sutcliffe, number 247 of 550 copies signed by the publisher....

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-108452

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Hart, James V. and Francis Ford Coppola [Gary Oldman] [Bram Stoker]

Bram Stoker’s Dracula: the Film and the Legend.

New York: Newmarket Press, 1992.

First edition of this work basis for the film, starring Gary Oldman, Wynona Ryder and Anthony Hopkins. Quarto, original boards, illustrated. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the the author on...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151034

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Satrapi, Marjane

Persepolis: The Story of A Childhood.

New York: Pantheon Books, 2003.

First edition of “the most original coming-of-age story from the Middle East yet” (People). Octavo, original illustrated boards. Boldly signed by Marjane Satropi on the front free endpaper...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-152994

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Dinsdale, Alfred

Television: Seeing by Wire or Wireless.

London: Sir Issac Pitman & Sons Ltd, 1926.

First edition of the first book on television, a key work on the history of technology. Octavo, original stiff boards, frontispiece halftone reproduction of photograph of John Logie Baird. Fine in a n...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-119245

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Kerr, Judith

The Tiger Who Came To Tea.

London: Collins, 1968.

First edition of this classic, one of the best selling children’s book of all-time. Quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated throughout. In near fine condition. An exceptional example.

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151775

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Gluck, Louise

Firstborn.

Oxford: Anvil Press Poetry, 1969.

Signed limited first edition of the Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning poet’s first book, one of only 50 numbered copies. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Louise Gluck on the half-title page. Fin...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-136043

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Lessing, Doris

Martha Quest, A Proper Marriage, A Ripple from the Storm, Landlocked, The Four-Gated City.

London: Michael Joseph, 1952-1969.

First editions of the author’s Children of Violence Series. Octavo, 5 volumes. Original cloth. Each of the five volumes are signed by Doris Lessing. Near fine in very good to near fine dust jack...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-796

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McCarthy, Cormac

The Road.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.

First edition of McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a post-apocalyptic world, a work of “stunning, savage beauty,” adapted to the screen in 2009 starring Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron. O...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-139588

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Rodd, Rennell. Introduction by Oscar Wilde

Rose Leaf and Apple Leaf.

Philadelphia: J. M. Stoddart & Co, 1882.

First edition of Rodd’s first book of verse which was published with the assistance of Oscar Wilde. 12mo, original publisher’s vellum with gilt inner dentelles, silk watered endleaves, top...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-140655

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Eliot, George

The Works of George Eliot.

Boston: Dana Estes & Company, n.d..

The Arbury edition of the works of George Eliot. Octavo, 24 volumes bound in three quarter half russet crushed morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-144866

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Cobb, Humphrey [Kirk Douglas]

Paths of Glory.

New York: The Viking Press, 1935.

First edition of the author’s first and only book, the basis for Stanley Kubrick’s classic film, starring Kirk Douglas. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by both Humphrey Cobb and actor Kirk Douglas. Nea...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-89922

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Verne, Jules

Jules Verne Autograph Letter Signed.

:, January 4, 1889.

Rare autographed letter signed by the father of science fiction Jules Verne. One page, the letter reads in full (translated), “I ask Madame Poritzer to please supply Mr. Debry with his tickets f...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146475

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Williams, Tennessee

A Streetcar Named Desire Script.

New York: Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center, Inc, .

Rare script from the first Broadway revival production of Tennessee Williams’ masterpiece performed at the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center in 1973. Quarto, original wrappers. In near fine co...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-109905

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Dickens, Charles. Illustrations by H.K. Browne

Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation.

London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846-48.

First edition in the scarce original parts of Dickens tale of the fortunes of the Dombey shipping firm. Octavo, 20 parts in 19, original wrappers, with 40 etchings by Halbot Knight Brown, containing a...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149076

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Wallace, David Foster [Steve Snider]

Infinite Jest: A Novel.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1996.

Uncorrected proof of the first edition of the author’s magnum opus. Thick octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed by David Foster Wallace with his added smiley face on the front free endpaper a...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-152258

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Lowell, Robert

Near The Ocean.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971.

First Noonday printing of Lowell’s renowned collection of poems, including his famous Waking Early on Sunday Morning. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the aut...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-142550

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