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Songs For Youth.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1924.

First edition this classic selection of Kipling’s songs for children. Octavo, original cloth, illustrations by Leo Bates with 8 tipped-in color plates. Boldly signed by Rudyard Kipling on the ti...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151070

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Rand, Ayn. [Annie Dillard]

Night of January 16th.

New York and Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1968.

First edition in book form of the successful Broadway play by the author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Ayn Rand on the front free endpaper. From...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151371

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Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]

Life On The Mississippi.

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883.

First American edition, first state of this provocative portrait of the great Mississippi River with tailpiece of Twain in flames on p. 441 and “The St. Louis Hotel” caption on p. 443. Octavo, origina...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-142314

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King, Stephen

Carrie.

England: PS Publishing, 2014.

First edition of the 40th Anniversary edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, original illustrated glossy boards, original slipcase. Although not called for signed by Stephen King on the tit...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-123034

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Cohen, Leonard

Beautiful Losers.

New York: The Viking Press, 1966.

First edition of Cohen’s second and final novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Matthew all the best Leonard Cohen 2008.”...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-94686

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Schuyler, George S

Slaves Today: A Story of Liberia.

New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1931.

First edition of “the first novel about Africa written by an African American” (Aric Putnam). Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “T...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-116439

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Hyams, Peter

Capricorn One Original Shooting Script.

: ITC Entertainment, Inc., 1976.

Rare original shooting script from from the 1978 science fiction thriller Capricorn One. Quarto, original leatherette wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the writer/director on the title page,...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-124688

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Gilman, Charlotte Perkins [Stetson]

In This Our World.

Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1899.

Second edition of Gilman’s first collection of poetry, coupled with almost eighty previously uncollected pieces. Duodecimo, enclosed in a handsewn black silk cover, tissue-guarded frontispiece p...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146575

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Doyle, Arthur Conan

Arthur Conan Doyle Autograph Letter Signed.

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Rare handwritten letter signed by Arthur Conan Doyle to lecture manager James B. Pond, Jr. Octavo, one page on Windlesham letterhead, the letter reads in full, “Dear Mr. Pond It is pleasant to s...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147770

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Fitzpatrick, Percy

Jock of the Bushveld.

London: Longmans, Green and Company, 1913.

Early printing of this classic work. Octavo, original green cloth, gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Percy Fitzpatrick on the title page. I...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-119744

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Wharton, Edith & Ogden Codman Jr

The Decoration of Houses.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897.

First edition of Edith Wharton’s first published book. Quarto, original marbled paper boards. Illustrated with 56 plates. In very good condition. First editions are uncommon.

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-124586

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Fleming, Ian

Thunderball.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1961.

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 art by Richard Chopping. A bright example.

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151514

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Gunther, John

Inside U.S.A.

New York: Harper & Brothers , 1947.

First edition of this classic work, “riveting from start to finish” (Robert Gottlieb, The New York Times). Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, pullout map. Boldly signed by Joh...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-134601

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Markandaya, Kamala

Nectar In a Sieve.

London: Putnam, 1954.

First Edition of the author’s classic first novel. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Best Wishes and love, Kamala Markandaya January 1955.”...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-855

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Bellow, Saul

Dangling Man.

New York: Vanguard, 1944.

First edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, original beige cloth. Fine in a very good dust jacket that shows some chipping to the crown and foot of the spine. Signed by Saul Bellow on the...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-1962

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Wilder, Thornton

Our Town: A Play in Three Acts.

New York: Coward McCann, 1938.

First edition of the author’s second Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gi...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149898

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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...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148081

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Groom, Winston [Tom Hanks]

Forrest Gump.

Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2002.

Signed limited first edition of this modern classic, basis for one of the most iconic films of the twentieth century, starring Tom Hanks. Octavo, elaborately bound in full leather, gilt titles and too...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150200

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Miller, Arthur

The Crucible.

New York: The Viking Press, 1953.

First edition, early printing of this central work in the canon of American drama. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Gerald Kramer, A...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-138592

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Eliot, George

Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe.

Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861.

First edition of this classic work in Carter’s binding “A”, which is the preferred and much more elaborate, with Blackwood and Carlyle ads at the rear (which only appear in some copi...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-4399

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Mishima, Yukio

After The Banquet.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963.

First edition in English of “the biggest and most profound thing Mishima has done so far in an already distinguished career” (The New Yorker). Octavo, original half cloth. Translated from...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-129580

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Caesar, Gaius Julius

Commentaires de César, avec des Notes Historiques, Critiques et Militaires [Caesar’s Comments, with Historical, Critical and Military Notes].

Paris: A Montargis, 1785.

First edition edited and translated by Lancelot Turpin de Crissé. Quarto, three volumes, bound in full contemporary calf, morocco spine labels, gilt titles to the spine, engraved title pages, two port...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-104356

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Huxley, Aldous

Antic Hay.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1923.

First edition of this classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For James Murphy, thirty years later, Aldous Huxley, 1954....

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-119728

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