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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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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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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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Saramago, Jose

Ensaio Sobre a Cegueira [Blindness].

Lisboa: Caminho, 1995.

First Portuguese edition and true first of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by Jose Saramago on the title page. In near fine...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-138766

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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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Moliere. [Poquelin, Jean-Baptiste]

The Dramatic Works of Moliere.

Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1875-1876.

Finely bound example of Henri Van Laun’s important translation of Moliere’s complete dramatic works. Quarto, 6 volumes, bound in full straight-grain royal blue morocco, gilt titles and ela...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-130194

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Nathaniel Hawthorne Signed Document.

Port of Liverpool:, 1854.

Rare original Naval “Oath of the Master and Mate” document signed by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Printed “Consul’s Certificate” accomplished in manuscript and signed in ink...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151822

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Forester, C.S

The African Queen.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1935.

First edition, early printing of C.S. Forester’s beloved African adventure, basis for John Huston’s 1951 Oscar-winning film starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. Octavo, original cloth. Sign...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-132321

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Donleavy, J.P

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 J.P. Donleavy on the front free endpaper....

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-91458

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Garcia Marquez, Gabriel

Noticia de un Secuestro [News of a Kidnapping]

Mexico: Editorial Diana, 1996.

First edition of this work of nonfiction by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-132317

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Naughton, Bill

Alfie.

London: Macgibbon & Kee, 1966.

First edition of the novelization of Naughton’s popular stage play. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, signed by the author on the title page, “Bill Naughton” and lengthily i...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-143918

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Lewis, Sinclair

Main Street.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920.

First edition, first printing of Lewis’ classic work. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-144082

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Modiano, Patrick [Philip Roth]

So You Don’t Get Lost in the Neighborhood.

Boston/ New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.

First edition in English of this haunting novel of suspense. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page to fellow writer Philip Roth, “Pour Philip,...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-117832

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Davies, Valentine [Buddy Adler]

Miracle On 34th Street. [with] Valentine Davies Typed Letter Signed.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1947.

First edition of this modern Christmas classic. Octavo, original red cloth. Accompanied by a typed letter signed by Valentine Davies and regarding staging that year’s Academy Awards presentation...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148982

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Faulkner, William

Light In August.

New York: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, 1932.

First edition, first issue, with first printing statement on copyright page, and “Jefferson” for “Mottstown” on page 340, line 1; first-issue binding, lettered in blue and orange. Octavo, original clo...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-133611

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Dunne, John Gregory [Joan Didion]

True Confessions: A Novel.

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1977.

First edition of this work, basis for the film, with the screenplay by John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion on the front free...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-144261

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Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]

Editorial Wild Oats.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1905.

First edition of this collection of short stories. Octavo, original red cloth, illustrated. Fine in a very good dust jacket with some rubbing and wear to the extremities. Rare in the original jacket.

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-68027

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Kubrick, Stanley & Anthony Burgess

Stanley Kubrick’s Clockwork Orange.

New York: Abelard-Schuman, 1972.

First edition of the book recreation of Stanley Kubrick’s epic film adaptation of Anthony Burgess’ dystopian masterpiece. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150514

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Salinger, J.D

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1963.

First edition of this collection of two novellas by the author of The Catcher in the Rye. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150818

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Warren, Robert Penn

All the King’s Men.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1946.

First edition of Warren’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of American politics. Octavo, original cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endp...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-152268

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