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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Dabit, Eugene

L’Hotel du Nord.

Paris: Robert Denoël, 1929.

First edition of the author’s immensely popular novel. Octavo, bound in full crushed levant morocco by Valmard with gilt titles to the spine, marbled endpapers and additional patterned silk endl...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-144043

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Herlihy, James Leo. [Eva Marie Saint]

All Fall Down.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1960.

First edition of this classic work, basis for the 1962 film directed by John Frankenheimer with the screenplay adapted by playwright William Inge starring Eva Marie Saint and Warren Beatty. Octavo, or...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147761

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King, Stephen

The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition.

New York: Doubleday, 1990.

The complete and uncut edition of one of the author’s best-known works being a complete and uncut version. Octavo, bound in original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on t...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150495

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Kerouac, Jack

Big Sur.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1962.

First edition of Kerouac’s poignant masterpiece of self-reflection. Octavo, original quarter cloth, top stain blue. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Janet Halverson. The nicest examp...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151182

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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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Beaton, Cecil

Cecil Beaton’s Fair Lady.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964.

First edition of Beaton’s Fair Lady, a witty compilation of his personal diary entries recorded while managing the costume and set design of the 1957 Warner Brothers film starring Audrey Hepburn...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-141409

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Calligraphic Manuscript on Vellum with a Color Miniature of the Painting by Leonardo Da Vinci.

:, c.1900.

Rare illuminated manuscript regarding Da Vinci’s master drawing The Head of Christ (c. 1495), the basis for Da Vinci’s depiction of Jesus in The Last Supper. Da Vinci himself considered the drawing so...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-119865

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Trail, Armitage. [Al Pacino]

Scarface.

New York: Dell Publishing Co., Inc, 1959.

First Dell paperback edition of Trail’s sensational American organized crime novel, the basis for one of the greatest gangster films ever made directed by Brian De Palma, written by Oliver Stone...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149364

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[Fitzgerald, F. Scott]

The Great Gatsby Clamshell Box.

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Custom full morocco clamshell box hand made by The Harcourt Bindery to house a first edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Pictorial clamshell box with gilt titles and an onlay of t...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150365

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Yezierska, Anzia

Hungry Hearts.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1920.

First edition of Anzia Yezierska’s rare first book. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the Anzia Yezierska on the front free endpaper. Near fine with a trace of edge wear in a very good dust jack...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-42019

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