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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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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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Levin, Ira

Rosemary’s Baby.

New York: Random House, 1967.

First edition of this influential horror classic, which helped launch the “horror boom.” Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five...

$2,450.00 Item Number: RRB-150653

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Frank, Robert

Les Americains [The Americans].

Paris: Delpire, 1957.

First edition of the photographer’s masterpiece with 83 black-and-white full-page photogravures. Oblong quarto, original boards illustrated by Saul Steinberg. In near fine condition.

$2,400.00 Item Number: RRB-120922

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Gunther, John

Death Be Not Proud.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1949.

First edition of this deeply moving book, a father’s memoir of a brave, intelligent, and spirited boy. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-146071

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de Beauvoir, Simone

The Mandarins.

Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1956.

Signed limited edition and first English edition of the novel for which de Beauvoir won the Prix Goncourt, awarded to the best and most imaginative prose work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-137901

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Houghton, Claude; Pierre Boulle; Alec Guinness; Jack Hawkins

The Bridge on the River Kwai: The Story of the Film.

England: Moore & Matthes Ltd., 1957.

Original brochure celebrating the David Lean war film ‘Bridge on the River Kwai’ with the story of the film by Claude Houghton, based on the screenplay written by Pierre Boulle. Real wood...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-147872

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Nabokov, Vladimir

Laughter in the Dark.

Indianapolis/ New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1938.

First edition of this classic early Nabokov novel. Octavo, original green cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. An exceptional example.

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-151015

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Carrington, Charles. [Rudyard Kipling; Lafcadio Hearn]

Rudyard Kipling: His Life and Work.

London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1955.

First edition of Carrington’s famed biography of Kipling. Octavo, original cloth. With an autograph note signed by Lafcadio Hearn adhered to the front pastedown which reads, “Kipling is pr...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-123050

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott

The Beautiful and the Damned.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922.

First edition, first state of the author’s second novel. Octavo, original green cloth, titles to the spine in gilt. Near fine in a very good second issue dust jacket with some unnecessary tape r...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-119223

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Twain, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens]

Mark Twain’s Sketches, New and Old.

Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, 1875.

First edition, first issue of Twain’s classic collection of short stories with the footnote on page 119 repeated on page 120 and the erratum inserted on page 299 denying Mark Twain’s autho...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-150673

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Pinter, Harold [Alan Schneider]

Tea Party and Other Plays.

London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1967.

First edition of Pinter’s collection of three plays originally written for television. Duodecimo, original cloth. A remarkable association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publicatio...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-152191

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Dickens, Charles

The Personal History of David Copperfield.

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1850.

First edition in book form of “the most perfect of all the Dickens novels” (Virginia Woolf). Octavo, bound in three quarters calf over marbled boards with black morocco spine label lettere...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-117844

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Woolf, Virginia

The Voyage Out.

London: Duckworth, 1927.

Early printing of Woolf’s first novel. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in the rare original dust jacket which has been restored. Uncommon in the original jacket.

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-129080

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Morrison, Toni

Sula.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s second novel. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Toni Morrison in a contemporary hand on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-141498

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Asimov, Isaac

Life and Energy.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1962.

First edition of Asimov’s work on the chemistry of life processes. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Isaac Asimov on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by A...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-142652

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DeCarava, Roy and Langston Hughes

The Sweet Flypaper of Life.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1955.

First edition of the classic collaboration between Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes. Small octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Langston Hughes on the front free endpaper,...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-90534

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Maugham, W. Somerset

On A Chinese Screen.

London: William Heinemann, 1922.

First edition of this classic travel book by the author of The Razor’s Edge. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Edward Wasse...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-116152

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Dahl, Roald

Dirty Beasts.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1983.

First edition of this book collection of poems about mischievous and mysterious animals. Quarto, original boards, illustrations by Rosemary Fawcett. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the f...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-146248

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Blume, Judy

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.

New York: Bradbury Press, 1970.

First edition, early printing of this landmark novel in the history of young adult literature. Octavo, original publisher’s boards. Boldly signed by the author on the half-title page, “Lov...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-148620

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Rand, Ayn

The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution.

New York: New American Library, 1971.

First edition, a paperback original of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed by Ayn Rand beneath her name. In near fine condition. First editions are rare signed.

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-151299

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Hurston, Zora Neale

Moses, Man on the Mountain.

New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1939.

First edition of this classic retelling of Moses’ exodus. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles to the spine, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, raised bands,...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-141712

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Fowles, John

The Magus.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1966.

First edition of the author’s most well-known work. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-143508

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Rhinehart, Luke [George Cockcroft]

The Dice Man.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1971.

First edition of this cult classic. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For John- ‘Uptown or downtown? I am…’ Luke Rhinehart...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-124924

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