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Of Human Bondage.

London: William Heinemann, 1915.

First edition, first printing which includes list of other “Works” by Maugham facing half-title, plus publisher’s ad page for works by other authors on half-title verso, with the misprint on page 257,...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-144206

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Wallace, David Foster & Mark Costello

The Missouri Review: Signifying Rappers, Volume XIII, Number 2.

New York: Ecco Press, 1990.

First appearance of Foster Wallace’s first book. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Signed by David Foster Wallace. In fine condition. The first article is a 20 page essay from David Foster Wa...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-105443

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Lee, Harper

To Kill A Mockingbird.

New York: HarperCollins, 1999.

First edition, first printing of the 40th Anniversary edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Harper Lee on the half-title page. Fine in a fine...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-147849

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Fleming, Ian

The Spy Who Loved Me.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1962.

First edition of the ninth novel in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series. Octavo, original black cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Chopping. A sharp example.

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-151588

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Conrad, Joseph

Lord Jim.

London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1900.

First edition of one of Conrad’s finest novels. Octavo, original cloth. First printing with the first issue points including the misprints “anyrate” p. 77, l. 5, “cure” (instea...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-144315

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Claxton, William and Berendt, Joachim E

Jazzlife [Jazz Life].

Offenburg: Burda Druck und Verlag, 1961.

First edition of Claxton’s seminal photobook on jazz. Quarto, original black cloth, pictorial front endpapers. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. Presentation copy, inscribed by the p...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-393

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Rowling, J.K. [Kennelworthy Whisp]

Quidditch: Through the Ages.

London: Bloomsbury/Whizz Hard Books, 2001.

First British edition of this “amazingly imaginative work” (Associated Press). Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Boldly signed by J.K. Rowling on the title page. In fine condition. Rare...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-148087

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Boccaccio, Giovanni

Il Decameron Di Messer Giovanni Boccacci, Tratto dall’ ottimo Testo scritto Da Francesco D’Amaretto Mannelli Sull’Originale Dell’Autor.

1813: Vitarelli, Venezia.

Finely bound 19th century Venetian printing of Boccaccio’s masterpiece. 12mo, five volumes bound in full straight grain morocco with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in five compart...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-149651

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Hemingway, Ernest

Winner Take Nothing.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933.

First edition of Hemingway’s third collection of short stories. Octavo, original black cloth. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase. A very nice presentation.

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-142401

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Yeats, W.B. Edited by Peter Allt and Russel K. Alpach [William Butler]

The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W.B. Yeats.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1957.

The Variorum signed limited edition of this classic collection of poetry by the Nobel Prize-winning author, one of 825 numbered copies signed by the poet. Large octavo, original half cloth, original s...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-149136

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Dickens, Charles

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit.

London: London: Chapman and Hall, 1839.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, gilt medallion portrait of Dickens on the front panel, gilt si...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-130567

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Shaara, Michael

The Killer Angels.

New York: David Mckay, 1974.

First edition of Shaara’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth, maps by Don Pitcher. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. Rare and desirable in thi...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-146142

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Pynchon, Thomas

Gravity’s Rainbow.

New York : The Viking Press, 1973.

First edition, early printing of Pynchon’s National Book Award-winning novel. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments w...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-151452

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Dickens, Charles

Dombey and Son.

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848.

First edition in book form of Dickens’ novel of “Pride,” with 40 etchings by Hablôt Knight Browne (“Phiz”). Octavo, bound in full morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, rais...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-130507

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Doyle, Arthur Conan

The Great Boer War.

London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1903.

Complete final edition of Arthur Conan Doyle’s work on the Boer War, which he revised sixteen times throughout the course of the war. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine, all edges...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-96130

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Hemingway, Ernest

The Torrents of Spring.

New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1926.

First edition of Hemingway’s first novel, one of 1250 printed. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and ruling to the spine, raised bands, double gilt ruled to the...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-122368

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Durrell, Lawrence

Clea.

London: Faber & Faber , 1969.

First edition of the author’s final novel in his classic Alexandria Quartet. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “Inscribed for Lewis Lawr...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-124897

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Euripides; Translated by Robert Potter

The Tragedies of Euripides.

London: J. Dodsley, 1783.

First translation of Euripides into English, translated by Robert Potter, from his own library. Octavo, two volumes, bound in contemporary leather, engraved frontispiece to volume I, list of subscribe...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-135391

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Joyce, James

Finnegans Wake.

New York: The Viking Press, 1939.

First American edition, one of 6000 copies printed. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a few chips to the spine. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase.

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-106753

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Pinter, Harold

The Birthday Party.

London: Methuen & Co, 1960.

First edition of Pinter’s modern classic. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Harold Pinter on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust price-clipped dust jacket with light rubbing to the ext...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-3718

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Dickens, Charles; Illustrations by Marcus Stone

The Works of Charles Dickens [Including: Bleak House; A Tale of Two Cities; Little Dorrit; Great Expectations; Oliver Twist; A Christmas Carol; David Copperfield; Dombey & Son; The Old Curiosity Shop; Nicholas Nickleby].

London: Chapman and Hall, .

Complete set of Charles Dickens’ works. Octavo, 30 volumes, bound in three quarters leather over marbled boards, gilt tooling to the spine, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated througho...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-3144

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Cowley, Malcolm

Blue Juniata: Poems.

New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1929.

First edition of this landmark in modern American poetry. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the scarce original dust jacket which is in good condition.

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-101445

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Miller, Arthur

The Crucible.

New York: The Viking Press, 1953.

First edition of this central work in the canon of American drama. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt ba...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-142667

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Irving, John

The World According to Garp.

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1978.

First edition of Irving’s fourth novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page in a contemporary hand, “For John another world according to a water-met...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-15003

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