Allende, Isabel

The House of Spirits Trilogy: House of the Spirits, Daughter of Fortune, and Portrait in Sepia.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1985.

First edition of each work in the author’s classic House of Spirits trilogy. Octavo, 3 volumes, original cloth.  Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To ____ ____ ‘You can’t find someone who doesn’t want to be found.’ Isabel Allende.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by MichelContinue reading "The House of Spirits Trilogy: House of the Spirits, Daughter of Fortune, and Portrait in Sepia."

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$1,500.00

Item Number: RRB-147493

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Moore, Robin

The Green Berets.

New York : Crown Publishers, 1965.

First edition of this monumental work, basis for the classic film starring John Wayne. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by the author on the half-title page, “My best wishes Robin Moore.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Harsh/ Finegold. Rare and desirable signed.

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$1,400.00

Item Number: RRB-147494

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Johnson, Adam

The Orphan Master’s Son.

New York : Random House, 2012.

First edition of this emotionally rousing novel, which went on to win the Pulitzer Prize. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Johanna, It’s a pleasure to inscribe a book to such an ambassador of literature. You’re welcome in my posse anyday. Yours, Adam Johnson.” Fine inContinue reading "The Orphan Master’s Son."

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$250.00

Item Number: RRB-147177

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Bronte, Charlotte; Emily Bronte; Anne Bronte. Edited by Temple Scott

Novels of the Sisters Bronte. [The Professor; Jane Eyre; Villette; Shirley; Tenant of Wildfell Hall; Agnes Grey; Wuthering Heights].

Edinburgh : John Grant, 1905.

The Thornton edition of the novels of the Sisters Bronte. Octavo, 12 volumes bound in three quarter crushed levant morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, top edge gilt with others untrimmed, illustrated, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait to each volume. Edited by Temple Scott. A veryContinue reading "Novels of the Sisters Bronte. [The Professor; Jane Eyre; Villette; Shirley; Tenant of Wildfell Hall; Agnes Grey; Wuthering Heights]."

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$4,800.00

Item Number: RRB-147601

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Pinter, Harold

Monologue.

London : Covent Garden Press, 1973.

First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

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$40.00

Item Number: RRB-147315

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Defoe, Daniel

The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel Defoe.

Oxford : Printed by D.A. Talboys, for Thomas Tegg, 1840-41.

The Talboys edition of the complete works of Daniel Defoe. Octodecimo, twenty volumes bound in red half morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, information slip tipped in to Vol. I, engraved frontispiece portrait to Vol. II. In fine condition.

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$3,500.00

Item Number: RRB-147162

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Burns, Robert; Introduction by John Buchan

The Complete Writings of Robert Burns.

Boston and New York : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926.

The Large-Paper edition of the complete works of Robert Burns. Royal octavo, ten volumes bound in three quarter contemporary dark blue crushed morocco by the Riverside Press with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt, ribbons bound in, illustrated with tissue-guarded engravings, some in color,Continue reading "The Complete Writings of Robert Burns."

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$3,000.00

Item Number: RRB-147505

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King, Stephen

Carrie.

Garden City, NY : Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1974.

First edition of the novel that launched King’s career, with ‘First Edition’ stated on the copyright page and ‘P6’ in the gutter of page 199. Octavo, original maroon cloth, compliments stamp to the front pastedown, “With Compliments of Doubleday & Company, Inc.” Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the title page, “For BobbyContinue reading "Carrie."

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$9,500.00

Item Number: RRB-147126

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Coetzee, J.M

Life & Times of Michael K.

South Africa : Ravan Press, 1983.

First edition of the author’s first Booker Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to his first wife on the title page, “Philippa love from John.” Philippa Jubber and John Maxwell Coetzee were married in 1963. They had two children, Nicolas (1966–1989) and Gisela (b. 1968). In 1965 Coetzee entered theContinue reading "Life & Times of Michael K."

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$8,800.00

Item Number: RRB-146865

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Nabokov, Vladimir

The Eye.

New York : Phaedra, 1965.

First edition of this short novel by the author of Lolita. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Translated by Dmitri Nabokov.

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$125.00

Item Number: RRB-144481

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Ginsberg, Allen

White Shroud Poems 1980-1985.

New York : Harper & Row, Publishers, 1987.

First Perennial Library edition of this collection of poems. Octavo, original publisher’s wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by the author to his cousin Gene Levy and his wife on title-page, “for Lorraine & Gene Levy from cousin (first) Allen Ginsberg February 4, 1989 Pittsburgh.” Additionally inscribed on the opposite with a large hand-drawn illustration of aContinue reading "White Shroud Poems 1980-1985."

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$400.00

Item Number: RRB-146471

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Mandel, Emily St. John

Station Eleven.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.

First edition of this iconic novel, basis for the post-apocalyptic dystopian fiction television miniseries created by Patrick Somerville. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Emily St. John Mandel on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket Jacket design by Abby Weintraub.

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$400.00

Item Number: RRB-147032

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Thomas, Keith

Religion and the Decline of Magic.

New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Diane Large.

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$300.00

Item Number: RRB-144493

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Yates, Richard

Revolutionary Road.

Boston : Little, Brown, 1961.

First edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Tony Palladino.

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$950.00

Item Number: RRB-147181

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Wolfe, Tom

I Am Charlotte Simmons.

New York : Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2004.

First edition of this “hilarious, exclamation-point filled novel” (John Freeman). Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Tom Wolfe on the title page. Laid in is the original program for the book signing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Susan Mitchell.

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$175.00

Item Number: RRB-147194

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Rendell, Ruth

A Judgement in Stone.

London : Hutchinson, 1977.

First edition of the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Hannah Shaviv. Author’s photograph by Jerry Bauer.

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$200.00

Item Number: RRB-131487

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Courtenay, Bryce

The Power of One.

London : William Heinemann, 1989.

First British edition of the Courtenay’s classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed and dated by the author in the year of publication on the title page, “Bryce Courtenay 22/3/89.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed.

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$1,200.00

Item Number: RRB-147199

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Yates, Richard

Revolutionary Road.

Boston : Little, Brown, 1961.

First edition of the author’s classic first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated by Yates on the front free endpaper, “For Jim Brady With best wishes always, Dick Yates Feb 1, 87.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Tony Palladino. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshellContinue reading "Revolutionary Road."

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$6,500.00

Item Number: RRB-2784

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Blatty, William Peter

The Exorcist.

New York : Harper & Row, Publishers, 1971.

First edition of Blatty’s landmark horror novel, basis for the 1973 film. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by William Peter Blatty and actress Kitty Winn, who starred in the film on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Frederick Cantor. An exceptional example, rare and desirable signed theContinue reading "The Exorcist."

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$2,800.00

Item Number: RRB-147119

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Dickens, Charles

Oliver Twist.

London : Richard Bentley, 1838.

First editions of Dickens’s classic second novel. Octavo, three volumes, bound in full calf, morocco spine labels, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, double gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, inner dentelles, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, mixed issue with “Boz” on title and the “Church” plate in place ofContinue reading "Oliver Twist."

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$8,200.00

Item Number: RRB-146153

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Kushner, Harold S

When Bad Things Happen To Good People.

New York : Schocken Books, 1981.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Judge Silber with my best wishes Rabbi Harold S. Kushner.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Edward Smith.

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$475.00

Item Number: RRB-146450

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McMurtry, Larry

Cadillac Jack.

New York : Simon and Schuster, 1982.

First edition of “the best novel Larry McMurtry ever wrote.” Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Larry McMurtry. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by George Corsillo. Uncommon in this condition.

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$475.00

Item Number: RRB-147139

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Serviss, Garrett P

A Columbus of Space.

New York and London : D. Appleton and Company, 1911.

First edition of this classic interplanetary adventure novel. Octavo, original lime green pictorial cloth, frontispiece of a scene from page 47 “Standing on the steps … was a creature shaped like a man, but more savage than a gorilla.” Signed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication.Continue reading "A Columbus of Space."

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$1,600.00

Item Number: RRB-146170

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Kidder, Tracy

Mountains Beyond Mountains.

New York : Random House, 2003.

First edition of this powerful work, which tells the true story of a gifted man who loves the world and has set out to do all he can to cure it. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Melissa, Tracy Kidder.” Fine in a fine dust jacket.Continue reading "Mountains Beyond Mountains."

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$350.00

Item Number: RRB-147146

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