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12 Million Black Voices: A Folk History of the Negro in the United States.

New York: The Viking Press, 1941.

First edition of this powerful work by the author of The Native Son, featuring photographs by Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange and Ben Shahn. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Boldly sign...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-119447

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McCarthy, Cormac

The Stonemason: A Play In Five Acts.

Hopewell, NJ: The Ecco Press, 1994.

First edition of this expansively imagined drama about four generations of an American family. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Cormac McCarthy on the half-title page. Additionally signed...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-150948

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Modiano, Patrick [Philip Roth]

Honeymoon.

Boston: Verba Mundi/ David A. Godine, 1995.

First American edition of this “haunting tale of quiet intensity” (Review of Contemporary Fiction). Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-titl...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-146091

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Marx, Groucho

The Groucho Phile.

Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1976.

First edition of this work by the legendary comedian. Quarto, original boards. Association copy, inscribed twice by the author on the dedication page and again on page 364, “To Sally from Goucho...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-137602

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Warhol, Andy

Andy Warhol’s Interview (Box/Suitcase).

: Steidl Verlag, 2004.

Complete portfolio of magazines plus wooden suitcase in the original shipping box, one of only 2000 examples. Book 1: The Covers. A facsimile reproduction of every cover from Interview’s first d...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-144220

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Rushdie, Salman

Midnight’s Children.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1981.

First British edition of the author’s Booker Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Charles- Salman Rushdie....

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-144363

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Mitchell, Margaret

Margaret Mitchell Signed Letters.

:, 1941-42.

Two letters signed in full by Margaret Mitchell, author on the classic Gone With the Wind. Both letters addressed to Rear Admiral Edward J. Marquart and his wife, one dated December 26, 1941, the othe...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-21082

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Hughes, Langston and Milton Meltzer

A Pictorial History of the Negro in America.

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1956.

First edition of this important compilation on the history of African Americans. Quarto, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Langston Hughes and Milton Meltzer on the front free endpape...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-147261

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Shakespeare, William

The Poems of William Shakespeare.

London: Paradine Publications, 1975.

Paradine Publications limited edition facsimile reprint of the Kelmscott Press edition of The Poems of William Shakespeare written in the original 16th and 17th century spelling. Octavo, bound in full...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-148849

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Arnold, Matthew

New Poems.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1867.

First edition of Arnold’s 1867 book of poems. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, double gilt ruling to the panels. In near fine condition. Rare with only a handful of examples...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-124039

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Goldoni, Carlo

Nuovo Teatro Comico Dell’Avvocato Carlo Goldoni Poeta Di S. A. R. Il Serenissimo Infante di Spagna Don Filippo Duca Di Parma, Piacenza, Guastalla, ec. [New Comic Theater of the Lawyer Carlo Goldoni].

Venezi: Francesco Pitteri, 1753-1755.

Rare complete set of Pitteri’s 1757 printing of Goldoni’s works of comic theater. Octavo, ten volumes bound in full vellum with gilt tooling to the spine, engraved frontispiece portrait of...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-129035

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Fast, Howard [Kirk Douglas]

Spartacus.

New York: Published by the Author, 1951.

First edition of this work, basis for the classic 1960 film starring Kirk Douglas. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Howard Fast and Kirk Douglas on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-145927

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Kline, Fred; [Jack Kerouac]

I, DODO: A Poem Cycle.

San Francisco: Double-H Press, 1968.

First edition of this charming book of poetry; from the library of ‘On the Road’ author Jack Kerouac. Sextodecimo, original wrappers. The first printing of 2000 copies. Association copy, i...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-146634

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Crowley, John

Little, Big.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1981.

First British edition and first hardcover edition of this landmark of modern fantasy. Octavo, original black cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the title page, “For _...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-79887

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Brothers Grimm

Household Stories from the Collection of the Brothers Grimm.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1882.

Finely bound edition of this collection of classic fairytales. Octavo, bound in full dark blue morocco by Kelliegram with gilt titles and floral tooling to the spine, floral ruling to the front and re...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149423

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Vidal, Gore [Anais Nin]

The City and the Pillar. [with] Gore Vidal Signed Dedication Page To Anais Nin.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1948.

First edition of this landmark novel, from the library of Anais Nin. Octavo, original black cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Accompanied by a clipped dedication page that reads, “For...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-144891

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Waugh, Evelyn

Scoop.

London: Chapman & Hall, 1964.

First revised edition of Waugh’s satire of sensationalist journalism. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Patrick, with regar...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-95271

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[Kerouac, Jack; Jean-Pierre Lemaire]

RUpTure.

Paris, France: Printed at 21 Rue de Saintonge, 1965.

Rare vintage January 1965 issue of RUpTure, a left-leaning French-language literary magazine, gifted to and personally owned by Beatnik writer Jack Kerouac. Oblong octavo, written in French, original...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-150642

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Boileau, Ethel [Ayn Rand]

Ballade in G Minor.

London: Hutchinson & Co, 1938.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “For Ayn Rand from Ethel Boileau A tr...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-136398

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Lee, Harper

Harper Lee Autographed Letter Signed.

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Autograph letter signed by Harper Lee on her personal monogram letterhead, June 26, 2009. The letter is written to her longtime friend Bruce Higgison. It reads, “My own Bruce: You are without a...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-65033

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Hammerstein, Oscar

Carmen Jones.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945.

First edition of this classic play. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Wolfe, with gratitude for all he did to succes...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-116745

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Steichen, Edward

The Family of Man.

New York : Museum of Modern Art, 1955.

First edition of this classic work. Quarto, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Mrs. Sheppard with all good w...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-126767

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Kipling, Rudyard

Debits and Credits.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926.

First edition of one of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s most sorrowful collections. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, black stamped ship vignette to the fron...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-140953

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Bellow, Saul

Dangling Man.

New York: The Vanguard Press, 1944.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s first book. Octavo, original beige cloth. Signed by Saul Bellow on the title page. Fine in a very good dust jacket that shows some wear and toni...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-12039

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