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    Stephen King Signed Photograph.

    King, Stephen

    Stephen King Signed Photograph.

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    Photograph of Stephen King, the “king of horror”, boldly signed by him. Placed on cardstock. The entire piece measures 13 inches by 11 inches.
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    $2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-141286
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    To Kill A Mockingbird.

    Lee, Harper [Gregory Peck]

    To Kill A Mockingbird.

    New York: HarperCollins, 1995.

    First edition, early printing of the 35th Anniversary edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, basis for the classic film starring Gregory Peck. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed...
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    $2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-145873
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    The Tower.

    Yeats, William Butler [W.B.]

    The Tower.

    London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1928.

    First edition of what is generally considered Yeats’ single most important volume, one of 2000 copies. Octavo, original publisher’s elaborately gilt-decorated pictorial olive green cloth w...
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    $2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-146520
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    The Dead Zone.

    King, Stephen

    The Dead Zone.

    New York: The Viking Press, 1979.

    First edition of this classic work, basis for the 1983 thriller film directed by David Cronenberg. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Stephen King on the title page. Near fine in a near fin...
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    $2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-147101
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    The Hunters.

    Salter, James

    The Hunters.

    New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956.

    First edition of the author’s first novel and landmark in the literature of war. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by James Salter on the title page. Fine in a very good dust jacket with some wear to the...
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    $2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-117479
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    The Light That Failed.

    Kipling, Rudyard

    The Light That Failed.

    London: Macmillan and Co, 1891.

    First edition of Kipling’s first novel. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, publisher’s gilt emblem to the front panel. In very good condition.
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    $2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-121637
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    Ivan Ilyitch and Other Stories.

    Tolstoi, Count Lyof N. [Leo Tolstoy]

    Ivan Ilyitch and Other Stories.

    New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co, 1887.

    First edition in English of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Translated from the Russian by Nathan Haskell Dole with a preface by him. In near fine condition. An exceptional example.
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    $2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-123477
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    Vineland.

    Pynchon, Thomas. [Paul Thomas Anderson and Leonardo DiCaprio]

    Vineland.

    Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1990.

    First edition of this novel, basis for the Academy Award-winning film One Battle After Another directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall...
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    $2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151495
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    The Stonemason: A Play In Five Acts.

    McCarthy, Cormac [Chip Kidd]

    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 front free endpaper. Additionally si...
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    $2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151995
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    Ethan Frome.

    Wharton, Edith

    Ethan Frome.

    New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911.

    First edition, first issue with “wearily” in perfect type on penultimate line of page 135 and with four pages of publisher’s advertisements at rear, of Wharton’s greatest tragic story, a “grim tale of...
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    $2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-99339
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    The Story of O: With A Slaves Revolt an Essay on The Story of O.

    Reage, Pauline [Anne Desclos] Jean Paulhan [Preface]

    The Story of O: With A Slaves Revolt an Essay on The Story of O.

    New York: Grove Press/The Olympia Press, 1959.

    First edition of this groundbreaking novel. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare in this condition.
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    $2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151367
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    Jacob the Liar.

    Becker, Jurek [Robin Williams]

    Jacob the Liar.

    New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975.

    First edition of this powerful work, basis for the 1999 film starring Robin Williams. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Academy-Award winning actor Robin Williams on the front free endpaper. Fi...
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    $2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151744
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    The Life of George Cruikshank. In Two Epochs.

    Jerrold, Blanchard. [George Cruikshank]

    The Life of George Cruikshank. In Two Epochs.

    London: Chatto and Windus, 1882.

    First edition of the definitive biography of famed illustrator and satirist George Cruikshank. Octavo, bound in full crushed levant morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt titles and tooling to the...
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    $2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-137182
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    Pylon.

    Faulkner, William

    Pylon.

    New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Hass, Inc, 1935.

    First edition of Faulkner’s explosive novel about a group of Southern barnstormers. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. Housed in a custom h...
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    $2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-96589
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    Mary Poppins Comes Back.

    Travers, P.L. [Lin Manuel Miranda]

    Mary Poppins Comes Back.

    New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1935.

    First edition of the sequel to Mary Poppins. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated endpapers, illustrated by Mary Shepard. Boldly signed by Tony Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated actor Lin-Manue...
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    $2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-150072
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    Petals of Blood.

    wa Thiong'o, Ngugi [Ngugi, James]

    Petals of Blood.

    New York: E.P. Dutton, 1978.

    First American edition of “the definitive African book of the twentieth century” (Moses Isegawa). Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper,...
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    $2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-120878
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    Too True To Be Good, Village Wooing, On The Rocks.

    Shaw, George Bernard

    Too True To Be Good, Village Wooing, On The Rocks.

    London: Constable and Company Limited, 1934.

    First edition of this classic work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page on the half-title page, “To Blanch...
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    $2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-142340
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    Anecdotes of Destiny.

    Dinesen, Isak [Karen Blixen]

    Anecdotes of Destiny.

    New York: Random House, 1958.

    First edition of this classic collection of stories and the last to be published in her lifetime. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Isak Dinesen on the half-title page, while on her only trip t...
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    $2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-144976
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    The Stepford Wives.

    Levin, Ira [Katharine Ross]

    The Stepford Wives.

    New York: Random House, 1972.

    First edition of this classic work, basis for the 1975 film starring Katharine Ross. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly inscribed by Ira Levin and actress Katharine Ross on the front free endpaper. F...
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    $2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-142445
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    The Magnificent Ambersons

    Tarkington, Booth

    The Magnificent Ambersons

    Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1918.

    First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, basis for the classic Orson Wells film often regarded as among the greatest films of all time. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Ha...
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    $2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-144080
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    Seize the Day.

    Bellow, Saul

    Seize the Day.

    New York: The Viking Press, 1956.

    First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s fourth book. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For the Gabels from their...
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    $2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-114568
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    Candy.

    Southern, Terry

    Candy.

    Evanston, Ill: Greenleaf Publishing Company, 1965.

    First printing of this edition of Southern’s classic work. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Harry with all best wishes Terry Sou...
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    $2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-121443
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    With the Night Mail: A Story of 2000 A.D.

    Kipling, Rudyard

    With the Night Mail: A Story of 2000 A.D.

    New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1909.

    First edition of Kipling’s thrilling science fiction novella. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, elaborate gilt vignette to the front panel, pictorial endpapers, illustrated i...
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    $2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-121674
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    Dr. No.

    Fleming, Ian

    Dr. No.

    London: Jonathan Cape, 1958.

    First edition in the first-issue dust jacket with Fleming’s name printed in black on the spine of the sixth Bond thriller, with the desirable silhouette of a dancing girl brown-stamped on the fr...
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    $2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151532
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