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Eyelids of Morning: The Mingled Destinies of Crocodile and Men.

New York: Graphic Society, 1973.

First edition, second printing of this classic work. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author and with an original painting and cutouts done by Beard a...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-148058

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Rey, H.A

Find the Constellations.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1956.

First edition, second printing of this classic illustrated work by the author of Curious George. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author opposite the...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-120761

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Allende, Isabel. [Annie Dillard]

The House of the Spirits: A Novel.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985.

First edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Translated from the Spanish by Magda Bogin. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Annie,...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-127009

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[Parrish, Maxfield] SAUNDERS, Louise

The Knave of Hearts.

New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1925.

First edition of “one of the greatest of American illustrated books” (Porter, 84), the last and most lavish children’s book illustrated by Maxfield Parrish, with mounted cover design...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-133869

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Kipling, Rudyard

Kim.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1901.

First English edition of what many consider Kipling’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Illustrated with photographs of clay reliefs by John Lockwood Kipling including tissue-guarded frontispiece,...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-135312

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Maurer, David W

The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1940.

First edition of this classic study of con men, basis for the film The Sting directed by George Roy Hill starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford and Robert Shaw. Octavo, original cloth. Review copy, w...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-146060

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Silverstein, Shel

A Light In the Attic.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1981.

First edition, early printing of Silverstein’s classic collection of children’s poems. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated by the author. Boldly signed by Shel Silverstei...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151962

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Schiller, Friedrich

The Works of Friedrich Schiller.

Weimar and New York: The Northern Press, Printed for Subscribers only, n.d.

The Weimar edition of the collected works of Friedrich Schiller. Octavo, 10 volumes bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised bands, elaborate...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-143624

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Schulberg, Budd

Waterfront.

New York: Random House, 1955.

First edition of Schulberg’s novel adapted from his Academy Award–winning screenplay. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartme...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-143648

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Mailer, Norman [Noam Chomsky]

The Armies of the Night.

New York: The New American Library, 1968.

First edition of this nonfiction novel, which went on to win both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Chris Law...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-5790

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Paton, Alan

Cry, the Beloved Country: A Story of Comfort in Desolation.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948.

First American edition of Paton’s classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed and dated by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “Alan Paton Johannesburg May...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-43091

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Maas, Peter [Al Pacino]

Serpico. The Cop Who Defied the System.

New York: The Viking Press, 1973.

First edition of this classic work, basis for the film starring Academy Award-winning actor Al Pacino. Octavo, original half cloth, with four pages of illustrations. Boldly signed by the author on the...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-147477

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Malamud, Bernard

Assistant.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1957.

First edition of Malamud’s second novel, which went on to win the Daroff Fiction Award from the Jewish Book Council of America and the Award of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Octav...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-100488

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Albee, Edward

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

New York: Atheneum, 1962.

First edition of Albee’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the title page, “Edward Albee 2010.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of she...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-126769

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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. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. A very sharp example.

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-133129

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Disraeli, Benjamin

Vivian Grey.

London: Henry Colburn, 1826-27.

First edition of Disraeli’s first novel. Octavo, original gray boards with printed spine labels, 5 volumes, half-titles present in Volumes 2 and 5, as issued; terminal ads in Volumes 1-4. Bookpl...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-82398

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Dryden, John

Fables Ancient and Modern; Translated into Verse, From Homer, Ovid, Boccace, & Chaucer: With Original Poems.

London: Jacob Tonson, 1700.

First edition of this collection of fables with nearly 12,000 verses translated or paraphrased from various including Homer, Chaucer and Ovid. Quarto, bound in contemporary calf Cambridge binding, too...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-104852

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Eco, Umberto

The Name of the Rose.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1980.

First edition of one of the best-selling books of all-time, basis for the film starring Sean Connery. Octavo, original cloth. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver. Association copy, inscribed...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-127038

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Frank, Anne

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.

London: Constellation Books, 1952.

Rare first British edition of “one of the wisest and most moving commentaries on war” (Eleanor Roosevelt). Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spi...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151624

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Amis, Martin

Martin Amis First Edition Collection.

Lonson: Jonathan Cape, 1984-2020.

Extensive collection of first editions by acclaimed novelist Martin Amis, including his best-known works Money and London Fields. Octavo, 18 volumes, original cloth and half-cloth. 15 volumes signed b...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-134198

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Ginsberg, Allen (John Clellon Holmes)

Iron Horse.

Toronto: The Coach House Press, 1972.

First edition of Ginsberg’s beatific visionary poem, an important part of his The Fall of America: Poems of These States sequence. Oblong octavo, original illustrated metallic wrappers. Associat...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-96567

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Williams, Tennessee

The Night of the Iguana.

New York: New Directions, 1962.

First edition of this powerfully compassionate play. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruli...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149896

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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...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-117479

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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.

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-121637

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