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Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica.

Philadelphia : J.P. Lippincott Company, 1938.

First edition of Hurston’s personal experiences in Haiti and Jamaica. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles to the spine, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, ra...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-141718

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Saramago, Jose

O Evangelho Segundo Jesus Cristo. [The Gospel According To Jesus Christ].

Lisboa: Caminho, 1991.

First Portuguese edition and true first of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s classic work. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Signed by Jose Saramago on the title page. In near fine condition,...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-114809

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Fleming, Ian

Octopussy and the Living Daylights.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1965.

First edition of the fourteenth novel in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by legendary director of the film John Glen on the title page. During the 1960s and 1970...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-150983

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Johnson, James Weldon

Fifty Years and Other Poems.

Boston: The Cornhill Publishing Co., 1921.

Early printing of Johnson’s first collection of classic poems. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Mrs. Edward Lee McCa...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-123468

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Vidal, Gore

Williwaw.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1946.

First edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, original black cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “For Owen Roberts,...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-125772

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Garcia Marquez, Gabriel

La Hojarasca.

Buenos Aires: Editorial Suamerica, 1970.

First Argentinian edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s first book. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez on the front free endpaper. From the library of...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-60052

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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. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. An exceptional example.

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-81980

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Steinbeck, John

The Long Valley.

New York: The Viking Press, 1938.

First edition of Steinbeck’s collection of 13 stories, which includes “The Red Pony” and “St. Katy the Virgin.” Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jack...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-150087

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Southern, Terry

The Magic Christian.

New York: Random House, 1960.

First edition of one of the funniest, cruelest, and most savagely revealing books about American life ever written, hailed as Southern’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, in...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-120936

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Huxley, Aldous

Point Counter Point.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1928.

Signed limited first edition of Huxley’s classic satiric novel, one of 256 numbered copies, this is number 254. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine. In near fine condition. Housed i...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-130871

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Beard, Peter and Alistair Graham

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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Bowen, Elizabeth

The Death of the Heart.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1938.

First edition of Bowen’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the month of publication, “William from Elizabeth Oc...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-117614

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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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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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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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