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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...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151532

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Levin, Ira [Katharine Ross]

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...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-142445

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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...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-144080

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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...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-114568

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O'Brien, Tim

Northern Lights.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1975.

First edition of the author’s second book. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the title page as follows, “Peace Tim O’Brien “I guess we’re really brothers, aren’t we? Do...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-940

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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-136986

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Gaines, Ernest J

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.

New York: The Dial Press, 1971.

First edition of this classic novel, which depicts the struggles of African Americans as seen through the eyes of the narrator, a woman named Jane Pittman. Octavo, original boards. Lengthily signed by...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-146411

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Huxley, Aldous

Eyeless In Gaza.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1927.

Signed limited edition of what is considered by many to be Huxley’s definitive work of fiction. Octavo, original cloth. Number 108 of 200 numbered copies, signed by Aldous Huxley. In near fine c...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-117342

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Kundera, Milan

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980.

First edition of the novel that brought Kundera his first big international success. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by Milan Kundera on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacke...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-131074

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Ralph Waldo Emerson Autograph Letter Signed.

:, 1862.

Autograph letter signed by Ralph Waldo Emerson. The letter reads, “Concord (Concord has been crossed out and replaced with Parker House, Boston) Dec 24 1862 Dear Sir, I shall take lodgings at th...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151902

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Didion, Joan

Run River.

New York: Ivan Obolensky, Inc, 1963.

First edition of the Didion’s first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Joan Didion on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Anthony Post. A nice example.

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-140695

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Pershing, James H

The First Edition of ‘Paradise Lost’.

London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1941.

First appearance of Pershing’s work on the different states of the first edition of John Milton’s Paradise Lost which appeared in Vol. XXII, No. I. June 1941 issue of Transactions of the B...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-95340

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Wassilewska, Wanda [Wasilewska]

Rainbow. The Story of a Ukrainian Village Under German Occupation.

London: Hutchinson & Co, 1945.

First edition of this work by Wassilewska. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Wanda Wassilewska Kiev. XI.63.” Near fine in a very good dust ja...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-112421

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Wright, Richard

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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Warhol, Andy

Andy Warhol Prints.

New York: Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Inc, 1985.

First edition of this definitive catalogue of Warhol’s prints, spanning his entire career. Quarto, original cloth, with over 390 illustrations of Warhol’s prints, including 344 in color. B...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-150354

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Beagle, Peter S

The Last Unicorn.

New York: The Viking Press, 1968.

First edition of Beagle’s classic second book, which follows the tale of a unicorn, who believes she is the last of her kind in the world and undertakes a quest to discover what has happened to...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-141515

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O'Neill, Eugene

Mourning Becomes Electra.

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1931.

Signed limited edition of O’Neill’s classic play. Quarto, original full Japan vellum gilt, black morocco spine label, signed by Eugene O’Neill, one of 550 copies this is number 363....

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-142951

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Faulkner, William

Light In August.

New York: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, 1932.

First edition, first issue, with first printing statement on copyright page, and “Jefferson” for “Mottstown” on page 340, line 1; first-issue binding, lettered in blue and orange. Octavo, original clo...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-146368

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Camus, Albert

L’Exil et Le Royaume.

Paris: Gallimard, 1947.

First edition, Service de Presse-copy of Camus’ short story collection exploring themes of existentialism and absurdism, with “S P” perforated stamp at top of rear wrapper. Small oct...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-146463

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Dickens, Charles

Master Humphrey’s Clock.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1840.

First edition of this collection of short stories. Large octavo, 3 volumes, original blindstamped pictorial cloth, gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel, marbled endpapers, all edges ma...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-99753

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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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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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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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Rare & Classic, American or English Literature Books for Sale Online

Dr. No.

The Stepford Wives.

The Magnificent Ambersons

Seize the Day.

Northern Lights.

Kim.

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.

Eyeless In Gaza.

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Autograph Letter Signed.

Run River.

The First Edition of ‘Paradise Lost’.

Rainbow. The Story of a Ukrainian Village Under German Occupation.

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

Andy Warhol Prints.

The Last Unicorn.

Mourning Becomes Electra.

Light In August.

L’Exil et Le Royaume.

Master Humphrey’s Clock.

The Stonemason: A Play In Five Acts.

Honeymoon.

The Poems of William Shakespeare.

The Groucho Phile.