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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,...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-120878

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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...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151744

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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...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-137182

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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...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-142340

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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...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-144976

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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...

$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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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...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-121443

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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...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-121674

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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...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151532

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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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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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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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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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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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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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