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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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Herbert, Frank

Chapterhouse: Dune.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1985.

Signed limited first edition of the final volume in the magnificent Dune Chronicles—the bestselling science fiction adventure of all-time. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Frank Herbert....

$1,950.00 Item Number: RRB-150914

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Barnes, Djuna

Nightwood.

London: Faber and Faber, 1935.

First edition of this masterpiece―one of the greatest novels of the Modernist era. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with a few small chips and notes notes to the flap...

$1,950.00 Item Number: RRB-117378

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Eliot, George

Daniel Deronda.

Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1876.

First edition of Eliot’s final and most controversial work, which essentially predicts the foundation of Israel. Octavo, four volumes bound in contemporary half morocco over marbled boards by Proudfoo...

$1,950.00 Item Number: RRB-147409

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Dickens, Charles

Little Dorrit.

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857.

First edition in book form of one of Dickens’ most outstanding novels with the three line errata on page xiv, “William” for “Frederick” on page 317 line 27, lacking errata on p...

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-148221

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Hannah, Barry

Airships.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986.

First edition of this modern classic. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication to his publisher Seymour Lawrence on the half-title page to his...

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-143006

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Crowley, John

Little, Big.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1981.

First hardcover edition of this landmark of modern fantasy. Octavo, original black cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the title page, “For John- The things that make...

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-1471

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Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Gift From The Sea: An Answer to the Conflicts In Our Lives.

New York: Pantheon, 1955.

Special limited first edition of this modern inspirational classic. Octavo, original half blue cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Betsy Wall, In gratitude...

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-120902

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Waugh, Evelyn; Illustrated by Reynolds Stone

The Holy Places. With Wood Engravings by Reynolds Stone.

New York and London: The Queen Anne Press; The British Book Centre, 1953.

Signed limited issue, number 23 of 50 specially bound copies, signed by both the author and illustrator Reynolds Stone, from a total edition of 1,000 copies. Quarto, original red morocco, gilt titles...

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-71894

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Flavin, Martin

Journey in the Dark.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1943.

First edition of this classic novel, which won 1943 Harper Prize and the 1944 Pulitzer Prize, which The New York Times called “a story of a boy from Iowa who becomes a business tycoon at the pri...

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-120356

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Shaw, George Bernard

The Apple Cart: A Political Extravaganza.

London: Constable and Company, 1930.

First edition of this classic play by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author at his home on the half-title page, “Ayot St La...

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-131696

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Coetzee, J.M

Waiting for the Barbarians.

Johannesburg : Ravan Press, 1981.

First South African edition of this modern classic. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication, “Charles Barry with very best wishes J.M. Coetz...

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-116489

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Mann, Thomas

Joseph in Egypt.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938.

First American edition of the third installment of Mann’s four-part novel retelling the vast saga of Genesis, which Mann considered his greatest work. Octavo, 2 volumes, pictorial endpapers. Pre...

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-96001

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Kipling, Rudyard

Rudyard Kipling Liberty Magazine Poetry Collection.

New York: McCormick-Patterson, 1928.

Scarce collection of 1928 issues of Liberty Magazine containing early appearances of many of Kipling’s rarest poems. Folio, five issues, original illustrated wrappers. The collection includes is...

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-119441

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Cain, James M

The Postman Always Rings Twice.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934.

First edition of one of the most important crime novels of the twentieth century, adapted as a motion picture seven times. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and to...

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-146083

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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...

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-95854

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Dickens, Charles

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit.

London: London: Chapman and Hall, 1839.

First edition of the last of Dickens’ picaresque novels. Octavo, bound in full pebbled morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, elaborate g...

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-139459

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Seuss, Dr. [Theodor Geisel]

Oh Say, Can You Say? “Oh my brothers! Oh my sisters! These are Terrible Tongue Twisters!”

New York: Random House, 1979.

First edition of this book of tongue twisters by Dr. Seuss. Octavo, original laminated boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author opposite the titl...

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-149459

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Tolstoi, Count Leo. [Tolstoy]

The Kingdom of God is Within You: Or, Christianity Not as a Mystical Doctrine, but as a New Life-Conception.

London: Walter Scott, Ltd., 1894.

First edition in English of the culmination of 30 years of Tolstoy’s thinking which lays out a new organization for society based on an interpretation of Christianity focusing on universal love....

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-124089

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Calvino, Italo

Difficult Loves.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1984.

First edition of this classic collection of short stories by Calvino. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to editor Irene Skolnick in the...

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-111048

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