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    Deliverance.

    Dickey, James

    Deliverance.

    Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970.

    First edition of Dickey’s first and most famous novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the title page, “To my old friend Inman Mays this novel of sur...
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    $2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-143993
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    Hartigan and Rivers With O’Hara.

    O'Hara, Frank, Larry Rivers and Grace Hartigan [WIlliam de Kooning]

    Hartigan and Rivers With O’Hara.

    New York: Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 1959.

    First edition of this exhibition flyer for the 1959 Tibor de Nagy exhibition of works by Larry Rivers and Grace Hartigan inspired by O’Hara’s poetry. Octavo, original wrappers as issued, i...
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    $2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-90478
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    Achilles His Armour.

    Green, Peter

    Achilles His Armour.

    London: John Murray, 1955.

    First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Peter Green on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Michael Ayrton.
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    $2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-119653
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    A Further Range.

    Frost, Robert

    A Further Range.

    New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1936.

    First edition of Frost’s Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of verse. Octavo, original maroon cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper with a...
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    $2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151924
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    The Spy Who Came In From The Cold.

    le Carre, John

    The Spy Who Came In From The Cold.

    London: Victor Gollancz, 1963.

    First edition of the le Carre’s classic work, which went on to reinvigorate the spy genre. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light toning to the spine. An exceptional...
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    $2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-146385
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    Daniel Deronda.

    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...
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    $1,950.00 Item Number: RRB-147409
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    Chapterhouse: Dune.

    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....
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    $1,950.00 Item Number: RRB-150914
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    Nightwood.

    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...
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    $1,950.00 Item Number: RRB-117378
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    A Pictorial History of the Negro in America.

    Hughes, Langston and Milton Meltzer

    A Pictorial History of the Negro in America.

    New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1956.

    First edition of this important compilation on the history of African Americans. Quarto, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper,...
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    $1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-135491
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    We Are Many.

    Neruda, Pablo

    We Are Many.

    : Cape Coliard Press, 1967.

    Signed limited edition, one of only 100 examples, this is number 65. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with a cut-out by Jim Dine. Boldly signed by Pablo Neruda and the translator Alistair Reid. Fin...
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    $1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-133314
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    Love Story.

    Segal, Erich

    Love Story.

    New York, Evanston, and London: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1970.

    First edition, early printing of the author’s best-selling novel, a “sweet, sad, and, in its closing sentences, startlingly sentimental” work (John Barkham). Octavo, original cloth....
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    $1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-145831
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    Go Set A Watchman.

    Lee, Harper

    Go Set A Watchman.

    New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2015.

    Signed limited edition of the author’s second novel. Octavo. One of 500 numbered copies, signed by Harper Lee. Housed in a custom clamshell box. In fine condition with the original shipping cart...
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    $1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-7352
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    The Dice Man.

    Rhinehart, Luke [George Cockcroft]

    The Dice Man.

    New York: William Morrow and Company, 1971.

    First edition of this cult classic. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Andy ‘A lake is a pond is a river.’ Luke Rhinehart....
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    $1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-143807
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    Little Dorrit.

    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...
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    $1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-148221
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    Airships.

    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...
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    $1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-143006
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    Little, Big.

    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...
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    $1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-1471
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    Gift From The Sea: An Answer to the Conflicts In Our Lives.

    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...
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    $1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-120902
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    The Holy Places. With Wood Engravings by Reynolds Stone.

    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...
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    $1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-71894
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    Journey in the Dark.

    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...
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    $1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-120356
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    The Apple Cart: A Political Extravaganza.

    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...
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    $1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-131696
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    Waiting for the Barbarians.

    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...
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    $1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-116489
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    Joseph in Egypt.

    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...
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    $1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-96001
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    Rudyard Kipling Liberty Magazine Poetry Collection.

    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...
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    $1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-119441
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    The Postman Always Rings Twice.

    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...
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    $1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-146083
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