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Joan Didion: The 1960s & 70s Library of America: Run River; Slouching Towards Bethlehem; Play It As It Lays; A Book of Common Prayer; The White Album.

New York: Library of America, 2019.

First edition of the definitive collected edition of one of the most original and electric writers of our time with a volume gathering her five iconic books of the 1960s & 70s. Octavo, original cl...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-141477

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[Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison] Lerner, Allan Jay; Music by Frederick Loewe; George Bernard Shaw

My Fair Lady: A Musical Play in Two Acts Based on Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw.

New York: Chappell & Co, 1956.

Original sheet music of I Could Have Danced All Night, from My Fair Lady, one of “one of the best musicals of the twentieth century” (The New York Times). Octavo, original boards, illustra...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-146154

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Thomas, Dylan; Illustrated by Fritz Eichenberg

A Child’s Christmas In Wales.

New York: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1969.

Signed limited first edition of Thomas’ beloved Christmas reverie, one of 100 copies signed by illustrator Fritz Eichenberg, accompanied by an extra suite of five plates on large paper, each signed in...

$1,700.00 Item Number: RRB-150993

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Fleming, Ian

You Only Live Twice.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1964.

Rare uncorrected proof of the first edition of the final James Bond novel published during Fleming’s lifetime and the eleventh in the series. Octavo, original light green pictorial wrappers. In...

$1,650.00 Item Number: RRB-150439

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White, T.H

England Have My Bones.

London: Collins, 1936.

First edition of the author’s classic memoir. Octavo, original cloth, with 8 full page woodcut illustrations by the author. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper,...

$1,650.00 Item Number: RRB-135368

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Waugh, Evelyn

Black Mischief.

London: Chapman & Hall, 1962.

First revised edition of Waugh’s third novel. Octavo, original cloth, with 9 line-drawings by the author. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Patrick...

$1,650.00 Item Number: RRB-95269

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Woolf, Virginia

The Years.

London: Hogarth Press, 1937.

First edition of the most successful of Woolf’s later novels, often viewed as her masterpiece. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and ruling to the spine, raised...

$1,650.00 Item Number: RRB-140038

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Cohen, Leonard

Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs.

New York: Pantheon, 1993.

First edition of this collection of poems and songs. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page in the year of publication, “To Mort and Judy warm regard...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-117464

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Seuss, Dr

Green Eggs and Ham.

New York: Random House, 1960.

First edition, early printing of this Dr. Seuss classic. Octavo, original illustrated boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author opposite the title page, “Wit...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-149462

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Hemingway, Ernest; Taylor Williams; Mary Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway, Mary Hemingway, and Taylor Williams Photograph Collection.

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Rare original black and white photograph collection of legendary American writer Ernest Hemingway with his wife Mary Hemingway and fishing guide Taylor Williams in Cuba. Collection of five black and w...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-150109

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Bunyan, John

Pilgrim’s Progress [Fore-Edge Painting]

London : L. and G. Seeley, 1840.

Finely bound example with a foredge painting of a sailing ship initialed and dated 1840 of one of the most significant works of religious English literature, Pilgrim’s Progress. Octavo, bound in...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-120842

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Fleming, Ian

The Man With the Golden Gun.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1965.

Rare uncorrected proof of the first edition of the twelfth novel of Ian Fleming’s James Bond series. Octavo, original light green pictorial wrappers. In very good condition, stamp of the Edgewar...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-150438

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Travers, P.L

I Go By Sea, I Go By Land.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1941.

First edition of this classic work, a fictional diary of Sabrina Lind, an eleven-year-old English girl who is sent on the long voyage across the sea to her aunt in America. Octavo, original cloth, fro...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-103991

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Dickens, Charles

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1837.

First edition in book form of Dickens’ first novel and one of his greatest works. Octavo, bound in full polished calf bound by Bayntun with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartment...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-148216

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Wells, H.G

H.G. Wells Autograph Letter Signed.

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Autograph letter signed and entirely in the hand of H.G. Wells. One page, hand-written and signed, “Yours sincerely, H.G. Wells.” Matted and doubled framed with a bust portrait and drawing...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-148534

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Murakami, Haruki

Sputnik Sweetheart.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2001.

First edition of this work which “grabs you from its opening lines. . . . [Murakami’s] never written anything more openly emotional” (Los Angeles Magazine). Octavo, original half cloth. Signed b...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-123751

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Wright, Richard

Native Son.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1940.

First edition, first issue with “A – P” on the copyright page. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-145947

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Fitzgerald, Edward; Introduction by A. C. Benson; Illustrated by E. Geddes

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

London: Siegle, Hill & Co, c. 1919.

Finely bound edition of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald and reproduced from a manuscript written and illuminated by F. Sangorski & G. Sutcliffe. Quar...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-146936

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Jones, Preston. [Alan Schneider]

A Texas Trilogy.

New York: Hill and Wang, 1976.

First edition of Jones’s celebrated trilogy. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of the director Alan Schneider with his ownership signature to the front free endpaper. Alan Schneider directed th...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-152186

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White, Hervey; [Charlotte Perkins Gilman]

When Eve Was Not Created and Other Stories.

Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1901.

First edition of this collection of short stories; from the library of writer and social reformer Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Small octavo, original pictorial cloth, slip tipped in on the front free end...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-145590

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Huxley, Elspeth

The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1959.

First edition of Huxley’s autobiographical work based on her early life among white settlers on her father’s coffee plantation in Kenya. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Elspeth Huxley on...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-129827

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[Anthony Burgess] Joseph Kell

One Hand Clapping.

London: Peter Davies, 1961.

First edition of this work by the author of A Clockwork Orange. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To dear Si with affection ‘Joe’(Ant...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-134575

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Francis, Dick

Dead Cert.

London: Michael Joseph, 1962.

First edition of the author’s first novel. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Trevor Denning.

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-144334

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Atherton, Gertrude Franklin

The Conqueror: Being the True and Romantic Story of Alexander Hamilton.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1902.

First edition of this historical novel that blends biographical narrative with romanticized fiction to construct a dramatic portrait of one of America’s founding figures. Octavo, original publisher...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-149217

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