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Tsotsi.

Johannesburg: Donker, 1980.

First South African edition and true first of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed and dated by Athol Fugard in 1983. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Signed first ed...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-148276

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Isherwood, Christopher

The Memorial: Portrait of a Family.

London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1932.

First edition of the author’s classic second novel. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Christopher Isherwood on the title page. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by John...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-142447

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Didion, Joan; Introduction by John Leonard

We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live. Including: Slouching Towards Bethlehem; The White Album; Salvador; Miami; After Henry; Political Fictions; and Where I Was From.

New York: Everyman's Library, 2006.

Early printing of this Everyman’s Library’s compilation of the author’s collected non-fiction work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Joan Didion on the title page. Near fine...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-70983

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Lessing, Doris

The Golden Notebook.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1962.

First American edition of the Nobel Prize winning author’s magnum opus. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the half-title page, “I wish you good fortune- Doris Lessing 17.7.80...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-114758

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Maugham, W. Somerset

The Razor’s Edge.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday Doran & Company, 1944.

First American edition, which precedes the British edition of Maugham’s 20th-century manifesto for human fulfillment. Octavo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-133892

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Sanderson, Brandon

Mistborn Trilogy: The Final Empire, The Well of Ascension, and The Hero of Ages.

New York: Tor, 2006.

First editions of Sanderson’s epic fantasy introduction to the Cosmere. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated with maps. Each volume is near fine to fine in near fine to fine dus...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-151824

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Ludlum, Robert [Matt Damon]

The Bourne Identity.

New York: Richard Marek Publishers, 1980.

First edition of the first novel in the Bourne Trilogy. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by the author, “Best wishes Robert Ludlum” and by Academy Award-winning actor Matt Damon on th...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-150151

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Dickens, Charles

Bleak House.

London: Bradbury Evans, 1853.

First edition of this Dickens’ classic. Octavo, bound in three quarters calf over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, top edge gilt, marble endpapers. In near fin...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-136226

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Raskin, Ellen

The Westing Game.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc, 1978.

First edition, second printing of Raskins’s Newbery Award winning novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Barbara Nelson Boom...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146586

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Verne, Jules

Michael Strogoff, the Courier of the Czar.

New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Company, 1877.

First American edition of this historical tale of adventure taking place during a Siberian revolt by the Tartars and what many consider one of Verne’s finest novels. Octavo, original cloth, with...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-89346

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Ellison, Ralph

Invisible Man.

New York: Random House, 1952.

First edition of the author’s landmark first novel, which went on to win the National Book Award. Octavo, original black and tan cloth. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by E. McKni...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148015

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Frank, Pat

An Affair of the State.

Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1948.

First edition of Frank’s classic Cold War political thriller, inspired in part by his experiences as an international journalist. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed on the fron...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-124045

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wa Thiong'o, Ngugi [Ngugi, James]

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,...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151617

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Gluck, Louise

Firstborn.

New York: New American Library, 1968.

First edition of the Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning poet’s first book, one of only 50 numbered copies. Octavo, bound in half morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-138218

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Dunn, Katherine

Geek Love.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989.

First edition of this classic work, named by The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years. Octavo original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page,...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149761

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Byron, Robert

The Road to Oxiana.

London: Macmillan & Company, 1937.

First edition of the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece, 15 plates and a map. From the library of Henry Alexander Nesbitt Medd. Medd, who was an architect and best-known...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-111765

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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...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149273

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Hemingway, Ernest

Winner Take Nothing.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933.

First edition of Hemingway’s third collection of short stories. Octavo, original black cloth. Near fine in an excellent dust jacket with light rubbing and wear.

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-132324

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Atwood, Margaret

The Blind Assassin.

New York: Nan A. Talese, 2000.

First American edition of Atwood’s Booker and Hammett Prize-winning work, named by Time Magazine as the best novel of 2000. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-142419

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Dickens, Charles

Our Mutual Friend.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1865.

First edition of this classic novel that explores effects of capitalism and the arbitrary nature of social hierarchy. Octavo, bound in full polished calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in s...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149951

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Menand, Louis

The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001.

First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page to fellow Pulitzer Prize award winning author...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-111949

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Gaddis, Thomas E

Birdman of Alcatraz: The Story of Robert Stroud.

New York : Random House, 1955.

First edition of this work, basis for the classic film starring Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden and Thelma Ritter. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page,...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-119233

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Tolstoy, Leo

Patriotism and Christianity.

London: Walter Scott, Ltd., 1896.

First English edition of Tolstoy’s important work on non-resistance. Octavo, original cloth. With a note to English readers by John C. Kenworthy. Scarce.

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-127590

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Burton, Virginia Lee

Maybelle: The Cable Car.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1952.

First edition of this classic work. Oblong quarto, original cloth, illustrated endpapers, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Virginia Lee Burton on the title page. Near fine in a near fine price...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-132568

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