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Where the Crawdads Sing.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2018.

First edition of one of the best-selling books of all-time and basis for the 2022 film. Octavo, original half-cloth. Lengthily signed by the author with a quote from the book on the title page,...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148587

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Cohen, Leonard; Irving Layton

Pan-ic: A Selection of Contemporary Canadian Poems.

New York: Alan Brilliant, 1958.

First edition of this anthology of Canadian poetry. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, four issues of poetry, number two. Boldly signed and dated by Leonard Cohen on the title page, “Leonard C...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149947

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Fowles, John

The Collector.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1963.

First edition of Fowles’ debut novel. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed and dated by John Fowles on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, name to the half-title page. Jacket...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-139294

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Didion, Joan

First Modern Library edition of what many consider her magnum opus. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Joan Didion on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Introduction by Elizabeth H...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-79043

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Hughes, Langston

The First Book of Negroes.

New York: Franklin Watts, Inc, 1952.

First edition of this first work in a series aimed to educate children on the history of African people and the accomplishments of African Americans. Square octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147830

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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...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-110441

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Wright, Richard

Native Son.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1940.

First edition, first issue binding with “A – P” on the copyright page. Octavo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels,...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-118656

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Twain, Mark

The Innocents Abroad, Or The New Pilgrims’ Progress.

Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1869.

First edition, third state of the author’s second book with “The History of the Bible advertisement on page 654. BAL 3316. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles and tooli...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-127837

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Fowles, John

The Magus.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965.

First American edition, preceding the British edition by one year of the author’s most well-known work. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, bookplate of famed coll...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-142119

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Eco, Umberto

The Name of the Rose.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1980.

First edition of one of the best-selling books of all-time, basis for the film starring Sean Connery. Octavo, original cloth. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver. Presentation copy, warmly i...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146943

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Sendak, Maurice

Maurice Sendak “So Sue Me” Signed Original Costume Design.

:, 1993.

Rare original Maurice Sendak watercolor costume design for Arthur Yorinks’ 1993 play “So Sue Me”. One page, watercolor and ink on cardstock, Sendak has signed and annotated the desig...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-117308

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Wells, H.G

A Quartette of Comedies.

London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1928.

First British omnibus edition of four comic novels culminating in “1100 pages from Mr. Wells’ magic pen.” Octavo, original publisher’s green cloth with gilt titles to the spine...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148954

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Groom, Winston [Tom Hanks]

Forrest Gump.

New York : Doubleday & Company, Inc, 2014.

First commemorative edition of this modern classic, basis for the 1994 film starring Tom Hanks, with the screenplay by Eric Roth. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Winston Groom and additi...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150570

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Butler, Octavia

Dawn: A Novel.

New York: Warner Books, 1987.

First edition of the first installment in the Xenogenesis trilogy. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Octavia E. Butler on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151099

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Dahl, Roald

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator.

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1978.

First British edition, early printing of the sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, continuing the story of young Charlie Bucket and eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka as they travel in the Great...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151318

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Yogananda, Paramhansa

Autobiography of a Yogi.

New York: The Philosophical Library, 1946.

First edition of one of the most important spiritual books of the twentieth century, Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Preface by Walter Evans-Wentz. Uncommon...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-130643

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Bellow, Saul

Humboldt’s Gift.

New York: The Viking Press, 1975.

First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author, “To Judge Abraham Lincoln Marovitz — the homage of lett...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-100951

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Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel De

El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha, Compuesto por Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. [The History of Don Quixote].

New York: The Hispanic Society of America, c. 1905.

The Hispanic Society of America’s notable, limited, and highly regarded facsimile edition of Don Quixote. Octavo, three volumes, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the spine, a...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150967

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Maurette, Marcelle; Bolton, Guy

Anastasia.

New York: Random House, 1955.

First edition of Guy Bolton’s English adaptation of Marcelle Maurette’s Anastasia. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to the director of the...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-152201

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Fager, Charles E

Selma 1965: The March That Changed The South.

United States of America and Canada: Library of Congress, 1974.

First edition of this historical account of the march that changed America. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Lengthily inscribed by the author on...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-141017

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Bellow, Saul

The Adventures of Augie March.

New York: The Viking Press, 1953.

First edition of Bellow’s first National Book Award winning novel. Octavo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, handmade Italia...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-117859

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Dickens, Charles

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.

London: Oxford University Press, 1967.

Early printing of the Oxford Illustrated edition of Dickens’ first novel. Octavo, bound in full crushed red morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six co...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-129149

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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. Boldly s...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148289

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Huxley, Aldous

On Art and Artists.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1960.

First edition of this classic collection of essays. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by the Aldous Huxley on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed.

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148084

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Rare & Classic, American or English Literature Books for Sale Online

Where the Crawdads Sing.

Pan-ic: A Selection of Contemporary Canadian Poems.

The Collector.

Slouching Towards Bethlehem.

The First Book of Negroes.

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

Native Son.

The Innocents Abroad, Or The New Pilgrims’ Progress.

The Magus.

The Name of the Rose.

Maurice Sendak “So Sue Me” Signed Original Costume Design.

A Quartette of Comedies.

Forrest Gump.

Dawn: A Novel.

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator.

Autobiography of a Yogi.

Humboldt’s Gift.

El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha, Compuesto por Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. [The History of Don Quixote].

Anastasia.

Selma 1965: The March That Changed The South.

The Adventures of Augie March.

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.

Sputnik Sweetheart.

On Art and Artists.