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The Langston Hughes Reader.

New York: George Braziller, Inc, 1958.

First edition of this compilation of the selected writings of Langston Hughes. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Langston Hughes on the title page. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149626

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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. Boldly signed by Italo Calvino on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket de...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-22051

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Hemingway, Ernest; Taylor Williams [Martha Gellhorn]

Taylor Williams Typed Letter Recollecting About Ernest Hemingway. [with] Ernest Hemingway Photographs.

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Rare original typed letter from guide Taylor Williams recollecting about hunting antelope with Ernest Hemingway. One page, single typed sheet. The letter reads in full, “Hemingway Box by Taylor...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150090

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Isherwood, Christopher

A Single Man.

London: The Land Press, 1980.

Signed limited edition of Isherwood’s highly-regarded work, adapted into the film of the same name directed by fashion designer Tom Ford and starring Colin Firth and Julianne Moore. Quarto, boun...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-124605

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Follett, Ken

The Pillars of the Earth.

London: Macmillan, 1989.

First British edition of Follett’s immensely popular bestseller, widely considered his masterpiece which has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, picto...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150763

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Garcia Marquez, Gabriel. Translated by Gregory Rabassa

One Hundred Years of Solitude.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1970.

First American edition of the author’s magnum opus. Octavo, original green cloth. Near fine in a very good first issue dust jacket with the exclamation point at the end of the first paragraph on...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145926

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Qadi Zada al-Rumi (1364-1436) Commentary on al-Hikma, 918 AH [1684 CE].

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Octavo manuscript in Arabic on paper, consisting of two works, including Fakhr al-Din al-Razi’s (1149-1209) Hashiya ‘ala sharh hidayat alhikma, contemporary blind-tooled leather. In very g...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-71008

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Allende, Isabel

The House of Spirits Trilogy: House of the Spirits, Daughter of Fortune, and Portrait in Sepia.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985.

First edition of each work in the author’s classic House of Spirits trilogy. Octavo, 3 volumes, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To ____ ____...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147493

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Wallace, David Foster

Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays.

New York: Little Brown & Company, 2005.

First edition of this collection of essays. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by David Foster Wallace on the title page. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Yoori Kim. Jacket p...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-42776

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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. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper to h...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-114778

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Mather, Berkely [Ian Fleming]

The Pass Beyond Kashmir.

London: Collins, 1960.

First edition of this classical adventure novel. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with the rare original yellow Ian Fleming promotional wrap-arou...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150651

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Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Harriet Beecher Stowe Carte-de-Visite and Signed Card.

New York: E & H.T. Anthony, .

Rare original carte-de-visite of the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, accompanied by a small notecard inscribed by her, “Truly yours HB Stowe.” In near fine condition. The carte-de-visit...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-131409

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DeLillo, Don

White Noise.

New York: The Viking Press, 1985.

First edition of the author’s National Book Award-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “T...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-133723

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King, Stephen

Stephen King Signed Photograph.

: Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc, 1992.

Photograph of Stephen King, the “king of horror,” with Clovis, the feline hero of ‘Stephen King’s Sleepwalkers,’ a 1992 Columbia Pictures release featuring Brian Krause, Alice Krige,...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145397

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le Carre, John

[The Karla Trilogy]: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy; The Honourable Schoolboy; Smiley’s People

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1974-1979.

First editions of each title in the author’s acclaimed Karla Trilogy. Octavo, three volumes, original cloth. From the library of English writer, editor, and broadcaster Edward Anthony Thompson, also k...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146972

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Warren, Robert Penn

Band of Angels.

New York: Random House, 1955.

First edition of this classic work one of the most searing and vivid fictional accounts of the Civil War era ever written, basis for the 1957 film directed by Raoul Walsh starring Clark Gable, Yvonne...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147022

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Camus, Albert

Oeuvres Completes de Albert Camus.

Paris: Imprimierie Nationale, 1965.

The Louis XIV national deluxe illustrated edition of the works of Albert Camus with over 90 original lithographs in color by Carzou. Quartos, 7 volumes, pages loosely bound within black vellum backed...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-94697

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Aquinas, Thomas

Summa Theologica Sancti Thomae Aquinatis, Divinae Voluntatis Interpretis: Sacri Ordinis Praedicatorum.

Parisiis: Sumptibus Maturini Henault, 1638.

Early printing of Aquinas’ seminal work. Folio, bound in full leather with a red morocco spine label lettered in gilt, woodcut engraving of Aquinas in prayer to the title page. In very good cond...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-90390

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Ali, Muhammad

Muhammad Ali: A Thirty-Year Journey.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.

First edition of this photographic record of Muhammad Ali’s career. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated with numerous photographs by Howard L. Bingham of or concerning Muhammad Ali. Inscribed on...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149114

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Kitton, Frederic G. [Charles Dickens]

Charles Dickens by Pen and Pencil and A Supplement to Charles Dickens by Pen and Pencil.

London: Frank T. Sabin, 1890-1891.

First edition in book form of the most sumptuous presentation of Kitton’s collection of Dickens portraits and illustrations which first appeared in serialized parts between 1889-1890. Folio, two...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-122094

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Cash, Johnny

Man In White.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1986.

First edition of the only novel by the legendary singer. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Jud, Love Johnny Cash.” Nea...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-137539

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Wilder, Thornton

The Bridge of San Luis Rey.

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927.

First edition of the author’s masterpiece and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and ruling to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled t...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-142902

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Merrill, James

James Merrill First Edition Collection: Scripts for the Pageant, From the First Nine: Poems 1946-1976, The Changing Light at Sandover, Late Settings: Poems, Recitative: Prose, and A Different Person: A Memoir

: Various Publishers, 1980-1986.

Collection of six first editions of the works of James Merrill; from the library of American playwright Michael Feingold. Octavo, six volumes, original cloth and wrappers, the collection includes: Sta...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145436

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Bouvier, Jacqueline and Lee [Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis]

One Special Summer.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1974.

First edition of this delightful memoir written by the Bouvier sisters about their summer in Europe. Folio, original marbled blue paper boards, illustrated with drawings and decorations by both author...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149776

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