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Feiffer, Jules [Alan Arkin]

Little Murders.

New York : Random House, 1968.

First edition of this work, basis for Alan Arkin’s stunning 1971 feature directorial debut. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Alan Arkin on the half-title page, “Best Wishes to Adrienne From Alan Arkin.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Jules Feiffer.

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$975.00
Item Number: RRB-143189
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Styron, William

Set This House on Fire.

New York : Random House, 1960.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by William Styron on the title page. Fine in a near fine jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise clamshell box.

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$950.00
Item Number: RRB-143491
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Steinbeck, John

The Grapes of Wrath.

London : William Heinemann, 1939.

First English edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco chemise and clamshell box.

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$2,800.00
Item Number: RRB-143492
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James, Henry

The Princess Casamassima: A Novel.

New York : Macmillan and Co, 1886.

First American edition of one of James’s “three formidable novels” published in the 1880s along with The Bostonians and The Tragic Muse. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. In near fine condition, name opposite the half-title page. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell case.

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$1,250.00
Item Number: RRB-143493
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King, Stephen

Bag of Bones.

New York : Scribners, 1998.

First edition of this work which won the 1999 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel, the 1999 British Fantasy Award for Best Novel, and the 1999 Locus Award for Best Dark Fantasy/Horror Novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Patricia- Stephen King.” Near fine in a near fine jacket. Jacket design by John Fontana.

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$1,400.00
Item Number: RRB-142294
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Joyce, James

Finnegans Wake.

New York : The Viking Press, 1939.

First American edition, one of 6000 copies printed. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a few chips to the spine. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase.

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$2,200.00
Item Number: RRB-106753
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Mead, Margaret

From the South Seas: Studies of Adolescence and Sex in Primitive Societies.

New York : William Morrow and Company, 1939.

First edition, third printing of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Hardin S. Rarny Margaret Mead May 6, 1946.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket, bookplate to the front pastedown.

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$600.00
Item Number: RRB-143499
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O'Neill, Eugene

Mourning Becomes Electra.

New York : Boni & Liveright, 1931.

Signed limited edition of O’Neill’s classic play. Quarto, original full Japan vellum gilt, black morocco spine label, signed by Eugene O’Neill, one of 550 copies this is number 363. Near fine in a very good slipcase. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell and chemise box. An exceptional presentation.

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$2,000.00
Item Number: RRB-142951
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Prévost, Antoine François. [The Abbe Prévost D'Exiles]

The Story of Manon Lescaut and the Chevalier Des Grieux.

New York : The Heritage Press, 1935.

First edition thus of Helen Wadell’s translation of the seventh and final volume of Mémoires et aventures d’un homme de qualité which was adapted into the famous opera in four acts composed by Giacomo Puccini. Quarto, bound in half morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartmentsContinue reading "The Story of Manon Lescaut and the Chevalier Des Grieux."

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$375.00
Item Number: RRB-147343
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James, Henry

Roderick Hudson.

New York : James R. Osgood and Company, 1876.

First edition of one of James’ earliest novels. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell and chemise box. An exceptional presentation.

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$1,750.00
Item Number: RRB-142180
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Homer

Homeri Opera. [The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer].

Glasgow : Robert & Andrew Foulis, 1756-1758.

First edition of the Foulis Homer; the typographic masterpiece of the Foulis Press, and one of the finest editions of Homer. Folio, 4 volumes bound in full tree calf, rebacked with gilt titles and Greek key ruling to the spine, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, Greek key ruling to the front and rear panels,Continue reading "Homeri Opera. [The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer]."

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$8,800.00
Item Number: RRB-143357
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Bronte, Charlotte; Emily Bronte; Anne Bronte

The Life and Works of Charlotte Bronte and Her Sisters.

London : John Murray, 1920-1926.

The Haworth edition of the works of the sisters Bronte. Octavo, 7 volumes bound in full crushed levant scarlet morocco by Riviere & Son, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, triple gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles stamp-signed by RiviereContinue reading "The Life and Works of Charlotte Bronte and Her Sisters."

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$6,500.00
Item Number: RRB-143434
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Amis, Kingsley

Lucky Jim.

London : Victor Gollancz, 1953.

First edition of this hilarious satire about college life and high class manners, a classic of postwar English literature. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell and chemise box.

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$5,000.00
Item Number: RRB-142819
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Dunning, John

Two O’Clock, Eastern Wartime.

New York : Scribner, 2001.

The Binder’s Copy of the author’s manuscript signed limited edition of John Dunning’s classic work, with two pages of the original typed manuscript tipped in and inscribed by the author, “Original working draft ms. page for Two O’Clock, Eastern Wartime John Dunning.” Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards by the Harcourt Bindery,Continue reading "Two O’Clock, Eastern Wartime."

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$850.00
Item Number: RRB-142781
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Muir, John

The Writings of John Muir: The Manuscript Edition. [Including: My First Summer in the Sierra, Travels in Alaska, The Mountains of California, The Story of My Youth and Childhood, Our National Parks, The Cruise of the Corwin, Steep Trails, Life and Letters, Etc.]

Boston and New York : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916-24.

The Manuscript Edition of The Writings of John Muir, one of 750 numbered sets produced with an original autograph manuscript page bound into the first volume. Octavo, 10 volumes in the publisher’s deluxe three quarter crushed levant morocco over cloth boards with gilt titles and tulip stamping to the spine in five compartments within raisedContinue reading "The Writings of John Muir: The Manuscript Edition. [Including: My First Summer in the Sierra, Travels in Alaska, The Mountains of California, The Story of My Youth and Childhood, Our National Parks, The Cruise of the Corwin, Steep Trails, Life and Letters, Etc.]"

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$11,000.00
Item Number: RRB-143457
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Stevens, Wallace

The Auroras of Autumn.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1950.

First edition of this classic National Book Award winning collection. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell and chemise box. An exceptional presentation, rare in this condition.

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$1,400.00
Item Number: RRB-142950
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Maupassant, Guy De

Bel-Ami.

New York : The Heritage Press, 1968.

First edition of the Heritage Press edition of this classic work. Quarto, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands. illustrations by Bernard Lamotte. Introduction by Alec Waugh. In fine condition.

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$600.00
Item Number: RRB-142808
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Bellow, Saul

Seize The Day.

New York : The Viking Press, 1956.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s fourth book. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fineContinue reading "Seize The Day."

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$1,250.00
Item Number: RRB-142270
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Warren, Robert Penn

World Enough and Time.

New York : Random House, 1950.

First edition of this classic novel; one of the big sleepers in 20th century American fiction and the “richest of [Warren’s] novels” (New York Herald Tribune). Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Frank Sutherland regards Robert Penn Warren.” Near fine in a very good price-clipped dustContinue reading "World Enough and Time."

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$1,200.00
Item Number: RRB-142272
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Perry, Sarah

The Essex Serpent.

London : Serpent's Tail, 2016.

First edition of this modern classic, basis for the miniseries starring Claire Danes and Tom Hiddleston. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Sarah Perry on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, inscription to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Peter Dyer.

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$375.00
Item Number: RRB-142273
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Kennedy, William

Ironweed.

New York : The Viking Press, 1983.

First edition of Kennedy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original half gray cloth. Boldly signed William Kennedy on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a fine dust jacket, offsetting to the title page. Jacket design by Neil Stuart. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase.

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$975.00
Item Number: RRB-140796
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Cather, Willa

The Troll Garden.

New-York : McClure Phillips, 1905.

First edition, first issue of this classic collection of stories. Octavo, original publisher’s dark red cloth. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise clamshell box. In near fine condition. Crane A4a.

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$1,400.00
Item Number: RRB-142277
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Cheever, John

The Wapshot Chronicle and the Wapshot Scandal.

New York : Harper & Row, Publishers, 1979.

First edition of the collected reissue of Cheever’s National Book Award and William Dean Howells Medal-winning Wapshot novels. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Mark Zimmer with the Hope of enjoying him as a Friend as I enjoy his brother John Cheever.” The recipient wasContinue reading "The Wapshot Chronicle and the Wapshot Scandal."

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$475.00
Item Number: RRB-143273
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Rowson [Susanna Haswell]

Charlotte Temple: A Tale of Truth.

Hartford : Published by Silas Andrus, 1827.

Early American printing of the first American bestseller, first published in 1794. 16mo, half calf over wooden boards, gilt-lettered spine, woodcut frontispiece. In good condition, assuming boards were once paper-covered, the paper has since entirely perished; shallow loss along top edge of both covers, lacking rear endpaper, 20th century rubberstamp to front pastedown. Rare.

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$1,750.00
Item Number: RRB-142082
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