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Of Mice and Men: A Play in Three Acts.

New York: Covici Friede Publishers, 1937.

First edition of Steinbeck’s dramatization of his poignant novel. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good first issue dust jacket with the publisher’s price of $2.00. Housed in a...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-143012

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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, orig...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-142294

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Faulkner, William

Unvanquished.

New York: Random House, 1938.

First edition of this novel which tells the story of the Sartoris family, who first appeared in the novel Sartoris. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Edward Shenton. Near fine in a fine dust jack...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-140414

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Saramago, Jose

Baltasar and Blimunda.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1987.

First British edition of Saramago’s first book to be translated into English. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Harold with be...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-140911

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Dickens, Charles

Master Humphrey’s Clock.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1840.

First edition of this collection of short stories which originally appeared as a weekly periodical of the same name. Large octavo, 3 volumes bound into one in three quarters morocco by Riviere & S...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-96034

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Dickens, Charles

Master Humphrey’s Clock.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1840.

First edition in book form of this collection of short stories which originally appeared as a weekly periodical of the same name. Large octavo, 3 volumes bound in three quarter morocco by W. Pratt wit...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-129551

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Banks, Lynne Reid; Illustrated by Brock Cole

The Indian In The Cupboard.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1980.

First edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Brock Cole. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Andrew – Best w...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-121662

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Condon, Richard

The Manchurian Candidate.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, 1959.

First edition of this brilliant, controversial novel, basis for the 1962 film adaptation, which has been called “the most chilling piece of cold war paranoia ever committed to film” (New York Times)....

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-143983

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Warren, Patricia Nell

The Front Runner.

New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc, 1974.

First edition of the first contemporary gay novel to achieve mainstream commercial and critical success. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page,...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-129832

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Saramago, Jose

Baltasar and Blimunda.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1987.

First American edition of Saramago’s first book to be translated into English. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated by the author on the half-title page, “To Haro...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-100019

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Waugh, Evelyn

Black Mischief.

London: 1932, Chapman & Hall.

First edition of “one of the century’s great masters of the twentieth century” third novel. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, frontispiece, gilt titles and tooli...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-147543

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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 except...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-142950

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Wharton, Edith

Ethan Frome.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911.

First edition, first issue with “wearily” in perfect type on penultimate line of page 135 and with four pages of publisher’s advertisements at rear, of Wharton’s greatest tragic story, a “grim tale of...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-110596

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Sinclair, Upton

Oil! A Novel.

Long Beach, CA: Published by the Author, 1927.

Early printing of Upton Sinclair’s self-published social and political satire and the basis for the film ‘There Will be Blood’ starring Daniel Day Lewis. Presentation copy, inscribed...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-146702

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Silverstein, Shel

Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1974.

First edition of the author’s first collection of children’s poetry. Small quarto, original brown cloth, illustrated. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-151077

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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....

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-142277

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O'Neill, Eugene

The Iceman Cometh.

New York: Random House, 1946.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning playwright’s masterpiece. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised g...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-143667

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Robinson, Marilynne

Housekeeping.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981.

First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s classic first novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Marilynne Robinson on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jac...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-149756

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Moore, Robin

The Green Berets.

New York: Crown Publishers, 1965.

First edition of this monumental work, basis for the classic film starring John Wayne. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by the author on the half-title page, “My best wishes Robin Moore.” Fine i...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-147494

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Martin, George R.R

A Game of Thrones.

New York: Bantam Books, 2011.

First deluxe edition of the first book in the author’s acclaimed A Song of Ice and Fire Series. Octavo, original blue cloth, cartographic endpapers. Boldly signed by George R.R. Martin on the ti...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-151381

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Flaubert, Gustave

Madame Bovary: A Story of Provincial Life.

London: John Lane/The Bodley Head LTD, 1928.

The Bodley Head edition of a seminal novel in literary realism, renowned for its psychological depth and critique of bourgeois society. Octavo, bound in full pictorial morocco by Sangorski & Sutcl...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-148368

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Satrapi, Marjane

Persepolis 2: The Story of Return.

New York: Pantheon Books, 2004.

First edition of “the most original coming-of-age story from the Middle East yet” (People). Octavo, original illustrated boards. Boldly signed by Marjane Satropi on the front free endpaper...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-152998

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Greene, Graham

Brighton Rock.

London: Heinemann, 1938.

First edition of Greene’s chilling exposé of violence and gang warfare in the pre-war underworld is a classic of its kind. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom slip...

$1,350.00 Item Number: RRB-7206

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Rushdie, Salman

Midnight’s Children.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1981.

First British edition of the author’s Booker Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Bill Botten.

$1,350.00 Item Number: RRB-91456

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