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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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Fleming, Ian

The Spy Who Loved Me.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1962.

Rare uncorrected proof of the first edition of the ninth novel in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series. Octavo, original light green pictorial wrappers. In very good condition.

$1,350.00 Item Number: RRB-150445

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Faulkner, William

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. Fine in a near fine dust jack...

$1,350.00 Item Number: RRB-138572

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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, “To Doris Jose Sara...

$1,300.00 Item Number: RRB-140898

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Grady, James

Six Days of the Condor.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1974.

First edition of the author’s first thriller, basis for the classic film film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, and Max von Sydow. Octavo, or...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-145182

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Kertesz, Imre

Kaddis A Meg Nem Szuletett Gyermekert (Kaddish For A Child Not Born).

Budapest: Magveto, 1990.

First Hungarian edition of Kertesz’s mesmerizing novel of identity and memory. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Imre Kertesz on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-83049

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Miller, Arthur

The Price.

New York: The Viking Press, 1968.

First edition of this play by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to his editor on the front free endpaper, “Dear Aaron Thank...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-105622

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Kipling, Rudyard; Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.

A Song of the English.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, c. 1909.

Signed limited edition of Kipling’s collection of songs of the seas and cities, elaborately illustrated by W. Heath Robinson. Quarto, original publisher’s full pictorial vellum decorated i...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-148683

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Murdoch, Iris

Under the Net.

London: Chatto & Windus, .

Early printing of Murdoch’s first novel which announced “the emergence of a brilliant talent” (Times Literary Supplement). Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-170039

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Crichton, Michael

Airframe.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.

First edition of Crichton’s compelling page-turner. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by dust jacket designer Chip Kidd with an original drawing of his design for Crichton’s The Lost Wor...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-124553

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Clarke, Arthur C. [Keir Dullea]

2061: Odyssey Three.

New York: A Del Rey Book / Ballantine Books, 1988.

First edition of the third book in the author’s acclaimed Odyssey Series. Octavo, original publisher’s half-cloth. Boldly signed by Arthur C. Clarke and actor Keir Dullea on the half-title page....

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-151537

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Keller, Helen

We Bereaved.

New York: Leslie Fulenwider, Inc, 1929.

First edition of this small book of wisdom by Helen Keller. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Mrs Warren Monk, whose sweet...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-138074

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Saramago, Jose

Cadernos de Lanzarote Diario I- IV.

Lisbon: Caminho, 1994-1997.

First Portugese editions of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s commentaries on Lanzarote, one of Spain’s volcanic Canary Islands. Octavo, original wrappers as issued, 4 volumes. Each volume...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-148

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Arnim, Elizabeth von [Charlotte Perkins Gilman]

The Princess Priscillas Fortnight.

Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1906.

Tauchnitz edition of this comedy-drama novel from the Collection of British and American Authors Vol. 3880; from the library of writer and social reformer Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Small duodecimo, or...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-145599

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Spark, Muriel

The Ballad of Peckham Rye.

London: Macmillan, 1960.

First edition of this satirical gem from the “master of malice and mayhem” (The New York Times). Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Muriel Spark on the title page. Very good in a very good dust...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-59022

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Hogrogian, Nonny

One Fine Day.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1971.

First edition of this classic work, which won the Caldecott Medal in 1972. Oblong quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by the author with a drawing of a fox on the half-title page, “With...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-143374

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Schulberg, Budd

Some Faces In the Crowd.

New York: Random House, 1953.

First edition of this collection of short stories, including the story Your Arkansas Traveler, which was the basis for the film A Face in the Crowd. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-75877

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Canfield, Arthur. Chosen by St John Lucas [Raymond Chandler]

The Oxford Book of French Verse: xiiith Century-xxth Century.

London: Clarendon Press, 1946.

First edition of this comprehensive anthology that showcases the richness of French poetry. 16mo, original wrappers. From the library of Raymond Chandler with his library stamp to the front free endpa...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-149032

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Tomlinson, H.M

The Sea and the Jungle.

London: Duckworth & Co, 1912.

First edition of this classic of travel literature. Octavo, original publisher’s green cloth with gilt titles and detailing, top edge gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece, with ten pages of adverti...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-148366

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London, Jack

The Cruise of the Dazzler.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1906.

First English edition of London‘s scarcest work of fiction and his only “juvenile” novel. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six comp...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-128002

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Harris, Thomas

The Silence of the Lambs.

United States: Suntup , 2021.

Signed limited first edition of Harris’ third and most famous novel. Octavo, bound in full silk, gilt titles to the spine, illustrated endpapers. Boldly signed by Thomas Harris and illustrator Tom Bag...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-136994

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Hazzard, Shirley

The Transit of Venus.

New York: The Viking Press, 1980.

First edition of “one of the great English-language novels of the twentieth century” (The Paris Review). Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author in t...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-140429

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Lefevre, Edwin

Simonetta.

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1919.

First edition of this work by the author of Reminisces of a Stock Operator. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with chipping to the spine. We have never seen another ex...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-140668

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

Brighton Rock.

Midnight’s Children.

The Spy Who Loved Me.

Unvanquished.

Baltasar and Blimunda.

Six Days of the Condor.

Kaddis A Meg Nem Szuletett Gyermekert (Kaddish For A Child Not Born).

The Price.

A Song of the English.

Under the Net.

Airframe.

2061: Odyssey Three.

We Bereaved.

Cadernos de Lanzarote Diario I- IV.

The Princess Priscillas Fortnight.

The Ballad of Peckham Rye.

One Fine Day.

Some Faces In the Crowd.

The Oxford Book of French Verse: xiiith Century-xxth Century.

The Sea and the Jungle.

The Cruise of the Dazzler.

The Silence of the Lambs.

The Transit of Venus.

Simonetta.