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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...

$1,350.00 Item Number: RRB-116178

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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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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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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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Tennyson, Alfred

Idylls of the King. [Fore-edge Painting].

London: Edward Moxon & Co, 1859.

First edition, second issue of one of the greatest and most enduring of Victorian literary works, with the imprint of Bradbury and Evans to the verso of title. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-139723

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Lawrence, T.E

Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1949.

Finely bound edition of Lawrence’s classic account of his role in the Arab rebellion against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Bayntun Riviere, frontispie...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-147244

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Vargas Llosa, Mario

The Feast of the Goat.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by both Mario Vargas Llosa and translator Edith Grossman on the title page. Fine in a f...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-149663

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Whymper, Edward

Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator.

London: John Murray, 1891-92.

First edition of this work by the mountaineer and explorer. Octavo, 2 volumes, original publisher’s cloth, with 34 engraved plates and 4 maps (one folding, one large folding route map in rear co...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-111798

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Lord Byron. [George Gordon Byron]

Hebrew Melodies.

London: John Murray, 1815.

First edition of Byron’s book of poetry written at the request of the Hon. D. Kinnaird. Octavo, bound in half cloth over paper-covered boards. In near fine condition.

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-120805

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Byron, Lord

The Works of the Right Hon. Lord Byron. [Fore-edge Painting].

London: Printed for John Murray, 1815.

Finely bound collection of the works of Lord Byron. Octavo, bound in full straight grain morocco with gilt title and tooling to the spine, elaborate gilt tooling to the front and rear panels, gilt tur...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-134016

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Pressfield, Steven [Matt Damon]

The Legend of Bagger Vance: A Novel of Golf and the Game of Life.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1995.

First edition, early printing of one of the greatest golf novels of the 20th century. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by the author on the half-title page, “Shalom Steven Pressfield.”...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-144822

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Lane, Edward William; Edited by Edward Stanley Poole [Charlotte Perkins Gilman]

The Thousand and One Nights, Commonly Called, In England, The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments.

London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1865.

Second volume of the new edition of Lane’s annotated translation of The Arabian Nights, edited by his nephew; from the library of writer and social reformer Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Octavo, bou...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-145597

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Camus, Albert

L’Exil et Le Royaume.

Paris: Gallimard, 1947.

First edition of Camus’ short story collection exploring themes of existentialism and absurdism. Small octavo, original publisher’s green cloth stamped in black, blue, and gilt after a des...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-146462

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Irving, Washington; Illustrated by Arthur Rackham

Rip Van Winkle.

London: William Heinemann, 1905.

Rackham edition of this classic story. Royal octavo, bound in full red morocco by Henry Sotheran with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to t...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-148360

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Maugham, W. Somerset

Of Human Bondage.

New York: The Modern Library, c. 1939.

Modern Library edition of Maugham’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Vincent Starett in an economical mood Chicago 11...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-150081

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Dickens, Charles

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.

London: Chapman and Hall and Bradbury Evans, 1858.

Rare finely bound Library Edition of Dickens’ first novel and one of his greatest works. Octavo, two volumes bound in three quarter morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with gilt titles and elab...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-119937

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Traver, Robert [John D. Voelker]

Anatomy of a Murder.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1959.

First book club edition of this classic work, basis for the film produced and directed by Otto Preminger, starring James Stewart and Lee Remick. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-150824

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Plath, Sylvia

The Bell Jar.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1971.

First American edition of Sylvia Plath’s only novel. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with eight pen-and-ink drawings by Plath. Biographical note by Lois Ames. Near in a near fine price-...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-151942

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Dickens, Charles

The Uncommercial Traveller.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1861.

First edition in book form of Dickens’ classic collection of personal vignettes. Octavo, bound in full polished calf by Tout, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, elaborate gilt tooling to the...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-135109

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Kipling, Rudyard

Rudyard Kipling Autograph Letter Signed.

:, September 2, 1907.

Rare autograph letter signed from Rudyard Kipling to R. G. Von Berg. One page on Bateman’s Burwash Etchingham letterhead, the letter reads in full, “Sep. 2 1907 Dear Sir: In reply to your...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-146537

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Kazan, Elia

America America.

New York: Stein and Day, 1962.

First edition of this classic work, basis for the 1963 film starring Stathis Giallelis. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To June El...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-138692

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Vonnegut, Kurt [David Hayman]

Kurt Vonnegut Signed Photograph.

:, 1974.

Rare original photograph of award-winning author Kurt Vonnegut. Black and white photograph of Vonnegut smiling with a cigarette in hand. Inscribed below the portrait in the margin, “Love to Davi...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-148737

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Marias, Javier

Los Dominios del Lobo.

Barcelona: Edhasa, 1971.

First edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers as issued. Signed by Javier Marias on the title page. In near fine condition.

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-994

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