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Rabbit At Rest.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990.

First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Erica Jong, one more trip to...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-142983

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Heller, Joseph

Something Happened.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974.

First edition of this classic work by the author of Catch-22. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Doreen Phelan, With pleasure + go...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-142470

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Hemingway, Ernest

Death in the Afternoon.

Charles Scribner's Sons: New York, 1932.

Early printing of Hemingway’s work on bullfighting. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Zaehnsdorf for Asprey, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the spine, front and rear panels...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-108979

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Nabokov, Vladimir

Lolita.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1955.

First American edition and first trade edition of Nabokov’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Photograph of Nabokov by Maclean Dameron. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custo...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-119451

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Carr, Lucien [Helen Weaver] [Jack Kerouac]

Lucien Carr Autograph Letter Signed to Helen Weaver.

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Autograph letter signed by American journalist and editor Lucien Carr. One page, handwritten to Jack Kerouac’s former girlfriend Helen Weaver on a yellow legal pad page and dated “Sept. 04...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-149953

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Stoppard, Tom

Pizza.

London: The Cuckoo Press for John Sandoe Books, 2010.

First edition, one of only 200 copies printed given as a Christmas gift of this sketch was written for The Laws of War, a Cries from the Heart production in support of the charity Human Rights Watch,...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-150927

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Oliver, Mary

Why I Wake Early.

Boston: Beacon Press, 2004.

First edition of this collection by the Pulitzer prize-winning poet. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Mary Oliver on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Sara Eisenman.

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-124501

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Stoppard, Tom. [Gary Oldman]

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead.

London: Faber & Faber, 1967.

First paperback edition (issued simultaneously in hardback) of the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed by Academy Award-winning actor Gary Oldman on the front free end...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-151743

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Kazantzakis, Nikos; Translated by Peter A. Bien

Report to Greco: An Autobiographical Novel.

Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1965.

First edition of Kazantzakis’ deeply personal semi-autobiographical classic testament. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed and dated by the translator on the half-titl...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-136597

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[Cruikshank, George; William Thackeray; Albert Smith; Gilbert A. Beckett; The Brothers Mayhew]

The Comic Almanack: An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, Containing Merry Tales, Humorous Poetry, Quips, and Oddities.

London: John Camden Hotten, 1835-1853.

First editions of the first and second series of The Comic Almanack; illustrated by George Cruikshank. Octavo, four volumes, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards by Root & Son, gilt...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-137167

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Beardsley, Aubrey; Sir Thomas Malory; William Caxton; John Rhys; Aymer Vallance

[Morte D’Arthur]. The Birth Life and Acts of King Arthur of His Noble Knights of the Round Table Their Marvellous Enquests and Adventures the Achieving of the San Greal and in the End Le Morte Darthur with the Dolourous Death and Departing Out of This World of Them All.

Edinburgh: Turnbull & Spears, 1927.

Limited Beardsley illustrated edition of perhaps the best-known work of Arthurian literature in English, containing two additional illustrations not appearing in the second edition, in addition to the...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-146914

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Wallace, Lew. Illustrated by Eric Pape

The Fair God: A Tale Of The Conquest of Mexico.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1899.

First edition of Union General Lew Wallace’s first novel. Octavo, two volumes, original publisher’s embossed morocco with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, rebacked, top edge gilt,...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-109623

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Sparks, Nicholas [Kevin Costner]

Message in a Bottle.

New York: Warner Books, 1998.

First edition of this novel, basis for the 1999 film directed by Luis Mandoki, starring Kevin Costner, Robin Wright and Paul Newman. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the a...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-150125

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Waugh, Evelyn

Decline and Fall.

London: Chapman & Hall, 1962.

First revised edition of Waugh’s first published novel. Octavo, bound in full crushed green morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments withi...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-129591

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Roumain, Jacques; Translated by Langston Hughes and Mercer Cook

Masters of the Dew: A Novel of Haiti.

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947.

First edition of this outstanding Haitian novel which tells of Manuel’s struggle to keep his little community from starvation during drought. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-130654

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Chatterton, Thomas

The British Poets: Thomas Chatterton.

London: British Literary Society, n.d.

The extra-illustrated Crown edition of the poems of Thomas Chatterton, limited to ten numbered and registered sets. Duodecimo, two volumes, publisher’s exquisite deluxe full morocco binding with gilt...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-151523

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Amis, Martin

Money.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1984.

First edition of this modern classic. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Martin Amis on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mon Mohan/ Dick Jones. Author...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-143070

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Rendell, Ruth

The Best Man to Die.

London: John Lang, 1969.

First edition of the fourth Inspector Wexford novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Ruth Rendell on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light wear. Jacket design by William Randell...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-61004

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Eliot, George

The Mill On The Floss.

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1860.

First edition of Eliot’s most deeply autobiographical work. Octavo, three volumes bound in full polished calf by H. Sotheran & Co. with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartment...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-147792

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Dickens, Charles

The Old Curiosity Shop: A Tale.

London: Chapman And Hall, Strand, 1841.

First edition of Dickens’s classic novel. Octavo, bound in half calf, full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, all edges gilt, with il...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-147630

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Faulkner, William

These Thirteen (13).

New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1931.

First edition of Faulkner’s first collection of stories. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, blue topstain. Near fine in a good dust jacket with loss to the spine. Jacket design by Arth...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-100021

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Stephani, Roberti. [Robert Estienne]

Lexicographorum Principis Thesaurus Linguae Latinae in IV. Tomos Divisus.

Basileae: Typis & Impensis E. & J.R. Thurnisiorum, 1740.

Rare 1740 edition of Robert Estienne’s “greatest monument of Latin scholarship.” Folio, four volumes bound in full vellum with spine labels decorated and titled in gilt, woodcut prin...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-149194

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Roubayyat de Hafiz et d’Omar Khayyam. [The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám].

Paris: Francis LeBegue, [1921].

Finely bound example of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Octavo, bound in full levant morocco with gilt titles to the spine, gilt Art Deco style decorations to the front and rear panel, gilt turn-ins and...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-127096

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Kierkegaard, Søren. Translated by A. S. Aldworth & W. S. Ferrie

Consider The Lilies: Being the Second part of “Edifying Discourses in a Different Vein”, published in 1847 at Copenhagen, by S. Kierkegaard.

London: The C. W. Daniel Company, Ltd., 1940.

First English edition of the elaboration and conclusion of Kierkegaard’s important existential discourses of 1847. Octavo, original cloth. Translated from the Danish by A. S. Aldworth & W. S...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-133137

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