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Wolfe, Tom. [Ken Kesey]

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.

New York : Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1968.

First edition of the classic account of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters during their bus trip across America in the late 1960’s. 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, giltContinue reading "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test."

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$3,500.00

Item Number: RRB-148163

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Catlin, George W

North American Indians: Being Letters and Notes on Their Manners, Customs, and Conditions, Written During Eight Years’ Travel Amongst the Wildest Tribes of Indians in North America, 1832-1839.

Edinburgh : John Grant, 1926.

First Grant edition of this detailed anthropological history. Royal octavo, two volumes, original publisher’s cloth elaborately stamped in gilt, illustrated with 180 color lithograph plates (including maps, 1 of which is folding) containing 320 images from original paintings by Catlin. In very good condition with wear and a few small closed tears to the clothContinue reading "North American Indians: Being Letters and Notes on Their Manners, Customs, and Conditions, Written During Eight Years’ Travel Amongst the Wildest Tribes of Indians in North America, 1832-1839."

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$1,250.00

Item Number: RRB-149810

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Atwood, Margaret

The Complete Works of Margaret Atwood. [The Edible Woman, Surfacing, Lady Oracle, Life Before Man, Bodily Harm, The Handmaid’s Tale, Cat’s Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood, MaddAddam, The Heart Goes Last, Hag-Seed, and The Testaments].

Toronto : McClelland and Stewart Limited/Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 1969-2019.

Complete true first edition set of the novels of Margaret Atwood, finely bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery. Octavo, 16 volumes bound in full red crushed levant morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front andContinue reading "The Complete Works of Margaret Atwood. [The Edible Woman, Surfacing, Lady Oracle, Life Before Man, Bodily Harm, The Handmaid’s Tale, Cat’s Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood, MaddAddam, The Heart Goes Last, Hag-Seed, and The Testaments]."

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$25,000.00

Item Number: RRB-149507

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Browning, Robert

The Inn Album.

London : Smith, Elder, & Co, 1875.

First edition of this compelling narrative poem. Octodecimo, contemporary tree calf bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within gilt raised bands, gilt ruling to boards, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “My last poem, published aContinue reading "The Inn Album."

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$3,800.00

Item Number: RRB-147756

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Hugo, Victor

The Works of Victor Hugo.

New York : The Nottingham Society, c. 1900.

The Nottingham Society Edition De Luxe of the Works of Victor Hugo. Octavo, 10 volumes bound in three quarter contemporary royal blue crushed levant morocco over watered silk covered boards with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling with red fleur-de-lis gilt onlays to the spine in two compartments, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt with othersContinue reading "The Works of Victor Hugo."

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$4,000.00

Item Number: RRB-149034

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Bunyan, John

Bunyan’s Choice Works: The Pilgrim’s Progress, The Holy War, The Barren Fig-Tree, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, and Heart’s Ease in Heart Trouble.

Glasgow : James Semple, c.1880.

Finely bound edition of one of the most significant works of religious English literature. Quarto, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt titles and tooling to the front panel, metal rim and double clasp to the boards, all edges gilt, profusely illustratedContinue reading "Bunyan’s Choice Works: The Pilgrim’s Progress, The Holy War, The Barren Fig-Tree, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, and Heart’s Ease in Heart Trouble."

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$1,600.00

Item Number: RRB-148101

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Baring-Gould, Sabine

Onward, Christian Soldiers.

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Rare original autograph manuscript of the famous hymn. Quarto, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling and detailing to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. Tipped onto a leaf along left margin of a largerContinue reading "Onward, Christian Soldiers."

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$6,000.00

Item Number: RRB-147736

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Dickens, Charles

Oliver Twist.

London : Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars, 1846.

Early edition of Dickens’s classic second novel. Octavo, bound in full calf, full morocco with 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, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, frontispiece, with twenty-four illustrations on steel by George Cruikshank. InContinue reading "Oliver Twist."

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$975.00

Item Number: RRB-147626

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Waugh, Evelyn

Decline and Fall.

London : Chapman & Hall, 1931.

Pocket edition of Waugh’s first published novel. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, illustrated, 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. An exceptional presentation.

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$800.00

Item Number: RRB-147545

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Eliot, George

Felix Holt: The Radical.

Edinburgh and London : William Blackwood and Sons, 1866.

First edition of this classic political work. Sextodecimo, three volumes, half-calf bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. In very good condition with rubbing to the hinges and extremities, light toning.

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$800.00

Item Number: RRB-147727

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Peixotto, Ernest

Romantic California.

New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912.

Finely bound edition of this classic in travel and tourism for the state of California. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised bands with a design of a California mission and bell on the front panel, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt,Continue reading "Romantic California."

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$750.00

Item Number: RRB-147696

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Daudet, Alphonse

The Novels, Romances and Writings of Alphonse Daudet. [Fromont and Risler, Jack, The Nabob, Kings in Exile, Thirty Years in Paris].

Boston : Little, Brown, and Company, 1900.

The Saint Botolph Edition of the works of Alphonse Daudet, limited to one thousand numbered sets and magnificently bound. Octavo, eighteen volumes elegantly bound in full plum levant morocco with red and gilt morocco fleurs-de-lis inlays to the panels and spine, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands,Continue reading "The Novels, Romances and Writings of Alphonse Daudet. [Fromont and Risler, Jack, The Nabob, Kings in Exile, Thirty Years in Paris]."

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$6,000.00

Item Number: RRB-147622

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Dickens, Charles

The Pic Nic Papers.

London : Henry Colburn, 1841.

First edition, first issue of this anthology edited by Charles Dickens. Small octavo, three volumes, bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, frontispiece to each volume, all edges red, with illustrations by George Cruikshank. In very good condition, bookplatesContinue reading "The Pic Nic Papers."

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$650.00

Item Number: RRB-147636

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Hardy, Thomas

The Works of Thomas Hardy. [Including Far from the Madding Crowd; Desperate Remedies; The Return of the Native.]

Chicago and New York : Rand, McNally & Company, c. 1900.

The Rand, McNally & Company edition of books by Thomas Hardy. Octavo, five volumes bound in the original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the spines and front panels, top edge gilt. In very good to good condition, bookplates to the front pastedowns of ‘Desperate Remedies’ and ‘Mayor of Casterbridge’.

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$400.00

Item Number: RRB-147349

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Egan, Pierce

Sporting Anecdotes, Original and Selected; Including Numerous Characteristic Portraits of Persons in Every Walk of Life, Who have acquired Notoriety from their Achievements on the Turf, at the Table, and in the Diversions of the Field.

London : Printed For Sherwood, Jones, and Co, 1825.

First edition with colored plates of Egan’s classic collection of sporting anecdotes. Octavo, bound in full red straight grain morocco by Lloyd with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling and cornerpieces to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles stamp-signedContinue reading "Sporting Anecdotes, Original and Selected; Including Numerous Characteristic Portraits of Persons in Every Walk of Life, Who have acquired Notoriety from their Achievements on the Turf, at the Table, and in the Diversions of the Field."

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$975.00

Item Number: RRB-147752

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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 compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine labels letter in gilt, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt-ruled turn-ins and inner dentelles,Continue reading "The Mill On The Floss."

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$1,250.00

Item Number: RRB-147792

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Scott, Paul

The Raj Quartet. [The Jewel in the Crown, The Day of the Scorpion, The Towers of Silence, A Division of the Spoils; Staying On].

London : Heinemann, 1966-1975.

Complete first edition set of “one of the most important landmarks of post-war fiction” (The Times). Octavo, 4 volumes, 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 theContinue reading "The Raj Quartet. [The Jewel in the Crown, The Day of the Scorpion, The Towers of Silence, A Division of the Spoils; Staying On]."

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$2,800.00

Item Number: RRB-148004

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Franklin, Captain John

Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of The Polar Sea, In the Years 1819, 20, 21, and 22. [with] Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1825, 1826, and 1827.

London : John Murray, Albemarle-Street, 1823.

First editions of the official narratives of Franklin‘s first and second voyages to the Polar Sea. Quarto, two volumes uniformly bound in full period-style speckled calf with morocco gilt-lettered labels and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine, gilt turn-ins. First Narrative: First edition, first issue with the Errata slip, illustrated with 30 plates 11 of whichContinue reading "Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of The Polar Sea, In the Years 1819, 20, 21, and 22. [with] Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1825, 1826, and 1827."

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$6,500.00

Item Number: RRB-147522

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Poe, Edgar Allan

The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe.

New York and Pittsburgh : The Colonial Company, Limited, 1903.

Limited manuscript edition of the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe. Octavo, ten volumes, bound in full crushed levant morocco by The Monastery Hill Bindery with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in four compartments within gilt raised bands, gilt turn-ins, top edge gilt, watered silk endpapers, three tissue guarded frontispieces in each volume,Continue reading "The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe."

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$5,500.00

Item Number: RRB-147348

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Franklin, Benjamin

Political, Miscellaneous, and Philosophical Pieces; Arranged under the Following Heads and Distinguished by Initial Letters in each Leaf: General Politics; American Politics before the Troubles; American Politics during the Troubles; Provincial or Colony Politics; Miscellaneous and Philosophical Pieces.

London : Printed for J. Johnson, 1779.

First collected edition of “the only edition of Franklin’s writings (other than his scientific) printed during his lifetime” (Ford). Octavo, bound in three quarter olive crushed levant morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in three compartments within raised bands, all edges speckled blue, engraved frontispiece portrait of Franklin, three engraved plates (oneContinue reading "Political, Miscellaneous, and Philosophical Pieces; Arranged under the Following Heads and Distinguished by Initial Letters in each Leaf: General Politics; American Politics before the Troubles; American Politics during the Troubles; Provincial or Colony Politics; Miscellaneous and Philosophical Pieces."

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$9,800.00

Item Number: RRB-147735

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