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Gunther, John

Death Be Not Proud.

New York : Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1949.

First edition, later printing of this deeply moving book, a father’s memoir of a brave, intelligent, and spirited boy. Octavo, bound by the author in full morocco by “Kingsport Press,” marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, cloth slipcase. Association copy, inscribed by the author to his wife in the year of publication, “This book belongs toContinue reading "Death Be Not Proud."

$4,000.00

Item Number: RRB-130415

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Smith, James L

Autobiography of James L. Smith, Including, Also, Reminiscences of Slave Life, Recollections of the War, Education of Freedmen, Causes of the Exodus.

Norwich, CT : Press of the Bulletin Company, 1881.

Rare first edition of this autobiography describing Smith’s life as a slave in Virginia, his escape north 1838, and life as a freeman. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. Blockson 9202; HSP/LCP Afro-Americana Catalog 9524.

$3,500.00

Item Number: RRB-130414

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Tolstoi, Count Leo. [Tolstoy]

The Kingdom of God is Within You: Or, Christianity Not as a Mystical Doctrine, but as a New Life-Conception.

London : Walter Scott, Ltd., 1894.

First edition in English of the culmination of 30 years of Tolstoy’s thinking which lays out a new organization for society based on an interpretation of Christianity focusing on universal love. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine. Translated from the original Russian by A. Delano. In near fine condition. Rare.

$1,850.00

Item Number: RRB-124089

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Tchertkoff, Vladimir. [Leo Tolstoy]

The Last Days of Tolstoy.

London : William Heinemann, 1922.

First edition of Chertkov’s illuminating biographical work including numerous excepts from Tolstoy’s personal diaries and letters. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition.

$75.00

Item Number: RRB-133949

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Hopkins, R. Thurston. [Rudyard Kipling]

The Kipling Country.

London : Cecil Palmer, 1924.

First edition of Hopkins’ illustrated homage to Kipling’s home in rural Burwash and its surrounds. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with drawings by Captain Irvine B. Bately and Gordon Volk. In good condition. Bookplate.

$75.00

Item Number: RRB-135263

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Kerouac, Jack

Visions of Gerard.

New York : Farrar, Staus and Company, 1963.

First edition of this classic Beat novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Illustrated with drawings by James Spanfeller.

$200.00

Item Number: RRB-131677

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First Edition of Our Mutual Friend: Dickens final completed novel; elaborately bound in full crushed morocco by Bayntun-Riviere

Dickens, Charles

Our Mutual Friend.

London : Chapman and Hall, 1865.

First edition of Dickens’ final completed novel. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, gilt medallion portrait of Dickens on the front panel, gilt signature on the back panel, inner dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. In fine condition. Illustrated by Marcus Stone with forty plates.Continue reading "Our Mutual Friend."

$2,800.00

Item Number: RRB-130506

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“Couldn't something temporary be done with a teapot?”: First Edition of Dickens' Dombey And Son; elaborately bound in full crushed morocco by Bayntun-Riviere

Dickens, Charles

Dombey and Son.

London : Bradbury and Evans, 1848.

First edition in book form of Dickens’ novel of “Pride,” with 40 etchings by Hablôt Knight Browne (“Phiz”). Octavo, bound in full morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, gilt medallion portrait of Dickens on the front panel, gilt signature on the back panel, inner dentelles, all edges gilt, marbledContinue reading "Dombey and Son."

$2,200.00

Item Number: RRB-130507

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"Oh, Sairey, Sairey, little do we know what lays before us!": First Edition of Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewhit; elaborately bound in full crushed morocco by Bayntun-Riviere

Dickens, Charles

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit.

London : London: Chapman and Hall, 1839.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, gilt medallion portrait of Dickens on the front panel, gilt signature on the back panel, inner dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. In fine condition. Illustrated with 40 plates. An exceptional presentation.

$2,200.00

Item Number: RRB-130567

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Dickens, Charles

Sketches By Boz.

London : Chapman and Hall, 1839.

First edition of the new edition of one of Dickens’ collection of short pieces. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, gilt medallion portrait of Dickens on the front panel, gilt signature on the back panel, inner dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated. In fine condition. AnContinue reading "Sketches By Boz."

$2,000.00

Item Number: RRB-130587

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Dickens, Charles

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.

London : Chapman and Hall, 1839.

First edition of one of Dickens’ most popular novels. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, gilt medallion portrait of Dickens on the front panel, gilt signature on the back panel, inner dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. In fine condition. Illustrated with 40 plates. AnContinue reading "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby."

$2,800.00

Item Number: RRB-130269

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Vidal, Gore

Burr.

New York : Random House, 1973.

First edition of this classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “Valerie — love — Gore.” The recipient, Valerie Gore was the author’s sister. Vidal’s father remarried in 1939 and had two children with his second wife; Valerie was born in 1946. Near fine in a nearContinue reading "Burr."

$650.00

Item Number: RRB-126791

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Michener, James A. and Jack Levine

Facing East.

New York : Maecenas Press/Random House, 1970.

Signed limited edition of this work by the award-winning author, signed by James Michener and illustrator Jack Levine. Folio, original cloth. lithographs and woodcuts by Jack Levine enclosed in a silk covered clamshell box with a large belt-like closure on the front cover. Fine in a near fine slipcase.

$300.00

Item Number: RRB-118821

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Wilder, Thornton

The Ides of March.

New York : Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1948.

First edition of this classic work of historical fiction. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page in the year of publication, “To Mrs. Chapman with the friendship of Thornton Wilder New York Feb 20 1948.” With an additional autograph note signed by Wilder tipped in which reads, “I hopeContinue reading "The Ides of March."

$475.00

Item Number: RRB-132599

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Rackham, Arthur

Mother Goose: The Old Nursery Rhymes.

London : William Heinemann, n.d. [1913].

First edition of Arthur Rackham’s illustrated rendition of the classic nursery rhyme collection. Octavo, bound in full polished calf Zaehnsdorf with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt vignette to the front panel, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham with 13 full-page color plates with captioned tissueContinue reading "Mother Goose: The Old Nursery Rhymes."

$1,150.00

Item Number: RRB-135055

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Retold by C.S. Evans. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham

Cinderella.

London : William Heinemann, 1919.

Edition de Luxe, signed limited issue of Arthur Rackham’s illustrated rendition of the beloved children’s classic. Quarto, original publisher’s vellum-backed pictorial boards decorated in gilt, pictorial green endpapers, top edge gilt, tipped-in color frontispiece by Arthur Rackham, illustrated. One of 325 copies on Japanese vellum signed by Arthur Rackham on the limitation page, this isContinue reading "Cinderella."

$3,000.00

Item Number: RRB-149736

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Wolfe, Tom

A Man In Full.

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.

First edition of this “masterpiece” (The Wall Street Journal). Octavo, original illustrated boards. Boldly signed by Tom Wolfe on the title page. Fine in a fine jacket. Jacket art by Daniel Lee. Jacket design by Susan Mitchell.

$275.00

Item Number: RRB-135024

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Achebe, Chinua

Home and Exile.

New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

First edition of this work by the award-winning novelist. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Stephen Chinua Achebe.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Kathleen M. Lynch.

$350.00

Item Number: RRB-131982

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Nabokov, Vladimir

Bend Sinister.

New York : Henry Holt and Company, 1947.

First edition of Nabokov’s first novel written in America. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. An exceptional example.

$475.00

Item Number: RRB-132322

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Lewis, C.S

George Macdonald: An Anthology.

London : Geoffrey Bles: The Centenary Press, 1946.

First edition of C.S. Lewis’ anthology of extracts from the sermons and writings of George Macdonald. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Mansell. An exceptional example.

$850.00

Item Number: RRB-132399

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Greene, Graham

The Heart of the Matter.

New York : The Viking Press, 1948.

Limited edition, one of 750 examples given to friends of the publisher of what many consider the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. In fine condition. Housed in a custom slipcase.

$550.00

Item Number: RRB-132711

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Fowles, John

The French Lieutenant’s Woman.

London : Jonathan Cape, 1969.

First edition of Fowles’ classic third novel. Octavo, original brown cloth, pictorial endpapers. Signed by John Fowles on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Endpaper drawing by Tom Adams.

$950.00

Item Number: RRB-132106

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Kerouac, Jack

Vanity of Duluoz.

New York : Coward-McCann, Inc, 1968.

First edition of this classic work by the author of On the Road. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. An exceptional example, uncommon in this condition.

$475.00

Item Number: RRB-132201

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Wharton, Edith

Twilight Sleep.

New York : D. Appleton and Company, 1927.

First edition of Wharton’s superb satirical novel of the Jazz Age, a critically praised bestseller upon publication. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated endpapers. Association copy, boldly inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, “A monsieur Louis Gillet mon tres amical souvenir Edition Wharton 1927.” The recipient, Louis Gillet was Wharton’sContinue reading "Twilight Sleep."

$5,500.00

Item Number: RRB-130064

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