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Rice, Anne

Prince Lestat: The Vampire Chronicles.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.

First edition of this work by the master of Gothic fiction. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Anne Rice on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Abby Weintraub.

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$150.00
Item Number: RRB-151286
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Rice, Anne

The Tale of the Body Thief: The Vampire Chronicles.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.

First edition of this work in the Vampire Chronicles. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Anne Rice on the title page and additionally three signed by Chip Kidd on the title page, the jacket front panel and again on the rear jacket panel.

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$350.00
Item Number: RRB-151287
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Goldman, William

The Princess Bride. S. Morgenstern’s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure.

New York : Harcourt, Inc., 2007.

First edition of the 35th Anniversary edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by William Goldman on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Cover art by Larry Rostant. Rare and desirable signed.

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$3,500.00
Item Number: RRB-151231
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Crane, Stephen [Ernest Hemingway]

Maggie, Together with George’s Mother and The Blue Hotel.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1931.

First edition of this collection of classic psychological realism works. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Association copy, lengthily inscribed by Ernest Hemingway to his cousin on the front free endpaper, “Dear Ruth, In the jacket on this book Mr. Crane looks like Ernest Wahl but that is just the old T. B. Watley look and Mr.Continue reading "Maggie, Together with George’s Mother and The Blue Hotel."

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$12,500.00
Item Number: RRB-149856
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Ellis, Bret Easton

The Shards.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.

First edition of this New York Times bestselling thriller from the author of American Psycho. Octavo, original publisher’s half-cloth. Signed by the author on the second free endpaper, “Bret Easton Ellis.” Signed three times by legendary jacket designer Chip Kidd on the front panel (in the year of publication) and second free endpaper, “Chip KiddContinue reading "The Shards."

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$400.00
Item Number: RRB-151153
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Forester, C.S

Single Handed.

New York and London : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1929.

First American edition of this classic maritime adventure novel that showcases themes of duty, resilience, and individual impact during wartime. Octavo, original publisher’s full cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on front free endpaper, “Marjorie From C.S. Forester.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed.

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$2,500.00
Item Number: RRB-149365
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Kazantzakis, Nikos

Captain Michalis or Freedom and Death.

Athens 1953.

First Greek edition of Kazantzakis’ classic novel. Octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed by Nikos Kazantzakis on the front free endpaper. In very good condition, inscription. First editions are rare, signed examples exceptionally so.

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$3,000.00
Item Number: RRB-151284
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Wells, H.G

Floor Games.

London : Frank Palmer, 1911.

First edition of Wells’ playful and inventive guide to imaginative floor-based games, a precursor to modern tabletop wargaming. Octavo, original publisher’s pictorial cloth, frontispiece, illustrated throughout. In very good condition, inscription on the front free endpaper.

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$250.00
Item Number: RRB-151150
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Kipling, Rudyard with Wolcott Balestier

The Naulahka: A Story of West and East.

London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1913.

The Bombay Edition of Kipling’s ambitious narrative. Royal octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over cloth covered boards by Morrell with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. In near fine condition.

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$750.00
Item Number: RRB-151140
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[Lord Byron]

Don Juan. [Cantos I & II].

Philadelphia : Published by M. Thomas, 1819.

Scarce first American edition, first printing of Byron’s great work which was widely criticized as immoral upon publication and is now considered one of the greatest poems of the Romantics. Duodecimo, original publisher’s boards and printed paper spine label, half-title page. In good condition, stamp to the verso of the title page. Light dampstaining toContinue reading "Don Juan. [Cantos I & II]."

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$2,800.00
Item Number: RRB-151228
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Wells, H.G

Brynhild.

London : Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1937.

First edition of Wells’ early dramatic work, marking one of his earliest experiments in literary form prior to his major novels. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. From the collection of British science fiction author Christopher Priest with his ownership signature to the front free endpaper. Priest’s most famous works include The Inverted World (1974), the interconnectedContinue reading "Brynhild."

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$125.00
Item Number: RRB-151119
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Wells, H.G

You Can’t be Too Careful: A Sample of Life 1901-1951.

London : Secker & Warburg, 1941.

First edition of H.G. Wells’ late social novel, a wide-ranging examination of English life and social change in the first half of the twentieth century. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. From the collection of British science fiction author Christopher Priest with his ownership signature to the front free endpaper. Priest’s most famous works include The InvertedContinue reading "You Can’t be Too Careful: A Sample of Life 1901-1951."

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$300.00
Item Number: RRB-151118
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Wodehouse, P.G and Herbert Westbrook; Edited by David A. Jasen

Not George Washington: An Autobiographical Novel

New York : The Continuum, 1980.

First American edition of P.G. Wodehouse’s charming autobiographical novel, produced in collaboration with Herbert Westbrook and edited by David A. Jasen. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustraion by Nancy Stahl. Rare portrait of the author on the backflap of the jacket.

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$50.00
Item Number: RRB-145021
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Jones, James

The Thin Red Line.

New York : Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1962.

First edition of Jones’ sequel to his first novel, From Here to Eternity. Octavo, original black cloth, cartographic endpapers. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Leonard Slonevsky.

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$300.00
Item Number: RRB-149814
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White, T.H

T. H. White Verses.

Alderney : Privately Printed For The Author, 1962.

Signed limited edition of the final book published during White’s lifetime. Royal octavo, original publisher’s half vellum with gilt titles to the spine, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt with others untrimmed, frontispiece portrait. One of one hundred numbered copies signed and dedicated by the author with an original drawing, this is number 4. In nearContinue reading "T. H. White Verses."

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$1,000.00
Item Number: RRB-151235
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Kazantzakis, Nikos [Kazantzaki]

Alexis Zorba ou le Rivage de Crete [Zorba The Greek].

Paris : Editions Du Chene, 1947.

First French edition of Zorba the Greek, published one year after the first Greek edition and six years prior to the first English translation. Octavo, original wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by the author to the publisher on the front free endpaper. “Au cher ami et editeur August Bloemsa, N Kazantzakis Paques 1953.” Nikos Kazantzakis (1883–1957) wasContinue reading "Alexis Zorba ou le Rivage de Crete [Zorba The Greek]."

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$6,800.00
Item Number: RRB-151289
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Woolf, Virginia

On Being Ill.

London : Printed and published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1930.

Signed limited edition and first edition in book form of this meditation on the literary possibilities of illness. One of 250 numbered copies signed by Virginia Woolf in her characteristic purple ink on the limitation page, this is number 104. Octavo, original half vellum over green silk boards, marbled endpapers. Fine in the rare original dustContinue reading "On Being Ill."

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$11,000.00
Item Number: RRB-151223
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Kipling, Rudyard

Puck of Pook’s Hill.

London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1914.

The Bombay Edition of Kipling’s collection of historical fantasy tales. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over cloth covered boards by Morrell with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. In near fine condition.

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$450.00
Item Number: RRB-151124
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Woolf, Virginia

The Common Reader. [and] The Common Reader Second Series.

London : The Hogarth Press, 1925 & 1932.

First British editions of these classic collections of Woolf’s critical essays. Octavo, volume one in the original publisher’s pictorial half-cloth boards, volume two in the original publisher’s green cloth. Volume one in very good condition dust jacket. Volume two is very good in a very good dust jacket. Volume two jacket design is by VanessaContinue reading "The Common Reader. [and] The Common Reader Second Series."

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$4,000.00
Item Number: RRB-151114
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Kingsley, Charles

The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby.

London and Cambridge : Macmillan and Co., 1863.

First edition of this Victorian moral fantasy. Octavo, bound in three-quarter crushed levant over marbled boards with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, with two illustrations by J. Noel Paton. In near fine condition. BookplatesContinue reading "The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby."

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$975.00
Item Number: RRB-151121
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Kipling, Rudyard

The Day’s Work.

London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1914.

The Bombay edition of this collection of 13 Kipling short stories mainly written between 1893 and 1896 while Kipling was living in Vermont. Octavo, bound in three-quarters morocco over cloth covered boards by Morrell with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front andContinue reading "The Day’s Work."

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$600.00
Item Number: RRB-151116
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Kipling, Rudyard

Many Inventions.

London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1913.

The Bombay edition of this collection of Kipling poems and tales. Octavo, bound in three-quarters morocco over cloth covered boards by Morrell with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. In near fine condition.

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$475.00
Item Number: RRB-151115
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Radcliffe, Anne

A Sicilian Romance.

Philadelphia : Printed For Henry and Patrick Rice, 1795.

First American edition of Radcliffe’s classic 18th century gothic novel. Octavo, bound in full contemporary calf, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gilt ruling to the spine. In good condition. Chip to the spine label, G1 & 2 tear at head within text, with minor loss, Q1 torn and stained at foot, with loss ofContinue reading "A Sicilian Romance."

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$2,500.00
Item Number: RRB-151221
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