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Potok, Chaim

Wanderings: Chaim Potok’s History of the Jews.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1978.

First edition of this wonderfully illustrated work by the author of The Chosen. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, “To Fred and Lothe Marcus Best Wishes Chaim Potok 10 Dec. 78.” Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.

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$375.00
Item Number: RRB-147749

Lowry, Lois

Number The Stars.

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.

First 25th Anniversary edition of Lowry’s first Newbery Award-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by the author on the title page, “With best wishes Lois Lowry.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Sheila Smallwood. With an introduction by the author.

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$400.00
Item Number: RRB-142577

Fonda, Peter, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson and Terry Southern

Easy Rider.

New York : Signet, 1969.

First edition of the complete script, with a selection of black white and color stills, interviews and articles. Octavo, original wrappers as issued, illustrated. Boldly signed by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Jack Nicholson on the title page. Edited by Nancy Hardin and Marilyn Schlossberg. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half moroccoContinue reading "Easy Rider."

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$12,800.00
Item Number: RRB-147817

Brombert, Victor

Trains Of Thought: Memories Of A Stateless Youth.

New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2002.

First edition of this “beautifully cadenced work of art―it will remind some readers of Nabokov’s classic Speak, Memory” (Joyce Carol Oates). Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, ” For Renee and Ted whose tenderness, poetic spirit, and wit are so precious to all their friends – AffectionatelyContinue reading "Trains Of Thought: Memories Of A Stateless Youth."

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$375.00
Item Number: RRB-147923

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

The Great Gatsby.

New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925.

First edition, first printing of Fitzgerald’s masterpiece, inscribed by Fitzgerald to Zelda’s sister and her husband Newman Smith in the year of publication and in the exceptionally rare first issue dust jacket. Octavo, original dark green cloth with gilt titles to the spine. First printing with “chatter” on p. 60, line 16; “northern” on p.Continue reading "The Great Gatsby."

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$975,000.00
Item Number: RRB-147842

Adams, Richard

Watership Down.

London : Paradine, 1976.

Signed limited edition, one of only 250 numbered examples and with an original watercolor, this copy being number presentation copy from the author. Octavo, bound in full morocco bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, front panel with gilt stamping of two rabbits, raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers.Continue reading "Watership Down."

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$5,500.00
Item Number: RRB-147959

Massingham, Dorothy. In Conjuction with Murray MacDonald [Katharine Hepburn]

The Lake: A Play in Three Acts.

Garden City, NY : Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1933.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles to the spine, marbled endpapers, raised bands, speckled edges. Presentation copy, inscribed by Katherine Hepburn who starred in the first Broadway production, “To Richard Aldrich Katharine Hepburn.” With Richard Aldrich’s Casa de Aldrich armorial bookplate on free front endpaper. In near fineContinue reading "The Lake: A Play in Three Acts."

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$850.00
Item Number: RRB-147963

Silverstein, Shel

The Giving Tree.

New York : Harper & Row, Publishers, 1964.

Early printing of this classic work. Octavo, original illustrated boards, illustrated. Boldly signed by Shel Silverstein on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Inscription to the half-title page. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Rare and desirable signed.

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$7,800.00
Item Number: RRB-147387

Leaf, Munro. Illustrated By Robert Lawson

The Story of Ferdinand.

New York : The Viking Press, 1938.

First edition, early printing of Munro Leaf’s beloved children’s classic. 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, gilt stamped to the front panel, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery,Continue reading "The Story of Ferdinand."

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$1,800.00
Item Number: RRB-147974

Irving, John

A Prayer For Owen Meany.

New York : William Morrow and Company, 1989.

First edition of the author’s seventh novel and what many consider his finest. Octavo, original half gray cloth. Warmly signed by the author on the title page, “Merry Christmas John Irving.” Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Honi Werner.

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$1,800.00
Item Number: RRB-145910

Leaf, Munro. Illustrated By Robert Lawson

The Story of Ferdinand.

New York : The Viking Press, 1936.

First edition of Munro Leaf’s beloved children’s classic. 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, gilt stamped to the front panel, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers,Continue reading "The Story of Ferdinand."

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$8,800.00
Item Number: RRB-147987

Garcia Marquez, Gabriel

Love in the Time of Cholera.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1988.

First American edition of the author’s work, which ranks as one of the great novels of the last half of the twentieth century. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “Para Erich, del amigo, Gabriel Garcia Marquez 98.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by CarolContinue reading "Love in the Time of Cholera."

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$4,500.00
Item Number: RRB-147602

Dahl, Roald

Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1964.

First edition, second issue with the five line colophon on the last page of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to the family of film director Fred Zinnemann on the front free endpaper, “THIS BOOK IS FOR THE GRANDCHILDREN OF RENEE AND FRED WITH LOVE FROM Roald DahlContinue reading "Charlie And The Chocolate Factory."

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$9,800.00
Item Number: RRB-147400

Tolstoy, Leo. [Count Lyof N Tolstoi]. Translated by Nathan Haskell Dole

Anna Karenina.

New York : Thomas J. Crowell & Co, 1886.

First edition in English of Tolstoy’s masterpiece with all the points of first issue: sheets bulk to 35 mm, floral patterned endpapers, “13 Astor Place” on title page, no front adverts, and 5 pp. of rear adverts not listing Russian titles. Octavo, original cloth, with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel,Continue reading "Anna Karenina."

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$5,200.00
Item Number: RRB-147388

Hogrogian, Nonny

One Fine Day.

New York : The Macmillan Company, 1971.

First edition of this classic work, which won the Caldecott Medal in 1972. Oblong quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by the author with a drawing of a fox on the half-title page, “With pleasure from Nonny Hogrogian.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some chips and wear. Also laid in is a 12Continue reading "One Fine Day."

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$1,250.00
Item Number: RRB-143374
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