Dahl, Roald
Kiss Kiss.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1960.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Charles E. Skaggs.
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Item Number: RRB-149904
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Dahl, Roald
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1964.
First edition, first issue with the six line colophon on the last page. First-issue dust jacket, without the ISBN number on the rear panel. Octavo, original red cloth. Illustrated by Joseph Schindelman. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Read more$3,200.00
Item Number: RRB-150946
Zafon, Carlos Ruiz; Translated by Lucia Graves
The Watcher in the Shadows.
London : Orion Children's Books, 2013.
Exclusive signed first edition of the third novel for younger readers from the author of ‘The Shadow of the Wind’. Octavo, original cloth. One of 100 numbered copies signed by the author on the title page with the publisher’s embossed limitation stamp, this is number 82. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. CoverContinue reading "The Watcher in the Shadows."
Read more$275.00
Item Number: RRB-145032
Ovid
Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Latin and English Translated by the Most Eminent Hands.
Amsterdam : Printed for the Wetsteins and Smith, 1732.
First English edition of Ovid’s Metamorphoses with Picart’s illustrations. Folio, two volumes in one, bound in full in early mottled calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in seven compartments within raised bands, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins, engraved title vignette. Illustrated with a copper-engraved frontispiece, 130Continue reading "Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Latin and English Translated by the Most Eminent Hands."
Read more$7,200.00
Item Number: RRB-149005
Conrad, Joseph
Last Essays.
New York : Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926.
First edition of this posthumous collection of twenty essays. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, frontispiece facsimile of “The Last Words That Conrad Wrote.” Near fine in the original dust jacket with the portrait of Conrad and large ad for Kipling’s works to the verso.
Read more$300.00
Item Number: RRB-147542
Fitzgerald, Edward [Translator]
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám; and the Salámán and Ábsál of Jámí; Rendered Into English Verse.
London : Bernard Quaritch, 1879.
Finely bound edition of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. Octavo, bound in full green crushed morocco with gilt titles and floral tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, elaborate gilt borders with red inlay flowers to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and innerContinue reading "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám; and the Salámán and Ábsál of Jámí; Rendered Into English Verse."
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Item Number: RRB-149925
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
The Confessions of J.J. Rousseau: With the Reveries of the Solitary Walker.
London : Printed for J. Bew, 1783.
Rare first edition in English of the author’s classic work. Duodecimo, 2 volumes, bound in three-quarters contemporary calfskin over marbled boards with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in five compartments within raised bands, morocco spine labels. In very good condition, signatures to the front pastedowns.
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Item Number: RRB-149924
Fitzgerald, Edward. With illustrations by Edmund Dulac
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
London : Hodder and Stoughton, c. 1910.
Exceptionally rare bound in jewelled binding, set with 37 jewels by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Quarto, reproduced from a manuscript illuminated by F. Sangorski G. & Sutcliffe, with miniatures after E. Geddes, original red straight-grained morocco, upper cover with central sunken oval green morocco panel and a Peacock with light green, blue, white, and brown moroccoContinue reading "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam."
Read more$125,000.00
Item Number: RRB-150950
McLean, Don
Don McLean: American Pie.
New York : United Artists, 1971.
Don McLean’s personal test pressing of American Pie before mass production, gifted in 1971 to his former sister-in-law. A 12-inch vinyl test pressing with paper labels on both sides and the album itself etched with the word “Peace” and codes “UAS-5535A” and “UAS – 5535B”. Signed by Don McLean on both paper labels, and datedContinue reading "Don McLean: American Pie."
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Item Number: RRB-149880
Joyce, James
Ulysses.
London : Published for the Egoist Press by John Rodker, 1922.
First English edition of Joyce’s masterpiece, limited to 2,000 copies. Thick quarto, bound in three quarters green morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles to the spine, printed from the original plates in Dijon. One of 2,000 numbered copies printed on handmade paper, this is number 1528. Of the 2,000 copies printed 500 were sentContinue reading "Ulysses."
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Item Number: RRB-149879
Clason, George Samuel
The Richest Man In Babylon.
Denver : The Clason Publishing Co, 1930.
First paperback edition of this classic pamphlet on financial wisdom. Octavo, original wrappers, with black and white illustrations. In fine condition. First editions are rare.
Read more$2,000.00
Item Number: RRB-148102
Twain, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens]
The £1,000,000 Bank-Note and Other New Stories.
New York : Charles L. Webster & Company, 1893.
First edition of Twain’s classic short story collection. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, tissue-guarded frontispiece by Dan Beard and 9 pages of publisher’s advertisements at rear. In very good condition.
Read more$450.00
Item Number: RRB-149918
Davies, Valentine; Tomie dePaola [Illustrator]
Miracle On 34th Street.
San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984.
First illustrated edition of this modern Christmas classic with paintings by beloved illustrator Tomie dePaola. Square octavo, original publisher’s red cloth with titles to the spine and front panel stamped in gilt, pictorial blue endpapers, frontispiece, title page vignette, with 18 full color illustrations. Presentation copy, inscribed by the illustrator on the half-title page, “ForContinue reading "Miracle On 34th Street."
Read more$475.00
Item Number: RRB-149044
Thomas, Dylan; Illustrated by Fritz Eichenberg
A Child’s Christmas In Wales.
New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1969.
Signed limited first edition of Thomas’ beloved Christmas reverie, one of 100 copies signed by illustrator Fritz Eichenberg, accompanied by an extra suite of five plates on large paper, each signed in pencil by the artist, illustrated by Fritz Eichenberg. Oblong folio, original publisher’s quarter leather and cloth and publisher’s black paper portfolio with printedContinue reading "A Child’s Christmas In Wales."
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Item Number: RRB-150993
Fleming, Ian
You Only Live Twice.
London : Jonathan Cape, 1964.
First edition of the final James Bond novel published during Fleming’s lifetime and the eleventh in the series. Octavo, original cloth, patterned endpapers. Boldly signed by Roald Dahl on the front free endpaper. Roald Dahl was a British writer whose darkly comic imagination reshaped twentieth-century children’s literature through classics such as Charlie and the ChocolateContinue reading "You Only Live Twice."
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Item Number: RRB-149807
Lee, Harper. {Gregory Peck]
To Kill A Mockingbird.
New York : HarperCollins, 1995.
First edition, early printing of the 35th Anniversary edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Harper Lee on the half-title page. Boldly signed by Gregory Peck, who played father and lawyer Atticus Finch, on the epigraph page beneath the quote, “Lawyers, I suppose, were children once. – CharlesContinue reading "To Kill A Mockingbird."
Read more$9,800.00
Item Number: RRB-149878
Dylan, Bob; Illustrated by Jon J. Muth
Blowin’ in the Wind.
New York : Union Square Books, 2011.
First edition of this wonderfully illustrated work, bringing images to Dylan’s classic song. Quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated throughout, includes a CD of Dylan’s original 1963 recording. Boldly signed by Bob Dylan on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Plus a special note by renowned music columnist Greil Marcus, putting the songContinue reading "Blowin’ in the Wind."
Read more$4,500.00
Item Number: RRB-150976
Dylan, Bob
Bob Dylan: Chronicles.
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2004.
First edition of Dylan’s revealing autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Bob Dylan on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Coco Shinomiya. PSA/DNA LOA and sticker to the title page. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box by the Harcourt Bindery.
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Item Number: RRB-143531
Atwood, Margaret
Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts.
New York : Doubleday, 2025.
First edition of “the most spectacular, hilarious, and generous autobiography of the last quarter century–or ever” (The Boston Globe). Octavo, original boards, illustrated endpapers, illustrated. Boldly signed by Margaret Atwood. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Suzanne Dean, Kelly Hill, and Emily Mahan.
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Item Number: RRB-150971
Vonnegut, Kurt
Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade, A Duty-Dance With Death.
New York : Delacorte Press, 1969.
First edition, second printing of Vonnegut’s masterpiece. Octavo, original blue cloth. Association copy, lengthily inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, “For David and Loni – Nice, nice, very nice, so many different people in the same device. Kurt Vonnegut. Barnstable, Mass. August 14, 1969.” David Hayman was theContinue reading "Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade, A Duty-Dance With Death."
Read more$4,800.00
Item Number: RRB-149825
Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Latin and English Translated by the Most Eminent Hands.
Fine Bindings and Sets
$7,200.00
RRB-149005
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám; and the Salámán and Ábsál of Jámí; Rendered Into English Verse.
Art and Architecture
$4,800.00
RRB-149925
The Confessions of J.J. Rousseau: With the Reveries of the Solitary Walker.
Fine Bindings and Sets
$3,200.00
RRB-149924
Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade, A Duty-Dance With Death.
First Edition
$4,800.00
RRB-149825