Lewis, C.S
Transposition and Other Addresses.
London : Geoffrey Bles, 1949.
First edition of this compilation of addresses by Lewis. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition with light rubbing.
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Item Number: RRB-151859
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Keneally, Thomas
Gossip from the Forest.
London : Collins, 1975.
First edition of this historical novel depicting the armistice negotiations that ended World War I. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Boldly signed by Thomas Keneally on the title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket, inscription to the front free endpaper.
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Item Number: RRB-150661
Baum, L. Frank
Tik-Tok of Oz.
Chicago : The Reilly & Britton Co., c. 1920.
First edition, later printing of the eighth Oz book in L. Frank Baum’s celebrated Oz series. Later printing with the verso of the half-title page listing Baum titles through Glinda of Oz. Octavo, original publisher’s full medium blue cloth with pictorial label affixed to the front board, all edges stained yellow, spine stamped in blackContinue reading "Tik-Tok of Oz."
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Item Number: RRB-151858
Trump, Donald J. with Tony Schwartz
Trump: The Art of the Deal.
New York : Random House, 1987.
First edition of Trump’s first book. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in a contemporary hand on the front free endpaper, “Jan ’88 To Glenn Best Wishes Donald Trump.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Aulicino. Jacket photograph by Michele Singer. Accompanied by a letter ofContinue reading "Trump: The Art of the Deal."
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Item Number: RRB-151961
Conrad, Joseph
Laughing Anne.
London : The Morland Press, 1923.
The Vine Books limited edition of this dramatic play about a former Parisian club singer struggling in the South Seas. Octavo, bound in full parchment with gilt titles to the spine, top edge gilt, title page vignette. One of 200 numbered copies, this is number 180. Boldly signed by Joseph Conrad on the limitations page. InContinue reading "Laughing Anne."
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Item Number: RRB-151856
Holt, Oliver [Michael Schumacher]
Winning Colors of Benetton: Michael Schumacher 1994 F1 Drivers’ Champion.
Italy : Printed by SADEC Italy, [1994].
First edition of this commemorative work on the Benetton Formula team and Formula One World Drivers’ Champion Michael Schumacher. Square octavo, original publisher’s pictorial boards, unpaginated, profusely illustrated with color photographs. Boldly signed by Michael Schumacher on the front free endpaper. Very good in a very good dust jacket with rubbing and waviness to theContinue reading "Winning Colors of Benetton: Michael Schumacher 1994 F1 Drivers’ Champion."
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Item Number: RRB-151852
Toklas, Alice B
The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book.
London : Michael Joseph, 1954.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth, top stain green, pictorial endpapers, illustrated by Sir Francis Rose. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with chips and wear. This work features surrealist artist Brion Gysin’s infamous recipe for hashish fudge, which was expurgated from the first American edition.
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Item Number: RRB-151854
Bacon, Francis [Peter Beard]
Recent Paintings 1968-1974.
New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975.
First edition of this collection featured at the Metropolitan Museum in 1975, focuses on themes of loss, grief, and the intense psychological exploration of the human form following the death of his lover, George Dyer. Oblong octavo, original black wrappers with the front wrapper die-cut to reveal color self-portrait, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed twiceContinue reading "Recent Paintings 1968-1974."
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Item Number: RRB-151839
Barsky, Robert F
Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent.
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 1997.
First edition of this intellectual biography about Noam Chomsky. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Noam Chomsky on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Cover photograph by Elaine Briere. Uncommon signed by the legendary figure.
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Item Number: RRB-151853
Wiesel, Elie; Preface by Francois Mauriac
La Nuit.
Paris : Les Editions De Minuit, 1958.
First French edition (preceding the first English edition) of the Wiesel’s classic first work. Octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed by Elie Wiesel on the front free endpaper. In very good condition with some light rubbing to the extremities. Preface by Francois Mauriac. From the library of Abba Eban. Housed in a custom half morocco chemiseContinue reading "La Nuit."
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Item Number: RRB-151870
Sikorsky, Igor
The Story of the Winged-S: New Chapters and Illustrations on Recent Developements of the Helicopter.
New York : Dodd, Meade & Company, 1952.
First edition, later printing of the autobiography of the Russian-American aviation pioneer and designer of the first viable American helicopter. Octavo, original pictorial cloth, frontispiece, illustrated with black and white photographs many from the author’s collection. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Dave Postle, With kindest personal regards ofContinue reading "The Story of the Winged-S: New Chapters and Illustrations on Recent Developements of the Helicopter."
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Item Number: RRB-148222
[Lee, Richard Henry]
Observations Leading to a Fair Examination of the System of Government, Proposed by the Late Convention; and to Several Essential and Necessary Alterations in it. In a Number of Letters from the Federal Farmer to the Republican.
New York 1787.
Rare first edition of the definitive and most important work in the Anti-Federalist canon; the antithesis of the The Federalist Papers. Octavo, bound in half calf over boards with six raised bands, edges speckled red. In very good condition. An exceptional example.
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Item Number: RRB-106800
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
What Diantha Did.
New York : Charlton Company, 1910.
First edition of Gilman’s first novel about Diantha Bell, a resourceful young woman who breaks societal norms by turning domestic labor into a professional, profitable business. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. In very good condition with spotting. From Gilman’s family estate. Rare, especially with noted provenance.
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Item Number: RRB-151849
Sassoon, Siegfried
To My Mother.
London : Faber & Gwyer Limited, 1928.
The Ariel Poems edition of the poem “To My Mother” by English war poet Siegfried Sassoon. Duodecimo, original pictorial wrappers, illustrated, number 14. The Ariel Poems were a series of small pamphlets published by Faber & Gwynne and then by Faber & Faber, each containing a single poem with an illustrated cover and a colourContinue reading "To My Mother."
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Item Number: RRB-151492
Baum, L. Frank
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz.
Chicago : The Reilly & Britton Co. Publishers, 1908.
Rare first edition, second printing of the fourth book in Baum’s Oz series, in the exceptionally rare dust jacket. Quarto, original publisher’s light blue cloth (Bienvenue and Schmidt’s binding C), pictorial label with metallic gold background to front board, illustrated endpapers printed in yellow and black, publisher’s advertisement on half-title verso lists six titles, beginning with The Emerald City ofContinue reading "Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz."
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Item Number: RRB-151926
Dickens, Charles
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.
London : Chapman and Hall, 1839.
First edition in book form of one of Dickens’ most popular novels. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, with the steel-engraved frontispiece portrait of Dickens in the firstContinue reading "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby."
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Item Number: RRB-132012
Baum, L. Frank. Illustrated by W.W. Denslow
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Chicago & New York : Geo. M. Hill Co., 1900.
First edition, first state of text (in Bienvenue & Schmidt’s binding B) of “the first truly enduring American fantasy” (Connolly, 38). Octavo, original publisher’s pictorial light green cloth stamped in red and green, publisher’s imprint to the spine “Geo. M. Hill Co.” stamped in sans-serif type, illustrated by W.W. Denslow with 24 color plates, illustrationsContinue reading "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz."
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Item Number: RRB-151921
Borman, Frank
Frank Borman Signed “Apollo 8 Mission – Artist Conception” Photograph.
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Rare photograph of an artist’s conception of the Apollo 8 mission signed by Frank Borman. Black and white satin-finish photograph depicting an artist’s concept of the Apollo 8 spacecraft still attached to the third stage of the Saturn V launch vehicle. Boldly signed by Borman in black felt tip to the bottom center. In fineContinue reading "Frank Borman Signed “Apollo 8 Mission – Artist Conception” Photograph."
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Item Number: RRB-151762
Stevens, Wallace
Harmonium.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1923.
Rare first edition of this landmark Modernist poetry collection. Octavo, original publisher’s blue cloth-backed paper-covered patterned boards, paper titles to the spine, top stain red. In very good condition.
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Item Number: RRB-151850
Davis, Angela Y
Women, Race & Class.
New York : Random House, 1981.
First edition of this classic piece of history by Civil Rights activist, Angela Davis. Octavo, original textured half cloth. Boldly signed by Angela Davis on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Silverman. Author photograph by Phillipe Halsman. Uncommon signed.
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Item Number: RRB-151848
Wallace, Alfred Russel
Island Life: or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras Including a Revision and Attempted Solution of the Problem of Geological Climates.
London : Macmillan and Co, 1880.
First edition of Wallace’s classic work on the geographic distribution of animals. Octavo, original publisher’s pebbled green cloth with gilt titles to the spine, vignette of the world stamped in gilt to the front panel, hand-colored frontispiece map showing the distribution of jays with tissue guard, illustrated with various maps and charts. In very goodContinue reading "Island Life: or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras Including a Revision and Attempted Solution of the Problem of Geological Climates."
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Item Number: RRB-151846
Paine, Thomas
Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Burke’s Attack on the French Revolution.
London : Printed for the Booksellers, 1792.
Scarce early collected edition of Paine’s classic work. Duodecimo, two parts bound in one volume, contemporary three-quarter calf over marbled boards. In very good condition with rubbing to the extremities, spine, front and rear panels. First printed in London by Joseph Johnson in March, 1791, publication was quickly taken over by J.S. Jordan, who publishedContinue reading "Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Burke’s Attack on the French Revolution."
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Item Number: RRB-146441
Szyk, Arthur
Haggadah.
Massadah & Alumoth : Jerusalem & Tel Aviv, 1962.
First Hebrew and English translation of this wonderfully illustrated in work by Arthur Szyk. Quarto, publisher’s embossed metal binding with hinged joints, illustrated throughout, English translation printed in black and brick red. The Hebrew text is surrounded by beautiful color illuminations. Edited by Cecil Roth. In near fine condition.
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Item Number: RRB-151930
Heller, Joseph [Richard Benjamin; Paula Prentiss]
Catch-22.
New York : Simon and Schuster, 1961.
First edition of Heller’s classic first book. Octavo, original blue cloth. Boldly signed by Joseph Heller and the actors of the film Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss. The 1970 film adaptation of Catch-22, directed by Mike Nichols from a screenplay by Buck Henry, stands as one of the most ambitiously cast Hollywood productions, assembling anContinue reading "Catch-22."
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Item Number: RRB-151821
Winning Colors of Benetton: Michael Schumacher 1994 F1 Drivers’ Champion.
First Edition
$1,850.00
RRB-151852
The Story of the Winged-S: New Chapters and Illustrations on Recent Developements of the Helicopter.
Biography and Autobiography
$750.00
RRB-148222
Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Burke’s Attack on the French Revolution.
Americana
$2,750.00
RRB-146441
