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Puccini.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1980.

First edition of Greenfeld’s authoritative biography of the great composer. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To James Cann...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-115708

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Lash, Joseph P

A World of Love: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends 1943-1962.

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1984.

Signed limited first edition of this moving biography-in-letters, privately printed exclusively for members of The Signed First Edition Society. Octavo, bound in full top-grain leather with gilt title...

$65.00 Item Number: RRB-146857

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Keynes, John Maynard [J.M]

Two Memoirs. Dr Melchior: A Defeated Enemy and My Early Beliefs.

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1949.

First edition of Keynes’ intellectual, literary and reflective history. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, frontispiece photograph of Keynes, Bertrand Russell and Lytton Strachey at Garsi...

$60.00 Item Number: RRB-150748

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Kipilng, Rudyard

Toomai of the Elephants.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1937.

First separate edition Kipling’s story of Toomai, a young elephant-handler, the basis for the 1937 film “Elephant Boy” starring Sabu Dastagir, India’s first child actor. Octavo...

$55.00 Item Number: RRB-121393

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Maharaj, Mac] O'Malley, Padraig; Foreword by Nelson Mandela

Shades of Difference: Mac Maharaj and the Struggle For South Africa.

New York: Viking, 2007.

First edition of this work on apartheid activist Mac Maharaj. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Padraig O’Malley. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

$55.00 Item Number: RRB-3557

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Self-Consciousness: Memoirs

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989.

First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author to noted book collector Stratford Carter on the half title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

$55.00 Item Number: RRB-19053

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Cooper, Artemis [Patrick Leigh Fermor]

Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure.

London: John Murray, 2012.

First edition, early printing of this biography on bestselling travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated with photographs and maps. Fine in a fine dust...

$55.00 Item Number: RRB-151446

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Monkshood, G. F. and George Gamble

Rudyard Kipling: The Man and His Work. An Attempt at Appreciation.

London: Greening & Co., Ltd., 1902.

Third and enlarged edition of Monkshood’s homage to the legendary man of letters. Octavo, original cloth, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait. In very good condition.

$50.00 Item Number: RRB-135217

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Rivera, Mark with Mike Poncy. Foreword by Ringo Starr

Sideman: In Pursuit of the Next Gig.

Dallas, Texas: Matt Holt Books, 2023.

First edition of renowned musician, musical director, and rock star Mark Rivera’s revealing memoir. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by Mark Rivera on the half-...

$50.00 Item Number: RRB-152103

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Rickenbacker, Captain Edward V

Seven Came Through: Rickenbacker’s Full Story Including His Message to America.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc, 1943.

First edition, early printing of Rickenbacker’s autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.

$50.00 Item Number: RRB-145973

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Kunhardt Jr, Philip B; Philip B. Kunhardt III; Peter W. Kunhardt; Foreword by David Herbert Donald; Contributing Writer Daniel Terris

Lincoln: An Illustrated Biography.

New York: Gramercy Books, 1992.

First edition, early printing of this photographic biography of the sixteenth president of the United States of America. Quarto, original brown boards, illustrated throughout with over seven hundred p...

$50.00 Item Number: RRB-146572

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Hopkins, R. Thurston. [Rudyard Kipling]

Rudyard Kipling: The Story of a Genius.

London: Cecil Palmer, 1930.

First edition of Hopkins’ biography of Rudyard Kipling. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Very good in a very good dust jacket.

$50.00 Item Number: RRB-122049

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Dobree, Bonamy. [Rudyard Kipling]

Rudyard Kipling.

London: Published for The British Council and the National Book League by Longmans, Green & Co., 1951.

First edition of Dobree’s work on Kipling, the man and the writer. Octavo, original wrappers, frontispiece portrait of Kipling. In near fine condition.

$50.00 Item Number: RRB-126348

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Allcard, Edward C

Temptress Returns.

London: Putnam & Co., Ltd, 1952.

First edition of English yachtsman Edward C. Allcard’s detailed account of his second solo trip across the Atlantic aboard the yawl Temptress. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, frontispi...

$50.00 Item Number: RRB-115755

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Campbell, R.H. and A.S. Skinner

Adam Smith.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982.

First edition of Campbell and Skinner’s accessible study of the father of modern economics, Adam Smith. Octavo, original boards. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.

$45.00 Item Number: RRB-126943

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Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I; Translated by Harry Willetts

The Oak and the Calf: Sketches of Literary Life in the Soviet Union.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1980.

First edition of the memoir of one of the great novelists of our time. Octavo, original orange cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Irving Bogen. Author photograph by Eric Bac...

$40.00 Item Number: RRB-145197

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Mandela, Nelson

Prisoner In The Garden.

London: Viking, 2005.

First edition of this work dedicated to Mandela’s archive. Octavo, original boards, illustrated throughout. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

$40.00 Item Number: RRB-138566

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Sikorsky, Igor

The Story of the Winged-S: Late Developments and Recent Photographs of the Helicopter.

New York: Dodd, Meade & Company, 1958.

First enlarged edition, early printing of the autobiography of the Russian-American aviation pioneer and designer of the first viable American helicopter. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece, illustr...

$40.00 Item Number: RRB-151819

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Garcia Marquez, Gabriel; Edith Grossman

Living To Tell the Tale.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.

First edition in English of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s memoir. Octavo, original boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson. Translated by Edith Grossman.

$40.00 Item Number: RRB-146431

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Knopf, Alfred A

The Borzoi 1925: Being a Sort of Record of Ten Years of Publishing.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1925.

First trade edition of this commemorative volume that showcases the publishing house’s first decade. Octavo, publisher’s original half-cloth over marbled boards, top stain black, Borzoi Bo...

$40.00 Item Number: RRB-149170

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Irving, Laurence

Henry Irving: The Actor and His World.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1952.

First edition of the author’s major biography of his grandfather, Henry Irving. Octavo, original boards, frontispiece portrait of Henry Irving in color by Jules Bastien-Lepage. Near fine in a ve...

$40.00 Item Number: RRB-115678

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Kipling, Rudyard

The Art of Rudyard Kipling.

London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1959.

First edition of Tompkins’ work on Kipling. Octavo, original cloth. Good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Stamps and tape remnants to the front and rear pastedowns.

$40.00 Item Number: RRB-135772

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Rivera, Mark with Mike Poncy. Foreword by Ringo Starr

Sideman: In Pursuit of the Next Gig.

Dallas, Texas: Matt Holt Books, 2023.

First edition of renowned musician, musical director, and rock star Mark Rivera’s revealing memoir. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Signed by Mark Rivera on the half-title page with a mode...

$40.00 Item Number: RRB-151801

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Baker, Carlos [Ernest Hemingway]

Hemingway: The Writer as Artist.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1952.

First edition of this work on Ernest Hemingway. Octavo, original cloth, top stain red. In fine condition.

$40.00 Item Number: RRB-149326

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