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London To Ladysmith Via Pretoria.

London: Longmans, Green, 1900.

First edition of Churchill’s fourth book and personal record of his impressions during the first five months of the Second Boer War. Octavo, in original cloth, with three folding maps (one printed in...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-140931

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Stevens, Wallace

The Auroras of Autumn.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950.

First edition of this classic National Book Award winning collection. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell and chemise box. An except...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-142950

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King Jr., Martin Luther

Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1958.

First edition of Dr. Martin Luther King’s first book. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and ruling to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels,...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-140289

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a Kempis, Thomas

The Imitation of Christ.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1908.

Finely bound example of a Kempis’ classic work. Octavo, bound in morocco by Bayntun, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, gilt doublures, illustrated including color plates by Flint. Translat...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-120987

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Aikman, Lionelle. Foreword by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson. Introduction by Bruce Catton

The Living White House.

Washington, D.C: White House Historical Association with the cooperation of the National Geographic Society Special Publications Division, 1966.

First edition of this beautiful pictorial history of the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States. Octavo, bound in full pebbled dark green morocco, gilt titles to the sp...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-139238

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Condon, Richard

The Manchurian Candidate.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, 1959.

First edition of this brilliant, controversial novel, basis for the 1962 film adaptation, which has been called “the most chilling piece of cold war paranoia ever committed to film” (New York Times)....

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-143983

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O'Neill, Eugene

The Iceman Cometh.

New York: Random House, 1946.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning playwright’s masterpiece. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised g...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-143667

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Steinbeck, John

Of Mice and Men: A Play in Three Acts.

New York: Covici Friede Publishers, 1937.

First edition of Steinbeck’s dramatization of his poignant novel. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good first issue dust jacket with the publisher’s price of $2.00. Housed in a...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-143012

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Mays, Willie

Willie Mays: My Life In And Out of Baseball.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1966.

First edition of this early autobiography by Mays. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-147503

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Maugham, W. Somerset; John Sloan [Illustrator]

Of Human Bondage.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1938.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of Maugham’s masterpiece and one of the most important novels of the 20th century. Octavo, two volumes, bound in full modern morocco with gilt titles a...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-148515

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Buchan, John

A History of the Great War.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1922.

Signed limited edition of Buchan’s classic work, one of 500 numbered examples. Octavo, 8 volumes. Signed by John Buchan. In near fine condition. Uncommon in this condition.

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-125029

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Flaubert, Gustave

Madame Bovary: A Story of Provincial Life.

London: John Lane/The Bodley Head LTD, 1928.

The Bodley Head edition of a seminal novel in literary realism, renowned for its psychological depth and critique of bourgeois society. Octavo, bound in full pictorial morocco by Sangorski & Sutcl...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-148368

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Einstein, Albert

About Zionism: Speeches and Letters.

New York: The MacMillan Company, 1931.

First edition of this volume of Einstein’s speeches and letters concerning his views on Zionism. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine i...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-150006

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Pasternak, Boris

Doctor Zhivago.

London: Collins & Harvill, 1958.

First edition in English of the work which garnered Pasternak the Nobel Prize in literature. Octavo, bound in full crushed levant morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the sp...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-144782

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King, Jr., Martin Luther

Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1958.

First edition, early printing of Dr. Martin Luther King’s first book. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-142687

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The Whole Art of Fishing. Being a Collection and Improvement of All That Has Been Written Upon the Subject: With Many New Experiments. Shewing the Different Ways of Angling, and the Best Methods of Taking Fresh-water Fish. To Which is Added, the Laws of Angling.

London: E. Curll, 1714.

First edition of this comprehensive 18th-century manual on the art of angling. Duodecimo, bound in full contemporary sprinkled tan sheepskin with the front and rear panels ruled in gilt, gilt crest of...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-151073

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Beveridge, Albert J. [Abraham Lincoln]

Abraham Lincoln 1809-1858.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928.

First edition of this complex and revealing biography of one of the most popular Presidents of the United States. Octavo, two volumes bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-151527

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Waugh, Evelyn

Black Mischief.

London: 1932, Chapman & Hall.

First edition of “one of the century’s great masters of the twentieth century” third novel. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, frontispiece, gilt titles and tooli...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-147543

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Edited by William Oldys

Biographia Britannica: Or, the Lives of the Most Eminent Persons Who Have Flourished In Great Britain and Ireland, From the Earliest Ages, Down to the Present Times: Collected from the Best Authorities, both Printed an Manuscript, and Digested in a Manner of Mr. Bayle’s Historical and Critical Dictionary.

London: Printed for W. Innys, W. Meadows, J. Walthoe, T. Cox, A. Ward, J. and P. Knapton, T. Osborne, et al, 1747.

First edition of the Biographia Britannica. Folio, 7 volumes bound in contemporary full calf with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised ban...

$1,350.00 Item Number: RRB-114752

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Storke, Elliot G

A Complete History of the Great American Rebellion Embracing Its Causes, Events, and Consequences, with Biographical Sketches and Portraits of its Principal Actors, and Thrilling Incidents of Land and Naval Heroes.

Auburn, N.Y: The Auburn Publishing Company, 1863-1865.

First edition of Storke’s history of the American Civil War. Octavo, two volumes, original publisher’s deluxe full morocco, illustrated with maps, plans of battles, and portraits. In good...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-133070

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Vanderbilt, William K

Across The Atlantic With Ara, Summer of 1924.

New York: Brentano's, Publishers, 1925.

First edition of Vanderbilt’s account of his 1924 three-month summer cruise aboard the diesel yacht Ara. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated with plates and maps. Presentation...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-143551

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Caesar, Gaius Julius; Aulus Hirtius

Gai Iuli Caesaris Commentarii Rerum in Gallia Gestarum VII Accedita a Uli Hirti Commentarivs. [Seven Commentaries on the Gallic War by Gaius Julius Caesar, with an Additional Commentary by Aulus Hirtius].

London: Philip Lee Warner Publisher to The Medici Society, 1914.

The Medici Society limited edition of this seminal firsthand account of Rome’s conquest of Gaul. Octavo, bound in full vellum with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, green silk ribbon ties, ful...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-148857

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Steinbeck, John

The Moon Is Down.

New York: The Viking Press, 1942.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s classic work. The first edition has a large period between “talk” and “this” on page 112, line 11. Octavo, bound in full moroc...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-151684

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Strabonis

Strabonis Geographia cum notis Casauboni et aliorum.

: Amstelaedami; Joannem Wolters, 1707.

Folio, bound in half morocco over cloth, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands. In very good condition.

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-3604

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