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The Scapegoat.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1957.

First edition of du Maurier’s classic work, adapted into the 1959 film of the same name starring Sir Alec Guinness. Octavo, bound in full morocco to mimic a gentleman’s coat with five buttons. I...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-132445

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Churchill, Winston S

The World Crisis 1916-1918.

London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1927.

First edition, second printing of the first two volumes of Churchill’s The World Crisis. Octavo, two volumes, bound in full modern morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compar...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-148597

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Darwin, Bernard

First edition of this golf classic. Octavo, bound in full crushed levant morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ru...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-145701

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[Charlie Kirk]

The U.S. Constitution.

San Diego: Applewood Books, 2017.

Finely bound example of the Constitution of the United States. Small octavo, bound in full leatherette, illustrated endpapers, all edges gilt. Boldly signed by Charlie Kirk on the front free endpaper....

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-151391

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Trollope, Anothony

Selected Works of Anthony Trollope. [Miss Mackenzie, Rachel Ray, Castle Richmond, The Eustace Diamonds, The Kellys and the O’Kellys, The Macdermots of Ballcloran, Tales of All Countries, and Ralph The Heir.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1872-1875.

Finely bound collection of the selected works of Trollope. Octavo, eight volumes bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, red morocco spine labels...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-110324

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Wharton, Grace and Philip

The Queens of Society and Wits and Beaux of Society.

Porter and Coates: Philadelphia, .

Large paper edition, one of 250 numbered copies of The Queens of Society and Beaux of Society. Octavo, 4 volumes, bound in full calf, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, top edge gilt, inner dente...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-102331

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Amishah Umshei Torah, Im Haft Arot Le-Khol Ha-Shanah. [Hebrew Chumash/The Pentateuch].

Tel Aviv: Hotsa at Sinai, c. 1950.

Rare Hebrew Chumash containing the Five Books of Moses, blessings before and after the Haftarah, and accents according to the Ashkenazic, Sephardic, and Italian rites. 32mo, five volumes, original clo...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-138452

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Kneeland, Samuel

The Wonders of the Yosemite Valley, and of California.

Boston: Alexander Moore, 1871.

First edition of Kneeland’s historic guide to Yosemite; “one of the better early guide books to the Yosemite Valley” (Cowan, 333). Quarto, bound in full dark blue morocco with gilt t...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-101328

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Mawson, Sir Douglas

The Home Of The Blizzard: Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911–1914.

Philadelphia and London: J.B. Lippincott and William Heinemann, 1915.

First edition of this classic account of Antarctic exploration. Thick octavo, 2 volumes, original dark blue cloth, profusely illustrated with 18 color plates, hundreds of black-and-white plates, numer...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-111828

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Lord Byron. [George Gordon Byron]

Hebrew Melodies.

London: John Murray, 1815.

First edition of Byron’s book of poetry written at the request of the Hon. D. Kinnaird. Octavo, bound in half cloth over paper-covered boards. In near fine condition.

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-120805

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Eliot, George

The Mill On The Floss.

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1860.

First edition, first issue of Eliot’s classic work without the advertisement leaf to volume I and with the seventh edition of Adam Bede cited in the advertisements at rear of volume III. Octavo,...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-140537

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Kipling, Rudyard

The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1914.

The Bombay editions of both volumes of The Jungle Book. Octavo, two volumes, bound in three-quarters morocco by Morell with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, top e...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-148359

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Ethiopian Coptic Ge’ez Bible.

Ethiopia:, C. 18th Century.

Rare Ethiopian Coptic Ge’ez Bible. Octodecimo, bound with twine between two wood blocks, parchment manuscript in black and red ink. The book measures 4 inches in height by inches 6 in width. Annotatio...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-151190

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Churchill, Charles

The British Poets: Charles Churchill.

London: British Literary Society, n.d.

The extra-illustrated Crown edition of the poems of Charles Churchill, limited to ten numbered and registered sets. Duodecimo, two volumes, publisher’s exquisite deluxe full morocco binding with gilt...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-151512

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Annals of The Club. 1764-1914.

London: Printed for The Club [by Horace Hart at the Oxford University Press, 1914.

First edition of this work on the Club in London. which was founded by Samuel Johnson and Sir Joshua Reynolds, and whose rolls would later include Oliver Goldsmith, Adam Smith, Edward Gibbon and James...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-125191

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Byron, Lord

The Works of the Right Hon. Lord Byron. [Fore-edge Painting].

London: Printed for John Murray, 1815.

Finely bound collection of the works of Lord Byron. Octavo, bound in full straight grain morocco with gilt title and tooling to the spine, elaborate gilt tooling to the front and rear panels, gilt tur...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-134016

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Tennyson, Alfred

Idylls of the King. [Fore-edge Painting].

London: Edward Moxon & Co, 1859.

First edition, second issue of one of the greatest and most enduring of Victorian literary works, with the imprint of Bradbury and Evans to the verso of title. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-139723

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Lawrence, T.E

Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1949.

Finely bound edition of Lawrence’s classic account of his role in the Arab rebellion against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Bayntun Riviere, frontispie...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-147244

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Prevost, Abbe

Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut. [The Story of the Chevalier des Grieux and of Manon Lescaut].

Stamford, Connecticut: The Overbrook Press, 1958.

The Overbrook Press limited edition of this classic French romance novel. Quarto, bound in full brown calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, morocco spine label, top stain red, marbled endpap...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-151916

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Hopkins, Samuel [Jonathan Edwards]

The Life and Character of the Late Reverend, Learned, and Pious Mr. Jonathan Edwards, President of the College of New-Jersey. Together with Extracts From His Private Writings & Diary, and Also Seventeen Select Sermons on Various Important Subjects.

Northampton: Andrew Wright for S. & E. Butler, 1804.

Finely bound edition of this biographical account of Jonathan Edwards’ life, ministry, and theological contributions. Octodecimo, bound in full calf with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six com...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-149943

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Baker, Samuel White

Ismailia: A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade. Organized by Ismail Khedive of Egypt.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1847.

First edition of Baker’s classic work documenting his journeys to the Nile. Octavo, two volumes. Bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles to the spine, six compartmen...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-96200

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Chambers, Robert

Traditions of Edinburgh. [Fore-Edge Painting].

London and Edinburgh: W & R Chambers, 1869.

Finely bound example of Chambers’ work on the history and legends of Scotland. Octavo, bound in full pebbled red morocco with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartme...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-129748

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Powell, Anthony

Books Do Furnish a Room.

London: Heinemann, 1971.

First edition of this classic work in the author’s Dance to the Music of Time series. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by James Broom-Lynne. Housed in a custom h...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-142098

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Irving, Washington; Illustrated by Arthur Rackham

Rip Van Winkle.

London: William Heinemann, 1905.

Rackham edition of this classic story. Royal octavo, bound in full red morocco by Henry Sotheran with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to t...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-148360

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The Scapegoat.

The World Crisis 1916-1918.

Golf Between Two Wars.

The U.S. Constitution.

Selected Works of Anthony Trollope. [Miss Mackenzie, Rachel Ray, Castle Richmond, The Eustace Diamonds, The Kellys and the O’Kellys, The Macdermots of Ballcloran, Tales of All Countries, and Ralph The Heir.

The Queens of Society and Wits and Beaux of Society.

Amishah Umshei Torah, Im Haft Arot Le-Khol Ha-Shanah. [Hebrew Chumash/The Pentateuch].

The Wonders of the Yosemite Valley, and of California.

The Home Of The Blizzard: Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911–1914.

Hebrew Melodies.

The Mill On The Floss.

The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book.

Ethiopian Coptic Ge’ez Bible.

The British Poets: Charles Churchill.

Annals of The Club. 1764-1914.

The Works of the Right Hon. Lord Byron. [Fore-edge Painting].

Idylls of the King. [Fore-edge Painting].

Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph.

Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut. [The Story of the Chevalier des Grieux and of Manon Lescaut].

The Life and Character of the Late Reverend, Learned, and Pious Mr. Jonathan Edwards, President of the College of New-Jersey. Together with Extracts From His Private Writings & Diary, and Also Seventeen Select Sermons on Various Important Subjects.

Ismailia: A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade. Organized by Ismail Khedive of Egypt.

Traditions of Edinburgh. [Fore-Edge Painting].

Books Do Furnish a Room.

Rip Van Winkle.