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Milnes, Richard Monckton. [The Right Honorable Lord Houghton]

Opening Address by Lord Houghton, President of the Society.

:, c. 1873.

Rare first edition of Lord Houghton’s Opening Address before the Norwich Congress of the Social Science Association. Octavo, bound in three quarters contemporary calf over marbled boards, gilt t...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-112568

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Egan, Pierce

Sporting Anecdotes, Original and Selected; Including Numerous Characteristic Portraits of Persons in Every Walk of Life, Who have acquired Notoriety from their Achievements on the Turf, at the Table, and in the Diversions of the Field.

London: Printed For Sherwood, Jones, and Co, 1825.

First edition with colored plates of Egan’s classic collection of sporting anecdotes. Octavo, bound in full red straight grain morocco by Lloyd with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-147752

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Stephens, James

The Crock of Gold.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1926.

Finely bound example of this whimsical and philosophical novel. Octavo, bound in full green pictorial morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gi...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-148370

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Alberg, Albert

Gustavus Vasa and His Stirring Times.

London: W. Swan Sonnenschein & Co, c. 1885.

Finely bound example of Alberg’s biography of Gustav I of Sweden. Octavo, bound in full polished calf by Relfe Brothers of London with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine, morocco spine label le...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-139738

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Goldoni, Carlo

Delle Commedie Del Signor Carlo Goldoni Avvocato Veneto. Pere servire di continuazione al Nuovo Teatro Comico Del Medesimo Autore.

Bologna: A. S. Tommaso d'Aquino, 1762-1765.

Rare eighteenth century Italian printing of Goldoni’s Commedie. Octavo, two volumes bound in full vellum. In good condition. A rare printing published during Goldoni’s lifetime.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-129022

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Jerrold, Douglas

A Man Made of Money.

London: Punch, 1848-49.

First edition of this work. Octavo, original, six volumes, illustrated wrappers. Illustrated with 12 engraved plates by John Leech. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell bo...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-121345

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France, Anatole

Le Puits de Sainte Claire.

Paris: Calmann Levy, 1895.

First edition of this novel by the Nobel Prize-winning French writer regarding tales based on Italian historical characters and events. Octavo, original printed wrappers and glassine wrapper, Presenta...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-82311

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Forester, C.S

C.S. Forester Collection.

London and New York: Various publishers, .

Rare collection of 24 first editions and early printings of the novels of C.S. Forester. Octavo, 27 volumes, original cloth, 15 volumes in dust jackets. The collection includes a first English edition...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-131846

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Scopoli, Giovanni Antonio [Carl Linnaeus]

Flora Carniolica: Exhibens Plantas Carnioliae Indigenas et Distributas in Classes, Genera, Species, Varietates, Ordine Linnaeano. Volume I.

Vienna: Johann Paul Krauss, 1772.

Second edition, enlarged and revised, of one of the most important 18th-century botanical works documenting the flora of Carniola following Carl Linnaeus’s system of plant classification. Octavo, writ...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-149464

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Steinbeck, John

Cannery Row.

New York: The Viking Press, 1945.

First edition, first state of this classic work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Dust jacket design by Arthur Hawkins, Jr....

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-151340

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Auchincloss, Louis; Gary Hart; Michael F. Holt; George McGovern; Garry Wills; Et. Al

The American Presidents.

New York: Times Books, 2004-2015.

Collection of biographies of the presidents of the United States. Octavo, forty-one volumes, frontispiece portrait to each volume, original boards. Each are near fine to fine in near fine to fine dust...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-146356

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Churchill, Winston S

Lord Randolph Churchill.

New York and London: Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1906.

First editions of Winston S. Churchill’s biography of his father. Octavo, 2 volumes, original cloth bound, gilt titles to the spine, engraved frontispiece portrait of Sir Randolph Churchill afte...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-130791

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Chaucer, Geoffrey

Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer.

London: George Bell and Sons, 1878.

Finely bound set of Chaucer’s poetical works. Small octavos, four volumes bound in three quarters morocco by Bayntun Bindery with gilt tooling to the spine and red morocco spine labels lettered...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-90435

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Sterne, Laurence

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy.

London: T. Becket, 1777.

Finely bound set of Sterne’s Tristram Shandy. Octavo, 6 volumes, bound in contemporary full polished brown calf, black morocco spine labels, smooth spines with gilt rules and decorations, marble...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-89417

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Greene, Graham

The Honorary Consul.

London: The Bodley Head Ltd, 1973.

First edition of one of Greene’s own favorite works. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gil...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-146489

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James, William

A Full and Correct Account of the Chief Naval Occurrences of the Late War Between Great Britain and The United States of America; Preceded by a Cursory Examination of the American Accounts of Their Naval Actions Fought Previous to That Period.

London: Printed for T. Egerton, 1817.

First edition of James’ naval history of the War of 1812, which inspired Theodore Roosevelt’s account from the American perspective: The Naval War of 1812. Octavo, bound in full contempora...

$900.00 Item Number: RRB-132919

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Longford, Elizabeth. [Winston Churchill]

Winston Churchill: Authorized by the Winston Churchill Foundation.

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1974.

First edition of Elizabeth Longford’s photographic retrospective of the life of Sir Winston Churchill, authorized by the Winston Churchill Foundation. Quarto, bound in three quarters morocco by...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-139533

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Elizabeth [Tonna], Charlotte

The Works of Charlotte Elizabeth. With an Introduction by H. B. Stowe.

New York: Published by M. W. Dodd, 1849.

Seventh edition of the complete works of English Victorian writer and suffragette Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna. Royal octavo, two volumes, original publisher’s full deluxe morocco with gilt titles...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-142626

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Gautier, Théophile; André Dugo [Illustrator]

Mademoiselle de Maupin.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1943.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of Gautier’s retelling of the infamous legend of Mademoiselle de Maupin. Quarto, bound in full modern morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe / Zaehnsdorf...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-148550

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Bierce, Ambrose

The Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1967.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of this gothic novella. Quarto, bound in full modern morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe / Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles to the spine, all edges gilt, g...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-148686

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Becher, H.C.R

A Trip to Mexico, Being Notes of a Journey From Lake Erie to Lake Tezcuco and Back.

Toronto: Willing and Williamson, 1880.

First edition of this nineteenth-century travel narrative through Mexico. Octavo, original publisher’s green cloth with gilt titles to the spine, vignette of the Aztec calendar stamped in gilt t...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-149600

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Keynes, John Maynard [J.M.]

A Revision of the Treaty. Being A Sequel To The Economic Consequences of the Peace.

London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1922.

First edition of Keynes’ classic work. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised bands, gilt ruling to th...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-146084

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Wharton, Grace

The Literature of Society.

London: Tinsley Brothers, 1862.

First edition of this collection of observations on the literature of European historical figures. Octavo, two volumes bound in full crushed levant morocco by Bayntun Bindery with gilt titles and tool...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-145231

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[Rackham, Arthur]

Little Folks: A Magazine For Young People.

London: Cassell and Company Limited, 1899.

Finley bound collection in book form of stories and poems from Little Folks Magazine, featuring Arthur “Rackham’s 1st printed colour plate” (Riall, p. 212), Up a Tree, used as the fr...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-142843

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