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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 frontispiece. Quarto, Vol. II, bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, illustrated with numerous full page and in-text illustrationsContinue reading "Little Folks: A Magazine For Young People."

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$850.00
Item Number: RRB-142843
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[Livingstone, David]

David Livingstone: The Great Missionary Explorer.

New York : The Walter Scott Publishing Co., Ltd, n.d. c. 1908.

Finely bound example of this anonymous work on the life of David Livingstone. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled, frontispiece. In near fineContinue reading "David Livingstone: The Great Missionary Explorer."

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$850.00
Item Number: RRB-124055
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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. [Fore-edge Painting].

London : George Routledge & Sons, 1877.

Finely bound example of the collected poetical works of Longfellow. Octavo, bound in full contemporary crushed levant morocco with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine and panels, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, decorated with a concealed fore-edge painting of a pastoral scene, illustrated. InContinue reading "The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. [Fore-edge Painting]."

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$850.00
Item Number: RRB-138812
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Johnson, Osa

I Married Adventure: The Life and Adventures of Martin and Osa Johnson.

Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott Company, 1940.

Signed limited first edition of Johnson’s classic work, number 167 of 520 copies. Octavo, original half cloth, photographic endpapers illustrated with 83 aquatone illustrations. Boldly signed by the author, “Best African wishes Osa Johnson.” In near fine condition, contemporary name to the front free endpaper.

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$850.00
Item Number: RRB-142059
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Wilder, Thornton

The Bridge of San Luis Rey.

London : Longmans, Green and Co, 1929.

First British illustrated edition of the author’s masterpiece and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Octavo, bound in full modern morocco by Morrell with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, pictorial front panel in gilt with gilt title, all edges gilt, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece,Continue reading "The Bridge of San Luis Rey."

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$850.00
Item Number: RRB-148805
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Besant, Walter Sir

The Survey of London. Complete in 10 volumes: Mediaeval London; Historical & Social; Ecclesiastical; London in the Time of the Tudors; London in the Time of the Stuarts; London in the Eighteenth Century; London in the Nineteenth Century.

London : Adam & Charles Black, 1903-1912..

First editions of this work on the great city of London. Quarto, original red cloth, 10 volumes, with titles the spine in gilt and front panel, gilt topstain, illustrated throughout. Each volume is in very good to near fine condition with light wear to the spine extremities. An exceptional set.

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$850.00
Item Number: RRB-2847
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Chaucer, Geoffrey

The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer.

London : George Bell and Sons, 1886.

Finely bound Aldine edition of this collection of brilliant poetical works. Octavo, six volumes, bound in three quarter brown calf over marbled boards with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within five raised gilt bands, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers, decorated with botanical headpieces, tailpieces,Continue reading "The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer."

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$850.00
Item Number: RRB-145246
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Maugham, W. Somerset

The Moon and Sixpence.

New York : The Heritage Press, 1941.

Finely bound Heritage Press illustrated edition of this classic novel. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, all edges gilt, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, frontispiece self-portrait of Paul Gauguin, illustrated by Frederic Dorr Steele and Paul Gauguin. In fine condition.

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$850.00
Item Number: RRB-148387
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Hugo, Victor; Tranquillo Marangoni [Engraver]; Giovanni Mardersteig [Printer]

The Toilers of the Sea.

New York : The Limited Editions Club, 1960.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of Victor Hugo’s third major prose novel. Royal octavo, bound in full modern morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe / Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, top edge gilt, gilt turn-insContinue reading "The Toilers of the Sea."

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$850.00
Item Number: RRB-148554
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Powell, Anthony

Temporary Kings.

London : Heinemann, 1973.

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 half morocco and chemise box. An exceptional presentation.

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$850.00
Item Number: RRB-142957
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Thompson, J.M

The French Revolution.

Oxford : Basil Blackwell, 1951.

Finely bound example of this comprehensive history of the French Revolution. Octavo, bound in full modern morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, tissue-guardedContinue reading "The French Revolution."

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$850.00
Item Number: RRB-148388
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Isherwood, Christopher

Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties.

London : Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1938.

First edition of Isherwood’s semi-autobiographical novel about bohemian London in the 1920s. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom full morocco clamshell box.

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$850.00
Item Number: RRB-104893
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Guizot, M

L’Histoire De France Depuis Les Temps Les Recules Jusqu’en 1789 Racontee A Mes Petits-Enfants Par Ms. Guizot. [The History of France From The Earliest Times To The Year 1789. Related For The Rising Generation by M. Guizot].

Paris : Librairie Hachette, 1872-1876.

First edition of Guizot’s history of France, continued by Madame Guizot de Witt from her father’s notes. Quarto, 5 volumes bound in three quarter crushed red morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, ribbons bound in,Continue reading "L’Histoire De France Depuis Les Temps Les Recules Jusqu’en 1789 Racontee A Mes Petits-Enfants Par Ms. Guizot. [The History of France From The Earliest Times To The Year 1789. Related For The Rising Generation by M. Guizot]."

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$850.00
Item Number: RRB-137202
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Cellini, Benvenuto; Fritz Kredel [Illustrator]

The Life of Benvenuto Cellini: Written By Himself.

New York : The Limited Editions Club, 1937.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of this autobiographical account by the Italian Renaissance sculptor, goldsmith, and writer Benvenuto Cellini. Quarto, bound in full modern morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe / Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rearContinue reading "The Life of Benvenuto Cellini: Written By Himself."

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$850.00
Item Number: RRB-148544
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Gierach, John; Glenn Wolff [Illustrator]; Carolyn Chadwick [Binder]; Nick Lyons [Publisher]

Fishing Bamboo.

New York : Lyons & Burford, Publishers, 1997.

First limited deluxe edition of this collection of angling essays on bamboo fly rods. Octavo, bound in three-quarters Nigerian goatskin over silk moire covered boards with a flat piece of bamboo hand-planed by Mike Clark inset into the spine, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, top edge marbled blue, with black and whiteContinue reading "Fishing Bamboo."

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$850.00
Item Number: RRB-150409
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Chaucer, Geoffrey

The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer.

London : William Pickering, 1852.

The Aldine edition of Chaucer’s brilliant poetical works. Duodecimo, six volumes, bound in full contemporary tan calf with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within gilt raised bands, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers, frontispiece portrait of Geoffrey Chaucer to Vol. I, decorated with botanical headpieces,Continue reading "The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer."

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$850.00
Item Number: RRB-146338
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Trollope, Anthony

Selected Works of Anthony Trollope. [The Bertrams, The Macdermots of Ballycloran, Mary Gresley and An Editor’s Tales].

London : Chapman and Hall, 1872.

Finely bound collection of a selection of three of Trollope’s best-known works. Octavo, three volumes bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, red morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. In near fine condition.

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$850.00
Item Number: RRB-110524
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Dunning, John

Two O’Clock, Eastern Wartime.

New York : Scribner, 2001.

The Binder’s Copy of the author’s manuscript signed limited edition of John Dunning’s classic work, with two pages of the original typed manuscript tipped in and inscribed by the author, “Original working draft ms. page for Two O’Clock, Eastern Wartime John Dunning.” Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards by the Harcourt Bindery,Continue reading "Two O’Clock, Eastern Wartime."

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$850.00
Item Number: RRB-142781
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Aesop; Stephen Gooden [Illustrator]

Aesop’s Fables.

London : George G. Harrap and Company Ltd, 1936.

Signed limited edition of Aesop’s Fables. Royal octavo, bound in full vellum with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, gilt ruling and detailing to the front and rear panels, marbled endpapers, vignette title-page, illustrated with engraved plates and decorations. Boldly signed by illustrator Stephen Gooden on the colophonContinue reading "Aesop’s Fables."

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$850.00
Item Number: RRB-148561
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Chaucer, Geoffrey. [Eleanor Farjeon]

Tales from Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales Done Into Prose by Eleanor Farjeon.

London : The Medici Society, 1930.

First edition of Eleanor Farjeon’s modern adaptation of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, double gilt ruling and fleuron cornerpieces to the panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers and all edges gilt, elaborately illustrated with full colorContinue reading "Tales from Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales Done Into Prose by Eleanor Farjeon."

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$850.00
Item Number: RRB-119841
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Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]

The American Claimant.

New York : Charles L. Webster, 1892.

First edition of Twain’s comedy of mistaken identities with the publication date on both the title and copyright page. BAL 3434. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated. From the library of William Safire withContinue reading "The American Claimant."

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$850.00
Item Number: RRB-127681
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Kingsley, Charles

The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby.

London and Cambridge : Macmillan and Co., 1863.

First edition of this Victorian moral fantasy. Octavo, bound in three-quarter Turkey morocco over marbled boards by Tout & Sons with gilt titles and floral tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, with two illustrations by J. NoelContinue reading "The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby."

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$850.00
Item Number: RRB-151108
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Trollope, Anthony

The Claverings.

London : Smith, Elder and Co, 1867.

First edition of this work by Trollope. Octavo, two volumes, bound in half leather. In very good condition. With Sixteen Illustrations by M. Ellen Edwards.

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$850.00
Item Number: RRB-110699
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Smollett, Tobias

The Novels of Tobias Smollett.

Stratford-Upon-Avon : Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press, 1926.

The Large Paper edition of the novels of Tobias Smollett. Octavo, 8 volumes bound in three quarter morocco at the Riverside Press with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt with others untrimmed, ribbons bound in,  Illustrated with frontispieces and several inserted plates each withContinue reading "The Novels of Tobias Smollett."

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$850.00
Item Number: RRB-144984
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