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Of the Imitation of Christ.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co, 1884.

Finely bound example of a Kempis’ classic work. Octavo, bound in full crushed purple morocco by Bayntun for Brentano’s with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, elaborate gilt ruling to the fro...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-133424

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Dumas, Alexandre

The Borgias.

London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1911.

Finely bound edition of Dumas’ classic work. Octavo, bound in full red morocco gilt by Bumpus, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, gilt tooling to the front and rear panels, all...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-140821

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Maupassant, Guy De

First edition of the Heritage Press edition of this classic work. Quarto, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands. illustrations by Bern...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-142808

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Hardy, Thomas

The Mayor of Casterbridge.

New York: The Heritage Press, 1964.

The Heritage Press edition of Thomas Hardy’s tenth published novel. Octavo, bound in three quarters modern morocco over cloth covered boards by Morrell with gilt titles to the spine in six compartment...

$550.00 Item Number: RRB-151173

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Claudius Claudianus; Nicolaas Heinsius; L'Ancien Pieter Burman

Claudii Claudiani Opera, Quae Exstant, Omnia Ad Membranarum Veterum Fidem Castigata.

Amstelaedami: Ex Officina Schouteniana, 1760.

Quarto, original vellum, gilt tooling and stamping to the front and rear panels and spine. In very good condition.

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-2821

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Wilde, Oscar

Oscar Wilde: Recollections by Jean Paul Raymond & Charles Ricketts.

Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1932.

First edition of Ricketts’ recollections of Wilde, published posthumously with a design reminiscent of the Vale Press. “The only Nonesuch book linked in a personal way with the private pre...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-139784

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Cooke, John Esten

Wearing of the Gray; Being Personal Portraits, Scenes and Adventures of the War.

Augusta, Georgia: Southern Publishing Company, 1870.

First edition of this collection of experiences during the Civil War. Octavo, bound in three quarters calf over marbled boards with gilt titles to the spine in four compartments within gilt bands, mor...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-150356

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Churchill, Winston S

The World Crisis: The Eastern Front.

London: Library of Imperial History, 1974.

The Centenary Limited Edition of the fifth volume of Churchill’s The World Crisis. Octavo, bound in full modern morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised band...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-148616

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Shakespeare, William

The Works of William Shakespeare.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1887.

The Victoria edition of the works of William Shakespeare. Octavo, two volumes, bound in full polished calf with gilt titles and elaborate tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt ba...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-151128

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Hardy, Thomas; Clare Leighton [Illustrator]

The Return of the Native.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1929.

Macmillan signed limited edition of Hardy’s sixth published novel. Octavo, bound in half vellum over boards with gilt titles to the spine, top edge gilt, frontispiece, with black and white woodcut ill...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-148848

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Godey, Louis Antoine

Godey’s Lady’s Book for 1850.

Philadelphia: L.A. Godey, 1850.

Finely bound example of this 19th-century American magazine known for its collection of poetry, illustrations, and articles by prominent female authors and artists. Octavo, volume 40, bound in three q...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-149127

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Guns, Joseph. [Translator]

The Form of Daily Prayers According to the Custom of the German and Polish Jews. [Hebrew Prayer Book].

Vienna: Published by Jos. Schlesinger, 1857.

First edition of Joseph Guns’ translation of the primary prayers of the German and Polish Jews. 12 mo, original mounted bone onlays over celluloid boards, elaborately decorated front panel with...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-136085

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Poe, Edgar Allan

The Fall of the House of Usher.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1985.

The Limited Editions Club limited edition of one of Poe’s most famous short stories. Folio, bound in quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles to the spine, illustrated with two color...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-148581

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Kean, Thomas H. and Lee H. Hamilton [Alvin S. Felzenberg]

Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2006.

Signed limited first edition of the Easton Press edition of this work by the co-chairmen of the 9/11 Commission. Octavo, original black leather with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compart...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-149779

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Dos Passos, John

Most Likely to Succeed.

New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1954.

Signed limited first edition of the author’s semi-autobiographical novel. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-127665

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Manstein, Erich Von

Lost Victories.

Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1958.

First edition in English of this memoir of a German field marshal during World War II. Octavo, bound in full modern morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-148595

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Goldsmith, Oliver

Essays by Mr. Goldsmith.

London: Printed for W. Griffin, in Fetter-Lane, 1765.

First edition of the collected essays of Oliver Goldsmith which paid the author a profit of only 20 guineas but greatly extended his reputation. Octavo, bound in full contemporary calf, rebacked retai...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-140433

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Smeeton, George; Illustrated by George Cruikshank

Doings in London: or Day and Night Scenes of the Frauds, Frolics, Manners, and Depravities of the Metropolis.

London: Orlando Hodgson, c. 1830.

Finely bound example of this spirited survey of London life. Octavo, bound in three-quarters modern morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, doub...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-148883

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Calmet, Antoine Augustin. Translated by Giovanni Domenico Mansi

Dictionarium Historicum, Criticum, Chronologicum, Geographicum, et Literale Sacrae Scripturae, Cum figuris Antiquitates Judaicas repraesentantibus Authore R.P.D. Augustino Calmet Ordinis S. Benedicti Abbate, E Gallico in Latinum translatum A Joanne Dominico Mansi, Congregationis Matris Dei, Lucensi.

Venetiis: Apud Sebastianum Coleti, 1757.

Second Venetian edition of Giovanni Domenico Mansi’s Latin translation of Antoine Augustin Calmet’s dictionary of the Holy Scriptures, perhaps the most famous and meticulous exegetical, hi...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-114059

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Marshall, John [George Washington]

The Life of George Washington, Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War Which Established the Independence of His Country, and First President of the United States.

New York: WM. H. Wise & Co, 1925.

Sponsor’s edition of Marshall’s magisterial biography of Washington; specially prepared for Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo, five volumes bound in full leatherette, tissue-guarded frontispiece...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-145735

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Greene, Graham

Brighton Rock.

London: William Heinemann LTD, 1938.

First British edition of Greene’s chilling expose of violence and gang warfare in the pre-war underworld is a classic of its kind. Octavo, bound in half goatskin over cloth boards with gilt titl...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-149699

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Hay, Roy and Patrick M. Synge

The Dictionary of Garden Plants in Colour with House and Greenhouse Plants.

London: The Arcadia Press, 1970.

Signed limited edition of this photographic plant dictionary. Quarto, bound in the original full crushed morocco by Zaehnsdorf of London with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-145563

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Cruikshank, George

George Cruikshank’s Fairy Library: Hop-O’My-Thumb and the Seven-League Boots.

London: David Bogue, 1853.

First edition of this retelling of the classic French fairy tale. Duodecimo, bound in three-quarters morocco by W.J. Mansell with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in three compartments within rais...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-148885

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Boswell, James

The Life of Samuel Johnson. [Boswell’s Life of Johnson].

London: Office of the National Illustrated Library, n.d. [c. 1880].

Finely bound 19th century illustrated printing of the most celebrated biography in the English language, elucidated by copious notes. Octavo, four volumes bound into two in contemporary three quarters...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-141549

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Of the Imitation of Christ.

The Borgias.

Bel-Ami.

The Mayor of Casterbridge.

Claudii Claudiani Opera, Quae Exstant, Omnia Ad Membranarum Veterum Fidem Castigata.

Oscar Wilde: Recollections by Jean Paul Raymond & Charles Ricketts.

Wearing of the Gray; Being Personal Portraits, Scenes and Adventures of the War.

The World Crisis: The Eastern Front.

The Works of William Shakespeare.

The Return of the Native.

Godey’s Lady’s Book for 1850.

The Form of Daily Prayers According to the Custom of the German and Polish Jews. [Hebrew Prayer Book].

The Fall of the House of Usher.

Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission.

Most Likely to Succeed.

Lost Victories.

Essays by Mr. Goldsmith.

Doings in London: or Day and Night Scenes of the Frauds, Frolics, Manners, and Depravities of the Metropolis.

Dictionarium Historicum, Criticum, Chronologicum, Geographicum, et Literale Sacrae Scripturae, Cum figuris Antiquitates Judaicas repraesentantibus Authore R.P.D. Augustino Calmet Ordinis S. Benedicti Abbate, E Gallico in Latinum translatum A Joanne Dominico Mansi, Congregationis Matris Dei, Lucensi.

The Life of George Washington, Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War Which Established the Independence of His Country, and First President of the United States.

Brighton Rock.

The Dictionary of Garden Plants in Colour with House and Greenhouse Plants.

George Cruikshank’s Fairy Library: Hop-O’My-Thumb and the Seven-League Boots.

The Life of Samuel Johnson. [Boswell’s Life of Johnson].