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Queen Mary: A Drama.

London: Henry S. King and Co, 1875.

First edition, first issue of the first book in Tennyson’s historical trilogy with “behled” on page 126. Small octavo, bound in full red morocco, gilt titles to the spine, elaborate gilt tooling...

$3,250.00 Item Number: RRB-95173

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London, Jack

White Fang.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1906.

First edition of London’s beloved novel. Octavo, original pictorial cloth with white and gilt lettering, pictorial endpapers. Tissue-guarded frontispiece and 7 color plates by Charles Livingston...

$3,250.00 Item Number: RRB-149996

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Hutchinson, Horace G

First edition one of the earliest books on golf instruction and the impetus for all other books of instruction on the game. Small octavo, original cloth, publishers advertisements before the half titl...

$3,250.00 Item Number: RRB-95902

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Levin, Ira

Rosemary’s Baby and Son of Rosemary.

New York: Random House and E/P. Dutton & Company, 1967 & 1997.

First edition and of its sequel of this influential horror classic, which helped launch the “horror boom.” Octavo, 2 volumes, original half cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by th...

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-150117

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Ali, Muhammad

“The President” Muhammad Ali Signed Manuscript Poem.

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Manuscript poem signed by famed American boxer Muhammad Ali. One page, the poem is titled, “The President” and reads in part, “The face of the Pres is open, The eyes of the Pres are...

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-143204

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O'Flaherty, Liam

The Informer.

Jonathan Cape Ltd: London, 1925.

First edition of this classic novel set in the aftermath of the Irish Civil War, which was adapted numerous times, most famously by John Ford for RKO Pictures in 1935. Octavo, original cloth. Near fin...

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-143809

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Jones, Robert Tyre (Bobby)

Robert T. (Bobby) Jones Signed Portrait.

:, 1954.

Attractive signed large color portrait of golfer Bobby Jones swinging his driver. Boldly inscribed by Bobby Jones, “For Will Grimsley with best regards, Bob Jones.” Annotated below the por...

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-100047

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Disney, Walt; Ward Greene

Lady and the Tramp: The Story of Two Dogs.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1953.

First edition of this classic work, basis for the Walt Disney film. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gi...

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-149702

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Sondheim, Stephen; James Lapine; Adapted and Illustrated by Hudson Talbott

Into The Woods.

New York: Crown Publishers, 1989.

First edition of this classic work, the basis for the Broadway musical and subsequent film. Quarto, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by Stephen Sondheim o...

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-124779

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Crichton, Michael

The Lost World.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.

First edition of Crichton’s sequel to Jurassic Park. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by Michael Crichton on the half-title page, “To Mrs....

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-146453

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Thomas, Dylan

Death and Entrances.

London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1946.

First edition of Thomas’ most well-known collection of poetry. Small octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Charles Fox from Dyl...

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-144289

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Heinlein, Robert A

The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag.

Hicksville, New York: The Gnome Press, Inc, 1959.

First edition of this thrilling collection of science fiction stories. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Robert A. Heinlein on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some rub...

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-145369

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McCarthy, Cormac

All the Pretty Horses.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.

Rare uncorrected proof of the first edition of the first novel in McCarthy’s acclaimed Border Trilogy and winner of the National Book Award. Octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed by Cormac Mc...

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-150014

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Camus, Albert

Les Justes: Piece en Cinq Actes. [The Just Assassins: A Play in Five Acts].

Paris: Gallimard, 1950.

First edition, early printing of Camus’ classic examination of the moral issues associated with murder and terrorism. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the...

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-137191

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Jordan, Michael

For the Love of the Game.

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Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front panel, “To Bill Happy 50th Birthday Hope you make it to 50 more Michael Jordan.” From the collection of Bill Zwecker, the former lon...

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-131781

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Garni, Joseph C. [Jean Vergnes]

Le Cirque Carte Des Vins. [Original Le Cirque Wine List].

:, [1974].

The original Le Cirque wine list used prior to the restaurant cataloging their wine cellar and printing a commercial style wine list, presented by front room captain Joseph C. Garni to Le Cirque co-fo...

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-146731

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Peterson, Eugene H

The Message: The Bible In Contemporary Language.

Colorodo: Navpress, 2002.

First edition of the Message translation of the Bible. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by Eugene Peterson on the half-title page, who has written out the opening verse of Genesis...

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-98995

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Kirby, E.S.

See My Chinese Street.

Hong Kong: K. Weiss, 1954.

Signed limited first edition of E.S. Kirby’s illustrated travel book. One of 250 signed numbered copies, this is number 57. Signed by E.S. Kirby. Quarto, original embroidered silk, illustrated w...

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-82605

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Roosevelt, Theodore; William Howard Taft

Theodore Roosevelt & William Howard Taft Signed Military Appointment.

Washington, D.C.:, July 1, 1904.

Rare military appointment signed by Theodore Roosevelt as President and William Howard Taft as Secretary of War. One page, partially printed and accomplished in manuscript, dated July 1 1904, the docu...

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-150467

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Raynal, Guillaume Thomas François Abbe

The Revolution of America.

London: Printed for Lockyer Davis, Holborn, 1781.

First edition in English of this classic work. Octavo, bound in full contemporary calf, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gilt ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands. Fro...

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-151251

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Santayana, George

Realms of Being. [The Realm of Essence, The Realm of Matter, The Realm of Truth].

London: Constable, 1928-37.

First editions of the first three volumes of the author’s classic work. Octavo, 3 volumes. Each volume is signed by George Santayana on the title page. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable...

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-130543

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Churchill, Winston S

The World Crisis 1916-1918.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927.

True first editions of the first two volumes of Churchill’s The World Crisis. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with numerous maps (many folding), charts, facsimiles, photographs. Near fine in...

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-103784

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Smith, Charlene; Desmond Tutu; [Nelson Mandela]; [Graca Machel]

Mandela.

London: Johnnic / Struik, 1999.

First edition of this exceptional biography of South Africa’s most influential leaders, signed for a flight attendant of President Nelson Mandela’s flight crew en route to a UN general ass...

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-147323

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Silverstein, Shel

Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1974.

First edition of the author’s first collection of children’s poetry. Small quarto, original brown cloth, illustrated. With a signed slip of paper boldly signed by Shel Silverstein laid in....

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-150892

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First Edition Books for Sale Online

Queen Mary: A Drama.

White Fang.

Hints on the Game of Golf.

Rosemary’s Baby and Son of Rosemary.

“The President” Muhammad Ali Signed Manuscript Poem.

The Informer.

Robert T. (Bobby) Jones Signed Portrait.

Lady and the Tramp: The Story of Two Dogs.

Into The Woods.

The Lost World.

Death and Entrances.

The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag.

All the Pretty Horses.

Les Justes: Piece en Cinq Actes. [The Just Assassins: A Play in Five Acts].

For the Love of the Game.

Le Cirque Carte Des Vins. [Original Le Cirque Wine List].

The Message: The Bible In Contemporary Language.

See My Chinese Street.

Theodore Roosevelt & William Howard Taft Signed Military Appointment.

The Revolution of America.

Realms of Being. [The Realm of Essence, The Realm of Matter, The Realm of Truth].

The World Crisis 1916-1918.

Mandela.

Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings.