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Tea Party and Other Plays.

London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1967.

First edition of Pinter’s collection of three plays originally written for television. Duodecimo, original cloth. A remarkable association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publicatio...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-152191

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Truman, Harry S

The Economic Reports of the President: As Transmitted to the Congress January 1948, January 1947, July 1947.

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1948.

First edition of this compilation of three of Truman’s most memorable economic reports. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author opposite the title page, “Most sincerely Harry Truman....

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-139753

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Segal, Erich [Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal]

Love Story.

New York, Evanston, and London: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1970.

First edition, early printing of the author’s best-selling novel, a “sweet, sad, and, in its closing sentences, startlingly sentimental” work (John Barkham). Octavo, original cloth....

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-147308

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Karsten, Karl G

Charts and Graphs: An Introduction to Graphic Methods In the Control and Analysis of statistics.

New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1923.

First edition of this seminal work on charts and graphs. Octavo, original leatherette boards, illustrated throughout. Introduction by Carl Snyder. In very good condition with some light rubbing to the...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-67089

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Kipling, Rudyard

Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1910.

Signed limited edition of the collected verse of Rudyard Kipling, beautifully illustrated by W. Heath Robinson. Quarto, bound in three quarters crushed levant morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-141581

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Bishop, Elizabeth

North Haven: In Memoriam Robert Lowell.

Northridge, CA: Richard Bigus for the Lord John Press, 1979.

Memorial broadside, signed by Elizabeth Bishop, one of only 150 examples. It measures 21 inches by 14.5 inches. Framed, signature lightly faded, small stain to the bottom edge. Rare.

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-143985

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Morrison, Toni

Sula.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s second novel. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Toni Morrison in a contemporary hand on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-141498

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Malamud, Bernard

The Assistant.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1957.

First edition of Malamud’s second novel, which went on to win the Daroff Fiction Award from the Jewish Book Council of America and the Award of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Octav...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-112915

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Hund, Wiguleus

Metropolis Salisburgensis.

Ingolstadt: David Sartor, 1582.

First edition of this important work on Bavaria and northern Italy, covering the history of churches and monasteries in that region including Freising, Regensburg, Passau and Brixen. Adams H-1161. Fol...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-76088

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Boccaccio, Giovanni

Il Decameron Di Messer Giovanni Boccacci, Tratto dall’ ottimo Testo scritto Da Francesco D’Amaretto Mannelli Sull’Originale Dell’Autor.

1813: Vitarelli, Venezia.

Finely bound 19th century Venetian printing of Boccaccio’s masterpiece. 12mo, five volumes bound in full straight grain morocco with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in five compart...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-149651

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Shaara, Michael

The Killer Angels.

New York: David Mckay, 1974.

First edition of Shaara’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth, maps by Don Pitcher. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. Rare and desirable in thi...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-146142

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Dickens, Charles

Dombey and Son.

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848.

First edition in book form of Dickens’ novel of “Pride,” with 40 etchings by Hablôt Knight Browne (“Phiz”). Octavo, bound in full morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, rais...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-130507

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Muir, John

Travels in Alaska.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915.

First edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original grey cloth lettered in white, color illustrated paper cover label, top edge gilt. Illustrated with several plates from photographs, i...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-139821

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Churchill, Winston S

My African Journey.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1908.

First edition of this early Churchill travelogue. Octavo, original bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, illustrated, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gi...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-150176

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King, Stephen

The Dark Half.

New York: The Viking Press, 1989.

First edition of this novel by the author of The Shining. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Stephen King on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, name to the front fre...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-144694

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Durrell, Lawrence

Clea.

London: Faber & Faber , 1969.

First edition of the author’s final novel in his classic Alexandria Quartet. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “Inscribed for Lewis Lawr...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-124897

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Yeats, W.B. Edited by Peter Allt and Russel K. Alpach [William Butler]

The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W.B. Yeats.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1957.

The Variorum signed limited edition of this classic collection of poetry by the Nobel Prize-winning author, one of 825 numbered copies signed by the poet. Large octavo, original half cloth, original s...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-149136

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Bush, George W. [Henry A. Kissinger; Dana Perino]

Decision Points.

New York: Crown Publishers, 2010.

First edition of George W. Bush’s autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by George W. Bush, Henry Kissinger and Bush’s White House Press Secretary Dana Peri...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-152100

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Cropper, James

Cobbett’s Weekly Political Register (January – May 1821) with Letters Addressed to William Wilberforce, M. P. Recommending the Encouragement of the Cultivation of Sugar in Our Dominions in the East Indies, as the Natural and Certain Means of Effecting the General and Total Abolition of the Slave-Trade.

Liverpool: James Smith, 1822.

First edition of this compilation of issues of Cobbett’s Register collected in 1821 bound together with Cropper’s letters to Wilberforce. Octavo, bound in three quarters calf over marbled...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-75022

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Di Maggio, Joe and Mickey Mantle

Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle Signed Photograph.

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Original black and white photograph of American baseball legends Joe Di Maggio and Mickey Mantle in New York Yankees uniform. Boldly signed by both Di Maggio and Mantle. In fine condition with a PSA/D...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-146708

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Nicklaus, Jack with Herbert Warren Wind

Greatest Game of All: My Life in Golf.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1969.

First edition of the golfing legend’s autobiography, which includes six full chapters on instruction. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-150792

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Dickens, Charles; Illustrations by Marcus Stone

The Works of Charles Dickens [Including: Bleak House; A Tale of Two Cities; Little Dorrit; Great Expectations; Oliver Twist; A Christmas Carol; David Copperfield; Dombey & Son; The Old Curiosity Shop; Nicholas Nickleby].

London: Chapman and Hall, .

Complete set of Charles Dickens’ works. Octavo, 30 volumes, bound in three quarters leather over marbled boards, gilt tooling to the spine, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated througho...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-3144

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Wood, Gordon S

The Radicalism of the American Revolution.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.

First edition of this classic Pulitzer Prize-winning work that argues the Revolution was not a conservative defense against British taxation, but a deeply radical social transformation. Octavo, origin...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-152005

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Aleman, Matheo

The Rogue: Or The Life of Guzman de Alfarache.

London: Printed for Edward Blount, 1623.

First edition in English of this seminal Spanish picaresque novel. Imperial octavo, written in English with a few leaves in Spanish, bound in full polished calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spi...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-151266

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