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This Troubled World.

New York: H.C. Kinsey & Company, 1938.

First edition of this work by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Small octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Eleanor Roosevelt on the half-title page. With a letter on White House stationary from 1941,...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-35098

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Darrow, Clarence

Clarence Darrow Signed Photograph.

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Original photograph of prominent American attorney and civil libertarian Clarence Darrow. Signed by Darrow on the lower right-hand corner of the photograph four years after the historic Scopes Monkey...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-84255

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Faulkner, William

Light In August.

New York: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, 1932.

First edition, first issue, with first printing statement on copyright page, and “Jefferson” for “Mottstown” on page 340, line 1; first-issue binding, lettered in blue and orange. Octavo, original clo...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-146368

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Armorial Binding.

[France]:, c. 1690.

Rare original armorial binding in gold and silver thread bearing a coat of arms reminiscent of the Durazzo family of Venice. Small octavo, empty, white silk with pink silk pastedowns, the outer border...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149153

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Warhol, Andy

Andy Warhol’s Interview (Box/Suitcase).

: Steidl Verlag, 2004.

Complete portfolio of magazines plus wooden suitcase in the original shipping box, one of only 2000 examples. Book 1: The Covers. A facsimile reproduction of every cover from Interview’s first d...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-144220

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Dickens, Charles

The Christmas Books: A Christmas Carol; The Chimes; The Cricket on the Hearth; The Battle of Life; The Haunted Man and The Ghost’s Bargain.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1886.

Finely bound example of Dickens’ Christmas books, reprinted from the stereotype plates of the original. Octodecimo, five volumes bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards by Riviere...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-145260

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Green, Peter

Achilles His Armour.

London: John Murray, 1955.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Peter Green on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Michael Ayrton.

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-119653

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Southern, Terry

The Magic Christian.

New York: Random House, 1960.

First edition of one of the funniest, cruelest, and most savagely revealing books about American life ever written, hailed as Southern’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, in...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-120936

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Lewis, Edna and Evangeline Peterson

The Edna Lewis Cookbook.

Indianapolis and New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1972.

First edition of Edna Lewis’ first book. Octavo, original cloth.Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Norman Ives. Jacket photograph by John T. Hill. First editions are scarce.

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-145073

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Working, Holbrook

New Concepts Concerning Futures Markets and Prices.

Stanford, California: Stanford University Food Research Institute Papers, June 1962.

Rare first separate edition of Working’s notable treatise on futures markets. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition.

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-126437

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Fleming, Ian

Dr. No.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1958.

First edition in the first-issue dust jacket with Fleming’s name printed in black on the spine of the sixth Bond thriller, with the desirable silhouette of a dancing girl brown-stamped on the fr...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151532

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Skinner, B.F

Notebooks.

Englewood, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1980.

First edition of this work by the famed psychologist. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Marnie and Arthur Fondly Fred.” The...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-131399

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Bernstein, Carl & Bob Woodward

All The President’s Men.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1974.

First edition of this groundbreaking work in American journalism. Octavo, original blue cloth, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by Carl Bernstein in a contemporary signature to fellow journali...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-135253

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Steinbeck, John

The Long Valley.

New York: The Viking Press, 1938.

First edition of Steinbeck’s collection of 13 stories, which includes “The Red Pony” and “St. Katy the Virgin.” Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jack...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-150087

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Dickens, Charles

Master Humphrey’s Clock.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1840.

First edition of this collection of short stories. Large octavo, 3 volumes, original blindstamped pictorial cloth, gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel, marbled endpapers, all edges ma...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-99753

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Beagle, Peter S

The Last Unicorn.

New York: The Viking Press, 1968.

First edition of Beagle’s classic second book, which follows the tale of a unicorn, who believes she is the last of her kind in the world and undertakes a quest to discover what has happened to...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-141515

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Travers, P.L

Mary Poppins.

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1934.

First American edition of this children’s classic. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and ruling to the spine, raised bands, double gilt ruled to the front and re...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-144179

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Modiano, Patrick [Philip Roth]

Honeymoon.

Boston: Verba Mundi/ David A. Godine, 1995.

First American edition of this “haunting tale of quiet intensity” (Review of Contemporary Fiction). Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-titl...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-146091

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Conrad, Joseph

The Collected Works of Joseph Conrad. [Almayer’s Folly, An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of “Narcissus”, Tales of Unrest, Lord Jim, The Inheritors, Youth: and Two Other Stories, Romance, Typhoon and Other Stories, Nostromo, The Mirror of the Sea, The Secret Agent, A Set of Six, Under Western Eyes, Some Reminiscences, ‘Twist Land & Sea Tales, Chance, Victory, Within the Tides, The Shadow Line, The Arrow of Gold, On Day More, The Rescue].

Edinburgh & London: Various Publishers, 1925.

Collection of the writings of Joseph Conrad. Octavo, 20 volumes, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jackets which are in near fine condition.

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-125741

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Steichen, Edward

The Family of Man.

New York : Museum of Modern Art, 1955.

First edition of this classic work. Quarto, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Mrs. Sheppard with all good w...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-126767

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Albee, Edward

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

New York: Atheneum, 1962.

First edition of Albee’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the title page, “Edward Albee 2010.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of she...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-126769

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Mandela, Nelson

Nelson Mandela’s Favorite African Folktales.

New York: Norton, 2002.

First edition of this collection of African folktales chosen and introduced by Nelson Mandela. Quarto, original glossy illustrated boards, illustrated throughout. Signed and dated by Mandela on the ti...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-849

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Pynchon, Thomas. [Paul Thomas Anderson and Leonardo DiCaprio]

Vineland.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1990.

First edition of this novel, basis for the Academy Award-winning film One Battle After Another directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151495

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Dyson, Freeman J

The World, The Flesh and the Devil.

London: Birbeck College, 1972.

First edition of this lecture given by Dyson at Birbeck College in London on May 16, 1972. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Signed by the author on the title page with an added note regarding this...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-62076

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