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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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Alison, Sir Archibald [Millard Fillmore]

History of Europe: From the Fall of Napoleon in MDCCCXV to the Accession of Louis Napoleon in MDCCCLII Vol II.

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1853.

Early edition of this influential work chronicling European events from the French Revolution to the mid-19th century. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, floral border details stamp...

$1,950.00 Item Number: RRB-149855

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Edmonds, Harfield H.; Norman N. Lee

Brook and River Trouting.

Otley: Smith Settle, 2003.

Signed limited De Luxe edition of this practical angling book focused on fly fishing for trout in smaller streams and flowing rivers. Octavo, two volumes, bound in full goatskin with gilt titles to th...

$1,950.00 Item Number: RRB-150483

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Barnes, Djuna

Nightwood.

London: Faber and Faber, 1935.

First edition of this masterpiece―one of the greatest novels of the Modernist era. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with a few small chips and notes notes to the flap...

$1,950.00 Item Number: RRB-117378

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Stetson, Charlotte Perkins [Charlotte Perkins Gilman]

Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution.

Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1898.

First edition of this landmark work. Octavo, bound in full leather, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine conditio...

$1,950.00 Item Number: RRB-127602

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Eliot, George

Daniel Deronda.

Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1876.

First edition of Eliot’s final and most controversial work, which essentially predicts the foundation of Israel. Octavo, four volumes bound in contemporary half morocco over marbled boards by Proudfoo...

$1,950.00 Item Number: RRB-147409

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Herbert, Frank

Chapterhouse: Dune.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1985.

Signed limited first edition of the final volume in the magnificent Dune Chronicles—the bestselling science fiction adventure of all-time. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Frank Herbert....

$1,950.00 Item Number: RRB-150914

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19th Century Victorian Era Blank Guest Book.

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Elaborately bound 19th century Victorian era guest book. Large folio, elaborately bound in full morocco with gilt titles to the spine and front panel reading “Liber Salutatorum [Book of Salutati...

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-139520

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Peress, Gilles & Ghulam Husayn Saidi

Telex Iran: In the Name of Revolution.

New York: Aperture, 1983.

First American edition, published simultaneously with the first French edition of the photojournalist’s first book. Folio, original stiff photographic wrappers, photographic endpapers. Inscribed...

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-970

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Dickens, Charles

Little Dorrit.

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857.

First edition in book form of one of Dickens’ most outstanding novels with the three line errata on page xiv, “William” for “Frederick” on page 317 line 27, lacking errata on p...

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-148221

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Mandela, Nelson

Prisoner In The Garden.

New York: The Viking Press, 2006.

First edition of this work dedicated to Mandela’s archive. Octavo, original boards, illustrated throughout. Signed and dated by Nelson Mandela on the title page in the year of publication. Fine...

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-851

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Johnson, James Weldon

The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man.

New York: Garden City Publishing Co, 1927.

First edition of this re-issue of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good jacket with light rubbing and wear. Rare in the original dust jacket.

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-137553

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Mann, Thomas

Joseph in Egypt.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938.

First American edition of the third installment of Mann’s four-part novel retelling the vast saga of Genesis, which Mann considered his greatest work. Octavo, 2 volumes, pictorial endpapers. Pre...

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-96001

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Laughlin, J. Laurence

The Federal Reserve Act: Its Origin and Problems.

New York: The Macmillan Company,, 1933.

Rare first edition of this work on the Federal Reserve Act. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition.

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-140014

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Neruda, Pablo

We Are Many.

: Cape Coliard Press, 1967.

Signed limited edition, one of only 100 examples, this is number 65. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with a cut-out by Jim Dine. Boldly signed by Pablo Neruda and the translator Alistair Reid. Fin...

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-133314

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Kipling, Rudyard

Rudyard Kipling Liberty Magazine Poetry Collection.

New York: McCormick-Patterson, 1928.

Scarce collection of 1928 issues of Liberty Magazine containing early appearances of many of Kipling’s rarest poems. Folio, five issues, original illustrated wrappers. The collection includes is...

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-119441

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Waugh, Evelyn; Illustrated by Reynolds Stone

The Holy Places. With Wood Engravings by Reynolds Stone.

New York and London: The Queen Anne Press; The British Book Centre, 1953.

Signed limited issue, number 23 of 50 specially bound copies, signed by both the author and illustrator Reynolds Stone, from a total edition of 1,000 copies. Quarto, original red morocco, gilt titles...

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-71894

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Flavin, Martin

Journey in the Dark.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1943.

First edition of this classic novel, which won 1943 Harper Prize and the 1944 Pulitzer Prize, which The New York Times called “a story of a boy from Iowa who becomes a business tycoon at the pri...

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-120356

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Rankin, Ian

Hide & Seek.

London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1990.

First edition. Octavo, original red cloth with titles to the spine in gilt. Signed by author who has added the last lines of this work as follows, “He brought out a metal detector bin from benea...

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-997

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Coetzee, J.M

Waiting for the Barbarians.

Johannesburg : Ravan Press, 1981.

First South African edition of this modern classic. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication, “Charles Barry with very best wishes J.M. Coetz...

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-116489

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Voltaire (Arouet, François-Marie)

Voyages et Aventures d’une Princesse Babylonienne [The Princess of Babylon].

Geneve:, 1768.

First edition of one of Voltaire’s best-known works of prose. Octavo, original full period calf, gilt titles to the spine, red morocco spine label, raised bands, marbled endpapers. In good condi...

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-82403

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Churchill, Winston S

Lord Randolph Churchill.

London: Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1906.

First editions of Winston S. Churchill’s biography of his father. Octavo, 2 volumes, original publisher’s cloth decorated in gilt, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece portrait of Sir Rand...

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-149803

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Alison, Sir Archibald [Millard Fillmore]

History of Europe: From the Fall of Napoleon in MDCCCXV to the Accession of Louis Napoleon in MDCCCLII Vol VIII.

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1859.

Early edition of this influential work chronicling European events from the French Revolution to the mid-19th century. Sir Archibald Alison was a Scottish historian, writer, and advocate whose most no...

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-149394

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