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The Night of the Iguana Original Shooting Script.

New York: Studio Duplicating Service, Inc, .

Rare original shooting script of Tennessee Williams’ great stage play. Quarto, original blue Studio duplicating service leatherette wrappers bound and bradded. Advertisements laid in. Sylvia Mil...

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-110701

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Tolstoi, Count Leo. [Tolstoy]

The Kingdom of God is Within You: Or, Christianity Not as a Mystical Doctrine, but as a New Life-Conception.

London: Walter Scott, Ltd., 1894.

First edition in English of the culmination of 30 years of Tolstoy’s thinking which lays out a new organization for society based on an interpretation of Christianity focusing on universal love....

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-124089

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Jones, James

From Here to Eternity.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1951.

First edition of the author’s first book, one of the great novels of World War II. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and floral tooling to the spine in five comp...

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-150656

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King, Stephen

Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah.

Hampton Falls, NH: Donald Grant, 2004.

First trade edition of King’s sixth installment in his acclaimed Dark Tower Series. Octavo, original black cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Stephen King on the half-title page. Fine in a fin...

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-144596

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Grant, Ulysses S. [U.S.]

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant.

New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885-1886.

First edition of the autobiography of Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States, which covers his military career during the Mexican War and the Civil War. Octavo, two volumes, origina...

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-151920

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Segal, Erich

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....

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-145831

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Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Gift From The Sea: An Answer to the Conflicts In Our Lives.

New York: Pantheon, 1955.

Special limited first edition of this modern inspirational classic. Octavo, original half blue cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Betsy Wall, In gratitude...

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-120902

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Weegee

Naked City.

New York: Essential Books, 1945.

First edition of this classic photography book. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Inscribed and dated in 1946 by Weegee. An excellent tight example that shows some rubbing and wear.

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-5805

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Rhinehart, Luke [George Cockcroft]

The Dice Man.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1971.

First edition of this cult classic. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Andy ‘A lake is a pond is a river.’ Luke Rhinehart....

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-143807

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Warhol, Andy; Kurt Benirschke

Vanishing Animals.

New York: Springer-Verlag, 1986.

First edition of this accessible and striking art-and-science collaboration. Square quarto, original pictorial black cloth, illustrated throughout with 16 new prints by Warhol created for this book. B...

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-149917

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Shaw, George Bernard

The Apple Cart: A Political Extravaganza.

London: Constable and Company, 1930.

First edition of this classic play by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author at his home on the half-title page, “Ayot St La...

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-131696

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Crowley, John

Little, Big.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1981.

First hardcover edition of this landmark of modern fantasy. Octavo, original black cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the title page, “For John- The things that make...

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-1471

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Hughes, Langston and Milton Meltzer

A Pictorial History of the Negro in America.

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1956.

First edition of this important compilation on the history of African Americans. Quarto, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Langston Hughes and Milton Meltzer on the front free endpape...

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-140222

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Peress, Gilles & Ghulam Husayn Saidi

Telex Persan.

Paris: Contrejour, 1984.

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

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-969

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Dickens, Charles

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit.

London: London: Chapman and Hall, 1839.

First edition of the last of Dickens’ picaresque novels. Octavo, bound in full pebbled morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, elaborate g...

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-139459

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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...

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-95854

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Hannah, Barry

Airships.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986.

First edition of this modern classic. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication to his publisher Seymour Lawrence on the half-title page to his...

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-143006

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Rand, Ayn; Essays by Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, and Robert Hessen

Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal.

New York: New American Library, 1966.

First edition of this collection of essays—which Rand, in her introduction, characterizes as “a nonfiction footnote to Atlas Shrugged.” Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the...

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-133525

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Calvino, Italo

Difficult Loves.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1984.

First edition of this classic collection of short stories by Calvino. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to editor Irene Skolnick in the...

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-111048

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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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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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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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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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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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