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Nikiforos Fokas.

Athena:, 1927.

First edition of this early work by the author of Zorba the Greek. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by Nikos Kazantzakis. In good condition, with the signatures originally bound.

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-2646

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Williams, Tennesse. [Sylvia Miles]

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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Blake, Michael [Kevin Costner; Wes Studi]

Dances with Wolves.

Tucson, AZ: Hrymfaxe, 2002.

First edition of the Hrymfaxe edition of this classic novel, basis for the Academy Award-winning film. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Michael Blake on the half-title page...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151359

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Harrer, Heinrich

Seven Years in Tibet.

London: Rupert Davis, 1953.

First edition and first English translation preceding the American edition by one year of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original blue cloth, illustrated. Signed by Heinrich Harrer in Englis...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-132331

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Yezierska, Anzia

Bread Givers: A Novel.

Doubleday, Page & Company: Garden City, NY, 1925.

First edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Signed by Anzia Yezierska on the limitation page. Very good in the rare original dust jacket with light r...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-84583

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de Beauvoir, Simone

L’Amerique Au Jour Le Jour.

Paris : Editions Paul Morihien, 1948.

First edition of this travel narrative and cultural critique of the United States. Octavo, written in French, original publisher’s pictorial wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed Simone de Beau...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150076

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Ross, Bernard L. [Ken Follet]; Peter Hyams; Elliot Gould

Capricorn One.

London: Arthur Baker Limited, 1978.

First British edition of Follett’s novelization of the classic 1978 thriller film Capricorn One, based on the screenplay by Peter Hyams. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by d...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148553

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Sanchamau, Jean-Baptiste

L’Ecole des Peuples et des Rois; ou Essai philosophique sur La Liberté, le Pouvoir arbitraire, les Juifs et les Noirs. [The School of Peoples and Kings; or Philosophical Essay on Liberty, Arbitrary Power, the Jews and the Blacks].

Paris: Chez Letellier, Libraire, 1790.

Rare first edition of French abolitionist Jean-Baptiste Sanchamau’s passionate attack on slavery and calling for the emancipation of French Jews, published in Paris in the wake of the American R...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151983

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Roosevelt, Eleanor

You Learn By Living.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1960.

First edition of Eleanor Roosevelt’s classic work on how to discover life’s lessons. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Eleanor Roosevelt on the front free endpaper. Near fine with a p...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-50001

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Foster, John B; [George Herman 'Babe' Ruth]

Spalding’s Official Base Ball Guide Thirty-Ninth Year 1915.

New York: American Sports Publishing Company, 1915.

First edition of the first official baseball guide to feature an image of Babe Ruth. Duodecimo, original pictorial wrappers, illustrated with over 100 full page engravings of ballplayers and teams and...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-145326

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Dean, Abner [William Safire]

Naked People: A Selection of Drawings From Four of His Books: It’s A Long Way to Heaven; What Am I Doing Here?; And On the Eighth Day; Cave Drawings for the Future.

New York: Stein and Day, 1963.

First edition of this collection of drawings from four books by American cartoonist Abner Dean. Oblong octavo, original half cloth, illustrated throughout. Association copy, inscribed by the artist on...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-146550

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Woodward, Bob. [Alan Greenspan] [Bruce Wasserstein]

Maestro: Greenspan’s Fed and the American Boom.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.

First edition of the definitive biography of the former Federal Chairman by the author of All the President’s Men. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the a...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147004

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Naipaul, V.S

Miguel Street.

London: Andre Deutsch, 1959.

First edition of Naipaul’s third novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by V.S. Naipaul on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with just a touch of wear to the crown. Jacket design by Steph...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-3544

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Poe, Edgar Allan

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe.

Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1875-1881.

Finely bound edition of the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe. Octavo, four volumes bound in three quarter calf over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147262

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Amis, Martin

Money.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1984.

First edition of this modern classic. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Martin Amis on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mon Mohan/ Dick Jones. Author’s photogr...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-133821

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Seabrook, William

No Hiding Place.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1942.

First edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Kate Bilott ‘The tigers of wrath are wi...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150205

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Gandhi, Mohandas K. [Mahatma]

Young India Second Series 1924-1926.

New York: The Viking Press, 1927.

First edition of the second series of the writings of Gandhi. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. Gandhi founded and published the weekly periodical in English, Young...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-142054

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Churchill, Winston S

Ian Hamilton’s March.

London: Longman's, Green, and Co, 1900.

First edition of Churchill’s fifth book, a continuation of his coverage of the Boer War which he began in London to Ladysmith via Pretoria. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery,...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-144787

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