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El Otono del Patriarca [The Autumn of the Patriarch].

Barcelona: Plaza & Janes, 1975.

First Spanish edition of this “majestic, superb…a stunning portrait of the archetype, the pathological fascist tyrant” (The New York Times). Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Si...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-46985

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Brock, Alice May and Arlo Guthrie

Alice’s Restaurant Cookbook.

New York: Random House, 1969.

First edition of this classic cookbook. Quarto, original illustrated boards, with numerous pages of photographs. Signed by Arlo Guthrie on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, with th...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-143058

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Laxness, Halldor

The Bread of Life.

Reykjavik: Vaka-Helgafell, 1987.

First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the illustrator to actress Julie Andrews on the front free endpaper,...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-116748

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Seuss, Dr. [Theodor Geisel]

Dr. Seuss’s ABC.

New York: Random House, 1963.

First edition, early printing of this classic children’s book. Octavo, original boards, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author opposite the title page, “With Be...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149460

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Tennyson, Alfred

Enoch Arden, etc. [Fore-Edge Painting].

London: Edward Moxon & Co., 1867.

Finely bound example of one of Tennyson’s most famous poems. Duodecimo, bound in full red morocco with gilt titles and elaborate tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, ela...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151178

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Roosevelt, Jr, Theodore

Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. Silverplate Presentation Tray.

:, 1924.

Rare engraved silverplate presentation tray. Oval silverplate tray with wire loop sides interrupted on each long side with a vacant panel, raised on flattened bun feet. Engraved in the center, “...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147200

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Leigh Fermor, Patrick; George Psychoundakis

George Psychoundakis: A Letter to C.A. Trypanis.

Athens: The American College of Greece, 1999.

First edition of this work by the author of A Time of Gifts. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, warmly inscribed by both Patrick Leigh Fermor and George Psychoundakis to John Leatham, who contr...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-3911

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Fager, Charles E

Selma 1965: The March That Changed The South.

United States of America and Canada: Library of Congress, 1974.

First edition of this historical account of the march that changed America. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Lengthily inscribed by the author on...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-141017

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Vonnegut, Jr., Kurt

The Vonnegut Statement: Original Essays on the life and Work of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. With A Bibliography.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1973.

First edition of this collection of stories by the award-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For David and Loni- Kurt Vonn...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150127

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Clarke, Arthur C. [Keir Dullea]

2010: Odyssey Two.

New York: Random House, 1982.

First edition of “this daring romp through the solar system and a worthy successor to 2001” (Carl Sagan). Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the hal...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150241

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Bellow, Saul

The Adventures of Augie March.

New York: The Viking Press, 1953.

First edition of Bellow’s first National Book Award winning novel. Octavo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, handmade Italia...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-117859

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Gaddis, Thomas E

Birdman of Alcatraz: The Story of Robert Stroud.

New York : Random House, 1955.

First edition of this work, basis for the classic film starring Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden and Thelma Ritter. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page,...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-119233

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Kennedy, John F

Profiles in Courage.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956.

First edition of Kennedy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth, with eight pages of black-and-white photogravures. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, inscription to the v...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-144316

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Act of Parliament for Erecting the Bank in Scotland.

Edinburgh: [Royal Bank of Scotland] , 1695-1719.

Rare 17th century printing of the Act of the Scottish Parliament erecting the Bank of Scotland. Octavo, original wrappers, the act is dated July 17, 1695 and approved a joint stock amounting to the su...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-124034

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Lewis, Michael

Liar’s Poker.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1989.

First edition, early printing of the author’s classic first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Kathleen Thanks for the in...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151214

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Raskin, Ellen

The Westing Game.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc, 1978.

First edition, second printing of Raskins’s Newbery Award winning novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Barbara Nelson Boom...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146586

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Powers, Richard

The Overstory.

New York: W.W. Norton Company, 2017.

First edition of this Pulitzer Prize-winning work, “the best novel ever written about trees, and really just one of the best novels, period” (Ann Patchett). Octavo, original boards. Boldly...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151356

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Harriman, Edward Henry

Edward Henry Harriman Signed Stock Certificate for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company.

Missouri: The Mercantile Trust Company, 1901.

Rare Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company stock certificate signed by American financier and railroad executive E.H. Harriman. Quarto, one page partially printed and accomplished in manuscript with an...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151331

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Hemingway, Ernest

Winner Take Nothing.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933.

First edition of Hemingway’s third collection of short stories. Octavo, original black cloth. Near fine in an excellent dust jacket with light rubbing and wear.

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-132324

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Dickens, Charles

Our Mutual Friend.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1865.

First edition of this classic novel that explores effects of capitalism and the arbitrary nature of social hierarchy. Octavo, bound in full polished calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in s...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149951

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Richards, Keith

Life: Keith Richards.

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2010.

First edition, second printing of Richards’ autobiography. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with photographs. Signed and dated by the author year of publication on the half-title page,...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148338

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Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

Hundert Jahre Einsamkeit. [One Hundred Years of Solitude].

Koln: Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1982.

Early German edition of the author’s masterpiece which is recognized as one of the most significant works in the Spanish literary canon. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Presentation copy, inscr...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-138432

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Yefremyan, Z.S. [Armenia]

Patkerazharp Bnashkharhaki Bararan. [Illustrated Geographical Dictionary].

Venice: A. Ghazaryan, 1903-05.

Rare edition of volume one of this Armenian geographical reference work. Thick quarto, written in Armenian, bound in three-quarters morocco with gilt titles to the spine in five compartments within ra...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149427

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