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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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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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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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Lawrence, T.E. [A.W. Lawrence]

The Mint: A Day-Book of the R.A.F. Depot Between August and December 1922 with Later Notes by 352087 A/C Ross.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1955.

First edition, limited issue of Lawrence’s semi-autobiographical account of his R.A.F. training days. Quarto, original quarter morocco, patterned endpapers, top edge gilt with others uncut. One...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-117566

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Didion, Joan

The Year of Magical Thinking.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.

First edition of the account of the year following the death of the author’s husband. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Joan Didion on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket....

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150913

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Menand, Louis [Peter Matthiessen]

The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001.

First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page to fellow author Peter Matthiessen, “For...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150975

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Coolidge, Calvin

Calvin Coolidge Typed Letter Signed.

Northampton:, July 4,1930.

Rare typed letter signed by Calvin Coolidge to the Mayor of Lynn, Massachusetts Ralph Bauer. One page, octavo, the letter reads in full, “Thank you for the birthday remembrance. It was good of y...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145864

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Buckingham Palace Bound List of Subscribers.

:, 1927.

Finely bound list of subscribers to Mr. J. Parr’s farewell gift, presented on his retirement , 31 March 1927. Octavo, bound by Truscott & Son in full crushed scarlet morocco with gilt titles...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-125737

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Windsor, Duke of [King Edward]; Duchess of Windsor [Wallis Simpson]

A King’s Story: The Memoirs of the Duke of Windsor and The Heart Has Its Reasons: The Memoirs of the Duchess of Windsor.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons / David McKay Company, Inc., 1951 and 1956.

First edition of A King’s Story, King Edward’s classic autobiography. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with coat of arms stamped in gilt to the front panel, top stain red, cartogra...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151138

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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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VergÉ, Roger

Roger Vergé’s Entertaining in the French Style.

New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1986.

First edition of this classic cookbook by the “chef of the century” that blends refinement with conviviality, showcasing Roger Vergé’s cuisine du soleil ethos through seasonal menus...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149204

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Irving, John

The Cider House Rules.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1985.

First British edition of Irving’s sixth novel. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “Dear Ka...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-144200

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Garcia Marquez, Gabriel. Translated by Gregory Rabassa

One Hundred Years of Solitude.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1970.

First American edition of the author’s magnum opus. Octavo, original green cloth. Near fine in a very good first issue dust jacket with the exclamation point at the end of the first paragraph on...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145926

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Jansson, Jan

Iudaeae seu Terrae Israelis Tabula Geographica in qua Locorum in Veteri et Novo Testamento celebratissimorum Situs accurate descripti arte facta a Tilemanno Stella Sigenesi [Holy Land Map].

Amsterdam:, c. 1680.

Hand-colored engraved map of Judea, or the Land of Israel. One page, the map shows Judea with borders in color. The hand-colored title cartouche is flanked by Moses with the Ten Commandments on the le...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145576

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Hitchcock, Ethan Allen; [Edited by W. A. Croffut] [William Tecumseh Sherman]

Fifty Years in Camp and Field: Diary of Major-General Ethan Allen Hitchcock, U. S. A.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1909.

First edition of this diary of an eminent American soldier and general; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo, original green cloth, tissue-guarded frontispiece of Major General Ethan...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145975

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