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The Greville Memoirs: A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV; Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria, from 1837 to 1852; Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria, from 1852 to 1860.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1874-1887.

First editions of these journals offering a candid insider’s account of British political and court life. Octavo, eight volumes, bound in three quarters morocco by Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles and tool...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148894

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Fowles, John

The Collector.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1963.

First edition of Fowles’ debut novel. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed and dated by John Fowles on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, name to the half-title page. Jacket...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-139294

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Tolstoy, Leo

Patriotism and Christianity.

London: Walter Scott, Ltd., 1896.

First English edition of Tolstoy’s important work on non-resistance. Octavo, original cloth. With a note to English readers by John C. Kenworthy. Scarce.

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-127590

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Moore, Thomas

Irish Melodies. [Double Fore-Edge Painting].

London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans., 1854.

Finely bound selection of lyrics set to Irish tunes. Duodecimo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, ma...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146642

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Penick, Harvey with Bud Shrake [Bernhard Langer]

Harvey Penick’s Little Red Book: Lessons And Teachings From A Lifetime In Golf.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.

First edition, early printing of the best-selling golf book ever published. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Dr. Don...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147082

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Selby, Jr., Hubert Selby [Darren Aronofsky and Jared Leto]

Requiem For A Dream.

New York: A Playboy Press Book, 1978.

First edition of this work, basis for the 2000 classic film directed by Darren Aronofsky, starring Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans and Ellen Burstyn. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly s...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147746

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[General William T. Sherman] [Ulysses S. Grant]

General Sherman’s Javanese Kris.

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Rare Javanese kris, commonly used in the pencak silat martial art native to Indonesia, from the collection of General William T. Sherman preserved in his military trunk. Ulysses S. Grant, a close frie...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147821

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King, Stephen

Dolores Claiborne.

New York: Viking, 1993.

First edition of one of King’s most psychologically-driven novels. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Stephen King on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-152049

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Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George

The Last Days of Pompeii.

London: Richard Bentley, 1834.

First edition of Bulwer-Lytton’s most celebrated work, a classic of historical fiction and the basis for the 1935 Hollywood film of the same name directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack and Merian C. C...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149376

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Kipling, Rudyard

Rudyard Kipling Autograph Note Signed.

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Rare autograph note inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning author Rudyard Kipling. The note reads, in part: “but it is a chapter about…theatrical. They are always great fun. Very sincerely yours...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-95201

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Iden, V. Gilmore

The Federal Reserve Act of 1913: History and Digest.

Philadelphia: The National Bank News, 1914.

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

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-142249

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Caruso, Enrico

Enrico Caruso Signed Photograph.

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Rare original sepia toned photograph of famed tenor Enrico Caruso, inscribed by him on the mount to football star Ettore Fontana in Italian, “Al carissimo amico Ettore Fontana Sinceramente Enric...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-117974

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Johnson, Philip

Philip Johnson: Writings.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.

First edition of the acclaimed architect’s collected essays and lectures. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page in the year of publica...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-132944

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Kipling, Rudyard

Rudyard Kipling Typed Letter Signed.

:, 1920.

Rare typed letter signed by Nobel Prize-winning author Rudyard Kipling. Dated July 20th 1920 on Kipling’s Bateman’s, Burwash, Sussex letterhead, the letter reads: Dear Sir, I am in receipt...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151900

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Warhol, Andy

Andy Warhol’s Exposures.

New York: Andy Warhol Books/ Grosset & Dunlap, 1979.

First edition of Warhol’s candid and engaging photobook. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, boldly inscribed by Andy Warhol on the half-title, who has added a large drawing of a h...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149494

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Pirsig, Robert M

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values.

New York: William Morrow & Company, 1984.

First edition of the tenth anniversary edition of one of the most important and influential books written in the past half-century. Octavo, original half cloth. One of only 1,000 numbered copies, this...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-152124

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Gluck, Louise

Firstborn.

New York: New American Library, 1968.

First edition of the Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning poet’s first book, one of only 50 numbered copies. Octavo, bound in half morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-138218

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Wells, H.G

A Quartette of Comedies.

London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1928.

First British omnibus edition of four comic novels culminating in “1100 pages from Mr. Wells’ magic pen.” Octavo, original publisher’s green cloth with gilt titles to the spine...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148954

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Arendt, Hannah

The Life of the Mind. Volume One: Thinking; Volume Two: Willing.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978.

First editions of “the most intriguing…and thought-provoking book that Hannah Arendt wrote (The New York Times Book Review). Octavo, 2 volumes, original cloth. Fine in fine dust jackets. First e...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145761

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Waters, Alice

Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook.

New York: Random House, 1982.

First edition of Waters’ first book. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Alice Waters on the half-title page. Near fine in a near very good price-clipped dust jacket, name to t...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-130561

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Yarrow, David

Wild Encounters: Iconic Photographs of the World’s Vanishing Animals and Cultures.

New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 2016.

First edition of this unparalleled collection of high-art photography of fauna and cultures from around the world with a foreword by HRH the Duke of Cambridge, Prince William. Presentation copy, inscr...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147871

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Watson, Thomas J. and Peter Petre

Father, Son & Co.: My Life at IBM and Beyond.

New York: Bantam Books, 1990.

First edition of the classic autobiography of “the greatest capitalist in history” (Fortune Magazine). Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with 32 pages of photographs. Presentation c...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-152154

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Wharton, Edith

Ethan Frome.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911.

First edition, first issue with “wearily” in perfect type on penultimate line of page 135 and with four pages of publisher’s advertisements at rear, of Wharton’s greatest tragic story, a “grim tale of...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-142474

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Churchill, Winston S

Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1941.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, frontispiece, gilt titles and ruling to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, gil...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145964

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