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Persepolis 2: The Story of Return.

New York: Pantheon Books, 2004.

First edition of “the most original coming-of-age story from the Middle East yet” (People). Octavo, original illustrated boards. Boldly signed by Marjane Satropi on the front free endpaper...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-152998

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Faulkner, William

Unvanquished.

New York: Random House, 1938.

First edition of this novel which tells the story of the Sartoris family, who first appeared in the novel Sartoris. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Edward Shenton. Near fine in a fine dust jack...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-140414

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Jay-Z

Book of HOV: A Tribute to Jay-Z.

New York: Assouline, 2024.

First edition of this extraordinary book, which celebrates his groundbreaking career of this visionary and cultural icon. Quarto, original blue boards, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Jay-Z o...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-150403

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Stevens, Wallace

The Auroras of Autumn.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950.

First edition of this classic National Book Award winning collection. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell and chemise box. An except...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-142950

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Dickens, Charles

Master Humphrey’s Clock.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1840.

First edition of this collection of short stories which originally appeared as a weekly periodical of the same name. Large octavo, 3 volumes bound into one in three quarters morocco by Riviere & S...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-96034

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Pasternak, Boris

Doctor Zhivago.

London: Collins & Harvill, 1958.

First edition in English of the work which garnered Pasternak the Nobel Prize in literature. Octavo, bound in full crushed levant morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the sp...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-144782

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Buchan, John

A History of the Great War.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1922.

Signed limited edition of Buchan’s classic work, one of 500 numbered examples. Octavo, 8 volumes. Signed by John Buchan. In near fine condition. Uncommon in this condition.

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-125029

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Flaubert, Gustave

Madame Bovary: A Story of Provincial Life.

London: John Lane/The Bodley Head LTD, 1928.

The Bodley Head edition of a seminal novel in literary realism, renowned for its psychological depth and critique of bourgeois society. Octavo, bound in full pictorial morocco by Sangorski & Sutcl...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-148368

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Kennerly, David Hume [Colin Powell]

Photo Op.

Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1995.

First edition of this collection of photographs which capture, firsthand, groundbreaking events in modern history. Quarto, original cloth, generously illustrated with photographs throughout. Associati...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-146674

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Mantle, Mickey

The Quality of Courage.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1964.

First edition of this early work by baseball Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Murph and Joyc...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-145896

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Rothbard, Murray N

What Has Government Done To Our Money?

Novato, CA: Libertarian Publishing, n.d..

Original pamphlet by the famed libertarian economist. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Boldly signed by Murray N. Rothbard on the front panel. In fine condition.

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-148197

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King, Jr., Martin Luther

Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1958.

First edition, early printing of Dr. Martin Luther King’s first book. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-142687

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Sinclair, Upton

Oil! A Novel.

Long Beach, CA: Published by the Author, 1927.

Early printing of Upton Sinclair’s self-published social and political satire and the basis for the film ‘There Will be Blood’ starring Daniel Day Lewis. Presentation copy, inscribed...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-146702

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King, Stephen

Bag of Bones.

New York: Scribners, 1998.

First edition of this work which won the 1999 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel, the 1999 British Fantasy Award for Best Novel, and the 1999 Locus Award for Best Dark Fantasy/Horror Novel. Octavo, orig...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-142294

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Burke, Bill

I Want To Take Picture.

Atlanta: Nexus Press, 1987.

First edition. Folio, original glossy illustrated boards. Limited to 1,000 copies. Signed by Bill Burke. In fine condition.

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-1684

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Saramago, Jose

Baltasar and Blimunda.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1987.

First American edition of Saramago’s first book to be translated into English. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated by the author on the half-title page, “To Haro...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-100019

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Cather, Willa

The Troll Garden.

New-York: McClure Phillips, 1905.

First edition, first issue of this classic collection of stories. Octavo, original publisher’s dark red cloth. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise clamshell box. In near fine condition....

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-142277

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The Whole Art of Fishing. Being a Collection and Improvement of All That Has Been Written Upon the Subject: With Many New Experiments. Shewing the Different Ways of Angling, and the Best Methods of Taking Fresh-water Fish. To Which is Added, the Laws of Angling.

London: E. Curll, 1714.

First edition of this comprehensive 18th-century manual on the art of angling. Duodecimo, bound in full contemporary sprinkled tan sheepskin with the front and rear panels ruled in gilt, gilt crest of...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-151073

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Friedman, Milton & Rose

Free To Choose: A Personal Statement.

New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1980.

First edition, early printing of Friedmans’ persuasive argument for the free market, based on the PBS series Free to Choose. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the auth...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-133804

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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...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-110596

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Haise, Fred

Fred Haise Signed Apollo 13 Module Oversized Photograph.

:, April 14, 1970.

Oversized photograph of the Apollo 13 Module. Black and white photograph of the Apollo 13 Module. Lenghthily signed by Fred Haise with a quote from his conversation with Capsule Communicator Jack Lous...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-145293

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Waugh, Evelyn

Black Mischief.

London: 1932, Chapman & Hall.

First edition of “one of the century’s great masters of the twentieth century” third novel. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, frontispiece, gilt titles and tooli...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-147543

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O'Neill, Eugene

The Iceman Cometh.

New York: Random House, 1946.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning playwright’s masterpiece. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised g...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-143667

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Rushdie, Salman

Midnight’s Children.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1981.

First British edition of the author’s Booker Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Bill Botten.

$1,350.00 Item Number: RRB-91456

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