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Hurston, Zora Neale [Edited by Alice Walker]

I Love Myself When I Am Laughing: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader.

New York: The Feminist Press, 1979.

First edition of this classic collection of work, edited by Alice Walker. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper,...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-141434

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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 autobiography of “the greatest capitalist in history” (Fortune Magazine). Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Thomas J. Watson, Jr. on the front...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-149452

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Didion, Joan

A Book of Common Prayer.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1977.

First edition of Didion’s classic fourth book. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Kenneth Stein Joan Didion 11 July...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-144198

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Klein, William

Tokyo.

New York: Crown Publishers, 1964.

First edition of the fourth volume in Klein’s acclaimed series of “city” books. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Preface by Maurice Pinguet...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-121339

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Hazlitt, William

Political Essays, with Sketches of Public Characters.

London: Printed for William Hone, 1819.

First edition of one of Hazlitt’s most interesting collections, including his estimates and reviews of Southey as Laureate, of Coleridge, Burke, and Malthus (at length). Octavo, bound in three q...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-127349

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Keller, Hellen

The Story of My Life.

Garden City: Doubleday, Dorian & Company, Inc, 1935.

Later printing of Keller’s autobiography of her early life, particularly detailing her relationship with Anne Sullivan. Octavo, original cloth, engraved frontispiece portrait of Keller after a p...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-146138

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Webster, Daniel

Daniel Webster Autograph Letter Signed.

:, 1836.

Rare autograph letter signed by one of the most prominent American lawyers of the 19th century, Daniel Webster written in anticipation of the opening of the American west. One page, folded, text in th...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-124353

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Makos, Adam with Larry Alexander

A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II.

New York: The Berkley Publishing Group, 2013.

First edition, early printing of “the most incredible encounter between enemies in World War II.” Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation co...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-151342

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Parks, Rosa

Rosa Parks: My Story.

New York: Dial Books, 1992.

First edition of Parks’ powerful autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by the author in the year of publication on the title page, “3/15/92 Rosa Parks....

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-147914

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Welty, Eudora; Introduction by Katherine Ann Porter

A Curtain of Green.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1941.

First edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication, “To Bobbie Sumner Cutler with many good wishes- a...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-2816

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Fleming, Ian

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1963.

First edition of the tenth novel in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series. Octavo, original brown cloth. Signed by George Lazenby on the title page, the actor who played 007 in the film adaptation. Gift ins...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-5518

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Cervantes, Miguel de

The History of the Valorous and Witty Knight Errant Don Quixote of the Mancha.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1908.

Finely bound English translation of Cervantes’ masterpiece. Octavo, three volumes, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, top edge gilt, mar...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-140084

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Beny, Roloff (Vivien Leigh)

A Time of Gods.

London: Thames and Hudson, 1962.

First edition of this work by the famed photographer. Quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated endpaper, illustrated with 148 photogravure plates. Association copy, inscribed by the author to...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-74016

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Crews, Harry

Karate Is a Thing of the Spirit.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1971.

First edition of the author’s classic fourth novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Dear Michael– Good and dear friend...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-142087

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Hellman, Lillian

The Children’s Hour.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934.

First edition of the author’s first and most well-known work. Octavo, original cloth. Review copy with publisher’s slip tipped to front free endpaper, near fine in a very good dust jacket....

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-111712

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Prabhavananda, Swami, Gerald Heard, Aldous Huxley, Christopher Isherwood, and John van Druten.

Vedanta for Modern Man.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1951.

First edition of this collection of philosophical and religious essays. Signed by contributors Swami Prabhavananda, Gerald Heard, Aldous Huxley, Christopher Isherwood, and John van Druten on the front...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-143094

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Seller, John

Moscovia and Russia. [17th Century John Seller Map of Moscow and Russia].

London:, c. 1685.

Rare hand-colored 17th century John Seller Map of Moscow and Russia, from Daniel Fenning’s A New System of Geography. One page, with intricate topographical details and hand-colored borders. In...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-123641

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Camus, Albert

L’Exil et Le Royaume.

Paris: Gallimard, 1947.

First edition of Camus’ short story collection exploring themes of existentialism and absurdism. Small octavo, original publisher’s green cloth stamped in black, blue, and gilt after a des...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-146462

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Blishen, Edward. Illustrated by Brian Wildsmith

Oxford Book of Poetry for Children.

London: Oxford University Press, 1963.

First edition of Blishen and Wildsmith’s acclaimed illustrated compilation of children’s poetry. Quarto, bound in full crushed red morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt titles and t...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-129349

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Tobin, James [Robert M. Solow]

Essays in Economics: Volume 1 Macroeconomics.

Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1971.

First edition of this collection of essays. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert M. Solow, who contributed an article in this volume. Name to the front free endpaper,...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-5556

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Miller, Merton H

Merton Miller on Derivatives.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1997.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning economist’s work on derivatives. Octavo, original black boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Mike Lyn...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-3714

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Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Enquiry Regarding the Problems of European Jewry and Palestine, Lausanne, 20th April, 1946.

London: His Majesty's Stationary Office, 1946.

Scarce printing of this governmental report. Thin octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition with light toning to the edges of the wrappers, institutional stamps to the front panel, title page,...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-146800

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Prior, Matthew

The British Poets: Matthew Prior.

London: British Literary Society, n.d.

The extra-illustrated Crown edition of the poems of Matthew Prior, limited to ten numbered and registered sets. Duodecimo, two volumes, publisher’s exquisite deluxe full morocco binding with gilt titl...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-151525

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