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Dances with Wolves.

New York: Fawcett Gold Medal, 1988.

First edition of this classic novel, basis for the Academy Award-winning film starring Kevin Costner. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, all edges stained yellow. Boldly signed by Michael Blake and...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-151587

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Junger, Sebastian [George Clooney]

The Perfect Storm.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1997.

First edition of this work, basis for the 2000 film starring Wolfgang Petersen starring George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Diane Lane, William Fichtner, Karen Allen, Bob Gunton, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantoni...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-150103

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Churchill, Winston S

Ian Hamilton’s March.

London: Longman's, Green, and Co, 1900.

First edition of Churchill’s fifth book, a continuation of his coverage of the Boer War which he began in London to Ladysmith via Pretoria. Octavo, original red cloth with gilt titles to the spi...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-129329

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Levin, Ira

The Boys From Brazil.

New York: Random House, 1976.

First edition of this classic suspense novel, basis for the the 1978 film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, starring Gregory Peck and Laurence Olivier. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth w...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-148684

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Sendak, Maurice

In the Night Kitchen.

New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1970.

First edition of Sendak’s classic work. Quarto, original cloth with illustrated paper cover label, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Nich...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-140617

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Huxley, Aldous

The Art of Seeing.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1942.

First edition, early printing of this classic work which details Huxley’s experience with and views on the controversial Bates method, which according to him improved his eyesight. Octavo, origi...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-140889

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Fast, Howard

Spartacus.

New York: Published by the Author, 1951.

First edition of this work, basis for the classic 1960 film starring Kirk Douglas. Boldly signed by Howard Fast on a page bound-in. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titl...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-150338

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Williams, Tennessee

Memoirs.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1975.

First edition of this classic memoir by the author of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and A Streetcar Named Desire. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endp...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-142240

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Gluck, Louise

Ararat.

New York: The Ecco Press, 1990.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s collection of poetry, prompted by the death of her father. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the poet opposite the hal...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-124951

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Cothren, William [William Tecumseh Sherman]

History of Ancient Woodbury, Connecticut, from the First Indian Deed in 1659 to 1854: Including the Present Towns of Washington, Southbury, Bethlem, Roxbury, and a Part of Oxford and Middlebury.

Waterbury, Connecticut: Bronson Brothers, 1854.

Second volume of the first edition of this history of Ancient Woodbury, the location of the Sherman family’s initial establishment in early 1673; from the library of General William Tecumseh Sherman....

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-145760

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O'Casey, Sean

I Knock At The Door: Swift Glances Back at Things That Made Me.

London: Macmillan & Co, 1939.

First edition of this autobiography by the famed Irish playwright. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication, “To Joe Cummins, w...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-108016

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Huxley, Aldous

Point Counter Point.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1928.

First edition of Huxley’s classic satiric novel. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ru...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-143179

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Arnold, Katie. [Joan Didion]

Chemical Pink: A Novel of Obsession.

New York: A Tom Doherty Associates Book, 2001.

First edition of the author’s first novel. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Joan – Thank you for being so generous &...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-141135

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Puzo, Mario [Francis Ford Coppola]

The Godfather.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1969.

Finely bound edition of Puzo’s definitive novel of the Mafia underworld, boldly signed by director Francis Ford Coppola. Octavo, bound in full leather, all edges gilt, ribbon bound in. Boldly si...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-150897

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Solow, Robert M. [Peter Howitt]

Landmark Papers in Economic Growth.

Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2001.

First edition of this collection of writings by Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert M. Solow. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economists Robert M. Solow and Peter Howitt on the...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-132181

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Lewis, Sinclair

Main Street.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920.

First edition, first printing of Lewis’ classic work. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-151686

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Lefevre, Edwin

The Making of a Stockbroker.

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1925.

First edition of this classic Wall Street narrative. Octavo, original maroon cloth. In near fine condition.

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-115693

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Nineteenth Century Carte de Visite Album.

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Rare late nineteenth century carte de visite album containing dozens of original portraits of prominent members of the Griffith family of New York and several contemporary celebrities including Henry...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-136095

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Macaulay, Lord Thomas Babington

The History of England From the Accession of James the Second.

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1869-1870.

Finely bound example of one of the most influential historical works of the nineteenth century, first published in 1848. Small octavo, 8 volumes bound in full contemporary calf with morocco spine labe...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-149509

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Kennedy, Margaret and Basil Dean

The Constant Nymph: From the Novel of Margaret Kennedy.

London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1926.

First edition, second impression of the classic stage adaptation of Kennedy’s Bohemian novel of the same name. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Margaret Kennedy and Basil Dean on the half-...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-124809

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Balzac, Honore de

Eugenie Grandet I.

Paris: Librarie Larousse, n.d.

Finely bound Classiques Larousse edition of Balzac’s short novel, later revised to be included in his ambitious project, La Comédie humaine. Octavo, bound in full crushed green morocco by Sangor...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-130184

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Dickens, Charles

Hard Times. For These Times.

London: Bradbury & Evans, 1854.

First edition in book form of Dickens’ attack on the living conditions of England’s mid-19th century industrial cities. Octavo, bound in full calf by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with gilt titles and too...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-148215

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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. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, ” Best- Th...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-138123

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Garcia Marquez, Gabriel

La Mala Hora.

Madrid: Propiedad Literaria Reservada, 1962.

First edition of this work written just before One Hundred Years of Solitude. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. In very good condition with some light rubbing and wear.

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-48742

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