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The Complete Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation: Being a Discourse on Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish, and Fishing.

London: Printed only for Thomas Hope; sold by him and Sackville Parker, Richard Matthews, and Samuel Trimmer, 1760.

First Hawkins edition of Walton’s classic work. Octavo, original full speckled tan calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, double gilt ruling to t...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-146335

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Rice, Anne

Lives of the Mayfair Witches Trilogy: The Witching Hour; Lasher; Taltos.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990, 1993, 1994.

First editions of each volume in the author’s classic Mayfair Witches Trilogy. Octavo, three volumes. Each volume is signed or inscribed by Anne Rice and The Witching Hour and Lasher signed thre...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-149831

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Niven, Larry

Ringworld.

New York: Ballantine Books, 1970.

Paperback original first edition of this classic work, which went on to win the 1970 Nebula and 1971 Hugo award for best novel. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers by Dean Ellis. Presentation copy,...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-140443

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Tuchman, Barbara W

The Guns of August.

New York: Macmillan, 1962.

First edition of Tuchman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the opening episodes of World War I. Octavo, original black cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. Near fine in a near fine dust...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-150328

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Galbraith, John Kenneth

The Great Crash 1929.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1988.

First Easton Press edition of this classic work. Octavo, bound in full leather, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, front and rear panels, raised bands, all edges gilt, ribbon bound in. Boldly signe...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-151078

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Dahl, Roald

Roald Dahl Autograph Letter Signed.

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Autograph letter signed by the great children’s storyteller Roald Dahl. One page, handwritten letter to American writer and Playboy editor Ray Russell, responding to an inquiry soliciting contri...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-148769

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Huxley, Elspeth

The Mottled Lizard.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1962.

First edition of this sequel to Huxley’s The Flame Trees of Thika. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Elspeth Huxley on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Rosemary...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-46332

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Stevens, Cat [Steven Demetre Georgiou]

Cat Stevens Signed Teaser and the Firecat Album.

Santa Monica, California: Irving Music, Inc, 1971.

Cat Stevens’ fifth studio album, which went multi-platinum in the United States and the United Kingdom, and features hit songs “Peace Train” and “Morning Has Broken.” Sig...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-149336

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Glasgow, Ellen [Charlotte Perkins Gilman]

Virginia.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1913.

First edition of this socially groundbreaking novel; from the library of writer and social reformer Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Octavo, original red cloth, frontispiece portrait of the titular character...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-145595

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Herbert, Frank

The Dosadi Experiment.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1977.

First edition of this standalone science fiction novel from the author of Dune. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Boldly signed by Frank Herbert on the title page beneath his name. Fine in a n...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-150880

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Gomard [Possellier A.J.J.]

La Théorie de L’Escrime. [The Theory of Fencing].

Paris: Librairie Militaire de J. Dumaine, 1845.

First edition of this monumental nineteenth-century French fencing manual. Octavo, written in French, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-151305

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Courtenay, Bryce

The Power of One.

London: William Heinemann, 1989.

First British edition of the Courtenay’s classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed and dated by the author in the year of publication on the title page, “Bryce Courtenay 22/3/89....

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-147199

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Palmer, Arnold [Payne Stewart, Vijay Singh]

A Golfer’s Life.

New York: Ballantine Books, 1999.

First edition of the golfing legend’s autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, with 16 black-and-white photographic plates. Boldly signed by Arnold Palmer and Payne Stewart on the half-title...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-149555

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Wallace, David Foster

The David Foster Wallace Reader.

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2014.

Deluxe signed limited edition of this compilation of Foster Wallace’s work. Octavo, original boards. Signed by artist Karen Green, the widow of Foster Wallace. The limited edition contains one p...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-138151

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Burroughs, John

The Writings of John Burroughs: Accepting the Universe.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1921.

Volume XXI of the Autograph edition of Burroughs’ collected writings. Octavo, elaborately bound in full crushed levant morocco by H. R. Johnson with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-149746

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Burger, Warren E.; William J. Brennan Jr.; Byron R. White; Harry A. Blackmun; Lewis F. Powell; William H. Rehnquist; John Pail Stevens; Sandra Day O'Connor

Supreme Court Justices Signed Engraving.

: Bureau of Engraving and Printing, .

Rare original engraving of the Supreme Court signed by eight Supreme Court justices. Boldly signed by Warren E. Burger, William J. Brennan, Jr., Byron R. White, Harry A. Blackmun, Lewis F. Powell, Wil...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-150168

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Keller, Helen

Midstream: My Later Life.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1930.

First edition, later printing of Keller’s autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, top stain red, frontispiece, illustrated with plates from photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by Helen Kell...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-151551

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Irving, John [Peter Matthiessen]

Trying to Save Piggy Sneed.

New York: Arcade Publishing, 1996.

First edition of this collection of short stories. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page to author and fellow National Book Award-winning noveli...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-4658

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The Macallan [Ian Fleming]

The Macallan James Bond 60th Anniversary Limited Edition Giclée Print Collection.

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Limited edition 60th anniversary Giclée print collection marking the six decades of James Bond films with a collaboration between The Macallan and EON Productions. Square folio, pictorial boards, six...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-147855

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Miles, General Nelson A

Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles: Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War or From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development and Progress of Our Great Western Empire.

Chicago: The Werner Company, 1896.

Publisher’s deluxe first edition of this autobiography of a great military general; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Quarto, bound in full crushed morocco with gilt titles to the f...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-145738

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Schedel, Hartmann

Framed Leaf From The Nuremberg Chronicle.

Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1493.

Original leaf from the Nuremberg Chronicle, the most extensively illustrated book of the 15th century. The dates on the leaf fall within the Sixth Age, covering late antiquity and the early Middle Age...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-149397

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Gardener, Helen H. [Charlotte Perkins Gilman]

Pray You, Sir, Whose Daughter?

Boston: Arena Publishing Company, 1892.

Later edition of this feminist novella; from the library of writer and social reformer Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Duodecimo, original wrappers. Signed by Gilman on the title page, “Charlotte Perk...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-145598

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Boyd, William

A Good Man in Africa.

London : Hamish Hamilton, 1981.

First edition of the author’s classic first book. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Annette, with all good wishes from the...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-124801

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Karsten, Karl G

Charts and Graphs: An Introduction to Graphic Methods In the Control and Analysis of statistics.

New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1923.

First edition of this seminal work on charts and graphs. Octavo, original leatherette boards, illustrated throughout. Introduction by Carl Snyder. In very good condition. First editions are rare.

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-132351

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