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Jerusalem Windows.

New York: Braziller, 1962.

First edition. Folio, original red cloth, with two original color lithographs specially prepared by Chagall for this edition, illustrated throughout. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. A very sharp exam...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-1376

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Rogers, Kenny [Yousuf Karsh]

Your Friends and Mine.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1987.

First edition of this collection of portraits and personal observations of Kenny Rogers famous celebrity friends. Folio, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated with 80 photographs. Association...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-151964

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Clancy, Tom [Ben Affleck]

The Sum of All Fears.

New York: G.P. Putnams's Sons, 1991.

First edition of this classic work, basis for the 2002 film starring Ben Affleck as Jack Ryan. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Tom Clancy and Academy Award-winning actor Ben Affleck on t...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-150298

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Breyer, Stephen [Chip Kidd] [Peter Matthiessen]

Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge’s View.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.

First edition of the justice’s groundbreaking work. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to writer Peter Matthiessen on the half-title page, “For Peter Best wi...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-151208

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Translated by Edward Fitzgerald. Illustrated by Will Pogany

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., n.d..

Elaborately bound example of Pogany’s finely illustrated Rubaiyat. Octavo, bound in full crushed red morocco by Banytun Riviere with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments with...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-129800

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Angelou, Maya

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings.

New York: Random House, 1969.

First edition, second printing of Angelou’s critically acclaimed first book. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Yvett...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-151698

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Bogle, John C. [Burton G. Malkiel]

Common Sense on Mutual Funds.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1999.

First edition of the best book on index investing ever published. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author and by legendary investor and author of A Random Walk On Wall Stre...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-112469

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Palm Leaf Manuscript.

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Very attractive palm leaf book in East Asian script (possibly Burmese). Approximately 159 palm leaves between two wooden covers with beveled edges, loosely bound with a cord, with a medallion at each...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-52015

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Faulkner, William

The Wild Palms.

New York: Random House, 1939.

First edition first printing of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s grandly inventive, heart-stopping classic novel. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-147414

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Putnam, Samuel [Otto N. Frankfurter]

Marvelous Journey: A Survey of Four Centuries of Brazilian Writing.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948.

First edition of this history of Brazilian literature. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, top stain black. Association copy, lengthily inscribed by Otto Frankfurter on the front free endpaper,...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-148586

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The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Church of England: Together with the Proper Lessons for Sundays and Other Holy-Days, and a New Version of the Psalms of David.

Oxford: Printed at the Oxford University Press, 1861.

Finely bound Oxford University printing of the Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments. Duodecimo, bound in full pebbled morocco richly decorated in gilt with gilt tooling to the sp...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-148987

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Muir, John

The Mountains of California.

New York: The Century Co, 1894.

First edition of Muir’s classic work on the mountains of California. Octavo, original pictorial cloth decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, frontispiece, illustrated throughout. In very good.

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-149358

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Smith, William

A Concise Dictionary of the Bible, For the Use of Families and Students.

London: John Murray, 1865.

First edition of Smith’s Concise Dictionary of the Bible. Octavo, bound in full dark green leather with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, gilt inner dentelles, al...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-147247

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Crichton, Michael

Sphere.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.

First edition of Crichton’s sixth book, a sci-fi psychological thriller about a team of scientists who discover a massive, ancient spacecraft resting on the Pacific Ocean floor, basis for the fi...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-152979

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Swarthout, Glendon; [Connie Francis and Dolores Hart]

Where the Boys Are.

New York: Random House, 1960.

First edition of the author’s classic novel, the basis for the 1960 comedy film of the same name which popularized the ‘spring break’ pilgrimage to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Octavo,...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-148701

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Owen, Hon. Robert L

The Federal Reserve Act.

New York: The Century Co, 1919.

Rare first edition of this work on the Federal Reserve. Small octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable.

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-145611

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Butler, Samuel

The Way of All Flesh.

London: Grant Richards, 1903.

First edition of Butler’s classic semi-autobiographical Bildungsroman. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell and chemise box. An exceptional e...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-130529

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Walton, Izaak and Charles Cotton

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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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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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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