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Reasons and Persons.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984.

First edition of one of the most important philosophical texts of the second half the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Small name to the front free endpaper.

$1,150.00 Item Number: RRB-114653

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Dick, Philip K

The Divine Invasion.

New York: Timescape Books, 1981.

First edition of the second book in Dick’s gnostic VALIS trilogy. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Philip K. Dick on the publisher’s official bookplate produced for this edition. Fin...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-123684

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Lanning, George; Samuel Couling

The History of Shanghai.

Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh/ Printed and Published for the Shanghai Municipal Council, 1921.

First edition of this early comprehensive English-language account of Shanghai’s transformation from a regional port into a major international city. Royal octavo, original publisher’s black clo...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-150329

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Mailer, Norman

The Naked and the Dead.

New York: Henry Holt, 2005.

First edition of the 50th anniversary edition of the author’s classic first novel. Thick octavo, original boards. Lengthily inscribed by the author on the half-title page, who has transcribed th...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-842

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Dickens, Charles

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.

London: Oxford University Press, 1968.

Elaborately bound Oxford illustrated edition of one of Dickens’ most popular novels. Octavo, bound in full crushed blue morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spi...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-129073

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Pasternak, Boris

First edition of this collection of poems and prose written during the Russian Revolution. Sextodecimo, original pictorial wrappers, in the original Russian. In very good condition. A very sharp examp...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-147958

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Custer, Elizabeth B

Tenting on the Plains or General Custer in Kansas and Texas.

New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1887.

First edition of Elizabeth Custer’s famous defense of Custer. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated green cloth, patterned endpapers, engraved tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait and 28...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-150708

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Armstrong, Louis

Louis Armstrong Signed Program.

New York: Associated Booking Corp, n.d.

‘Louis Armstrong and his Concert Group’ program. Quarto, original wrappers, 20 pages, illustrated with black and white photographs of the band and its members. Boldy signed by Louis Armstrong on...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-146533

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Beerbohm, Max

Zuleika Dobson or An Oxford Love Story.

London: William Heinemann, 1911.

First edition of Beerbohm’s classic and only novel. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. Bookplate. Housed in a custom chemise clamshell box. A very nice example.

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-131261

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Hepburn, Katharine

Me: Stories of My Life.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991.

First edition of Katharine Hepburn’s revealing autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with 165 photographs. Boldly signed by Katharine Hepburn on the front free endpaper. Additionall...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-147701

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Hardy, Thomas; Agnes Miller Parker [Illustrator]

Jude the Obscure.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1969.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of the last completed novel by Hardy. Octavo, bound in full modern morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe / Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles and tooling to th...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-148808

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Woolf, Virginia

Flush: A Biography.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1933.

First edition of Woolf’s fictional “stream of consciousness” tale by Flush, a dog, telling the story of his owner, Elizabeth Browning. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt B...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-146583

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Palmer, Arnold

Arnold Palmer’s Golf Book “Hit It Hard!”

New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1961.

First edition of Arnold Palmer’s first book. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the fr...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-144210

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Hagen, Walter; As told to Margaret Seaton Heck

The Walter Hagen Story.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956.

First edition of Hagen’s autobiography. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-151625

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Sanger, Margaret

Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1938.

First edition of Sanger’s autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of Sanger. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Franklin M. Watts Marga...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-60034

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Tolstoy, Leo

The Cossacks: A Tale of the Caucasus in 1852.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1878.

First edition in English of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Translated by Eugene Schuyler. In very good condition.

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-123937

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Frost, Robert

A Boy’s Will.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1934.

Second American edition of Frost’s first published work. Octavo, original beige linen cloth, engraved title page. Signed and dated by the poet on the title page, “Robert Frost February 25...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-130124

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Maugham, W.Somerset

The Maugham Reader.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1950.

First edition of this collection by the author of The Razor’s Edge. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Bayntun, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-134572

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Kerouac, Jack

The Town and the City.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950.

First edition of Kerouac’s first book. Octavo, original red cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Leo Manso.

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-138596

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Frost, Robert

Steeple Bush.

New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1947.

First edition, first printing of this spiritually-themed Frost collection. Octavo, original half cloth over boards, front panel decorated in gilt. One of 751 copies signed by the author on the limitat...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-110271

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Flynn, Gillian

Gone Girl.

New York: Crown Publishers, 2012.

First edition of this “instant classic” (Vanity Fair), basis for the film starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Gillian Flynn and Academy Award-winning...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-131752

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Bacher, Robert F. [Berlyn Brixner]

Robert Bacher Signed Trinity Nuclear Test Mushroom Cloud Photograph.

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Rare original vintage Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory photograph of the first mushroom cloud from the Trinity nuclear test, the first detonation of a nuclear weapon. Semi-glossy, black and white phot...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-148772

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Conrad, Joseph

The Rover.

London: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd, 1923.

First British edition of the last complete novel by Joseph Conrad. Octavo, finely bound in full morocco by Bayntun, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, double gilt ruled, inner dentell...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-119454

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First Edition Books for Sale Online

Reasons and Persons.

The Divine Invasion.

The History of Shanghai.

The Naked and the Dead.

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.

The Year 1905.

Tenting on the Plains or General Custer in Kansas and Texas.

Louis Armstrong Signed Program.

Zuleika Dobson or An Oxford Love Story.

Me: Stories of My Life.

Jude the Obscure.

Flush: A Biography.

Arnold Palmer’s Golf Book “Hit It Hard!”

The Walter Hagen Story.

Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography.

The Cossacks: A Tale of the Caucasus in 1852.

A Boy’s Will.

The Maugham Reader.

The Town and the City.

Steeple Bush.

Gone Girl.

Robert Bacher Signed Trinity Nuclear Test Mushroom Cloud Photograph.

The Rover.