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Auchincloss, Louis; Beeson, Jack; Calisher, Hortense; Huxtable, Ada Louise; Kahn, Wolf; Lewis, R.W.B.; Lippold, Richard; Mailer, Norman; Ozick, Cynthia; Schlensinger, Arthur, Jr.; Edited by John Updike

A Century of Arts and Letters.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.

First edition of this work celebrating the history of the American Academy of Arts & Letters on its centenary. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Boldly signed on the the title page by a...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-145842

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Hillary, Edmund

Edmund Hillary Signed 2003 National Geographic Magazine Cover.

Washington, D.C: National Geographic Society, 2003.

Original May 2003 edition of The National Geographic Magazine cover signed by the first man to reach the summit of Mount Everest, Sir Edmund Hillary. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers featuring a...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-146008

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Curiosities of Biography, or Memoirs of Remarkable Men. Illustrated by One Hundred Characteristic Portraits.

Glasgow: Printed for Richard Griffin & Company, 1845.

First edition of this classic collection of biographies. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt ban...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-125012

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Phillpotts, Eden [Whitaker Wright]

Children of the Mist: A Novel.

London: A. D. Innes & Company, 1898.

First edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, tissue-guarded frontispiece. Presentation copy, inscribed by f...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-137170

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Rhodes, James Ford [William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt]

The McKinley and Roosevelt Administrations 1897-1909.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1922.

First edition of Rhodes’ authoritative work on the McKinley and Roosevelt Administrations. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Zaehnsdorf, gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments wi...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-139557

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Dumas, Alexandre (Alexander)

Henri III et sa Cour.

Paris: Vezard et Cie, 1829.

Rare first edition of Dumas’ first play. Octavo, contemporary half calf over marbled boards. This work also includes Maximes et Pensées Du Prisonnier De Sainte-Hélène. In near fine condition wit...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-87497

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Styron, William

The Confessions of Nat Turner.

New York: Random House, 1967.

Signed limited first edition of Styron’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, one of only 500 signed examples. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine slipcase. Housed in a custom half morocco slipc...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-142690

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Waters, Alice

Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook.

New York: Random House, 1982.

First edition, early printing of Waters’ first book. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Alice Waters on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-150979

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Langer, Bernhard

Masters 1985.

: Augusta National Club, 1985.

First edition of the Augusta publication of the 1985 Masters. Quarto, original boards, gilt titles to the spine and front panel, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Bernhard Langer on the half-ti...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-135231

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Brautigan, Richard

Trout Fishing in America.

New York: A Delta Book/ Dell Publishing, 1967.

First edition of this work “that has very little to do with trout fishing and a lot to do with the lamenting of a passing pastoral America . . . an instant cult classic” (Financial Times). Octavo, ori...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-133793

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Dickens, Charles

The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

London: Chapman & Hall, 1870.

First edition from the original parts Dickens’ final novel, with them bound in the rear. Octavo, bound in three quarters calf over marbled boards, frontispiece portrait of dickens, 12 wood-engra...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-133997

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Borman, Frank

Frank Borman Signed Apollo 8 Mission Report.

Houston, TX: National Aeronautics and Space Administration / Manned Spacecraft Center, 1969.

Apollo 8 Mission Report describing the observations and objectives, trajectory, biomedical evaluations, and anomalies of the mission flight. Quarto, original wrappers, unbound. Signed on the front pan...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-147240

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Anderson, Robert. [Alan Schneider]

You Know I Can’t Hear You When the Water’s Running.

New York: Random House, 1967.

First edition of Robert Anderson’s quartet of one-act comedies, among the longest-running non-musical hits of the 1960s Broadway stage. Octavo, original half cloth, top stain orange, illustrated...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-152158

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Keynes, John Maynard. [J.M.]

Indian Currency and Finance.

London: Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1913.

First edition of Keynes’ first major work on economics. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition. Neat ownership inscription to the front free endpaper.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-136408

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Kirzner, Israel M

Competition and Entrepreneurship.

Indianapolis : Liberty Fund, 2013.

First edition of the Liberty Fund edition of Kirzner’s classic Austrian School text. Octavo, original cloth, patterned endpapers. Signed by Israel M. Kirzner on the title page. Fine in a fine du...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-86784

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Meredith, George

The Works of George Meredith.

Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co, 1897.

Finely bound set of the works of George Meredith. Octavo, 18 volumes bound by Maclehose in three quarters crushed morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-124159

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O'Neill, Eugene

All God’s Chillun Got Wings and Welded.

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927.

First edition of this collection of two of O’Neill’s expressionist plays, including one of his most controversial. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Eugene O’Neill on the front free...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-90479

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Saramago, Jose

The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis.

Orlando: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1991.

First American edition of the Nobel-Prize winning author’s second book to be translated into English. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page,...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-140786

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Thompson, Ernest

On Golden Pond.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1979.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the half-title page in the year of publication to director George Schaefer, “Septe...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-119372

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Stanley, Henry M

Magdala: The Story of the Abyssinian Campaign of 1866-7.

London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1896.

First edition of the second part of the ‘Coomassie and Magdala’ volume. Octavo, original leather binding, illustrated with a map of the British expedition and numerous drawings by Melton P...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-145193

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Illuminated Medieval Book of Hours Leaf.

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Rare illuminated leaf from a German Medieval Book of Hours. One page, text in Latin, elaborately engraved with an illuminated border, the image depicts a scene from the book of Samuel in which David o...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-120446

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Newby, Eric

A Short Walk In the Hindu Kush.

London: Secker & Warburg, 1958.

Rare uncorrected proof of the first edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original wrappers, illustrated. In good condition.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-146280

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Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

The General in His Labyrinth.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990.

Signed limited first edition of this “fascinating tour de force and a moving tribute to an extraordinary man” (Margaret Atwood, New York Times Book Review). Octavo, bound in full leather. Boldly...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-130969

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