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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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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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Lewis, C.S

Rehabilitations and Other Essays.

London: Oxford University Press, 1939.

First edition of one of Lewis’ earliest and most substantial books of essays. Octavo, original cloth, top edge black. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-131228

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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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Parks, Rosa

Rosa Parks: My Story.

New York: Dial Books, 1992.

First edition, early printing of Parks’ autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Signed by the author on the title page, “11/21/94 Rosa Parks.” Fine in a fine dust ja...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-138034

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Hillary, Edmund

High Adventure.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1955.

First British edition of Hillary’s account of his ascent of Everest. Octavo, bound in full morocco, marbled endpapers, slipcase, with maps by A. Sparks and sketches by George Djurkouic. Presenta...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-140999

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Mansfield, J. Carroll [William T. Sherman]

Kit Carson.

Cleveland, Ohio: The World Syndicate Publishing Co, 1933.

First edition of this biographical history of a frontier legend in pictures; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Oblong 48mo, original pictorial boards, illustrated with depictions of the l...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-145972

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Milnes, Richard Monckton. [The Right Honorable Lord Houghton]

Opening Address by Lord Houghton, President of the Society.

:, c. 1873.

Rare first edition of Lord Houghton’s Opening Address before the Norwich Congress of the Social Science Association. Octavo, bound in three quarters contemporary calf over marbled boards, gilt t...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-112568

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Owens, Mark and Delia

Cry of the Kalahari: Seven Years in Africa’s Last Great Wilderness.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984.

First edition of this classic work, which ranks with “Goodall’s In the Shadow of Man and Fossey’s Gorillas in the Mist” (Chicago Tribune). Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpape...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-149866

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Roberts, H. A. [John Neville Keynes]

In Memoriam: John Bascombe Lock.

Cambridge: Printed at the University Press, 1921.

First edition of this in memoriam of John Bascombe Lock from the Caian magazine of Cambridge. Octavo, original wrappers, frontispiece of John Bascombe Lock. Presentation copy, inscribed by H.A. Robert...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-150696

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Lee, Geddy

Geddy Lee Signed Presto CD.

Toronto: Anthem Records Inc, 1989.

Rare ‘Presto’ album CD, signed by lead vocalist, bassist, and keyboardist Geddy Lee. Duodecimo, original CD case and illustrated lyrics booklet. Boldly signed by Lee in blue felt tip on th...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-146558

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