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Kierkegaard, Søren. Translated by A. S. Aldworth & W. S. Ferrie

Consider The Lilies: Being the Second part of “Edifying Discourses in a Different Vein”, published in 1847 at Copenhagen, by S. Kierkegaard.

London: The C. W. Daniel Company, Ltd, 1940.

First English edition of the elaboration and conclusion of Kierkegaard’s important existential discourses of 1847. Octavo, original cloth. Translated from the Danish by A. S. Aldworth & W. S...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-148328

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Powers, J.F

Morte D’Urban.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1962.

Review copy of the first edition of the author’s masterpiece, winner of the National Book Award. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by J.F. Powers. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Slip laid in fr...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-137471

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Sophocles; Translated by Elizabeth Wyckoff; Harry Bennett [Illustrator]

Sophocles: Antigone.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1975.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of Sophocles’ classical Greek tragedy. Quarto, bound in three-quarters modern morocco by Morrell over cloth covered boards with gilt titles to th...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-148542

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Yalom, Irvin D

Inpatient Group Psychotherapy.

New York: Basic Books, 1983.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Pat Irvin D. Yalom.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Ja...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-141494

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Antique Postcard Collection Album.

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Rare folio containing hundreds of vintage postcards, most postdated between 1907 and 1917. From the collection of Ellen Warren. Folio, original cloth decorated in gilt with raised vignettes to the fro...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-116035

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Kipling, Rudyard

With Number Three, Surgical & Medical and New Poems. Also Letters from Julian Ralph, Charles E. Hands and Douglas Story.

Santiago: Hume & Co, 1900.

First edition of this unauthorized collection of seven Kipling poems and two articles. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise slipcase. Rare.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-120640

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Nelson, Byron

Byron Nelson’s Winning Golf.

New York: A.S. Barnes and Company, 1946.

First edition of Nelson’s first book. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Foreword by Grantland Rice. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To G.R. Tate...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-146822

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Berners-Lee, Tim

Weaving the Web: The Original Destiny of the World Wide Web by It’s Inventor.

New York: HarperSanFrancisco, 1999.

First edition of this autobiography by the inventor of the world wide web. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Tim Berners-Lee on the front free endpaper in Cambridge, Massachus...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-151971

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Weller, Michael [Alan Schneider]

Cancer.

London: Faber & Faber , 1971.

First British edition of Michael Weller’s celebrated comic play of the 1960s generation, produced in America under the title Moonchildren. Octavo, original publisher’s pictorial wrappers....

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-152243

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Greene, Graham

The Pleasure-Dome.

London: Secker & Warburg, 1972.

First edition of this film criticism by Graham Greene. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the title page,...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-137598

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Kidd, Chip

Go: A Kidd’s Guide to Graphic Design.

New York: Workman Publishing, 2013.

First edition of this classic of graphic design. Quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated throughout, photographs by Geoff Spear. Signed three times by Chip Kidd, once on the front panel, on t...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-149793

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Kundera, Milan

The Farewell Party.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1976.

First edition of Kundera’s third novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by Milan Kundera in the year of publication on the half-title page. Near fine in a very goo...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-120543

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Susskind, Leonard

The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics.

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2008.

First edition of this compelling inside account from the professor of theoretical physics at Stanford University, one of the fathers of string theory. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with mathema...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-145181

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Johnstone, James [Translator]

The Norwegian Account of Haco’s Expedition Against Scotland.

Copenhagen: Printed for the author, 1782.

Rare first edition of this classic account of Haco’s campaign against Alexander III of Scotland in 1263, a campaign that culminated in the Battle of Largs and resulted in Håkon’s death. Sm...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-146130

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Loeb, Marshall and William Safire

Plunging into Politics: How to Become or Support a Candidate of the National, State, of Local Level.

New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1964.

First edition of Safire and Loeb’s classic work. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, double gilt ruling to the f...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-128605

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Luce, R. Duncan and Howard Raiffa

Games and Decisions: Introduction and Critical Survey.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Publishers, 1957.

First edition of this classic introduction to game theory. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Howard Raiffa on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-137439

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Morton, Andrew [Monica Lewinsky; Steve Snider]

Monica’s Story.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.

First edition of Andrew Morton’s authorized biography of Monica Lewinsky, published in 1999 at the height of the scandal that led to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton. Octavo, original p...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-152257

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Robuchon, Joel with Catherine Michel

Ma Cuisine Pour Vous: Les Recettes Originales de Joel Robuchon.

Paris: Robert Laffont, 1986.

First edition of Robuchon’s classic cook book. Octavo, original pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with full-page color photographs by Corrinne Ryman and Pierre Cabannes. Present...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-138242

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Proulx, Annie; Larry McMurtry; Diana Ossana

Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay.

New York: Scribner, 2005.

First Scribner trade edition of this collection of essays on the process of adapting the critically acclaimed story for film, signed by all three contributors. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Larry...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-139493

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Wouk, Herman

Marjorie Morningstar.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1955.

First edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Herman Wouk on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. Jacket design by...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-110555

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Masters, William H. and Virginia E. Johnson

Human Sexual Inadequacy.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1970.

First edition, early printing of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by both Masters and Johnson on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-117478

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Lawrence, T.E

Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1965.

Finely bound edition of Lawrence’s classic account of his role in the Arab rebellion against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Brentano’s, frontispi...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-144546

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Frost, Robert

Robert Frost Reading His Own Poems.

Chicago: The National Council of Teachers of English, c.1949.

Original LP of Robert Frost reading his poetry. Inscribed by the author on the front panel Frost to Gladys Schmidt dated Jan. 18 1952. The recipient Gladys Schmidt was a professor of English at Carneg...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-120198

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Rosendahl, Commander C.E

What About the Airship? The Challenge to the United States.

New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1938.

First edition of this spirited defense of the airship that calls for America to secure and maintain airship superiority. Octavo, original publisher’s blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine and...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-150526

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