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Championship Chess and Checkers for All.

New York: A.S. Barnes and Company, 1953.

First edition of this work by the chess grandmaster. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by Larry Evans on the front free endpaper, “To Ambassador Thompson Best wis...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-3981

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Durante, Jimmy

Jimmy Durante Signed Photograph.

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Large photograph of Jimmy Durante, inscribed by him, “To Sammy – For all you did for me – I hope I may get the chance to do something for you. My Best Always, Schnozzle Durante....

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-63000

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Goldsmith, Oliver

The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale. [Fore-edge Painting].

London: Bickers and Son, 1880.

Finely bound example of one of the most popular and widely read novels among Victorians. Octavo, bound in full pebbled morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and panels, gilt turn-ins and i...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-138744

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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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Dobias, Frank

The Three Billy Goats.

New York: The Macmillan Co, 1927.

First edition of Dobias’ charming retelling of the classic Norwegian fairy tale. Small octavo, original illustrated boards, patterned endpapers. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Scarce.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-115582

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Khayyam, Omar; Edward Fitzgerald; [Elbert Hubbard]

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1906.

Finely bound edition of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald, with an Address by John Hay and Introduction by Clarence S. Darrow. Oblong duodecimo, original h...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-146576

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Day, Thomas

Reflections Upon the Present State of England, and the Independence of America.

London: Printed for J. Stockdale, 1783.

Third edition of Day’s important treatise on American Independence. Octavo, bound in paper wrappers. In very good condition. Uncommon in this condition.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-127208

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Milne, A. A. Decorations by Ernest Shepard

Now We Are Six.

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1960.

Finely bound example of the third book in Milne’s beloved Pooh series. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spine i...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-129436

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Goldoni, Carlo

Delle Commedie Del Signor Carlo Goldoni Avvocato Veneto. Pere servire di continuazione al Nuovo Teatro Comico Del Medesimo Autore.

Bologna: A. S. Tommaso d'Aquino, 1762-1765.

Rare eighteenth century Italian printing of Goldoni’s Commedie. Octavo, two volumes bound in full vellum. In good condition. A rare printing published during Goldoni’s lifetime.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-129022

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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. Boldly signed and dated by the author on the title page,...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-133715

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Boorstin, Daniel J

The Discoverers: A History of Man’s Search to know his World and Himself.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Publishers, 1991.

First illustrated edition of this classic work. Octavo, two volumes, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the front free end paper in the year of publication of both volumes. Volume one’s...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-5026

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Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]

The Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches.

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919.

First edition of Twain’s collection of humorous sketches. Octavo, original half cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Uncommon in the original dust jacket.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-64043

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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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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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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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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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