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The Victim.

New York: The Vanguard Press, 1947.

First edition of the author’s second novel. Octavo, original black cloth. Signed twice by the author. Signed “good wishes Saul Bellow” on the title page and again on a notecard on th...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-1961

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Stead, William Thomas [Editor]

The Review of Reviews. Vol IV. July-December. 1891.

London: The "Review of Reviews", 1891.

The July-December 1891 issue of of Stead’s The Review of Reviews. Octavo, original publisher’s binding, illustrated, advertisements, index. In very good condition.

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-135348

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Styron, William

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by William Styron on the title page. Fine in a near fine jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. Housed in a custom half morocco...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-143491

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Greene, Graham

The Honorary Consul.

London: The Bodley Head Ltd, 1973.

First edition of one of Greene’s own favorite works. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gil...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-146489

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Sterne, Laurence

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy.

London: T. Becket, 1777.

Finely bound set of Sterne’s Tristram Shandy. Octavo, 6 volumes, bound in contemporary full polished brown calf, black morocco spine labels, smooth spines with gilt rules and decorations, marble...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-89417

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Steinbeck, John

Cannery Row.

New York: The Viking Press, 1945.

First edition, first state of this classic work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Dust jacket design by Arthur Hawkins, Jr....

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-151340

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Faulkner, William

Knight’s Gambit.

New York: Random House, 1949.

First edition of this short story collection by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Review copy with the slip laid in, fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by E.McKnight...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-100822

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Dickens, Charles

The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

London: Chapman & Hall, 1870.

First edition, bound from the original parts of Dickens’ final novel. Octavo, original bound in full calf, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, double gilt ruled to the front and rear panels...

$925.00 Item Number: RRB-131055

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Bolano, Roberto [Natasha Wimmer; Charlotte Strick]

2666.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.

First edition of the author’s masterpiece published posthumously in English, which was named one of the New York Times’ 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated en...

$900.00 Item Number: RRB-148774

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Baum, L. Frank

The Lost Princess of Oz.

Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co, 1917.

First edition of the eleventh book in Baum’s celebrated Oz series. Quarto, original publisher’s light blue cloth with large pictorial paper onlay to the front panel (Bienvenue and Schmidt...

$900.00 Item Number: RRB-151940

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James, William

A Full and Correct Account of the Chief Naval Occurrences of the Late War Between Great Britain and The United States of America; Preceded by a Cursory Examination of the American Accounts of Their Naval Actions Fought Previous to That Period.

London: Printed for T. Egerton, 1817.

First edition of James’ naval history of the War of 1812, which inspired Theodore Roosevelt’s account from the American perspective: The Naval War of 1812. Octavo, bound in full contempora...

$900.00 Item Number: RRB-132919

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Ali, Muhammad

Prayer and Al-Islam.

Chicago: Muhammad Islamic Foundation, 1982.

First edition of this prayer book. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Muhammad Ali on the front free endpaper, “To Marc from Muhammad Ali 9-25-86.” In fine condition.

$900.00 Item Number: RRB-123489

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Churchill, Winston S

Shall We Commit Suicide?

New York: Eilert Printing Co, 1924.

First separate edition of Churchill’s ominously prophetic article. 12mo, original wrappers. In near fine condition. Rare, especially in this condition.

$900.00 Item Number: RRB-135844

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Coolidge, Calvin

Have Faith in Massachusetts: A Collection of Speeches and Messages.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1919.

Second enlarged edition of this collection of speeches. Octavo, original cloth, tissue-guarded frontispiece of Coolidge. Presentation copy, boldly inscribed by the author on the half-title page,...

$900.00 Item Number: RRB-151229

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Roosevelt, Eleanor

On My Own: The Years Since The White House.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1958.

First edition of Roosevelt’s last book of autobiography. Octavo, original blue cloth, illustrated with 16 pages of photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page,...

$875.00 Item Number: RRB-92117

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Lawrence R. Klein & Michael K. Evans

The Wharton Econometric Forecasting Model.

: University of Pennsylvania, 1967.

First edition. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition with some offsetting and light spotting the front panel. Inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Lawrence Klein on the title page.

$875.00 Item Number: RRB-3797

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Fanon, Frantz

Studies in a Dying Colonialism.

New York: Monthly REview Press, 1965.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Ernest Socolov. Translated from the French by Haakon Chevalier. Introduction by Adolp...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-129464

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Bemelmans, Ludwig

Madeline’s Rescue.

New York: The Viking Press, 1955.

First edition, early printing of the second book in the Madeline series, which went on to win the Caldecott Medal in 1954. Thin quarto, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated throughout. Pre...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-146919

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Bradford, Barbara Taylor

A Woman of Substance.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1979.

First edition, early printing of the author’s classic first book, a dazzling saga of a woman who dared to dream―and to triumph against all odds. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, l...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-147361

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Balfour, Arthur James

Speech In The House of Commons on Women’s Suffrage.

London: Published by The Central Society For Women's Suffrage, [c.1892].

Rare printing of Lord Balfour’s speech supporting the Women’s Franchise Bill, which proposed extending the parliamentary vote to women. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition.

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-135551

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Boynton, Henry Walcott

Two Editions of the Golfer’s Rubaiyat.

Chicago/ New York: Herbert S. Stone/ Duffield, 1901, 1907.

Both the first and second editions of the Golfer’s Rubaiyat. Octavo, original cloth, two volumes, illustrated throughout. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-75645

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Abernathy, Ralph David

And the Walls Came Tumbling Down.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1989.

First edition of this work which “brings alive the history of the civil rights era. . . . Abernathy’s storytelling is gripping” (New York Times). Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by t...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-117368

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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Scherz, List und Rache. [Jest, Cunning, and Revenge].

Leipzig: Bey Georg Joachim Göschen, 1790.

First edition of this libretto in the original German. Octodecimo, in wrappers. In near fine condition with very light toning. Housed in a custom folding chemise and half cloth case. Rare.

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-145573

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Child, Julia

From Julia Child’s Kitchen.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975.

First edition of Child’s fourth book. Octavo, original pictorial coated cloth boards. Boldly by the author on front free endpaper, “To Jackie Julia Child.” Additionally signed by Pau...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-146345

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First Edition Books for Sale Online

The Victim.

The Review of Reviews. Vol IV. July-December. 1891.

Set This House on Fire.

The Honorary Consul.

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy.

Cannery Row.

Knight’s Gambit.

The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

2666.

The Lost Princess of Oz.

A Full and Correct Account of the Chief Naval Occurrences of the Late War Between Great Britain and The United States of America; Preceded by a Cursory Examination of the American Accounts of Their Naval Actions Fought Previous to That Period.

Prayer and Al-Islam.

Shall We Commit Suicide?

Have Faith in Massachusetts: A Collection of Speeches and Messages.

On My Own: The Years Since The White House.

The Wharton Econometric Forecasting Model.

Studies in a Dying Colonialism.

Madeline’s Rescue.

A Woman of Substance.

Speech In The House of Commons on Women’s Suffrage.

Two Editions of the Golfer’s Rubaiyat.

And the Walls Came Tumbling Down.

Scherz, List und Rache. [Jest, Cunning, and Revenge].

From Julia Child’s Kitchen.