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Organizational Psychology.

Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1965.

First edition of Schein’s work on organizational dynamics and psychology. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the title page, “The argument is t...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-110438

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Conrad, Joseph

Under Western Eyes.

New York and London: Harper and Brothers, Publishers, 1911.

First American edition of this tale of revolutionaries in czarist Russia, centered about the double-agent Razumov. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. Supino A14.8.0; Cagle A14c. Housed in...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-145907

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Scarne, John

The Mafia Conspiracy.

North Bergen, NJ: Scarne Enterprises, 1976.

First edition of this interesting overview of the Mafia. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “To Walt...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-145645

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Kipling, Rudyard

Rudyard Kipling Ephemera Collection.

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Rare collection of Rudyard Kipling ephemera from the collection of William Britton Stitt including his membership card to The Kipling Society, letters of correspondence between him and the President o...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-122487

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Wolfe, Tom

The Right Stuff.

New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1979.

First edition of Wolfe’s classic work. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with titles to the spine in silver. Boldly signed by Tom Wolfe on the second front free endpaper. Very good in a v...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-152105

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Bush, George H.W. & Scowcroft, Brent

A World Transformed.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.

First edition of this stimulating reflection on American foreign policy during the Bush administration. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by President George H.W. Bush o...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-152999

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Balinese Palm Leaf Prayer Manuscript.

Indonesia:, c. 16th century.

Rare Balinese palm leaf manuscript. Eight leaves, inscribed on both sides in Hindu text manuscript, binding thread intact. In near fine condition.

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-88148

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Wharton, Grace

The Literature of Society.

London: Tinsley Brothers, 1862.

First edition of this collection of observations on the literature of European historical figures. Octavo, two volumes bound in full crushed levant morocco by Bayntun Bindery with gilt titles and tool...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-145231

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Phillips, Lloyd

Beyond Borders. [WITH] A Collection of Eighty Lloyd Phillips Photographs.

Malibu: Scan Shop, 2002.

First edition of this collection of photographs taken during the filming of Martin Campbell’s ‘Beyond Borders,’ starring Angelina Jolie. Oblong octavo, original pictorial wrappers, i...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-146969

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Bacallar y Sanna, Vicente

Comentarios de la guerra de España, e historia de su Rey Phelipe V el Animoso: Volumes I & II.

Genoa: Matheo Garvizza, 1725.

First edition of this commentary, which covers the reign of King Philip V of Spain and The War of the Spanish Succession. Octavo, 2 volumes, contemporary tree calf, morocco spine labels, marbled endpa...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-51019

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Forester, C.S. [Alexander Kent]

Hornblower One More Time.

Tacoma: The Non-Profit Press, 1976.

First edition of this collection of three Hornblower stories never before published in book form. Octavo, original boards, cartographic endpapers. One of 25 numbered copies signed by Alexander Kent of...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-131908

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Darwin, Charles

The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication.

New York: Orange Judd & Company, 1868.

First edition of Darwin’s hypothesis of pangenesis. Octavo, original publisher’s green cloth with gilt titles to the spine, illustrated with numerous in-text illustrations and a chart. Pre...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-137161

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Scalia, Antonin and Bryan A. Garner

Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges.

Saint Paul: Thomson/West, 2008.

First edition, early printing of Scalia’s work on effective legal persuasion. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Antonin Scalia and inscribed by co-author. “To Sander Shapiro, Bryan...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-149883

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Davidoff, Zino; Bernard Dary

L’Histoire de Havane.

Toulouse: Daniel Briand, 1981.

First edition of this history of Havana, Cuba, and its role in the cigar industry by the legendary Zino Davidoff. Quarto, original boards, with color illustrations and photographs throughout. Presenta...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-148600

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Russell, Walter; Lao Russell

The World Crisis: Its Explanation and Solution.

Swannanoa, Virginia: University of Science and Philosophy, 1958.

First edition of this work containing a vital world-message and “a blue print for the one way to peace and prosperity”. Octavo, original publisher’s purple cloth, frontispiece, illustrated with...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-149180

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Kazantzakis, Nikos

Christos.

Athens:, 1938.

First edition of this early work by the author of Zorba the Greek. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition.

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-112627

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Elizabeth [Tonna], Charlotte

The Works of Charlotte Elizabeth. With an Introduction by H. B. Stowe.

New York: Published by M. W. Dodd, 1849.

Seventh edition of the complete works of English Victorian writer and suffragette Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna. Royal octavo, two volumes, original publisher’s full deluxe morocco with gilt titles...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-142626

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Lewis, Lloyd. [David Herbert Donald]

Captain Sam Grant.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1950.

First edition, advance review copy of Lewis’ great biography of American Civil War hero Ulysses S. Grant, with the publisher’s review slip laid in. Octavo, original cloth. From the library...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-136237

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Gierach, John; Glenn Wolff [Illustrator]; Carolyn Chadwick [Binder]; Nick Lyons [Publisher]

Fishing Bamboo.

New York: Lyons & Burford, Publishers, 1997.

First limited deluxe edition of this collection of angling essays on bamboo fly rods. Octavo, bound in three-quarters Nigerian goatskin over silk moire covered boards with a flat piece of bamboo hand-...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-150409

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Brunhoff, Jean de; [Maurice Sendak]

ABC of Babar.

New York : Random House, 1936.

Early American edition of this pictorial letter book, from the library of Maurice Sendak, although not marked. Small octavo, original publisher’s pictorial boards, illustrated. Very good in a ve...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-147127

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Bellow, Saul

Bellow: Novels 1944-1953: Dangling Man, The Victim, The Adventures of Augie March.

New York: The Library of America, 2003.

First edition of the Library of America release of the author’s first three novels. Octavo, original maroon cloth. Signed by both Saul Bellow and James Wood on the title page. James Wood served...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-12036

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Ali, Muhammad

Muhammad Ali: A Thirty-Year Journey.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.

First edition of this photographic record of Muhammad Ali’s career. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated with numerous photographs by Howard L. Bingham of or concerning Muhammad Ali. Presentation...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-148277

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Gandhi, Mahatma K

Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth.

London: Phoenix Press, 1949.

First edition of Gandhi’s autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Fine in the rare original dust jacket, which is in very good condition. Translated by Mahadev Desai.

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-134231

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Hill, Ralph Nading. [Ronald Reagan]

Robert Fulton and the Steamboat.

New York: Random House, 1954.

First edition of the author’s compelling work on the inventor of the world’s first commercially successful steamboat. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated by Lee Ames....

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-137258

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