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The Right Stuff.

New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1979.

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

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-147879

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Desantis, Ron

Dreams From Our Founding Fathers: First Principles in the Age of Obama.

Jacksonville, FL: High-Pitched Hum Publishing, 2011.

First edition of DeSantis’ first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Bruce and Patty- Faithful and strong in defen...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-148943

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Kipling, Rudyard

Stalky & Co.

London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd, 1899.

First British edition of Kipling’s collection of school stories. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and gilt medallion displaying an elephant to the from panel, top edge gilt....

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-96106

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Trollope, Anthony

The Claverings.

London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1867.

First edition of this work by Trollope. Octavo, two volumes, bound in half leather. In very good condition. With Sixteen Illustrations by M. Ellen Edwards.

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-110699

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Wilder, Thornton [Vivien Leigh]

The Skin of Our Teeth: Play in Three Acts.

New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1942.

Early edition of this Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Octavo, original cloth and labels. Signed by actress Vivien Leigh on the front free endpaper. One of the most iconic actresses of the 20th century, k...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-145370

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[Kipling, Rudyard; Winston S. Churchill; John Galsworthy; Sir Henry Haggard; Edith Wharton; et al]

King Albert’s Book: A Tribute to the Belgian King and People from Representative Men and Women Throughout the World.

New York: Hearst's International Library Co, 1914.

First edition of King Albert’s Book, produced to profit the Belgian Fund. Quarto, original cloth, frontispiece portrait of King Albert, with numerous tipped-in color plates illustrated by Arthur...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-126384

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Various Authors

Scottish Banking History Collection.

Edinburgh and London: Various Publishers, 1875-1961.

Fine collection of rare Scottish banking first editions. Octavo, five volumes, the collection includes first editions of: Our Bank: The Story of the Commercial Bank of Scotland, Ltd. 1810-1946 [London...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-125321

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Besant, Walter Sir

The Survey of London. Complete in 10 volumes: Mediaeval London; Historical & Social; Ecclesiastical; London in the Time of the Tudors; London in the Time of the Stuarts; London in the Eighteenth Century; London in the Nineteenth Century.

London: Adam & Charles Black, 1903-1912..

First editions of this work on the great city of London. Quarto, original red cloth, 10 volumes, with titles the spine in gilt and front panel, gilt topstain, illustrated throughout. Each volume is in...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-2847

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Buckley, William F

Up From Liberalism.

New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1959.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by William F. Buckley on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Foreword by John Dos Passos. Uncommon, signed.

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-130002

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Sale, Richard

The Oscar.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1963.

First edition of the author and director’s explosive novel, later adapted into the 1966 film of the same name starring Tony Bennet, Bob Hope, Hedda Hopper, and Frank Sinatra. Octavo, original ha...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-127539

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Kissinger, Henry A

On China.

New York: Penguin Press, 2011.

First edition of Kissinger’s 13th book, in which he draws on historical records and 40 years of direct interaction with four generations of Chinese leaders to analyze the link between China’s an...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-151692

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Vanderbilt, Amy; Drawings by Andy Warhol

Amy Vanderbilt’s Complete Cookbook.

New York: Doubleday & Company, 1961.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth, illustrations by Andy Warhol. Boldly signed by Amy Vanderbilt on the half-title page. Drawings by Andy Warhol. Uncommon signed.

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-132379

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Gautier, Théophile; André Dugo [Illustrator]

Mademoiselle de Maupin.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1943.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of Gautier’s retelling of the infamous legend of Mademoiselle de Maupin. Quarto, bound in full modern morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe / Zaehnsdorf...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-148550

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The Dalai Lama

His Holiness the Dalai Lama Signed Photograph.

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Color photograph of His Holiness The Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, boldly signed by him. The photograph measures 5 inches by 3.5 inches. In fine condition.

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-140093

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Keynes, John Maynard [J.M.]

A Revision of the Treaty. Being A Sequel To The Economic Consequences of the Peace.

London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1922.

First edition of Keynes’ classic work. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised bands, gilt ruling to th...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-146084

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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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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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Britain Junior.

New York: British Information Services, 1944-1945.

Rare collection of ten issues of Britain Junior, issued by the British Ministry of Information in wartime England. Quarto, ten issues, illustrated with photographs. In fine condition. Uncommon.

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-125390

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