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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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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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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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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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Historical Memoranda. I. The Number and Density of the Population of Ancient Palestine. II. The Jewish Population in Palestine from the Fall of the Jewish State to the Beginning of Zionist Pioneering. III. The Waves of Jewish Migration into Palestine (640-1882).

Jerusalem: [General Council (Vaad Leumi) of the Jewish Community of Palestine], 1947.

Scarce printing of this historical record. Octavo, original wrappers, rebacked, illustrated with five folding lithographed maps. In good condition with toning to the front and rear panels, first and l...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-146805

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Guizot, M

L’Histoire De France Depuis Les Temps Les Recules Jusqu’en 1789 Racontee A Mes Petits-Enfants Par Ms. Guizot. [The History of France From The Earliest Times To The Year 1789. Related For The Rising Generation by M. Guizot].

Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1872-1876.

First edition of Guizot’s history of France, continued by Madame Guizot de Witt from her father’s notes. Quarto, 5 volumes bound in three quarter crushed red morocco over marbled boards wi...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-137202

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Bernstein, Carl & Bob Woodward

All The President’s Men.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1974.

First edition, early printing of this groundbreaking work in American journalism. Octavo, original blue cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by Woodward on the front free endpaper in a con...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-139366

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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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Kingsley, Charles

The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby.

London and Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1863.

First edition of this Victorian moral fantasy. Octavo, bound in three-quarter Turkey morocco over marbled boards by Tout & Sons with gilt titles and floral tooling to the spine in six compartments...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-151108

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Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]

The American Claimant.

New York: Charles L. Webster, 1892.

First edition of Twain’s comedy of mistaken identities with the publication date on both the title and copyright page. BAL 3434. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles and tooli...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-127681

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Samuelson, Paul A

The Samuelson Sampler.

Glen Ridge, New Jersey: Thomas Horton and Company, 1973.

First edition of this collection of writings by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original blue cloth. In very good condition. Signed and dated by Paul Samuelson on the title page.

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-2261

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Harriman Case, Margaret

This Vicious Circle: The Story of the Algonquin Round Table.

New York: Rinehart & Co. Inc, 1951.

First edition of the lively entertaining work of Harriman. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, inscription to the front free endpaper. Illustrated by A...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-149023

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Smith, Huston

The Religions of Man.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1958.

First edition of the author’s masterpiece and one of the most widely used college textbooks on comparative religion. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by Huston Smith on the half title page. Ver...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-1350

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