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Ibis Trilogy: Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke, and Flood of Fire.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008-2015.

First American editions of this critically acclaimed trilogy. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the title page of each volume. River of Smoke is inscribed and da...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-149661

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Nehru, Jawaharlal

Jawaharlal Nehru Postcard Signed.

Dariba, Delhi: Lal Chand & Sons, Photographers, n.d.

Rare autograph postcard signed by the first prime minister of India. Octodecimo, Lal Chand & Sons postcard featuring a photograph of the Taj Mahal from River Side. Signed by Jawaharlal Nehru on th...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-146910

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Kirkwood, James

American Grotesque: An Account of the Clay Shaw-Jim Garrison Affair in the City of New Orleans.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970.

First edition of this detailed journalistic account of the investigation and trial conducted by New Orleans DA Jim Garrison against businessman Clay Shaw. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-150872

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Allende, Isabel

The House of the Spirits: A Novel.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985.

First edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Translated from the Spanish by Magda Bogin. Presenation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front fr...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-147059

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Dayan, Moshe

Breakthrough: A Personal Account of the Egypt-Israel Peace Negotiations.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.

First edition of this work by Dayan. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Moshe Dayan on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Anthony. From the librar...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-133918

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Begin, Menachem

White Nights: The Story of a Prisoner in Russia.

London: Macdonald, 1957.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the title page, “To Esther Meyer this book is dedic...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-150078

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Hersey, John

The Wall.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “For Dr. Edgar Potts -with...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-139270

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Faulkner, William

Intruder In The Dust.

New York: Random House, 1948.

First edition of this classic Faulkner novel, which explores the lives of a family of characters in the South. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a vry good dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. Jacket...

$800.00 Item Number: RRB-121493

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Macmillan, Harold

The Complete Harold MacMillan Memoirs. [The Winds of Change 1914-1939, Blast of War 1939-1945, Tides of Fortune 1945-1955, Riding the Storm 1956-1959, Pointing the Way 1959-1961, At the End of the Day 1961-1963, The Past Masters: Politics and Politicians 1906-1939].

New York : Harper & Row, Publishers, 1966-75.

First editions of each volume in Harold Macmillan’s memoirs. Octavo, seven volumes, original cloth, illustrated with photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page of...

$800.00 Item Number: RRB-147300

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Kipling, Rudyard

Barrack-Room Ballads, Departmental Duties, and The Seven Seas.

London: Methuen and Co. and George Newnes, 1899.

Finely bound early printings of Kipling’s collections of songs and poems regarding the late-Victorian British Army and voyages on the high seas. Octavo, three volumes, bound in three quarters mo...

$800.00 Item Number: RRB-96168

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Heeren, Arnold Hermann Ludwig. [Translated by George Bancroft]

Reflections on the Politics of Ancient Greece.

Boston: Cummings, Hilliard & Co, 1824.

First American edition of Bancroft’s translation of Heeren’s monumental work on politics in Ancient Greece. Octavo, bound in full contemporary calf with gilt ruling to the spine and a red...

$800.00 Item Number: RRB-128205

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Updike, John

Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest; Licks of Love.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960-2000.

First editions of each volume in the Rabbit quartet. Octavos, 5 volumes, original half cloth. Each volume is near fine to fine in very good to near fine dust jackets.

$800.00 Item Number: RRB-131226

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Eliot, George

Felix Holt: The Radical.

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1866.

First edition of this classic political work. Sextodecimo, three volumes, half-calf bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments wit...

$800.00 Item Number: RRB-147727

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McCullough, David

The Johnstown Flood.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1968.

First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian’s first book. Octavo, original brown cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title pag...

$800.00 Item Number: RRB-146412

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McCarthy, Justin

A History of Our Own Times: From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the Berlin Congress.

London: Chatto & Windus, Piccadilly, 1879.

Finely bound edition of this classic historical work. Octavo, four volumes, bound in three quarter red calf over marbled boards with gilt titles and elaborate tooling to the spine in six compartments...

$800.00 Item Number: RRB-150765

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Waugh, Evelyn

Decline and Fall.

London: Chapman & Hall, 1931.

Pocket edition of Waugh’s first published novel. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, illustrated, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt b...

$800.00 Item Number: RRB-147545

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The New Whole Duty of Man, Containing the Faith as well as Practice of A Christian: Made Easy For the Practice of the Present Age, AS the Old Whole Duty of Man was design’d for those unhappy Times in which it was written: And Supplying the Articles of the Christian Faith, Which are Wanting in that Book. Though Essentially Necessary to Salvation. [Fore-Edge Painting].

London: Printed for W. Bent, 1823.

Finely bound example of this classic Protestant devotional work. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, elaborate gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-...

$800.00 Item Number: RRB-138215

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France, Anatole; Sylvain Sauvage [Illustrator]

The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1937.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of Anatole France’s first novel. Quarto, bound in full modern morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe / Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles to the spine in...

$800.00 Item Number: RRB-148552

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Didion, Joan

South and West: From A Notebook.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.

First edition of this collection of writings from the acclaimed author of Slouching Towards Bethlehem. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Joan Didion. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacke...

$800.00 Item Number: RRB-144137

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Vassilikos, Vassilis

Z.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968.

First American edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original black cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Matthew with my love, Vassilis...

$800.00 Item Number: RRB-44632

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Maugham, W. Somerset

Cakes and Ale.

Melbourne: William Heinemann Ltd, 1954.

Signed limited edition of Maugham’s classic satire printed for the author’s eightieth birthday. Octavo, original publisher’s half-leather with gilt titles to the spine, top edge gilt...

$800.00 Item Number: RRB-150504

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Maugham, W. Somerset

Of Human Bondage With a Digression on the Art of Fiction: And Address by Somerset Maugham.

Washington: The Library of Congress, 1946.

Signed limited edition of the address given by Maugham upon the Library’s acceptance of the original autograph manuscript of his masterpiece, Of Human Bondage. Octavo, original boards. One of 50...

$800.00 Item Number: RRB-108345

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Fogel, Robert William and Stanley L. Engerman

Time On The Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery & Time On the Cross Evidence and Methods. Two Volumes.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1974.

First edition of this work which attracted widespread attention in the media and generated heated controversy and criticism for its methodology and conclusions. Octavo, original brown cloth, 2 volumes...

$800.00 Item Number: RRB-114451

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Le Carre, John

The Naïve and Sentimental Lover.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1971.

First edition of le Carré’s classic sixth novel. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by John le Carre on the title page. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by To...

$800.00 Item Number: RRB-146204

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