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Copland on Music.

New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1960.

First edition of this work by the “Dean of American composers.” Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Alden, who really l...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-118362

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Baumol, William J

Economic Dynamics: An Introduction.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1951.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To John Rogers with warmest regards Will Baumol.” In near fine co...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-144394

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Landor, Walter Savage

Poems, Dialogues In Verse, and Epigrams: In Two Volumes.

London: J. M. Dent & Co, 1909.

Fourth edition of this classic collection of poetry. Octavo, two volumes, tissue-guarded frontispieces. Typed poem titled “The Tryst” by Katharine Lee Bates and signed by her laid in on th...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-148207

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Trouton, Rupert; John Maynard Keynes [J.M.]

Unemployment: Its Causes and Their Remedies.

London: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1931.

Rare first edition of this analysis of the structural origins of unemployment. Duodecimo, original wrappers, Day to Day Pamphlets No. 2. Foreword by famed British economist John Maynard Keynes, whose...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-150714

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Durant, Will

Transition: A Mental Autobiography.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1927.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Will Durant on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-125898

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Kotter, John P

The General Managers.

New York: The Free Press, 1986.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by John Kotter on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Sam Salant.

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-134592

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Perez, Antoni

Institutiones Imperiales Erotematibus Distinctae.

Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: Danielem Elzevirium, 1669.

Scarce 17th century printing of Perez’s early legal treatise. 12mo, bound in full contemporary vellum, engraved pictorial title page. In near fine condition.

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-132642

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Underwood, John J

Alaska: An Empire in the Making.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1913.

First edition of this comprehensive history of Alaska. Octavo, original cloth with white and blue pictorial detailing, frontispiece, folding map, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presenta...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-147680

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Saramago, Jose

The Double.

Orlando: Harcourt, 2004.

First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed and dated by Jose Saramago on the title page. Additionally signed twice by jacket designer Claudine...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-148275

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Horace

Quintus Horatius Flaccus.

London: Gulielmus Pickering, 1824.

Rare second Pickering Diamond edition, large paper issue, with an additional engraved title page. 12 mo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles to the front panel, raised bands, marbled endpapers. In very...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-82315

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Blair, Lawrence; Lorne Blair

Ring of Fire.

London: Bantam Books, 1988.

First edition of this lavish documentary spanning ten years of adventure through the islands of the East. Quarto, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with photographs throughout. Prese...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-148568

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Grahame, Kenneth

The Wind in the Willows.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908.

First American edition of Grahame’s beloved children’s novel which preceded the English edition by only four days, with Scribner’s seal on the copyright page. Octavo, original publis...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-143829

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Pinter, Harold

The Collection and the Lover.

London: Methuen and Co, 1963.

First edition of this classic work by the Nobel Prize-winning playwright. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco chemise and clamshell box. An ex...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-143521

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Poitier, Sidney

This Life.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1980.

First edition of this work by the Academy Award-winning actor. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Mr and Mrs Charles...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-126051

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Bush, Barbara [George W. Bush]

Barbara Bush: A Memoir.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994.

First edition of the first lady Barbara Bush’s memoirs. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by both Barbara Bush and President George W. Bush on the front free endpaper. Laid...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-151323

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Wolfe, Tom

Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine And Other Stories, Sketches, and Essays.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976.

First edition of this collection of essays. Octavo, original cloth, sketches by the author. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page,...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-131703

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Marias, Javier

Travesìa del Horizonte.

Barcelona: La Gaya Ciencia, 1972.

First edition of the author’s second novel. Octavo. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Signed by Javier Marias on the title page.

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-3368

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Harrison, Austin [Editor]

The English Review. December 1912.

London: R. Clay and Sons, Ltd, 1912.

The December 1912 edition of The English Review, containing the first appearance of Rowland Kenney’s ‘Women’s Suffrage’. Octavo, original wrappers. In good condition.

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-135612

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Salgado, Sebastiao

Gold.

Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2019.

First edition of this powerful work by the award-winning photographer. Quarto, original boards, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Sebastiao Salgado on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust j...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-148131

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Wiesel, Elie

The Night Trilogy: Night; Dawn; The Accident.

New York: Hill and Wang, 2001.

First edition, first printing of the 2001 edition of this compilation of the author’s classic Night Trilogy. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Elie Wiesel on the front free endpaper. Fin...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-152123

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Mallet, Allain Manesson

Floride. Das Landt Florida. [17th Century Map of Florida].

Frankfurt: Allain M. Mallet, c. 1686.

Rare 17the century copper engraved map of Florida from Allain Manesson Mallet’s Description De L’ Univers, Contenant Les Differents Systemes Du Monde, Les Cartes generales & particulie...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-138207

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Garland, Hamlin

Main-Travelled Roads.

Boston: Arena Publishing Company, 1891.

First edition of the author’s second book. Octavo, original cloth, patterned endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free patterned endpaper, “To my friend Hird...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-139642

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Hughes, Langston and William Grant Still

Troubled Island. An Opera in Three Acts.

New York: Leeds Music Corporation, 1949.

First edition of the first grand opera composed by an African American to be produced by a major company. Octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed by Langston Hughes on the title page. In very good co...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-140395

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Flaubert, Gustave

A Simple Heart.

Paris: Societe des Beaux Arts, n.d. [ca. 1895].

The limited Salon edition of Flaubert’s classic novella. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling with red morocco onlays to the spine...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-139337

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