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We Bombed In New Haven.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967.

First edition of Heller’s classic first play. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Bob Thomas To help complete your collection...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-115898

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Povich, Shirley [Eddie Yost, Bob Porterfield, Jim Busby, Chuck Stobbs and Calvin Griffith'

First edition of this informal history of one of the oldest baseball teams in the United States. Octavo, original red cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-146647

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Boorstin, Daniel [William Safire]

United States Constitution.

Cambridge: Welch, Bigelow, and Company, 1987.

First edition of the Constitution published for the bicentennial of its adoption in 1787. Octavo, original wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by Daniel Boorstin on the title page, “For Bill a...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-127627

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Bussard, Paul

The Sacrifice.

Saint Paul: The Leaflet Missal, 1939.

First edition of this liturgical work. Octavo, original wrappers. In good condition. Rare.

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-147011

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Levi-Strauss, Claude

The World on the Wane.

New York: Criterion Books, 1961.

First American edition of Levi-Strauss’ experience among tribes in Brazil. Octavo, original brown boards, illustrated with 48 pages of photographs and 48 line drawings. Inscribed by Claude Levi-...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-802

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Putnam, Hilary

Renewing Philosophy.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992.

First edition of this work by Hilary Putnam. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed and dated by Hilary Putnam on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-15027

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Hopkins, Samuel

The System of Doctrines, Contained in Divine Revelation.

Boston: Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews, 1793.

First edition of this comprehensive theological work. Octavo, two volumes, bound in full contemporary calf with gilt titles to the spines. In very good condition with some rubbing, shelf and toning, b...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-147930

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Diehl, R.W. and Tom Vardon

Diehl-Vardon Golf Manual: Golf Complete.

St. Paul: Western Golf Publishing Co, 1927.

First edition of this early golf instructional manual. Octavo, original cloth, illustrations from photographs. Some light dampstaining, near fine in the rare original dust jacket. Murdoch 203; D&...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-75680

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Newby, Eric

Love and War in the Apennines.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1971.

First edition of this classic World War II memoir. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Boldly signed by Eric Newby on the half-title page. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-150069

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Kipling, Rudyard

The Drums of The Fore and Aft.

London : F. Tennyson Neely, 1899.

First Neely’s Booklet Library edition of Kipling’s classic military tale. Octavo, original wrappers as issued, frontispiece portrait of Kipling. In very good condition. Housed in a custom...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-120480

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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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Spark, Muriel

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

London: Macmillan, 1961.

First edition of Muriel Sparks’ eighth and best-loved novel. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Victor Reinganum. An exceptional example.

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-116307

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Copland, Aaron

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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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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First Edition Books for Sale Online

We Bombed In New Haven.

The Washington Senators.

United States Constitution.

The Sacrifice.

The World on the Wane.

Renewing Philosophy.

The System of Doctrines, Contained in Divine Revelation.

Diehl-Vardon Golf Manual: Golf Complete.

Love and War in the Apennines.

The Drums of The Fore and Aft.

Transition: A Mental Autobiography.

The General Managers.

Institutiones Imperiales Erotematibus Distinctae.

Alaska: An Empire in the Making.

The Double.

Quintus Horatius Flaccus.

Ring of Fire.

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

Copland on Music.

Economic Dynamics: An Introduction.

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

Unemployment: Its Causes and Their Remedies.

This Life.