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Markets and Hierarchies: A Study in the Internal Organizations.

New York: The Free Press, 1075.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning economist’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. First editions are rare.

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-140934

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Macaulay, Thomas Babington

Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review.

London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1858.

Finely bound example of the Critical and Historical Essays of Lord Macaulay. Octavo, three volumes bound in full polished calf with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raise...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-114644

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Bocuse, Paul

Bocuse’s Regional French Cooking.

Paris: Flammarion, 1991.

First edition of this work by the legendary chef. Quarto, original pictorial boards, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with photographs by Dietmar Frege. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the a...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-142156

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Saint-Exupery, Antoine de

Wind, Sand and Stars.

New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1939.

First edition of Saint-Exupery’s philosophical memoir of flight. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers. Decorations in color by John O’Hara Cosgrave II. Translated from the French by...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-150722

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Christie, Agatha

The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side.

London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1962.

First edition of this classic Miss Marple murder mystery novel. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket. From the collection of Dr. John Talbot Gernon with his r...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-149985

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Goldman, William

Which Lie Did I Tell You? More Adventures in the Screen Trade.

New York: Pantheon Books, 2000.

First edition of the sequel to Adventures in the Screen Trade. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by William Goldman on the half-title page to George Christy, former reviewer an...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-15073

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Siddur Avodat Israel with English Translation.

Tel-Aviv: Sinai Publishing, 1967.

Rare elaborately bound Jewish Siddur prayer book. Small octavo, bound in full silver metal with elaborate tooling to the spine and panels, inlaid turquoise decorations to the front panel, patterned en...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-151929

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Juster, Norton and Jules Feiffer

The Phantom Tollbooth.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.

Fiftieth Anniversary edition, later printing of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers, frontispiece, illustrated by Jules Feiffer. Boldly signed Norton Juster on the t...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-149786

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Day, Francis

British and Irish Salmonidae.

London: Williams and Norgate, 1887.

First edition of this comprehensive guide to salmon and trout species in Britain and Ireland. Imperial octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the spine, ruling to the front and r...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-150415

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Keynes, John Maynard. [J.M.]

The End Of Laissez-Faire.

London: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1926.

First edition of Keynes’ classic work. Octavo, half cloth with paper titles to the spine. In very good condition with toning to the panels and paper titles.

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-150684

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Martineau, Harriet

Eastern Life, Present and Past.

London: Edward Moxon, 1848.

First English edition of this sociological travelogue. Octavo, three volumes, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the spine, blindstamping to the front panel. In good condition with r...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-146067

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Vidal, Gore

1876: A Novel.

New York : Random House, 1976.

First edition of this classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the “Valerie love Gore.” The recipient, Valerie Gore was the author’s sister. Vida...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-126331

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Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]

Extract From Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1909.

First edition, second state of the last work published by Twain during his lifetime with C-F on the copyright page. Octavo, original half cloth over pictorial boards, paper spine label, frontispiece i...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-127097

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Palestine. Department of Migration. Annual Report 1934.

Jerusalem: Printing and Stationary Office, 1935.

Scarce printing of the Palestine Department of Migration Annual Report for 1934. Thin quarto, original wrappers, illustrated with tables. In very good condition with toning to the wrappers, first and...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-146824

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Meier, Richard; Kenneth Frampton

Richard Meier 3: Architect.

New York: Rizzoli, 1999.

First edition regarding the work of architect Richard Meier. Square quarto, original cloth, with over 650 illustrations. Presentation copy, inscribed by Richard Meier on the half-title page. Also sign...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-126977

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Rohatyn, Felix [Chuck Hagel]

Bold Endeavors: How Our Government Built America, and Why It Must Rebuild Now.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009.

First edition of this work by the legendary banker. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author, “To Chuck Hagel: With admiration and respect Felix Rohatyn.” The re...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-147999

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Zwack, Anne Marshall A memoir about Peter Zwack [Madeleine Albright]

If You Wear Galoshes, You’re An Emigre.

Budapest: Ab Ovo Publishing House, 2001.

First edition of a memoir that explores the author’s personal experience as a child of emigre parents. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Ass...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-149059

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Grierson, John

Sir Hubert Wilkins: Enigma of Exploration.

London: Robert Hale Limited, 1960.

First edition of John Grierson’s biography of fellow Arctic pioneer Sir Hubert Wilkins. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with photographs and maps. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-111212

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Roberts, Kenneth

Kenneth Roberts Signed Letter Collection.

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Collection of typed letters signed by American author Kenneth Roberts. The collection includes two typed letters signed by Roberts and addressed to Malcolm Decker dated May 21, 1937 and May 16, 1946....

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-114028

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Sophocles. With a new translation by EF Walting [Raymond Chandler]

The Theban Plays.

Great Britain: Penguin Books, 1947.

First Penguin Classics edition of the thrilling trilogy about the fate of the royal family Thebes. 16mo, original wrappers. From the library of Raymond Chandler with his library stamp to the front fre...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-149033

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Volkamer, Johann Christoph

Baumwollen [Cotton Plant] Hand-Colored Engraved Botanical Plate.

Nuremberg: Nürnbergische Hesperides, c. 1710.

Hand-colored engraved botanical plate from Johann Christoph Volkamer’s ‘Nürnbergische Hesperides.’ Hand-colored engraved botanical plate of die Baumwollen, or the Cotton Plant. In ne...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-145527

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Garvey, Robert. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak

Good Shabbos, Everybody.

: United Synagogue of America, 1951.

First edition of this charming picture book celebrating the Shabbat, with early illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Quarto, original pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak....

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-127020

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Pissarides, Christopher A

Labour Market Adjustment: Microeconomic Foundations of Short-run Neoclassical and Keynesian Dynamics.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976.

First edition of Pissarides’ first book. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by Christopher Pissarides on the title page. Laid in is Pissarides’ business card from the London School of Econo...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-88029

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Adams, John Truslow

The Epic of America.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1947.

Early printing of the work which introduced the term “American dream” into the lexicon and the “single best volume of American history” (Allan Nevins). Octavo, original cloth....

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-138046

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