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The World Set Free: A Story of Mankind.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1914.

First Macmillan’s Empire Library edition of Wells’ prophetic novel predicting the arrival of atomic weaponry. Octavo, original publisher’s blue cloth with titles stamped in gilt and botani...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-149400

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Volkamer, Johann Christoph

Lauro [Bay Laurel] 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 Lauro, or the Bay Laurel plant. In near fi...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-145524

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Jones, Edward P

The Known World.

New York: HarperCollins, 2003.

First edition of this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, which was named one of the New York Times’ 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Edward P. Jones...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-146333

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Quarles, Benjamin

The Negro in the American Revolution.

Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1976.

Later printing of this examination of the roles and experiences of Black Americans during the Revolutionary War. Octavo, original publisher’s blue cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the title...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-150747

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A Kempis, Thomas

Of the Imitation of Christ.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co, 1884.

Finely bound example of a Kempis’ classic work. Octavo, bound in full crushed purple morocco by Bayntun for Brentano’s with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, elaborate gilt ruling to the fro...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-133424

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Parker, Robert M

The World’s Greatest Wine Estates: A Modern Perspective.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005.

First edition of the renowned wine critic’s elaborately illustrated work showcasing 175 of the world’s most accomplished wine estates. Quarto, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, elaborat...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-147671

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MacArthur, Douglas

General of the Army Douglas MacArthur: An Address Delivered at Los Angeles, California January 26, 1955.

Stanford Connecticut: The Overbrook Press, 1955.

First edition of this address delivered by General Douglas MacArthur at Los Angeles, California January 26, 1955 in which he discusses the current state of the nation. Octavo, original wrappers as iss...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-96032

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Williamson, Oliver E

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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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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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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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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