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The New Industrial State.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967.

First edition of this Galbraith landmark work. Octavo, original brown cloth. Signed by John Kenneth Galbraith on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket that shows only the lightest o...

$550.00 Item Number: RRB-1499

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Hardy, Thomas

The Mayor of Casterbridge.

New York: The Heritage Press, 1964.

The Heritage Press edition of Thomas Hardy’s tenth published novel. Octavo, bound in three quarters modern morocco over cloth covered boards by Morrell with gilt titles to the spine in six compartment...

$550.00 Item Number: RRB-151173

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Trilling, Lionel

The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society.

New York: The Viking Press, 1950.

First edition of one of the influential works of criticism published in the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication, “To...

$550.00 Item Number: RRB-22071

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Buechner, Frederick

The Seasons’ Difference.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952.

First edition of Frederick Buechner’s second novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, with a full page inscription by the author on the front free endpaper, “This was the most ins...

$550.00 Item Number: RRB-92504

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Malamud, Bernard

A New Life.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1961.

First edition of Malamud’s third novel. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Susie and Paul, Old friends, Everything good Bern...

$550.00 Item Number: RRB-100098

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Fowler, Gene

Schnozzola: The Story of Jimmy Durante.

New York: The Viking Press, 1951.

First edition of Gene Folwer’s warm and entertaining story of Jimmy “Schnozzola” Durante, from the library of Barrett C. Kiesling. Octavo, original boards. Inscribed by Jimmy Durant...

$550.00 Item Number: RRB-65019

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Frost, Robert

North of Boston.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1914.

Later printing of Frost’s second published book. Octavo, original half-cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, tissue-guarded frontispiece. Boldly signed by the author on the front...

$550.00 Item Number: RRB-148618

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Lerner, Ben

Leaving the Atocha Station.

London: Granta, 2012.

First hardcover edition of the Lerner’s first novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Ben Lerner on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

$550.00 Item Number: RRB-63022

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Frost, Robert

A Masque of Reason.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1945.

First edition of this work by Frost. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Robert Frost to Samuel Plotkin.” Near fine in a near fi...

$550.00 Item Number: RRB-97478

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Baldwin, James

The Fire Next Time.

New York: The Dial Press, 1963.

First edition of one of the most influential works on race relations published in the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. Jacket ph...

$550.00 Item Number: RRB-146299

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Everest, Jr., Frank Kendall

Frank Kendall “Pete” Everest Signed Photograph.

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Signed photograph of Frank Kendall Everest, Jr. Inscribed on the photograph, “To my good friend Stu McLennan from– Frank K. ‘Pete’ Everest Jr. Lt. Col. USAF,” showing th...

$550.00 Item Number: RRB-49057

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Ward, Geoffrey C. and Ken Burns [Doris Kearns Goodwin]

Baseball: An Illustrated History.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.

First edition of this companion book to the classic documentary series. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated endpapers, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kear...

$550.00 Item Number: RRB-144374

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Saramago, Jose

La Flor Mas Grande Del Mundo.

Madrid: Alfaguara, 2001.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s only children’s book. Thin quarto, original boards, illustrated throughout. Signed and dated by Jose Saramago. In fine condition.

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-141

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Borman, Frank

Countdown.

New York: Silver Arrow Books, 1988.

First edition, second printing of the astronaut’s classic autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Bo...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-144619

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Bellow, Saul

The Dean’s December.

New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1982.

Uncorrected Proof of the first edition of the first novel Bellow published after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976. Octavo. Fine in light green wrappers as issued. Signed by the author.

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-182

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Asch, Sholem

East River: A Novel of New York.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1946.

First edition of this classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author with a loose translation, “For my good friend Dr. Tunik with [illegible] and good wishes S...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-143629

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Priestley, J.B. [Raymond Chandler]

The Plays of J.B. Priestley: Volume III.

London: William Heinemann, 1950.

First edition of Priestley’s works on realism with elements of psychological insight and social critique. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. From the library of Raymond Chandler with his...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-149027

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Asimov, Isaac

Murder at the ABA: A Puzzle in Four Days and Sixty Scenes.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1976.

First edition of Asimov’s wonderfully woven, old-fashioned murder mystery. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Stephen Isaac Asim...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-142352

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Oz, Amos

A Tale of Love and Darkness.

New York: Harcourt, Inc, 2004.

First American edition of “one of the most enchanting and deeply satisfying books”(The New Republic). Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Amos Oz on a University of the Negev bookpla...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-107479

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New Orleans Souvenir Album and Travel Brochure Collection.

: Various, 1938-1960.

Rare collection of 5 souvenir albums and nine pictorial travel brochures printed between 1938 and 1960. The souvenir albums include a “Souvenir Condensed History of New Orleans for the Tourist...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-117352

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Faulkner, William

Pylon.

New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Hass, Inc, 1935.

First edition of Faulkner’s explosive novel about a group of Southern barnstormers. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing and wear and toning to the spi...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-146052

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Burger, Warren E

Warren E. Burger Signed Supreme Court Ruling Document.

Washington, D.C.:, June 11, 1986.

Rare typescript Supreme Court ruling document signed by the 15th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, Warren E. Burger. Two pages, typescript, signed by Burger on the first page. Decided...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-122766

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Shakespeare, William

The Works of William Shakespeare.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1887.

The Victoria edition of the works of William Shakespeare. Octavo, two volumes, bound in full polished calf with gilt titles and elaborate tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt ba...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-151128

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Fuller, Buckminster

Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1963.

First edition of this work by Fuller. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Ed Westhoff in friendship Buckminster Fuller.” Edited b...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-125971

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