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Davies, Valentine; Tomie dePaola [Illustrator]

Miracle On 34th Street.

San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984.

First illustrated edition of this modern Christmas classic with paintings by beloved illustrator Tomie dePaola. Square octavo, original publisher’s red cloth with titles to the spine and front p...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-149018

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Churchill, Winston

Winston Churchill Centenary Picture Medal.

London: Toye, Kenning & Spencer Ltd, 1974.

Rare limited issue Centenary Picture Medal of Winston Churchill. Bronze Centenary Picture Medal containing thirteen informational disks that chronicle “outstanding events in the life of Britain...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-145571

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Zafon, Carlos Ruiz

The Prisoner of Heaven.

Burton: Subterranean Press, 2014.

Signed limited edition of the third book in the ‘Cemetery of Forgotten Books’ series. Octavo, original cloth. One of 500 numbered and 26 lettered copies signed by Carlos Ruiz Zafon on the...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-145036

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Hardy, Thomas; Clare Leighton [Illustrator]

The Return of the Native.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1929.

Macmillan signed limited edition of Hardy’s sixth published novel. Octavo, bound in half vellum over boards with gilt titles to the spine, top edge gilt, frontispiece, with black and white woodcut ill...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-148848

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Bellow, Saul

More Die of Heartbreak.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1987.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s tenth novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author, “For Sidney and Fredda from an old friend Saul Bellow...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-3138

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Churchill, Winston S

The World Crisis: The Eastern Front.

London: Library of Imperial History, 1974.

The Centenary Limited Edition of the fifth volume of Churchill’s The World Crisis. Octavo, bound in full modern morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised band...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-148616

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Stern, Philip M

The Oppenheimer Case: Security on Trial.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1969.

First edition of this early biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “For Joa...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-143398

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Scully, Vincent

American Architecture and Urbanism.

New York: Frederick A. Praeger Publishers, 1969.

First edition of this classic work. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by the Vincent Scully on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Uncommon signed.

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-144272

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Remington, Frederic

Pony Tracks.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1895.

First edition of Remington’s first book. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated throughout after Frederic Remington, including frontispiece with tissue-guard. In very good condition, bookplate. How...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-125652

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Treynor, Jack L

Treynor on Institutional Investing.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2008.

First edition of this important collection of essays by the father of the capital asset pricing model. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Jack L. Treynor on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-58017

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Davies, Valentine; Tomie dePaola [Illustrator]

Miracle On 34th Street.

San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984.

First illustrated edition of this modern Christmas classic with paintings by beloved illustrator Tomie dePaola. Square octavo, original publisher’s red cloth with titles to the spine and front p...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-149046

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Gehry, Frank

Architecture + Process: Gehry Talks.

New York: Rizzoli, 1999.

First edition of this overview of the Pritzker Prize-winning architect. Oblong quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrations throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by Frank Gehry on the half-t...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-112371

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Vidal, Gore

Dark Green, Bright Red.

New York : E.P. Dutton & Company, 1950.

First edition of this “[w]ell-written work” (Kirkus). Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Valerie from Gore, June 1954.” The reci...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-126599

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Pistone, Joe and Charles Brandt

Donnie Brasco: Unfinished Business.

Philadelphia: Running Press, 2007.

First edition of this account of the FBI agent’s undercover operation. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by Joe Pistone (Donnie...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-147903

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Benuzzi, Felice

No Picnic on Mount Kenya: The Story of Three P.O.W.S Escape To Adventure.

London: William Kimber, 1952.

First edition in English of this mountaineering classic recounting the 1943 attempt of three escaped Italian prisoners of war to reach the summit of Mount Kenya. Octavo, original cloth, map endpapers....

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-42030

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Vargas Llosa, Mario

The Green House.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1968.

First edition of the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original green cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To John Mario Vargas Llosa.” Near fine in...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-144690

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Stern, Howard

Howard Stern: Miss America.

New York: Regan Books, 1995.

First edition of Howard Stern’s second autobiography. Octavo, original publisher’s half-cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed and dated by Howard Stern in black...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-151170

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Fangio, Juan Manuel; Foreword by Stirling Moss

My Twenty Years of Racing.

London: Temple Press Limited , 1961.

First edition of the racing legend’s autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Stirling Moss, who contributed the foreword. Near fine in a very good dust ja...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-151044

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Brown, Marcia

Stone Soup.

New York: Charles Scribner, 1947.

First edition, early printing of the author’s classic work. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. With the author’s name and address in her hand laid in. In very good condition.

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-150822

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Robinson, Edwin Arlington

The Children of the Night: A Book of Poems.

Boston: Richard G. Badger & Company, 1897.

First edition, one of only 500 copies of Robinson’s second collection of poems, including “Richard Cory”, “Reuben Bright”, and “Luke Havergal”. Duodecimo, ori...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-148934

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Fermor, Patrick Leigh

Between the Woods and the Water.

London: John Murray, 1986.

First British edition of the author’s second book in the author’s trilogy that began with A Time of Gifts. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Patrick Leigh Fermor on the title page. Fine in...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-40026

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Aldrin, Buzz

Return to Earth.

New York: Random House, 1973.

First edition of this work by the second man to walk on the moon. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Boldly signed by Buzz Aldrin on the front free endpaper. Ne...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-146590

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Gray, Fred D

Bus Ride To Justice.

Montgomery, Al: Black Belt Press, 1995.

First edition of this Civil Rights icon’s autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Fred D. Gray Schal...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-139681

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Gernsback, Hugo

Ralph 124C 41+.

Boston: The Stratford Company, 1925.

First edition of “arguably the first major work of American science fiction” (The Economist). Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition.

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-108776

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