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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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James, Henry

The Diary of a Man of Fifty and A Bundle of Letters.

New York: Harpers & Brothers, Publishers, 1880.

First Harper’s Half-Hour Series edition of this duo of James novellas. 12mo, original wrappers as issued. In good condition.

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-81095

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Aldrin, Buzz and Malcolm McConnell

Men From Earth.

New York: Bantam Books, 1989.

First edition of Aldrin’s autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by Buzz Aldrin on the half-title page, :To Bob Best Wishes Buzz Aldrin” and...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-144989

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Powell, Anthony

At Lady Molly’s.

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1957.

First edition of this classic work in the author’s ‘Dance to the Music of Time’ series. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Broom-Lynne. Housed i...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-145804

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Player, Gary

Play Golf with Player: Instruction of Every Aspecct of the Game.

London: Collins, 1962.

First edition of this early instructional by the legendary golfer. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by the author in a contemporary hand on the front free endpaper, “With Very Best Wishes G...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-988

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Sherman, Thomas H.; with Introduction by Nicholas Murray Butler [William T. Sherman]

Twenty Years with James G. Blaine: Reminiscences by His Private Secretary.

New York: The Grafton Press, 1928.

First edition of this biography of American statesman, Republican politician, and Secretary of State, James G. Blaine, from the observations of his private secretary; from the library of Philemon Tecu...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-145741

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Morris, James [Jan]

Pax Britannica: The Climax of an Empire.

London: Faber & Faber, 1968.

First British edition of the author’s second volume in the acclaimed Pax Britannica Trilogy. Boldly signed by the author on the title page. Fine in a very good dust jacket.

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-3164

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Anderson, Robert [Alan Schneider]

I Never Sang for My Father.

New York: Random House, 1968.

First edition of Robert Anderson’s autobiographical drama, later the basis for the Academy Award–nominated 1970 film. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth, top stain blue, illustrated with bl...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-152216

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Poe, Edgar Allan

The Fall of the House of Usher.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1985.

The Limited Editions Club limited edition of one of Poe’s most famous short stories. Folio, bound in quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles to the spine, illustrated with two color...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-148581

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Anspacher, Louis K

Anspacher

New York: Brentano's, 1904.

Rare signed limited edition of the author’s adaptation of the great chivalric romance. Octavo, original boards. One of one hundred copies printed on Imperial Japanese vellum, this is number 93....

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-115508

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West, Rebecca

The Fountain Overflows.

New York: The Viking Press, 1956.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “My love to Beatrice and Bruce- who first gave the Fountain...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-145967

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Stewart, Janet; Theodore Roosevelt, Dr. Lyman Abbott, Ethel Roosevelt Derby, Samuel Valentine Cole

The Roosevelt Pilgrimage of 1922: Being a Record of the Pilgrimage of Certain Friends of Theodore Roosevelt to His Grave and to His Home, On the Third Anniversary of His Death.

Philadelphia: Privately Printed, 1922.

Limited edition, one of 300 examples of this ode to the life of the 26th president of the United States. Octavo, original half cloth, decorated headpieces, tailpieces, and initials throughout, frontis...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-145441

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Keynes, John Maynard [J.M.]

A Revision of the Treaty. Being A Sequel To The Economic Consequences of the Peace.

London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1922.

First edition of Keynes’ classic work. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. In near fine condition.

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-151417

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Bellow, Saul

L’Homme De Buridan [Dangling Man].

Paris: Libraire Plon, 1954.

First French edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by Saul Bellow on the title page. In near fine condition.

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-185

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Zatto, Antonio [China]

Impero Della China Colle Isole Del Giappone. [Eighteenth Century Antonio Zatta Map of the Empire Of China and Islands Of Japan]

Venice: Presso Antonio Zatta, 1784.

Large eighteenth century hand-colored map of China and Japan by Venetian cartographer Antonio Zatta. One page, hand-colored with a fine botanical cartouche. In near fine condition. The entire piece me...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-137611

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Bond, Michael; Illustrated by Peggy Fortnum

Paddington Takes The Air.

London: Collins, 1970.

First edition of the ninth title in Bond’s classic Paddington series. Octavo, original cloth. Illustrated by Peggy Fortnum. Boldly signed by Michael Bond on the front free endpaper. Near fine in...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-152985

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Samuelson, Paul A

Market Mechanisms and Maximization, III: Dynamics and Linear Programming.

Santa Monica, California: The Rand Corporation, 1949.

Rare original research memorandum written by Paul A. Samuelson providing a simple introduction to the dynamic problems of maximizing as investigated by von Neumann and Dantzig. Octavo, 23 pages types...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-88162

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Wilde, Oscar

Impressions of America.

Sunderland: Keystone Press, 1906.

First edition of Wilde’s report on his lecture tour throughout America in 1882. Octavo, original stiff paper wrappers. One of fifty numbered copies, this is number 24. Very good with the majorit...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-140212

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Salter, James

A Sport And A Pastime.

New York: The Modern Library, 1995.

Early printing of The Modern Library edition of this modern classic, hailed as a masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to fellow writer Howard Norman on the ti...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-123919

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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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Brandenburg, Jim. [Peter Matthiessen]

White Wolf: Living with an Arctic Legend.

Minocqua: Northwood Press, Inc., 1988.

First edition of Brandenburg’s landmark work in nature publishing. Oblong quarto, original cloth, illustrated with color photographs. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-140120

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