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Wilkerson, Marcus M. [William Tecumseh Sherman]

Thomas Duckett Boyd: The Story of a Southern Educator.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1935.

First edition of this biography of a Louisiana State University professor; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo, original boards, top stain red, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait o...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-145960

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Buchan, John

The Three Hostages.

London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1950.

Finely bound edition of this psychological espionage thriller, the fourth novel following Richard Hannay. Octavo, bound in three quarters calf over marbled boards with gilt titles to the spine in six...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-150778

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Coetzee, J.M

Dusklands.

London: Penguin Press, 1982.

First paperback edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s first book. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Ken Hubner with best w...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-129678

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Mant, Rev. Frederick W

The Midshipman: or Twelve Years at Sea.

London: G. Routledge & Co, 1854.

First and only edition of this nautical memoir. Octavo, half calf bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles to the spine, edges sprinkled red. In very good condition. Ownersh...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-147865

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Tooker, Richard

Inland Deep.

Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1936.

First edition of this science fiction novel about two explorers discovering a hidden subterranean world. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, pictorial endpapers, frontispiece. Very good in a ver...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-147985

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Siegel, Jeremy J

Stocks For The Long Run.

Burr Ridge, IL: Irwin, 1994.

First edition, early printing of this stock investing classic. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Bill- Good luck with stocks! Je...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-138167

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Moss, Stirling

Le Mans ’59.

London: Cassell and Company Ltd, 1959.

First edition of this firsthand experience of the 1959 24 Hours of Le Mans. Octavo, original publisher’s black cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Signed by Stirling Moss on the...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-149314

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Cather, Willa

Death Comes for the Archbishop; Alexander’s Bridge; Shadows on the Rock.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company; Alfred A. Knopf, 1922-1931.

Finely bound collection of three of the author’s best-known works, including her first novel: Death Comes for the Archbishop. Octavos, three volumes bound in three quarters morocco over marbled...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-105420

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Du Bois, W.E.B

The Quest of the Silver Fleece.

Chicago: McClurg, 1911.

First edition of this landmark novel. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. In near fine condition.

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-118769

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Malkiel, Burton G. and J.P. Mei

Global Bargain Hunting: The Investor’s Guide to Profits in Emerging Markets.

New York : Simon & Schuster, 1998.

First edition of this international finance guide by the bestselling author of A Random Walk Down Wall Street, one of the most influential investment books ever written. Octavo, original publisher’s h...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-150678

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Kennedy, John F

Why England Slept.

New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc, 1940.

Second printing, published one month after the first of John F. Kennedy’s first book. Octavo, original red cloth. Introduction by Henry R. Luce. Very good in a very good dust jacket.

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-146286

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Nisbet, Robert

Sounds of the Town.

United Kingdom: Alun Books, 1982.

First edition of this collection of short stories about Welsh life and culture. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Ew...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-148342

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Deaton, Angus

Essays in the Theory and Measurement of Consumer Behaviour: In Honour of Sir Richard Stone.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.

First edition of this collection of essays in honour of the Nobel Prize-winning economist Richard Stone. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the editor Angus Deaton on the half-title page. Fine in a...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-75092

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Levy, Sidney J

Creating Winning Marketing Plans.

Chicago: Dartnell, 1996.

First edition of this classic collection of essays. Quarto, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the editor on the front free endpaper, “For John Rogers, In appreciation of a Thought...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-114529

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Player, Gary

Positive Golf: Understanding and Applying the Fundamentals of the Game.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1967.

First edition of this comprehensive exploration of the mental and technical principles essential to effective golf performance. Octavo, original publisher’s green cloth, frontispiece of Gary Pla...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-149407

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Ford, Richard

Independence Day.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.

First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the title page,...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-150635

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Hirsch, James S. [Willie Mays]

Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend.

New York: Scribner, 2010.

First edition of this definitive biography authorized by Willie Mays and written by Wall Street Journal and New York Times journalist James Hirsch. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with black...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-149847

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Christie, Agatha

They Do It With Mirrors.

London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1952.

First edition of this classic Miss Marple mystery. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with toning, chipping to the spine of the dust jacket, a...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-149988

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Hamill, Pete

The Invisible City: A New York Sketchbook.

New York: Random House, 1980.

First edition of the author’s classic collection of sketches encapsulating the essence of New York. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with drawings by Susan Stillman. Signed by Pete Hamil...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-124308

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Odell, Samuel W

The Lives and Campaigns of Grant and Lee: A Comparison and Contrast of the Deeds and Characters of the Two Great Leaders in the Civil War.

Chicago: Star Publishing Company, 1895.

First edition of this historical study that examines the military careers and personal qualities of Union General Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Octavo, original publisher...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-151187

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Smith, Betty

Maggie-Now.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1958.

First edition of this unforgettable masterpiece from one of the twentieth century’s greatest talents and author of A Tree Grows In Brooklyn. Octavo, original half-cloth, title page vignette. Bol...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-151439

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Souvenir of The Palm Beaches, Florida.

Chicago: Curt Teich & Co., [n.d., circa 1910s].

Rare early color lithograph souvenir album of the Palm Beaches, Florida. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers printed in full color, the upper wrapper depicting golfers on the links beneath coconut p...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-152165

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Drucker, Peter F

Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1978.

First edition, early printing of this work “which makes businessmen think thoughts they have never thought before” (The New York Times). Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by Peter Drucker...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-81084

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Twain, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens]

What Is Man?

London: Watts & Co, 1910.

First trade edition of this uncommon Twain title. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of leading Twain authority and publisher John Gerber with his bookplate to the pastedown. Gerber served as he...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-137544

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