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Reach For The Sky: The Story of Douglas Bader.

London: Collins, 1954.

First edition, early printing of the biography of one of the great heroes of the Battle of Britain. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Signed and dated by Douglas Ba...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-146974

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Brown, Ivor [H.G. Wells]

H.G. Wells.

London: Nisbet & Co. LTD., 1923.

First edition of Ivor Brown’s early critical biography of H.G. Wells, offering contemporary assessment of the author’s life and literary influence. Octodecimo, original publisher’s cloth, photograph o...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-151160

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Polacek, Karel

Povidky Pana Kockodana.

: Nakladatelstvi Polygrafie V Brne, 1922.

First edition of this work by the famed Czech writer, humorist and journalist. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. In near fine condition. Rare.

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-133507

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Fermor, Patrick Leigh

Between the Woods and the Water.

London: The Folio Society, 2006.

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

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-38087

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Gladwell, Malcolm

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking.

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2005.

First edition, early printing of this exploration of the power of “thin-slicing”- the unconscious mind’s ability to find patterns and make rapid, accurate decisions based on minimal...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-151831

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Arrow, Kenneth J; Amartya K. Sen; Kotaro Suzumura

Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare.

Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2008.

First edition of this edition of these collected papers on social choice. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Kenneth J. Arrow on the title page. In fine condition.

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-46522

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Updike, John

Tossing and Turns: Poems.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977.

First edition of this collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author with a large drawing of a birthday cake in the year of pu...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-150242

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Seuss, Dr. [Theodor Seuss Geisel]

The King’s Stilts.

New York: Random House, 1939.

First edition, later printing with red lettering on the front panel and $2.50 on the front dust jacket flap. Quarto, original publisher’s cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Very good in a...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-144611

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Kuhn, Thomas S

The Copernican Revolution. Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1957.

First edition of Kuhn’s classic treatise. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket, which is in very good condition. Foreword by James Bryant Conant.

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-126596

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Cooper, Susan

Silver on the Tree.

New York: Atheneum, 1977.

First edition of the final volume in the author’s acclaimed Dark is Rising series. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Michael Heslop. Boldly signed by Susan Cooper on the title page. Near fi...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-146164

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Stephenson, Neal

Cryptonomicon.

New York: Avon Books, 1999.

First edition, first printing of this extraordinary first volume in an epoch-making masterpiece. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Neal Stephenson on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-151276

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Dershowitz, Alan M.

Reversal of Fortune: Inside the von Bülow Case.

New York: Random House, 1986.

First edition of this detailed legal narrative of the highly publicized trial and appeal of Claus von Bülow, basis for the 1990 film directed by Barbet Schroeder, starring Jeremy Irons, Glenn Close an...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-150619

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Tarkington, Booth

Monsieur Beaucaire.

New York: McClure, Philips, 1900.

First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s second novel, basis for the classic 1946 film starring Bob Hope. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author, “A...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-137803

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Vidal, Gore

Williwaw.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1946.

First edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, original black cloth. Boldly signed by Gore Vidal on a card to the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-150089

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Barrett, Ron [Judi Barrett]

Ron Barrett Signed Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs Print.

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Original Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs print of a page from the classic children’s book depicting a tomato tornado. Inscribed beneath by the illustrator, “To Matt – Avoid the Tom...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-148985

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Dreze, Jean and Amartya Sen

The Political Economy of Hunger.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.

First edition of this classic work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original boards, 3 volumes. Each volume is near fine in near fine dust jackets. First editions are uncommon.

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-144378

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Bellow, Saul

Something to Remember Me By. Three Tales. The Bellarosa Connection, A Theft, Something To Remember Me By.

New York: The Viking Press, 1991.

First edition of this trio of short works by the Nobel laureate and “greatest writer of American prose of the twentieth century” (James Wood, The New Republic). Octavo, original half cloth. Presentati...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-118778

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McCullough, David

John Adams.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.

First edition of the author’s second Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page,...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-144341

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Robinson, Edwin Arlington

Tristram.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927.

Signed limited edition of this popular Pulitzer prize-winning Arthurian narrative poem. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth, top edge gilt. One of three hundred and fifty copies signed by Ed...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-145430

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Buchan, John

Huntingtower.

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1946.

Finely bound edition of this classic adventure novel, the first to follow Dickson McCunn. Duodecimo, bound in three quarters calf over marbled boards with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-150774

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Greeley, Horace

The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America.

Hartford: O.D. Case & Company, 1865.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, 2 volumes, bound in three quarters calf, gilt titles to the spine, illustrated. In near fine condition. Uncommon in this condition.

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-131811

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Lyon, Danny

Conversations with the Dead.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970.

First edition of Lyon’s photobook on convicts, including life in a Texas prison. Oblong, quarto. Original, illustrated wrappers as issued. In good condition with some wear to the foot of the spi...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-823

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Parker, Robert M

The Wines of the Rhone Valley.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987.

First edition of this comprehensive work on wines of the Rhone Valley. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated by Christopher Wormell. Boldly signed by Robert Parker on the front free endpaper. Fine...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-149741

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The Campaign Text Book. Why The People Want A Change. The Republican Party Reviewed: Its Sins of Commission and Omission.

New York:, 1876.

First edition of this 19th century summary of the leading events in American history under Republican administration. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles to the sp...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-136488

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