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Crossing The Gulf: Love and Family in Migrant Lives.

Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016.

First edition of this intricate dynamics of migration in the Gulf cities of Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Kuwait City. Octavo, original publisher’s wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by author on th...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-149067

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Salinger, Pierre [John F. Kennedy]

A Tribute to John F. Kennedy.

Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica Inc, 1964.

First edition of this tribute to President Kennedy. Octavo, original boards, original slipcase, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Allan Sherman...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-134104

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Calmet, Antoine Augustin. Translated by Giovanni Domenico Mansi

Dictionarium Historicum, Criticum, Chronologicum, Geographicum, et Literale Sacrae Scripturae, Cum figuris Antiquitates Judaicas repraesentantibus Authore R.P.D. Augustino Calmet Ordinis S. Benedicti Abbate, E Gallico in Latinum translatum A Joanne Dominico Mansi, Congregationis Matris Dei, Lucensi.

Venetiis: Apud Sebastianum Coleti, 1757.

Second Venetian edition of Giovanni Domenico Mansi’s Latin translation of Antoine Augustin Calmet’s dictionary of the Holy Scriptures, perhaps the most famous and meticulous exegetical, hi...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-114059

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Lederman, Leon with Dick Teresi

The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993.

First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning scientist. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author opposite the title page, “To Wayne and Loise Wille We real...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-142078

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Wodehouse, P.G

Nothing Serious.

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1950.

First edition of Wodehouse’s dynamically humorous collection of short stories. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Frank Ford. Uncommon in this c...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-145048

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Scott, Paul

Early printing of this dramatic story by the author of The Raj Quartet which many consider to be his best novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free en...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-120224

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Fager, Chuck

Eating Dr. King’s Dinner: A Memoir of the Movement 1963-1966.

Fayetteville, North Carolina: Kimo Press, 2005.

First edition of this personal memoir of Civil Rights activism. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the title page, “Durham NC, 2023 For James, Th...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-146361

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Salgado, Sebastiao; Lelia Wanick Salgado

Africa.

Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2007.

First edition of this collection of Salgado’s black and white images of Africa taken over the course of thirty years. Oblong quarto, original boards. Boldly signed by Sebastiao Salgado on the ha...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-4532

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Allison, Graham [Madeleine K. Albright]

Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe.

New York: Times Books, 2004.

First edition of this informative work on nuclear terrorism and how to prevent it. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth, bookplate to the front pastedown from “The Private Collection of Secre...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-147591

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Landau, Deb Miller

A Devil Went Down to Georgia: Race, Power, Privilege, and the Murder of Lita McClinton.

New York: Pegasus Books, 2024.

First edition of one of “the best nonfiction true crime books of all time” (Oprah Daily). Octavo, original publisher’s half-cloth, illustrated with photographs. Lengthily signed by t...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-148695

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Zinn, Howard

Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawal.

Boston: Beacon Press, 1967.

First edition of Zinn’s classic work arguing for withdrawal of military forces in Vietnam. Octavo, original cloth. Signed and dated by the author on the title page, “Howard Zinn 2001....

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-100961

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Malkiel, Burton G

The Random Walk Guide To Investing.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2003.

First edition of this essential book for any investor. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “For Ted wit...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-150407

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Apcar, Amy

Melodies of Five Offices in Holy Week According to the Holy Apostolic Church of Armenia: Being the Offices for Palm Sunday Evening for the Third, Sixth, and Tenth Hours of Holy Thursday and for the Tenth Hour of Good Friday Together with the Office for Candlemas Eve.

Leipzig: Printed by Breitkopf & Haertel, 1902.

Early edition of this rendering of sacred melodies into modern musical notation. Octavo, written in English and Armenian, bound in full brown cloth with gilt titles to the spine, gilt cross vignette t...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-149501

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Blume, Judy

Soupy Saturdays with the Pain and the Great One.

New York: Delacorte Press, 2007.

First edition of this collection of seven warm-hearted stories which give readers a peek at how a brother and sister relate to each other. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by the author on t...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-144144

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Roth, Philip

When She Was Good.

New York: Random House, 1967.

First edition of Roth’s second novel. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of Christopher Lasch, with his name to the front free endpaper. Lasch was a historian, moralist, and social critic...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-117571

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Herr, Michael

Walter Winchell.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990.

First edition of this novel by the author of Dispatches. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Jim, Best wishes Michael Herr 26 Feb 93....

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-120899

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Nicklaus, Jack

My Story.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.

First edition of the Golden Bear’s autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Doug Good Golfing Jac...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-146131

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Williamson, Oliver E

The Economic Institutions of Capitalism: Firms, Markets, Relational Contracting.

New York: The Free Press, 1985.

First edition of Williamson’s modern classic. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mike McIver.

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-126832

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Cothren, William [William Tecumseh Sherman]

History of Ancient Woodbury, Connecticut, from the First Indian Deed in 1659 to 1872, Including the Towns of Washington, Southbury, Bethlehem, Roxbury, and a part of Oxford and Middlebury.

Woodbury, Connecticut: William Cothren, 1872.

Second volume of the scarce 1872 edition of this history of Ancient Woodbury, the location of the Sherman family’s initial establishment in early 1673; from the library of General William Tecums...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-145969

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Channing, William E.; Harriet Martineau

Lectures on the Elevation of the Labouring Portion of the Community.

Boston: Published by William D. Ticknor, 1840.

First edition of this collection of three important essays on slavery, the poor, and social change, written by Channing and Martineau, two major Unitarian reformers. Duodecimo, bound in nineteenth cen...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-152019

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Bird, Larry

Larry Bird Signed 1991 and 1992 Upper Deck Cards.

California: The Upper Deck Co, 1991-1992.

1991 and 1992 Upper Deck Larry Bird signed Celtics cards. Two Upper Deck cards, each depicting Larry Bird in his Celtics uniform with a basketball, numbered 344 and 33a. Boldly signed by Larry Bird on...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-152279

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Bocuse, Paul

Bocuse A La Carte.

London: Aurum Press, 1987.

First edition. Quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Pour Lyn avec ma sympathique Paul Bocuse 3 Giullet 1990....

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-139625

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Boccaccio, Giovanni

Il Decamerone.

Amsterdam: Giovanni Ghiara, 1703.

Early eighteenth century edition of Giovanni Boccaccio’s masterpiece. Duodecimo, original full brown calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, marbled endpapers, all edges speckled blue, illustr...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-146400

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Burgess, Anthony

Enderby Outside.

London: William Heinemann, 1968.

First edition of the second novel in the author’s acclaimed Enderby series. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, ” The recipient, Rolland...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-125843

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Crossing The Gulf: Love and Family in Migrant Lives.

A Tribute to John F. Kennedy.

Dictionarium Historicum, Criticum, Chronologicum, Geographicum, et Literale Sacrae Scripturae, Cum figuris Antiquitates Judaicas repraesentantibus Authore R.P.D. Augustino Calmet Ordinis S. Benedicti Abbate, E Gallico in Latinum translatum A Joanne Dominico Mansi, Congregationis Matris Dei, Lucensi.

The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?

Nothing Serious.

The Chinese Love Pavilion.

Eating Dr. King’s Dinner: A Memoir of the Movement 1963-1966.

Africa.

Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe.

A Devil Went Down to Georgia: Race, Power, Privilege, and the Murder of Lita McClinton.

Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawal.

The Random Walk Guide To Investing.

Melodies of Five Offices in Holy Week According to the Holy Apostolic Church of Armenia: Being the Offices for Palm Sunday Evening for the Third, Sixth, and Tenth Hours of Holy Thursday and for the Tenth Hour of Good Friday Together with the Office for Candlemas Eve.

Soupy Saturdays with the Pain and the Great One.

When She Was Good.

Walter Winchell.

My Story.

The Economic Institutions of Capitalism: Firms, Markets, Relational Contracting.

History of Ancient Woodbury, Connecticut, from the First Indian Deed in 1659 to 1872, Including the Towns of Washington, Southbury, Bethlehem, Roxbury, and a part of Oxford and Middlebury.

Lectures on the Elevation of the Labouring Portion of the Community.

Larry Bird Signed 1991 and 1992 Upper Deck Cards.

Bocuse A La Carte.

Il Decamerone.

Enderby Outside.