A Kudarc.
Budapest: Magveto, 1988.
First Hungarian edition and true first. Octavo, original boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Imre Kertesz on the title page.
$350.00
Item Number: RRB-1489
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Wilson, Edward O. & Robert Haas
The Poetic Species: A Conversation With Edward O. Wilson and Robert Haas.
New York: Bellevue Literary Press, 2014.
First edition of this “wonderful read in its entirety, short yet infinitely simulating” (Maria Popova, Brain Pickings). Small octavo, original half cloth. Signed by both Robert Haas and Ed...
$350.00
Item Number: RRB-3300
Faust, Irvin [Richard Benjamin]
The Steagle.
New York: Random House, 1966.
First edition. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Richard Benjamin on the title page, who starred in the 1971 film bearing the same name. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by B...
$350.00
Item Number: RRB-133107
A Draft of Shadows.
New York: A New Directions Book, 1979.
Early printing of this collection of poems published in English and Spanish. Octavo, original wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by the author to friend and fellow writer Sergio Muñoz Bata, “...
$350.00
Item Number: RRB-133278
Glazer, Nathan and Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians, and Irish of New York City.
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press and Harvard University Press, 1963.
First edition of this classic work, “perhaps the most perceptive inquiry into American minorities ever made” (Richard Rovere). Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers. Inscribed and dat...
$350.00
Item Number: RRB-49014
Einstein: His Life and Universe.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007.
First edition of the definitive biography of Albert Einstein. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Signed by Walter Isaacson on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust...
$350.00
Item Number: RRB-144608
Cat’s Eye.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1988.
First Canadian edition and true first of this “brilliant, three-dimensional mosaic… the story of Elaine’s childhood is so real and heartbreaking you want to stand up in your seat and...
$350.00
Item Number: RRB-138067
Eugénie Grandet.
New York: The Heritage Press, 1961.
The Heritage Press edition of Balzac’s short novel, later revised to be included in his ambitious project, La Comédie humaine. Royal octavo, bound in three-quarters morocco by Morrell with gilt titles...
$350.00
Item Number: RRB-148792
The New America: The New World.
London: The Cresset Press, 1935.
First British edition of this sociopolitical commentary of the United States during the interwar period. Octavo, original publisher’s blue cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket with toning...
$350.00
Item Number: RRB-149250
Freedom Triumphant: The Fourth Period of the War of the Rebellion From September 1864, To Its Close.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1891.
First edition of the acclaimed journalist’s work on the fourth period of the Civil War. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt, illustrated. In very good condition.
$350.00
Item Number: RRB-132827
[Dalton, James]. Illustrated by George Cruikshank
The Gentleman in Black.
London: William Kidd, 1831.
First edition of Dalton’s The Gentleman in Black. Octavo, bound in three quarter navy morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endp...
$350.00
Item Number: RRB-133421
Skellett, Paul; Simon Weitzman
Golf.
Derbyshire, England: Wonderland Publications, 2012.
First limited Captain’s edition of “The Bible of Golf.” Thick quarto, bound in full leather with gilt titles and tooling, pictorial endpapers, all edges gilt, two silk ribbon bookmar...
$350.00
Item Number: RRB-148309
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La Gerusalemme Liberata di Torquato Tasso. [Jerusalem Delivered].
Milano: Nicolo Bettoni, 1824.
Finely bound example of Torquato Tasso’s epic poem La Gerusalemme Liberata, or Jerusalem Delivered. Octavo, two volumes bound into one in three quarters vellum over marbled boards with gilt titl...
$350.00
Item Number: RRB-111064
Geography and Trade.
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1991.
First Edition of Paul Krugman’s work on economic geography. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Ken Paul Krugman.” Near fine in...
$350.00
Item Number: RRB-112951
View From the Ninth Decade: Jottings From a Merchant’s Daybook.
New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1961.
First edition, third printing of this work of sage advice on the principles of business success from one of America’s most influential twentieth-century retailers. Octavo, original publisher’s h...
$350.00
Item Number: RRB-149211
Schmidt, Eric and Jonathan Rosenberg
How Google Works.
New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2014.
First edition of this “informative and creatively multilayered Google guidebook from the businessman’s perspective” (Kirkus). Octavo, original boards. Signed by both Eric Schmidt and...
$350.00
Item Number: RRB-117377
The Giants.
New York: Atheneum, 1975.
First American edition of the author’s sixth novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by J.M.G. Le Clezio on the title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with minor wear. Jacket de...
$350.00
Item Number: RRB-775
The Tailor of Panama.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1996.
First edition of this “tour de force in which almost every convention of the classic spy novel is violated” (The New York Times). Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers. Boldly i...
$350.00
Item Number: RRB-149905
Fore! The Call of the Links.
Boston and New York: H.M. Caldwell Co, 1909.
First edition of this poetic and reflective celebration of golf. Duodecimo, pictorial half-cloth, frontispiece, illustrated throughout. In very good condition. A nice copy of a notoriously fragile boo...
$350.00
Item Number: RRB-148675
Your Face Tomorrow: Poison, Shadow, and Farewell.
New York: New Directions, 2009.
First American edition of the author’s final volume in his brilliant trilogy. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed and dated by the author in the year of publication on the title page, “J...
$350.00
Item Number: RRB-149285
At Home: Essays 1982-1988.
New York: Random House, 1988.
First edition of this collection of essays by the award-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “Valerie love Gore.” The recipient Valerie...
$350.00
Item Number: RRB-126590
The Women of Brewster Place.
New York: The Viking Press, 1982.
First edition of Naylor’s National Book Award-winning debut novel. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Jeanne Gloria Naylor.” Near fine in a ne...
$350.00
Item Number: RRB-125318
Christ in Concrete.
New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1939.
First edition of this classic portrait of Lower East Side of Manhattan in the 1920s. Octavo, original black cloth. Warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a good dust j...
$350.00
Item Number: RRB-1871
