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Something in Common and Other Stories.

New York: Hill and Wang, 1963.

First edition, advance reading copy of this collection of thirty-seven of Hughes’ tales, eleven of them appearing in book form for the first time. Octavo, paperback issue, original pictorial wra...

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-139752

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Wodehouse, P. G

Money in the Bank.

London: Herbert Jenkins, n.d.

First edition of the author’s delightful and entertaining comedic mystery. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Frank Ford.

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-145015

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Lessing, Doris

Martha Quest.

London: Michael Joseph, 1952.

First edition of the author’s first book in the Children of Violence series. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Doris Lessing on the title page. Name on the front pastedown, near fine in a very g...

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-16012

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Bush, George H.W

George H.W. Bush Typed Letter Signed.

:, 1967.

Rare early typed letter signed by George H.W. Bush while he served as the U.S. Representative for Texas’s 7th congressional district from 1967 to 1971. One page, on Congress of the United States...

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-151816

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Mankiw, N. Gregory; Alan Blinder

Monetary Policy.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.

First edition of this collection of essays on monetary policy. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by both the editor Gregory Mankiw and contributor Alan Blinder to the same recipient. Near fine in a fi...

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-81229

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Cisneros, Sandra

The House on Mango Street.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.

First hardcover edition of this modern classic of Chicano literature. Duodecimo, original purple cloth, top edge blue. Near fine in a fine dust jacket, mark to the topstain. Jacket painting by Nivia G...

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-146874

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Ormiston, Harry [Editor]

This Week in the Palm Beaches.

West Palm Beach: Florida News Bureau, 1926.

Rare first edition of this weekly illustrated magazine on Palm Beach social life. Quarto, original pictorial wrappers, black-and-white illustrations, issue February 15, 1976. In very good condition.

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-152146

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Dalton, Charles

The Waterloo Roll Call.

London: William Clowes & Sons, Limited, 1890.

First edition of Dalton’s account of the decisive engagement of the Waterloo campaign and Napoleon’s last. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, il...

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-137101

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Irving, John

The Cider House Rules.

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1985.

Signed limited first edition of Irving’s sixth novel. Octavo, original leather, gilt titles and tooling, raised bands, all edges gilt, frontispiece by Scott Reynolds. Boldly signed by John Irvin...

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-117269

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Buchan, John

Prester John.

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd., .

Finely bound edition of classic adventure novel. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, marbled endpapers, c...

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-150839

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Huxley, Aldous

Eyeless in Gaza.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1936.

First edition of Huxley’s classic work, which many consider one of his finest. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-150147

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Skidelsky, Robert

John Maynard Keynes: Fighting For Freedom, 1937-1946.

New York: Viking, 2000.

First edition of this biography on the legendary economist. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Signed by Robert Skidelsky on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-16014

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Mickelson, Phil

One Magical Sunday: (But Winning Isn’t Everything).

New York: Warner Books, 2005.

First edition of this work by the great Masters champion. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Phil Mickelson on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Flag...

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-136983

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Weizmann, Chaim

Trial and Error: The Autobiography of Chaim Weizmann.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1949.

First editions of the autobiography of the first president of Israel. Octavo, 2 volumes, frontispiece of Weizmann in volume one. Near fine in very good dust jackets, inscription to the front free endp...

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-150061

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Goleman, Daniel

Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ.

New York: Bantam Books, 1995.

First edition of this important work on emotional intelligence. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For John Directing attention towa...

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-144488

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Deaton, Angus

The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013.

First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original boards, illustrated endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For John Rogers An...

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-147447

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Kerouac, Jack

Vanity of Duluoz.

New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1968.

First edition of this classic work by the author of On the Road. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-131320

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Arthur, Anthony (John Updike)

Literary Feuds.

New York: St. Martins Press, 2002.

First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the half title page, “For John Updike, with admiration- Anthony Arthur.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Updike is featured in...

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-5767

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Hahn, Frank and Robert Solow

A Critical Essay on Modern Macroeconomic Theory.

Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1995.

First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Solow on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

$350.00 Item Number: RRB-45079

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Morrison, Toni

A Mercy.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.

First edition of “one of Morrison’s most haunting works yet” (The New York Times). Octavo, original half-cloth. Boldly signed by Toni Morrison on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust j...

$325.00 Item Number: RRB-151545

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McElroy, Joseph

Hind’s Kidnap.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1969.

First edition of this “distinguished work of the imagination” (J. G. Farrell). Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by James Spanfeller. Uncommon in...

$325.00 Item Number: RRB-140026

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Jacobs, Jane

Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics.

New York: Random House, 1993.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “I hope you enjoy this, Barbara Fryrear, Sincerely, Jane Jacobs Dal...

$325.00 Item Number: RRB-145777

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Houston, Charles S. & Robert Bates

K2: The Savage Mountain.

London: Collins, 1955.

First edition of Charles Houston and Robert Bates’ K2: The Savage Mountain. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by both Charles Houston and Robert H. Bates on the title page. Also laid in is a short...

$325.00 Item Number: RRB-645

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Welty, Eudora

The Ponder Heart.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1954.

First edition and advance review copy of Welty’s third novel. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with drawings by Joe Krush. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. With the publisher’...

$325.00 Item Number: RRB-90417

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