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The Play: The Ballad of the Sad Café. Carson McCullers’ Novella Adapted to the Stage by Edward Albee.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1963.

First edition of Albee’s quietly powerful adaptation of McCuller’s novella. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Edward Albee on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. P...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-137248

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Washington, Booker T

My Larger Education: Being Chapters From My Experience.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1911.

First edition of this uncommon collection of the author’s speeches and essays concerning education. Octavo, original cloth lettered in gilt, illustrated, tissue-guarded frontispiece. In good con...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-137463

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Bonington, Chris

The Everest Years: A Climber’s Life.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1986.

First edition of this work by Bonington. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Chris Bonington on the title page. From the library of James Stephen “Steve” Fossett with his bookplate to the pastedown. Ame...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-111631

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Irwin, James B. with William A. Emerson Jr

To Rule The Night: The Discovery Voyage of Astronaut Jim Irwin.

Philadelphia: A. J. Holman Company, 1973.

First edition of the autobiography of Jim Irwin, who served as the Lunar Module pilot for Apollo 15. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “T...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-144838

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Shakespeare, William. Edited by John Payne Collier

The Works of William Shakespeare. The Text Formed from an Entirely New Collation of the Old Editions: with the Various Readings, Notes, A Life of the Poet, and a History of the Early English Stage.

London: Whittaker & Co, 1842-1844.

The large-type edition of Collier’s Shakespeare. Octavo, three of nine original volumes bound in three quarters morocco, gilt ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, morocco...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-138774

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Johnson, Hugh

Wine as a Communicator: An Address.

London: Printed in Great Britain by The Stellar Press, 1972.

First edition of Hugh Johnson’s address to the Wynkyn de Worde Society on 18th May 1972 at the Stationers Hall. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, frontispiece. Presentation copy, inscribed by...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-148841

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Roth, Philip

The Great American Novel.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Philip Roth on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-150318

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Treynor, Jack L., Patrick J. Regan and William W. Priest, Jr

The Financial Reality of Pension Funding Under ERISA.

Homewood, IL: Dow Jones-Irwin, 1976.

First edition of this work on pension funding. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Jack L. Treynor on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-109849

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Hull, Raymond

How to Write A Play.

Cincinnati, OH: Writer's Digest Books, 1983.

First edition of this work on how to write a play. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “Mary Greetings and b...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-142459

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Moss, Stirling

Stirling Moss’s Book of Motor Sport.

London: Cassell and Company, 1955.

First edition of Moss’ classic book of motor sport. Octavo, original cloth, profusely illustrated. Signed by Stirling Moss on the title page. Edited by Wayne Mineau. Foreword by Raymond Baxter....

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-151039

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Kipling, Rudyard

Kipling Handbook.

San Francisco: The Examiner, 1899.

Scarce first edition and only appearance of the Kipling Handbook issued as a single sheet in the San Francisco Examiner to be folded into 32 pages; the contents were all previously published. 16mo, or...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-121255

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Updike, John

Rabbit Is Rich.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.

First edition of Updike’s third novel in his acclaimed Rabbit series, which went on to win the Pulitzer Prize. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by John Updike. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-60097

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Irving, John

A Widow for One Year.

New York: Alred A. Knopf, 1998.

First Canadian edition of Irving’s powerful ninth novel. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Ken With my appreciation John Irving....

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-137631

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Nabokov, Vladimir

Despair.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1966.

First American edition of this inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime–his own murder. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine price-clipp...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-140005

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Trollope, Anthony

Ralph the Heir.

London: Strahan & Co. Publishers, 1871.

First illustrated edition of Trollope’s account of a corrupt Parliamentary election, based on his own experiences as a candidate. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco with gilt tooling to the...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-110321

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Conrad, Joseph

Last Essays.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926.

First edition of this posthumous collection of twenty essays. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, frontispiece facsimile of “The Last Words That Conrad Wrote.” Near fine in the origi...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-147542

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New York Monuments Commission [William Tecumseh Sherman]

In Memoriam: Henry Warner Slocum 1826-1894.

Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1904.

First edition of this work dedicated to the memory of an esteemed Union general; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Quarto, original cloth, botanical endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-145997

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Christie, Agatha

The Clocks.

London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1963.

First edition of this classic murder mystery. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Michael Harvey.

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-150710

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Morrison, Toni

God Help the Child.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.

First edition this powerful novel which explores themes of race, identity, and the lasting impact of childhood trauma. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Toni Morrison on the title page. Fi...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-150665

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White, Patrick

The Eye of the Storm.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1973.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s ninth published novel. Ocatvo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket painting by Desmond Digby.

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-119085

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[Meir, Golda]

Golda Meir Bust.

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Bust of Prime Minister Golda Meir. In fine condition. Mounted on a brass base, the entire piece measures 6.75 inches in height. In fine condition.

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-145477

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Buchan, John

The Power-House.

Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1916.

First edition of this fast-paced thriller. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, marbled endpap...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-151375

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Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, at the Second Session Thirty-Eighth Congress.

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1865.

First edition of Vol. III the Official Congressional Report on the American Civil War. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition.

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-132562

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Rushdie, Salman

Midnight’s Children.

London: The Folio Society, 2009.

The Folio Society edition of the author’s Booker Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original pictorial cloth, frontispiece, with nine color illustrations. In fine condition. Illustrations by Anna Bhus...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-148340

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