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Harrod, R.F. and E.A.G. Robinson, Editors. [R.G. Hawtrey; F.J. DeJong; John Maynard Keynes]

The Economic Journal: The Quarterly Journal of The Royal Economic Society. December 1954. [Keynes and Supply Functions: A Rejoinder].

London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1954.

Rare offprint of the December 1954 issue of the The Economic Journal, containing F.J. DeJong’s article “Keynes and Supply Functions: A Rejoinder,” cut out and pasted over R.G. Hawtre...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-150685

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Macintyre, Ben

Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle.

United Kingdom: Viking an Imprint of Penguin Books, 2022.

First edition of this military history of the prisoners in Colditz Castle during World War II. Octavo, original publisher’s black cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with photographs. Boldly...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-150535

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Millhauser, Steven

Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972.

First edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Millhauser on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with the lightest of wear. Jacket design by Alice and Ma...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-885

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Masefield, John

My Faith in Woman Suffrage.

: The Woman's Press, [1910].

First edition of the English Poet Laureate’s speech delivered in the Queens Hall, February 14th, 1910. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition.

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-135641

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Stevenson, Robert Louis

Kidnapped: Being the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751.

London: Humphrey Milford/ Oxford University Press, 1930.

First edition of this wonderfully illustrated edition. Quarto, original cloth, slipcase, illustrated by Rowland Hilder. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. The slipcase is in near fine condition.

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-138086

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Kotter, John P

Power in Management: How to Understand, Acquire, and Use It.

New York: Amacom, 1979.

First edition of this early work by Kotter. Octavo, original boards. Signed by John Kotter on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-106742

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Palgrave, Francis T

The Treasury of Sacred Song: Selected from the English Lyrical Poetry of Four Centuries.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1889.

First trade edition of Palgrave’s treasury of the lyrical poems of the finest English poets. Octavo, original publisher’s gilt-stamped half vellum, top edge gilt with others untrimmed. In...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-111084

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Atwood, Margaret

Cat’s Eye.

London: Bloomsbury, 1989.

First edition 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 cheer” (Boston Su...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-118434

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Libeskind, Daniel

Breaking Ground.

New York: Riverhead Books, 2004.

First edition of the famed architect’s autobiography. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Boldly signed by Daniel Libeskind on the title page. Additionally signed twice by jacket illustrator Ch...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-122771

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Kingsley, Charles

Westward Ho!

Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1855.

First edition of Kingsley’s historical novel based on the Preston Somers Expedition of 1595. Small octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards by Tout & Sons with gilt titles...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-151107

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Dertouzos, Robert; Lester, Richard K. Lester; Robert M. Solow

Made In America: Regaining the Productive Edge.

Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1989.

First edition of the best-selling book in MIT Press’ history. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Robert M. Solow on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-46017

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Jerome, Jerome K

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog).

Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith, 1889.

First edition, second state of Jerome’s humorous account of a two-week boating holiday on the Thames. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by A. Frederics. Second state with ’11 Quay Street...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-138348

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Keynes, John Maynard [J.M.]

How To Pay For the War.

London: Macmillan and Company, 1940.

Rare first edition of this wartime work by Keynes. Octavo, original boards. In very good condition. Uncommon in this condition.

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-150281

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Agassi, Andre

Andre Agassi Signed Tennis Ball.

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Tennis ball signed by legendary tennis player Andre Agassi. In fine condition.

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-150938

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Work, Henry C. [William Tecumseh Sherman]

Marching Through Georgia: Written in Honor of Sherman’s Famous March From “Atlanta to the Sea”.

Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1889.

First Ticknor and Co. edition of Henry Clay Work’s greatest hit, “Marching Through Georgia”, inspired by Sherman’s march to the sea at the end of 1864. Octavo, original cloth,...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-132439

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Phelps, Edmund

Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013.

First edition of this work which won the 2014 Gold Medal in Economics. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Edmund Phelps on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by David Drum...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-151958

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Faulkner, William [Madeleine Albright]

Absalom, Absalom!

United States of America: Random House , 1951.

Modern Libraray editon of this story that explores the themes of race, identity, and the burden of history. 18 mo, original publisher’s cloth. From the library of Madeleine K. Albright. Albright...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-149078

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Naipaul, V.S

Collected Short Fiction.

New York: Everyman's Library, 2011.

First edition of this collection of fiction by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by V.S. Naipaul on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. With an introduction by the...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-56745

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Potok, Chaim

The Promise.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969.

First edition of the author’s sequel to The Chosen. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Hugh and Marilyn Nissenson,...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-79898

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McCain, John

Worth the Fighting For: A Memoir.

New York: Random House, 2002.

First edition of McCain’s memoirs. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Matthew- Best wishes John McCain.” Fine in...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-150234

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Eastman, P.D

Are You My Mother?

New York: Random House, 1960.

First edition, early printing of P.D. Eastman’s beloved classic, one of the most cherished titles in Random House’s Beginner Books series. Octavo, original pictorial boards, illustrated by the author...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-152163

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Franklin, Benjamin; Notes by George Simpson Eddy

Account Books Kept by Benjamin Franklin.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1928.

Benjamin Franklin’s ledger and journal from 1728-1939 from The American Philosophical Society’s ‘Papers of Benjamin Franklin’; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Sm...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-145950

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Chosen and Edited by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch

The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1918.

London: Oxford University Press, 1966.

Finely bound edition of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch’s The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1918, the new edition. Duodecimo, bound in full modern morocco by Bayntun-Riviere with gilt titles and to...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-148873

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From The Westminster Review, Number 66

An Essay on the Genius of Cruikshank.

London: Henry Hooper, 1840.

First edition of this essay highlighting George Cruikshank’s artistic skill and cultural significance in early Victorian Britain. Octavo, bound in three-quarters morocco by J. McDonald of New York wit...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-148887

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