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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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Aiken, Conrad

Selected Poems.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929.

First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of poetry and verse. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. With a partial rare original wrap around band.

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-112323

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Uyenishi, S.K. [Raku]; Word Portrait of the author by Percy Longhurst

The Text-Book of Ju-Jutsu As Practised in Japan: Being a Simple Treatise on the Japanese Method of Self-Defence.

London: Athletic Publications Ltd, c. 1940.

Later edition of this comprehensive wrestling text-book. Octavo, original green cloth with black lettering and decoration, illustrated with several black-and-white plates. Near fine in a very good dus...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-145250

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Haig, Matt

A Boy Called Christmas.

London: Canongate, 2015.

First edition of this modern Christmas classic. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Boldly signed by Matt Haig on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Rafaela Romaya. Illustr...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-125921

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Coetzee, J.M

Diary of a Bad Year.

Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2007.

First Australian edition of this groundbreaking novel. Octavo, original boards. Signed by J.M. Coetzee on the title page. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. Cover design by Chong.

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-131086

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Bird, Larry

Larry Bird Signed 1988 Sports Illustrated.

New York: Time Inc, 1988.

March 1988 issue of Sports Illustrated signed by American basketball legend Larry Bird. Octavo, original wrappers with Larry Bird in his Celtics uniform on the front panel, illustrated with advertisem...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-152278

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Fridson, Martin S

High Yield Bonds: Identifying Value and Assessing Risk of Speculative Grade Securities.

Chicago: Probus Publishing Company, 1989.

First edition of this early work by Fridson. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Peter- Hoping this helps you get to the bottom line! M...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-78912

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Bellow, Saul

The Victim.

New York: The Vanguard Press, 1947.

First edition of the author’s second novel. Octavo, original black cloth. An excellent example in a near fine dust jacket.

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-88346

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Murakami, Haruki

Men Without Women.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.

First edition of this collection of seven tales about men who have lost women by internationally best-selling author Haruki Murakami. Octavo, original cloth. Signed three times by dust jacket designer...

$275.00 Item Number: RRB-123764

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Goodall, Jane Van Lawick-

In the Shadow of Man.

London: William Collins Sons & Co Ltd, 1971.

First edition of this “absolutely fascinating to read as a story of discovery . . . The whole book is enthralling” (Boston Globe). Octavo, original cloth, illustrated endpapers, illustrate...

$275.00 Item Number: RRB-151542

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James, Henry

The Portrait of a Lady.

New York: The Heritage Press, 1967.

The Heritage Press edition of the most accomplished work of fiction during James’ apprentice years. Octavo, bound in three-quarters morocco by Morrell with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments...

$275.00 Item Number: RRB-148861

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Tazewell, Charles; Illustrated by Katherine Evans

The Littlest Angel.

Chicago: Childrens Press, Inc., 1946.

First edition of this beloved Christmas classic. Octavo, original illustrated boards, illustrated endpapers. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, small name to the front free endpaper.

$275.00 Item Number: RRB-133161

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Olah, George A

Life of Magic Chemistry: Autobiographical Reflections of A Nobel Prize Winner.

New York: Wiley-Interscience, 2001.

First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning chemist. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Inscribed by George Olah on the front free endpaper. In fine condition, without a dust jacket as iss...

$275.00 Item Number: RRB-15069

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James, Henry

Portraits of Places.

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1884.

First edition of James’ later collection of travel accounts throughout Europe and the United States. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine. In very good condition.

$275.00 Item Number: RRB-81257

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Merton, Thomas

The Seven Storey Mountain.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1948.

Early printing of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket, bookplate to the front free endpaper.

$275.00 Item Number: RRB-151033

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Oringer, Maurice J

Electrosurgery in Dentistry.

Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company, 1968.

Early edition of this work on the use of electrosurgery in modern dentistry. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine and front panel, illustarted with black and white photographs throughout....

$275.00 Item Number: RRB-147798

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Socci, P.B. (Yul Brynner)

Yul Brynner Signed P.B. Socci Sketch.

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Rare graphite artist’s sketch of Russian-born film and stage actor Yul Brynner. Boldly signed by Yul Brynner. Additionally signed by the artist, P.B. Socci. Active in the mid 1970s, American artist Pa...

$275.00 Item Number: RRB-89137

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Fagles, Robert

The Iliad, Book III: Helen Reviews the Champions. [With] The Iliad, Book XVIII: The Shield of Achilles.

: Grand Street Publications, Inc, .

Two rare Grand Street Publications separate printings of Books III and XVIII of Robert Fagles’ renowned translation of Homer’s Iliad. Octavo, two volumes. Association copy, inscribed by au...

$275.00 Item Number: RRB-137120

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Nabokov, Vladimir

Notes on Prosody.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, 1964.

First edition of Nabokov’s analysis of poetic prosody from the commentary of his translation of Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.

$275.00 Item Number: RRB-88174

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Robeson, Paul

Here I Stand.

London: Dennis Dobson, 1958.

First edition, second printing of Robeson’s powerful first book. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Ownership stamp to the front free endpaper. Jacket photograph by Al Burne...

$275.00 Item Number: RRB-148660

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Hallam, Henry

View of The State of Europe During the Middle Ages.

London: John Murray, 1880.

Finely bound volume of Hallam’s history of the United States. Bound in three quarters morocco with gilt tooling to the spine and red morocco spine label lettered in gilt in five compartments wit...

$275.00 Item Number: RRB-90436

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Lardner Jr., Ring

The Ecstasy of Owen Muir.

Berlin: Seven Seas Publishers, 1966.

Paperback edition of Ring Lardner Jr.’s witty Candide-like satire. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. The recipient, Vera Caspary was a novelist, most well known for Laura, which was scripte...

$275.00 Item Number: RRB-125577

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Dubus III, Andre

The Cage Keeper and Other Stories.

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1989.

First edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed twice by Dubus with the words added “Stay true and be you.” Fine in a fine dust jacket without the usual...

$275.00 Item Number: RRB-451

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