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The Great Peril and How It Was Averted.

London: Offices of "Black and White", 1893.

First edition of this scarce science fiction novel. Octavo, original pictorial cloth with gilt titles to the spine, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with twelve black and white plates. In very good co...

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-148069

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Mills, John

Stable Secrets; and Puffy Doddles, His Saying and Sympathies.

London: Ward and Lock, 1863.

First edition of Mills’ humorous work on horse racing. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt vignette to the front panel, frontispiece and two additional plates...

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-124083

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Kamara-Umunna, Agnes Fallah; Emily Holland [Madeleine K. Albright]

And Still Peace Did Not Come: A Memoir of Reconciliation.

New York: Hyperion, 2011.

First edition of this memoir about the devastation of the Liberia civil war and its rise out of the ashes. Octavo, original publisher’s boards, bookplate to the front pastedown from “The Private...

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-147576

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Powys, John Cowper

The Inmates.

London: Macdonald & Co., 1952.

First edition of the author’s astonishing tale, set in a madhouse. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Roy Sanford.

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-128106

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Breyer, Stephen

Stephen Breyer Signed Photograph.

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Rare original photograph of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. Boldly signed by him in silver felt tip to the bottom right corner of the photograph. In fine condition. The piece measures 8 inches b...

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-151396

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Jones, James

Some Came Running.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1957.

First edition of the author’s major second novel about an aspiring Army veteran writer. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth. Jacket design by Greta Franzen. Near fine in a near fine du...

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-147568

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Kadare, Ismail

The General of the Dead Army.

New York: Grossman, 1972.

First American edition of the author’s classic first book to be translated into English. Octavo, original cloth, top stain black. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by McKean, K...

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-152111

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Luthuli, Albert

Let My People Go. An Autobiography.

Johannesburg and London: Collins, 1962.

First edition of this work by the Nobel Laureate. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece, illustrated. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, bookplate. Introduction by Charles Hooper. A nice example.

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-114241

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Brzezinski, Zbigniew

Power and Principle: Memoirs of the National Security Adviser 1977-1981.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983.

First edition of Brzezinski’s memoirs. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Ross Becker- with best wishes, Zbigniew B...

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-144069

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Faulkner, William

This Earth: A Poem by William Faulkner.

New York: Equinox, 1932.

First edition of this short poem by William Faulkner. Octavo, original paper wrappers. Illustrated with drawings by Albert Heckman. In fine condition. An exceptional example.

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-90422

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White, Patrick

Voss.

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1957.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s fifth novel and what many consider to be his finest. Octavo, original blue cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket art by famed Aust...

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-131223

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Roth, Philip

The Breast.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972.

Uncorrected proof of the author’s comic novella which features David Kapesh’s transformation into a 155 pound breast. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by Philip Roth on the title page. In...

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-1625

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Eisenman, Peter

Codex: The City of Culture of Galicia.

New York: Monacelli Press, 2005.

First edition of this work by Eisenman. Oblong quarto, original wrappers as issued, illustrated. In fine condition. Inscribed and dated by Peter Eisenman on the title page.

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-38753

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Montgomery, Frances Trego

On a Lark to the Planets.

Akron, Ohio: The Saalfield Publishing Co., 1904.

First edition of this whimsical early science fiction novel. Octavo, original pictorial cloth, frontispiece, illustrated by Winifred D. Elrod. In very good condition. A very nice example.

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-147973

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Buchan, John

The Adventures of Sir Edward Leithen.

London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD, .

Finely bound edition of this collection of stories about recurring protagonist and distinguished Scottish barrister Sir Edward Leithen. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over cloth covered board...

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-150855

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White, Patrick

The Vivisector.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1970.

First edition of this work by “one of the great magicians of fiction . . . White’s scope is vast and his invention endless” (The Observer). Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fin...

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-132699

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Roth, Philip

Our Gang.

New York: Random House, 1971.

First edition of Roth’s fifth book. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Philip Roth on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-156

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Wyndham, Eric

Revelation: A Romance.

London: Digby, Long & Co., Publishers, 1897.

First edition of this fantastical reinterpretation of the legend of the Wandering Jew. Octavo, original cloth, floral endpapers. In very good condition.

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-147990

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Buchan, John

Augustus.

London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD, 1937.

Finely bound edition of this historical novel of the first Roman Emperor. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, The Downs Schoo...

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-148956

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Mandino, Og and Buddy Kaye

The Gift of Acabar.

Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1978.

First edition of Mandino and Kaye’s enchanting parable. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by Mandino on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, “With Love Og Mandino 9/28/...

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-90426

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Stevengraph Bookmark “May The Bestower.”

:, c. 1876.

Rare Stevengraph bookmark titled “May The Bestower.” Jacquard-woven from silk with “May The Bestower of all Bliss Grant Thee Long Years of Happiness” in decorative letters at t...

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-151883

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Einstein, Albert

Out of My Later Years.

New York: Philosophical Library, 1950.

First edition of Einstein’s collection of social science-related articles, addresses and speeches. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of Einstein. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-149411

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Greene, Robert

The Art of Seduction.

New York: Penguin Books/ A Joost Elfers Book, 2001.

Later printing of this modern classic. Octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed by Robert Greene on the half-title page. In fine condition.

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-150373

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Ford, Richard

Wildlife.

New York: Collins Harvill, 1990.

First British edition of this work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “Sally So finally with love. From R....

$250.00 Item Number: RRB-121321

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