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Joseph Alois Schumpeter: The Public Life of A Private Man.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994.

First edition of this biography on Schumpeter. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author, “Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Wolfgang Ann Arbor, MI Dec. 12, 1994....

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-4401

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Manno, Don Giuseppe

De’ Vizj De’ Letterati. [On the Vices of Men of Letters].

Naples: R. Marotta and Vanspandoch, 1830.

Finely bound example of this literary and moral critique of scholars, writers, intellectuals, and academic culture. Tricesimo-secondo, written in Italian, bound in three-quarters later morocco over ma...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-151949

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Pinter, Harold

The Dwarfs.

London: Faber & Faber, 1990.

First edition of this “fascinating work . . . possessing extraordinary power. Masterful” (San Francisco Chronicle). Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Harold Pinter on the title page. Fine...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-76345

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Boorstin, Daniel J

The Daniel J. Boorstin Reader.

New York: The Modern Library, 1995.

First edition of this compilation of the works of Daniel Boorstin. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Ray Grinold...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-100661

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Bagot, Richard

Casting of Nets.

Bernhard Tauchnitz: Leipzig, 1901.

Finely bound example of Bagot’s early novel. Octavo, bound in three quarters vellum with red morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gilt tooling to the spine. Ownership names. In near fine condit...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-114706

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Shreve, Anita

Resistance: A Novel.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1995.

First edition of this work by the author of The Pilot’s Wife. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication,...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-142738

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Wells, H.G

The Autocracy of Mr. Parham: His Remarkable Adventures in this Changing World.

London: William Heinemann, 1930.

First edition of this novel which was praised by Bertrand Russell. Octavo, original cloth, with 10 illustrations by David Low. In near fine condition. From the collection of British science fiction au...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-149398

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Reagan, Ronald

Ronald Reagan Photograph.

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Large poster/ photograph of President Ronald Reagan with his horse at Rancho del Cielo. Semi-glossy board print of Ronald Reagan standing next to one of his horses, possibly Little Man, and feeding th...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-150208

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Colacello, Bob. [Andy Warhol] [William Safire]

Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up.

New York: Vintage Books, 2014.

First Vintage Books edition of “by far the best of Andy Warhol’s portraits, including his own” (George Plimpton). Octavo, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated. Association copy...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-133037

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Coetzee, J.M

Life & Times of Michael K.

New York: The Viking Press, 1984.

First American edition of the author’s first Booker Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by J.M. Coetzee on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Basco...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-74675

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McCann, Colum

Let the Great World Spin: A Novel.

New York: Random House, 2009.

First edition of the author’s classic work, winner of the National Book Award. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Colum McCann on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-136771

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Kipling, Rudyard

Around The World With Kipling.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926.

First edition of this collection of five essays regarding Kipling’s life and work with an extensive index of his works and folding map at rear. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illus...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-121484

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Bouvier, Jacqueline and Lee. [Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis]

One Special Summer.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1974.

First edition of this delightful memoir written by the Bouvier sisters about their summer in Europe. Folio, original marbled blue paper boards, illustrated with drawings and decorations by both author...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-151232

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Covel, Michael

Trend Following.

New York: Prentice Hall, 2004.

First edition of this “essential book” (Ed Seykota). Octavo, original boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-106199

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Kipling, Rudyard

Limits and Renewals.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1932.

First edition of this fine collection of fourteen short stories. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with central gilt elephant emblem to the front panel. Near fine in the original dust jacket wh...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-135404

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Bizet, George and Oscar Hammerstein II

Carmen Jones Musical Score Collection.

New York: Williamson Music, Inc., 1943.

Collection of three musical scores from Bizet and Hammerstein’s popular musical. Quarto, three volumes, original illustrated wrappers. The collection includes piano scores for Stan’ Up An...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-138564

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Diamond, John

C: Because Cowards Get Cancer Too…

London: Vermilion, 1998.

First edition of Diamond’s story of his battle with throat cancer. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by John Diamond on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Author photograph by Sally...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-141524

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Thomson, James

The Complete Poetical Works of James Thomson.

London: Henry Frowde, 1908.

The Oxford edition of Thomson’s complete poetical works. Octavo, bound in full contemporary tree calf with elaborate gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt b...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-122647

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Dunsterville, Major-General L. C

Stalky’s Adventures.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1928.

First edition of this autobiography by Major-General Dunsterville. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-122198

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Gaiman, Neil and Roger Avary

Beowulf: The Script Book.

San Diego: IDW Publishing, 2007.

First edition of this illustrated work of Beowulf. Octavo, original wrappers. illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Neil Gaiman on the title page. In fine condition. Art and cover by Gabriel Rodrig...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-116056

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Wilson, Ernest H

Plant Hunting.

Boston, Massachusetts: The Stratford Company, 1927.

Special autographed first edition of this autobiographical account of Ernest H. Wilson’s adventures and discoveries as a renowned British plant collector. Octavo, two volumes, bound in full gree...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-151387

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Rhodes, James Ford [William Tecumseh Sherman]

History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 Vol 5.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1904.

Early edition of Vol. V of the history of the United States from 1864 to 1866; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo, original marooon cloth, top edge gilt, illustrated with folding ma...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-145965

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Wolfe, Tom [Madeleine Albright]

I Am Charlotte Simmons.

New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2004.

First edition of this “hilarious, exclamation-point filled novel” (John Freeman). Octavo, original half cloth, bookplate to the front pastedown from “The Private Collection of Secretary Ma...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-147425

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New Brunswick Readers: The Second Reader.

Toronto: W. J. Gage & Company, 1900.

First edition of The Second Reader in the New Brunswick Readers series, prescribed by the Board of Education for use in the Schools of New Brunswick. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Very good in...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-115364

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