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Twenty-Five Village Sermons.

London: John W. Parker, 1849.

First edition of this collection of mid-19th-century sermons. Duodecimo, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards by Tout & Sons with gilt titles and floral tooling to the spine in six...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-151100

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Wiesenthal, Simon

Max and Helen: A Remarkable True Love Story.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1982.

First edition of this glorious love story. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, “To Joseph Lichten most cord...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-147051

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Bellow, Saul

Summations: The Bennington Chapbooks in Literature.

: Bennington College, 1987.

First Edition. Signed by Bellow. A lecture delivered at Bennington College in 1987 in an edition of 1,000. Thin Octavo. Signed by the author in facsimile in the back of the title, although not called...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-178

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Updike, John

A Month of Sundays.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975.

First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to his neighbors Ken and Jane Field. A very sharp copy of Updike’s seventh novel.

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-3600

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Cline, Ernest

The Importance of Being Ernest.

Austin, TX: Write Bloody Press, 2013.

First edition. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers as issued. Signed by Ernest Cline on the title page. In fine condition.

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-12020

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Nichols, Beverley

Cats’ A.B.C.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1960.

First British edition of this charming children’s book about the lives, personalities, and quirks of cats. Royal octavo, original pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated throughout by...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-147943

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Nabokov, Vladimir

The Gift.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1963.

First edition in English of the “the most original, unusual and interesting piece of prose writing of Russian emigre writing” (Simon Karlinsky). Octavo, original boards. Near fine in a very good dust...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-152261

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James, Henry

The Ivory Tower.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917.

First British edition of James’ unfinished novel, published posthumously in 1917. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine. In near fine condition.

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-109563

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Ullmann, Liv [Erica Jong]

Choices.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.

First edition of Liv Ullmann’s quietly and beautifully written autobiography. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publica...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-142818

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Kotter, John P

Matsushita Leadership: Lessons From the 20th Century’s Most Remarkable Entrepreneur.

New York : The Free Press, 1997.

First edition of this work by the best-selling author. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by John P. Kotter on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Calvin Chu.

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-144882

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Carpenter, Scott

Deep Flight.

New York: Pocket Books, 1994.

First Pocket Books edition of the second novel written by astronaut Scott Carpenter, the sequel to his 1990 debut underwater techno-thriller, The Steel Albatross. Duodecimo, original pictorial wrapper...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-150595

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Stevengraph Bookmark “A Birthday Gift.”

:, c. 1876.

Rare Stevengraph bookmark titled “A Birthday Gift.” Jacquard-woven from silk with “A Birthday Gift” in decorative letters at the top above a floral wreath, a 16 line poem to th...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-151885

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Taylor, George

An Account of the Genus Meconopsis.

London: New Flora and Silva Ltd, 1934.

First edition of Taylor’s best-known work. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated with frontispiece, 29 plates from photographs and 12 distributional maps. In very good condition. Small ownership n...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-137344

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Landau, Henry

All’s Fair. The Story of the British Secret Service Behind the German Lines.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1934.

Early printing of Landau’s biography of his time in the British Secret Service. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Captain Henry Landau.” Near...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-83469

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Fletcher, Colin

River: One Man’s Journey Down the Colorado, Source to Sea.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.

First edition of this epic adventure by Fletcher, a renowned traveler and writer. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with 15 maps and 42 photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author o...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-100432

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Wilder, Thornton

The Angel That Troubled the Waters and Other Plays.

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1928.

Signed limited edition of this collection of three-minute plays by American playwright and novelist Thornton Wilder. Imperial octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and gilt ruling to th...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-145425

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Mead, Margaret. Foreword by Franz Boas

Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth in Western Civilisation.

New York: Blue Ribbon Books, 1932.

Early printing of Mead’s pioneering work which, upon publication, established her as the most famous anthropologist in the world. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece, illustrated. Near fine in the ra...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-117912

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Henty, George Alfred [G.A.]

Those Other Animals.

London: Henry and Co., [1891].

First edition of one of the more uncommon Henty titles. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth, with twenty two illustrations by Harrison Weir. In very good condition.

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-123098

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Binet, Laurent

Civilisations.

London: Harvill Secker, 2021.

Signed limited first edition of this alternate-history novel of the Americas and Europe. Octavo, original publishers red boards, all edges red. One of 250 numbered copies, this is number 176. Boldly s...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-150628

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Gardner, John

Role of Honour.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1984.

First edition of this Bond novel. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. Jacket art by Trevor Scobie.

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-127589

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Nelson, Byron; Arnold Palmer

How I Played the Game.

Dallas, TX: Taylor Publishing Company, 1993.

First special 1993 Sponsor edition of Nelson’s classic autobiography. Octavo, original publisher’s full forest green leatherette with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, illustrated with f...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-146678

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James, Henry

English Men of Letters: Hawthorne.

London: Macmillan an Co, 1879.

First British edition of James’ classic biographical study of his great predecessor Nathaniel Hawthorne. Octavo, original scarlet cloth. In very good condition with light rubbing. Edited by John...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-81054

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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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