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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. Boldly signed by Daniel J. Bernstein on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket....

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-68963

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Genet, Jean. Translated by Bernard Frechtman. Jean-Paul Sartre [Peter Matthiessen]

Our Lady of the Flowers.

New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1963.

First American edition of Genet’s debut novel. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of Peter Matthiessen with his bookplate to the front free endpaper. Peter Matthiessen remains the only wri...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-142737

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Huber, Peter [William Safire]

Orwell’s Revenge: The 1984 Palimpsest.

New York: The Free Press, 1994.

First edition of this work in which Huber discusses the compelling vision of Orwell’s 1984. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To B...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-143749

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Halberstam, David

The Next Century.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1991.

First edition of this work by the award-winning journalist. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author in the year of publication, “For Sandy and Virginia wit...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-144104

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Boll, Heinrich

Missing Persons and Other Essays.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1977.

First edition of this collection of essays by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the translator in the year of publication on the front free e...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-122432

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Addams, Charles. [Chas Addams]

Homebodies.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1954.

First edition of this classic collection of Addams’ cartoons. Quarto, original half cloth, illustrated. Near fin in a near fine dust jacket.

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-147272

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Saramago, Jose

Blindness.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1997.

First edition of the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed twice by jacket designer Claudine G. Mansour on the front jacket panel and the rear flap. Translated from the Po...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-147085

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Johnson, Hugh

Wine.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1966.

First edition of this early work by the foremost wine expert in the world. Quarto, original cloth, top stain red, with line drawings by Owen Wood, seven color maps. Near fine in a very good dust jacke...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-145730

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Blair, Tony

On Leadership: Lessons for the 21st Century.

London: Hutchinson Heinemann, 2024.

First edition of this masterclass on leadership from a master statesman. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Tony Blair on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-148261

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Freer, Martha Walker

The Life of Jeanne D’Albert Queen of Navarre.

London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 1855.

First edition of Freer’s appreciation of Jeanne Baptiste d’Albert de Luynes. Octavo, bound in three quarters emerald green crushed levant morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in s...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-139030

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Gallico, Paul

The Snow Goose.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1941.

First edition, early printing of this classic story, the moving wartime story of friendship and heroism, set against the dramatic backdrop of the World War II Battle of Dunkirk. Octavo, original cloth...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-150238

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Segal, Erich

Oliver’s Story.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1977.

First edition of the dramatic sequel to Love Story, the basis for the 1978 film starring Ryan O’Neal, this time opposite Candice Bergen. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by t...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-143618

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le Carre, John

Our Game.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1995.

First edition, second printing of this novel by the author of The Spy Who Came In From the Cold. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, ribbon bound in. Boldly signed by John le Carre on the...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-146510

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Locker, Frederick

London Lyrics.

London: John Wilson, 1868.

Rare privately printed edition of Locker’s first book. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page in the year of publication, “Joh...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-124134

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Russell, F. Cecil

Corpulency and the Cure.

London: Woburn House, 1885.

First edition of this early work on obesity. Octavo, original gray flexible cloth, engraved frontispiece and one other engraved illustration of a laboratory. This work includes chapters covering the r...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-110867

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Carver, Raymond

Where I’m Calling From: New & Selected Stories.

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1988.

Signed limited first edition of this classic collection of short stories. Octavo, bound in full publisher’s morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised b...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-146628

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Blencowe (Mrs.) edited by

The Casket, a Miscellany, Consisting of Unpublished Poems.

: London, John Murray, 1829.

First edition. Octavo, original boards with leather spine. In good condition. An anthology of original work by Praed, Montgomery, Rogers, Hodgson, Moore, and Wordsworth. Also contains a Lord Byron unp...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-1610

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Kirkpatrick, Jeane J. [William Safire]

The Withering Away of the Totalitarian State and Other Surprises.

Washington, D.C: The AEI Press, 1990.

First edition of this work by Ambassador Kirkpatrick, who played a major role in the foreign policy of the Ronald Reagan administration. Octavo, original boards. Association copy, inscribed by the aut...

$200.00 Item Number: RRB-127827

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Kingsley, Charles

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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