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Mysteries.

London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927.

First American edition of Hamsun’s second novel. Octavo, original cloth. Translated from the Norwegian of Knut Hamsun by Arthur G. Chater. In very good condition. Rare.

$175.00 Item Number: RRB-123741

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Wells, H.G

The Croquet Player.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1936.

First British edition of this allegorical novella in which Wells explores the psychology of fear and collective anxiety in the troubled years between the world wars. Octavo, original publisher’s...

$175.00 Item Number: RRB-151280

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Blixt, Robert E.; William J. Chadwick; Richard A. Posner; Robert D. Milne; Seymour Smidt et al

Evolving Concepts of Prudence: The Changing Responsibilities of the Investment Fiduciary in the Age of ERISA.

Charlottesville: The Financial Analysts Research Foundation, 1976.

First edition of this volume on the evolving concepts of prudence in investment strategy. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition.

$175.00 Item Number: RRB-117638

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Dahl, Roald

Kiss Kiss.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Charles E. Skaggs.

$175.00 Item Number: RRB-149904

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Quincey, Thomas De

Historical and Critical Essays.

Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853.

First edition of this collection of essays by renowned writer and literary critic Thomas De Quincey. Octavo, two volumes, original publisher’s cloth elaborately stamped in blind with gilt titles...

$175.00 Item Number: RRB-145229

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Waller, Robert James

A Thousand Country Roads.

Alpine & Houston: John M. Hardy Publishing, 2002.

First edition of the sequel to The Bridges of Madison County. Duodecimo, original boards. Boldly signed by Robert James Waller on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Leis...

$175.00 Item Number: RRB-137799

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Doyle, Arthur Conan

The Land of the Mist.

London: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers), Ltd, [1926].

First edition of the third novel in the author’s Professor Challenger series. Octavo, original publishers cloth. In good condition.

$175.00 Item Number: RRB-140202

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Buber, Martin

Tales of the Hasidim: The Early Masters.

London: Thames and Hudson, 1956.

Early edition of this seminal work of the Hasidic movement. Octavo, publisher’s original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, front panel vignette of whales stamped in gilt. Very good in a...

$175.00 Item Number: RRB-149173

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Boccaccio, Giovanni

Life of Dante.

Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1904.

First edition of the first formal biography of the father of the Italian language. Small folio, original publisher’s half vellum with gilt titles to the spine. One of two hundred and sixty-five...

$175.00 Item Number: RRB-146440

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Ford, Whitey with Phil Pepe; Foreword by Yogi Berra

Few and Chosen: Defining Yankee Greatness Across the Eras.

Chicago: Triumph Books, 2001.

First edition of this wonderfully illustrated work on the Yankees. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Phil Pepe on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket, sticker to the fr...

$175.00 Item Number: RRB-145762

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Kipling, Rudyard

Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1912.

First edition of the definitive collection of Kipling’s verse. Royal octavo, original quarter buckram over paper-covered boards, paper spine label, top edge gilt. In very good condition. Bookpla...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-126444

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[Winfrey, Oprah; Michael Jackson]

Michael Jackson Talks to Oprah: 90 Prime-Time Minutes with the King of Pop Live!

Los Angeles: Harpo, 1993.

Original Harpo press kit from Oprah’s 1993 sensational primetime interview with Michael Jackson. Quarto, the kit contains a press release and biographies of Oprah and Michael Jackson. From the c...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-140126

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Kotter, John

The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations.

Cambridge: Harvard Business School, 2002.

Early printing of this organizational work by Kotter. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Tim John Kotter.” Fine in a fi...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-107819

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Trollope, Anthony

The Last Chronicle of Barset.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1867.

First American edition of the final novel in Trollope’s acclaimed Barsetshire series. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, with illustrations by George H. Thomas. In very good conditi...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-124063

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DeCarava, Roy

Roy DeCarava: Photographs.

Carmel, CA: The Friends of Photography, 1981.

First edition of this piece of human artistry. Square quarto, original full linen, illustrated with 82 laser-scanner reproductions of DeCarava’s exceptional work. Near fine in a very good dust j...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-146963

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Tarkington, Booth

The Lorenzo Bunch.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1936.

First edition of this work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “Booth Tarkington, Indianapolis, May 9. 194...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-65791

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Dubus III, Andre

The Cage Keeper and Other Stories.

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1989.

Uncorrected proof of the first edition of the author’s first book, a well-received collection of stories. Octavo, original orange wrappers. Signed by Andre Dubus III on the title page. In fine c...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-37658

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Phillips, Scott

The Ice Harvest.

Tuscon: Dennis McMillan Publications, 2000.

First edition and publisher’s presentation copy of Phillip’s debut novel. Octavo, bound in the original quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles to the spine. Dust jacket and i...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-101301

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Roth, Philip

Deception.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990.

First edition of this “extraordinary, elegant novel” (Fay Weldon, The New York Times). Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Philip Roth on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jack...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-144392

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Johnson, Merle [Compiler]

A Bibliography of the Work of Mark Twain: Samuel Langhorne Clemens.

New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1910.

First limited edition of this list of first editions in book form and of first printings in periodicals. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with paper titles to the spine, top edge gilt. One of...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-150732

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Updike, John

Rabbit At Rest.

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1990.

First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, privately printed exclusively for members of The Signed First Edition Society. Octavo, Smyth-sewn and bound in full top-grain leather...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-147057

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Gordimer, Nadine

Selected Stories.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1975.

First British edition. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-552

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Coetzee, J.M

The Humanities in Africa/ Die Geisteswissenschaften in Afrika.

Munchen: Carl Friedrich von Siemans Stiftung, 2001.

First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed by J.M. Coetzee on the title page. In near fine condition.

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-2479

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Aptheker, Herbert

Afro American History: The Modern Era. A Pioneering Chronicle of the Black People in Twentieth-Century America.

New York: The Citadel Press, 1971.

First edition of the prolific American Marxist historian’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Jan 1972 For Mrs. J...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-134261

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