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Pumpkin Moonshine.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.

First printing of this edition of the author’s first book and the first title in her “Calico” series. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Tasha Tudor on the title page. Fine in a fine...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-1149

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Kipling, Rudyard

Life’s Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1891.

First edition of Kipling’s collection of short stories on the British in India. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt. In very good condition.

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-121804

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Gordimer, Nadine

A World of Strangers.

London: Gollancz, 1958.

First edition of the author’s second novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket showing some wear and a small stain to the s...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-2697

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National Bank Organization 1812-1904.

New York: The National City Bank of New York, 1904.

First edition of this detailed work on the organization of the National City Bank. Octavo, original cloth. In fine condition.

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-124768

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Bellow, Saul

Signed limited first edition of the first novel Bellow published after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Saul Bellow. Fine in a fine slipcase and in the...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-120568

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Zagajewski, Adam

Another Beauty.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.

First edition of the author’s memoirs. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Matthew Adam Zagajewski Boston, October 2004.” F...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-147467

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Shaw, George Bernard

The Adventures of The Black Girl in Her Search For God.

London: Constable & Company Limited, 1932.

First edition of Shaw’s controversial 20th century retelling of Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress. Octavo, original pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with wood-cut engravi...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-137188

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Rogers, Lebbeus Harding

The Kite Trust (A Romance of Wealth).

New York: Kite Trust Publishing Company, 1900.

First limited author’s edition of this novel critiquing wealth and its societal impact. Octavo, original pictorial cloth, tissue-guarded frontispiece with author’s signature facsimile. One...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-148064

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Burgess, Anthony [John Updike]

Little Wilson and Big God.

New York: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1987.

Uncorrected proof of the first edition. Octavo, original wrappers. John Updike’s copy, with a signed letter from the editor to Updike laid in. In very good condition. From the library of John Up...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-102117

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Adams, John] Thomas May

The John Adams Reader: Essential Writings on an American Composer.

New Jersey: Amadeus Press, 2006.

First edition of this compilation of writings by the famed composer. Octavo, original black cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the composer John Adams on...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-1298

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Shannon, Claude & Warren Weaver

The Mathematical Theory of Communication.

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998.

Later printing of the “the magna carta of the information age” (Scientific American), Shannon’s work provided “a mathematical guide for the system’s engineers [at Bell La...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-151874

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Stewart, Rory

Politics on the Edge: A Memoir from Within.

London: Jonathan Cape, 2023.

First edition, early printing of this “instant classic” (Marina Hyde). Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Rory Stewart on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design b...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-144165

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Snead, Sam

Pigeons, Marks, Hustlers and Other Golf Bettors You Can Beat.

New York: A Golf Digest Book, 1986.

First edition of this work by the legendary golfer. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Andy Myer. Boldly signed by Sam Snead on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Writt...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-150306

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Grosvenor, Charles

An Iconography of the Portraits of T. E. Lawrence.

Pasadena: The Otterden Press, 1988.

Signed limited edition of Grosvenor’s catalogue of the portraits of T. E. Lawrence. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece, illustrated. One of 1000 numbered copies signed by the author, this is n...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-126800

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Gordimer, Nadine

A Soldier’s Embrace.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1980.

First edition. Review copy with slip laid in. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-539

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Mayer, Brantz

Captain Canot; or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver. Being an Account of the Career and Adventures on the Coast, in the Interior, on Shipboard, and in the West Indies.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1854.

First edition, early issue of the historian’s detailed account of the African slave trade without the misprint on page 191. Octavo, bound in contemporary calf, rebacked, additional vignette titl...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-142153

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McManus, Erwin Raphael

Soul Cravings: An Exploration of the Human Spirit.

Nashville : Nelson Books, 2008.

Early printing of this early work by McManus. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Dan- Live your story Leave a mark! Erwin...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-136213

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Bellow, Saul

The Dean’s December.

New York: Harper & Row, 1982.

First edition of the first novel Bellow published after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976. Octavo, original green cloth. Signed by Saul Bellow on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust j...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-19006

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Millard, Candice

Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, A Daring Escape and The Making of Winston Churchill.

New York: Doubleday, 2016.

First edition of this New York Times bestselling narrative history recounting the twenty-four-year-old Winston Churchill’s capture by Boer forces during the South African War of 1899. Octavo, or...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-152133

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Groom, Winston

Gump & Co.

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1995.

Signed limited first edition. Octavo, original leather, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, front and rear panels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Boldly signed by Winston Groom. In fine conditio...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-138538

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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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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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[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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