Nerinda.
Florence: G. Orioli, 1929.
Signed limited edition of this work, one of 475 numbered copies, this is number 272. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition.
$150.00
Item Number: RRB-121677
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Puck of Pook’s Hill.
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1906.
First Tauchnitz edition of Kipling’s collection of historical fantasy tales. Octavo, original wrappers. In good condition.
$150.00
Item Number: RRB-125313
Rodgers, Richard and Oscar Hammerstein
Me and Juliet.
New York: Random House, 1953.
First edition of the book companion to the sixth stage collaboration between Rodgers and Hammerstein. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with photographs by Fred Fehl. Near fine in a near fine dust j...
$150.00
Item Number: RRB-137268
The Sunflower.
New York: Schocken Books, 1976.
First American edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Randall Richmond.
$150.00
Item Number: RRB-146793
Looking Ahead: The Papers of David Sarnoff.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1968.
First edition, early printing of the papers of this business pioneer. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Dr. George Rich With apprecia...
$150.00
Item Number: RRB-130197
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.
First edition, later printing of this National Book Award winning biography of Thomas Jefferson. Octavo, original publisher’s half-cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front...
$150.00
Item Number: RRB-148602
American in Russia.
New York: Harper, 1955.
First edition of this work by the legendary journalist. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Harrison Salisbury on the half-title page. Very good in a very good price-clipped dus...
$150.00
Item Number: RRB-150608
A Delicate Truth.
London: Penguin/ Viking, 2013.
First British edition of this New York Times bestselling spy thriller. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Boldly signed by John le Carre on the limitations page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
$150.00
Item Number: RRB-151469
Burger’s Daughter.
New York: The Viking Press, 1979.
First edition of this powerful novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Nadine Gordimer on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Blan...
$150.00
Item Number: RRB-133293
Kipling, Rudyard; Sir Walter Besant; Max Pemberton; Morley Roberts; H.G. Wells; Percy White; et al
For Britain’s Soldiers: A Contribution to the Needs of our Fighting Men and Their Families.
London: Methuen & Co, 1900.
First edition of this anthology published and sold to benefit the officers and men of the British Army in South Africa during the Boer Wars. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth. In very...
$150.00
Item Number: RRB-122456
The Babe’s Bed.
: Harrison of Paris, 1930.
Signed limited edition of Glenway Wescott’s short novel. Octavo, original cloth. One of 375 numbered copies signed by the author, this is number 252. Near fine in the original slipcase.
$150.00
Item Number: RRB-115108
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 red cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. In good condition. Ownership inscription...
$150.00
Item Number: RRB-123804
Brown, Monty. Foreword by Vivian Fuchs
Where Giants Trod: The Saga of Kenya’s Desert Lake.
London: Quiller Press, 1989.
Special limited edition of Brown’s elaborately illustrated history of Kenya’s northern desert region and the 13 expeditions to Lake Rudolf. Quarto, original publisher’s three quarter...
$150.00
Item Number: RRB-110678
Benchley, Robert; Dorothy Parker; Edna Ferber; Alexander Woollcott. Edited by Robert E. Drennan
The Algonquin Wits.
New York: The Citadel Press, 1968.
First edition of The Algonquin Wits. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with a portrait photograph of each author. Fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket desi...
$150.00
Item Number: RRB-148532
My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan.
New York: Random House, 1989.
First edition of Nancy Reagan’s memoirs. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly inscribed by Nancy Reagan on the half-title page. Laid in is a note from her office thanking the recipie...
$150.00
Item Number: RRB-64571
Spring Fever.
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, n.d.
First edition of Wodehouse’s brilliantly comedic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Frank Ford.
$150.00
Item Number: RRB-145023
A Fish In The Water: A Memoir.
New York: : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994.
First edition. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Mario Vargas Llosa on the title page. Review copy with material laid in. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
$150.00
Item Number: RRB-112
The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions.
San Francisco: Harper Collins, 1999.
First edition of this work by theologians Borg and Wright. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Borg on the front free endpaper prior to publication, “Dec. ’98 To M...
$150.00
Item Number: RRB-101663
Single & Single.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1999.
First edition of this “exciting spy story” (New York Times Book Review). Octavo, original boards. Signed by John le Carre on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
$150.00
Item Number: RRB-146442
The Tories: Conservatives and The Nation State 1922-1997.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1998.
First edition of this personal account of modern Conservatives in government. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with black and white photographs. Signed and dated by the author...
$150.00
Item Number: RRB-147117
Ginzberg, Eli and Robert M. Solow
The Great Society: Lessons for the Future.
New York: Basic Books, 1974.
First edition of this collection of essays regarding The Great Society. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Robert M. Solow on the title page. Review copy with the slip laid in. Fine in a near fine dust...
$150.00
Item Number: RRB-43098
Stories From the Italian Poets: With Lives of the Writers.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1846.
First edition of this collection of 19th-century prose retellings and analyses of epic tales from famous Italian poets. Octavo, two volumes, original publisher’s blue cloth with gilt titles to t...
$150.00
Item Number: RRB-151826
What Are We To Do With Our Lives?
London: Watts & Co., 1935.
The Thinker’s Library edition of this blueprint for a unified, scientifically planned world state. Duodecimo, original publisher’s cloth with titles stamped in black. From the collection o...
$150.00
Item Number: RRB-151145
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
