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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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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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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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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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James, Henry

The Real Thing.

New York and London: Macmillan & Co, 1893.

First edition, second issue of one of James’ neatest tales. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition with light rubbing to the extremities, small tear to the front free endpaper.

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-78041

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Waters, Alice with Bob Carrau; Illustrations by Ann Arnold

Fanny in France: Travel Adventures of a Chef’s Daughter, with Recipes.

New York: The Viking Press, 2016.

First edition of this work for anyone who loves France, food and adventure. Quarto, illustrated boards, illustrated endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page,...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-45672

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Cheever, Susan

Home Before Dark: A Biographical Memoir of John Cheever by His Daughter.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984.

First edition of Cheever’s candid portrait of her father, John Cheever. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “New York City Octobe...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-142633

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Benchley, Robert

Benchley-Or Else!

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1947.

First edition of Benchley’s collection of humorous essays. Octavo, original cloth, bookplate to the front pastedown from “The Library of Robert B. Gray.” Illustrated with unique draw...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-141235

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Kipling, Rudyard

Abaft the Funnel.

New York: B. W. Dodge & Company, 1909.

First edition, first issue of of Kipling’s 1909 short story collection with gold lettering to the spine and front panel. Octavo, original blue cloth with gold titles to the spine and front panel. In f...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-122911

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Irwin, James B. with William A. Emerson Jr

To Rule The Night: The Discovery Voyage of Astronaut Jim Irwin.

Philadelphia: A. J. Holman Company, 1973.

First edition, early printing of the autobiography of Jim Irwin, who served as the Lunar Module pilot for Apollo 15. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-titl...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-147173

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Wilde, Oscar. Selected by E. V. Lucas

A Critic in Pall Mall: Beings Extracts From Reviews and Miscellanies.

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1919.

First edition of this selection of Wilde’s literary criticism. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. In near fine condition. Ownership inscription.

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-139580

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Shepard, Sam

Five Plays: Chicago; Icarus’s Mother; Red Cross; Fourteen Hundred Thousand. Melodrama Play. Shepard, Sam.

Indianapolis : The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1967.

First edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Patrick Sullivan from photographs by Hope Wurmfeld.

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-141325

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[Rackham, Arthur]

The Harmsworth Monthly Pictorial Magazine. Volume II. February – July, 1899.

London: Published by Harmsworth Bros., Limited, 1899.

The second volume of the collected issues of the Harmsworth Monthly Pictorial Magazine. Quarto, Vol. II, original publisher’s cloth decorated in gilt, profusely illustrated with photographs and...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-142672

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von Mises, Ludwig

Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War.

New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House Publishers, 1969.

First edition of the re-issue of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, bookplate.

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-120643

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Santoli, Al

To Bear Any Burden: The Vietnam War and Its Aftermath in the Words of Americans and Southeast Asians.

New York: E.P. Dutton, Inc, 1985.

First edition of this oral history of the Vietnam War from the author of ‘Everything We Had.’ Medium octavo, original red half cloth, illustrated with black and white plates. Signed by Al...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-146833

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Wells, H.G

The Sea Lady: A Tissue of Moonshine.

London: Methuen & Co., 1902.

First edition of this whimsical tale about the mermaid Miranda. Octavo, original publisher’s red cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. From the collection of British science ficti...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-151010

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Kerbey, Joseph Orton

On the War Path: A Journey Over the Historic Grounds of the Late Civil War.

Chicago: Donahue, Henneberry & Co., 1890.

First edition of the Civil War Union spy’s autobiography. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition.

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-132391

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