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Arnold Schoenberg’s Journey

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.

First edition of this acclaimed portrait of the composer Arnold Schoenberg by composer and pianist Allen Shawn. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth, illustrated with music stanzas and black-...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-152214

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James, Henry

Views and Reviews: Now First Collected.

Boston: The Ball Publishing Company, 1908.

First edition of this series of literary essays written in James’ earlier style. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine, gilt topstain. Introduction by Le Roy Phillips. In near fine co...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-78043

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Davies, Paul

About Time: Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.

First edition of this work by the award-winning scientist. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Paul Davies on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Cheung Tai.

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-133205

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Rosen, Michael

Rude Rhymes: Mother Goose Goes Behind the Bike Shed.

London: Andre Deutsch Limited, 1989.

Early printing. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers as issue. Inscribed by the author opposite the title page, “hello Eileen Michael Rosen was here.” In fine condition.

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-82141

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Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Our Charley, and What to Do With Him.

Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Company, 1858.

First edition of this classic novella by the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. 12mo, original publisher’s cloth elaborately stamped in blind with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-142502

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Thesiger, Wilfred

Arabian Sands.

New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1959.

First American edition of the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated, map on the rear pastedown. Very good in a very good dust jacket.

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-143506

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Halliburton, Richard

New Worlds to Conquer.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1929.

First edition of the third legendary travel-adventure book from this author. Medium octavo, original olive green cloth with gilt titles, beveled edges, cartographic endpapers, frontispiece of the auth...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-145248

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Kipling, Rudyard

The Just So Song Book: Being Songs From Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories. Set to Music by Edward German.

Macmillan and Co., Limited: London, 1918.

Early printing of Kipling’s Just So Song Book. Quarto, original illustrated boards. In very good condition.

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-126592

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Padgett, Ron

Great Balls of Fire.

Chicago: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969.

First American edition of the poet’s 1969 collection. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Shelly a [Great] idea… Gary C...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-129719

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Parkman, Trevor

Prose Improvements.

Brighton, England: Degree Zero, 2017.

First edition of this work by the award-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Trevor Pateman on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Cover art by Ilva Kalnberza.

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-147892

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Mayor, Archer

Borderlines.

New York: Putnam, 1990.

First edition of the author’s second mystery in his acclaimed Joe Gunther series. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, Lengthily inscribed and dated by the author in the year of publication...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-117

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Burroughs, Edgar Rice

Tarzan the Untamed.

Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co, 1920.

First edition of the seventh book in the ‘Tarzan’ series. Octavo, original green cloth, frontispiece and eight illustrations by J. Allen St. John. In very good condition.

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-145107

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Viorst, Judith

Suddenly Sixty: And Other Shocks of Later Life.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.

First edition of this comical work by the author of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Small octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Laurie Rosenwald. Presentation copy, inscr...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-142476

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Kipling, Rudyard

The Years Between.

London: Methuen and Co., Ltd, 1919.

First edition of this collection of 45 poems, often considered Kipling’s darkest work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the original dust jacket which is in very good condition.

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-120774

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Ayer, I. Winslow

The Great Treason Plot in the North During the War. Most Dangerous, Perfidious, Extensive and Startling Plot Ever Devised! Imminent Hidden Perils of the Republic. Astounding Developments Never Before Published.

Chicago: U.S. Publishing Co, n.d..

Early printing of Ayer’s Civil War account. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. In good condition.

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-132537

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Selected by Coetzee, J.M

African Road: New Writing from Southern Africa 2006.

Claremont, SA: Spearhead/ New Africa Books, 2006.

First edition of this collection of short stories. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed by J.M. Coetzee on the title page, who selected these stories.

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-2478

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Ford, Hilary

Felix Walking.

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1958.

First edition of the first book published under Youd’s pseudonym Hilary Ford. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Contempora...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-96197

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Fergusson, Alexander

The Laird of Lag: A Life-Sketch.

Edinburgh: Printed for David Douglas, 1886.

First edition of this biographical study of Sir Robert Grierson of Lag. Octavo, original publisher’s navy blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, horseshoe stamped in gilt to the front panel,...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-149108

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Durand, Ralph. [Rudyard Kipling]

A Handbook of the Poetry of Rudyard Kipling.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1914.

First edition of Durand’s definitive handbook to Kipling’s poetry. Royal octavo, original quarter buckram over paper-covered boards, paper spine label, top edge gilt. In very good conditio...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-126349

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Yourcenar, Marguerite

The Abyss.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1976.

First English edition of the author’s evocative Prix Femina award-winning novel. Octavo, original cloth. Translated from the French by Grace Frick in collaboration with the author. Near fine in...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-126394

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Updike, John

Memories of the Ford Administration.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.

First edition of this work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by John Updike on the front free endpaper. Additionally signed by jacket designer Chip Kidd on the rear...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-133586

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Grand, Gordon

Old Man and Other Colonel Weatherford Stories.

New York: The Derrydale Press, 1934.

First edition of the third book in the great sporting writer’s Colonel Weatherford series. Octavo, original cloth. Illustrated with paintings by William J. Hays influding tissue-guarded frontisp...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-116018

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Manikas, Peter M., Laura L. Thornton [Madeleine Albright]

Political Parties in Asia: Promoting Reform and Combating Corruption in Eight Countries.

United States of America: Library of Congress, 2003.

First edition of this comparative analysis of anti-corruption strategies employed by political parties across eight Asian nations. Octavo, original publisher’s wrappers. The recipient, Madeleine...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-149068

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Philips, Francis Charles

My Little Husband and If Only.

Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1894-1904.

Finely bound example Philips’ two collections short stories. Octavo, two volumes bound into one in three quarters vellum over marbled boards with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt tool...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-114507

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