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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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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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Moyers, Bill. [Madeleine K. Albright]

The Language of Life: A Festival of Poets.

New York: Doubleday, 1995.

First edition of this compelling exploration of poetry’s power. 8vo, original publisher’s half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. The recipient, Madeleine K. Albright was...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-149002

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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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Shawn, Allen [Charles Strouse]

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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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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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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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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