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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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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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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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Compiled by Milbourne Christopher

The Sphinx: Golden Jubilee Book of Magic. A Selection of Tricks From the Pages of the Magazine.

New York: Sphinx Publishing Corporation, 1951.

First edition of this commemorative anthology celebrating the first fifty years of The Sphinx. Octavo, original wrappers, with black and white illustrations. In near fine condition. Compiled by Milbou...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-150362

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Vargas Llosa, Mario; Edited and translated by John King

Making Waves: Essays.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giraux, 1997.

First edition of this collection of essays by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Mario Vargas Llosa on the title page.

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-1736

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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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Batchelor, Denzil

This My Son.

London: Collins, 1954.

First edition of Batchelor’s moving story exploring the pathos of childhood. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “With love from...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-101441

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Wharton, Edith

The Descent of Man and Other Stories.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904.

First edition of this early collection of Wharton’s short stories. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, woodcut border to the title page, top edge gilt. In near...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-110354

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Pinter, Harold

The Homecoming.

London: Methuen & Co, 1965.

First edition of the two-act play by the Nobel laureate Harold Pinter. Octavo, original black cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-144687

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Nabokov, Vladimir

The Eye.

New York: Phaedra, 1965.

First edition of this short novel by the author of Lolita. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Translated by Dmitri Nabokov.

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-144481

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Parker, William Harwar

Recollections of a Naval Officer 1841-1865.

New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1883.

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-132774

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Perry, Bryon. Foreward by Dow Finsterwald Jr

The Ryder Cup Meets the Monster: A Collection of Words and Pictures Commemorating Golf’s Crown Jewel.

Bingham Farms, Michigan: Premiere Publishing LLC, 2004.

First edition of this work dedicated to ‘golf’s crown jewel’: The Ryder Cup. Quarto, original boards, illustrated throughout. Inscribed by Dow Finsterwald on the title page, “T...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-89015

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Henty, George Alfred [G.A.]

Both Sides the Border: A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower.

London: Blackie & Son, Limited, 1899.

First edition of Henty’s classic adventure tale. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, with twelve illustrations by Ralph Peacock. In...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-122688

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