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My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew.

Pogrebin, Abigail

My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew.

Bedford, New York : Fig Tree Books, 2017.

First edition of this memoir and cultural reportage of the Jewish liturgical calendar. Octavo, original publisher’s half-cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “12.5.17 For Karen, My fellow journalist and fellow “wondering” jew. I hope this speaks to you, Abigail Pogrebin.” Fine in a fineContinue reading "My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew."

$100.00

Item Number: RRB-148948

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Bleeding Edge.

Pynchon, Thomas

Bleeding Edge.

New York : The Penguin Press, 2013.

First edition of this New York Times bestselling detective novel. Octavo, original publisher’s half-cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Evan Gaffney.

$100.00

Item Number: RRB-151749

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Nuts About Nuts.

Rosen, Michael. Illustrated by Sami Sweeten

Nuts About Nuts.

London : Diamond Books, 1999.

Early printing of British children’s author Michael Rosen’s illustrated book of poetry about nuts. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Signed and dated by Michael Rosen on the verso of the front panel, “Michael Rosen Aug 15 2004.” In near fine condition.

$100.00

Item Number: RRB-88124

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Assembly Call: A Play.

A Flyer's Dad

Assembly Call: A Play.

Hollywood : Murray & Gee, Inc., 1943.

First edition of this classic WWII-era play. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition. Cover design by Pennington. Ownership name.

$100.00

Item Number: RRB-133436

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Gerald’s Game.

King, Stephen

Gerald’s Game.

New York : The Viking Press, 1992.

First edition of this suspense novel by King. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Neil Stuart.

$100.00

Item Number: RRB-150459

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The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed.

McPhee, John

The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed.

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973.

First edition. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by the author, “For Mike Hutcheson many thanks and all the best John McPhee Bradford 1/23/89.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

$100.00

Item Number: RRB-2544

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War and The Future: Italy, France and Britain at War.

Wells, H.G

War and The Future: Italy, France and Britain at War.

London : Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1917.

First edition of Wells’ wartime reflections drawn from his observations of the First World War, combining frontline reportage with broader commentary on the political, technological, and social transformations brought about by modern warfare. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. From the collection of British science fiction author Christopher Priest with his ownership signature to the front freeContinue reading "War and The Future: Italy, France and Britain at War."

$100.00

Item Number: RRB-151310

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The Peace Puzzle: America’s Quest For Arab-Israeli Peace, 1989-2011.

Kurtzer, Daniel C.; Scott B. Lasensky; William B. Quandt; Steven L. Spiegel; Shibley Z. Telhami [Madeleine Albright]

The Peace Puzzle: America’s Quest For Arab-Israeli Peace, 1989-2011.

Ithaca and London : Cornell University Press, 2013.

First edition of this informative account of the United States’ role in attempting to achieve Arab-Israeli peace. Octavo, original publisher’s black boards, illustrated with a map of The Syrian-Israeli Frontier, bookplate to the front pastedown from ‘The Private Collection of Secretary Madeleine K. Albright’. The recipient, Madeleine K. Albright, was the first woman to serveContinue reading "The Peace Puzzle: America’s Quest For Arab-Israeli Peace, 1989-2011."

$100.00

Item Number: RRB-147354

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Debits and Credits.

Kipling, Rudyard

Debits and Credits.

Garden City : Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926.

First American edition of one of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s finest collections. Octavo, original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, black stamped ship vignette to the front panel. Fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition.

$100.00

Item Number: RRB-122446

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The Essence of Becker.

Febrero, Ramón; Pedro S. Schwartz [Editors] [Gary Becker]

The Essence of Becker.

Stanford University : Hoover Institution Press, 1995.

First edition of this collection of twenty-six foundational essays showcasing Nobel laureate Gary S. Becker’s application of economic theory to human behavior. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, frontispiece portrait of Gary Becker, illustrated with graphs and equations. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Edited and with an introduction by Ramón Febrero and Pedro S. Schwartz.Continue reading "The Essence of Becker."

$100.00

Item Number: RRB-151431

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Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of The Dalai Lama.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of The Dalai Lama.

London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1990.

First British edition of The Dalai Lama’s autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

$100.00

Item Number: RRB-147113

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Rosecrans’ Campaign with the Fourteenth Army Corps, of the Army of the Cumberland: A Narrative of Personal Observations, with a Appendix, Consisting of Official Reports of the Battle of Stone River.

Bickham, William Dennison

Rosecrans’ Campaign with the Fourteenth Army Corps, of the Army of the Cumberland: A Narrative of Personal Observations, with a Appendix, Consisting of Official Reports of the Battle of Stone River.

Cincinnati : Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co, Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co..

First edition of William Dennison Bickham’s Civil War memoir. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. In good condition. Ex-library.

$100.00

Item Number: RRB-132443

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The Golden Age.

Grahame, Kenneth

The Golden Age.

London : Thomas Nelson & Sons, c. 1920.

Finely bound example of the author of Wind and the Willows, Kenneth Grahame’s collection of short stories for children. Small octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over cloth covered boards with gilt tooling to the spine, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, engraved frontispiece, top edge gilt. In very good condition.

$100.00

Item Number: RRB-111086

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The Passionate Friends.

Wells, H.G

The Passionate Friends.

London : Macmillan and Co, 1913.

First edition of this novel, which was the first introduction of Wells’ notion of an “open conspiracy” of individuals to achieve a world state through an “open conspiracy against potentates and prejudices and all the separating powers of darkness.” Octavo, original publisher’s green cloth with titles stamped in gilt and botanical detailing stamped in blind.Continue reading "The Passionate Friends."

$100.00

Item Number: RRB-149399

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Blood Communion: A Tale of Prince Lestat. The Vampire Chronicles.

Rice, Anne

Blood Communion: A Tale of Prince Lestat. The Vampire Chronicles.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.

First edition of the final installment in Anne Rice’s best-selling Vampire Chronicles. Octavo, original publisher’s boards, pictorial endpapers, with ten illustrations. Boldly signed by Anne Rice on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Illustrations by Mark Edward Geyer. Jacket design by Abby Weintraub.

$100.00

Item Number: RRB-151483

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The Dalai Lama: My Spiritual Autobiography, Personal Reflections, Teachings and Talks.

[His Holiness The Dalai Lama] Stril-Rever, Sofia and translated by Charlotte Mandell

The Dalai Lama: My Spiritual Autobiography, Personal Reflections, Teachings and Talks.

New York : Rider, 2010.

First edition, early printing of this reflective work that offers an intimate look into the life, teachings, and philosophy of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. Octavo, original boards. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.

$100.00

Item Number: RRB-141077

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The World in Winter.

Christopher, John

The World in Winter.

London : Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1962.

First edition of the author’s post-apocalyptic work in which an new Ice Age descends on England. Octavo, original cloth. Good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Stein.

$100.00

Item Number: RRB-96196

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Roads To Freedom: Essays in Honour of Friedrich A. von Hayek.

[Friedrich von Auguste Hayek] [F.A]

Roads To Freedom: Essays in Honour of Friedrich A. von Hayek.

London : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1969.

First edition of this collection of essays on the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of Hayek. Edited by Erich Steissler, Gottfried Haberler, Friedrich A. Lutz and Fritz Machlup. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, ownership name.

$100.00

Item Number: RRB-146448

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Shirley Eaton’s Golden Touch: An Intimate Diary of Poems.

Eaton, Shirley; Foreword by Roger Moore

Shirley Eaton’s Golden Touch: An Intimate Diary of Poems.

Tennessee : Concept Productions, 2006.

First edition of this diary by the famed actress of James Bond’s Goldfinger. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated. Signed by the author on the title page, “Best wishes Shirley Eaton Enjoy.” In fine condition. Foreword by Roger Moore.

$100.00

Item Number: RRB-123244

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The New Moon with the Old.

Smith, Dodie

The New Moon with the Old.

London : Heinemann, 1963.

First edition of the author’s charming third novel. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket, lacking free endpaper. Jacket design by Peter Ward.

$95.00

Item Number: RRB-151818

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The Real Life of Sebastian Knight.

Nabokov, Vladimir. Introduction by Conrad Brenner

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight.

Norfolk, Connecticut : New Directions, 1959.

First edition of the reissue of Nabokov’s first novel in English. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Ivan Chermayeff. Drawing by Michael Train. A nice example.

$95.00

Item Number: RRB-89025

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The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge.

McCullough, David

The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge.

New York : Simon and Schuster, 1972.

First edition of this definitive account of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge, an acclaimed historical work named by The Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest non-fiction books of the twentieth century. Octavo, original blue cloth, photographic endpapers, with map and 33 pages of black-and-white illustrations. Very good in a very good dustContinue reading "The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge."

$95.00

Item Number: RRB-151710

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Death of an Expert Witness.

James, P.D

Death of an Expert Witness.

London : Faber and Faber, 1977.

First edition of this mystery by the author of A Mind to Murder. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Terry Trott. Photograph of the author by Jerry Bauer.

$95.00

Item Number: RRB-147305

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The Victim.

Bellow, Saul

The Victim.

New York : The Vanguard Press, 1947.

First edition of the author’s second book. Octavo, original black cloth. In near fine condition. A Burgess 99 title.

$95.00

Item Number: RRB-33548

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