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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 t...

$100.00 Item Number: RRB-122446

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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 transf...

$100.00 Item Number: RRB-151310

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Jay, William

A Review of the Causes and Consequences of the Mexican War.

Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey & Co, 1849.

Second edition of American abolitionist and jurist William Jay’s classic antiwar treatise. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, gilt titles to the spine. In good condition with some wear to...

$100.00 Item Number: RRB-82412

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Ozick, Cynthia

The Messiah of Stockholm.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.

First edition of this “truly intriguing mystery…Ozick brings off effects comparable to those of Isaac Bashevis Singer” (The New York Review of Books). Octavo, original half cloth. Si...

$100.00 Item Number: RRB-145996

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Wells, H.G

Mr. Britling Sees Through.

London: Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1916.

First British edition of Wells’ influential First World War novel depicting the moral and emotional upheaval of wartime Britain. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the spine,...

$100.00 Item Number: RRB-151148

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Wells, H.G

The Research Magnificent.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1915.

First edition of Wells’ philosophical novel of an idea, exploring one man’s lifelong search for moral nobility and his conviction that the conquest of fear is the foundation of the noble life. From th...

$100.00 Item Number: RRB-151302

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Gardner, John

For Special Services.

London: Jonathan Cape and Hodder and Stoughton, 1982.

First edition of this Bond novel. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket painting and design by Bill Botten.

$100.00 Item Number: RRB-28021

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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 publicat...

$100.00 Item Number: RRB-148948

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Pullman, Philip. Illustrated by Peter Bailey

I Was A Rat! …or The Scarlet Slippers.

London: Doubleday, 1999.

First edition of Pullman’s classic adventure story. Octavo, original illustrated boards, illustrated by Peter Bailey. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Eil...

$100.00 Item Number: RRB-114586

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Arnold, Matthew

The Scholar-Gipsy and Thyrsis.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1906.

First edition of this collection of two of Arnold’s most notable works. Octavo, original cloth stamped in gilt, with illustrations by E. H. New including tissue-guarded frontispiece. In near fin...

$100.00 Item Number: RRB-124356

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Sassoon, Siegfried

The Heart’s Journey.

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1927.

First edition of Sassoon’s classic poetry collection. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the original dust jacket which is in very good condition.

$100.00 Item Number: RRB-126713

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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 again...

$100.00 Item Number: RRB-149399

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Sis, Peter. [Peter Matthiessen]

Tibet: Through the Red Box.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1998.

First edition of the author’s moving retelling of his father’s diary penned during an accidental expedition to Tibet. Quarto, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. From the lib...

$100.00 Item Number: RRB-139731

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James, Henry

The Soft Side.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1900.

First edition of this collection of James’ novellas. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine. In very good condition.

$100.00 Item Number: RRB-101016

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Morris, Jan

Hong Kong.

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1988.

Signed limited first edition of this incredibly vibrant history of Hong Kong, privately printed exclusively for members of The Signed First Edition Society. Octavo, Smyth-sewn and bound in full top-gr...

$100.00 Item Number: RRB-147058

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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...

$100.00 Item Number: RRB-151431

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Durrell, Lawrence

Quinx or The Ripper’s Tale.

London: Faber and Faber, 1985.

First edition of the fifth and final volume in the author’s Avignon Quintet. Octavo, original cloth. Signed and dated by the author in the year of publication on the title page, “Lawrence...

$100.00 Item Number: RRB-115874

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James, Henry

Theatricals: Two Comedies.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1894.

First American edition of Henry James’ book of two plays which were never produced. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles and tooling to the spine. In very good condition.

$100.00 Item Number: RRB-81261

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Richards, Keith

Life: Keith Richards.

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2010.

First edition of Richards’ autobiography. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with photographs. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Mario J. Pulice. Front jacke...

$100.00 Item Number: RRB-145154

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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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Motwani, Kewal

India: A Conflict of Cultures.

Bombay: Thacker & Co., 1947.

First edition. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Inscribed by the author, “Mr. William Bullitt with best compliments from the author Kewal Motwani”.

$100.00 Item Number: RRB-2462

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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 th...

$100.00 Item Number: RRB-88124

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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 wi...

$100.00 Item Number: RRB-111086

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Greene, Graham

The Lost Childhood and Other Essays.

London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1951.

First edition of this collection of essays by Graham Greene, two of its four parts, Personal Prologue and Personal Postscript, comprise seven invaluable pieces of autobiography. Octavo, original cloth...

$100.00 Item Number: RRB-146262

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