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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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Jacobs, Jane

The Death And Life of Great American Cities.

New York: Random House, 1961.

First edition of the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original half cloth. In very good condition, name to the front free endpaper.

$95.00 Item Number: RRB-145586

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Irwin, Wallace

Nautical Lays of a Landsman.

New York: Dodd, Mead, & Company, 1904.

First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a good dust jacket with some chips and tears. Illustrated with plates by Peter Newell.

$95.00 Item Number: RRB-657

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James, P.D

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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McPhee, John

Giving Good Weight.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1979.

First edition of this collection of McPhee’s classic essays. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Len Byrd all best John.” Addit...

$95.00 Item Number: RRB-2133

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Reports of the Experts Submitted to the Joint Palestine Survey Commission.

Boston: Daniels Printing Co, 1928.

Scarce printing of this collection of reports on agricultural colonization, labor, and public health. Octavo, original wrappers, rebacked, illustrated with black and white photographs, in-line and fol...

$95.00 Item Number: RRB-146828

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Bergonzi, Bernard [H.G. Wells]

The Early H.G. Wells: A Study of the Scientific Romances.

Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1961.

First edition of this later social novel in which Wells examines the divergent lives of two brothers against the backdrop of a changing modern society. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, fronti...

$95.00 Item Number: RRB-151706

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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...

$95.00 Item Number: RRB-89025

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Powers, Richard

The Gold Bug Variations.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1991.

First Edition of the author’s third and breakthrough novel. Octavo. Fine in a fine dust jacket without wear.

$95.00 Item Number: RRB-1749

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Mandela, Nelson

Long Walk To Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela.

South Africa: MacDonald Purnell, 1995.

First South African edition, early printing of this classic autobiography, which has went on to sell over six million copies worldwide. Octavo, original black cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrate...

$95.00 Item Number: RRB-148788

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Martineau, Harriet. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham

Feats on the Fiord.

London: J. M. Dent & Sons Limited, n.d.

Early printing of Martineau’s classic collection. Octavo, original publisher’s blue cloth elaborately decorated in gilt, color pictorial onlay to the front panel, illustrated by Arthur Rac...

$95.00 Item Number: RRB-142418

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Malamud, Bernard). Cynthia Ozick, Robert Giroux, and Daniel Stern

Malamud: Three Elegies, 20 April 1986.

New York: Glenn Horowitz, Bookseller, 1986.

First edition, one of 150 unnumbered copies. 16 mo, original wrappers. Signed by Robert Giroux, Daniel Stern, and Cynthia Ozick. In fine condition.

$95.00 Item Number: RRB-47544

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Jameson, Mrs. [Anna Brownell]

Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected and a New Edition of the Diary of an Ennuyée.

London: Saunders and Otley, 1834.

Rare first edition of Mrs. Jameson’s Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad. Octavo, volume III only of four volumes bound in three quarters vellum over marbled boards with gilt tooling to the s...

$95.00 Item Number: RRB-114061

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Frost, Robert

A Masque of Reason.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1945.

First edition of this work by Frost. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

$85.00 Item Number: RRB-136531

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Baxter, John E

Locker Room Ballads.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1923.

First edition of this collection of verses. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, “To C.D. Stimson with the complime...

$85.00 Item Number: RRB-65472

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Boltanski, Christian

El Caso.

Madrid: Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 1988.

First edition. Oblong quarto, original stiff cardboard. In near fine condition. Introduction by Juan Miguel Hernandez Leon. Exhibition of the artist Christian Boltanski at Centro de Arte Reina Sofia 1...

$85.00 Item Number: RRB-15056

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Drury, W. P. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham

The Peradventures of Private Pagett.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1911.

New edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with pictorial onlay to the front panel, illustrated with frontispiece and 7 plates by Arthur Rackham. In very...

$80.00 Item Number: RRB-142319

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Kipling, Rudyard

Independence: Rectorial Address Delivered at St. Andrews, October 10, 1923.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1923.

First edition of Kipling’s October 1953 address delivered to the students of St. Andrews discussing the challenges and necessity of individuality and independence. Octavo, bound in full cloth wi...

$80.00 Item Number: RRB-135674

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Butler, Octavia E

Imago.

New York: Warner Books, 1989.

First edition of the gripping climax to Butler’s acclaimed Xenogenesis trilogy. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Don Puckey. Cover illustration by Wayne...

$80.00 Item Number: RRB-144356

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Green, Henry

Pack My Bag.

London: The Hogarth Press, 1952.

First edition, second printing of this self-portrait. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket and a couple of small losses to the crown of the spine and front pa...

$80.00 Item Number: RRB-150648

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Coyle, Kathleen

There is a Door.

Paris: Edward W. Titus, 1931.

First signed limited subscriber’s edition of Coyle’s short novella. Octavo, original boards. One of five hundred twenty-five numbered copies signed by the author, this is number 506. Very...

$80.00 Item Number: RRB-96774

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Ford, Madox Ford

The Good Solider: A Tale Of Passion.

New York: Vintage Books, 1955.

Later printing of this modernist novel that explores the themes of deception. 18 mo, original pictorial wrappers. From the library of Madeleine K. Albright. Albright was the first woman to serve as th...

$80.00 Item Number: RRB-149077

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Mason, Stuart

Bibliography of Oscar Wilde.

London: T. Werner Laurie Ltd., n.d..

Later printing of Mason’s renowned bibliography of the works of Oscar Wilde. Octavo, bound in full cloth, illustrated. With a note by Robert Ross. In very good condition.

$80.00 Item Number: RRB-140208

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