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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Cartas de Mujeres.
Madrid: Librería Y Casa Editorial Hernando, 1932.
Finely bound example of this work from the Nobel Prize-winning dramatist. Duodecimo, bound in full marbled calf with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, p...
$95.00
Item Number: RRB-145262
Piccard, Jacques [Wernher von Braun]
The Sun Beneath the Sea.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971.
First edition of this official account of the thirty-day Gulf Steam Drift. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Translated from t...
$95.00
Item Number: RRB-147092
No Hiding Place.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1942.
First edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition.
$95.00
Item Number: RRB-150247
Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets.
New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2010.
First paperback edition of this collection of essays by legendary talk show host Dick Cavett. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “T...
$95.00
Item Number: RRB-148114
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...
$95.00
Item Number: RRB-151710
My Son’s Story.
Johannesburg: Taurus, 1990.
First South African edition and true first edition. Octavo, blue boards. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with only light shelf wear.
$95.00
Item Number: RRB-537
Tinsel.
New York : Delacorte Press, 1979.
First edition, second printing of Goldman’s novel regarding Hollywood. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by William Goldman opposite the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket...
$95.00
Item Number: RRB-81342
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
The Fiscal System of Venezuela: A Report.
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1959.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by Carl Shoup on the front free endpaper, “To A.R. Ilersic with regards- C.S. Shoup.” Also laid in a signed letter from Shoup to the same r...
$95.00
Item Number: RRB-75023
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Livingstone’s Companions.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1972.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. Fine in a fine price-clipped dust jacket.
$80.00
Item Number: RRB-2572
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
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
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
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
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
