Shapiro, Eileen C

Fad Surfing in the Boardroom: Reclaiming the Courage to Manage in the Age of Instant Answers.

Reading, Massachusetts : Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1995.

First edition of this comprehensive guide to strategy fads and effective management. Octavo, original navy blue half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Jay, with best wishes, Eileen Shapiro.” Fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Also laid in is an inscribed business card tipped in, “This,Continue reading "Fad Surfing in the Boardroom: Reclaiming the Courage to Manage in the Age of Instant Answers."

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Sassoon, Siegfried

Satirical Poems.

London : William Heinemann Ltd, 1933.

Early printing of Sassoon’s classic collection. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

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Item Number: RRB-124681

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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 very good dust jacket. Translated by Dmitri Nabokov.

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Item Number: RRB-75006

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Morley, Christopher. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham

Where the Blue Begins.

London : William Heinemann Ltd, 1922.

First edition of Morley’s classic canine story, wonderfully illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Quarto, original publisher’s cloth, top edge gilt, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with four color plates and numerous line drawings by Arthur Rackham. In very good condition with light rubbing to the crown and foot of the spine. A nice example.

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Whyte-Melville, George J

“Bones and I;” or, The Skeleton at Home.

London : Chapman and Hall, 1869.

Rare second edition of the author’s melancholy novel. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition.

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Item Number: RRB-124179

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Whittingham, Jack

Sabu of the Elephants.

London : Hurst & Blackett, 1938.

First edition of Whittingham’s account of the filming of “Toomai of the Elephants.” Small quarto, original cloth, illustrated. In near fine condition.

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Greene, Graham

A Burnt-Out Case.

London : Heinemann, 1961.

First edition of this Greene novel set in a leproserie on the upper reaches of a tributary of the Congo River in Africa. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Dust jacket design by Lacey Everett.

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Doctorow, E.L

The March.

New York : Random House, 2005.

First edition of this novel, which won The National Book Critics Circle and Pen/ Faulkner Awards. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Ken Reubens E.L. Doctorow.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Royce M. Becker. Author photograph by Nancy Crampton.

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Webb, Charles

Love, Roger.

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1969.

First edition of this brilliant absurdist comedy from the author of ‘The Graduate.’ Octavo, original blue cloth, orange top stain, frontispiece by Tomi Ungerer. Boldly signed by Charles Webb on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Tomi Ungerer. Author photograph by Eve Webb.

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Hardy, Thomas

Tess of the d’Urbervilles.

New York and London : Harper & Brothers Publishers, .

Early edition of Thomas Hardy’s twelfth published novel. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, frontispiece, with black and white illustrations. In very good condition, ownership signature to the front free endpaper.

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Item Number: RRB-148192

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Norris, Frank

Tower in the West.

New York : Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1957.

First edition of the author’s Harper Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original cloth. Number 110 of a limited presentation edition signed by the author on the colophon. In very good condition.

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Wiesel, Elie

The Accident.

New York : Hill and Wang, 1962.

First edition of the author’s final book in his acclaimed Night Trilogy. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket, stamp of the Judah Magnes Museum to the front free endpaper and side edges. Jacket design by Saul Lambert. Translated from the French by Anne Borchardt.

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Nichols, George Ward

The Story of the Great March. From the Diary of a Staff Officer.

New York : Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1866.

Early printing of Nichols’ account of the Savannah Campaign. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with charts and maps, one folding. In good condition.

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Safire, William

The Relations Explosion: A Diagram of the Coming Boom and Shakeout in Corporate Relations.

New York : The Macmillan Company, 1963.

First edition of Safire’s controversial book. Octavo, original cloth. Illustrated by Abner Dean. From the library of the author, William Safire. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by S. A. Summit, Inc.

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Item Number: RRB-127393

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Gates, Bill

The Road Ahead.

New York : The Viking Press, 1995.

First edition of Gates’ classic work on the information age. Octavo, original half cloth, companion interactive CD-ROM tipped in at the rear. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Laurie Rippon.

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Paxman, Jeremy

The English: A Portrait of a People.

London : Michael Joseph, 1998.

First edition of this portrait of English history and culture. Octavo, original cloth. Signed and dated by the author in the year of publication on the title page, “Jeremy Paxman 19.x.98.” Fine in a fine dust jacket.

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Item Number: RRB-146933

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Donoso, Jose

La Desesperanza.

: Seix Barral, Biblioteca Breve, 1986.

First edition. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Signed and dated in 1988 by Jose Donoso on the front free endpaper. In very good condition.

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Item Number: RRB-18008

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Pullman, Philip

The Tiger in the Well.

London : Scholastic, 1999.

Early printing of Philip Pullman’s third book in his Sally Lockhart Quartet. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Inscribed by the author on the title page, “Best Wishes to Eileen, Philip Pullman Sept. 99.” In near fine condition.

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Robbins, Lionel

The Theory of Economic Development in the History of Economic Thought.

London : Macmillan, 1968.

First edition of Robbins’ work on the history of economic theory. Octavo, original cloth. With the publisher’s complementary slip laid in. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.

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Item Number: RRB-110422

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Mayor, Archer

Open Season.

New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1988.

First edition of the author’s first novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. Jacket design by Walter Harper.

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Item Number: RRB-140494

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Kipling, Rudyard

A Fleet in Being: Notes on Two Trips with the Channel Squadron.

London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1898.

First edition of this collection of articles written by Kipling when he joined the fleet of the Royal Navy at sea in 1898. Octavo, original illustrated cloth. In very good condition. Cover illustration by Norman Wilkinson.

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Mayor, Archer

Borderlines.

New York : Putnam, 1990.

First edition of the author’s second mystery in his acclaimed Joe Gunther series. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Archer Mayor on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Walter Harper.

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Blumenthal, Joseph, [Robert Frost]

Robert Frost and His Printers.

Autin : W. Thomas Taylor, 1985.

First edition of this work on Frost’s relationships with his printers. Large octavo, original cloth, illustrated. One of 1000 copies printed at the letterpress of A. Colish with plates made and printed by the Meriden Gravure Company. Typography by Joseph Blumenthal. Fine in a fine slipcase.

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Coxwell, Charles Fillingham [Ivan Krylov]

Krilòff’s Fables.

London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., LTD, c. 1900.

Early edition of this collection of fables by Russian fabulist Ivan Krylov. Duodecimo, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated with four black and white plates. In near fine condition. Translated from the Russian into English in the original metres by Charles Fillingham Coxwell.

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Item Number: RRB-148323

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