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Chicago by the Book: 101 Publications That Shaped the City and Its Image.

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2018.

First edition of this work which compiles 101 landmark publications about Chicago from the past 170 years that have helped define the city and its image. Quarto, original boards, illustrated. Fine in...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-140239

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Greenfeld, Howard. [Puccini]

Puccini.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1980.

First edition of Greenfeld’s authoritative biography of the great composer. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To James Cann...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-115708

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Wodehouse, P. G

Pigs Have Wings.

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1952.

First edition of Wodehouse’s dreadfully funny novel. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a good price-clipped dust jacket with loss to the front panel, rear panel, and spine of the dust jacket....

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-145030

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Kipling, Rudyard

Thy Servant A Dog.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1930.

First British edition of Kipling’s beloved children’s classic, as told by Boots the dog. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by G. L. Stampa. Near fine in the scarce original dust jacket w...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-121847

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Sondheim, Stephen and Hugh Wheeler; Christopher Bond; Harold Prince

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

New York: Random House, 1979.

First edition of this Tony Award for Best Musical. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket art by Frank Verlizzo.

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-151496

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Duggan, Alfred

Three’s Company.

London: Faber and Faber LTD, 1958.

First edition of this historical novel following Lepidus as he mediates between Antony and Octavius after Caesar’s murder. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jack...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-151752

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Fry, Jason. Based on a story by Rian Johnson

Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

London: Century, 2018.

First expanded edition of the international bestselling author’s novelization of the eighth installment in the Star Wars film franchise. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with an 8-page color...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-145011

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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, Phili...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-88118

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Sondheim, Stephen

The Collected Lyrics of Stephen Sondheim. Look, I Made a Hat.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.

First edition of the collected lyrics of Stephen Sondheim. Quarto, original boards, illustrated throughout. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-146134

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Cheever, Susan

The Cage.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1982.

First edition of the author’s third novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “New York May 31. 1983 For Ken Burrows...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-142682

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Gardner, John

Licence Renewed.

London: Jonathan Cape , 1985.

First edition of John Gardner’s License Renewed. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mon Mohan, using a commissioned watercolor painting by Richard Chopping...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-127673

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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.”...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-146933

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Baldwin, Alec

Alec Baldwin Signed Photograph.

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Photograph of American actor Alec Baldwin. Duodecimo, one page, black and white photograph of Alec Baldwin by Albert Sanchez, boldly signed by him in blue felt tip, “Health & Happiness! Alec...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-146564

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Gordimer, Nadine; Edited by Stephen Clingman

Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1988.

First British edition of this collection of writing by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Edited and...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-546

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Feibleman, Peter

Lilly: Reminiscences of Lillian Hellman.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1988.

First edition of Feibleman’s intimate memoir of the playwright Lillian Hellman. Octavo, original half cloth. From the library of Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award-winning composer Charles Strouse and his w...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-152239

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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.

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-115647

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Hardy, Thomas

Two On A Tower.

London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1895.

Early edition of Thomas Hardy’s twelfth published novel. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, top edge gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece, with a map of Wessex to the rear. In very goo...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-148175

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Sanders, Bernie

Our Revolution. A Future To Believe In.

New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's, 2016.

First edition of Bernie Sanders’ account of his life and influences, featuring a detailed account of his campaign praised as “well worth reading… his ideas basically just as fresh to him t...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-130641

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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 desi...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-127393

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Kipling, Rudyard

‘They’ and the Brushwood Boy.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1925.

First edition of this collection of two Kipling stories. Octavo, original cloth elaborately decorated in gilt, with illustrations in color by F. H. Townsend. In very good condition.

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-121873

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Kipling, Rudyard

Wee Willie Winkie and Other Stories. [Baa, Baa, Black Sheep; His Majesty the King; The Drums of Fore and Aft]

Allahabad: Published by Messrs. A. H. Wheeler & Co, n.d.

Later printing of this classic collection of Kipling’s tales for children. Octavo, original cloth. Contains Wee Willie Winkie, Baa Baa Black Sheep, His Majesty the King, and The Drums of Fore an...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-135005

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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.

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-124179

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Kipling, Rudyard

Songs For Youth From Collected Verse.

London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, [1924].

First edition this selection of Kipling’s songs for children. Octavo, original cloth, illustrations by Leo Bates. In near fine condition. Bookplate to the pastedown.

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-121607

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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,...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-145205

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