Green, Henry
Loving.
London : The Hogarth Press, 1945.
First edition, second printing of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition.
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Item Number: RRB-149842
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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, “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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Item Number: RRB-145205
Waugh, Evelyn
The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy.
London : Chapman & Hall, 1948.
First edition of Waugh’s short satirical novel about a Los Angeles funeral parlor. Octavo, original boards, marbled endpapers, illustrated by Stuart Doyle. Very good in a good dust jacket.
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Item Number: RRB-146931
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Grandmother’s Story of Bunker Hill Battle.
New York : Dodd, Mead & Company, 1883.
First McVickar illustrated edition of this narrative poem of the Battle of Bunker Hill. Octavo, original pictorial cloth, floral endpapers, frontispiece, title page vignette, with color illustrations throughout by H.W. McVickar. McVickar was an American illustrator and author active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his contributions to popular magazines andContinue reading "Grandmother’s Story of Bunker Hill Battle."
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Item Number: RRB-148665
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
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
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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Item Number: RRB-137414
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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Item Number: RRB-115799
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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Item Number: RRB-119781
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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Item Number: RRB-145170
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
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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Item Number: RRB-126935
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
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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Item Number: RRB-115647
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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Item Number: RRB-147439
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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Item Number: RRB-133029
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
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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Item Number: RRB-151535
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
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
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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Item Number: RRB-88118
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
Bellow, Saul
Seize the Day.
New York : The Viking Press, 1956.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s fourth novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Name to the front free endpaper, near fine in a good dust jacket with some wear. Jacket design by Bill English.
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Item Number: RRB-90869
Roth, Philip
The Human Stain.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.
First edition, early printing of Roth’s award-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Michaela Sullivan.
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Item Number: RRB-146852
Fad Surfing in the Boardroom: Reclaiming the Courage to Manage in the Age of Instant Answers.
Economics and Finance
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RRB-145205
The Relations Explosion: A Diagram of the Coming Boom and Shakeout in Corporate Relations.
Economics and Finance
$75.00
RRB-127393
The Theory of Economic Development in the History of Economic Thought.
Economics and Finance
$75.00
RRB-110422
