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Jones, Jymi

Guerilla Warfare In Philly.

Elkins Park, Pennsylvania: Uhuru/Publications, 1970.

First edition of the Philadelphia activist’s first book of poetry. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition.

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-134011

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Henty, George Alfred [G.A.]

The Dash For Khartoum: A Tale of The Nile Expedition.

London: Blackie & Son, Limited, 1892.

First edition of Henty’s classic adventure tale of the Nile Expedition. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, with ten illustrations by Jose...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-123068

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Burroughs, Edgar Rice

Apache Devil.

Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., 1933.

First edition of the second book in Burroughs’ realistic historical ‘Apache’ series. Octavo, original cloth with red top stain. In very good condition.. Lacking the front free endpap...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-145106

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Southern, Terry

Texas Summer: A Novel by Terry Southern.

New York: Arcade Publishing/Little Brown And Company, 1991.

First edition of Southern’s powerful critique of cultural and economic forces that shaped America. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket painting and design by Wendell...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-148446

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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 col...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-137414

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[Rackham, Arthur]

Punch, or The London Charivari: Vol. 129.

London: Published at the Office and Sold by All Booksellers, 1905.

Volume 129 of Punch weekly containing numerous illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Quarto, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated by numerous artists including 10 illustrations by Rackham in issue...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-142537

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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 jacke...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-110422

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Wells, H.G

The New Machiavelli and The Food of the Gods.

London: Odhams Press Limited, 1911.

Odhams Press Limited edition of Wells’ semi-autobiographical political novel exploring the tensions between personal desire and public responsibility in early twentieth-century England. Octavo, origin...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-151712

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Barlow, Arthur

Kivet of the Bush.

Bloemfontein: A. C. White, 1950.

First edition. Octavo. A very good copy in a near fine bright dust jacket.

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-309

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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.

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-75006

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Ruscha, Ed [Karin Breuer; Kerry Brougher and D.J. Waldie]

Ed Ruscha and the Great American West.

San Francisco: Fine Arts of San Francisco, 2016.

First edition of this work on the renowned artist. Oblong quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated throughout. In fine condition.

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-144358

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Kipling, Rudyard

“Teem”- A Treasure-Hunter.

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1938.

First edition of Kipling’s beloved dog story. Octavo, original cloth. Frontispiece illustration by Marguerite Kirmse. Near fine in the scarce original dust jacket.

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-121883

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Hardy, Thomas

Tess of the d’Urbervilles.

New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1895.

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 good condition with light rubb...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-148194

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Sharp, Evelyn. Illustrated by Charles Robinson

The Story of the Weathercock.

London: Blackie & Son Limited, n.d..

Early printing of Sharp’s children’s classic. Quarto, original publisher’s decorated cloth, illustrated with sixteen color plates and numerous black-and-white illustrations by Charle...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-135422

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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.

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-133029

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Galbraith, Robert. [J.K. Rowling]

The Silkworm.

London: Sphere, 2014.

First edition of the second novel in Rowling’s Cormoran Strike Series, published under the pen name Robert Galbraith. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Sian Wilson.

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-137033

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Scott, Paul

A Male Child.

London : Eyre & Spottiswoode (Publishers) Ltd, 1956.

First edition of Paul Scott’s third novel. Octavo, original boards. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-138732

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Nasar, Sylvia

Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011.

First edition of this sweeping narrative. Octavo, original boards. Signed and dated by Sylvia Nasar on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-47016

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Smith, Rupert. [Madeleine Albright]

The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World.

London: Penguin Books, 2006.

Second edition of this critical analysis of how warfare has evolved from traditional industrial-age conflicts to modern “war amongst the people.” Octavo, original publisher’s wrapper...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-149066

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War Service Record 1939-1945: The Commercial Bank of Scotland Limited.

Edinburgh: Printed for the Commercial Bank of Scotland Limited, 1952.

First edition of the Commercial Bank of Scotland’s War Service Record 1939-1945. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-124208

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Maugham, W. Somerset

The Moon and Sixpence.

New York: The Heritage Press, 1941.

The Heritage Press illustrated edition of this classic novel. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, floral stamped detailing to the front panel, top stain brown, pictorial endpapers, frontispiece...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-149773

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Kennedy, William

The Ink Truck.

New York: Viking, 1985.

First printing of the re-issue of the author’s first book. Octavo, original publisher’s full cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by William Kennedy on the title page, “For Joel, Will...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-149751

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Yogananda, Paramhansa

Autobiography of a Yogi.

New York: The Philosophical Library, 2005.

Reprint of one of the most important spiritual books of the twentieth century, Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition.

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-135452

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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 desig...

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-115799

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