Loving.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1945.
First edition, second printing of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition.
$75.00
Item Number: RRB-149842
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Le Mariage.
New York: Dutton Book, 2000.
First edition of this “splendid entertainment… Johnson is one of our most astute cultural critics” (The New York Times Book Review). Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Diane John...
$75.00
Item Number: RRB-110599
The Spirit of the Links.
London: Methuen & Company, 1907.
First edition of this collection of essays on the game of golf. Octavo, original cloth. Notes to the endpaper, in good condition.
$75.00
Item Number: RRB-76433
Slosson, Edwin E. [Albert Einstein]
Easy Lessons in Einstein: A Discussion of the More Intelligible Features of the Theory of Relativity.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1921.
First edition of this popular science book that made Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity accessible to general readers. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece, with black and white illustrations. In...
$75.00
Item Number: RRB-148232
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...
$75.00
Item Number: RRB-148665
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 illustratio...
$75.00
Item Number: RRB-121444
The Special Prisoner.
New York: Random House, 2000.
First edition, second printing of Lehrer’s fascinating war story. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Helene & Bill – With l...
$75.00
Item Number: RRB-135274
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...
$75.00
Item Number: RRB-2747
The Kiss of the Unborn and Other Stories.
Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1977.
First edition of the author’s timeless short story collection. Octavo, original cloth. Translated and with an Introduction by Murl G. Barker. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
$75.00
Item Number: RRB-126497
The Hills Beyond.
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1941.
First edition of Wolfe’s acclaimed posthumously published short story collection. Octavo, original dark blue cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, embossed stamps.
$75.00
Item Number: RRB-120308
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...
$75.00
Item Number: RRB-148192
Julie Krone Signed 1989 Sports Illustrated.
New York: The Time Inc Magazine Company, 1989.
May 1989 issue of Sports Illustrated signed by American jockey and Belmont Stakes winner, Julie Krone. Octavo, original wrappers with a portrait of Krone in her jockey gear right after a race on the f...
$75.00
Item Number: RRB-152277
From a Cause to a Style: Modernist Architecture’s Encounter with the American City.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007.
First edition of this work by the co-author of The Lonely Crowd. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page in the year of publication, “To Chris a...
$75.00
Item Number: RRB-44001
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,...
$75.00
Item Number: RRB-119781
How Dear Is Life.
London: Macdonald & Co., 1954.
First edition of the fourth novel in the author’s semi-autobiographical Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight series. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Broom Lynne...
$75.00
Item Number: RRB-128068
The Sportswriter.
London: Collins Harvill, 1986.
First British edition of this work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Octavo, original boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
$75.00
Item Number: RRB-146257
Wallace, Henry A; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Russell Lord
Democracy Reborn.
London: Hammond, Hammond & Co. Ltd, 1945.
First English edition of this work on democratic politics. Octavo, original tan cloth, frontispiece portrait of the author, illustrated with black and white plates. In very good condition with toning...
$75.00
Item Number: RRB-146243
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.
$75.00
Item Number: RRB-146931
The Undying Fire: A Contemporary Novel.
London: Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1919.
First British edition of Wells’ philosophical reimagining of the Book of Job set against the moral and scientific crises of the modern world. Octavo, original publisher’s green cloth. In very go...
$75.00
Item Number: RRB-151168
The Prince of the Marshes And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq.
New York: Harcourt, 2006.
First edition of Stewart’s second book. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by Rory Stewart on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jennifer Jackman.
$75.00
Item Number: RRB-3491
Gold Mine.
London: Heinemann, 1970.
First British edition of this gripping tale of corporate intrigue and visceral peril set in the gold mines of southern Africa, which established the template for Wilbur Smith’s best selling adve...
$75.00
Item Number: RRB-151952
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
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
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
