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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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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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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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Dunn, Bob

Magic For All.

New York: The Citadel Press, 1946.

First edition of this work in popular magic literature. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated throughout with sketches on how to perform magic tricks by the author Bob Dunn. In good co...

$65.00 Item Number: RRB-149960

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Wilson, Angus

Late Call.

London: Seeker & Warburg, 1964.

First edition of Wilson’s satirical comedy. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Ralph Mabey. A sharp example.

$65.00 Item Number: RRB-96194

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Waugh, Evelyn

The Loved One: First Apperance in Print, Published in Horizon Volume XVII, No. 98, February 1948.

London: Horizon, A Review of Literature and Art, 1948.

First appearance of Evelyn Waugh’s The Loved One, first published in the literary magazine Horizon, volume XVII, No. 98, February 1948. Octavo, original publisher’s wrappers. In very good...

$65.00 Item Number: RRB-148351

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Kapuscinski, Ryszard

The Soccer War.

London: Granta Books, 1990.

First edition of this remarkable eye-witness account of “the emergence of the Third World,” translated from the original Polish by William Brand. Octavo, original boards. Near fine in a ne...

$65.00 Item Number: RRB-146973

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Herbert, A.P

Holy Deadlock.

London: Methuen and Co, 1934.

First edition of this novel of two young people in search of a divorce after seven years of marriage. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in very good dust jacket.

$65.00 Item Number: RRB-117239

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Pullman, Philip

Philip Pullman Collection.

London: Various Publishers, 2000-2004.

Fine collection of first editions by children’s book author Philip Pullman. Quarto, 3 volumes, original boards and wrappers, illustrated. The collection includes a two first edition of Puss in B...

$65.00 Item Number: RRB-117733

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Henty, George Alfred [G.A.]

On the Irrawaddy: A Story of The First Burmese War.

London: Blackie & Son, Limited, 1897.

First edition of Henty’s classic adventure tale. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, with eight illustrations by W. H. Overend. In good conditio...

$65.00 Item Number: RRB-122334

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Pohrt, Tom

Coyote Goes Walking.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1995.

First edition of Pohrt’s wonderfully illustrated retelling of four of the adventures of the classic mythical creature. Oblong quarto, original half cloth, illustrated by the author. Fine in a ne...

$65.00 Item Number: RRB-140125

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Lash, Joseph P

A World of Love: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends 1943-1962.

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1984.

Signed limited first edition of this moving biography-in-letters, privately printed exclusively for members of The Signed First Edition Society. Octavo, bound in full top-grain leather with gilt title...

$65.00 Item Number: RRB-146857

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Katz, Menke

Burning Village.

New York: The Smith, 1972.

First edition of the acclaimed poet’s crowning achievement; a harrowing account of his experience as a boy in Lithuania during WWII. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the a...

$65.00 Item Number: RRB-124015

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Gordimer, Nadine

Sport of Nature.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1987.

First British edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Brian Robin...

$65.00 Item Number: RRB-4160

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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.

$65.00 Item Number: RRB-146852

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Kipling, Rudyard

The Brushwood Boy.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1907.

First separate edition of this Kipling children’s classic. Octavo, original blue cloth with gilt titles and vignette to the front panel, illustrated by F. H. Townsend, tissue-guarded frontispiec...

$65.00 Item Number: RRB-121482

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