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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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Lash, Joseph P

Roosevelt and Churchill: 1939-1941 The Partnership That Saved the West.

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1976.

The Franklin Library limited edition of this account on the relationship between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill during the early events of World War II. Octavo, bound in full leather with...

$60.00 Item Number: RRB-151723

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Cahall, Lois

The Many Lives & Loves of Hazel Lavery.

New York: Historium Press, 2024.

First edition of The Many Lives & Loves of Hazel Lavery. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Signed by author Lois Cahall on title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

$60.00 Item Number: RRB-149082

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Player, Gary

Gary Player’s Golf Secrets.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1962.

First edition of Gary Player’s first book. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear.

$60.00 Item Number: RRB-151415

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Keynes, John Maynard [J.M]

Two Memoirs. Dr Melchior: A Defeated Enemy and My Early Beliefs.

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1949.

First edition of Keynes’ intellectual, literary and reflective history. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, frontispiece photograph of Keynes, Bertrand Russell and Lytton Strachey at Garsi...

$60.00 Item Number: RRB-150748

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Spark, Muriel

The Fanfarlo and Other Verse.

Aldington: The Hand and Flower Press, 1952.

First edition, first issue of Spark’s first book of verse, preceding her first novel by five years. Octavo, original wrappers. In fine condition.

$60.00 Item Number: RRB-127039

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Gallo, Leah; [Designed by] Holly C. Kempf; Tim Burton; Ransom Riggs

The Art Of Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children: A Tim Burton Film.

Philadelphia, PA: Quirk Books, 2016.

First edition of this lavishly illustrated companion of Tim Burton’s adaptation of the Ransom Riggs novel ‘Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children’. Quarto, original pictor...

$60.00 Item Number: RRB-147941

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Nabokov, Vladimir

King, Queen, Knave.

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1968.

First British edition of this early Nabokov novel. Octavo, original black cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by George Mayhew. Photograph of Nabokov on the rear panel by Philippe Ha...

$55.00 Item Number: RRB-89070

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Kipling, Rudyard

Abaft the Funnel.

New York: B. W. Dodge and Company, 1909.

First unauthorized edition, second issue of Kipling’s 1909 short story collection with red lettering to the spine and front panel. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth with the tit...

$55.00 Item Number: RRB-120904

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Maharaj, Mac] O'Malley, Padraig; Foreword by Nelson Mandela

Shades of Difference: Mac Maharaj and the Struggle For South Africa.

New York: Viking, 2007.

First edition of this work on apartheid activist Mac Maharaj. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Padraig O’Malley. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

$55.00 Item Number: RRB-3557

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Cooper, Artemis [Patrick Leigh Fermor]

Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure.

London: John Murray, 2012.

First edition, early printing of this biography on bestselling travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated with photographs and maps. Fine in a fine dust...

$55.00 Item Number: RRB-151446

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Price, Reynolds [Madeleine Albright]

A Generous Man.

New York: Atheneum, 1966.

First edition, early printing of this Southern Gothic novel. Octavo, original cloth, top stain red, bookplate to the front pastedown from ‘The Private Collection of Secretary Madeleine K. Albright’. M...

$55.00 Item Number: RRB-147897

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McCullin, Donald

The Destruction Business.

London: Open Gate Books, 1971.

First edition of this classic work. Small quarto, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated throughout. In good condition.

$55.00 Item Number: RRB-143808

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Self-Consciousness: Memoirs

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989.

First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author to noted book collector Stratford Carter on the half title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

$55.00 Item Number: RRB-19053

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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.

$55.00 Item Number: RRB-151222

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Kipilng, Rudyard

Toomai of the Elephants.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1937.

First separate edition Kipling’s story of Toomai, a young elephant-handler, the basis for the 1937 film “Elephant Boy” starring Sabu Dastagir, India’s first child actor. Octavo...

$55.00 Item Number: RRB-121393

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Vizzini, Ned

Be More Chill.

New York: Hyperion Books, 2004.

First edition, second printing of Vizzini’s groundbreaking novel that inspired the Broadway musical. Octavo, original boards. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket art by Timothy Saccenti...

$55.00 Item Number: RRB-150032

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King, Stephen

Rose Madder.

New York: The Viking Press, 1995.

First edition of this King thriller. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Neil Stuart. Author photograph by Tabitha King.

$55.00 Item Number: RRB-116997

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Rivera, Mark with Mike Poncy. Foreword by Ringo Starr

Sideman: In Pursuit of the Next Gig.

Dallas, Texas: Matt Holt Books, 2023.

First edition of renowned musician, musical director, and rock star Mark Rivera’s revealing memoir. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by Mark Rivera on the half-...

$50.00 Item Number: RRB-152103

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Madison, Charles A

American Labor Leaders: Personalities and Forces in the Labor Movement.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1950.

First edition of this work on American labor leaders. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, “To Hod and Helen...

$50.00 Item Number: RRB-47071

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Dicke, B.H

The Bush Speaks.

Pietermaritzburg: Shuter & Shooter, 1937.

Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a good dust jacket with some dampstaining to the spine.

$50.00 Item Number: RRB-433

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Kipling, Rudyard

In Black and White.

New York: Hurst and Company, n.d..

Rare separate edition of this classic Kipling tale, which first appeared in Soldiers Three. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece portrait of Kipling. In very good condition.

$50.00 Item Number: RRB-123071

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