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Seven Came Through: Rickenbacker’s Full Story Including His Message to America.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc, 1943.

First edition, early printing of Rickenbacker’s autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.

$50.00 Item Number: RRB-145973

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Collins, Joseph

Taking the Literary Pulse: Psychological Studies of Life and Letters.

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1924.

First edition of this work analyzing modern authors and their literary characters through a psychological lens. Octavo, original publisher’s red cloth, illustrated with tipped in plates. In near...

$50.00 Item Number: RRB-151569

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Durrell, Lawrence

Tunc.

London: Faber and Faber, 1968.

First edition of this novel by the author of The Alexandria Quartet. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.

$50.00 Item Number: RRB-123569

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Allcard, Edward C

First edition of English yachtsman Edward C. Allcard’s detailed account of his second solo trip across the Atlantic aboard the yawl Temptress. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, frontispi...

$50.00 Item Number: RRB-115755

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Catton, Bruce

American Heritage: The Magazine of History.

New York: American Heritage Publishing Co, 1954-1958.

First edition collection of this historical magazine. Quarto, 6 volumes, original pictorial boards, illustrated throughout with photographs and drawings, the collection consists of: Volume. VI No. 1 (...

$50.00 Item Number: RRB-146066

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Kipling, Rudyard

Kipling Calendar: A Quotation from Kipling’s Writings for Every Day in the Year.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923.

First edition of the Kipling Calendar, containing a Kipling verse for each day of the year. Octavo, original half cloth. Very good in a good dust jacket.

$50.00 Item Number: RRB-122065

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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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Burnet, W. Hodgson

Quite So Stories.

London: Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1918.

First edition of Burnet’s comedic parody of Rudyard Kipling’s classic collection of children’s tales, Just So Stories. Octavo, original stiff illustrated wrappers, illustrated by E....

$50.00 Item Number: RRB-125407

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Monkshood, G. F. and George Gamble

Rudyard Kipling: The Man and His Work. An Attempt at Appreciation.

London: Greening & Co., Ltd., 1902.

Third and enlarged edition of Monkshood’s homage to the legendary man of letters. Octavo, original cloth, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait. In very good condition.

$50.00 Item Number: RRB-135217

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Salisbury, Mark [Stephen Sondheim]

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

London: Titan Books, 2007.

First edition of the in-depth companion volume to the big-screen adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s award-winning musical thriller. Quarto, original boards, patterned endpapers, illustrated. From...

$50.00 Item Number: RRB-140217

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Decarava, Roy and Langston Hughes

The Sweet Flypaper of Life.

New York: First Print Press, 2018.

Later printing of the classic collaboration between Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes. Small octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.

$50.00 Item Number: RRB-147018

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[Kipling, Rudyard]

The Kipling Index.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1914.

First edition of The Kipling Index. 12mo, bound in cloth covered boards with the original wrappers bound in. In very good condition.

$50.00 Item Number: RRB-136202

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Braine, John

The Vodi.

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1959.

Publisher’s advance proof of the author’s second book. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition.

$50.00 Item Number: RRB-127835

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Rowling, J.K

The Casual Vacancy.

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2012.

First edition of this “positively propulsive read” (Wall Street Journal). Octavo, original boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mario J. Pulice. Jacket illustration by Joel Holland.

$50.00 Item Number: RRB-137044

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Wells, H.G

Experiment in Autobiography: Volume II Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd & The Cresset Press Ltd, 1934.

First edition of the second volume of Wells’s expansive autobiographical work, in which he reflects on the experiences, intellectual influences, and philosophical conclusions that shaped his life and...

$50.00 Item Number: RRB-151311

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Lefschetz, Solomon; S. P. Diliberto; L. L. Rauch; F. H. Brownell; M. L. Cartwright; J. G. Wendel; C. E. Langenhop; A. B. Farnell; W. Wasow

Contributions to the Theory of Nonlinear Oscillations.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950.

First edition of this collection of seven mathematical research papers on the topic of nonlinear oscillations. Medium octavo, original orange wrappers, illustrated with equations and graphs. In very g...

$50.00 Item Number: RRB-147030

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Burroughs, Edgar Rice

Tarzan the Terrible.

Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1921.

First edition of the eighth book in the ‘Tarzan’ series. Octavo, original red cloth, frontispiece and nine illustrations by J. Allen St. John. In good condition, with speckled loss to the...

$50.00 Item Number: RRB-145114

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Smith, Wilbur

A Sparrow Falls.

London: Heinemann, 1977.

First edition of the third book in Wilbur Smith’s original Courtney trilogy. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket.

$50.00 Item Number: RRB-149550

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Read, Piers Paul

On The Third Day.

London: Secker & Warburg, 1990.

First edition of this thought provoking novel about the nature of faith. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Sally, Remembering our...

$50.00 Item Number: RRB-147640

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Kipling, Rudyard

National Bands: A Speech by Rudyard Kipling.

London:, 1915.

First edition of this short patriotic speech. Quarto, unpaginated single sheet of stiff white paper folded once. Delivered at the Mansion House on January 27, 1915. In very good condition.

$50.00 Item Number: RRB-149769

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Benchley, Robert

Benchley -Or Else!

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1947.

First edition of Benchley’s collection of humorous essays. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with unique drawings by Gluyas Williams. Very good in a good dust jacket. Author photograph by Ben...

$50.00 Item Number: RRB-148652

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First Edition Books for Sale Online

Seven Came Through: Rickenbacker’s Full Story Including His Message to America.

Taking the Literary Pulse: Psychological Studies of Life and Letters.

Tunc.

Temptress Returns.

American Heritage: The Magazine of History.

Kipling Calendar: A Quotation from Kipling’s Writings for Every Day in the Year.

Sideman: In Pursuit of the Next Gig.

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

The Bush Speaks.

In Black and White.

Quite So Stories.

Rudyard Kipling: The Man and His Work. An Attempt at Appreciation.

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

The Sweet Flypaper of Life.

The Kipling Index.

The Vodi.

The Casual Vacancy.

Experiment in Autobiography: Volume II Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain.

Contributions to the Theory of Nonlinear Oscillations.

Tarzan the Terrible.

A Sparrow Falls.

On The Third Day.

National Bands: A Speech by Rudyard Kipling.

Benchley -Or Else!