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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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McCullough, David

The Pioneers.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2019.

First edition of this work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian. Octavo, original boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jackie Seow.

$50.00 Item Number: RRB-147398

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Huxley, Aldous

Leda.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1920.

First edition of Huxley’s classic collection of poems. Octavo, original cloth and paper spine label. In good condition.

$50.00 Item Number: RRB-139026

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UNStudio: Evolution of Space.

New Haven: Yale University, 2007.

First edition. Octavo, original wrappers, illustrated. In fine condition. Introduction by Peter Cachola Schmal.

$50.00 Item Number: RRB-81139

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Raban, Jonathan

Passage to Juneau: A Sea & Its Meanings.

London: Picador, 1999.

First edition by the author described as ‘undoubtedly the finest writer afloat since Conrad’ (Geoffrey Moorhouse, Guardian). Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, with the Inside Passage Nor...

$50.00 Item Number: RRB-151219

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Wells, H.G

The Holy Terror.

London: Michael Joseph Ltd., 1939.

First British edition of Wells’ dark political satire depicting the rise of an ordinary man into a ruthless dictator, written as a warning against the growing threats of authoritarianism in the years...

$50.00 Item Number: RRB-151303

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Miller, Arthur

Death of A Salesman.

New York: The Viking Press, 1998.

First edition of the 50th anniversary edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Martin Ogolter. Original drawing of Willy Loman by Jo...

$50.00 Item Number: RRB-147809

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Maude, Aylmer. [Leo Tolstoy]

Tolstoy on Art: and its Critics.

London: Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press, 1925.

First edition of this collection of Maude’s essays, including one of “one of the finest pieces of criticism of the nineteenth century”, Tolstoy’s What is Art? (The Empire Revie...

$50.00 Item Number: RRB-128538

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