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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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Kipling, Rudyard

The Five Nations.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1903.

First American edition of Kipling’s notable poetry collection. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, black stamped vignette to the front panel. In very good condition.

$50.00 Item Number: RRB-121348

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Hopkins, R. Thurston. [Rudyard Kipling]

Rudyard Kipling: The Story of a Genius.

London: Cecil Palmer, 1930.

First edition of Hopkins’ biography of Rudyard Kipling. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Very good in a very good dust jacket.

$50.00 Item Number: RRB-122049

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Venturi, Robert

Robert Venturi Typed Letter Signed.

Philadelphia: Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, Inc, August 11, 1999.

Rare typed letter signed by the Pritzker Prize-winning architect Robert Venturi. Quarto, one page on Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates 25% cotton stationary, the letter reads in full, ‘August...

$50.00 Item Number: RRB-146698

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Kipling, Rudyard. Introduction by Irving Howe

The Portable Kipling.

New York: The Viking Press, 1982.

Rare unrevised proof of The Portable Kipling. Octavo, original wrappers with the publisher’s date and price inscribed on the front panel. In fine condition. Rare.

$50.00 Item Number: RRB-124503

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le Carre, John

Agent Running in the Field.

New York: Viking, 2019.

First edition of le Carre’s spy thriller. Octavo, original half-cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Buckley. Jacket illustrator by Matthew Taylor.

$50.00 Item Number: RRB-151620

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Dobree, Bonamy. [Rudyard Kipling]

Rudyard Kipling.

London: Published for The British Council and the National Book League by Longmans, Green & Co., 1951.

First edition of Dobree’s work on Kipling, the man and the writer. Octavo, original wrappers, frontispiece portrait of Kipling. In near fine condition.

$50.00 Item Number: RRB-126348

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Burns, Ken; Geoffrey C. Ward & Dayton Duncan

Mark Twain: An Illustrated Biography.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001.

First edition of this companion volume to the documentary by Ken Burns. Quarto, original original cloth, illustrated. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson.

$50.00 Item Number: RRB-150841

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Yates, Richard

Cold Spring Harbor.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1986.

Uncorrected proof of the first edition of the author’s final novel published in his lifetime Octavo, original wrappers. In fine condition.

$50.00 Item Number: RRB-145889

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Millhauser, Steven

Portrait of a Romantic.

London: Routledge Y Kegan Paul, 1978.

First British edition of the author’s second book. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Steven Millhauser on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

$45.00 Item Number: RRB-61014

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Waugh, Evelyn

Officers and Gentlemen.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1955.

First American edition. Octavo, original blue boards. Fine in a very good dust jacket.

$45.00 Item Number: RRB-1948

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Stone, Robert

Bear And His Daughters.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997.

First edition of this collection of short stories by the National Book-Award winning novelist. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Robert Stone on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket....

$45.00 Item Number: RRB-151069

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