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Adam Smith.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982.

First edition of Campbell and Skinner’s accessible study of the father of modern economics, Adam Smith. Octavo, original boards. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.

$45.00 Item Number: RRB-126943

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Irving, Laurence

Henry Irving: The Actor and His World.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1952.

First edition of the author’s major biography of his grandfather, Henry Irving. Octavo, original boards, frontispiece portrait of Henry Irving in color by Jules Bastien-Lepage. Near fine in a ve...

$40.00 Item Number: RRB-115678

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Allen, Woody

Hannah And Her Sisters.

New York: Vintage Books A Division Of Random House , 1987.

First edition of this vintage original comedic drama. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Illustrated with black and white photographs. In near fine condition.

$40.00 Item Number: RRB-148933

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Kipling, Rudyard

Debits and Credits.

Toronto: S. B. Gundy, 1926.

First Canadian edition of one of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s most sorrowful collections. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, black stamped ship vignette to...

$40.00 Item Number: RRB-194552

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Jacobs, Jane

Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life.

New York: Random House, 1984.

First edition of this eye-opening analysis of economics. Octavo, original red publisher’s cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a small closed tear to the rear panel.

$40.00 Item Number: RRB-145275

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Wells, Catherine; H.G. Wells

The Book of Catherine Wells.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1928.

First edition of this posthumous collection of short stories, poems, and sketches written by Amy Catherine Wells (“Jane”), the wife of H.G. Wells. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth...

$40.00 Item Number: RRB-151144

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Kipling, Rudyard

The Art of Rudyard Kipling.

London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1959.

First edition of Tompkins’ work on Kipling. Octavo, original cloth. Good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Stamps and tape remnants to the front and rear pastedowns.

$40.00 Item Number: RRB-135772

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Tute, Warren

A Matter of Diplomacy.

London: J. M. Dent & Sons. Ltd., 1969.

First British edition of this sophisticated “post-Philby” spy novel, set against the political tension of Greece under the Colonels, in which loyalty, desire, and diplomacy prove difficult...

$40.00 Item Number: RRB-151954

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Mandela, Nelson

Prisoner In The Garden.

London: Viking, 2005.

First edition of this work dedicated to Mandela’s archive. Octavo, original boards, illustrated throughout. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

$40.00 Item Number: RRB-138566

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Solzhenitsyn, Alexander [Solzhenitzyn]

Lenin In Zurich.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976.

First edition of Solzhenitsyn’s account of Russian revolutionary history. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Muriel Nasser. Translated from the Russia...

$40.00 Item Number: RRB-147489

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Dugan, James

The Great Mutiny.

New York: G. P. Putnams Sons, 1965.

First edition of the author’s account of one of the few successful military mutinies in recorded history. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, top edge red. Near fine in a very good d...

$40.00 Item Number: RRB-119226

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Pritchett, V.S

Blind Love and Other Stories.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1969.

First edition of Pritchett’s collection of humorous short stories. Octavo, original light blue cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Ionicus.

$40.00 Item Number: RRB-120358

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Pitt, Barrie

The Crucible of War: Western Desert 1941.

London: Book Club Associates, 1980.

First edition of the first volume in Pitt’s masterful history of the war in the Western Desert. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. Near fine in very good dust jacket. J...

$40.00 Item Number: RRB-124377

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Knopf, Alfred A

The Borzoi 1925: Being a Sort of Record of Ten Years of Publishing.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1925.

First trade edition of this commemorative volume that showcases the publishing house’s first decade. Octavo, publisher’s original half-cloth over marbled boards, top stain black, Borzoi Bo...

$40.00 Item Number: RRB-149170

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Raptis, Matthew. Foreword by Nicholas A. Basbanes; Jacket Design by Chip Kidd

Provenance.

Miami: Southeastern Publishing, 2025.

First edition of this work unveiling the extraordinary stories behind seemingly ordinary books. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. Fine in a fine d...

$40.00 Item Number: RRB-150057

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Dinesen, Isak [Karen Blixen]

First edition of this classic collection of short stories. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a good dust jacket, bookplate to the front free endpaper with loss and closed tears to the spine and ext...

$40.00 Item Number: RRB-145706

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Perino, Dana

Purple State: A Novel.

New York: HarperCollins, 2026.

First edition of #1 bestselling author, popular Fox News host, and former White House press secretary, Dana Perino’s first novel—a smart, politically and romantically charged story where red mee...

$40.00 Item Number: RRB-151652

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Arthur Jones, Henry [H.G. Wells]

My Dear Wells: Being a Series of Letters Addressed.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1922.

First British edition, early printing of Jones’ a spirited series of public letters in which the English dramatist Henry Arthur Jones critiques and debates the political, social, and economic ideas of...

$40.00 Item Number: RRB-151253

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Kunhardt, Dorothy Meserve; Bruce Catton

Twenty Days: A Narrative in Text and Pictures of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the Twenty Days and Nights that Followed – The Nation in Mourning, the Long Trip Home to Springfield.

Secaucus, NJ: Castle Books, 1977.

Later edition of this incredibly detailed snapshot of American history based on eyewitness accounts. Quarto, original boards, illustrated throughout with over three hundred black and white drawings, p...

$40.00 Item Number: RRB-146571

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Wyndham, Francis

Mrs Henderson.

New York: Moyer Bell Limited, 1985.

First edition of this collection of stories. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket painting by Jane Human.

$40.00 Item Number: RRB-152135

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Angelou, Maya; Paul Gauguin; Linda Sunshine

Phenomenal Woman.

New York: Random House, 2000.

First edition of this majestic work of art and poetry. Duodecimo, original pictorial boards, illustrated throughout with paintings by the French Post-impressionist artist Paul Gauguin. Fine in a fine...

$40.00 Item Number: RRB-146651

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Cary, Joyce

A Fearful Joy.

London: Michael Joseph Limited, n.d..

Publisher’s advance proof and retained file copy of the author’s fine historical novel. Octavo, original wrappers. The publisher’s retained file copy with their stamp to the title pa...

$40.00 Item Number: RRB-127443

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Johnson, Paul

Brief Lives.

Hutchinson: London, 2010.

First edition of this personal portrait of the twentieth century. Octavo, original black boards. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Author portrait by Catrina Bovill.

$40.00 Item Number: RRB-145153

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