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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Bishop, Michael

The Quickening.

Eugene, OR: Pulphouse, 1991.

First separate edition of this Nebula Award-winning novelette. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Cover illustration by George Barr.

$40.00 Item Number: RRB-144173

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Kipling, Rudyard

Puck: Geschichten aus alten Sagen. Ein Buch fur groke und heine Leute.

Berlin-Charlottenburg: Bita Deutsches Berlagshaus, n.d..

Rare German edition of Kipling’s collected Puck stories. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth, illustrated by H.R. Millar. Translated into German by E. Rosenbach. In near fine cond...

$40.00 Item Number: RRB-123493

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Pullman, Philip

Count Karlstein, or The Ride of the Demon Huntsman.

London: Corgi Yearling Books, 1998.

First Corgi Yearling edition of Pullman’s first children’s novel. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated. Inscribed by the author on the title page, “Greetings to Eileen...

$40.00 Item Number: RRB-88117

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Calverley, Charles Stuart

Verses and Translations.

Cambridge: Deighton, Bell, and Co., 1862.

First edition of Calverley’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. In good condition. Ownership inscription. Rare.

$40.00 Item Number: RRB-124130

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Hardy, Thomas

Tess of the d’Urbervilles.

New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1899.

Early edition of Thomas Hardy’s twelfth published novel. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, frontispiece, with black and white illustrations. In near fine condition.

$40.00 Item Number: RRB-148193

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Kipling, Rudyard

Actions and Reactions.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1909.

Macmillan’s Colonial Library edition of Kipling’s Actions and Reactions, intended for circulation only in India and The British Colonies. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition.

$40.00 Item Number: RRB-121490

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Irving, John

The Hotel New Hampshire.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1981.

Uncorrected proof of the first edition of the author’s fifth novel. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition with the review information laid in.

$40.00 Item Number: RRB-144884

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Shirer, William L

The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960.

First edition, later printing of “one of the most important works of history of our time” (Orville Prescott, New York Times). Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. In near fine c...

$40.00 Item Number: RRB-151260

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