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Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook.

New York: Random House, 1982.

First edition of Waters’ first book. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Alice Waters on the half-title page. Near fine in a near very good price-clipped dust jacket, name to t...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-130561

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McKay, Claude. [Introduction by Max Eastman]

Harlem Shadows: The Poems of Claude McKay.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1922.

First edition of McKay’s groundbreaking volume of over 50 poems together in book form for the first time; the first book of poetry to emerge from the Harlem Renaissance. Octavo, original publish...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149309

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[MacLean, Lyell]

Manuscript Diary of an Ocean Voyage to the Far East in 1927.

:, 1927.

Rare manuscript diary kept during an ocean voyage aboard the steamer ship Korean Maru from California to Hawaii and the Far East, as far as Ceylon, where the account ends. Octavo, bound in red morocco...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147717

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Reagan, Ronald and George H. W. Bush

Ronald Reagan and George Bush Inaugural Gift Collection.

:, 1981.

Fine collection of official gifts from the inauguration of Ronald Reagan as President and George H. W. Bush as Vice President of the United States. The collection includes a sterling silver money clip...

$1,450.00 Item Number: RRB-117304

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a Kempis, Thomas

The Imitation of Christ.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1908.

Finely bound example of a Kempis’ classic work. Octavo, bound in morocco by Bayntun, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, gilt doublures, illustrated including color plates by Flint. Translat...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-120987

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Flaubert, Gustave

Madame Bovary: A Story of Provincial Life.

London: John Lane/The Bodley Head LTD, 1928.

The Bodley Head edition of a seminal novel in literary realism, renowned for its psychological depth and critique of bourgeois society. Octavo, bound in full pictorial morocco by Sangorski & Sutcl...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-148368

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King, Jr., Martin Luther

Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1958.

First edition, early printing of Dr. Martin Luther King’s first book. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-142687

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Jones, James

From Here to Eternity.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1951.

First edition of the author’s first book, one of the great novels of World War II. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Boldly signed by James Jones. Fine in a near fine dust ja...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-151054

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Kahn, Roger; [Joe Di Maggio]

Joe & Marilyn: A Memory of Love.

New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc, 1986.

First edition of the full, unobscured story of Mr. and Mrs. America. Octavo, original half cloth, frontispiece portrait of Joe and Marilyn on their wedding day. Boldly signed by Joe Di Maggio on the f...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-147083

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Cash, Johnny

Johnny Cash Signed Sings Hank Williams Record.

Memphis, TN: Sun Records Co., Inc, 1958.

Johnny Cash’s compilation album of songs by Hank Williams, released in 1958, featuring songs ‘I Can’t Help It,’ ‘You Win Again,’ Hey Good Lookin’,’ and...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-146946

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Strauss, Richard

Richard Strauss Signed Program.

:, 1925.

Richard Strauss signed program. The program was for a concert by the Dusseldorf City Orchestra and Richard Strauss, held April 30, 1925. The program measures 6.5 inches by 8.75 inches. Double matted...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-65034

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Cervantes, Miguel de

The History of the Valorous and Witty Knight Errant Don Quixote of the Mancha.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1908.

Finely bound English translation of Cervantes’ masterpiece. Octavo, three volumes, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, top edge gilt, mar...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-140084

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Geisel, Theodor Seuss. [Dr. Seuss]

On Beyond Zebra.

New York: Random House, 1955.

First edition, first issue of Dr. Seuss’s classic alphabet book. Quarto, original pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Near fine in a very good first issue dust jacket with the 25...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-149514

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[King, Stephen]

Prism: Stephen King 1969 University of Maine Yearbook.

Bangor, Maine: University of Maine/Prism, 1969.

1969 University of Maine Yearbook featuring several photographs of Stephen King as an undergraduate. Quarto, original publisher’s half cloth over illustrated boards, illustrated with black and w...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-143490

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Viorst, Judith; Illustrated by Ray Cruz

Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday.

New York: Atheneum Publishers, 1978.

First edition of the second book in the author’s acclaimed Alexander series. Oblong quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by the author on the title page, “Save your money! Judith Vi...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-5685

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Irving, Washington; Illustrated by Arthur Rackham

Rip Van Winkle.

London: William Heinemann, 1905.

Rackham edition of this classic story. Royal octavo, bound in full red morocco by Henry Sotheran with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to t...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-148360

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Willmott, Robert Aris [Editor]

The Poets of the Nineteenth Century. [Fore-Edge Painting].

London: Frederick Warne and Co, 1869.

Finely bound example of Willmott’s compilation of the great nineteenth century poets. Octavo, bound in full pebbled morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within r...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-140229

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Rabin, Yitzhak

The Rabin Memoirs.

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1979.

First edition in English of the memoirs of Yitzhak Rabin. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page in the year of publication, “To Eleanore...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-92754

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Waugh, Evelyn

Decline and Fall.

London: Chapman & Hall, 1962.

First revised edition of Waugh’s first published novel. Octavo, bound in full crushed green morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments withi...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-129591

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Storke, Elliot G

A Complete History of the Great American Rebellion Embracing Its Causes, Events, and Consequences, with Biographical Sketches and Portraits of its Principal Actors, and Thrilling Incidents of Land and Naval Heroes.

Auburn, N.Y: The Auburn Publishing Company, 1863-1865.

First edition of Storke’s history of the American Civil War. Octavo, two volumes, original publisher’s deluxe full morocco, illustrated with maps, plans of battles, and portraits. In good...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-133070

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Fleming, Ian

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1963.

First edition of the tenth novel in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series. Octavo, original brown cloth. Signed by George Lazenby on the title page, the actor who played 007 in the film adaptation. Gift ins...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-5518

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Amishah Umshei Torah, Im Haft Arot Le-Khol Ha-Shanah. [Hebrew Chumash/The Pentateuch].

Tel Aviv: Hotsa at Sinai, c. 1950.

Rare Hebrew Chumash containing the Five Books of Moses, blessings before and after the Haftarah, and accents according to the Ashkenazic, Sephardic, and Italian rites. 32mo, five volumes, original clo...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-138452

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Thornton, Alfred

Don Juan. Volume the First and Don Juan; Volume the Second: Containing His Life in London, Or, A True Picture of the British Metropolis.

London: Printed for Thomas Kelly, 1821-1822.

First edition of Thornton’s satirical reinterpretation of the famous libertine legend. Octavo, two volumes bound in full crushed levant morocco by Lloyd with gilt titles and tooling to the spine...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-149525

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Hughes, Langston

Langston Hughes Signed Howard University Sorority Afternoon Forum Program.

[Washington, D.C.]: [Howard University], [1947].

Original Howard University Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Afternoon Forum Program signed by Langston Hughes. One page, quarto, folded sheet, typescript, contemporary copy of typed program for forum organi...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-147803

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