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The Quest of the Davis Cup: Volume VI of The Lawn Tennis Library.

New York: American Lawn Tennis, Inc, 1928.

First signed limited edition de luxe of Merrihew’s classic work on the “World Cup of Tennis.” Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-105106

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Waters, Alice

Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook.

New York: Random House, 1982.

First edition, early printing of Waters’ first book. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Alice Waters on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-150979

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Goldsmith, Oliver

The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale. [Fore-edge Painting].

London: Bickers and Son, 1880.

Finely bound example of one of the most popular and widely read novels among Victorians. Octavo, bound in full pebbled morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and panels, gilt turn-ins and i...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-138744

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Townshend, Pete & Barnes, Richard

The Story of Tommy.

Middlesex, England: Eel Pie Publishing, 1977.

First edition of this work by the legendary member of the Who. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by Pete Townshend on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-1658

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Twain, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens]

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

London: Chatto & Windus, Piccadilly, 1885.

New English edition of one of the great masterpieces of American literature and Twain’s best-selling book, first printed in England in 1876. Octavo, original publisher’s bright red cloth stamped...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-150795

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[Eldridge, John S.]

Boston, Hartford, and Erie Rail Road Company Bond.

:, [c. 1860s].

Handsomely engraved bond of the Boston, Hartford, and Erie Rail Road Company in the amount of $1,000. One page, the bond is signed by John Seabury Eldridge as the company’s president. The lower...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-150470

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Townshend, Pete & Barnes, Richard

The Story of Tommy.

Middlesex, England: Eel Pie Publishing, 1977.

First edition of this work by the legendary member of the Who. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by Pete Townshend on the title page, “For Paul Pete Townshend....

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-140090

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Dickens, Charles

The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

London: Chapman & Hall, 1870.

First edition, bound from the original parts of Dickens’ final novel. Octavo, original bound in full calf, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, double gilt ruled to the front and rear panels...

$925.00 Item Number: RRB-131055

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Baum, L. Frank

The Lost Princess of Oz.

Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co, 1917.

First edition of the eleventh book in Baum’s celebrated Oz series. Quarto, original publisher’s light blue cloth with large pictorial paper onlay to the front panel (Bienvenue and Schmidt...

$900.00 Item Number: RRB-151940

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Balinese Palm Leaf Prayer Manuscript.

Indonesia:, c. 16th century.

Rare Balinese palm leaf manuscript. Eight leaves, inscribed on both sides in Hindu text manuscript, binding thread intact. In near fine condition.

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-88148

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Henderson, W. A. [William Safire]

The Housekeeper’s Instructor; Or, Universal Family-Cook: Being a Full and Clear Display in all its Branches… To Which is Added, The Complete Art of Carving.

London: Printed for Thomas Kelly, [1823].

Early printing of Henderson’s bestselling English cookery book. Octavo, bound in three quarter contemporary calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, illustrated with engravings, lacking t...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-123841

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. [Fore-edge Painting].

London: George Routledge & Sons, 1877.

Finely bound example of the collected poetical works of Longfellow. Octavo, bound in full contemporary crushed levant morocco with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine and panels, morocco spine label l...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-138812

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Dickens, Charles

Charles Dickens Gilt Bronze Relief Portrait.

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Original gilt bronze relief portrait of Charles Dickens. Framed. The entire piece measures 14.5 inches by 12 inches. In near fine condition. A unique example.

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-92795

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Owens, Bill

Suburbia.

San Francisco: Straight Arrow Press, 1973.

First Edition. Oblong quarto, original photographic stiff paper wrappers. Inscribed by Bill Owens on the front free endpaper, “For Dave Bill Owens Can you avoid Suburbia.” In very good con...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-948

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Elizabeth [Tonna], Charlotte

The Works of Charlotte Elizabeth. With an Introduction by H. B. Stowe.

New York: Published by M. W. Dodd, 1849.

Seventh edition of the complete works of English Victorian writer and suffragette Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna. Royal octavo, two volumes, original publisher’s full deluxe morocco with gilt titles...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-142626

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McElroy, Robert [Grover Cleveland]

Grover Cleveland The Man and The Statesman: An Authorized Biography.

New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1923.

First edition of this informative view of Grover Cleveland’s two terms in office. Octavo, two volumes, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, top edge gilt, tissue-guarded frontispieces....

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-147737

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Gandhi, Mahatma K

Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth.

London: Phoenix Press, 1949.

First edition of Gandhi’s autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Fine in the rare original dust jacket, which is in very good condition. Translated by Mahadev Desai.

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-134231

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Darwin, Charles

The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication.

New York: Orange Judd & Company, 1868.

First edition of Darwin’s hypothesis of pangenesis. Octavo, original publisher’s green cloth with gilt titles to the spine, illustrated with numerous in-text illustrations and a chart. Pre...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-137161

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Longford, Elizabeth. [Winston Churchill]

Winston Churchill: Authorized by the Winston Churchill Foundation.

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1974.

First edition of Elizabeth Longford’s photographic retrospective of the life of Sir Winston Churchill, authorized by the Winston Churchill Foundation. Quarto, bound in three quarters morocco by...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-139533

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Hill, Ralph Nading. [Ronald Reagan]

Robert Fulton and the Steamboat.

New York: Random House, 1954.

First edition of the author’s compelling work on the inventor of the world’s first commercially successful steamboat. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated by Lee Ames....

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-137258

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Capote, Truman

One Christmas.

New York: Ladies' Home Journal, 1982.

First separate edition of this work by Capote, an offprint put out by the Ladies’ Home Journal in advance of the story’s appearance in the December 1982 issue. Octavo, original wrappers as...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-109651

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Schmookler, Paul and Ingrid V. Sils

Forgotten Flies.

Millis, MA: The Complete Sportsman, 1999.

First edition of this tribute to the humble craft of American fly tying. Folio, original black cloth, illustrated with full color paintings and photographs taken by the authors throughout. Boldly sign...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-147042

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Caldwell, Erskine

Original Typescript for The Man Who Looked Like Himself. [with] Kneel to the Rising Sun: and Other Stories.

New York: The Viking Press, 1935.

Rare original typescript of Erskine Caldwell’s The Man Who Looked Like Himself with a first edition of Kneel to the Rising Sun: and Other Stories. Octavo, original typescript with holograph emen...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-147684

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Robuchon, Joel with Catherine Michel

Ma Cuisine Pour Vous: Les Recettes Originales de Joel Robuchon.

Paris: Robert Laffont, 1986.

First edition of Robuchon’s classic cook book. Octavo, original pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with full-page color photographs by Corrinne Ryman and Pierre Cabannes. Lengthi...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-139903

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