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Lee, Ang and James Schamus. [Sigourney Weaver]

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: A Portrait of the Ang Lee Film Including the Complete Screenplay.

New York: Newmarket Press, 2000.

First edition of the book companion to the epic Academy Award-winning film. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by director Ang Lee on the front free endpaper, “To...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-123591

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Poe, Edgar Allan

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe.

Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1875-1881.

Finely bound edition of the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe. Octavo, four volumes bound in three quarter calf over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147262

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Buck, Pearl S

The Good Earth.

New York: The John Day Company, 1931.

First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and masterpiece. First issue with “flees” for “fleas” on page 100, line 17. Octavo, bound in full morocco by th...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-143665

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Brokaw, Tom [Gerald R. Ford]

The Greatest Generation.

New York: Random House, 1998.

First edition of this instant classic and runaway bestseller that changed the way we saw World War II and an entire generation of Americans. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148406

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Chandler, Raymond

Raymond Chandler Autograph Postcards Signed.

:, 1957.

Rare autograph postcards signed by Raymond Chandler to his secretary Jean Fracasse and her son Vincent. Duodecimo, two postcards of Palm Springs, California, dated 21 November 1957. Chandler and Vince...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147854

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Kane, Elisha Kent

Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, In the Years 1853,’54,’55.

Philadelphia: Childs and Peterson, 1856.

First edition of this firsthand account to search for the lost British explorer Sir John Franklin. Octavo, two volumes, bound in contemporary three quarters close-grain green morocco over marbled boar...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150953

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[Kerouac, Jack]

1964 Columbia Review.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1964.

Rare May 1964 issue of Columbia Review, personally owned by Columbia University alum and Beatnik writer, Jack Kerouac. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, volume XLIV number 2, illustrated, with the...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151757

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Simon, Andre L

The History of the Wine Trade in England. Volumes I and II.

London: Wyman & Sons, 1906-07.

First editions of Simon’s landmark work. Octavo, original cloth, two volumes. Both volumes are inscribed by Andre Simon, with volume one inscribed twice by him. In near fine condition.

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-96872

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McPherson, James M. [Ken Burns]

Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

First edition, early printing of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original blue cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150300

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Gandhi, Mohandas K. [Mahatma]

Young India Second Series 1924-1926.

New York: The Viking Press, 1927.

First edition of the second series of the writings of Gandhi. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. Gandhi founded and published the weekly periodical in English, Young...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-142054

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Di Maggio, Joe [DiMaggio]

Baseball for Everyone: A Treasury of Baseball Lore and Instruction for Fans and Players.

New York: Whittlesey House, 1948.

Rare first edition of this instructive and entertaining inside story of baseball. Octavo, original cloth, with black and white illustrations and photographs. Presentation copy, boldly inscribed by Joe...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148384

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Walker, Alice

The Color Purple.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982.

First edition, early printing of Walker’s third novel, which made her the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jack...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-146798

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Kipling, Rudyard

The Betrothed.

:, .

Rare pamphlet of Kipling’s humorous and ironic poem. Duodecimo, original wrappers, frontispiece of Kipling, pictorial initials, six pages. In very good condition. Rare with none appearing at auc...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149559

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Keynes, John Maynard [J.M.] [John Neville Keynes]

The Economic Consequences of the Peace.

London: Macmillan & Company, 1919.

First British edition of the best-selling book that established John Maynard Keynes’ reputation as a leading economist. Octavo, original blue cloth with gilt titles and ruling to the spine. Insc...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151337

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Doyle, Arthur Conan

Arthur Conan Doyle Autograph Note Signed.

:, c. 1919.

Rare handwritten note signed by Arthur Conan Doyle concerning spiritualism. One page on plain paper, not date. The letter reads, “Such cases are unhappily not very rare. For this reason people s...

$1,760.00 Item Number: RRB-152085

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Beard, Peter; Isak Dinesen [Karen Blixen]; Kamante

Longing For Darkness: Kamante’s Tales From Out of Africa.

New York: Harcourt Brace, 1975.

First edition, early printing of this collaboration between the famed photographer and author. Quarto, original boards with paper onlay featuring a portrait of Blixen to the front panel, illustrated w...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-141122

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Introduction by O.M. Green

Shanghai of To-day-A Souvenir Album of Thirty-Eight Vandyke Prints of the Model Settlement.

Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, 1927.

First edition of this scarce pictorial album of the views of Shanghai. Quarto, original cloth-backed flexible boards, with 38 tipped-in photographs, front stamped and lettered in red on a gilt backgro...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-49089

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Herbert, Frank

Analog: Science Fiction and Fact. [Containing the First Appearance of Children of Dune: Part Two.]

New York: Analog: Science Fiction and Fact, 1976.

First edition of Analog: Science Fiction and Fact magazine containing the first appearance of the second part of Frank Herbert’s Children of Dune, later published as a novel. Octavo, issue February 19...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-150280

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Eaker, Ira C.; James M. Gavin; Alfred M. Gruenther; Earle E. - Pat' Partridge; Elwood - Pete' Quesada; Ralph C. Smith; Dean C. Strother; Maxwell D. Taylor; James Van Fleet; Matthew B. Ridgway; Lauris Norstad

Souvenir Typescript of the “Declaration of War on Germany December 11, 1941” Signed by Eleven World War II Generals.

:, 1941.

Souvenir typescript of the the United States’ “Declaration of War on Germany December 11, 1941” signed by eleven World War II generals. One page, typed. Boldly signed with their rank...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-151560

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Herzog, Maurice

Annapurna: The First 8,000 Metre Peak (26,493 Feet).

London: Jonathan Cape, 1952.

First edition in English, preceding the American edition by one year of one of the best-selling mountaineering books of all-time. Octavo, original blue cloth, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-135187

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French Book of Prayer.

Paris:, c. 1697.

Rare late 17th century Book of Prayer. Octavo, bound in one quarter vellum over speckled red boards with a hand painted coat of arms to the front panel, all edges red, illustrated with two engravings,...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-116083

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Rendell, Ruth

A Judgement in Stone.

London: Hutchinson, 1977.

First edition of the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Lengthily signed by the author on the title page with a transcription from the opening line of this work, “Eunice Parchman kill...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-44083

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Durrell, Lawrence

Black Book: An Agnon.

Paris: The Obelisk Press, 1938.

First edition, first issue of the first volume in the Villa Seurat Series. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition. A very sharp example, uncommon in this condition.

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-119554

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Lee, Harper

To Kill A Mockingbird.

New York: HarperCollins, 1995.

First edition, early printing of the 35th Anniversary edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title pa...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-144177

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