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St. Marylebone Air-Raid Precautions Bulletin: July-August, 1939.

London: Air-Raid Precautions Dept., 1939.

First edition of this World War II wartime pamphlet. Octavo, original blue wrappers. In very good condition with sunning to the extremities. Rare.

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-148103

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Herbert, Frank; Harlan Ellison; Keith Laumer; Poul Anderson; Gordon Dickson

Five Fates.

New York: Paperback Library, 1971.

Paperback Library edition of this science fiction anthology extravaganza by five legendary authors. Octodecimo, original pictorial wrappers. Boldly signed by Frank Herbert above his name on page 58 wh...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-150256

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Day, Francis

British and Irish Salmonidae.

London: Williams and Norgate, 1887.

First edition of this comprehensive guide to salmon and trout species in Britain and Ireland. Imperial octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the spine, ruling to the front and r...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-150415

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Hardy, Thomas

The Mayor of Casterbridge.

New York: The Heritage Press, 1964.

The Heritage Press edition of Thomas Hardy’s tenth published novel. Octavo, bound in three quarters modern morocco over cloth covered boards by Morrell with gilt titles to the spine in six compartment...

$550.00 Item Number: RRB-151173

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New Orleans Souvenir Album and Travel Brochure Collection.

: Various, 1938-1960.

Rare collection of 5 souvenir albums and nine pictorial travel brochures printed between 1938 and 1960. The souvenir albums include a “Souvenir Condensed History of New Orleans for the Tourist...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-117352

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Groening, Matt

Love is Hell.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1986.

Special New Mini-Jumbo edition of this comical cartoon book that were the source material for The Simpsons by the creator of ‘The Simpsons’ and ‘Futurama.’ Oblong quarto, origi...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-146908

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Herbert, Frank

The Worlds of Frank Herbert.

New York: Berkley Publishing Corporation, 1977.

Berkley Medallion edition of this collection of nine short stories by the author of Dune. Octodecimo, original pictorial wrappers. Boldly signed by Frank Herbert on the title page beneath his name. In...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-150258

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Pistone, Joe and Charles Brandt

Donnie Brasco: Unfinished Business.

Philadelphia: Running Press, 2007.

First edition of this account of the FBI agent’s undercover operation. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by Joe Pistone (Donnie...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-147903

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Robinson, Edwin Arlington

The Children of the Night: A Book of Poems.

Boston: Richard G. Badger & Company, 1897.

First edition, one of only 500 copies of Robinson’s second collection of poems, including “Richard Cory”, “Reuben Bright”, and “Luke Havergal”. Duodecimo, ori...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-148934

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Keynes, John Maynard [J.M.]

A Revision of the Treaty. Being A Sequel To The Economic Consequences of the Peace.

London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1922.

First edition of Keynes’ classic work. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. In near fine condition.

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-151417

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Kasparov, Garry

Child of Change: An Autobiography.

London: Hutchinson , 1987.

First edition of this chess legend’s autobiography. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Garry Kasparov on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-5392

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Godey, Louis Antoine

Godey’s Lady’s Book for 1850.

Philadelphia: L.A. Godey, 1850.

Finely bound example of this 19th-century American magazine known for its collection of poetry, illustrations, and articles by prominent female authors and artists. Octavo, volume 40, bound in three q...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-149127

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Paine, Albert Bigelow [Mark Twain; Samuel L. Clemens]

Mark Twain’s Letters.

New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1917.

First limited edition of this seminal documentary collection on Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Octavo, two volumes, original publisher’s half-cloth with paper titles, frontispieces, illustrated throu...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-150662

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Hardy, Thomas; Clare Leighton [Illustrator]

The Return of the Native.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1929.

Macmillan signed limited edition of Hardy’s sixth published novel. Octavo, bound in half vellum over boards with gilt titles to the spine, top edge gilt, frontispiece, with black and white woodcut ill...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-148848

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Cooke, John Esten

Wearing of the Gray; Being Personal Portraits, Scenes and Adventures of the War.

Augusta, Georgia: Southern Publishing Company, 1870.

First edition of this collection of experiences during the Civil War. Octavo, bound in three quarters calf over marbled boards with gilt titles to the spine in four compartments within gilt bands, mor...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-150356

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Schofield, Victoria [Madeleine Albright]

Kashmir In Conflict: India, Pakistan and the Unending War.

New York: I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 2010.

First printing of the revised edition of the comprehensive historical and political analysis of the Kashmir conflict. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by author on the...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-149093

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Kean, Thomas H. and Lee H. Hamilton [Alvin S. Felzenberg]

Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2006.

Signed limited first edition of the Easton Press edition of this work by the co-chairmen of the 9/11 Commission. Octavo, original black leather with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compart...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-149779

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Hartmann, William K.; [James Lovell]

A Traveler’s Guide to Mars: The Mysterious Landscapes of the Red Planet.

New York: Workman Publishing, 2003.

First edition of this complete and accessible guidebook to Mars. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, illustrated with color photographs and a folding map of Martian markings charted by Earth-based te...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-147320

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Didion, Joan

Blue Nights.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.

First edition of this intensely personal and moving account of Joan Didion’s thoughts, fears, and doubts regarding having children, illness and growing old. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly s...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-116868

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Miller, Merle [Betty Ford]

Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman.

New York: Berkley Publishing Corporation, 1974.

First edition, early printing of this compelling biography of the 33rd president of the United States. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed to Betty Ford on the front free endpaper,...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-148575

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[TAKEJIRŌ, Hasegawa]

The Ogre’s Arm.

Tokyo: Hasegawa Takejirō, 1898.

First edition of volume eighteen in Hasegawa Takejirō’s Japanese Fairy Tale Series. Duodecimo, original pictorial wrappers, bound in color printed crepe-paper, illustrated throughout with color woodcu...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-151404

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Foer, Jonathan Safran [Barbra Streisand] [Madeleine K. Albright]

We Are The Weather: Saving The Planet Begins At Breakfast.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.

First edition of this urgent work on global warming. Octavo, original publisher’s boards, bookplate to the front pastedown from “The Private Collection of Secretary Madeleine K. Albright.” Accom...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-147595

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Kaplan, Robert D. [Madeleine Albright]

In Europe’s Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond.

New York : Random House , 2016.

First edition of this travelogue that examines the complex history and politics of Eastern Europe. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth, Association copy, inscribed by author on the front fre...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-149036

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Guns, Joseph. [Translator]

The Form of Daily Prayers According to the Custom of the German and Polish Jews. [Hebrew Prayer Book].

Vienna: Published by Jos. Schlesinger, 1857.

First edition of Joseph Guns’ translation of the primary prayers of the German and Polish Jews. 12 mo, original mounted bone onlays over celluloid boards, elaborately decorated front panel with...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-136085

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