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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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Kipling, Rudyard

Many Inventions.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1913.

The Bombay edition of this collection of Kipling poems and tales. Octavo, bound in three-quarters morocco over cloth covered boards by Morrell with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartme...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-151115

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Hussein, Taha

The Stream of Days: A Student at the Azhar.

Cairo: Al-Maaref Printing & Publishing House, 1943.

Rare first edition (preceding the first British edition) of the autobiography of one of the most influential 20th-century Egyptian writers, translated from the Arabic by Hilary Wayment. Octavo, origin...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-146473

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Albach, J. S

Heilige Anklänge: Gebete für Katholische Christen. [Sacred Echoes: Prayers for Catholic Christians].

Germany: Julius Muller, 1850.

Rare 19th century Catholic prayer book in the German language. Octodecimo, bound in leather with stylized botanical designs stamped in blind to the spine, front and rear panels, metallic crucifixion o...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-147277

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Bloch, Robert

Twilight Zone: The Movie.

New York: Warner Books, Inc , 1983.

First edition of the novelization of the classic film. 12mo, original pictorial wrappers, illustrated with a 16-page insert of black and white photographs from the film. Boldly signed by Robert Bloch...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-148054

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Priestley, J.B. [Raymond Chandler]

Bright Day.

New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1946.

First edition of Priestley’s profound take on nostalgia and social commentary. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. From the library of Raymond Chandler with his library stamp to the front...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-149019

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Sartre, Jean-Paul

Being and Nothingness.

New York: The Philosophical Library, 1956.

First edition of Sartre’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth with titles and vignette stamped in black. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-151539

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Gladwell, Malcolm

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking.

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2005.

First edition, early printing of this exploration of the power of “thin-slicing”- the unconscious mind’s ability to find patterns and make rapid, accurate decisions based on minimal...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-151831

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Allison, Graham [Madeleine K. Albright]

Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe.

New York: Times Books, 2004.

First edition of this informative work on nuclear terrorism and how to prevent it. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth, bookplate to the front pastedown from “The Private Collection of Secre...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-147591

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Jr. Dizard, Wilson [Madeleine K. Albright]

Digital Diplomacy: U.S. Foreign Policy In The Information Age.

Washington, D.C: Library of Congress, 2001.

First edition of how the digital revolution has fundamentally reshaped U.S. foreign policy and diplomacy. Octavo, original publisher’s wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by author on the fro...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-141104

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Herndon, Angelo

Let Me Live.

New York: Random House, 1937.

First edition of this autobiography of Angelo Herndon. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, top stain black, frontispiece of Angelo Herndon, illustrated with three black and white photographs. Fi...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-148658

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Moss, Stirling

Le Mans ’59.

London: Cassell and Company Ltd, 1959.

First edition of this firsthand experience of the 1959 24 Hours of Le Mans. Octavo, original publisher’s black cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Signed by Stirling Moss on the...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-149314

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Hirsch, James S. [Willie Mays]

Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend.

New York: Scribner, 2010.

First edition of this definitive biography authorized by Willie Mays and written by Wall Street Journal and New York Times journalist James Hirsch. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with black...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-149847

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Frost, Robert

A Masque of Mercy.

New York : Henry Holt & Company, 1947.

Signed limited edition of Frost’s play of the purported last chapter in the book of Job. Royal octavo, original half cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. One of 751 numbered copi...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-147534

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Manstein, Erich Von

Lost Victories.

Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1958.

First edition in English of this memoir of a German field marshal during World War II. Octavo, bound in full modern morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-148595

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Early English Prose Romances I-III: Robert the Deuyll, Robin Hood, and Fryer Bacon.

Edinburgh: Otto Schulze & Co, 1904.

Finely bound edition of this collection of three prose romances from early English literature. Quarto, three volumes, original publisher’s half-cloth, title page vignettes in red and black, pict...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-149489

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Greene, Graham

Brighton Rock.

London: William Heinemann LTD, 1938.

First British edition of Greene’s chilling expose of violence and gang warfare in the pre-war underworld is a classic of its kind. Octavo, bound in half goatskin over cloth boards with gilt titl...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-149699

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Malkiel, Burton G. and J.P. Mei

Global Bargain Hunting: The Investor’s Guide to Profits in Emerging Markets.

New York : Simon & Schuster, 1998.

First edition of this international finance guide by the bestselling author of A Random Walk Down Wall Street, one of the most influential investment books ever written. Octavo, original publisher’s h...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-150678

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