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    Bread Givers.

    Yezierska, Anzia

    Bread Givers.

    Garden City, NY : Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925.

    First edition of the author’s classic novel of Jewish immigrants. Octavo, original cloth. In fine condition. An exceptional example.
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    $600.00 Item Number: RRB-82178
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    The Theban Plays.

    Sophocles. With a new translation by EF Walting [Raymond Chandler]

    The Theban Plays.

    Great Britain: Penguin Books, 1947.

    First Penguin Classics edition of the thrilling trilogy about the fate of the royal family Thebes. 16mo, original wrappers. From the library of Raymond Chandler with his library stamp to the front fre...
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    $600.00 Item Number: RRB-149033
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    Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories.

    Geisel, Theodor Seuss. [Dr. Seuss]

    Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories.

    New York: Random House, 1958.

    First edition, first printing of this collection of three of Seuss’s most memorable tales with the 1950, 1951 and 1958 copyright dates. In a first issue dust jacket with thumbnails of fourteen p...
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    $600.00 Item Number: RRB-149502
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    Dramatis Personae.

    Browning, Robert

    Dramatis Personae.

    London: Chapman and Hall, 1864.

    First edition of Browning’s popular poetry collection. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition. Ownership inscription. Small chip to the front free endpaper. With a note from H. Sotheran...
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    $600.00 Item Number: RRB-124109
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    Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe.

    Flagg, Fannie

    Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe.

    New York: Random House, 1987.

    First edition of this classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Jerry Ann Fannie Flagg.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Ja...
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    $600.00 Item Number: RRB-125782
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    Vidal, Gore

    1876: A Novel.

    New York : Random House, 1976.

    First edition of this classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the “Kit love Gore.” The recipient, Katherine “Kit” Vidal was Eugene Vidal’s secon...
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    $600.00 Item Number: RRB-131323
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    The Great White Hope: A Play.

    Sackler, Howard. [Jack Johnson]

    The Great White Hope: A Play.

    New York: The Dial Press, Inc, 1968.

    First edition of the author’s Pulitzer and Tony award-winning play based on the career of heavyweight champion Jack Johnson, basis for the 1970 film. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, i...
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    $600.00 Item Number: RRB-140735
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    History.

    Lowell, Robert

    History.

    New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973.

    First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Charles Skaggs. Housed in a custom half morocco slip...
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    $600.00 Item Number: RRB-143031
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    Kenneth Roberts Signed Letter Collection.

    Roberts, Kenneth

    Kenneth Roberts Signed Letter Collection.

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    Collection of typed letters signed by American author Kenneth Roberts. The collection includes two typed letters signed by Roberts and addressed to Malcolm Decker dated May 21, 1937 and May 16, 1946....
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    $600.00 Item Number: RRB-114028
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    What Shall We Do?

    Tolstoy, Leo

    What Shall We Do?

    London: The Free Age Press, n.d..

    The Free Age Press edition of Tolstoy’s critique of social conditions in Russia. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition. Rare.
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    $600.00 Item Number: RRB-127628
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    Farewell, Aggie Weston.

    Causley, Charles

    Farewell, Aggie Weston.

    Aldington: The Hand and Flower Press, 1951.

    First edition of Causley’s first collection of poems. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “for Philip Abrams from Charles Causley Novem...
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    $600.00 Item Number: RRB-128138
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    Harry Potter and the Goblet Of Fire.

    Rowling, J.K

    Harry Potter and the Goblet Of Fire.

    London: Bloombsbury, 2000.

    First edition of Rowling’s fourth book in the Harry Potter series. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Cover illustration by Giles Greenfield. Cover design by Richard Horn...
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    $600.00 Item Number: RRB-152071
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    From the South Seas: Studies of Adolescence and Sex in Primitive Societies.

    Mead, Margaret

    From the South Seas: Studies of Adolescence and Sex in Primitive Societies.

    New York: William Morrow and Company, 1939.

    First edition, third printing of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Hardin S. Rarny Margaret Mead May 6, 1946....
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    $600.00 Item Number: RRB-143499
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    John le Carré Annotated Page From The Constant Gardener.

    LE CARRÉ, John

    John le Carré Annotated Page From The Constant Gardener.

    :, November 12, 2020.

    Rare annotated page from the author’s classic spy thriller. Octavo, one page on the first page of Chapter 19 of ‘The Constant Gardener,’ annotated by the author around the chapter he...
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    $600.00 Item Number: RRB-146559
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    A Gentleman In Moscow.

    Towles, Amor

    A Gentleman In Moscow.

    New York: Viking, 2016.

    First edition of the New York Times bestselling author’s second novel. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Amor Towles on the title page and with his custom-designed stamp of the Kremlin o...
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    $600.00 Item Number: RRB-149445
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    The King of the Golden River.

    Ruskin, John. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham

    The King of the Golden River.

    London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1932.

    Signed limited edition. Octavo, original limp vellum, gilt titles and decoration to front cover, illustrated endpapers, top edge gilt, color frontispiece and three plates, illustrations in the text, a...
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    $600.00 Item Number: RRB-117643
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    The Savage Detectives.

    Bolano, Roberto

    The Savage Detectives.

    New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.

    First edition of this modern classic, which was named one of the New York Times’ 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by the translator Natasha Wimmer on the...
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    $600.00 Item Number: RRB-146485
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    The Time I Played With Vardon.

    Vardon, Harry) Edgar Guest

    The Time I Played With Vardon.

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    Rare original broadside poem by Edgar Guest on golfer Harry Vardon. A photograph of Vardon with a putter and the poem by Edgar Albert Guest is below. Guest who was popular poet in the 20th century and...
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    $600.00 Item Number: RRB-100920
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    Vidal, Gore

    1876: A Novel.

    New York : Random House, 1976.

    First edition of this classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the “Valerie love Gore.” The recipient, Valerie Gore was the author’s sister. Vida...
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    $600.00 Item Number: RRB-126331
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    The Blackboard Jungle.

    Hunter, Evan. [Ed McBain]

    The Blackboard Jungle.

    New York: Simon and Schuster, 1954.

    First edition of the author’s definitive 1954 novel dealing with juvenile crime and the New York City public school system, adapted into the award-winning film of the same name. Octavo, original...
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    $600.00 Item Number: RRB-137332
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    Casebook of the Black Widowers.

    Asimov, Isaac

    Casebook of the Black Widowers.

    Garden City, NY: Published For The Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1980.

    First edition of the third book in Asimov’s Black Widowers series with the publisher’s “With Compliments of Doubleday & Company, Inc.” stamp to the pastedown. Octavo, origi...
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    $600.00 Item Number: RRB-142881
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    Cigar Aficionado’s World of Cigars.

    Shanken, Marvin R

    Cigar Aficionado’s World of Cigars.

    Philadelphia: Courage Books, 1996.

    First edition, early printing of this work by the legendary founder of Cigar Aficionado. Quarto, original boards, illustrated. Boldly signed by Marvin R. Shanken on the title page. Fine in a near fine...
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    $600.00 Item Number: RRB-150155
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    Points of Humour.

    Cruikshank, George

    Points of Humour.

    London: Published by C. Baldwyn, 1822-23.

    First edition of this series of comic illustrations. Octavo, two parts, original publisher’s wrappers, illustrated throughout with twenty hand-colored plates, the first part having eight duplica...
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    $600.00 Item Number: RRB-148890
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    “Thy Servant A Dog” Told by Boots.

    Kipling, Rudyard

    “Thy Servant A Dog” Told by Boots.

    New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1930.

    First edition of Kipling’s beloved children’s classic, as told by Boots the dog. Octavo, rebound in new boards with gilt titles to the spine, top edge gilt, illustrated by Marguerite Kirmse, frontispi...
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    $600.00 Item Number: RRB-123470
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