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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...

$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...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-126331

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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...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-137332

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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...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-142881

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King, Stephen

Stephen King Signed Photograph.

:, November 12, 1989.

Photograph of Stephen King, the “king of horror”, boldly signed by him. Octavo, one page manufactured by Kodak, glossy color photograph of Stephen King, boldly signed and dated by him in black felt ti...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-146563

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Remarque, Erich Maria

All Quiet On The Western Front.

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1929.

First American edition of this landmark novel of the 20th century. Octavo, original beige cloth. Very good in a good dust jacket with tape repair to the back panel, contemporary name to the front free...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-147451

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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...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-150155

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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...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-148890

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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...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-123470

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Herbert, Frank

Destination: Void.

New York: Berkley Publishing Corporation, 1978.

Berkley edition of this prequel to Frank Herbert’s Pandora Sequence. Octodecimo, original pictorial wrappers. Boldly signed by Frank Herbert on the title page beneath his name. In near fine cond...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-150255

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Scott, Sir Walter

Waverly Novels. [Waverley: or ‘Tis Sixty Years Since, Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, Kenilworth, The Pirate, The Fortunes of Nigel, Peveril of the Peak, Quentin Durward, St. Ronan’s Well, Redgauntlet, The Betrothed, Talisman, Woodstock, or, the Cavalier, Chronicles of the Canongate, The Fair Maid Of Perth, Anne of Geierstein.

Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1883.

The Centenary Edition of Sir Walter Scott’s Waverly Novels. Octavo, 12 volumes bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards by Robertson with burgundy morocco spine labels lettered in gilt...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-126344

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Sassoon, Siegfried

To My Mother.

London: Faber & Gwyer Limited, 1928.

The Ariel Poems edition of the poem “To My Mother” by English war poet Siegfried Sassoon. Duodecimo, original pictorial wrappers, illustrated, number 14. The Ariel Poems were a series of s...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-151492

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Smith, Nowell Charles. [C.S. Lewis].

Essays and Studies by Members of the English Association. Vol. XXVII. [Containing: Psycho-Analysis and Literary Criticism].

Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1942.

First edition of Vol. XXVII of Essays and Studies by Members of the English Association; containing C.S. Lewis’ essay Psycho-Analysis and Literary Criticism. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-137065

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Seth, Vikram

A Suitable Boy.

New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1993.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated endpapers. Boldly signed by Vikram Seth on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design and illustration by Ho...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-143819

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King, Coretta Scott

The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr.

New York: Newmarket Press, 1987.

First edition of this classic collection of the words of Dr. King, selected by Coretta Scott King. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by Coretta Scott King on the front...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-146270

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Kipling, Rudyard with Wolcott Balestier

The Naulahka: A Story of West and East.

London: William Heinemann, 1892.

First British edition of Kipling’s ambitious narrative. Octavo, original publisher’s decorative cloth. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise slipcase.

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-120549

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Didion, Joan

Democracy: A Novel.

New York : Simon & Schuster, 1984.

First edition of this gorgeously written, bitterly funny look at the relationship between politics and personal life. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Joan Didion on the front free endpap...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-150984

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Herge

The Adventures of Tintin: Destination Moon.

London: Methuen & Co, 1959.

First edition in English of Herge’s classic work. Octavo, original illustrated boards, illustrated endpapers, illustrated throughout. In near fine condition. Uncommon in this condition.

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-125499

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Heaney, Seamus

Door Into The Dark.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1969.

First American edition of the author’s second book. Octavo, original black cloth. Signed by Seamus Heaney on the title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with two closed tears t...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-151

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Cruikshank, George; Laman Blanchard [Editor]

George Cruikshank’s Omnibus.

London: Tilt and Bogue, 1842.

First edition of George Cruikshank‘s Omnibus. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Wood of London with gilt titles and floral tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-148380

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Virgil; Translated by Robert Fagles

The Aeneid of Virgil.

New York: Viking, 2006.

First edition of Fagel’s translation of Virgil’s masterpiece and widely considered the finest piece of Latin literature. Quarto, original boards, illustrated endpapers. Signed by Robert Fa...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-150141

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Kazantzakis, Nikos

Taxidevontas Aglia [England: A Travel Journal].

Athens: Pyrsos, 1941.

Rare first edition in Greek of Kazantzakis’ travelogue of England. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition with light rubbing.

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-116453

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Smiles, Samuel

Self-Help. With Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance.

London: John Murray, 1908.

Finely bound example of Smith’s best-selling work on the self-improvement; an embodiment of the ideologies of mid-Victorian liberalism. Octavo, bound in full contemporary tree calf with gilt tit...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-122411

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Un, Ko

Little Pilgrim: A Novel.

Berkeley, CA: Parallax Press, 2005.

First edition of this story of Sudhana’s passage to enlightenment. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Boldly signed by Ko Un in English and in Korean. In fine condition. Translated by Brother...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-62021

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