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Golf Is My Game.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1960.

First edition of this classic golfing technique manual. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Freeman With all sor...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151497

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Garcia Marquez, Gabriel

Love in the Time of Cholera.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1988.

First British edition of Garcia Marquez’s classic work, which ranks as one of the great novels of the last half of the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Gabriel Garcia...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-67079

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Thomas, Isaiah

The History of Printing in America.

Worcester: Isaiah Thomas, 1810.

First edition of this work by the famed printer. Octavo, bound in contemporary sheep, morocco spine labels, illustrated with five engraved plates (four folding). Gift inscription of Thomas’s gra...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-133261

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Shaw, George Bernard

The Adventures of The Black Girl in Her Search For God.

Constable & Company Limited: London, 1932.

First edition of George Bernard Shaw’s short story collection, including the satirical allegorical title story: The Adventures of The Black Girl in Her Search For God. Octavo, original illustrat...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-96134

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King-Smith, Dick

The Sheep-Pig.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1983.

First edition, first issue of the basis for the Oscar-winning film ‘Babe’. Octavo, original cloth. Illustrated by Mary Rayner. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, “With...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-131618

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Rowling, J.K

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

New York: Arthur A. Levine Books: An Imprint of Scholastic Press, 1999.

First American edition, early printing of the second book in Rowling’s best-selling Harry Potter series. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated by Mary Grandpré. Presentation copy, inscribed b...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149252

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Levitt, Helen

Here and There.

New York: Powerhouse, 2004.

First edition of collection of this collection of Levitt’s street photography. Oblong octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author to fellow photographer Jeff W...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-118052

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Paton, Alan

Cry, the Beloved Country: A Story of Comfort in Desolation.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1948.

First edition of Paton’s classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Alan Paton on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, contemporary inscription to the front free...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151373

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Jones, Robert T. [Bobby]

Golf Is My Game.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1960.

First edition of this classic golfing technique manual. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Arthur and Carrie, w...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151490

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Walker, Alice

The Color Purple.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982.

First edition of Walker’s classic third novel, in which she became the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by A...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151794

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Jagger, Mick; Keith Richards; Brian Jones; Bill Wyman; Charlie Watts

1963 Rolling Stones Signed Decca Records Publicity Card.

: Decca Records, [1963].

Early Rolling Stones advertising card issued by Decca Records in promotion of the group’s first two singles: “Come On” and “I Wanna Be Your Man.” The front of the card fe...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-143818

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Mishima, Yukio

The Sound of Waves.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956.

First edition in English, preceding the British first by one year of “this classic work, its action might take place at any point across a thousand years” (The New York Times). Octavo, ori...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-131297

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Dreiser, Theodore

The Financier.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1912.

First editions of the first novel of the author’s acclaimed Trilogy of Desire. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with a few chips. Housed in a custom half morocco clam...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-150086

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Steinbeck, John

Speech Accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature.

New York: The Viking Press, 1962.

First edition of Steinbeck’s Nobel Lecture. Octavo, original wrappres. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For the Waldmanns with pleasure John Steinbeck.”...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-122693

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Shipley, Joseph T. [James Joyce]

King John.

New York: Greenberg, Publisher, Inc, 1925.

First limited edition of this classic work inspired by King John. Octavo, original half-cloth. One of 500 numbered copies, this is number 8. Association copy, inscribed by the author to fellow writer...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151568

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Harris, Thomas

Red Dragon.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1981.

First edition of Harris’ second novel. Octavo, original half cloth, frontispiece by William Blake. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page,...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-141310

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Sagan, Carl and Ann Druyan

Comet.

New York: Random House, 1985.

First edition of this work which describes the scientific nature of comets, as well as their varying roles and perceptions throughout history. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. The dedic...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-50082

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Stoker, Bram

Under The Sunset.

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1882.

Rare second edition of Bram Stoker’s first book. Octavo, original publisher’s green cloth lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, patterned endpapers, with illustrations by W. Fitzgerald and W....

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-146259

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Green, Hannah [Joanne Greenberg]

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964.

First edition of the author’s semi-autobiographical modern classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Lengthily signed by the author as Joanne Greenberg and her pseudonym “Hannah Green”,...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-106831

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Yarrow, David

Wild Encounters: Iconic Photographs of the World’s Vanishing Animals and Cultures.

New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 2016.

First Deluxe limited edition of this unparalleled collection of high-art photography of fauna and cultures from around the world with a foreword by HRH the Duke of Cambridge, Prince William. Presentat...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-148079

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Friedman, Milton & Rose

Free To Choose: A Personal Statement.

New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1980.

First edition of Friedmans’ persuasive argument for the free market, based on the PBS series Free to Choose. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Milton Friedman on the title page. Fine...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-133148

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Brown, Hallie Q

Pen Pictures of Pioneers of Wilberforce.

Xenia, OH: The Aldine Publishing Company, 1937.

First edition of this snapshot of early life at Wilberforce, Ohio by the legendary African-American educator and activist. Small octavo, original green pictorial cloth, illustrated with black and whit...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-146641

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Downs, Laura Lee [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

Writing Gender History.

New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2010.

First edition of the second edition of this scholarly work about the historical theories of women and gender. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-147660

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Carson, Rachel

The Edge of the Sea.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1955.

First edition of Carson’s classic work, which explores marine life that takes us into “a truly extraordinary world” (The Atlantic Monthly). Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-150510

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