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The Structure of Matter.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1949.

First edition, second printing of this introductory volume on the properties of matter and their systematic interpretation by quantum mechanics. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated w...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-146896

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Fleming, Ian

Octopussy and the Living Daylights.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1965.

First edition of the fourteenth novel in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by legendary director of the film John Glen on the title page. During the 1960s and 1970...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-150983

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Fonda, Peter; Dennis Hopper; Terry Southern

Easy Rider.

New York: Signet, 1969.

First edition of the complete script, with a selection of black white and color stills, interviews and articles. Octavo, original wrappers as issued, illustrated. Lengthily inscribed by Dennis Hopper...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151735

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Williams, Tennessee

The Rose Tattoo.

New York: New Directions, 1951.

First edition of one of Williams’ most beautiful and powerful plays. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Tennessee Williams on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket desi...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-143108

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Kline, Fred; [Jack Kerouac]

I, DODO: A Poem Cycle.

San Francisco: Double-H Press, 1968.

First edition of this charming book of poetry; from the library of ‘On the Road’ author Jack Kerouac. Sextodecimo, original wrappers. The first printing of 2000 copies. Association copy, i...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-146634

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Warhol, Andy

Andy Warhol’s Exposures.

New York: Andy Warhol Books/ Grosset & Dunlap, 1979.

First edition of Warhol’s candid and engaging photobook. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, boldly inscribed by Andy Warhol on the half-title, who has added a large sketch of a he...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-148762

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Garcia Marquez, Gabriel

La Hojarasca.

Buenos Aires: Editorial Suamerica, 1970.

First Argentinian edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s first book. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez on the front free endpaper. From the library of...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-60052

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Williams, Tennessee

The Night of the Iguana.

New York: New Directions, 1962.

First edition of this powerfully compassionate play. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruli...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149896

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Greene, Graham

The Honorary Consul.

London: The Bodley Head Ltd, 1973.

First edition of one of Greene’s own favorite works. Octavo, original green cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Philip with love, from Graham...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-137548

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Ginsberg, Allen (John Clellon Holmes)

Iron Horse.

Toronto: The Coach House Press, 1972.

First edition of Ginsberg’s beatific visionary poem, an important part of his The Fall of America: Poems of These States sequence. Oblong octavo, original illustrated metallic wrappers. Associat...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-96567

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Seale, Bobby

Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton.

New York: Random House, 1970.

First edition of this classic work by the co-founder of the Black Panthers. Octavo, original illustrated cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “2-28-01 To Joe...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-148354

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wa Thiong'o, Ngugi [Ngugi, James]

Petals of Blood.

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1978.

First American edition of “the definitive African book of the twentieth century” (Moses Isegawa). Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper,...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-120878

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Warhol, Andy

Andy Warhol’s Exposures.

London: Hutchinson, 1979.

First British edition of Warhol’s candid and engaging photobook. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, boldly inscribed by Andy Warhol on the half-title, who has added a large sketch...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149403

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Sacks, Oliver

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales.

New York: Summit Books, 1985.

First edition of the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For John Roger, With kind regars Oliver Sacks 1/15....

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-130831

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Faulkner, William

The Reivers: A Reminiscence.

New York: Random House, 1962.

Signed limited first edition of the author’s second Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original cloth, original acetate. One of 500 numbered copies, this is number 407. Fine in the original a...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151601

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Mitchell, Margaret

Margaret Mitchell Signed Letters.

:, 1941-42.

Two letters signed in full by Margaret Mitchell, author on the classic Gone With the Wind. Both letters addressed to Rear Admiral Edward J. Marquart and his wife, one dated December 26, 1941, the othe...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-21082

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Paton, Alan

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

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948.

First American edition of Paton’s classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed and dated by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “Alan Paton Johannesburg May...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-43091

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Waugh, Evelyn

Scoop.

London: Chapman & Hall, 1964.

First revised edition of Waugh’s satire of sensationalist journalism. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Patrick, with regar...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-95271

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Maas, Peter [Al Pacino]

Serpico. The Cop Who Defied the System.

New York: The Viking Press, 1973.

First edition of this classic work, basis for the film starring Academy Award-winning actor Al Pacino. Octavo, original half cloth, with four pages of illustrations. Boldly signed by the author on the...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-147477

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Hughes, Langston and Milton Meltzer

A Pictorial History of the Negro in America.

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1956.

First edition of this important compilation on the history of African Americans. Quarto, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Langston Hughes and Milton Meltzer on the front free endpape...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-147261

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Jones, James

From Here to Eternity.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1951.

First edition of the author’s first book, one of the great novels of World War II. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartm...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-148705

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Simpson, George Gaylord

The Principles of Classification and a Classification of Mammals.

New York: Published by the Order of the Trustees, 1945.

Rare first edition of Simpson’s classic work on mammalian taxonomy. Quarto, original wrappers as issued. Signed by the paleontologist on the front panel. Ownership inscriptions. With a note of p...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-129508

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[Kerouac, Jack; Jean-Pierre Lemaire]

RUpTure.

Paris, France: Printed at 21 Rue de Saintonge, 1965.

Rare vintage January 1965 issue of RUpTure, a left-leaning French-language literary magazine, gifted to and personally owned by Beatnik writer Jack Kerouac. Oblong octavo, written in French, original...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-150642

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