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The Sphinx: Golden Jubilee Book of Magic. A Selection of Tricks From the Pages of the Magazine.

New York : Sphinx Publishing Corporation, 1951.

First edition of this commemorative anthology celebrating the first fifty years of The Sphinx. Octavo, original wrappers, with black and white illustrations. In near fine condition. Compiled by Milbourne Christopher. Illustrated by Sid Lorraine. Introduction by John Mulholland.

$125.00

Item Number: RRB-150362

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Christie, Agatha

At Bertram’s Hotel.

London : The Crime Club by Collins, 1965.

First edition of this classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a good dust jacket with wear to the extremities of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Brian Russell.

$125.00

Item Number: RRB-151143

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George W. Bush Institute [Laura Bush]

We Are Afghan Women: Voices of Hope.

New York : Scribner, 2017.

First trade paperback edition, second printing of this collection of life stories of Afghan women. Octavo, original publisher’s pictorial wrappers. Boldly signed on a Laura Bush bookplate affixed to the verso of the front cover by Laura Bush in black felt tip. As First Lady of the United States alongside her husband George W. Bush,Continue reading "We Are Afghan Women: Voices of Hope."

$25.00

Item Number: RRB-151162

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Crawford, J. Marshall

Mosby and His Men: A Record of the Adventures of That Renowned Partisan Ranger, John S. Mosby.

New York : G.W. Carleton & Co., Publishers, 1867.

First edition of this record of personal recollections during the Civil War. Octavo, original publisher’s green cloth with gilt titles to the spine, floral detailing stamped in blind to the front and rear panels, frontispiece, with black and white illustrations and decorations. In very good condition.

$475.00

Item Number: RRB-150353

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Stephenson, Neal

Termination Shock.

New York : William Morrow, 2021.

First edition of this speculative science fiction novel by New York Times bestselling author Neal Stephenson. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth, cartographic endpapers. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Owen Corrigan. Author photograph by Brady Hall.

$30.00

Item Number: RRB-150689

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Raban, Jonathan

Passage to Juneau: A Sea & Its Meanings.

London : Picador, 1999.

First edition by the author described as ‘undoubtedly the finest writer afloat since Conrad’ (Geoffrey Moorhouse, Guardian). Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, with the Inside Passage North and South maps adhered to the front pastedown. Boldly signed by Jonathan Raban on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Author photograph by Marion Ettlinger.

$50.00

Item Number: RRB-151219

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Christie, Agatha

A Pocket Full of Rye.

London : The Crime Club by Collins, 1953.

First edition of Christie’s ingenious murder mystery. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket, in good condition with losses to the spine and front panel. From the collection of Dr. John Talbot Gernon.

$300.00

Item Number: RRB-149982

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Forester, C.S

Single Handed.

New York and London : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1929.

First American edition of this classic maritime adventure novel that showcases themes of duty, resilience, and individual impact during wartime. Octavo, original publisher’s full cloth, top stain blue. Near fine in a good dust jacket, losses to the front panel and spine, bookplate and inscription to the front pastedown.

$100.00

Item Number: RRB-151158

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Searle, William S

A New Form of Nervous Disease. Together with an Essay on Erythroxylon Coca.

New York : Fords, Howard, & Hulbert, 1881.

First edition of this late nineteenth-century medical work. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. In very good condition with spotting to the panels, bookplate to the front pastedown. Exceptionally rare with only one example appearing at auction in 100 years.

$2,000.00

Item Number: RRB-150347

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West, Stephen [Jonathan Edwards]

An Essay on Moral Agency: Containing Remarks on a Late Anonymous Publication, Entitled, An Examination of the Late President Edward’s Inquiry on Freedom of Will.

Salem : Printed by Thomas C. Cushing, 1794.

Second edition of this work defending Jonathan Edwards treatise Freedom of the Will. Octavo, bound in full calf with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within gilt bands, morocco spine label. In very good condition, bookplate to the front pastedown.

$375.00

Item Number: RRB-150346

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Traver, Robert [John D. Voelker]

Anatomy of a Murder.

New York : St. Martin's Press, 1959.

First book club edition of this classic work, basis for the film produced and directed by Otto Preminger, starring James Stewart and Lee Remick. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Best wishes to Rick Bohy, a fellow writer. Robert Traver (John Volker) Ishpeming May 31, 1985. ”Continue reading "Anatomy of a Murder."

$1,250.00

Item Number: RRB-150824

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Brown, Marcia

Stone Soup.

New York : Charles Scribner, 1947.

First edition [with the Scribner’s A] of the author’s classic work. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Inscribed by the author on the half title page, “To John Rogers A handy recipe- May he never go hungry Bon Appetit! Best Wishes Marcia Brown 1-5-15.” Brown has also drawn an original drawing. Very good in a veryContinue reading "Stone Soup."

$2,000.00

Item Number: RRB-150801

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Boccaccio, Giovanni

Opera Dim Giovanni Boccaccio Soprai Casi Degli Huomini Illustri. [Giovanni Boccaccio’s Work on the Cases of Illustrious Men].

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Sixteenth century edition of Giovanni Boccaccio’s Latin work on the downfalls of powerful or famous historical and biblical figures. Duodecimo, written in Italian, bound in full vellum, woodcut chapter decorations. Translated and expanded by Giuseppe Betussi of Bassano. In very good condition with light toning and soiling.

$1,200.00

Item Number: RRB-146548

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Wood, Gordon S

Power and Liberty: Constitutionalism in the American Revolution.

New York : Oxford University Press, 2021.

First edition, second printing of this work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Gordon Wood on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

$175.00

Item Number: RRB-150819

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Salinger, J.D

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction.

Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1963.

First edition of this collection of two novellas by the author of The Catcher in the Rye. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A very sharp example.

$2,500.00

Item Number: RRB-150818

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Thackeray, William Makepeace

Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero.

London : Bradbury and Evans, 1848.

First edition, first issue of Thackeray’s masterpiece. Octavo, bound in full green morocco elaborately bound by Bayntun in Cosway-style with a portrait of Thackeray inset on the front cover, elaborate gilt titles and tooling to the spine, front and rear panels, inner dentelles, raised bands, green ribbon marker, green silk moiré endpapers, all edges gilt.Continue reading "Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero."

$4,500.00

Item Number: RRB-150809

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Steinbeck, John

The Grapes of Wrath.

New York : The Viking Press, 1939.

First edition of this pivotal Pulitzer prize-winning novel, with “First Published in April 1939” on the copyright page and first edition notice on the front flap of the dust jacket. Octavo, original pictorial beige cloth, pictorial endpapers. Boldly signed by the author on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine unclipped dust jacketContinue reading "The Grapes of Wrath."

$25,000.00

Item Number: RRB-148747

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Buchan, John

Castle Gay.

London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1930.

First edition of this gripping adventure novel, the second to include Dickson McCunn. Octavo, bound in half morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles to the spine in five compartments within gilt bands. In near fine condition.

$400.00

Item Number: RRB-150775

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Hemingway, Ernest

The Old Man and the Sea First Publication in Life Magazine.

New York : Time-Life Publications, 1952.

September 1, 1952 Life magazine volume 33, number 9 with a black and white portrait of Ernest Hemingway on the cover. The issue presented for the first time and in full Hemingway’s new novel The Old Man and the Sea in a twenty page spread. Ernest Hemingway maintained a close relationship with Life magazine, whichContinue reading "The Old Man and the Sea First Publication in Life Magazine."

$600.00

Item Number: RRB-149119

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Steinbeck, John

Of Mice and Men.

New York : Covici-Friede, 1937.

First edition, first issue with the word “pendula” present on page 9 and the dot between the 8’s on p. 88 of Steinbeck’s “marvelous picture of the tragedy of loneliness” (Eleanor Roosevelt). Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. An exceptional example.

$4,200.00

Item Number: RRB-115598

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Rand, Ayn

The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism.

New York : The New American Library, 1964.

First edition of this collection of essays that sets forth the moral principles of Objectivism, Ayn Rand’s, groundbreaking philosophy. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Ayn Rand on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. With additional articles by Nathaniel Branden. One of the most uncommon Rand books toContinue reading "The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism."

$4,500.00

Item Number: RRB-150815

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Borges, Jorge Luis

Ficciones.

London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson,, 1962.

First edition in English of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Jorges Borges on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Ralph Mabey. Edited and with an introduction by Anthony Kerrigan. Rare and desirable signed.

$5,000.00

Item Number: RRB-150811

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Scott-King's Modern Europe.

Waugh, Evelyn [Daphne Fielding]

Scott-King’s Modern Europe.

London : Chapman & Hal, 1947.

First edition of this classic novella. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “Daphne with love from Evelyn Christmas 1947.” The recipient, Daphne Fielding was a fellow British author and dedicatee of Evelyn Waugh’s The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold and a closeContinue reading "Scott-King’s Modern Europe."

$2,800.00

Item Number: RRB-150292

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Christie, Agatha

4.50 from Paddington.

London : The Crime Club by Collins, 1957.

First edition of Christie’s classic murder mystery, adapted several times for television and film. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. A very bright example. From the collection of Dr. John Talbot Gernon.

$650.00

Item Number: RRB-149976

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