Yezierska, Anzia
Bread Givers: A Novel.
Garden City, NY : Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925.
First edition of the author’s classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition with light rubbing.
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Item Number: RRB-42014
Gifts - For Her
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Schreiner, Olive [as Ralph Iron]
The Story of an African Farm: A Novel.
London : Chapman and Hall, 1883.
First edition of this highspot of African literature. Octavo, original olive cloth, 2 volumes. Published under the pseudonym ‘Ralph Iron’. The entire printing of this first edition has been estimated to be about 300 copies. and most were destined to libraries. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare, especially in the original cloth.
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Item Number: RRB-30040
Thompson, Eloise; Illustrated by Hilary Knight
Eloise In Moscow.
New York : Simon and Schuster, 1959.
First edition of the fourth book in the Eloise series. Thin quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Kay Thompson on the front free endpaper. Additionally signed by illustrator, Hilary Knight. Bottom of the cloth rubbed, near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing. Illustrated by Hilary Knight.
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Item Number: RRB-29095
Kennedy, Jacqueline
Jacqueline Kennedy Signed White House Print.
1961.
White House photographic print taken in 1961 by White House photographer Cecil Stoughton. Boldly signed by Jacqueline Kennedy at the lower left. Stoughton took multiple photos in front of the White House fountains on the South Lawn when developing the 1961 Christmas Print. The final Christmas print, which showed more ducks positioned closer to the photographer,Continue reading "Jacqueline Kennedy Signed White House Print."
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Item Number: RRB-28045
Wharton, Edith
The Age of Innocence.
New York : D. Appleton, 1920.
First edition of the author’s Pulitzer-Prize winning novel. Octavo, original red cloth. A very good example with some rubbing to the bottom cloth in the rare original unrestored dust jacket with some chips and wear to the spine and panels. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare, especially in the original unrestored dustContinue reading "The Age of Innocence."
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Item Number: RRB-14040
Thompson, Kay; Illustrated by Hilary Knight
Eloise, Eloise in Paris, Eloise At Christmastime, Eloise In Moscow, Eloise Takes a Bawth.
New York : Simon and Schuster, 1955-2002.
First editions of each of the five Eloise titles. Quarto, 5 volumes. Each are signed by the illustrator, Hilary Knight. Each are near fine in very good to near fine dust jackets. A brilliant set of this timeless classic.
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Item Number: RRB-5600
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Eleanor Roosevelt Signed Christmas Card.
.
Christmas card which reads, “Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt extends her very best wishes for Christmas and the New Year.” Additionally signed above by Eleanor Roosevelt, “To ______ all my love E.R.” Matted and framed with a photograph of Eleanor Roosevelt. In fine condition. Measures 11.5 inches by 16 inches.
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Item Number: RRB-5822
Arthur, Anthony (John Updike)
Literary Feuds.
New York : St. Martins Press, 2002.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the half title page, “For John Updike, with admiration- Anthony Arthur.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Updike is featured in this volume of feuds.
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Item Number: RRB-5767
Sanger, Margaret
Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography.
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 1938.
First edition of Sanger’s autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of Sanger. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Hubert Michelman Margaret Sanger.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some small chips and wear.
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Item Number: RRB-5034
Lader, Lawrence [Margaret Sanger]
The Margaret Sanger Story.
Garden City, NY : Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1955.
First edition of the biography of the founder of the American birth-control movement. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Association copy, inscribed by Margaret Sanger on the half-title page in the year of publication, “For Alice Adams one of our Planned Parenthood Mother of four lovely children my congratulations and admiration Margaret Sanger April 17 55.”TheContinue reading "The Margaret Sanger Story."
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Item Number: RRB-5040
Whitman, Walt
Leaves of Grass.
Brooklyn, New York : Fowler and Wells, 1856.
Rare second edition, one of 1000 copies of the most important volume in American poetry, with an additional twenty poems not found in the first edition as well as a new section of correspondence and reviews entitled “Leaves-droppings” that begins with the famous letter from Emerson containing the salutation “I greet you at the beginningContinue reading "Leaves of Grass."
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Item Number: RRB-50052
Buck, Pearl S
The Good Earth.
London : Methuen & Co., 1931.
First British edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and masterpiece. Octavo, original light brown cloth. Signed by Pearl Buck on the title page. Near fine in the rare dust jacket which shows light wear to the extremities with minute expert restoration. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare signed.
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Item Number: RRB-2928
Blos, Joan W
A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl’s Journal, 1830-32.
New York : Scribners, 1979.
First edition of the author’s Newberry award-winning novel. Octavo, original red boards. Fine in a very good plus dust jacket with a few short closed tears, and without the Newberry award winning sticker on the front panel. Signed by the author who has added some lines from this work.
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Item Number: RRB-1797
Montgomery, L.M
Anne of Windy Willows (Anne of Windy Poplars).
London : George G. Harrap, 1936.
First British edition of this novel in Montgomery’s acclaimed Anne series. Octavo, original blue cloth. Light wear, else fine in the original dust jacket with some chips. Uncommon in the original dust jacket.
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Item Number: RRB-892
Eloise, Eloise in Paris, Eloise At Christmastime, Eloise In Moscow, Eloise Takes a Bawth.
Children's Books
$6,500.00
RRB-5600
Eleanor Roosevelt Signed Christmas Card.
Framed Autographs and Historical Documents
$1,250.00
RRB-5822