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Thiers, Adolphe.

Atlas de L’Histoire du Consulat et de L’Empire Dresse et Dessine Sous La Direction de M. Thiers Par MM. A. Dufour et Duvotenay. [The Thiers Atlas].

Paris: Librairie Furne, n.d..

Rare finely bound example of the Theirs Atlas, containing 66 maps and battle plans drawn by two of the best cartographers of Second Empire. Quarto, quarter cloth over marbled boards, illustrated with 66 plates by Dufour and Duvotenay printed by Dyonnet. In very good condition. A very nice example.

$450.00

Item Number: RRB-131402

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Marshall, John. [George Washington].

The Life of George Washington, Commander in Chief of the American Forces, During the War Which Established the Independence of His Country, and First President of the United States. [WITH] The Life of George Washington: Maps and Subscriber’s Names.

Philadelphia: C.P. Wayne, 1804-1807.

First edition, first issue of the first biography of George Washington with the scarce atlas volume and list of subscribers. Octavo, six volumes, bound in full contemporary tree calf with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece portrait of Washington to volume I. With the scarce atlasContinue reading "The Life of George Washington, Commander in Chief of the American Forces, During the War Which Established the Independence of His Country, and First President of the United States. [WITH] The Life of George Washington: Maps and Subscriber’s Names."

$14,000.00

Item Number: RRB-131234

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Montgomery, L. M..

Anne of the Island.

Boston: The Page Company, 1915.

First edition, first printing of the third title in Montgomery’s beloved Anne of Green Gables series with all first issue points including stated first impression on copyright page, 1915 date in roman numerals on title page, correct dust jacket blurbs and price ($1.25). Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece and mounted cover illustrationContinue reading "Anne of the Island."

$9,200.00

Item Number: RRB-130579

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Cole, Ernest; Introduction by Joseph Lelyveld; Text by Thomas Flaherty.

House of Bondage: A South African Black Man Exposes in His Own Pictures and Words the Bitter Life of His Homeland Today.

New York: : Random House, 1967.

First edition of this classic work. Quarto, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Signed by both “Ernest Cole” and Pulitzer Prize-winning author “Joseph Lelyveld 9.18.14” on the title page. Introduction by Joseph Lelyveld. Text written with Thomas Flaherty. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed.

$3,800.00

Item Number: RRB-127758

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Kerouac, Jack [Gary Snyder].

On The Road.

New York: The Viking Press, 1957.

First edition of Kerouac’s classic novel. Octavo, original black cloth. Boldly signed by legendary beat Gary Snyder on the half-title page. Near fine in an excellent near fine dust jacket with light wear. Jacket design by Bill English. An exceptional example, rare and desirable signed.

$20,000.00

Item Number: RRB-131088

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Parks, Rosa.

Dear Mrs. Parks: A Dialogue with Today’s Youth.

New York: Lee & Low Books, 1997.

First edition of this collection of letters written to the mother of The Civil Rights movement and her responses. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the half-title page, “4/24/97 Rosa Parks.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Tania Garcia. Jacket photograph by Mark T. Kerrin. Written with GregoryContinue reading "Dear Mrs. Parks: A Dialogue with Today’s Youth."

$1,600.00

Item Number: RRB-131103

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Saramago, Jose.

Baltasar and Blimunda.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1987.

Advanced reading copy of the first American edition of Saramago’s first book to be translated into English. Octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed and dated by the author on the title page, “Jose Saramago 1.2006.” In near fine condition. Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero.

$950.00

Item Number: RRB-133612

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Howitt, Margaret. [Fredrika Bremer].

Twelve Months with Fredrika Bremer in Sweden.

London: Jackson, Walford, and Hodder, 1866.

First edition of Howitt’s work on the twelve months she spent with close friend and writer Fredrika Bremer. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine and front panel, tipped in tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Bremer with an inscription from her to Howitt in facsimile. In very good condition. ScarceContinue reading "Twelve Months with Fredrika Bremer in Sweden."

$2,500.00

Item Number: RRB-124150

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Gibbon, Edward.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1776-1788.

Rare full first edition set, first state of volume one, of Gibbon’s landmark work of historiography with three engraved folding maps by Kitchin of the Western and Eastern Roman Empire and of Constantinople and frontispiece portrait of Gibbon. Quarto, 6 volumes bound in three quarter calf over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling toContinue reading "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire."

$30,000.00

Item Number: RRB-129094

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Hooker, Richard.

Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Politie. [Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity].

London: Printed by William Standbye, [1622].

Early printing of this important work by the influential English theologian. Quarto, quarter morocco with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in seven compartments within raised bands, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt, engraved title, divisional titles, and woodcut initials. In very good condition. Bookplate and period ownership inscription. Rare.

$4,000.00

Item Number: RRB-130372

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Carroll, Lewis. [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson].

The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1876.

First edition of Carroll’s whimsical nonsense poem. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth, all edges gilt, with nine illustrations by Henry Holiday. Near fine in the scarce original dust jacket. The jacket is complete with the top third of the front panel bent behind, hence the different shade of color. Copies of the first edition ofContinue reading "The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits."

$22,500.00

Item Number: RRB-130492

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Fish, Daniel. [Abraham Lincoln].

Lincoln Bibliography: A List of Books and Pamphlets Relating to Abraham Lincoln.

New York: Francis D. Tandy Company, 1906.

First edition and signed, registered, and numbered edition of the first comprehensive bibliography of Lincoln material. Octavo, original cloth, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece portrait of Lincoln after the original etching by Thomas Johnson. One of seventy-five numbered, registered copies signed by the author and publisher, only forty of which were for sale, this is number 34.Continue reading "Lincoln Bibliography: A List of Books and Pamphlets Relating to Abraham Lincoln."

$1,500.00

Item Number: RRB-131214

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GaI Iuli Caesaris Commentarii Rerum in Gallia Gestarum VII

Caesar, Gaius Julius; Aulus Hirtius.

Gai Iuli Caesaris Commentarii Rerum in Gallia Gestarum VII Accedita a Uli Hirti Commentarivs. [Seven Commentaries on the Gallic War by Gaius Julius Caesar, with an Additional Commentary by Aulus Hirtius].

London: Philip Lee Warner Publisher to The Medici Society, 1914.

The Medici Society limited edition of this seminal firsthand account of Rome’s conquest of Gaul. Octavo, bound in full vellum with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, green silk ribbon ties, fully written in latin, and printed on handmade Riccardi Paper. One of 525 numbered paper copies, this is number 196. In nearContinue reading "Gai Iuli Caesaris Commentarii Rerum in Gallia Gestarum VII Accedita a Uli Hirti Commentarivs. [Seven Commentaries on the Gallic War by Gaius Julius Caesar, with an Additional Commentary by Aulus Hirtius]."

$1,250.00

Item Number: RRB-148857

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Scott, Sir Walter.

Scott’s 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: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co.; and John Ballantyne; And Hurst, Robinson, and Co., London, 1816-1821.

Complete first edition set of Scott’s Waverly Novels. Octavo, 74 volumes uniformly bound in full morocco by Morrell, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional set.

$12,500.00

Item Number: RRB-131201

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Peale, Norman Vincent.

The Power of Positive Thinking.

New York: Prentice-Hall, 1952.

First edition of Norman Vincent Peale’s enduring classic. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Norman Vincent Peale on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. First printings are uncommon, especially signed.

$2,800.00

Item Number: RRB-133171

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Tyler, Anne.

The Accidental Tourist.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985.

First edition of this work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to fellow Pulitzer Prize-winning writer William Kennedy on the title page, “For William Kennedy- with best wishes- Anne Tyler 7-5-86.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Fred Marcellino. An exceptional associationContinue reading "The Accidental Tourist."

$1,750.00

Item Number: RRB-130894

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Laughlin, J. Laurence.

The Federal Reserve Act: Its Origin and Problems.

New York: The Macmillan Company,, 1933.

Rare first edition of this work on the Federal Reserve Act. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition.

$1,850.00

Item Number: RRB-140014

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Percival Christopher Wren’s “Beau Geste”

Wren, Percival Christopher.

Beau Geste.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, 1926.

The screenplay edition of this classic adventure novel. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, frontispiece, illustrated with scenes from the 1926 Paramount Pictures film. Very good in a good price-clipped dust jacket. Advertisements to the verso of the dust jacket.

$400.00

Item Number: RRB-148590

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Stone, Oliver.

Nixon: An Oliver Stone Film.

New York: Hyperion, 1995.

First edition of the screenplay which was the basis for the work by the legendary director. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Boldly signed by Oliver Stone on the title page. In fine condition. Edited by Eric Hamburg. Screenplay by Stephen J. Rivele, Christopher Wilkinson, and Oliver Stone.

$475.00

Item Number: RRB-133168

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Samuelson, Paul A.; Robert M. Solow; Robert Dorfman.

Linear Programming and Economic Analysis.

New York: McGraw-Hill Company, Inc, 1958.

First edition of this classic text. Octavo, original gray cloth. Signed by Robert M. Solow on the title page. In very good condition with notes and marginalia.

$400.00

Item Number: RRB-133578

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Sharpe, Willam F.

The Economics of Computers.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1969.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning economist’s early work on computers. Octavo, original red cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To James Bill Sharpe.” Near fine in a good dust jacket, name to the endpaper.

$400.00

Item Number: RRB-133579

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Thaler, Richard H. Edited by.

Advances in Behavioral Finance.

New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1993.

First edition of this collection of essays on behavioral finance. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Richard Thaler on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Contributors include Richard H. Thaler, Robert J. Shiller, Andrei Shleifer, Lawrence H. Summers, Kenneth French and Richard Roll.

$750.00

Item Number: RRB-133580

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Mandela, Nelson.

Long Walk To Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela.

London: Little, Brown and Company, 1994.

First British edition of the first autobiography of one of the greatest moral leaders of the twentieth century which has went on to sell over six million copies worldwide. Octavo, original black cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with photographs. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Dr. Ivan May Compliments and bestContinue reading "Long Walk To Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela."

$18,000.00

Item Number: RRB-130735

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Reagan, Ronald.

Ronald Reagan Signed Photograph.

1987.

Signed photograph of President Ronald Reagan standing with Dr. Richard A. Davis, Nancy Reagan’s brother, inscribed on the matte, “Every good wish Dick & Warmest regard Ronald Reagan.” Official photograph of the White House, ink stamp on to the verso, with printed invitation to unveiling of the Harvey Cushing Stamp. Matted and framed with theContinue reading "Ronald Reagan Signed Photograph."

$2,000.00

Item Number: RRB-132879

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