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Wells, H.G.

World Brain.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1938.

First American edition of Wells’ visionary manifesto proposing the creation of a continuously updated, universally accessible global encyclopedia to unify human knowledge, remarkably anticipating the logic of the internet. Octavo, original blue cloth, top stain blue. In good condition with sunning to the spine and adhesive residue to the verso of the title page, nameContinue reading "World Brain."

$40.00

Item Number: RRB-152882

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Hardy, Thomas.

The Return of the Native.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1949.

Finely bound example of Hardy’s classic novel. Octavo, bound in full blue morocco by Bayntun Riviere with gilt titles and floral tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, illustrated with a mapContinue reading "The Return of the Native."

$750.00

Item Number: RRB-152344

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Salisbury, Harrison.

American in Russia.

New York: Harper, 1955.

First edition of this work by the legendary journalist. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. Very good in a very good dust jacket.

$25.00

Item Number: RRB-153027

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Cooley, Denton A.

100,000 Hearts: A Surgeon’s Memoir.

Austin: Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, 2012.

First edition of the memoir of Denton A. Cooley, the legendary surgeon who performed the first successful human heart transplant in the United States and implanted the first total artificial heart in a human being. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Boldly signed by the author and dated 12-19-11 on a Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke’sContinue reading "100,000 Hearts: A Surgeon’s Memoir."

$225.00

Item Number: RRB-152920

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Maugham, W. Somerset.

The Unattainable: A Farce in Three Acts.

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1923.

First edition of Maugham’s classic work. Duodecimo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “This play was acted under the title of Carolinio. W. Somerset Maugham for Norman Unger.” The recipient, Norman Unger, was a legendary New York book collector who collected the works of modern authors for moreContinue reading "The Unattainable: A Farce in Three Acts."

$850.00

Item Number: RRB-152295

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Gottfried, Martin [Charles Strouse].

Jed Harris: The Curse of Genius.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1984.

First edition of Gottfried’s acclaimed biography of Jed Harris, the brilliant and notorious wunderkind of the Broadway stage. Octavo, original half-cloth, illustrated with black-and-white photographs. From the collection of Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award-winning composer Charles Strouse and his wife, choreographer Barbara Siman. Over his 50-year career, Charles Strouse wrote the music for such iconicContinue reading "Jed Harris: The Curse of Genius."

$100.00

Item Number: RRB-152197

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Puzo, Mario [Robert De Niro and Diane Keaton].

The Godfather.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1969.

First edition of Puzo’s definitive novel of the Mafia underworld, signed by Mario Puzo, Academy Award-winning actor Robert De Niro and Diane Keaton. Octavo, original half black cloth. Boldly signed by Mario Puzo on the title page and by Academy Award-winning actors Robert De Niro and Diane Keaton on the front free endpaper. Robert AnthonyContinue reading "The Godfather."

$15,000.00

Item Number: RRB-152968

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Conrad, Charles; Richard Gordon; Alan Bean; et al.

Charles Conrad, Richard Gordon, and Alan Bean Signed Apollo 12 Photograph.

November 1969.

Vintage NASA photograph from the Apollo 12 mission, the second crewed lunar landing, showing lunar module pilot Alan Bean carrying the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) across the surface of the Moon. Boldly signed and inscribed along the mat by three Apollo 12 crew members to Elton “Steph” Stepherson, Jr., one of the earliestContinue reading "Charles Conrad, Richard Gordon, and Alan Bean Signed Apollo 12 Photograph."

$3,800.00

Item Number: RRB-152333

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Aristotle.

Mechanica Graeca, emendata, Latina facta, & commentariis illustrata ab Henrico Monantholio.

Paris: Jeremiah Perier, 1599.

First edition of this landmark work, Henri de Monantheuil’s celebrated Greek and Latin edition of the Mechanica, the oldest surviving treatise on the science of mechanics, long ascribed to Aristotle. Octavo, bound in full contemporary calf with four raised bands to the spine. Text in Greek and Latin, the title printed in red and black,Continue reading "Mechanica Graeca, emendata, Latina facta, & commentariis illustrata ab Henrico Monantholio."

$12,800.00

Item Number: RRB-152271

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Stockwell, John.

Red Sunset.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1982.

First edition of the first novel, by the former CIA officer whose 1978 exposé In Search of Enemies made him one of the agency’s most prominent critics. Octavo, original publisher’s half-cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title, “For Larry, John R. Stockwell 21 April ’82.” Near fine in a near fine dustContinue reading "Red Sunset."

$300.00

Item Number: RRB-152340

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Fitzgerald, Edward [Translator].

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám.

London: Robt. Riviere & Son, LTD, 1928.

Finely bound edition of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. Octavo, bound in full polished calf by Riviere and Son with gilt titles and floral tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, elaborately tooled in gilt with Persian motifs to the front and rear panels,Continue reading "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám."

$2,500.00

Item Number: RRB-152337

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Kipling, Rudyard.

Poems 1886-1929.

London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1929.

Signed limited first edition of this classic work. Quarto, three volumes, bound in original full red polished morocco with gilt titles and numbers to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, top edges gilt, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece to volume one. One of 525 numbered copies, this is number 4. Boldly signedContinue reading "Poems 1886-1929."

$1,500.00

Item Number: RRB-152336

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Shakespeare, William.

The Works of Shakespeare.

New York: Virtue and Yorston, c. 1873-76.

The Imperial edition of the works of William Shakespeare. Folio, two volumes, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, elaborate ruling stamped in blind to the front and rear panels, pictorial vignette stamped in gilt to the front panels, all edges gilt, giltContinue reading "The Works of Shakespeare."

$1,750.00

Item Number: RRB-152335

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Huxley, Aldous.

Brave New World.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1932.

First edition of Huxley’s masterpiece. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with 22 karat gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt ruled inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, hand-made Italian marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. InContinue reading "Brave New World."

$2,500.00

Item Number: RRB-152334

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Millhauser, Steven.

The Barnum Museum.

New York: Poseidon Press, 1990.

First edition of this classic work by “a writer who vivifies the act of reading. . . Like Borges and Italo Calvino, he takes us inside the labyrinth of prose” (Chicago Tribune). Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed on the title page by Steven Millhauser and actor Edward Norton, who starred in the film, The IllusionistContinue reading "The Barnum Museum."

$1,750.00

Item Number: RRB-152972

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Deaver, Jeffrey [Denzel Washington].

The Bone Collector.

New York: Viking, 1997.

First edition of the first novel in the series featuring forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme, basis for the film starring Denzel Washington and Julia Roberts. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Jeffrey Deaver and Academy Award-winning actor Denzel Washington on the title page. Fine in fine dust jacket.

$1,750.00

Item Number: RRB-152959

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Rolfe, Frederick.

The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole: A Romance of Modern Venice.

London: Cassell & Co., 1934.

First edition of Frederick Rolfe’s posthumously published autobiographical novel, a caustic and lyrical romance of Venice by the eccentric writer known as Baron Corvo, appearing more than twenty years after his death and in the same year as A.J.A. Symons’s celebrated life of him. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, top stainContinue reading "The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole: A Romance of Modern Venice."

$125.00

Item Number: RRB-153050

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Craft, Robert [Charles Strouse].

Stravinsky: Glimpses of a Life.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993.

First American edition of Robert Craft’s intimate memoir of Igor Stravinsky. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with black-and-white photographs. From the collection of Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award-winning composer Charles Strouse and his wife, choreographer Barbara Siman. Over his 50-year career, Charles Strouse wrote the music for such iconic musical theater hits as Bye ByeContinue reading "Stravinsky: Glimpses of a Life."

$95.00

Item Number: RRB-152168

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KertÉsz, Imre.

Το Μυθιστόρημα Ενός Ανθρώπου Δίχως Πεπρωμένο. [Fatelessness].

Athens: Kastaniotis Editions, 2003.

First edition in Greek of Imre Kertész’s Fatelessness, the semi-autobiographical novel that drew on the author’s own deportation to Auschwitz and Buchenwald as a teenager. Octavo, written in Greek, original pictorial wrappers. Boldly signed by Imre Kertesz on the title page. In fine condition with the original wrap-around band announcing the Nobel Prize in Literature.Continue reading "Το Μυθιστόρημα Ενός Ανθρώπου Δίχως Πεπρωμένο. [Fatelessness]."

$150.00

Item Number: RRB-152527

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Dinesen, Isak [Karen Blixen].

Seven Gothic Tales.

New York: The Modern Library, 1934.

First Modern Library edition of this classic collection of short stories. Octavo, original cloth, top stain black, patterned endpapers. In fine condition. Introduction by Dorothy Canfield.

$25.00

Item Number: RRB-153001

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Moore, Henry. [Yousuf Karsh].

Mostra di Henry Moore.

Florence: Il Bisonte Editore / Nuovedizioni Enrico Vallecchi, 1972.

First edition of the catalogue for the landmark 1972 Henry Moore retrospective at the Forte di Belvedere in Florence, the most significant exhibition of the sculptor’s lifetime. Quarto, written in Italian, original photographic wrappers, profusely illustrated with reproductions of Moore’s sculpture and drawings. Association copy, inscribed by the artist on the front free endpaper toContinue reading "Mostra di Henry Moore."

$1,600.00

Item Number: RRB-152325

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Asahi Shimbun [Yousuf Karsh].

Asahi Camera Annual 1969.

Tokyo: Asahi Shimbun-sha, 1969.

First edition of the 1969 Asahi Camera Annual, the photographic yearbook published in Tokyo by the Asahi Shimbun. Quarto, written in Japanese and English, original cloth, profusely illustrated throughout. Association copy, inscribed by Nobuo Ina and Yoshio Watanabe to the celebrated portrait photographer Yousuf Karsh on the front free endpaper, “To Mr. Yousuf Karsh. MayContinue reading "Asahi Camera Annual 1969."

$975.00

Item Number: RRB-152323

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Sampson, Arthur. [Ted Williams].

Ted Williams: A Biography of The Kid.

New York: A. S. Barnes and Company, 1950.

First edition of this early biography of the Boston Red Sox legend Ted Williams, published the year after his 1949 American League Most Valuable Player award. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, top stain yellow, illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Boldly signed by Baseball Hall of Famer Ted Williams and the author Arthur Sampson on the front freeContinue reading "Ted Williams: A Biography of The Kid."

$1,200.00

Item Number: RRB-152319

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Gray, Henry.

Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical [Gray’s Anatomy].

Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, 1859.

First edition of this influential work on Anatomy, often considered “the doctor’s bible.” Royal octavo, bound in full contemporary sheep with black morocco spine label lettered in gilt, illustrated with 363 wood-engravings after the drawings by H. V. Carter. In very good condition with light rubbing and shelf wear. Owner inscriptions to the half-title pageContinue reading "Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical [Gray’s Anatomy]."

$15,000.00

Item Number: RRB-152317

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