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Mules and Men.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1935.

First edition of Hurston’s classic work, “the most engaging, genuine, and skillfully written book in the field of folklore” (Alan Lomax). Octavo, original cloth, with 10 illustration...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-141719

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Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]

Life On The Mississippi.

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883.

First American edition, first state of this provocative portrait of the great Mississippi River with tailpiece of Twain in flames on p. 441 and “The St. Louis Hotel” caption on p. 443. Octavo, origina...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-142314

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[Fitzgerald, F. Scott]

The Great Gatsby Clamshell Box.

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Custom full morocco clamshell box hand made by The Harcourt Bindery to house a first edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Pictorial clamshell box with gilt titles and an onlay of t...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150365

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Detaille, Eduoard; Text by Jules Richard

L’Armee Francaise. Types et Uniformes.

Paris: Boussod et Valadon, 1885-89.

First edition of this wonderfully illustrated work. Large folios, 3 volumes. Elegantly bound in full red morocco, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, top edge gilt. Limited to 100 sets with the 2...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-4161

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Solzhenitsyn, Alexander. [Solzhentizyn]

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1963.

First British edition of the Nobel Prize-winner’s first published work. Octavo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles to the spine, titles to the front panel, all edges gilt. Housed in a custom clamshell...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-142203

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Dickens, Charles

Bleak House.

London: Bradbury Evans, 1853.

First edition of this Dickens’ classic. Octavo, bound in full calf by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge m...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148214

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[Bible]

The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments Translated Out of the Original Tongues: Being the Version Set Forth A.D. 1611 Compared with the Most Ancient Authorities and Revised.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1881-1885.

The Memorial edition of the Revised Version of the Holy Bible with a presentation slip signed by the President and Secretary of the American Committee of Revision. Royal octavo, three volumes, origina...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-139542

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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, in the Strand, 1846.

Finely bound second edition set of Gibbon’s masterpiece. Octavo, 6 volumes bound in full calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, red and brown mor...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146461

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Wouk, Herman

The Caine Mutiny.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1951.

First edition of Wouk’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gi...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147484

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Moliere. [Poquelin, Jean-Baptiste]

The Dramatic Works of Moliere.

Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1875-1876.

Finely bound example of Henri Van Laun’s important translation of Moliere’s complete dramatic works. Quarto, 6 volumes, bound in full straight-grain royal blue morocco, gilt titles and ela...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-130194

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de'Medici, Cosimo II

Statuti dell’Ordine De’ Cavalieri di S.to Stefano.

Florence: Pietro Cecconcelli, 1620.

Rare early 17th century printing of the Statutes of the The Order of Saint Stephen; founded by Cosimo I de’ Medici in 1561. Octavo, bound in full contemporary vellum, engraved title page by Jacq...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-140375

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Svin'in, Pavel Petrovich (Paul Svinine)

Sketches of Russia.

London: Printed for R. Ackermann, 1814.

Scarce first edition of this sketch of Russian locations and historical figures. Octavo, bound in three quarter red calf over red cloth boards with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartme...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146468

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Dickens, Charles

The Personal History of David Copperfield.

London: Bradbury & Evans, 1850.

First edition in book form of “the most perfect of all the Dickens novels” (Virginia Woolf). Octavo, bound in three quarter calf over marbled boards by Henry Sotheran, morocco spine label...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149762

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[Charlie Kirk]

The U.S. Constitution and Other Writings.

San Diego: Canterbury Classics, 2017.

Finely bound example of the Constitution of the United States. Octavo, bound in full leatherette, illustrated endpapers, all edges gilt. Boldly signed by Charlie Kirk on the half-title page. Kirk sign...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150507

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Handel, George Frideric and Joseph Hayden

Celebrated Symphonies and Overtures of Joseph Haydn and George Frideric Handel.

London: I. Walsh, William Randall, C.S. Thompson, G. Walker, et al. Ossenbach sul Meno: Giovanni Andre, c. 1740-1815.

Rare collection of late 18th and early 19th century sheet music of the Celebrated Symphonies and Overtures of Joseph Haydn and George Frideric Handel. Quarto, bound in a variety of marbled wrappers an...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-112946

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Waugh, Evelyn

The Sword of Honour Trilogy: Men At Arms; Officers and Gentlemen; Unconditional Surrender.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1952-1961.

First editions of each volume in the author’s acclaimed Sword of Honour Trilogy. Octavo, 3 volumes, finely bound in full morocco by The Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and ruling to the spine...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146619

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Caesar, Gaius Julius

Commentaires de César, avec des Notes Historiques, Critiques et Militaires [Caesar’s Comments, with Historical, Critical and Military Notes].

Paris: A Montargis, 1785.

First edition edited and translated by Lancelot Turpin de Crissé. Quarto, three volumes, bound in full contemporary calf, morocco spine labels, gilt titles to the spine, engraved title pages, two port...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-104356

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Lewis, Sinclair

Main Street.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920.

First edition, first printing of Lewis’ classic work. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-144082

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Wilder, Thornton

Our Town: A Play in Three Acts.

New York: Coward McCann, 1938.

First edition of the author’s second Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gi...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149898

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Photographic View Book of China, Manchuria, and Korea.

Japan:, c. 1930.

First edition, oblong quarto, original boards. Gilt-lettered cloth, string-bound. Text in Japanese with captions in both Chinese and English. Illustrated with photographs throughout, large folding pa...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-60076

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Auspitz, Rudolf and Richard Lieben

Untersuchungen Uber Die Theorie Des Preises. [Studies on the Theory of Price.]

Leipzig: Verlag von Duncker & Humblot, 1889.

Scarce first edition of this work by eminent Viennese economists Auspitz and Lieben. Octavo, original brown hard-grain cloth with spine and boards lettered and ruled in black, decorative endpapers, il...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145337

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Dickens, Charles

A Curious Dance Round a Curious Tree.

London: St. Lukes Hospital, 1860.

First edition, first issue of Charles Dickens’ article on Saint Luke’s Hospital “for the gratuitous treatment of the insane poor.” Octavo, loosely bound in wrappers. In near fi...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-96189

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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 fr...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-124150

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Eliot, George

The Works of George Eliot.

Boston: Dana Estes & Company, n.d..

The Arbury edition of the works of George Eliot. Octavo, 24 volumes bound in three quarter half russet crushed morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-144866

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