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Kaplan, Joseph; Wernher Von Braun; Heinz Haber; Willy Ley; Oscar Schachter; Fred L. Whipple

Across the Space Frontier.

London: Sidgwick and Jackson Limited, 1953.

First edition of this early collaborative exploration of the scientific, technical, and legal possibilities of space travel. Royal octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spi...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-150974

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Landor, Walter Savage

Imaginary Conversations.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1936.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of this distinguished work of literary and philosophical prose. Octavo, bound in full modern morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with gilt titles and...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-148545

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Hardy, Thomas

Selected Poems of Thomas Hardy.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1924.

Finley bound early printing of the Golden Treasury Series Selected Poems of Thomas Hardy. Small octavo, bound in full crushed crimson levant morocco by Bayntun with gilt titles and tooling to the spin...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-118019

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London, Jack

The Sea-Wolf.

New York: The Heritage Press, 1961.

The Heritage Press edition of London’s famous and enduring fifth novel. Octavo, bound in three-quarters morocco by Morrell with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised bands,...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-148725

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Smiles, Samuel

Self-Help. With Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance.

London: John Murray, 1908.

Finely bound example of Smith’s best-selling work on the self-improvement; an embodiment of the ideologies of mid-Victorian liberalism. Octavo, bound in full contemporary tree calf with gilt tit...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-122411

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Kipling, Rudyard with Wolcott Balestier

The Naulahka: A Story of West and East.

London: William Heinemann, 1892.

First British edition of Kipling’s ambitious narrative. Octavo, original publisher’s decorative cloth. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise slipcase.

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-120549

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Ellis, Leonard Bolles

History of New Bedford and its Vicinity 1602-1892.

Syracuse: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1892.

First edition of Ellis’ profusely illustrated history of New Bedford. Large octavo, 2 volumes bound in three quarters morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, marbled endpapers, top edge g...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-131249

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Cutler, Carl C

Greyhounds of the Sea: The Story of the American Clipper Ship.

New York: Halcyon House, 1930.

First edition of Cutler’s masterwork on the history of the American clipper ship. Quarto, bound in three quarters morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, frontispiece. In near fine condit...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-131492

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Ruskin, John. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham

The King of the Golden River.

London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1932.

Signed limited edition. Octavo, original limp vellum, gilt titles and decoration to front cover, illustrated endpapers, top edge gilt, color frontispiece and three plates, illustrations in the text, a...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-117643

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Doyle, James E

A Chronicle of England. B.C. 55 – A.D. 1485.

London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1864.

First edition of Doyle’s elaborately illustrated history of ancient and medieval England. Quarto, bound in three quarter crushed levant morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling t...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-139284

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Scott, Sir Walter

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: Adam & Charles Black, 1883.

The Centenary Edition of Sir Walter Scott’s Waverly Novels. Octavo, 12 volumes bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards by Robertson with burgundy morocco spine labels lettered in gilt...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-126344

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Komroff, Manuel [Editor]

The Apocrypha or Non-Canonical Books of the Bible: The King James Version.

New York: Tudor Publishing Company, 1946.

Finely bound 20th century printing of the Apocrypha. Octavo, bound in full calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, triple ruling stamped in blind to the...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-148891

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Siddur Avodat Israel with English Translation.

Tel-Aviv: Sinai Publishing, 1967.

Rare elaborately bound Jewish Siddur prayer book. Small octavo, bound in full silver metal with elaborate tooling to the spine and panels, inlaid turquoise decorations to the front panel, patterned en...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-151929

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Cruikshank, George

George Cruikshank’s Omnibus.

London: Tilt and Bogue, 1842.

First edition of George Cruikshank‘s Omnibus. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Riviere & Son with elaborate gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, tripl...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-133420

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Trevelyan, George Macaulay

Garibaldi’s Defence of the Roman Republic; Garibaldi and the Thousand; Garibaldi and the Making of Italy.

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1907-1911.

Finely bound collection of Trevelyan’s work on Italian general Giuseppe Garibaldi. Octavo, three volumes bound in three quarters morocco by Henry Sotheran, Ltd., gilt titles and tooling to the s...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-139018

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Kipling, Rudyard

The Day’s Work.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1914.

The Bombay edition of this collection of 13 Kipling short stories mainly written between 1893 and 1896 while Kipling was living in Vermont. Octavo, bound in three-quarters morocco over cloth covered b...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-151116

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Forster, John

The Works and Life of Walter Savage Landor.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1876.

Finely bound set of Forster’s famed biography of the English poet. Octavo, 8 volumes bound in full crushed levant morocco by Riviere & Son with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six co...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-139019

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Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Uncle Tom’s Cabin: or, Life Among the Lowly.

New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1879.

Early edition of Stowe’s enormously influential work, widely considered the book that precipitated the American Civil War. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers with advertisements to the versos o...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-148642

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Edwards, Jonathan

Historisch Verhaal: An Account of the Life of the Late Reverend David Brainerd.

The Netherlands: T'Utrecht, 1756.

Early example of “one of America’s most important and original philosophical theologians” American theologian Jonathan Edwards’ biography of Reverend David Brainerd. Title read...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-147984

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Cruikshank, George; Laman Blanchard [Editor]

George Cruikshank’s Omnibus.

London: Tilt and Bogue, 1842.

First edition of George Cruikshank‘s Omnibus. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Wood of London with gilt titles and floral tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-148380

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Le Paulmier, Julien

Traite Du Vin Et Du Sidre.

Rouen: H. Lestringant, 1896.

Rare Societe des Bibliophiles Normands Limited Edition reissue of Le Paulmier’s foundational work on pomology. Octavo, original wrappers, one of only 200 copies printed, this is number 65. Trans...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-110190

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A Kempis, Thomas

Of the Imitation of Christ.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co, 1884.

Finely bound example of a Kempis’ classic work. Octavo, bound in full crushed purple morocco by Bayntun for Brentano’s with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, elaborate gilt ruling to the fro...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-133424

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Dumas, Alexandre

The Borgias.

London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1911.

Finely bound edition of Dumas’ classic work. Octavo, bound in full red morocco gilt by Bumpus, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, gilt tooling to the front and rear panels, all...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-140821

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Maupassant, Guy De

Bel-Ami.

New York: The Heritage Press, 1968.

First edition of the Heritage Press edition of this classic work. Quarto, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands. illustrations by Bern...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-142808

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