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Larsson, Stieg; Translated by Reg Keeland

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; The Girl Who Played with Fire; The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest.

London: Maclehose Press, 2008-2009.

First editions in English of each volume of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy. Octavo, three volumes, original boards. Each volume is signed by the translator Reg Keeland, with a quotation added by t...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-82278

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Hughes, Richard

A High Wind in Jamaica.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1929.

First edition of the author’s classic novel, one of Modern Library’s 100 greatest novels of the 20th century and an inspiration for William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. Octavo, origi...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150217

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Schatzman, Evry (editor), [Stephen Hawking]

Cargèse Lectures in Physics, Volume Six.

New York : Gordon and Breach, 1973.

First edition of this work. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of Stephen Hawking with his name written on the front free endpaper. Stephen Hawking was a theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-115754

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Lovell, James and Frank Borman

James Lovell and Frank Borman Inscribed ‘Earthrise’ NASA Photograph.

:, 1968.

Official NASA photograph of ‘Earthrise.’ Glossy, color photograph of the Earth as seen from space by the Apollo 8 crew after performing lunar orbit insertion burn, NASA caption text and Ko...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145373

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Bellow, Saul

Humboldt’s Gift.

New York: The Viking Press, 1975.

First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Karyl, with love I could n...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-1289

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Trollope, Anthony

The Works of Anthony Trollope.

London: Ward, Lock & Co, 1881.

The New Edition of the Works of Anthony Trollope. Octavo, 28 volumes bound into 14 in three quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt ba...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-110205

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Ford, Ford Madox

Some Do Not, No More Parades, A Man Could Stand Up and Last Post.

New York:, 1924-1928.

First editions of each novel in the author’s classic modernist series Parade’s End. Octavo, four volumes. Each volume is in very good to near fine condition, with A Man Could Stand Up in t...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-143044

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[Armstrong, Neil]

Neil Armstrong Class of 1947 Signed Yearbook.

Wapakoneta, Ohio: Blume High School Class of 1947, 1947.

Rare Blume High School Class of 1947 yearbook, signed by Neil Armstrong as a graduating senior. Quarto, original leatherette. Signed by Neil Armstrong beneath his senior portrait on page 12 of the yea...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-122684

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18th Century Catholic Antiphonal.

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Rare 18th Century Catholic antiphonal containing the Festa Februarii, Festa Martii, and Festa Aprilis. Quarto, bound in full leather, hand-written script of both music and lyrics in black and red, all...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-123047

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Paine, Thomas

A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal, on the Affairs of North-America. In Which the Mistakes in the Abbes Account of the Revolution of America Are Corrected and Cleared Up.

London: Printed for J. Ridgway, 1791.

1791 London edition of Paine’s passionate reply to the Abbe Raynal, preceded by the 1782 Philadelphia and London editions Octavo, bound in half diced calf over marbled boards, all edges speckled...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-134029

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Conrad, Joseph

Lord Jim.

London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1900.

First edition of one of Conrad’s finest novels. Octavo, original cloth. A near fine example with some wear to the extremities and the endpapers ever so slightly browned. First printing with the first...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-45003

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McCarthy, Cormac

The Passenger and Stella Maris.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.

First editions of McCarthy’s two-volume masterpiece: The Passenger is the story of a salvage diver, haunted by loss, afraid of the watery deep, pursued for a conspiracy beyond his understanding,...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-14753

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Jones, Bobby [Robert Tyre Jones, Jr.]

Bobby Jones Signed Photograph.

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Photograph of Bobby Jones, boldly inscribed by him, “For Dave Christensen with warmest regards Bob Jones.” The photograph measures 7 inches by 9 inches. Double matted and framed. The enti...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-92769

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Peterson, Roger Tory

Field Guide to the Birds: Giving Field Marks of All Species Found in Eastern North America.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1934.

First edition, third state with the date on the copyright page of Peterson’s first book. Octavo, original green pebbled cloth, illustrated with 4 color plates with printed overlays, 32 monochrom...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-102012

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Loeb, Gerald M.; Bernard M. Baruch; Benjamin Graham; William S. Goedecke; Walter Maynard; John Stevenson et al

Wall Street 1955: Investment Careers, Procedures & Precepts.

New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Daily News, 1954.

First edition of this compilation of reports published by Yale as an introduction to Wall Street for aspiring students. Quarto, original wrappers, illustrated. Boldly signed by Gerald M. Loeb on the f...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-116393

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Dinesen, Isak [Karen Blixen]

Last Tales.

New York: Random House, 1957.

First edition of this classic collection of short stories. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the half-title page, “Isak Dinesen Je Responderai.” While in Africa, Blixe...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145946

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McMurtry, Larry

Lonesome Dove; Streets of Laredo; Dead Man’s Walk; Comanche Moon.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985-1997.

First editions of each novel in the author’s Pulitzer-Prize Lonesome Dove series. Octavo, four volumes, original half cloth. Each are signed or inscribed by Larry McMurtry. Each are near fine to...

$3,400.00 Item Number: RRB-151613

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Schelling, Thomas C

The Strategy of Conflict.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1960.

First edition of this work that pioneered the study of bargaining and strategic behavior. Octavo, original yellow cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Roger...

$3,400.00 Item Number: RRB-89467

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Houdini, Harry

The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin.

New York: The Publishers Printing Co, 1908.

First edition of this work by Houdini regarding his one-time idol. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of Houdini, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Harry Houdini on the front free endpaper. B...

$3,250.00 Item Number: RRB-99655

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McCarthy, Cormac

The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses; The Crossing; Cities of the Plain.

New York: Everyman's Library, 2008.

First edition of McCarthy’s classic trilogy, appearing here in one volume for the first time. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author, “For Tom and Corinn...

$3,250.00 Item Number: RRB-145835

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Wharton, Edith

The Age of Innocence.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1920.

First edition of the author’s Pulitzer-Prize winning novel. Octavo, original red cloth. In very good with some light toning to the spine. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.

$3,250.00 Item Number: RRB-92355

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Young, Brigham

Brigham Young Signed Document.

Salt Lake City:, 1872.

Brigham Young signed document as President of the Utah Central Railroad Company, ordering the treasurer of the UCRC to pay $13 to C.W. Penrose, with Penrose’s signature on verso. The entire piec...

$3,250.00 Item Number: RRB-123738

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Goldman, Emma

Living My Life.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931.

First editions of the famous radical’s autobiography, with frontispiece portraits and eleven additional photogravures of Goldman, fellow anarchist Alexander Berkman and others. Octavo, 2 volumes. Near...

$3,250.00 Item Number: RRB-108742

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Dailey, Abram H. [Mollie Fancher]

Mollie Fancher: the Brooklyn Enigma. An Authentic Statement of Facts in the Life of Mary J. Fancher, The Psychological Marvel of the Nineteenth Century.

Brooklyn: Eagle Book Printing Dept, 1894.

First edition of this work on Mollie Fancher. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by Mollie Fancher on the title page. In very good condition. Books signed by Fancher are rare.

$3,250.00 Item Number: RRB-129342

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