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Christ Recrucified.

Athena:, 1954.

First Greek edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Nikos Kazantzakis on the copyright page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed.

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150226

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Roosevelt, Eleanor

Eleanor Roosevelt Signed Dollar Bill.

:, 1935.

Original series 1935 A one dollar silver certificate, boldly signed by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. In fine condition. The entire piece measures 15 inches by 12 inches. We have never seen another sig...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-133851

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Malamud, Bernard

Assistant.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1957.

First edition of Malamud’s second novel, which went on to win the Daroff Fiction Award from the Jewish Book Council of America and the Award of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Octav...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-100045

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de Balzac, Honoré [Czar Alexander II]

La Dernière Incarnation de Vautrin. [The Last Incarnation of Vautrin].

Paris: Chez Louis Chlendowski, 1848.

Finely bound edition of the final volume of ‘La Comédie Humaine’, from the library of Czar Alexander II of Russia. Octavo, three volumes bound in half crushed morocco over marbled boards w...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-145572

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Beerbohm, Max

The Works of Max Beerbohm.

London: William Heinemann, 1922-1928.

The Harlequin edition of the collected works of Max Beerbohm. Octavo, ten volumes bound in three quarter calf by Henry Sotheran Ltd. with gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gi...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-145008

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Crawford, Samuel W

Genesis of the Civil War: The Story of Sumter1860-1861.

New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1887.

Rare first edition of this classic work on the genesis of The Civil War. Octavo, original publisher’s green cloth, patterned endpapers, illustrated with tissue-guarded frontispiece, plans, map....

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150840

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Sikorsky, Igor; Eddie Rickenbacker; James H. Doolittle; Alford J. Williams; Anthony Fokker; Charles E. Rosendahl; Sherman Fairchild; Roscoe Turner; Thomas Sopwith; George Stainforth; Richard Atcherley; Clyde Pangborn; Ruth Nichols; Glenn L. Martin; Hugh Herndon, Jr; Frank Hawks; William A. Bishop; Giuseppe Mario Bellanca

Aviator Autograph Collection.

:, 1935-36.

Autograph collection with signatures from eighteen of the world’s famous aviation pioneers and fighter pilots. Octodecimo, eighteen pages mounted on carbon paper, the collection includes: postca...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147210

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Bernstein, Carl & Bob Woodward

All The President’s Men.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1974.

First edition, early printing of this groundbreaking work in American journalism. Octavo, original blue cloth, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by Carl Bernstein to his wife on the front free...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-140699

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Nehru, Jawaharlal

Inside America: A Voyage of Discovery.

New Dehli: National Book Stall, n/d.

First printing of this edition of this collection of speeches by Nehru in America. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Boldly signed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Jawaharlal Nehru...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-142442

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Wells, H.G. [Rebecca West]

The Autocracy of Mr. Parham: His Remarkable Adventures in this Changing World.

London: William Heinemann, 1930.

First edition, early printing of this novel which was praised by Bertrand Russell, inscribed by him to lover and fellow writer Rebecca West. Octavo, original cloth, with 10 illustrations by David Low....

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150810

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Wolfe, Tom [Ken Babbs]

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968.

First edition of the classic account of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters during their bus trip across America in the late 1960’s. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by Ken Kesey and fellow merry Pran...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149900

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Young, Brigham

Brigham Young Signed Utah Southern Railroad Company Check.

Salt Lake City, UT: Utah Southern Railroad Company, 1872.

Rare original Utah Southern Railroad Company uncashed check signed by Brigham Young. Partially printed document signed “Brigham Young” as President and “George Swan” as Secreta...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148327

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Dickens, Charles

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1839.

First edition of one of Dickens’ most popular novels. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, gilt medallion portrait of Dickens on...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-130269

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Keats, Ezra Jack

The Snowy Day.

New York: The Viking Press, 1962.

First edition of The Snowy Day, which is considered “one of the most important American books of the 20th century” (Diefendorf, ed. The New York Public Library’s Books of the Century...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151626

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Grogan, Emmett

Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1972.

First edition of “the best and only authentic book written on the sixties underground” (Dennis Hopper). Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed and dated by the author on the title pa...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-47007

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Wilberforce, William

William Wilberforce Autograph Letter Signed.

Palace Yard, Westminster:, 11 February 1807.

An extraordinary autograph letter signed by William Wilberforce – the man who devoted his life to ending the British slave trade – written just eleven days after Parliament passed the Slav...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-152120

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Coase, Ronald H

Essays on Economics and Economists.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.

First edition of this collection of articles by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed and dated by Ronald Coase on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-3919

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Rowling, J.K

Harry Potter and the Goblet Of Fire.

London: Bloombsbury, 2000.

First edition of Rowling’s fourth book in the Harry Potter series. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Boldly signed by J.K. Rowling on the dedication page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Cove...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147802

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Hemingway, Ernest. [Lauren Bacall]

To Have and Have Not.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937.

First edition of Ernest Hemingway’s fourth novel. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands, gi...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151967

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Sinclair, Upton

The Jungle.

New York: Doubleday, Page, & Company, 1906.

First edition of this classic political work. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to t...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150046

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Edwards, Jonathan

An Humble Inquiry into the Rules of the Word of God, Concerning the Qualifications Requisite to a Complete Standing and Full Communion in the Visible Christian Church.

Edinburgh: Hugh Inglis, 1790.

Rere second edition of this theological treatise by the famed philosopher and theologian. Duodecimo, original half-cloth. In good condition with bumping and rubbing, wear, and losses to the spine and...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148319

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Truman, Harry S. [Georgia Neese Clark Gray]

Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Harry S. Truman 1945-1953 Volumes I – VIII Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the Presidents.

Washington, D.C: United States Government Printing Office, 1961-1966.

First editions of the complete set of Truman’s papers from 1945-1953. Imperial octavo, eight volumes, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the spine, frontispieces. Presentation copy,...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150130

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Kirzner, Israel M

The Economic Point of View.

Princeton, NJ: D. Van Nostrand Company, 1960.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised bands, gilt ruling to the front...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-146012

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[Lord Byron]

Don Juan. [Cantos I & II].

Philadelphia: Published by M. Thomas, 1819.

Scarce first American edition, first printing of Byron’s great work which was widely criticized as immoral upon publication and is now considered one of the greatest poems of the Romantics. Duodecimo,...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151228

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