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One Up On Wall Street.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989.

First edition of this classic volume on investing; one of the all-time best-selling books in the field. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Peter Lynch and co-author John Rothchild on the ti...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150059

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Bush, George Herbert Walker

George H.W. Bush Signed Souvenir Inaugural Address.

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Typed inaugural address signed by the 41st President of the United States with a rare full signature, “George Herbert Walker Bush.” One page, typescript, the souvenir inaugural address mea...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-145237

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Roth, Philip [Richard Benjamin and Ali MacGraw]

Goodbye, Columbus.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1959.

First edition of the author’s first book and winner of the National Book Award. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by actors Richard Benjamin and Ali MacGraw on the half-title page, who starr...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-146076

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Dickens, Charles

Our Mutual Friend.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1865.

First edition of Dickens’ final completed novel. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, gilt medallion portrait of Dickens on the f...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-130506

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Verne, Jules

Jules Verne Autograph Letter Signed.

Amiens:, 12 July, [no year].

Rare autographed letter signed by the father of science fiction Jules Verne. One page in French, 32mo, addressed “Cher Monsieur,” the letter reads in full (translated), “Amiens, July...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147412

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Baldwin, A.C.; R.B. Thurston; Timothy Williston

Liberty or Slavery; the Great National Question. Three Prize Essays on American Slavery.

Boston: Congregational Board of Publication, 1857.

First edition of this important collection of three prize-winning antislavery essays published in Boston the same year as the infamous Dred Scott decision. Small octavo, original publisher’s bro...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151981

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Jackson, Andrew

Andrew Jackson Autograph Document Signed.

:, December 6, 1830.

Rare Presidential Land Grant signed by Andrew Jackson as President and countersigned by Commissioner of the General Land Office Elijah Hayward. One page partially printed on vellum the document is dat...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-104206

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Garcia Marquez, Gabriel

Vivir para Contarla [Living To Tell the Tale].

Bogota: Grupo Editorial Norma, 2002.

First edition in Spanish of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s memoir. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page with a large drawing...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-132701

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Graham, Benjamin & David L. Dodd [Burt Malkiel]

Security Analysis: Principles and Technique.

New York: Whittlesey House/ McGraw Hill, 1940.

The second edition of this classic work. Octavo, original black cloth. Lengthily signed by legendary author and investor Burton Malkiel on the front free endpaper, “Ben Graham came to believe in...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148988

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Cable, George W

The Negro Question.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890.

First edition of this key piece of social reform. Duodecimo, original maroon cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf, “To Frederick H. Hitchcock from G.W. Cable No...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-145443

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Salter, James

A Sport And A Pastime.

Garden City, NY: Paris Review Editions/ Doubleday, 1967.

First edition of this modern classic, hailed as a masterpiece. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by James Salter on the title page. With a publisher’s compliments of the author laid in, fine i...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-146210

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Jodidio, Philip; Zaha Hadid

Zaha Hadid: Complete Works, 1979-2009.

New York: Tashen, 2009.

First edition of the most comprehensive volume on the work of Zaha Hadid. Folio, original boards, illustrated throughout. Signed by Zaha Hadid on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-26063

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Mather, William Williams

Geological Map of Long & Staten Islands with the Environs of New York From the Topographical Surveys of J. Calvin Smith.

New York:, 1842.

Rare hand-colored example of Mather’s monumental pre-Civil War wall map of Long Island, the finest and largest map of Long Island of the period. One page, two sheets joined from the topographica...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148871

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Lessing, Doris [V.S. Naipaul]

The Golden Notebook.

London: Michael Joseph, 1962.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s magnum opus. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of fellow Nobel Prize-winning author V.S. Naipaul on the front free endpaper. V.S. Naipaul...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149113

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Russell, Bertrand

The Scientific Outlook.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1931.

First edition of this classic work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Bertrand Russell on the front pastedown. With a note from the recipient that it was signed in 19...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-119625

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Waugh, Evelyn [Daphne Fielding]

Scott-King’s Modern Europe.

London: Chapman & Hal, 1947.

First edition of this classic novella. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “Daphne with love fr...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150292

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Thieu, Nguyen Van

Nguyen Van Thieu Signed Time Magazine Cover.

:, August 27, 1968.

Rare Time Magazine Latin American Edition cover from the September 15, 1967 issue. Octavo, one page, featuring a reproduction of a bust portrait of Nguyen Van Thieu painted by Boris Chaliapin. Boldly...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-146627

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[General William T. Sherman] [Ulysses S. Grant]

General Sherman’s Bronze Sculpture of an Elephant.

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Rare bronze sculpture of an elephant, most likely used as an ink well, from the collection of General William T. Sherman preserved in his military trunk. Ulysses S. Grant, a close friend of Sherman...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147816

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Gorbachev, Mikhail [Lech Walesa]

Memoirs.

New York: Doubleday, 1996.

First edition of Gorbachev’s autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Mikhail Gorbachev and additionally signed by Lech Walesa on the title page. Lech Wałęsa is...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150442

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Kazantzakis, Nikos

Zorba The Greek.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1953.

First edition of Kazantzakis’ masterpiece, basis for the beloved Academy award-winning film. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six co...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-143544

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Venturi, Robert; Introduction by Vincent Scully

Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture.

New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1966.

First edition of this essential document of architectural literature. Octavo, original gray cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Robert Venturi and Vincent Scully on the title page. Fine in a near fin...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150581

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Rothbard, Murray N

For A New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto.

New York: Collier Books, 1978.

First edition of Rothbard’s classic treatise on libertarianism. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “J...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-145961

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Roosevelt, Eleanor & Helen Ferris

Partners: The United Nations and Youth.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1950.

First edition of this work which tells the dramatic story of the United Nations. Small quarto, original cloth, illustrated, pictorial endpapers. Signed by Eleanor Roosevelt and inscribed by Helen Ferr...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-4553

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North America XIV Florida: Published Under the Superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.

London: Baldwin & Cradock, 1834.

Rare 19th century English map of the state of Florida, published by Baldwin & Cradock under the superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. One page, the map shows the pl...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-146853

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