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Ensaio Sobre a Cegueira [Blindness].

Lisboa: Caminho, 1995.

First Portuguese edition and true first of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by Jose Saramago on the title page. In near fine...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-138766

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Carre, John le

Our Kind of Traitor and An Address Given at the Oxford Literary Festival March 2010.

London: Viking and London Review Bookshop, 2010.

Signed limited first edition of this thrilling novel which was the inspiration for the 2016 film by the same name starring Ewan McGregor, Naomie Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Damian Lewis and Alicia von...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145764

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Gifford, Barry; [Jack Kerouac]

Coyote Tantras and Other Poems.

London: Silverthorne Foundation Inc, 1968.

First edition of this compelling book of poetry; from the library of ‘On the Road’ author Jack Kerouac. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title pa...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146635

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Garcia Marquez, Gabriel

Noticia de un Secuestro [News of a Kidnapping]

Mexico: Editorial Diana, 1996.

First edition of this work of nonfiction by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-132317

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Seuss, Dr. [Theodor Geisel]

The Cat in the Hat Comes Back.

New York: Beginner Books: A Division of Random House, 1958.

First edition, stated first printing of the sequel of Dr. Seuss’ The Cat in the Hat. Octavo, original illustrated boards, pictorial endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author opposite...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151999

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West, Rebecca

Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: The Record of a Journey Through Yugoslavia in 1937.

New York: The Viking Press, 1941.

First American editions of Rebecca West’s masterpiece. Octavo, 2 volumes, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Association copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145979

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Childs, George W. [William Tecumseh Sherman]

Recollections.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1890.

First edition of the autobiography of the famous publisher and co-owner of Philedelphia’s Public Ledger; from the library of General William Tecumseh Sherman. Duodecimo, bound in contemporary bl...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145751

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Ricardo, David; Edited by Piero Sraffa & M.H. Dobb

The Works And Correspondence Of David Ricardo.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1951-55.

First editions of the works of economist David Ricardo. Octavo, original cloth, 10 volumes. Each are near fine to fine in excellent dust jackets. An very nice set, uncommon in such exceptional conditi...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-4284

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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 Everyman’s Library edition, later printing of McCarthy’s classic trilogy, appearing here in one volume for the first time. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the half-ti...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-152107

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Kilmer, Joyce

Summer of Love.

New York: The Baker & Taylor Company, 1911.

First edition, first issue of Joyce Kilmer’s first book of verse. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to fellow poet and literary critic Thomas Walsh, “To...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-92792

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Roosevelt, Eleanor

India and the Awakening East.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1953.

First edition of Eleanor Roosevelt’s account of her travels through the Middle East and India. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with 32 pages of photographs. Pre...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-110954

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Collins, Michael

Michael Collins Signed Saturn V First Stage Separation Oversized Photograph.

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Oversized photograph of a Saturn V S-IC first stage separation, boldly signed in silver by American astronaut Michael Collins, “Michael Collins Apollo XI CMP.” The Apollo 11 first stage se...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145782

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Wharton, Edith & Ogden Codman Jr

The Decoration of Houses.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897.

First edition of Edith Wharton’s first published book. Quarto, original marbled paper boards. Illustrated with 56 plates. In very good condition. First editions are uncommon.

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-124586

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Schuyler, George S

Slaves Today: A Story of Liberia.

New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1931.

First edition of “the first novel about Africa written by an African American” (Aric Putnam). Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “T...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-125792

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Burgess, Anthony

A Clockwork Orange.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1963.

Finely bound edition of Burgess’ landmark novel. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ru...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146490

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Eliot, George

Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe.

Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861.

First edition of this classic work in Carter’s binding “A”, which is the preferred and much more elaborate, with Blackwood and Carlyle ads at the rear (which only appear in some copi...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-4399

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Keynes, John Maynard. [J.M.]

Indian Currency and Finance.

London: Macmillan & Co, 1913.

First edition of Keynes’ first major work on economics, a publisher’s presentation copy with the publishers stamp to the title page. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition with lig...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147670

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Aristotle

Logica: Aristotelis Ex Tertia Recognitione. Libri Logicorumad Archetypos Recogniti.

Parisiis: Petri Vidouei, 1531.

Rare 16th century French printing of Aristotle’s third book of logic. Folio, bound in full vellum, elaborate woodcut vignette-border title-page, illustrated with numerous in-text woodcut diagram...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-133411

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Shirer, William L

The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960.

First edition, later printing of “one of the most important works of history of our time” (Orville Prescott, New York Times). Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Presentation c...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-152156

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Jay-Z; Strouse, Charles

Jay-Z Vol. 2… Hard Knock Life RIAA Multi-Platinum Award Presented to Charles Strouse.

:, 1999.

RIAA multi-platinum sales award for Jay-Z’s Vol. 2… Hard Knock Life, presented to Charles Strouse, the composer of the song that gave the album its title. Platinum cassette and compact disc mounted in...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-152200

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Le Carre, John. [David Cornwell]

The Karla Trilogy: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy; The Honourable Schoolboy; Smiley’s People.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1974-1980.

First editions of each title in the author’s acclaimed Karla Trilogy. Octavo, 3 volumes, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper of Smiley’s Peo...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-137034

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Dabit, Eugene

L’Hotel du Nord.

Paris: Robert Denoël, 1929.

First edition of the author’s immensely popular novel. Octavo, bound in full crushed levant morocco by Valmard with gilt titles to the spine, marbled endpapers and additional patterned silk endl...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-144043

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Wright, Orville

Orville Wright Signed Photograph.

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Rare vintage matte-finish portrait photograph of Orville Wright. Inscribed by Wright at the lower left corner in fountain pen, “To Wm. P. MacCracken from his friend Orville Wright.” The re...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149582

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Paine, Thomas

Rights of Man: Part the First Being An Answer to Mr. Burke’s Attack on the French Revolution [and] Rights of Man: Part the Second. Combining Principle and Practice.

London, Printed: New York: Reprinted For Berry, Rogers, and Berry, No. 35, Hanover Square, 1792-1793.

Early printing of Paine’s Rights of Man Part the First and Part the Second. Octavo, disbound. With the textual error to the date of publication to Part the First reading 1742. The first part of Rights...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-121460

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