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The French Lieutenant’s Woman.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1969.

First edition of Fowles’ classic third novel. Octavo, original brown cloth, pictorial endpapers. Signed by both John Fowles and Harold Pinter on the title page. Pinter wrote the screenplay for t...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-91873

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Marx, Karl. Edited by Freidrich Engels

Das Kapital: Kritik der politischen Oekonomie.

Hamburg: Verlag von Otto Meissner, 1883-1885.

Rare early printing of one of the most influential books ever published. Octavo, original cloth over pebbled leather boards, all edges speckled red. In very good condition with ownership stamps, tape...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-104806

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Caesar, Gaius Julius

Commentaires de César, avec des Notes Historiques, Critiques et Militaires [Caesar’s Comments, with Historical, Critical and Military Notes].

Paris: A Montargis, 1785.

First edition edited and translated by Lancelot Turpin de Crissé. Quarto, three volumes, bound in full contemporary calf, morocco spine labels, gilt titles to the spine, engraved title pages, two port...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-104356

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[Fitzgerald, F. Scott]

The Great Gatsby Clamshell Box.

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Custom full morocco clamshell box hand made by The Harcourt Bindery to house a first edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Pictorial clamshell box with gilt titles and an onlay of t...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150365

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Radcliffe, Anne

A Sicilian Romance.

Philadelphia: Printed For Henry and Patrick Rice, 1795.

First American edition of Radcliffe’s classic 18th century gothic novel. Octavo, bound in full contemporary calf, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gilt ruling to the spine. In good conditio...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151221

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Watson, James C; Charles J. McDonald

Creek Indian Muscogee County, Georgia Land Grants.

:, 1826-1839.

Rare 19th century Creek Indian land surveys and lottery winning land grants. Octavo, four pages partially printed and accomplished in manuscript, the surveys are dated December 7th and 9th, 1826 and s...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146848

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Minsky, Marvin L

Computation Finite and Infinite Machines.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1967.

Rare first edition of Minsky’s first book, the father of AI. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper, owners stamp to the half-title page. R...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151401

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Darwin, Charles

The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication.

London: John Murray, 1868.

First edition, first issue of Darwin’s hypothesis of pangenesis in which he first uses the phrase “survival of the fittest” for the first time. First issue without publisher’s...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151873

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Miller, Arthur

The Crucible.

New York: The Viking Press, 1953.

First edition, early printing of this central work in the canon of American drama. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Gerald Kramer, A...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-138592

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Habermas, Jurgen

Theory and Practice.

Boston: Beacon Press, 1973.

First edition in English of the philosopher’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by “For John Roper Jurgen Habermas.” Near fine in a near fine dust ja...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-117642

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Wolfe, Thomas

Look Homeward, Angel.

New York: The Modern Library, 1934.

First Modern Library edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original dark blue cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Beryl Burk, with be...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-127273

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Fleming, Ian

Thunderball.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1961.

First edition of the ninth novel in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series. Octavo, original black cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Richard Chopping. A bright example.

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151514

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Billings, John D

Hardtack and Coffee or The Unwritten Story of Army Life.

Boston: George M. Smith & Co, 1887.

First edition of Billings’ classic Civil War memoir. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with six color plates and over two hundred sketches by Charles W. Reed. In very good condition. First edi...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-132819

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Bell, Daniel

The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas In the Fifties.

Glencoe, Ill: The Free Press, 1960.

First edition of this landmark in American social thought. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Adrienne Righ with appreciatio...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-86124

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Chinese Medicine and Physiognomy Manual Collection.

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Rare collection of nine Chinese woodblock physiognomy manuals, wonderfully illustrated with xiangfatu representing the principles and practices of Chinese physiognomy. Octavo, nine volumes bound in il...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149715

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Dickens, Charles. Illustrations by H.K. Browne

Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation.

London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846-48.

First edition in the scarce original parts of Dickens tale of the fortunes of the Dombey shipping firm. Octavo, 20 parts in 19, original wrappers, with 40 etchings by Halbot Knight Brown, containing a...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149076

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Beard, Peter

Peter Beard: Fifty Years of Portraits.

Sante Fe, NM: Arena Editions, 1999.

First edition of this classic monograph. Quarto, original leatherette cover. illustrated throughout. Elaborately signed and inscribed by Peter Beard in the year of publication, with his left hand impr...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146133

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Kipling, Rudyard

Songs For Youth.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1924.

First edition this classic selection of Kipling’s songs for children. Octavo, original cloth, illustrations by Leo Bates with 8 tipped-in color plates. Boldly signed by Rudyard Kipling on the ti...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151070

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ELIZABETH II, Queen and Prince Philip

Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip Signed Photograph.

:, 1955.

Rare photograph of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip with their children. Vintage matte-finish photograph removed from a Royal Christmas card from 1955, featuring a charming photo of Queen Elizabet...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146530

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Moliere. [Poquelin, Jean-Baptiste]

The Dramatic Works of Moliere.

Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1875-1876.

Finely bound example of Henri Van Laun’s important translation of Moliere’s complete dramatic works. Quarto, 6 volumes, bound in full straight-grain royal blue morocco, gilt titles and ela...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-130194

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Obly, Robert; Foreword by Francis Crick

The Path to the Double Helix.

Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1974.

First edition of this work on the history of the double helix. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by both the author and Francis Crick on the title page, who contributed the foreword. The aut...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-3394

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[Harry S. Truman]

Rare Gavel Made From the 1950 Truman White House Reconstruction.

:, c. 1950.

Rare Gavel Made From Relinquished Materials From the 1950 Truman White House Reconstruction. The wooden gavel was made from original materials removed from the White House during its reconstruction in...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151925

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Stoppard, Tom

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead.

London: Faber & Faber, 1967.

First paperback edition (issued simultaneously in hardback) of the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed by Tom Stoppard on the title page. In near fine condition.

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-139108

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