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The Power of Positive Thinking.

New York: Prentice-Hall, 1952.

First edition of Norman Vincent Peale’s enduring classic. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Norma-Jean Roth with best wish...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-140273

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King, Stephen

The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition.

New York: Doubleday, 1990.

The complete and uncut edition of one of the author’s best-known works being a complete and uncut version. Octavo, bound in original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on t...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150495

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Dickens, Charles

Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi. Edited by “Boz.”

London: Richard Bentley, 1838.

First edition of Dickens’ popular retelling of the memoirs of celebrated English clown Joseph Grimaldi. Octavo, two volumes bound in full polished calf by Root with morocco spine labels lettered...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148217

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Handel, George Frideric and Joseph Hayden

Celebrated Symphonies and Overtures of Joseph Haydn and George Frideric Handel.

London: I. Walsh, William Randall, C.S. Thompson, G. Walker, et al. Ossenbach sul Meno: Giovanni Andre, c. 1740-1815.

Rare collection of late 18th and early 19th century sheet music of the Celebrated Symphonies and Overtures of Joseph Haydn and George Frideric Handel. Quarto, bound in a variety of marbled wrappers an...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-112946

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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-146591

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White, Stanford

Stanford White Autograph Letter Signed.

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Autograph letter signed by architect Stanford White. It reads, “To [Marie] Anais [Casey], believed to have been romantically involved with White by his biographer, Aline B. Saarinen. With a type...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-3779

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Bellow, Saul

Dangling Man.

New York: Vanguard, 1944.

First edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, original beige cloth. Fine in a very good dust jacket that shows some chipping to the crown and foot of the spine. Signed by Saul Bellow on the...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-1962

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Lindbergh, Charles A

The Spirit of St. Louis.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953.

First edition, early printing of Lindbergh’s autobiographical account about the events leading up to and including his 1927 solo trans-Atlantic flight. Octavo, original blue cloth, illustrated e...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147499

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Rushdie, Salman

Midnight’s Children.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.

First American edition of the author’s Booker Prize-winning novel. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in five compartments within rais...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151813

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Aldrin, Buzz

Buzz Aldrin Signed Apollo Saturn V Launch Vehicle Diagram.

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Rare Apollo Saturn V Launch Vehicle diagram. Oversized print diagram of the Apollo Saturn V Launch Vehicle, boldly signed by Buzz Aldrin in black felt tip toward the top, “Buzz Aldrin, Apollo XI...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148456

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Adams, Henry [Editor].

Documents Relating to New-England Federalism. 1800-1815.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1877.

First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian’s work on the rise of Federalism in 19th century New England. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-141021

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Milnor, John

Annals of Mathematics Studies No. 51: Morse Theory.

Princeton, New Jersey: Annals of Mathematics Studies Princeton University Press, 1963.

Rare first edition of this compilation of lectures presented by John Milnor on the study of Morse Theory. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by John Milnor on the title page. In near fine condition. Mi...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-114620

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Farago, Ladislas

Patton: Ordeal and Triumph.

New York: Ivan Obolensky, 1963.

First edition of “the best Patton biography” (Military Bookman), a classic basis for the Academy Award-winning film, starring George C. Scott. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed Ladisla...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150611

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Rigaud, John Francis. [Leonardo Da Vinci]

A Treatise on Painting, by Leonardo Da Vinci. Faithfully Translated from the Original Italian, and Now First Digested Under Proper Heads.

London: Printed for J. Taylor, 1802.

First edition thus of English painter and Royal Academician John Francis Rigaud’s English translation of Leonardo da Vinci’s Treatise on Painting, compiled from manuscripts written during...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147281

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Solow, Robert M

Capital Theory and the Rate of Return.

Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1963.

First edition of the Nobel prize-winning economist’s De Vries Lectures on economics. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by Robert Solow on the title page. In near fine condi...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-46014

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Photographic View Book of China, Manchuria, and Korea.

Japan:, c. 1930.

First edition, oblong quarto, original boards. Gilt-lettered cloth, string-bound. Text in Japanese with captions in both Chinese and English. Illustrated with photographs throughout, large folding pa...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-60076

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Fowles, John [Harold Pinter]

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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Friedman, Milton & Rose

Money Mischief: Episodes in Monetary History.

New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich Publishers, 1992.

First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist on monetary history. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author, “For Alan, some bedtime reading, Bes...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-4119

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Schulz, Charles M

Peanuts Treasury.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968.

First edition of this classic collection of Peanuts. Quarto, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Charles Schulz on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Foreword by Johnny...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148034

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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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