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The First Edition of ‘Paradise Lost’.

London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1941.

First appearance of Pershing’s work on the different states of the first edition of John Milton’s Paradise Lost which appeared in Vol. XXII, No. I. June 1941 issue of Transactions of the B...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-95340

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Walton, Izaak. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham

The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation Being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds, Fish and Fishing no unworthy the Perusal of most Anglers.

London: George C. Harrap & Co Ltd, 1931.

Deluxe signed limited edition of Arthur Rackham’s wonderfully illustrated rendition of The Compleat Angler. Quarto, original publisher’s full vellum decorated in gilt, pictorial endpapers,...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-140933

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Schweitzer, Albert

Albert Schweitzer Autograph Signed Photograph.

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Large photograph of Albert Schweitzer in Lambarene purchasing supplies for the hospital, signed and inscribed by him. The entire piece measures 13 inches by 11 inches. One of the largest signed photog...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-117846

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Brownmiller, Susan

Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1975.

First edition of this bestselling feminist classic that revolutionized the way we think about rape, as a historical phenomenon and as an urgent crisis, named by the New York Public Library’s 100 Books...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-150942

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Vidal, Gore

Williwaw.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1946.

First edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, original black cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “For Owen Roberts,...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-125772

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Balfour, Arthur James

Arthur James Balfour Collection of Autograph Letters Signed.

:, 1892-1911.

Rare collection of four letters signed by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905. The collection includes: Duodecimo, four pages, embossed with the House of Commons insignia and si...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-146657

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Olmsted, Frederick Law. Edited by Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. and Theodora Kimball

Frederick Law Olmsted: Landscape Architect 1822-1903: Early Years and Experiences Together with Biographical Notes.

New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.

First edition of the first volume of the autobiography of one of the foremost figures in American landscape architecture, Frederick Law Olmsted. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated, tissue-guarded fro...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-129553

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Reage, Pauline [Anne Desclos] Jean Paulhan [Preface]

The Story of O: With A Slaves Revolt an Essay on The Story of O.

New York: Grove Press/The Olympia Press, 1959.

First edition of this groundbreaking novel. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare in this condition.

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151367

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Huxley, Aldous

Point Counter Point.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1928.

Signed limited first edition of Huxley’s classic satiric novel, one of 256 numbered copies, this is number 254. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine. In near fine condition. Housed i...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-130871

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Dickens, Charles

The Christmas Books: The Chimes; The Battle of Life; Cricket on the Hearth; The Haunted Man and The Ghost’s Bargain.

London: Chapman and Hall/Bradbury & Evans, 1845-1848.

First editions of the four final novellas in Charles Dickens’ Christmas Book series. Octavo, 4 volumes bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in si...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-132035

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Chinese Buddhist Watercolor Scroll of Diyu.

China:, c. 1880-1900.

Rare original Chinese watercolor scroll of the realm of the dead. Watercolor on paper, wooden rollers at top and bottom. The scroll measures 62.5 inches by 30.25 inches. In very good condition.

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-147739

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Mitchell, Margaret

Margaret Mitchell Signed Letters.

:, 1941-42.

Two letters signed in full by Margaret Mitchell, author on the classic Gone With the Wind. Both letters addressed to Rear Admiral Edward J. Marquart and his wife, one dated December 26, 1941, the othe...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-21082

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Roosevelt, Eleanor

This Is My Story.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1937.

Signed limited large-paper edition of Eleanor Roosevelt’s first autobiography. Quarto, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in five compartments...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151877

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Despard, Charlotte. With an Appreciation by Christopher St. John

Woman in the New Era.

London: The Suffrage Shop, 1910.

First edition of Charlotte Despard’s impassioned feminist tract. Octavo, original wrappers. With an Appreciation by Christopher St. John. In good condition. Exceptionally rare with no other copi...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-135290

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Tolstoy, Leo

Where Love Is, There God Is Also.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. Publishers, 1887.

First American edition in English of Tolstoy’s short story in reference to the Catholic hymn Ubi Caritas. Small octavo, original cloth with elaborate gilt tooling to the front panel. Translated...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-96100

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Wharton, Edith

Ethan Frome.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911.

First edition, first issue with “wearily” in perfect type on penultimate line of page 135 and with four pages of publisher’s advertisements at rear, of Wharton’s greatest tragic story, a “grim tale of...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-99339

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Hesketh, Henry

Piety the Best Rule of Orthodoxy. Or, an Essay Upon this Proposition: That the Conduciveness of Doctrines to Holiness or Vice, is the best Rule for private Christians to judge the Truth or Falshood of them by.

London: Printed by Walter Kettilby, at the Bishops-Head in S. Paul's Church-yard, 1680.

Rare first edition of Hesketh’s classic essay. 12mo, bound in full contemporary mottled calf with gilt tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised bands, gilt turn-ins, all edges mar...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-140234

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Brautigan, Richard

A Confederate General from Big Sur.

New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1964.

First edition of Brautigan’s first published novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Richard Brautigan on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket painting by Larry Rivers. Jacke...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-110462

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Warhol, Andy

Andy Warhol Prints.

New York: Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Inc, 1985.

First edition of this definitive catalogue of Warhol’s prints, spanning his entire career. Quarto, original cloth, with over 390 illustrations of Warhol’s prints, including 344 in color. B...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-150354

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Teller, Edward O.; Francis Owen Rice

The Structure of Matter.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1949.

First edition, second printing of this introductory volume on the properties of matter and their systematic interpretation by quantum mechanics. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated w...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-146896

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Freud, Sigmund

Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics.

New York: Moffat, Yard and Company, 1918.

First American edition of Freud’s classic collection of Wilhelm Wundt and Carl Jung inspired essays. Octavo, original light blue cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket, ownership inscriptio...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-147070

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Kundera, Milan

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980.

First edition of the novel that brought Kundera his first big international success. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by Milan Kundera on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacke...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-131074

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Curtius Rufus, Quintus

De Rebus Alexandri Magni, Cum Commentario Perpetuo & Indice Absolutissimo Samuelis Pitisci. [History of Alexander the Great].

Utrecht: Apud Franciscum Halma, 1685.

Rare 17th century printing of Rufus’ celebrated history of Alexander the Great. Octavo, bound in full vellum, with engraved title, folding map and 9 engraved plates (some folding) depicting the...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-131499

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Frank, Anne

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.

London: Constellation Books, 1952.

Rare first British edition of “one of the wisest and most moving commentaries on war” (Eleanor Roosevelt). Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spi...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151624

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