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Thoughts on the late Proceedings of Government, Respecting the Trade of the West India Islands with the United States of North America.

London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1784.

Rare Second edition, corrected and enlarged, of this pamphlet arguing that restricting trade between the British West Indies and the newly independent United States would devastate the Caribbean sugar...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151142

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King, Stephen

The Dead Zone.

New York: The Viking Press, 1979.

First edition of this classic work, basis for the 1983 thriller film directed by David Cronenberg. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Stephen King on the title page. Near fine in a near fin...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-147101

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Morgan, John Pierpont [J.P.]

John Pierpont Morgan Autograph Signature.

:, .

Rare autograph signature from American financier and banker John Pierpont Morgan. Boldly signed in ink on an off-white slip clipped from a document, “J. Pierpont Morgan.” In fine condition...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-148494

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Kirzner, Israel M

An Essay on Capital.

New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1966.

First edition of Kirzner’s essay of the conceptual problems surrounding the foundations of capital theory. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the title page. In fine condition.

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-114868

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Tarkington, Booth

The Magnificent Ambersons

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1918.

First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, basis for the classic Orson Wells film often regarded as among the greatest films of all time. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Ha...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-144080

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Bowen, Elizabeth

The Death of the Heart.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1938.

First edition of Bowen’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the month of publication, “William from Elizabeth Oc...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-117614

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Maurer, David W

The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1940.

First edition of this classic study of con men, basis for the film The Sting directed by George Roy Hill starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford and Robert Shaw. Octavo, original cloth. Review copy, w...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-146060

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Goldoni, Carlo

Nuovo Teatro Comico Dell’Avvocato Carlo Goldoni Poeta Di S. A. R. Il Serenissimo Infante di Spagna Don Filippo Duca Di Parma, Piacenza, Guastalla, ec. [New Comic Theater of the Lawyer Carlo Goldoni].

Venezi: Francesco Pitteri, 1753-1755.

Rare complete set of Pitteri’s 1757 printing of Goldoni’s works of comic theater. Octavo, ten volumes bound in full vellum with gilt tooling to the spine, engraved frontispiece portrait of...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-129035

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Chagall, Marc; Text and Notes by Jean Leymarie

Jerusalem Windows.

New York: George Braziller, 1962.

First edition. Folio, original red cloth. With two original color lithographs specially prepared by Chagall for this edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Contains the rarely seen original slipcase, al...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-4235

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Phelps, Edmund S

Golden Rules of Economic Growth: Studies of Efficient and Optimal Investment.

New York: W.W. Norton & Norton Company, Inc., 1966.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning economist’s first book, a collection of twelve essays in mathematical economics. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Edmund Phelps on the title page. Slip...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-2375

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Aristotle. Translated by Theodoro Gaza

Aristotelis De Historia Animalium Libri. IX. [Bound with] De Partibus Animalium, & Earu Causis, Libri IIII; De Generatione Animalium Libri V; Hoc Volumine Continentur.

Parisiis: Ex officina Prigentii Caluarini ad Geminas Cyppas in Clauso Brunello, 1542.

Rare 16th century French printing of Aristotle’s pioneering work on zoology which had a powerful influence on zoology for over two thousand years. Octavo, bound in full polished calf, engraved t...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-133014

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Wiesel, Elie. [Herman Wouk]

Messengers of God: Biblical Portraits and Legends.

New York: Random House, 1976.

First edition of this collection of portraits exploring the lives of key biblical figures. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publi...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151774

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Silverstein, Shel

A Light In the Attic.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1981.

First edition, early printing of Silverstein’s classic collection of children’s poems. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated by the author. Boldly signed by Shel Silverstei...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151962

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Karlin, Samuel and Lloyd Stowell Shapley [L.S.]

Geometry of Moment Spaces.

Santa Monica: The Rand Corporation, 1951.

Rare first appearance of mathematician Samuel Karlin and Nobel Prize-winning economist Lloyd Stowell Shapley’s early work on the geometry of the moment space, a precursor to Shapley’s deve...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-112974

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Ching, Francis D.K

Building Construction Illustrated.

New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1975.

First edition of this classic work. Quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To John R. 9/7/2015 Franc...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-114591

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Brothers Grimm

Household Stories from the Collection of the Brothers Grimm.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1882.

Finely bound edition of this collection of classic fairytales. Octavo, bound in full dark blue morocco by Kelliegram with gilt titles and floral tooling to the spine, floral ruling to the front and re...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149423

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Dinesen, Isak [Karen Blixen]

Anecdotes of Destiny.

New York: Random House, 1958.

First edition of this classic collection of stories and the last to be published in her lifetime. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Isak Dinesen on the half-title page, while on her only trip t...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-144976

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Japanese Spy Manual.

Wuhan:, c.1940s-1950s.

Rare Japanese spy manual. Octavo, original wrappers printed in black and red, illustrated with photos of spy gadgets and techniques to hide them on one’s person or search for them on a suspected...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-145396

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Maas, Peter [Al Pacino]

Serpico. The Cop Who Defied the System.

New York: The Viking Press, 1973.

First edition of this classic work, basis for the film starring Academy Award-winning actor Al Pacino. Octavo, original half cloth, with four pages of illustrations. Boldly signed by the author on the...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-147477

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Bellow, Saul

Dangling Man.

New York: The Vanguard Press, 1944.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s first book. Octavo, original beige cloth. Signed by Saul Bellow on the title page. Fine in a very good dust jacket that shows some wear and toni...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-12039

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Ben-Gurion, David

David Ben-Gurion Signed Photograph: United Jewish Appeal.

:, 1959.

Photograph of David Ben-Gurion signed and dated in 1959 by him in Hebrew, presented to Max Goldweber in appreciation from The United Jewish Appeal. The UJA-Federation, as it is known today, was create...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-41088

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Bernhardt, Sarah

Petite Idole.

Paris: Editions Nilsson, 1921.

First edition of this work, lengthily inscribed by legendary actress Sarah Bernhardt. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, front panel illustration by Maggy Monier. Presentation copy, lengthily inscri...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-134711

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Lee, Harper

To Kill a Mockingbird.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1960.

Later printing of Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning first novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by actor Robert Duvall on the front free endpaper, “John, Bob Duvall ‘Boo.'” T...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-152236

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Bellow, Saul

Dangling Man.

New York: The Vanguard Press, 1944.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s first book. Octavo, original beige cloth. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. An exceptional example.

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-81980

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