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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.

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149521

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Cartier-Bresson, Henri

Moscou [Moscow].

Paris: Collection Neuf/ Robert Editeur, 1955.

First edition of this wonderfully illustrated work by the famed photographer. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-138199

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Saramago, Jose

O Evangelho Segundo Jesus Cristo. [The Gospel According To Jesus Christ].

Lisboa: Caminho, 1991.

First Portuguese edition and true first of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s classic work. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Signed by Jose Saramago on the title page. In near fine condition,...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-114809

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Ellinger, Barnard

The City: The London Financial Markets.

Westminster: P. S. King & Staples, Limited, 1940.

First edition of Ellinger’s work on the London financial markets. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. Exceedingly rare.

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-124205

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Kipling, Rudyard

The First Assault Upon the Sorbonne (Le Premier Assault Contre la Sorbonne).

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1922.

Rare first American edition of Kipling’s classic work on the Sorbonne. Octavo, original publisher’s half vellum, text in French and English. One of fifty copies. In near fine condition. Sc...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-123604

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Grant, Ulysses S

Ulysses S. Grant Autograph Document Signed.

:, 1871.

Autograph document signed by Ulysses S. Grant as President of the United States of America. Quarto, one page, partially printed, the document reads, ‘I hereby authorize and direct the Secretary...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-146683

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Sherman, William T

William T. Sherman Autograph Letter Signed.

:, 1888.

Rare handwritten letter signed by William T. Sherman to Manhattan socialite Margaret Middleton. Octavo, one page, the letter reads in full, “Please come to our Parlor 22 say at 1/2 past seven th...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-147771

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Clews, Henry

Twenty-Eight Years In Wall Street.

New York: Irving Publishing Co, 1888.

First edition of Clews’ classic work. Thick octavo, original green cloth, with titles to the spine in gilt and engraved frontispiece and nearly 50 portrait plates. Presentation copy, inscribed b...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-46052

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Ginsberg, Allen (John Clellon Holmes)

Iron Horse.

Toronto: The Coach House Press, 1972.

First edition of Ginsberg’s beatific visionary poem, an important part of his The Fall of America: Poems of These States sequence. Oblong octavo, original illustrated metallic wrappers. Associat...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-96567

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Mandelbrot, Benoit

Fractals: Form, Chance, and Dimension.

San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1977.

First edition of the mathematician’s groundbreaking work. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Samuel With the author...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-144375

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Rushdie, Salman

Midnight’s Children.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1981.

First British edition of the author’s Booker Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Charles- Salman Rushdie....

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-144363

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Trump, Donald J. with Tony Schwartz

Trump: The Art of the Deal.

New York: Random House, 1987.

First edition of Trump’s first book. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in a contemporary hand on the front free endpaper, “To Judy...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151733

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Albers, Josef. [Henri Cartier-Bresson]

Despite Straight Lines.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1961.

First edition of this work by the famed artist. Octavo, original boards. Association copy, inscribed by the author to Henri Cartier-Bresson, “For Henry Cartier-Bresson Josef Albers May 20, ‘68....

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-3783

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Knight, Hilary

Original Hilary Knight Ch’i-Lin and her Chinese Unicorn Watercolor Painting.

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Rare original water color painting of Hilary Knight’s characters Ch’i-Lin and her Chinese Unicorn. Rondo, painted in watercolor, ink and gold paint. Captioned by Knight in the lower left c...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-96228

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Friedman, Milton

Tax Limitation, Inflation & the Role of Government.

Dallas, TX: The Fisher Institute, 1978.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-150325

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Paglia, Camille

Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.

First edition of the author’s ground-breaking work. Octavo, original blue cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to close personal friend Ronald MacDonald, Professor of English Languag...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-112308

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Travers, P.L. [Lin Manuel Miranda]

First edition of the sequel to Mary Poppins. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated endpapers, illustrated by Mary Shepard. Boldly signed by Tony Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated actor Lin-Manue...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-150072

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[Burnet, Gilbert]; Collected out of Mezeray, Thuanus, and other approved Authors

A Relation of the Barbarous and Bloody Massacre of About an Hundred Thousand Protestants, Begun at Paris, and Carried on Over All France by the Papists, in the Year 1572.

London: Printed for Richard Chiswel, 1678.

First edition of this seventeenth-century Protestant account of the 1572 St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre. Small octavo, bound in full red morocco by Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles and elaborate tooling to...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149374

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Gaines, Ernest J

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.

New York: The Dial Press, 1971.

First edition of this classic novel, which depicts the struggles of African Americans as seen through the eyes of the narrator, a woman named Jane Pittman. Octavo, original boards. Lengthily signed by...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-146411

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Richter, Gerhard

Atlas.

Munich: Verlag Fred Jahn, 1989.

Munich: Verlag Fred Jahn, 1989. First edition of one of the most revealing collections of the photographic work of Gerhard Richter. Folio, original cloth. Signed and dated in the year of publication o...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-1000

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Brunhoff, Jean de; [Maurice Sendak]

Histoire de Babar le petit elephant. [The Story of Babar the Little Elephant].

Paris: Editions du Jardin des Modes, 1931.

First edition of the first book in de Brunhoff’s Babar the Elephant series in the original French; from the library of Maurice Sendak, although not marked. Folio, original half cloth over pictorial bo...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-147153

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Jacobi, Lotte [Carl Zahn; Yousuf Karsh; Estrellita Karsh]

Lotte Jacobi.

Danbury, New Hampshire: Addison House, 1978.

First edition of this autobiography of Lotte Jacobi, exploring her journey from running a premier Berlin studio to becoming a renowned photographer of cultural icons in New York. Square quarto, origin...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151772

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Frost, Robert

A Further Range.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1936.

First edition of Frost’s Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of verse. Octavo, original maroon cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper with a...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151924

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Boileau, Ethel [Ayn Rand]

Ballade in G Minor.

London: Hutchinson & Co, 1938.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “For Ayn Rand from Ethel Boileau A tr...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-136398

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First Edition Books for Sale Online

The Decoration of Houses.

Moscou [Moscow].

O Evangelho Segundo Jesus Cristo. [The Gospel According To Jesus Christ].

The City: The London Financial Markets.

The First Assault Upon the Sorbonne (Le Premier Assault Contre la Sorbonne).

Ulysses S. Grant Autograph Document Signed.

William T. Sherman Autograph Letter Signed.

Twenty-Eight Years In Wall Street.

Iron Horse.

Fractals: Form, Chance, and Dimension.

Midnight’s Children.

Trump: The Art of the Deal.

Despite Straight Lines.

Original Hilary Knight Ch’i-Lin and her Chinese Unicorn Watercolor Painting.

Tax Limitation, Inflation & the Role of Government.

Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson.

Mary Poppins Comes Back.

A Relation of the Barbarous and Bloody Massacre of About an Hundred Thousand Protestants, Begun at Paris, and Carried on Over All France by the Papists, in the Year 1572.

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.

Atlas.

Histoire de Babar le petit elephant. [The Story of Babar the Little Elephant].

Lotte Jacobi.

A Further Range.

Ballade in G Minor.