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Lyon: Les Editions Lugdunum, 1933.

First edition of this work by the pioneer of forensic science. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by Edmund Locard on the half-title page. In near fine condition, with the bookpla...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-140474

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Inge, William. [Peter O'Toole]

A Loss of Roses: A New Play by William Inge.

New York: Random House, 1960.

First edition of Inge’s 1959 play, from the working library of legendary stage and screen actor Peter O’Toole. Octavo, original half cloth over pictorial boards. Association copy, inscribe...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-123340

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Walker, Alice

The Color Purple.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982.

First edition, early printing of Walker’s third novel, which made her the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jack...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-146798

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Polanyi, Karl

The Great Transformation.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1944.

First edition, first printing of Polanyi’s landmark work, widely considered one of the twentieth century’s most incisive and prophetic works of scholarship. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the sc...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-124390

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Schein, Edgar H

Process Consultation: Its Role In Organization Development.

Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1969.

First edition of this seminal work in organizational development and management studies. Octavo, original wrappers. Lengthily signed and dated by the author on the title page, “June 2, 2015 For...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151461

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Aday, Michael Lee [Meat Loaf]; Edgar Winter; Todd Rundgren; Roger Powell; Kasim Sulton

Meat Loaf Signed Bat Out of Hell Album.

New York: Cleveland International Records, 1977.

Meat Loaf’s debut studio album, released in 1977. Boldly signed by Meat Loaf, Edgar Winter, Todd Rundgren, Roger Powell, and Kasim Sulton on the front panel. Each of the artists which appear her...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147517

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Butterfield, Frederic William Louis [Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]

The Battle of Maldon, and Other Renderings from the Anglo-Saxon; Together with Original Verse.

Oxford: James Parker and Co, 1900.

First edition of this collection of English verse published to raise contributions for the Widows’ and Orphans’ Branch of the Transvaal War Fund. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Arthur C...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-92491

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Vachon, Marius. [Edouard Detaille; Edward VIII Duke of Windsor]

Detaille.

Paris: A. Lahure, 1898.

Finely bound example of Vachon’s biography of Detaille from the library of Edward VIII, Duke of Windsor. Folio, bound in three quarter morocco, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by Edoua...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-135461

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Sagan, Carl; F.D. Drake; Anne Druyan; Timothy Ferris; Jon Lomberg; Linda Salzman Sagan

Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record.

New York : Random House, 1978.

First edition of this fascinating story which covers the story of the interstellar record. Quarto, original cloth. Boldly signed by Carl Sagan on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket....

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-74002

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Mailer, Norman

The Naked and the Dead.

New York: Rinehart and Company, 1948.

First edition of the author’s classic first book. Thick octavo, original black boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Paul after the pleasure of our...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-118122

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Kipling, Rudyard

The Betrothed.

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Rare pamphlet of Kipling’s humorous and ironic poem. Duodecimo, original wrappers, frontispiece of Kipling, pictorial initials, six pages. In very good condition. Rare with none appearing at auc...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149559

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Doyle, Arthur Conan

Arthur Conan Doyle Autograph Note Signed.

:, c. 1919.

Rare handwritten note signed by Arthur Conan Doyle concerning spiritualism. One page on plain paper, not date. The letter reads, “Such cases are unhappily not very rare. For this reason people s...

$1,760.00 Item Number: RRB-152085

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Lawrence, D.H

Sons and Lovers.

London: Duckworth and Co, 1913.

First edition, first state of Lawrence’s first important novel and today regarded as a masterpiece by many critics and is often regarded as his finest achievement. Octavo, original cloth. In ver...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-136001

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Rowson [Susanna Haswell]

Charlotte Temple: A Tale of Truth.

Hartford: Published by Silas Andrus, 1827.

Early American printing of the first American bestseller, first published in 1794. 16mo, half calf over wooden boards, gilt-lettered spine, woodcut frontispiece. In good condition, assuming boards wer...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-142082

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Corso, Gregory

The Vestal Lady on Brattle and Other Poems.

Cambridge, MA: Richard Brukenfeld, 1955.

First edition of the poet’s first book one of 500 copies printed though about half of which were lost in the mail. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by Gregory Corso. In near fine condition. Rar...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-123719

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Butler, Octavia E

Imago.

New York: Warner Books, 1989.

First edition of the gripping climax to Butler’s acclaimed Xenogenesis trilogy. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Octavia E. Butler on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jac...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-134414

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Faulkner, William

Soldiers’ Pay.

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926.

First edition of Faulkner’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition with a touch of shelfwear. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell chemise and box.

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-116798

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Eisenhower, Dwight D

Dwight D. Eisenhower Signed Photograph.

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Photograph of Dwight D. Eisenhower in military uniform, boldly signed by him. In fine condition. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 17.75 inches by 14.75 inches. A very attractive sig...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-95837

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Victoria, Queen

Queen Victoria Appointment Signed.

:, 1842.

Rare signed signed by Queen Victoria on vellum, signed “Victoria R,” one page, 13 x 9, November 1, 1842. Queen Victoria appoints Archibald Richard Harene “to be Ensign in Our Ninety Seventh Regi...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-119348

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Shubik, Martin [Benoit Mandelbrot]

The Theory of Money and Financial Institutions.

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999.

First editions of Shubik’s work regarding the theory of money. Octavo, 2 volumes. Association copies, both volumes are inscribed by Martin Shubik to Benoit Mandelbrot. Volume one is signed,...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-49001

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Clarke, Arthur C

The Sands of Mars.

London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1951.

First edition of this early classic novel, by the legendary Arthur C. Clarke. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Arthur C. Clarke on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-150418

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O'Connor, Sandra Day

Sandra Day O’Connor Signed Photograph.

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Large color photograph of the Rehnquist Court, boldly signed below, “For Roger with best wishes always- Sandra Day O’Connor.” In fine condition. Framed. The entire piece measures 19...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-118779

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[Armenian Bible]

Girkr Astuatsashunchʿi hin ew nor Ktakaranatsʿ. [The Books of the Old and New Testaments in Armenian].

Venice: Printed at the Mekhitarist Monastery of Saint Lazarus, 1860.

Later edition of the Bible in classical Armenian. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco with gilt titles to the spine, title page vignette. In good condition with rubbing to the spine and extremitie...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-149517

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Wilde, Oscar

Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime & Other Stories.

London: James R. Osgood, 1891.

First edition of this collection of Wilde’s humorous mystery stories, published the same year as the first edition in book form of The Picture of Dorian Gray. Octavo, original stiff paper-cover...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-139780

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