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Purple, N. H. [Abraham Lincoln; William Herndon]

A Compilation of the Statutes of the State of Illinois, of a General Nature, In Force January 1, 1856. Collated with Reference to Decisions of the Supreme Court of Said State, and to Prior Laws Relating to the Same Subject Matter.

Chicago: Published by Keen & Lee, 1856.

First edition of Purple’s Statutes from the law library of Abraham Lincoln and William Herndon. Large octavo, 2 volumes, bound in full contemporary calf with morocco spine labels lettered in gil...

$20,000.00 Item Number: RRB-124498

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Rand, Ayn

Atlas Shrugged.

New York: Random House, 1957.

First edition of one of the most influential novels of the twentieth century. Large octavo, original green cloth, frontispiece stamped in gilt, spine stamped in black and gilt. Presentation copy, insc...

$20,000.00 Item Number: RRB-147909

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Rowling, J.K.; Illustrated by Mary Grandpre

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.

New York: Scholastic Press, 1998.

First American edition, first printing of the first book in the Harry Potter series. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated by Mary Grandpre. Boldly signed by J.K. Rowling on the second title page....

$20,000.00 Item Number: RRB-139502

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King Jr., Martin Luther; Coretta Scott King; Ralph Abernathy

Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King Signed Kenyan Independence Day Invitation.

[Stockholm]:, [13 December 1964].

Rare invitation to a celebration of the first anniversary of Kenyan Independence in Stockholm, Sweden signed by Martin Luther King, Jr., Coretta Scott King, and Ralph Abernathy. The color-printed invi...

$20,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151903

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Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de

Second Part of The History of the Valorous and Witty Knight-Errant, Don Quixote of the Mancha.

London: Printed for Edward Blount, 1620.

First edition of the second part of Cervantes’ masterpiece in English. Oblong duodecimo, bound in half leather over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments w...

$20,000.00 Item Number: RRB-145724

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Kerouac, Jack [Gary Snyder]

On The Road.

New York: The Viking Press, 1957.

First edition of Kerouac’s classic novel. Octavo, original black cloth. Boldly signed by legendary beat Gary Snyder on the half-title page. Near fine in an excellent near fine dust jacket with l...

$20,000.00 Item Number: RRB-131088

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Buck, Pearl S

The Good Earth.

New York: John Day, 1931.

First edition, first issue with “flees” for “fleas” on page 100, line 17 of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and masterpiece. Octavo, original brown cloth, illus...

$20,000.00 Item Number: RRB-80122

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Woolf, Virginia

To the Lighthouse.

London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1927.

First edition of one of Woolf’s most popular and acclaimed major novels, in the extremely rare original dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell, Woolf’s sister. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the r...

$20,000.00 Item Number: RRB-116345

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Translated by Rabbi Isidore Epstein

The Babylonian Talmud.

London: The Soncino Press, 1935-1952.

First complete English translation and first Soncino edition of the Babylonian Talmud, a revered and significant work of Jewish scholarship. Octavo, 52 volumes in the original publisher’s deluxe...

$20,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149544

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Sunderland, Jabez T. [Mohandas Gandhi [Mahatma], Charlie Chaplin, and Madeleine Slade]

India in Bondage: Her Right to Freedom and a Place Among the Great Nations.

New York: Lewis Copeland Company, 1929.

First edition of this political critique of British colonial rule in India. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the spine, vignette of India stamped in gilt to the front panel...

$20,000.00 Item Number: RRB-150889

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Fleming, Ian

The Spy Who Loved Me.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1962.

First edition of the ninth novel in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series. Octavo, original black cloth. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Peter To Cheer him up! From Ian.”...

$20,000.00 Item Number: RRB-37032

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Salinger, J.D

J.D. Salinger Autograph Letter Signed.

:, 1944.

Scarce autograph note signed by J.D. Salinger on April 4, 1944, two months and two days before he saw combat at Utah Beach on D-Day. One page from an oblong octavo autograph album bound in full leathe...

$20,000.00 Item Number: RRB-117208

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Shackleton, Ernest; James Murray and George Marston

Antarctic Days. Sketches of the Homely Side of Polar Life by Two of Shackleton’s Men: Introduced by Sir Ernest Shackleton.

London: Andrew Melrose, 1913.

Limited edition de luxe of this account of the 1907-09 Nimrod Expedition under Shackleton. number 181 of 280 copies signed on the recto of the limitation leaf by E.H. Shackleton, James Murray and Geor...

$20,000.00 Item Number: RRB-132467

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Cain, James M

The Postman Always Rings Twice.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934.

First edition of one of the most important crime novels of the twentieth century, adapted as a motion picture seven times. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly Signed by James M. Cain on the front free endp...

$20,000.00 Item Number: RRB-114122

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[Grant, Ulysses S.; Hamilton Fish; William Tecumseh Sherman; et al]

Ulysses S. Grant Treaty of Washington Signed Document Collection.

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Rare collection of documents related to the 1871 Treaty of Washington including signatures of all of the key figures involved in its signing including President Ulysses S. Grant, his Secretary of Stat...

$20,000.00 Item Number: RRB-143272

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Schumpeter, Joseph A

Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1942.

First edition of Schumpeter’s ground-breaking work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. First edit...

$20,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149817

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Remarque, Erich Maria

All Quiet On The Western Front.

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1929.

First American edition of this landmark novel of the 20th century. Octavo, original beige cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, To Mary Constance Ryder with my best...

$20,000.00 Item Number: RRB-121588

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King Jr., Martin Luther

Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1967.

First edition of King’s “last grand expression of his vision” (Cornel West). Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with eight pages of black-and-white photogravures. Presentation...

$20,000.00 Item Number: RRB-137331

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Russell, Bertrand and Alfred North Whitehead

Principia Mathematica.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1950.

First edition of volume one and second editions of volumes two and three, in the rare dust jackets of Russell and Whitehead’s monumental work. Octavo, three volumes, original cloth. Rare and des...

$20,000.00 Item Number: RRB-140610

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Graham, Benjamin; David L. Dodd [Warren E. Buffet]

Security Analysis: Principles and Technique.

New York: McGraw Hill Book Company, Inc, 1940.

First printing of the second edition of Graham and Dodd’s seminal work, considered the Bible of modern financial analysis. Octavo, original black cloth, gilt titles to the spine. Boldly signed by Warr...

$20,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149857

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Merton, Robert C. [Kenneth Arrow]

The Review of Economics and Statistics: Lifetime Portfolio Selection Under Uncertainty.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1969.

Volume LI of Harvard University’s Review of Economics and Statistics containing Robert Merton’s Lifetime Portfolio Selection Under Uncertainty: The Continuous-Time Case, which introduced t...

$20,000.00 Item Number: RRB-127335

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Rand, Ayn

Atlas Shrugged.

New York: Random House, 1957.

First edition of one of the most influential novels of the twentieth century. Large octavo, original green cloth, spine stamped in black and gilt. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed and dated by the...

$20,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151474

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Friedman, Milton

Milton Friedman Manuscript on J.M. Keynes’ The General Theory.

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One page signed and hand-corrected manuscript entirely in the hand of Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman discussing Keynes’ The General Theory. Inscribed in the top right corner,...

$20,000.00 Item Number: RRB-88180

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Scott, Robert Falcon. Edited by Ernest Henry Shackleton, Louis C. Bernacchi and Apsley George Benet Cherry-Garrard

The South Polar Times.

London: Smith, Elder, & Co, 1907-1914.

First limited edition of the complete collection of the South Polar Times, a periodical created by Scott’s crew during his two polar expeditions on the ships Discovery and Terra Nova, with a sli...

$20,000.00 Item Number: RRB-95157

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