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Madame Bovary: A Story of Provincial Life.

London: John Lane/The Bodley Head LTD, 1928.

The Bodley Head edition of a seminal novel in literary realism, renowned for its psychological depth and critique of bourgeois society. Octavo, bound in full pictorial morocco by Sangorski & Sutcl...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-148368

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Mantle, Mickey

The Quality of Courage.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1964.

First edition of this early work by baseball Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Murph and Joyc...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-145896

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Rothbard, Murray N

What Has Government Done To Our Money?

Novato, CA: Libertarian Publishing, n.d..

Original pamphlet by the famed libertarian economist. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Boldly signed by Murray N. Rothbard on the front panel. In fine condition.

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-148197

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King, Jr., Martin Luther

Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1958.

First edition, early printing of Dr. Martin Luther King’s first book. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-142687

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Sinclair, Upton

Oil! A Novel.

Long Beach, CA: Published by the Author, 1927.

Early printing of Upton Sinclair’s self-published social and political satire and the basis for the film ‘There Will be Blood’ starring Daniel Day Lewis. Presentation copy, inscribed...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-146702

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King, Stephen

Bag of Bones.

New York: Scribners, 1998.

First edition of this work which won the 1999 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel, the 1999 British Fantasy Award for Best Novel, and the 1999 Locus Award for Best Dark Fantasy/Horror Novel. Octavo, orig...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-142294

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The Whole Art of Fishing. Being a Collection and Improvement of All That Has Been Written Upon the Subject: With Many New Experiments. Shewing the Different Ways of Angling, and the Best Methods of Taking Fresh-water Fish. To Which is Added, the Laws of Angling.

London: E. Curll, 1714.

First edition of this comprehensive 18th-century manual on the art of angling. Duodecimo, bound in full contemporary sprinkled tan sheepskin with the front and rear panels ruled in gilt, gilt crest of...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-151073

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Burke, Bill

I Want To Take Picture.

Atlanta: Nexus Press, 1987.

First edition. Folio, original glossy illustrated boards. Limited to 1,000 copies. Signed by Bill Burke. In fine condition.

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-1684

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Saramago, Jose

Baltasar and Blimunda.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1987.

First American edition of Saramago’s first book to be translated into English. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated by the author on the half-title page, “To Haro...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-100019

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Cather, Willa

The Troll Garden.

New-York: McClure Phillips, 1905.

First edition, first issue of this classic collection of stories. Octavo, original publisher’s dark red cloth. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise clamshell box. In near fine condition....

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-142277

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Friedman, Milton & Rose

Free To Choose: A Personal Statement.

New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1980.

First edition, early printing of Friedmans’ persuasive argument for the free market, based on the PBS series Free to Choose. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the auth...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-133804

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Haise, Fred

Fred Haise Signed Apollo 13 Module Oversized Photograph.

:, April 14, 1970.

Oversized photograph of the Apollo 13 Module. Black and white photograph of the Apollo 13 Module. Lenghthily signed by Fred Haise with a quote from his conversation with Capsule Communicator Jack Lous...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-145293

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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...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-110596

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O'Neill, Eugene

The Iceman Cometh.

New York: Random House, 1946.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning playwright’s masterpiece. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised g...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-143667

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Waugh, Evelyn

Black Mischief.

London: 1932, Chapman & Hall.

First edition of “one of the century’s great masters of the twentieth century” third novel. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, frontispiece, gilt titles and tooli...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-147543

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Beveridge, Albert J. [Abraham Lincoln]

Abraham Lincoln 1809-1858.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928.

First edition of this complex and revealing biography of one of the most popular Presidents of the United States. Octavo, two volumes bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-151527

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Strauss, Richard

Richard Strauss Signed Program.

:, 1925.

Richard Strauss signed program. The program was for a concert by the Dusseldorf City Orchestra and Richard Strauss, held April 30, 1925. The program measures 6.5 inches by 8.75 inches. Double matted...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-65034

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Einstein, Albert

About Zionism: Speeches and Letters.

New York: The MacMillan Company, 1931.

First edition of this volume of Einstein’s speeches and letters concerning his views on Zionism. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine i...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-150006

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Condon, Richard

The Manchurian Candidate.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, 1959.

First edition of this brilliant, controversial novel, basis for the 1962 film adaptation, which has been called “the most chilling piece of cold war paranoia ever committed to film” (New York Times)....

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-143983

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Hillary, Edmund

High Adventure.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1955.

First British edition of Hillary’s account of his ascent of Everest. Octavo, original blue cloth, with maps by A. Sparks and sketches by George Djurkouic. Boldly signed by the author in a contem...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-140292

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Cash, Johnny

Johnny Cash Signed Sings Hank Williams Record.

Memphis, TN: Sun Records Co., Inc, 1958.

Johnny Cash’s compilation album of songs by Hank Williams, released in 1958, featuring songs ‘I Can’t Help It,’ ‘You Win Again,’ Hey Good Lookin’,’ and...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-146946

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Ali, Muhammad; Will Smith; Michael Mann

Ali: The Movie and the Man.

New York: Newmarket Press, 2001.

First edition of this work on the biopic film on Muhammad Ali, directed by Michael Mann starring Will Smith. Quarto, original boards, illustrated. Boldly signed by Muhammad Ali, Will Smith and Michael...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-151602

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Dickens, Charles

Master Humphrey’s Clock.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1840.

First edition of this classic collection of short stories. Royal octavo, 3 volumes, bound in full calf by Worsfold, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, a...

$1,400.00 Item Number: RRB-147267

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Edited by William Oldys

Biographia Britannica: Or, the Lives of the Most Eminent Persons Who Have Flourished In Great Britain and Ireland, From the Earliest Ages, Down to the Present Times: Collected from the Best Authorities, both Printed an Manuscript, and Digested in a Manner of Mr. Bayle’s Historical and Critical Dictionary.

London: Printed for W. Innys, W. Meadows, J. Walthoe, T. Cox, A. Ward, J. and P. Knapton, T. Osborne, et al, 1747.

First edition of the Biographia Britannica. Folio, 7 volumes bound in contemporary full calf with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised ban...

$1,350.00 Item Number: RRB-114752

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