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Lady Luck: The Theory of Probability.

New York: Anchor Books/Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1963.

First edition of this engaging and thorough discussion of the probability theory in science by one of the pioneers of machine translation and as an important figure in creating support for science in...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-151420

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Schulz, Charles M

Happiness is a Warm Puppy.

San Francisco: Determined Publications, 1962.

First edition of Charlie Brown and the gang’s words on happiness, with 30 Peanuts cartoons by Schulz. Small octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-147811

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Weizmann, Chaim

Trial and Error.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1949.

First edition of the first president of Israel’s classic autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of Weizmann. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-134391

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Wilson, Rathmell

Re-Birth: A Romantic Novel.

London: Greening & Co. LTD, 1909.

First edition of this early romance novel. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles. In very good condition. Greening’s Catalogue from 1908 to rear of text block. Ownership signature to the front...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-147981

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Hench, Philip S

Chronic Arthritis: Chronic Infectious Arthritis, Chronic Senescent Arthritis, Gout.

NP: Williams & Wilkins Company, 1940.

Rare offprint from The Modern Medical Therapy in General Practice, inscribed by Nobel Prize winning physician Philip Hench, “To Jerry with affection – Phil.” The recipient, Gerald Ro...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-140016

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Gandhi, Mohandas K. [Mahatma]

Mahatma Gandhi Photograph.

:, 1942.

Large format gelatin silver print photograph of Mahatma Gandhi spinning at Birla House in 1942. In the early 1920s, Gandhi expanded his nonviolent non-co-operation platform to include the swadeshi pol...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-139253

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Kneeland, Samuel

The Wonders of the Yosemite Valley, and of California.

Boston: Alexander Moore, 1871.

First edition of Kneeland’s historic guide to Yosemite; “one of the better early guide books to the Yosemite Valley” (Cowan, 333). Quarto, bound in full dark blue morocco with gilt t...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-101328

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Milnor, John W

Topology From the Differentiable Viewpoint.

Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia, 1965.

First edition of this collection of lectures delivered by Milnor at the University of Virginia in December 1963. Octavo, original half cloth over illustrated boards. Signed by John Milnor on the title...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-114852

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Strabonis

Strabonis Geographia cum notis Casauboni et aliorum.

: Amstelaedami; Joannem Wolters, 1707.

Folio, bound in half morocco over cloth, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands. In very good condition.

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-3604

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Murakami, Haruki

Murakami T: The T-Shirts I Love.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.

First edition of this work by the award-winning novelist. Octavo, original illustrated boards by Chip Kidd. Boldly signed by Haruki Murakami on the half-title page and three times by Chip Kidd, on the...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-131851

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Hurston, Zora Neale

Novels and Stories: Jonah’s Gourd Vine, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Moses Man of the Mountain, Seraph on the Suwanee, and Selected Stories.

New York: Library of America, 1995.

First edition of the Library of America compilations of the works fiction of Zora Neale Hurston. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in five...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-151803

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Chamberlain, Neville; Anne Chamberlain

Neville Chamberlain Signed Unionist Program.

:, 1938.

1938 Unionist Association Annual Dance and Whist Drive Program signed by Neville Chamberlain as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and hi wife, Anne Chamberlain. 12 mo, one page folding. Signed by t...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-134522

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Saramago, Jose

Blindness.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1997.

First edition of the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original boards. Signed and dated by Jose Saramago on the title page. Additionally signed twice by jacket designer Claudine Mansour on the fron...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-148303

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[Cruikshank, George; William Thackeray; Albert Smith; Gilbert A. Beckett; The Brothers Mayhew]

The Comic Almanack: An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, Containing Merry Tales, Humorous Poetry, Quips, and Oddities.

London: John Camden Hotten, 1835-1853.

First editions of the first and second series of The Comic Almanack; illustrated by George Cruikshank. Octavo, four volumes, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards by Root & Son, gilt...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-137167

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Maugham, W. Somerset

Of Human Bondage.

New York: The Modern Library, c. 1939.

Modern Library edition of Maugham’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Vincent Starett in an economical mood Chicago 11...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-150081

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Andrews, Julie; Dick Van Dyke; Karen Dotrice; Glynis Johns; David Tomlinson [P.L. Travers]

Walt Disney’s Mary Poppins Original Cast Soundtrack Signed LP.

: Walt Disney Productions, 1964.

Rare original LP of the Mary Poppins: Original Cast Soundtrack, boldly signed by Julie Andrews on the front panel. In near fine condition.

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-140268

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Dickens, Charles

The Old Curiosity Shop: A Tale.

London: Chapman And Hall, Strand, 1841.

First edition of Dickens’s classic novel. Octavo, bound in half calf, full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, all edges gilt, with il...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-147630

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Bellow, Saul

Seize The Day.

New York: The Viking Press, 1956.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s fourth book. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-142270

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Nadal, Rafael [Rafa]

Rafa.

New York: Hyperion, 2011.

First edition of the legendary tennis champion’s autobiography. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Boldly signed by Rafael Nadal on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-150991

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Dyson, Freeman J

Infinite in All Directions: Gifford Lectures Given at Aberdeen, Scotland April–November 1985.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1988.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Adrienne Rogers Freeman Dyson February 2010 This is good...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-144346

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Butler, Samuel

The British Poets: Samuel Butler.

London: British Literary Society, n.d.

The extra-illustrated Crown edition of the poems of Samuel Butler, limited to ten numbered and registered sets. Duodecimo, two volumes, publisher’s exquisite deluxe full morocco binding with gilt titl...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-151520

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Stafford, Tom and Gene Cernan

Tom Stafford and Gene Cernan Signed Augmented Target Docking Adapter Photograph.

:, .

Rare official NASA photograph of the Augmented Target Docking Adapter (ATDA), or ‘angry alligator’. Oversized, color semi-glossy photograph of the ATDA as seen from the Gemini 9 spacecraft...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-147293

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Storke, Elliot G

A Complete History of the Great American Rebellion Embracing Its Causes, Events, and Consequences, with Biographical Sketches and Portraits of its Principal Actors, and Thrilling Incidents of Land and Naval Heroes.

Auburn, N.Y: The Auburn Publishing Company, 1863-1865.

First edition of Storke’s history of the American Civil War. Octavo, two volumes, original publisher’s deluxe full morocco, illustrated with maps, plans of battles, and portraits. In good...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-133070

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Plath, Sylvia

The Bell Jar.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1971.

First American edition of Sylvia Plath’s only novel. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with eight pen-and-ink drawings by Plath. Biographical note by Lois Ames. Near in a near fine price-...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-151942

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