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Rudyard Kipling Autograph Letter Signed.

:, September 2, 1907.

Rare autograph letter signed from Rudyard Kipling to R. G. Von Berg. One page on Bateman’s Burwash Etchingham letterhead, the letter reads in full, “Sep. 2 1907 Dear Sir: In reply to your...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-146537

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Working, Holbrook

Theory of the Inverse Carrying Charge in Futures Markets.

: Journal of Farm Economics, 1948.

Rare first separate edition of Working’s treatise on carrying charge in futures markets. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition.

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-126389

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Saroyan, Aram

Top.

: Lineside #1, 1965.

First edition of one of the poet’s earliest published works. Octavo, original wrappers. One of 300 numbered copies signed by the author, this being unnumbered. Additionally inscribed by the auth...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-128349

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Rare Ethiopian Coptic Ge’ez Bible. Octodecimo, bound with twine between two wood blocks, parchment manuscript in black and red ink. The book measures 4 inches in height by inches 6 in width. Annotatio...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-151190

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The Tragi-Comic History of the Burial of Cock Robin; with the Lamentation of Jenny Wren.

Philadelphia: Published by Benjamin Warner, 1821.

First edition under this title of the classic English nursery rhyme. 12mo, original stiff wrappers, illustrated with 8 full-page wood engravings. American Imprints 5013. Rosenbach 616. In very good co...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-133026

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Darwin, Bernard

Green Memories.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1928.

First edition of the first volume of the author’s autobiographical trilogy. Octavo, original cloth. Illustrated with several plates from photographs, including frontispiece portrait of the autho...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-14025

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Spark, Muriel

The Ballad of Peckham Rye.

London: Macmillan, 1960.

First edition of this satirical gem from the “master of malice and mayhem” (The New York Times). Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Muriel Spark on the title page. Very good in a very good dust...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-59022

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Venizelos, Eleftherios

Eleftherios Venizelos Autograph Letter Signed.

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One folding page letter hand-written and signed by “the father of modern Greece,” Eleftherios Venizelos. Dated December 24th, 1921 on letterhead from the El Mirasol in Santa Barbara, Calif...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-82454

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Washington, Booker T

Booker T. Washington Typed Letter Signed.

Alabama:, January 6, 1896.

Typed letter signed by Booker T. Washington to American mining engineer John Birkinbine. One page on Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute stationary, square octavo, the letter reads in full,...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-148640

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Basso, Hamilton [Norman Maclean]

Sun in Capricorn.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942.

First edition of Basso’s classic Southern novel. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, “For Norman MaClea...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-132988

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Seuss, Dr. [Theodor Geisel]

You’re Only Old Once!

New York: Random House, 1986.

Signed limited edition of the author’s satirical commentary on aging and later life. Quarto, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the spine, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. One...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-149718

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Granger, Bill [Pierce Brosnan]

There Are No Spies.

New York: Warner Books, 1986.

First edition of classic thriller, basis for the film November Man, starring Pierce Brosnan and Bill Smitrovich. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front fr...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-145776

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Frank, Pat

Hold Back the Night.

Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1952.

First edition of this classic account of The Korean War. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To my buddy, Alfred Wagg (ed Twagga) A li...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-122983

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Lindbergh, Charles A

The Spirit of St. Louis.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953.

First edition, early printing of Lindbergh’s autobiographical account about the events leading up to and including his 1927 solo trans-Atlantic flight. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harco...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-146307

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[Farley, Chris]

Chris Farley Signed Photograph.

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Black and white headshot signed by American actor and comedian Chris Farley. Signed by Farley in gold ink. In fine condition. Farley signatures are uncommon.

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-126559

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Aubry, Octave. [Napoleon Bonaparte]

Ecrits de Napoleon.

Paris: Editions Buchet / Chastel, 1969.

Finely bound example of Octave Aubry’s Ecrits de Napoleon. Octavo, bound in full crushed red morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments with...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-130509

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Surtees, Robert Smith; Illustrations by John Leech & H.K. Browne

The Works of Surtees. . . : Ask Mamma; Handley Cross; Mr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour; Plain or Ringlets; Hawbuck Grange; Mr. Romford’s Hounds.

London: Bradbury Agnew & Company, .

Octavo, 6 volumes. Three quarters red leather over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, top edge gilt, gilt lined, marbled endpapers, colored frontispiece to each volume, as well as t...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-3225

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Sorley, Captain L.S. [Philemon Tecumseh Sherman]

History of the Fourteenth United States Infantry From January, 1890 to December, 1908.

Chicago: Privately Printed, 1909.

First edition of this military history of the Fourteenth Infantry; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo, original blue wrappers, illustrated with seven maps of battles, operations, an...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-145966

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Oliver, Mary

White Pine: Poems and Prose Poems.

New York: Harcourt Brace, 1994.

First edition of this collection of poems. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Mary Oliver on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Steven Cooley.

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-103332

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Wilson, Edward O

On Human Nature.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1978.

First edition of this work, which went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1979. Octavo, original brown cloth, pictorial endpapers. Signed by Edward O. Wilson on the title page, who has drawn an ant. Near...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-133312

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Samuelson, Paul A.]; Edited by Seymour Harris; Essays by J.M. Keynes, Gottfried Haberler, Wassily Leontief, Abba Lerner, Joan Robinson, Joseph A. Schumpeter, Jan Tinbergen, James Tobin

The New Economics: Keynes’ Influence on Theory and Public Policy.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947.

First edition of this collection of essay regarding the influence of John Maynard Keynes. Octavo, original blue cloth. Signed by Nobel Prize winning-economist Paul Samuelson, who contributed an essay...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-15058

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Saramago, Jose

Blindness.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1997.

First edition of the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Saul Jose Saramago 29.10.2008.” Additionall...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-146522

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Rendell, Ruth

The Best Man to Die.

London: John Lang, 1969.

First edition of the fourth Inspector Wexford novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Ruth Rendell on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light wear. Jacket design by William Randell...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-61004

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Kipling, Rudyard

The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1914.

The Bombay editions of both volumes of The Jungle Book. Octavo, two volumes, bound in three-quarters morocco by Morell with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, top e...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-148359

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