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The British Poets: Charles Churchill.

London: British Literary Society, n.d.

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

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-151512

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Connery, Sean. [Ian Fleming]

Sean Connery and Jill St. John Signed James Bond Photograph.

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Black and white photograph of Sean Connery and posing as James Bond and Jill St. John as Tiffany Case, signed by both. They were the stars of the 1971 film Diamonds Are Forever In fine condition. The...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-132959

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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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Debreu, Gerard

Theory of Value: An Axiomatic Analysis of Economic Equilibrium.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1959.

First edition of the groundbreaking work by Debreu, winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize in Economics, viewed as “one of the few classics of our period” by the prestigious American Economic Revi...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-121497

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Stoppard, Tom

Pizza.

London: The Cuckoo Press for John Sandoe Books, 2010.

First edition, one of only 200 copies printed given as a Christmas gift of this sketch was written for The Laws of War, a Cries from the Heart production in support of the charity Human Rights Watch,...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-150927

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Kranz, Eugene and Seymour Liebergot

Apollo 13 Eugene Kranz and Seymour Liebergot Signed Photograph.

:, April 13, 1970.

Signed photograph of the damaged Apollo 13 Service Module. Satin-finish photograph of the damaged Apollo 13 Service Module, boldly signed in gold felt tip by NASA’s heroic mission controllers Eu...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-145404

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Atwood, Margaret

Surfacing.

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1972.

First edition of the author’s classic second novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Rachel- Margaret Atwood June 4 1982.” F...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-146203

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Kipling, Rudyard

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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Ethiopian Coptic Ge’ez Bible.

Ethiopia:, C. 18th Century.

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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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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Irving, John

The World According to Garp.

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1978.

First edition of Irving’s fourth and breakthrough novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by John Irving in a contemporary hand on the half-title page, Near fine in a near fine dust ja...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-136457

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Stephani, Roberti. [Robert Estienne]

Lexicographorum Principis Thesaurus Linguae Latinae in IV. Tomos Divisus.

Basileae: Typis & Impensis E. & J.R. Thurnisiorum, 1740.

Rare 1740 edition of Robert Estienne’s “greatest monument of Latin scholarship.” Folio, four volumes bound in full vellum with spine labels decorated and titled in gilt, woodcut prin...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-149194

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Ondaatje, Michael

The English Patient.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.

First American edition of this classic Booker Prize-winning novel, basis for the Academy Award-winning film. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Michael Ondaatje on the title page and three times b...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-123198

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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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