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The Transit of Venus.

New York: The Viking Press, 1980.

First edition of “one of the great English-language novels of the twentieth century” (The Paris Review). Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author in t...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-140429

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Tennyson, Alfred

Idylls of the King. [Fore-edge Painting].

London: Edward Moxon & Co, 1859.

First edition, second issue of one of the greatest and most enduring of Victorian literary works, with the imprint of Bradbury and Evans to the verso of title. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-139723

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Kornberg, Arthur

DNA Synthesis.

San Francisco: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1974.

First edition of this important work by the Nobel Prize-winning scientist. Octavo, original boards. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Morris: With affecti...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-144689

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Carr, Lucien [Helen Weaver] [Jack Kerouac]

Lucien Carr Autograph Letter Signed to Helen Weaver.

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Autograph letter signed by American journalist and editor Lucien Carr. One page, handwritten to Jack Kerouac’s former girlfriend Helen Weaver on a yellow legal pad page and dated “Sept. 04...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-149953

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Wells, H.G

The Peace of the World.

London: The Daily Chronicle, 1915.

First edition of Wells’ early First World War political tract examining the causes of modern conflict and arguing for new forms of international cooperation and organization as the foundation for last...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-151328

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Lawrence, T.E

Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1949.

Finely bound edition of Lawrence’s classic account of his role in the Arab rebellion against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Bayntun Riviere, frontispie...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-147244

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Mailer, Norman

The Naked and the Dead.

London: Allan Wingate, 1949.

First British edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For ________ ________, Spent a winter once in...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-833

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Kipling, John Lockwood

Beast and Man In India: A Popular Sketch Of Indian Animals In Their Relations With The People.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1891.

First edition of Rudyard Kipling’s father, John Lockwood Kipling’s, best-known work. Octavo, original illustrated cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel, illustrat...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-135029

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Orbison, Roy

Roy Orbison Signed 1975 Tour Program.

:, 1975.

Rare Roy Orbison UK Tour Program signed by Roy Orbison. Quarto, the program is inscribed by Roy Orbison on the title page, “Sincerely Roy Orbison.” Accompanied by a letter of provenance si...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-138742

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Neutra, Richard [Adlai Stevenson]

Survival Through Design.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1954.

First edition of this work by one of the great modernist architects of the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To A...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-93541

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Kennan, George F

Russia Leaves the War Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1920.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1956.

First edition of this classic work, which went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in History, the National Book Award for Nonfiction, the George Bancroft Prize, and the Francis Parkman Prize. Octavo, origin...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-85982

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Dickens, Charles

Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi. Edited by “Boz.”

London: Richard Bentley, 1838.

First edition in the rare original cloth of Dickens’ popular retelling of the memoirs of celebrated English clown Joseph Grimaldi. Octavo, two volumes, original pink cloth with floral design sta...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-149060

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Huxley, Aldous

The Doors of Perception; Heaven and Hell.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1954.

First British editions of Aldous Huxley’s philosophical essay The Doors of Perception and its sequel Heaven and Hell. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Each are near fine in near fine du...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-149275

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Canfield, Arthur. Chosen by St John Lucas [Raymond Chandler]

The Oxford Book of French Verse: xiiith Century-xxth Century.

London: Clarendon Press, 1946.

First edition of this comprehensive anthology that showcases the richness of French poetry. 16mo, original wrappers. From the library of Raymond Chandler with his library stamp to the front free endpa...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-149032

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Valtin, Jan [aka Richard Julius Herman Krebs] [Gene Tunney]

Out of the Night.

New York: Alliance Book Corporation, 1941.

First edition of Valtin’s bestselling autobiographical narrative. Octavo, original blue cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to the great boxing champion and his wife, “To Poll...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-4644

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Mann, Newton [Charlotte Perkins Gilman]

Import and Outlook of Socialism.

Boston: James H. West Company, 1910.

First edition of this historical, political, and economic examination of socialism; from the library of writer and social reformer Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Octavo, original brown cloth. Signed and da...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-145592

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Churchill, Winston S

Step By Step 1936-1939.

London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd, 1939.

First edition of this Churchill title, the last book he published before the outbreak of the Second World War. Octavo, bound in three quarters modern navy morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-150756

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Sharpe, William F

William F. Sharpe Selected Works. World Scientific – Nobel Laureate Series: Vol 2.

New Jersey: World Scientific, 2012.

First edition of this collection of 52 key papers and seminal works by the 1990 Nobel Laureate in Economics. Octavo, original publisher’s pictorial wrappers, illustrated with graphs, diagrams, a...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-151674

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Wilson, Edward O

Sociobiology: The New Synthesis.

Cambridge MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1975.

First edition of Wilson’s classic work. Oblong quarto, original cloth, illustrations by Sarah Landry. Signed by Edward O. Wilson on the title page, who has added a drawing of an ant. Name on the front...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-1616

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Prevost, Abbe

Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut. [The Story of the Chevalier des Grieux and of Manon Lescaut].

Stamford, Connecticut: The Overbrook Press, 1958.

The Overbrook Press limited edition of this classic French romance novel. Quarto, bound in full brown calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, morocco spine label, top stain red, marbled endpap...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-151916

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Buber, Martin

Die Fünf Bücher Der Weisung [Five Books of Moses].

Berlin: Lambert Schneider, 1930.

First edition of this German translation and interpretation of the Torah. Small octavo, original publisher’s black cloth with leather spine labels, top stain yellow. Boldly signed by Martin Bube...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-148291

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Tennyson, Alfred

Idylls of the King. [Fore-edge Painting].

London: Strahan and Co., Publishers, 1869.

Finely bound example of Tennyson’s “long-meditated great task” which brought him to fame; decorated with a concealed fore-edge painting of the great court of Trinity College (Baugh, 1388). Octavo, bou...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-139645

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Arnim, Elizabeth von [Charlotte Perkins Gilman]

The Princess Priscillas Fortnight.

Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1906.

Tauchnitz edition of this comedy-drama novel from the Collection of British and American Authors Vol. 3880; from the library of writer and social reformer Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Small duodecimo, or...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-145599

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Train, John [Peter Matthiessen]

The Unruly Monkey: Reflections on Life, Love, and Money.

: Artisan Press, 2011.

First edition of this classic work by the founding editor of The Paris Review. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by John Train on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. From the library of no...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-144372

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