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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead.

London: Faber & Faber, 1967.

First paperback edition (issued simultaneously in hardback) of the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed by Academy Award-winning actor Gary Oldman on the front free end...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-151743

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Mehl, Ernest [Roger Maris]

The Kansas City Athletics.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1956.

First edition, second printing of this work on the famed baseball team. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by hall of famer Roger Maris on the front free endpaper,...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-133163

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Wethered, Joyce and Roger; Bernard Darwin; Horace Hutchinson; & T.C. Simpson

The Game of Golf….Lonsdale Library, Vol. IX.

London: Seeley, Service & Company, 1931.

First edition, deluxe issue of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original half green morocco over cloth. Inscribed by Roger Wethered in the year of publication, “Hope this will help you t...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-14008

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Szyk, Arthur

Haggadah.

Massadah & Alumoth: Jerusalem & Tel Aviv, 1962.

First Hebrew and English translation of this wonderfully illustrated in work by Arthur Szyk. Quarto, publisher’s embossed metal binding with hinged joints, illustrated throughout, English transl...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-151930

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Dickens, Charles

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1839.

First edition, first issue in book form of one of Dickens’ most popular novels. Octavo, bound in three quarter calf over marbled boards by Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six c...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-121563

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Chambers, Robert

Traditions of Edinburgh. [Fore-Edge Painting].

London and Edinburgh: W & R Chambers, 1869.

Finely bound example of Chambers’ work on the history and legends of Scotland. Octavo, bound in full pebbled red morocco with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartme...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-129748

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Vargas Llosa, Mario

The Feast of the Goat.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by both Mario Vargas Llosa and translator Edith Grossman on the title page. Fine in a f...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-149663

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Rossiter, Clinton

The American Presidency.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1956.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Aunt Lille with much love Clint July 7, 1956.” In nea...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-138089

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Vonnegut, Kurt [David Hayman]

Kurt Vonnegut Signed Photograph.

:, 1974.

Rare original photograph of award-winning author Kurt Vonnegut. Black and white photograph of Vonnegut smiling with a cigarette in hand. Inscribed below the portrait in the margin, “Love to Davi...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-148737

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Bernstein, Peter L

Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street.

New York: The Free Press, 1992.

First edition of the author’s most well-known work. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Peter Bernstein on the front free endpaper. With a signed postcard to the author from Bernstein...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-115654

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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, inscribed by the author on the title page, “Freeman Dyson for ____ _____.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-116229

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Yeats, William Butler

October Blast.

Dublin, Ireland: The Cuala Press, 1927.

First edition of this collection of poems, containing the first appearance in print of the author’s celebrated poems “Sailing to Byzantium” and “Among School Children”. O...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-149478

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Bogle, John C. [Burton G. Malkiel]

Common Sense on Mutual Funds.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1999.

First edition of the best book on index investing ever published. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by John C. Bogle and by legendary investor and author of A Random Walk On Wall Street Burton Ma...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-46255

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Southern, Terry

Blue Movie.

New York: New American Library, 1971.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Harry with all best wishes Terry Southern.” In very good co...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-121449

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Gandhi, Mahatma. Edited by C. F. Andrews

Mahatma Gandhi At Work: His Own Story Continued.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1931.

First edition of the third volume in Andrews’ intimate biography of Mahatma Gandhi, as was related to him by Gandhi himself. Octavo, original boards, frontispiece portrait of Gandhi. Near fine i...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-121904

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Grissom, Gus

Gus Grissom Annotated Staff Report of the Select Committee on Astronautics and Space Exploration: The Next Ten Years in Space 1959-1969.

Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1959.

Rare Astronautics and Space Exploration Staff Report booklet; from the library of Gus Grissom. Octavo, original wrappers, annotated with mathematical equations in Grissom’s hand on the rear pane...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-146615

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Bell, Daniel

The Coming of Post-Industrial Society: A Venture in Social Forecasting.

New York: Basic Books, 1973.

First edition of this insightful work which speaks about the coming of the service economy and the importance of knowledge for creating stratification in the new society. Octavo, original half cloth....

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-4497

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Snyder, Gary

Turtle Island.

New York: New Directions, 1974.

First edition of the legendary poet’s Pulitzer Prize-winning collection. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Gary Snyder on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket woodcut by Michael Co...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-131784

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Dickens, Charles

The Uncommercial Traveller.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1861.

First edition in book form of Dickens’ classic collection of personal vignettes. Octavo, bound in full polished calf by Tout, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, elaborate gilt tooling to the...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-135109

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Amishah Umshei Torah, Im Haft Arot Le-Khol Ha-Shanah. [Hebrew Chumash/The Pentateuch].

Tel Aviv: Hotsa at Sinai, c. 1950.

Rare Hebrew Chumash containing the Five Books of Moses, blessings before and after the Haftarah, and accents according to the Ashkenazic, Sephardic, and Italian rites. 32mo, five volumes, original clo...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-138452

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Russell, Bertrand

The Good Citizen’s Alphabet.

London: Gaberbocchus Press Limited, 1953.

First edition of this playful work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth, with drawings by Franciszka Themerson. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpape...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-138589

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Fleming, Ian

The Spy Who Loved Me.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1962.

First edition of the ninth novel in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series. Octavo, original black cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Chopping.

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-138826

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Bacher, Robert F. [Berlyn Brixner]

Robert Bacher Signed Trinity Nuclear Test Mushroom Cloud Photograph.

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Rare original vintage Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory photograph of the first mushroom cloud from the Trinity nuclear test, the first detonation of a nuclear weapon. Semi-glossy, black and white phot...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-148771

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Amis, Martin

Money.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1984.

First edition of this modern classic. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Martin Amis on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mon Mohan/ Dick Jones. Author...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-143070

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