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Macroeconomics: A Neoclassical Introduction.

Homewood, Il: Richard D. Irwin, Inc, 1974.

First edition of this landmark text in modern macroeconimics. Octavo, original blue cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Charles Upton on the front free endpaper, “For Adrienne hope you contin...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-144360

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Eliot, George

The Mill On The Floss.

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1860.

First edition, first issue of Eliot’s classic work without the advertisement leaf to volume I and with the seventh edition of Adam Bede cited in the advertisements at rear of volume III. Octavo,...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-140537

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Pashayan Khan, Garabed

Occupational Medicine in Schools for Pupils and Teachers.

Alexandria, Egypt: Published by the author, 1906.

Rare work on occupational medicine self-published by Armenian physician and scholar Garabed Pashayan Khan. Octavo, original half cloth over paper-covered boards, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait o...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-141034

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Wharton, Grace and Philip

The Queens of Society and Wits and Beaux of Society.

Porter and Coates: Philadelphia, .

Large paper edition, one of 250 numbered copies of The Queens of Society and Beaux of Society. Octavo, 4 volumes, bound in full calf, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, top edge gilt, inner dente...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-102331

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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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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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West, Geoffrey [H.G. Wells]

The Problem of Arnold Bennett.

London: Joiner and Steele, 1932.

First edition of this work, inscribed to H.G. Wells. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to H. G. Wells by the author on the front endpaper in the year of publication,...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-116936

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King Edward VIII

House of Lords Doc. 20, Minutes of Proceedings, December 10, 1936, Printing Edward VIII’s “Instrument of Abdication” in which he officially renounces claim to the Throne.

:, 1936.

Rare extract from the printed Minutes and a singular moment in British royal history. “Abdication of Edward R. I.” in blue pencil at top right. Framed such that both sides of the document...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-119889

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Kerouac, Jack

Jack Kerouac’s Personally Owned Hermes 3000 Typewriter Manual and Repair Slip.

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Jack Kerouac’s personally owned Hermes 3000 typewriter user’s manual and repair slip, which he used to compose most of his 1968 autobiographical novel Vanity of Duluoz. The manual is recta...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-150210

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Kipling, Rudyard

A Fleet In Being.

London: The Morning Post, 1898.

First appearance of of this collection of 5 articles written by Kipling when he joined the fleet of the Royal Navy at sea in 1898. Royal octavo, bound in blue boards, consisting of the original 5 Morn...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-121680

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Luce, R. Duncan and Howard Raiffa

Games and Decisions: Introduction and Critical Survey.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Publishers, 1957.

First edition of this classic introduction to game theory. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Howard Raiffa on the front free endpaper. From the library of Harvard economist Sidney S. Alexander wi...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-127657

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King Jr., Martin Luther. [Coretta Scott King]

The Measure of Man.

Philadelphia/Boston: Pilgrim Press, 1968.

First edition thus of this collection of King’s two notable devotional addresses “What is Man?” and “The Dimensions of a Complete Life.” 12mo, original cloth, illustrated...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-146528

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Roubayyat de Hafiz et d’Omar Khayyam. [The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám].

Paris: Francis LeBegue, [1921].

Finely bound example of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Octavo, bound in full levant morocco with gilt titles to the spine, gilt Art Deco style decorations to the front and rear panel, gilt turn-ins and...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-127096

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