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Midstream: My Later Life.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1930.

First edition, later printing of Keller’s autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, top stain red, frontispiece, illustrated with plates from photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by Helen Kell...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-151551

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Irving, John [Peter Matthiessen]

First edition of this collection of short stories. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page to author and fellow National Book Award-winning noveli...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-4658

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The Macallan [Ian Fleming]

The Macallan James Bond 60th Anniversary Limited Edition Giclée Print Collection.

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Limited edition 60th anniversary Giclée print collection marking the six decades of James Bond films with a collaboration between The Macallan and EON Productions. Square folio, pictorial boards, six...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-147855

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Miles, General Nelson A

Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles: Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War or From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development and Progress of Our Great Western Empire.

Chicago: The Werner Company, 1896.

Publisher’s deluxe first edition of this autobiography of a great military general; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Quarto, bound in full crushed morocco with gilt titles to the f...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-145738

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Schedel, Hartmann

Framed Leaf From The Nuremberg Chronicle.

Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1493.

Original leaf from the Nuremberg Chronicle, the most extensively illustrated book of the 15th century. The dates on the leaf fall within the Sixth Age, covering late antiquity and the early Middle Age...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-149397

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Gardener, Helen H. [Charlotte Perkins Gilman]

Pray You, Sir, Whose Daughter?

Boston: Arena Publishing Company, 1892.

Later edition of this feminist novella; from the library of writer and social reformer Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Duodecimo, original wrappers. Signed by Gilman on the title page, “Charlotte Perk...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-145598

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Boyd, William

A Good Man in Africa.

London : Hamish Hamilton, 1981.

First edition of the author’s classic first book. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Annette, with all good wishes from the...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-124801

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Karsten, Karl G

Charts and Graphs: An Introduction to Graphic Methods In the Control and Analysis of statistics.

New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1923.

First edition of this seminal work on charts and graphs. Octavo, original leatherette boards, illustrated throughout. Introduction by Carl Snyder. In very good condition. First editions are rare.

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-132351

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Davis, Angela Y

Women, Race & Class.

New York: Random House, 1981.

First edition of this classic piece of history by Civil Rights activist, Angela Davis. Octavo, original textured half cloth. Boldly signed by Angela Davis on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fi...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-151848

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Fast, Howard

Spartacus.

New York: Published by the Author, 1951.

First edition of this work, basis for the classic 1960 film starring Kirk Douglas. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author bound-in, “For Jerry Mayro Gratefully Howard Fast.” Octavo, bo...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-149899

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Lewis, C.S

Beyond the Bright Blur.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World Inc, 1963.

First edition of this selection from Letters to Malcolm. Octavo, original boards. Near fine in the original rice paper jacket, which is in good condition. Rare.

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-137526

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Keynes, John Maynard [J.M.]

A Treatise on Probability.

London: MacMillan & Company, 1921.

First edition of “undoubtedly the most important work on probability that has appeared for a very long time” (Bertrand Russell). Octavo, original brown cloth with titles to the spine in gi...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-150284

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Warren, Robert Penn

World Enough and Time.

New York: Random House, 1950.

First edition of this classic novel; one of the big sleepers in 20th century American fiction and the “richest of [Warren’s] novels” (New York Herald Tribune). Octavo, original cloth...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-142272

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Linnaeus, Carl

System Naturae. Book I Part III: Amphibia.

: Caldwell, c. 1788.

Later edition of this influential work. Octavo, written in Latin, bound in three quarters morocco over green cloth boards with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised ban...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-149465

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Christie, Agatha

Towards Zero.

London: Collins Crime Club, 1944.

First edition of this classic Agatha Christie title and one of her favorites. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in compartments within raised...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-144302

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Cunningham, Walter

Walter Cunningham Signed Apollo 7 Rendezvous Photograph.

:, October, 1968.

Large format photograph of the Saturn IVB module, which was being used to simulate docking maneuvers in orbit during the Apollo 7 mission. Color photograph of the Saturn IVB module. Lengthily inscribe...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-145300

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Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]

Roughing It.

Hartford, Connecticut: American Publishing Company, 1872.

First edition, mixed state of Twain’s first semi-autobiographical work of travel literature, essentially a prequel to The Innocents Abroad, lacking the word ‘he’ on page 242 but with...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-127994

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Donleavy, J.P

A Fairy Tale of New York.

New York: Delacorte Press/ Seymour Lawrence, 1973.

First edition of this funny, lusty, and sad novel of comic genius. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author to his publisher Seymour Lawrence in the year of publication, “Century Club (wh...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-3966

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Leaves From A Trooper’s Diary.

Philadelphia: Published by the Author, 1869.

First edition of an Anderson Cavalry officer’s Civil War memoir. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt. In good condition. Rare.

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-132681

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Sarazen, Gene with Herbert Warren Wind

Thirty Years of Championship Golf: The Life and Times of Gene Sarazen.

New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1950.

First edition of Sarazen’s classic autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Foreword by Robert T. Jones, Jr. Inscribed by the author opposite the title page, “To Dick Garlington...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-53022

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Schadeberg, Jürgen

Benni “Banjo” Mrwebi Silver Gelatin Print Signed.

:, 1953.

Rare silver gelatin print of Benni “Banjo” Mrwebi. Signed by the photographer Jurgen Schadeberg below the image and inscribed by him on the verso, “Benni “Banjo” Mrwebi....

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-96522

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Roosevelt, Eleanor

This I Remember.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1949.

First edition of Eleanor Roosevelt’s wonderful autobiography. Octavo, original blue cloth, illustrated with 41 photographs of the Roosevelt family, including frontispiece of the First Lady. Boldly sig...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-138860

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Gaines, Ernest J

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.

New York: The Dial Press, 1971.

First edition of this classic novel, which depicts the struggles of African Americans as seen through the eyes of the narrator, a woman named Jane Pittman. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Er...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-148134

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Milgrom, Paul

Discovering Prices: Auction Design in Markets with Complex Constraints.

New York: Columbia University Press, 2017.

First edition of this foundational contribution to modern market design by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Paul Milgrom on th...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-149642

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First Edition Books for Sale Online

Midstream: My Later Life.

Trying to Save Piggy Sneed.

The Macallan James Bond 60th Anniversary Limited Edition Giclée Print Collection.

Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles: Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War or From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development and Progress of Our Great Western Empire.

Framed Leaf From The Nuremberg Chronicle.

Pray You, Sir, Whose Daughter?

A Good Man in Africa.

Charts and Graphs: An Introduction to Graphic Methods In the Control and Analysis of statistics.

Women, Race & Class.

Spartacus.

Beyond the Bright Blur.

A Treatise on Probability.

World Enough and Time.

System Naturae. Book I Part III: Amphibia.

Towards Zero.

Walter Cunningham Signed Apollo 7 Rendezvous Photograph.

Roughing It.

A Fairy Tale of New York.

Leaves From A Trooper’s Diary.

Thirty Years of Championship Golf: The Life and Times of Gene Sarazen.

Benni “Banjo” Mrwebi Silver Gelatin Print Signed.

This I Remember.

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.

Discovering Prices: Auction Design in Markets with Complex Constraints.