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Zorba The Greek.

London: John Lehman, 1952.

First edition in English, preceding the American edition by one year of the author’s most popular novel. basis for the Oscar-winning film starring Anthony Quinn. Octavo, original cloth. Signed b...

$17,500.00 Item Number: RRB-138764

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By a Lady. [Austen, Jane]

Sense and Sensibility: A Novel.

London: Printed for the Author and Published by T. Egerton, 1813.

Second edition of the first novel published during Austen’s lifetime. Small octavo, three volumes bound in full crushed morocco by Riviere & Son, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six...

$17,500.00 Item Number: RRB-135337

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[Lincoln, Abraham; James Buchanan; Ulysses S. Grant; Rutherford B. Hayes; Andrew Johnson; Franklin Pierce

Presidential Autograph Album Containing the Signatures of Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant and Others.

:, [1877-1880].

Unique 19th-century autograph album containing the signatures of six American presidents, fifteen senators, several cabinet members, and governors including Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, James Bu...

$17,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146562

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Poe, Edgar Allan

Eureka: A Prose Poem.

New York: George P. Putnam, 1848.

First edition, first issue of Poe’s classic work. Duodecimo, original publishers blind stamped black cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. First issue, without the review for Eureka on page 2...

$17,500.00 Item Number: RRB-37022

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Mandela, Nelson; Thabo Mbeki; Joe Slovo

The Constitution of the Republic of Namibia.

:, 1990.

First edition of the constitution of Namibia. Octavo, original wrappers. A unique copy signed and or inscribed by all the major contributors of the Republic of Namibia, which was formed in 1990. Prese...

$17,500.00 Item Number: RRB-3303

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Dickens, Charles

The Christmas Books: A Christmas Carol; The Chimes; The Battle of Life; Cricket on the Hearth; The Haunted Man and The Ghost’s Bargain.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1843-48.

Complete set of Charles Dickens’ Christmas Books containing first editions of each volume in the series with the exception of A Christmas Carol. Octavo, five volumes elaborately bound in full crushed...

$17,500.00 Item Number: RRB-135440

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Fleming, Ian. [Sean Connery]

From Russia, With Love.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1957.

First edition, first state of the fifth James Bond novel and what Fleming considered one of his best books and listed in Life magazine as one of US President John F. Kennedy’s top ten favorite b...

$17,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150986

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Graham, Benjamin & David L. Dodd

Security Analysis: Principles and Technique.

New York: Whittlesey House/ McGraw Hill Book Company, 1934.

First edition of Graham and Dodd’s seminal work, considered the Bible of modern financial analysis. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition.

$17,500.00 Item Number: RRB-139398

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Melville, Herman

Herman Melville Autograph Letter Signed.

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Rare autograph letter signed and entirely in the hand of Herman Melville to his publisher, Harper & Brothers. One page, the letter reads in full, “Harper & Brothers New York. Pittsfield...

$17,500.00 Item Number: RRB-139021

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King Jr., Martin Luther

Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1958.

First edition of Dr. Martin Luther King’s first book. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Best Wishes Martin Luther King, Jr....

$17,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145065

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Lewis, C.S

Out of the Silent Planet.

London: The Bodley Head, 1938.

First edition of the author’s classic first book in his acclaimed Space Trilogy. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with some professional restoration. Ho...

$17,500.00 Item Number: RRB-130744

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Melville, Herman

Omoo.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1847.

First edition of this classic Melville work Omoo, the Martin-Manney copy in the rare original wrappers. Octavo, two volumes, original wrappers. Volume 1 with half-title, title-page printed in black an...

$17,500.00 Item Number: RRB-142411

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Dumas, Alexandre. [Alexander]

The Works of Alexandre Dumas.

Boston: Dana Estes & Company Publishers, 1894-1904.

The Artists’ Edition of the complete works of Alexander Dumas. Octavo, 46 volumes bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and botanical decorations to the spine in f...

$17,500.00 Item Number: RRB-144834

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Oppenheimer, J. Robert; [George Little]

J. Robert Oppenheimer Typed Letter Signed. [WITH] Related Manhattan Project Ephemera.

Santa Fe: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, 1945.

Rare typed letter signed by the Father of the Atomic Bomb, J.R. Oppenheimer. Quarto, one page on Oppenheimer’s Santa Fe stationary, dated October 13, 1945, the letter reads in part, ‘Dear...

$17,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147275

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King Jr., Martin Luther

Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1958.

First edition of Dr. Martin Luther King’s first book. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Martin Luther King, Jr. on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacke...

$17,500.00 Item Number: RRB-130938

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Finaly, Marguerite. [James Joyce]

Reliquiae.

Paris: Privately Printed, 1925.

James Joyce’s first edition copy of the collected works of Marguerite Finaly, compiled by her husband, Horace Finaly, in her memory and privately printed for distribution to friends; with Joyce...

$17,500.00 Item Number: RRB-131904

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Churchill, Winston S

My Early Life; Thoughts and Adventures; Great Contemporaries; Step by Step.

London: Odhams Press Limited, 1936-1939.

First Odhams press edition of four of Churchill’s best-known works. Octavo, 4 volumes, original cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, illustrated. Presentation set, inscribed by Churc...

$17,500.00 Item Number: RRB-131601

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Hemingway, Ernest

For Whom the Bell Tolls.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940.

First edition, early printing of Hemingway’s third novel, a tragic exploration of love, duty, and the futility of war. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Association copy, lengthily inscr...

$17,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149834

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Bertraux, Emile

Globe Terrestre d’apres les Decouvertes les Plus Recentes [Terrestrial Globe].

Paris: Emile Bertraux, 1879.

A fine and highly detailed French terrestrial library globe showing the earth’s geography as it was mapped in the late nineteenth century. The globe includes the oceans’ major currents, th...

$17,500.00 Item Number: RRB-136769

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Mandela, Nelson

No Easy Walk To Freedom: Articles, Speeches, and Trial Addresses.

New York: Basic Books Inc., Publishers, 1965.

First edition of Nelson Mandela’s classic account of the struggle against South Africa’s apartheid system. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the title page, “NMa...

$17,500.00 Item Number: RRB-109564

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Churchill, Winston S

The Second World War: The Gathering Storm; Their Finest Hour; The Grand Alliance; The Hinge of Fate; Closing the Ring; Triumph and Tragedy.

London: Cassell & Co. Ltd, 1948-1954.

First editions of each volume in Churchill’s World War II masterpiece. Octavo, six volumes, original black cloth with spines lettered in gilt, patterned endpapers, illustrated with in-line and folding...

$17,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149835

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Boswell, James

The Life of Johnson.

London: Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, in The Poultry, 1791.

First edition, first issue of both volumes of the most celebrated biography in the English language, which was published on May 16, 1791 in a print run of only 1,750 copies. Quarto, bound in contempor...

$17,500.00 Item Number: RRB-80005

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Swift, Jonathan

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, first Surgeon, and then Captain of Several Ships. [Gulliver’s Travels].

London: Printed for Benj. Motte, at the Middle Temple-Gate in Fleet-Street, 1726.

First edition of one of the most important works in all of English literature, Teerink’s “AA” edition of Jonathan Swift’s masterpiece. Octavo, four parts in two volumes bound i...

$17,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146104

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Martin, Pete. [Marilyn Monroe]

Will Acting Spoil Marilyn Monroe?

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1956.

First edition in book form of the famed actress’s ghostwritten piece for Pageant magazine, often considered the closest thing to an autobiographical work published during her lifetime. Octavo, o...

$17,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151580

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