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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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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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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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Rackham, Arthur

Mother Goose: The Old Nursery Rhymes.

London: William Heinemann, n.d. [1913].

First edition of Arthur Rackham’s illustrated rendition of the classic nursery rhyme collection. Octavo, bound in full polished calf Zaehnsdorf with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt vignett...

$1,150.00 Item Number: RRB-135055

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Rabelais, Francois

Oeuvres De Maitre Francois Rabelais, suivies des Remarques publiees en anglois par M. le Motteux, et traduites en francois par C. D. M. Nouvelle edition ornee de 76 gravures.

Paris: Chez Ferdinand Bastien, 1798.

First edition illustrated, three volumes, octavos. In good condition, all edges gilt, tooling to the spine, expertly rebacked. All plates present. An attractive set.

$1,150.00 Item Number: RRB-2045

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Friedman, Milton & Rose

Free To Choose: A Personal Statement.

New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1980.

First edition, early printing of Friedmans’ persuasive argument for the free market, based on the PBS series Free to Choose. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by b...

$1,150.00 Item Number: RRB-148025

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Spark, Muriel

The Girls of Slender Means.

London: Macmillan, 1963.

First edition of Spark’s novella, which follows female inhabitants of London’s May of Teak Club in the summer of 1945. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Muriel Spark on the title page. Ver...

$1,150.00 Item Number: RRB-59076

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Russell Bill

Bill Russell Signed Oversized Photograph.

:, .

Limited edition glossy photograph of basketball legend Bill Russell in a huddle with his Celtics teammates at the Boston Garden, numbered 14/66, boldly signed, “Bill Russell, 442.” The pho...

$1,150.00 Item Number: RRB-140481

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Schulz, Charles M

You’re you, Charlie Brown.

New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968.

First edition. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Charles M. Schulz on the front panel. In very good condition. Rare and desirable signed.

$1,150.00 Item Number: RRB-148171

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Parfit, Derek

Reasons and Persons.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984.

First edition of one of the most important philosophical texts of the second half the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Small name to the front free endpaper.

$1,150.00 Item Number: RRB-114653

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Barnett, Lincoln; Foreword by Albert Einstein

The Universe and Dr. Einstein.

New York: William Sloane Associates, 1948.

First edition of this work praised by Einstein himself. Octavo, original cloth, illustrations by Anthony Sadoro. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author to Anne Goodman on the front free end...

$1,150.00 Item Number: RRB-133464

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Fermor, Patrick Leigh

A Time To Keep Silence.

London: John Murray, 1957.

First edition of the author’s third book, regarding his experiences in various monasteries. Octavo, original blue cloth. Illustrated by John Craxton. Association copy, inscribed by the author on...

$1,150.00 Item Number: RRB-2641

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Frost, Robert

A Masque of Mercy.

New York: Henry Holt, 1947.

Signed limited first edition, one of 751 numbered copies, this is number 690. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition and the original slipca...

$1,150.00 Item Number: RRB-110648

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Schulz, Charles M

I Need All The Friends I Can Get.

San Francisco : Determined Productions, Inc, 1964.

First edition of this charming ‘little classic’ featuring Charles Schulz’s endearing Peanuts characters. Small octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on...

$1,150.00 Item Number: RRB-85773

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Gaines, Ernest J

Catherine Carmier.

New York: Atheneum , 1964.

First edition of Gaines’ first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by the author on the title page with the added words, “When Brother got out of the car, the two Cajuns sitting on t...

$1,150.00 Item Number: RRB-29006

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Rabin, Yitzhak

The Rabin Memoirs.

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1979.

First edition in English of the memoirs of Yitzhak Rabin. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic frontispiece, illustrated with black and white photographs and maps. Presentation copy, inscribed by...

$1,150.00 Item Number: RRB-148522

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