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Dead Souls.

London: Vizetelly & Co., n.d..

Finely bound example of Gogol’s masterwork, “the first novel from which the world began to form its ideas of 19th-century Russia” (Hornstein, 139). Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over m...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-132581

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[Newhall, Frederic Cushman]. [Philip Sheridan]

With General Sheridan in Lee’s Last Campaign.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1866.

First edition of Frederic Cushman Newhall’s Civil War memoir. Octavo, original cloth, tissue-guarded frontispiece, folding map. In good condition. Ownership name. Rare.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-132434

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Morris, Desmond

The Naked Ape: A Zoologist’s Study of the Human Animal.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1967.

First edition of the author’s classic work, which established the field of evolutionary anthropology. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by the author, “For Barry -The Paine was a plea...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-3627

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Eliot, George

Felix Holt: The Radical.

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1866.

First editions of this classic work. Octavo, 3 volumes, original cloth, half-title to each volume, 4 pp publisher’s ads at rear of volume 3. Publisher’s orange-brown cloth, spines lettered...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-148184

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Penn, Irving

First edition of this iconic collection of photographs of flowers taken between 1967-1973. Quarto, original beige cloth, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Irving Penn on the half-title page. Fi...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-84689

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Milnor, John W. and James D. Stasheef

Characteristic Classes. Annals of Mathematics Studies, No. 76.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1974.

First edition of this work by the famed mathematician. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by John Milnor on the title page. In very good condition, name to the half-title page and pastedown.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-57021

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Bemelmans, Ludwig

Madeline’s Rescue.

London: Andre Deutsch/Derek Verscholyle, 1957.

First British edition, early printing of the second book in the Madeline series, which went on to win the Caldecott Medal. Thin quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Ludwig...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-114234

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Pershing, General John J

General John J. Pershing Signed United States Army Citation.

:, 1919.

Early 20th century United States Army Citation signed by General John J. Pershing. One page, partially printed, the citation awards Lieut. Colonel Arthur A. Tasker for “exceptionally meritorious...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-120411

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The Entry of Christ into Jerusalem Devotional Painting.

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Rare late 18th to early 19th-century devotional painting on panel depicting the entry of Christ into Jerusalem. Oil and tempera on thick wood panel, devotional painting in the iconographic tradition....

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-150478

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Vargas Llosa, Mario

La Guerra del Fin del Mundo [The War of The End of The World].

Barcelona: Editorial Seix Barral, 1981.

First edition of the author’s magnum opus. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by Mario Vargas Llosa on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-132328

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Burgess, Anthony; Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick’s Clockwork Orange.

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1972.

Original LP of Stanley Kubrick’s Clockwork Orange. Signed by Anthony Burgess on the front cover. In near fine condition. This is the first record we have seen signed by the creator of the classi...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-5645

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Morgenstern, Oskar

The Question of National Defense.

New York: Random House, 1959.

First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed and dated in the year of publication by the author on the front free endpaper, “Hon. Frank Pace Jr. with high esteem O. Morgenstern Oct. 1959....

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-15044

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Lytton, Constance

Prisons & Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences by Constance Lytton and Jane Walton, Spinster.

London: William Heinemann, 1914.

First edition of the remarkable autobiography of the aristocratic suffragette Constance Lytton, recounting her remarkable masquerade and imprisonment as the working-class seamstress “Jane Warton...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-135207

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Wilder, Thornton

Heaven’s My Destination.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1935.

First edition of this comedic novel about a modern-day Don Quixote. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Thornton Wilder on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Haberstoc...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-43869

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Norgay, Tenzing with James Ramsey Ullman

Man of Everest. The Autobiography of Tenzing.

London: George Harrap & Co, 1955.

First edition, early printing of Norgay’s autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with photographic frontispiece and 18 pages of photographs. Boldly signed by Tenzing Norgay on the fr...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-139663

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Moore, Thomas

Lalla Rookh: An Oriental Romance. [Fore-edge Painting].

London: Routledge, Warne, & Routledge, 1860.

Finely bound example of Moore’s famous romance. Octavo, bound in full contemporary morocco with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine, elaborate gilt ruling and gilt scroll borders...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-138643

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Seabrook, William B

Jungle Ways.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1931.

Signed limited first edition of occultist and cannibal William Buehler Seabrook’s account of his travels along the Ivory Coast and through West Africa where he witnessed witchcraft, cannibalism...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-124947

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de Bassanville, Mme

Le Tresor de la Maison, Journal des Femmes Economes.

Paris : de Beau, 1853-1854.

Finely bound collection of the May 1853 – April 1854 issues of Le Tresor de la Maison, Journal des Femmes Economes. Octavo, bound in one quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-96210

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Grierson, John. Introduction by Wolfgang von Gronau

High Failure: Solo Along the Arctic Air Route.

London: William Hodge & Company, Limited, 1936.

First edition of English Aviator John Grierson’s account of his solo trip along the Arctic Air Route. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. Associtation copy, inscribed by...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-111250

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Hoover, Herbert

The Challenge to Liberty.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934.

First edition, early printing of Herbert Hoover’s challenge to Roosevelt’s New Deal arguing it abandoned “the heritage of liberty.” Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed on th...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-117626

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Murakami, Haruki

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman.

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 2006.

First edition of this collection of twenty-four stories by Haruki Murakami. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Haruki Murakami on the title page and additionally three times by illustrator Chip Ki...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-122387

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Sohn, Amy; Introduction by Sarah Jessica Parker

Sex and the City: The Movie.

New York: Harper Collins, 2008.

First edition of this work on the first movie of Sex and the City. Quarto, original boards, illustrated throughout. Association copy, inscribed by Sarah Jessica Parker on the half-title page, “T...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-128767

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Ayer, Alfred J. [A.J.]

The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge.

London : Macmillan & Co, 1962.

Later printing of this classic work. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by the author on the half-title page, “with best wishes A.J. Ayer Mexico City September 11 1963.” In very good condit...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-133103

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Hayes, Billy with William Hoffer. [Oliver Stone]

Midnight Express.

New York: Thomas Congdon Books/E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1977.

First edition of Hayes’ classic true story of survival and escape. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Oliver Stone on the title page. Stone adapted the memoir into a screenplay for the 197...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-140323

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First Edition Books for Sale Online

Dead Souls.

With General Sheridan in Lee’s Last Campaign.

The Naked Ape: A Zoologist’s Study of the Human Animal.

Felix Holt: The Radical.

Flowers.

Characteristic Classes. Annals of Mathematics Studies, No. 76.

Madeline’s Rescue.

General John J. Pershing Signed United States Army Citation.

The Entry of Christ into Jerusalem Devotional Painting.

La Guerra del Fin del Mundo [The War of The End of The World].

Stanley Kubrick’s Clockwork Orange.

The Question of National Defense.

Prisons & Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences by Constance Lytton and Jane Walton, Spinster.

Heaven’s My Destination.

Man of Everest. The Autobiography of Tenzing.

Lalla Rookh: An Oriental Romance. [Fore-edge Painting].

Jungle Ways.

Le Tresor de la Maison, Journal des Femmes Economes.

High Failure: Solo Along the Arctic Air Route.

The Challenge to Liberty.

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman.

Sex and the City: The Movie.

The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge.

Midnight Express.