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The World According to Garp.

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1978.

First edition of the author’s fourth breakthrough novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Hilary John Irving.” Near fine...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-149614

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The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches.

Cambridge: Printed by John Archdeacon, 1771.

Rare 18th century Book of Common Prayer. Small octavo, bound in full contemporary calf tie gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, double gilt ruing and cornerpieces to the...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-118145

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel

The Marble Faun: or, the Romance of Monte Beni.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860.

First edition, first issue, with 16-page catalog dated March, 1860 inserted at rear of Volume one of Hawthorne’s last major work of fiction. Octavo, original cloth, 2 volumes. In near fine condition....

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-119422

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Wells, H.G

The Outline of History Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind, Partial Set in Parts.

London: George Newnes Ltd, 1919-20.

First edition of the original parts of Wells’ classic work. Quarto, original wrappers, 12 volumes, with full-color covers and many illustrations in color throughout. In near fine condition. Hous...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-120473

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Christie, Agatha

The Hollow.

London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1946.

First edition of this classic country-house mystery. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. From the collection of Dr. John Talbot Gernon. A sharp example.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-149968

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Working, Holbrook

The Investigation of Economic Expectations.

n.p.: American Economic Review, 1949.

First separate edition of Working’s treatise on economic expectations. Octavo, original wrappers, illustrated with charts and graphs. In near fine condition. Small name.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-126334

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Egan, Pierce

Sporting Anecdotes, Original and Selected; Including Numerous Characteristic Portraits of Persons in Every Walk of Life, Who have acquired Notoriety from their Achievements on the Turf, at the Table, and in the Diversions of the Field.

London: Printed For Sherwood, Jones, and Co, 1825.

First edition with colored plates of Egan’s classic collection of sporting anecdotes. Octavo, bound in full red straight grain morocco by Lloyd with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-147752

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Hoover, J. Edgar [Introduction]

The Story of the FBI.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, 1947.

First edition of the official picture book of the FBI. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by J. Edgar Hoover in the year of publication on the front free endpaper,...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-133207

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Gunther, John

Death Be Not Proud.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1949.

First British edition of this deeply moving book, a father’s memoir of a brave, intelligent, and spirited boy, bound for the author. Octavo, bound by the author in full morocco by Sangorski and...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-137985

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Graham, Benjamin; Foreword by Alvin Johnson

Storage and Stability: A Modern Ever-Normal Energy.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, 1937.

First edition of the author’s classic third book. Octavo, original red cloth. Foreword by Alvin Jonson. In very good condition.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-143023

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Davis, John K

With the “Aurora” in the Antarctic 1911-1914.

London: Andrew Melrose, 1919.

First edition of Captain John Davis’ expedition to Antarctica. Octavo, original blue cloth, gilt titles and gilt illustration of the titular steamship, illustrated throughout, tipped-in rear map...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-111886

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[Tucker, Josiah]

A Series of Answers to Certain Popular Objections, Against Separating from the Colonies, and Discarding Them Entirely: Being the Concluding Tract of the Dean of Glocester, on the Subject of American Affairs.

London: Printed by R. Raikes and Sold by T. Cadell, 1776.

First and only edition of this important Revolutionary tract in which Tucker advocates granting the colonies independence. Octavo, bound in paper wrappers. Sabin 97360. In very good condition with res...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-127150

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Plato [Socrates]

Plato and Socrates.

London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1907.

Finely bound edition of this collection of Plato’s Socratic dialogues, including “Euthyphro,” “Apology,” “Crito,” and “Phaedo”. Octavo, bound in half morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-151306

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Starr, Ringo & Harry Nilsson

Son of Dracula.

: Blackwood Music, 1974.

First edition of this original work. Quarter, original wrappers. Signed and dated by Ringo Starr on the front panel, “Love Ringo 05.” In near fine condition.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-3245

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Smith, Adam [George Goodman]

Paper Money.

New York: Summit Books, 1981.

First edition of this modern classic. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed and dated by the author on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine with a few closed tears.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-20005

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Walker, R. J.; Jas. Shields

Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office. Letter From the Secretary of the Treasury, Transmitting The Annual Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office. December 8, 1845. Document No. 12, 29th Congress, 1st Session.

:, 1845.

Rare printing of the 1845 annual report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office of the United States of America. Octavo, disbound. Contains numerous folding maps and public surveys of Indiana,...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-135884

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Fargo, William

William Fargo Signed Stock Certificate for American Merchants Union Express Company.

New York: American Merchants Union Express Company, 1869.

Rare American Merchants Union Express Company stock certificate signed by American businessman William Fargo. In November 1868, the American Express Company and the Merchants Union Express Company mer...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-148072

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Bulfinch, Thomas

The Age of Fable; Or, Stories of Gods and Heroes.

Boston: Sanborn, Carter, and Bazin, 1855.

First edition, first state of the first installment in Bulfinch’s famed Mythology; with the names of both the printer and the stereotyper on copyright page. Octavo, original publisher’s cl...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-139871

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Fisher, Kenneth L

The Wall Street Waltz: 90 Visual Perspectives Illustrated Lessons from Financial Cycles and Trends.

Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1987.

First edition of this work which provides a look at Wall Street and the stock market’s history through dramatic charts and visuals. Oblong quarto, original black cloth, illustrated. Presentation...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-149243

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Dickens, Charles

Little Dorrit.

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857.

First edition, first issue in book form of one of Dickens’ most outstanding novels with the three line errata on page xiv, “William” for “Frederick” on page 317 line 27, B2 ins...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-149676

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Segal, Erich [Ryan O'Neal]

Oliver’s Story.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1977.

First edition of the dramatic sequel to Love Story, the basis for the 1978 film starring Ryan O’Neal, this time opposite Candice Bergen. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by t...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-145784

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Flavin, Martin

Journey in the Dark.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1943.

Early printing of this classic novel, which won 1943 Harper Prize and the 1944 Pulitzer Prize, which The New York Times called “a story of a boy from Iowa who becomes a business tycoon at the pr...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-121299

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Abdulrazak Gurnah

Memory of Departure: A Novel.

New York: The Grove Press, 1988.

First edition of the author’s first novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration and design by Bascove.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-129533

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Le Clezio, J.M.G

Desert.

Paris: Gallimard, 1980.

First French edition of what many consider the author’s breakthrough novel. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by J.M.G. Le Clezio on the title page. In very good condition with some shelf wear a...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-5402

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