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Markowitz, Harry; Bernard Hauser; Herbert W. Karr

Simscript: A Simulation Programming Language.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1963.

First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Small quarto, original wrappers. Inscribed by Harry Markowitz on the title page. In very good condition. Uncommon, especially signed an...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-5379

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Huxley, Aldous

Proper Studies.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1927.

Signed limited edition of this work by the award-winning author. Octavo, original half cloth over marbled boards. One of 260 copies signed by Aldous Huxley. In near fine condition.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-146277

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Eichenwald, Kurt [Matt Damon]

The Informant.

New York: Broadway Books, 2000.

First edition of this work, basis for the film directed by Steven Soderbergh, starring Matt Damon, Scott Bakula and Joel McHale. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by the author,...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-151609

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Murray, Albert

Omni-Americans: New Perspectives on Black Experience and American Culture.

New York: Outerbridge & Dienstfrey, 1970.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For my good friend Oliver Who will keep the faith Albert Murray.”...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-133165

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Parks, Rosa

Rosa Parks: My Story.

New York: Dial Books, 1992.

First edition, early printing of Parks’ autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Signed by the author on the title page, “11/21/94 Rosa Parks.” Fine in a fine dust ja...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-138034

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Hillary, Edmund

High Adventure.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1955.

First British edition of Hillary’s account of his ascent of Everest. Octavo, bound in full morocco, marbled endpapers, slipcase, with maps by A. Sparks and sketches by George Djurkouic. Presenta...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-140999

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VergÉ, Roger

Roger Vergé’s Vegetables in the French Style.

New York: Artisan, 1994.

First American edition of this cookbook that elevates humble produce to the centerpiece of refined Provençal cuisine. Quarto, original publisher’s boards, illustrated throughout. Signed by the a...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-149198

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Rothbard, Murray

Power & Market: Government and the Economy.

Kansas City: Sheed Andrews and McMeel, 1977.

Second edition of this classic work. Octavo, original wrappers. “For Dan Haag, July 1981 For the market and against Power Best wishes Murray Rothbard.” In near fine condition.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-143965

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Apcar, Amy

Melodies of the Holy Apostolic Church of Armenia: The Liturgy as Sung in Ordinary, During Lent, and on Festivals.

Leipzig: Printed by Breitkopf & Haertel, 1920.

Second and enlarged edition of these rich chant traditions of the Armenian Apostolic Church. Octavo, three volumes, written in English and Armenian, bound in three-quarters morocco with gilt titles to...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-149490

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McDonough, James R

Platoon Leader: A Memoir of Command in Combat.

Navato, CA: Presidio Press, 1985.

First edition of this classic memoir of small-unit leadership and the coming of age of a young soldier in combat in Vietnam. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-120907

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Wiesenthal, Simon; Joseph Wechsberg

Murderers Among Us: The Wiesenthal Memoirs.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1967.

First edition of Simon Wiesenthal’s classic autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Simon Wiesenthal on the title page. Ticket to a Wiesenthal lecture attached...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-150857

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Dahl, Roald

Switch Bitch.

London: Michael Joseph, 1974.

First British edition of this collection of Dahl’s short stories. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Ann Love Roald Dahl....

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-129604

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The Political History of Palestine Under British Administration: Memorandum by His Britannic Majesty’s Government presented in 1947 to the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine at Jerusalem, 1947.

New York: British Information Services, 1947.

Rare first edition of this political history. Thin octavo, original publisher’s wrappers. In very good condition with rubbing and a few small losses to the extremities.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-147165

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Gogol, Nikolai V

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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Cornwell, Bernard

Sharpe’s Company. Richard Sharpe and the Seige of Badajoz, January to April 1812.

London: Collins, 1982.

First edition of the third book in the Richard Sharpe series. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author who has added the first lines of this book as follows, “Wit...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-1812

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Sikorsky, Igor

The Story of the Winged-S: Late Developments and Recent Photographs of the Helicopter.

New York: Dodd, Meade & Company, 1958.

First edition, early printing of the autobiography of the Russian-American aviation pioneer and designer of the first viable American helicopter. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece, illustrated with...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-148067

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Millett, Kate

Sexual Politics: A Surprising Examination of Society’s Most Arbitrary Folly.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1970.

First edition of the author’s landmark work. Octavo, original cloth. Warmly inscribed by Kate Millett on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. Jacket typograph...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-46008

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Cerf, Vint

Vint Cerf Sketch Signed.

:, 1977.

Rare autograph sketch signed by internet pioneer Vint Cerf. One page, the sketch draws a set of connections between Packet Radio Network (PRNET), Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), a...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-147510

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Alarcon, Pedro Antonio de; Roger Duvoisin [Illustrator]

The Three-Cornered Hat.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1959.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of this comically satirical novella. Quarto, bound in full modern morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe / Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles and tooling to the...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-148648

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West, Rebecca

The Vassall Affair.

London: Sunday Telegraph, 1963.

First edition of this work by the author of Black Lamb and Grey Falcon. Octavo, original wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, “M...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-145882

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Auchincloss, Louis; Gary Hart; Michael F. Holt; George McGovern; Garry Wills; Et. Al

The American Presidents.

New York: Times Books, 2004-2015.

Collection of biographies of the presidents of the United States. Octavo, forty-one volumes, frontispiece portrait to each volume, original boards. Each are near fine to fine in near fine to fine dust...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-146356

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Coetzee, J.M

Dusklands.

Johannesburg: Raven Press, 1974.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by J.M. Coetzee on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-145915

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[Eldridge, John S.]

Boston, Hartford, and Erie Rail Road Company Bond.

:, [c. 1860s].

Handsomely engraved bond of the Boston, Hartford, and Erie Rail Road Company in the amount of $1,000. One page, the bond is signed by John Seabury Eldridge as the company’s president. The lower...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-150470

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Fermor, Patrick Leigh

The Traveller’s Tree: A Journey Through the Caribbean Islands.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1950.

First edition of Leigh Fermor’s first book. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by A. Costa. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. An exceptional example.

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-150727

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