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The Crisis Of Global Capitalism: Open Society Endangered.

New York: Public Affairs, 1998.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by George Soros on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Evan Gaffney.

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-78960

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Caro, Robert

Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.

First edition of Caro’s memoir. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Scott Robert Caro.” Fine in a fine...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-149371

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LORD BYRON. [GEORGE GORDON BYRON]

Poems.

London: Printed for John Murray, 1816.

First edition of this collection of poems and verses. Octavo, bound in contemporary half morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine. In near fine condition.

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-89120

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Webb, Charles [Richard Benjamin, Larry Turman]

The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1970.

First edition of this novel, basis for the 1971 film starring Richard Benjamin and Joanna Shimkus, directed by Larry Turman. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the m...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-140423

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Gleick, James

Chaos: Making A New Science.

New York: The Viking Press, 1987.

First edition of this modern classic in the tradition of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by James Gleick on the title page. Fine in a fine dus...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-140606

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Nabokov, Vladimir; Introduction by Dmitri Nabokov

The Original of Laura (Dying is Fun): A Novel in Fragments.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.

First edition of Nabokov’s final and incomplete novel which he was in the process of writing at the time of his death in 1977. Octavo, original pictorial cloth. Signed by Dmitri Nabokov on the t...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-140672

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Wells, H.G [Christopher Priest]

The Secret Places of the Heart.

London: Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1922.

First edition of this psychological novel of human connection. Octavo, original publisher’s green cloth with gilt titles to the spine, ruling and detailing to the spine and front panel stamped i...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-148950

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Griffith, Philip Jones; Foreword by Noam Chomsky

Vietnam Inc.

New York: Phaidon Press, 2001.

First edition of the re-release of classic photojournalist work. Folio, original black boards, illustrated. Boldly signed by Noam Chomsky on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Foreword by Noa...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-125511

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Twain, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens]

Life on the Mississippi.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1883.

First edition, first issue of Twain’s provocative portrait of the great Mississippi River which preceded the first American edition. First issue with the publisher’s advertisements at rear...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-150454

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Ferguson, Niall

The Ascent of Money.

London: Allen Lane, 2008.

First British edition of this original look at the origins of money and how it makes the world go round, destined to become a modern classic. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with diagrams and...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-151204

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Barnum, P.T

Struggles and Triumphs; or, Forty Years’ Recollections of P. T. Barnum.

Buffalo: The Courier Company, 1889.

Final and most complete edition of this utterly engaging autobiography. Octavo, bound in full deluxe morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised bands, gilt ru...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-146589

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Lanfrey, Pierre [Napoleon]

The History of Napoleon the First.

London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1871-1879.

First English edition of this critical biography that attempts to demythologize Napoleon Bonaparte. Octavo, four volumes, bound in early twentieth century three-quarters morocco over marble covered bo...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-151123

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Strachey, Lytton

Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Arnold, General Gordon.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1960.

Finely bound example of the work that placed Strachey firmly in the top rank of biographers. Octavo, bound in full crushed red morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the sp...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-129185

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Douglas, Marjory Stoneman

Florida: The Long Frontier.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1967.

First edition of this historical and cultural study of Florida that traces the region’s development from early exploration through the modern era. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, cartographi...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-151312

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Suleyman, Mustafa; Michael Bhaskar

The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century’s Greatest Dilemma.

New York: Crown, 2023.

First edition, early printing of this work on how the surge of AI and synthetic biology will transform society. Octavo, original publisher’s half-cloth. Boldly signed by Mustafa Suleyman on the...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-151363

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Bellow, Saul

Mr. Sammler’s Planet.

New York: The Viking Press, 1970.

First edition of the author’s third and final National Book Award-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Saul Bellow on the title page. Review copy, with the slip laid in, fine in...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-184

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Yarrow, Peter; Paul Stookey; Mary Travers

Peter Paul and Mary.

Burbank, CA: Warner Bros. Records, Inc, 1962.

First pressing of the classic first album of Peter, Paul, and Mary. Long play record, monophonic recording. Boldly signed by Peter Yarrow on in silver felt tip at the top of the front panel. In near f...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-151574

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The Englishwoman. Volume XIV. April-June 1912.

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd, 1912.

First edition of of Volume XIV of the Englishwoman’s Review, one of the first feminist journals published. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition.

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-135267

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Hess, George

History of the Antietam National Cemetery and A Descriptive List of All the Union Soldiers Buried Therein: Together with the Ceremonies of Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons in Laying the Corner-Stone of the Soldier Monument, September 17th, 1867.

Harrisburg, PA.: Daily Independent Print, 1890.

Rare second printing of Captain George Hess’s history of the Antietam National Cemetery, first published in Baltimore by J.W. Woods in 1869. Octavo, original wrappers, illustrated. In good condi...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-132984

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Palestine: Blue Book 1932.

Jerusalem: Printing and Stationary Office, 1932.

Original printing of this record of the movement of money in Palestine during the calendar year of 1932. Quarto, original wrappers, rebacked, illustrated with tables. In good condition with rubbing, d...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-146826

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Astaire, Fred

Steps In Time.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1959.

First edition. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated endpapers, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Paul- Fred.” Near fine in a near fine dus...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-148555

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Nygaard, Norman E. [Walter Knott]

Walter Knott Twentieth Century Pioneer: The Story of the Man Behind Knott’s Berry Farm Internationally-Known Tourist Attraction.

Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 1965.

First edition of this thrilling documentary on how Walter Knott transformed his family’s berry farm into Knott’s Berry Farm. Octavo, original publisher’s brown cloth, frontispiece of Knott...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-149139

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Facsimiles of Declaration of Independence and the Treaty of Waitangi.

New Zealand: R.E. Owen, Government Printer, 1960.

Finely bound example of this compilation of documents related to the Declaration of the Independence of New Zealand and the Treaty of Waitangi. Quarter, bound in full pebbled leatherette with gilt tit...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-114073

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Linnaeus, Carl

Philosophia Botanica: In Qua Explicantur Fundamenta Botanica Cum Definitionibus Partium, Exemplis Terminorum, Observationibus Rariorum. [In Which Are Explained the Foundations of Botany, Together with Definitions of the Parts, Examples of Terms, and Rare Observations].

Vienna: Printed by Johann Thomas, Nobleman of Trattner, 1783.

Rare second edition of this foundational text of modern botany. Octavo, written in Latin, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within g...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-149467

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