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The Behavior of Stock-Market Prices (The Journal of Business: The Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago January 1965).

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1965.

Original paper of the landmark work of Nobel Prize-winning economist Eugene Fama’s The Behavior of Stock Market Prices. Octavo, in the original wrappers which are bound in full morocco with gilt...

$15,000.00 Item Number: RRB-57033

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Smith, Dodie

The Hundred and One Dalmatians.

London: Heinemann, 1956.

First edition of the author’s beloved children’s classic, adapted into the 1961 animated film produced by Walt Disney Studios. Octavo, original blue cloth, pictorial endpapers, with 58 ill...

$15,000.00 Item Number: RRB-148439

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Mandela, Nelson [Desmond Tutu and F.W. de Klerk]

Long Walk To Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela.

South Africa: MacDonald Purnell, 1994.

First South African edition, early printing of the first autobiography of one of the greatest moral leaders of the twentieth century which has went on to sell over six million copies worldwide. Octavo...

$15,000.00 Item Number: RRB-145809

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Kirk, Russell

The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot.

Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1953.

First edition of one of the greatest contributions to twentieth-century American Conservatism. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Russell Kirk on the title page. Fine in a very good dust jacket....

$15,000.00 Item Number: RRB-130940

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Churchill, Winston S

The Second World War: The Gathering Storm; Their Finest Hour; The Grand Alliance; The Hinge of Fate; Closing the Ring; Triumph and Tragedy.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1948-53.

First American editions of Winston Churchill’s masterpiece, preceding the British editions. Octavo, six volumes, original cloth, illustrated. Triumph and Tragedy is inscribed by the author on th...

$15,000.00 Item Number: RRB-150160

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Kennedy, Jacqueline; Caroline Bouvier Kennedy; John F. Kennedy Jr

Jacqueline Kennedy Signed Photograph.

:, c. 1968.

Rare original color photograph of Jacqueline Kennedy with her children Caroline and John, Jr., inscribed by her on the mount, “For Billie Jean – with much love from us all Jacqueline Kenne...

$15,000.00 Item Number: RRB-146234

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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano

Whither Bound? A Lecture at Milton Academy on the Alumni War Memorial Foundation May 18, 1926.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926.

First edition of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first book, being the text of a lecture delivered by him at Milton Academy on the Alumni War Memorial Foundation on May 18, 1926. Octavo, original cl...

$15,000.00 Item Number: RRB-125163

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Friedman, Milton

A Theory of the Consumption Function.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1957.

First edition of Friedman’s magnum opus. Octavo, original cloth, graphs and charts throughout. Boldly signed by Milton Friedman on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. House...

$15,000.00 Item Number: RRB-3694

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le Carre, John

The Spy Who Came In From The Cold.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1963.

First edition of le Carre’s classic work, which went on to reinvigorate the spy genre. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the title page, “David Cornwell aka John le Carre....

$15,000.00 Item Number: RRB-115768

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Plato; Translated by Floyer Sydenham

Plato’s Dialogues.

London: W. Sandby, 1767-1779.

First edition set contains all eleven parts, although without all the individual dated titles. Part one is signed on the dedication page by the translator Floyer Sydenham as usual, and includes a shee...

$15,000.00 Item Number: RRB-140464

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Seuss, Dr. [Theodor Seuss Geisel]; Maurice Sendak

The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins.

New York: The Vanguard Press, 1938.

First edition, early printing of Seuss’s unique book of prose. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the pastedown, “For Maurice with many thanks for the Future! Dr. Seuss.” T...

$15,000.00 Item Number: RRB-135672

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Horatius Flaccus, Quintus (Alexis de Tocqueville)

Horatii Opera (The Complete Works of Horace).

John Pine: London, 1733-37.

First Pine edition of the collected works of ancient Roman poet and political figure Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace), “the most elegant of English eighteenth-century books in which text and il...

$15,000.00 Item Number: RRB-81146

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[Caesar, Julius]. William Duncan

The Commentaries of Caesar, Translated into English. To Which is Prefixed a Discourse Concerning The Roman Art of War.

London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson, et al, 1753.

First edition of Duncan’s famous translation of Caesar’s Commentaries, sumptuously illustrated with frontispiece portrait of Caesar, six double-page maps, and 78 splendid plans and plates (most double...

$15,000.00 Item Number: RRB-99425

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Eddy, Mary Baker

Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

Boston: Published by the Author, 1886.

Early printing of the central text of the Christian Science which continues to rank as a best-seller to this day. Octavo, bound in contemporary three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles...

$15,000.00 Item Number: RRB-90463

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French Military Artillery and Fortification Manual.

Metz: Ecole Royale de l'Artillerie et du Genie, 1818-19.

Rare early 19th century French military manual created in manuscript for the Ecole Royale de ‘Artillerie et du Genie (School of Application of Artillery and Engineering of Metz) containing lesso...

$15,000.00 Item Number: RRB-109852

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Dreiser, Theodore

Sister Carrie.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1900.

First edition of the author’s scarce first book. Octavo, original red cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For F.W. Skiff, with good wishes, from...

$15,000.00 Item Number: RRB-117238

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Fleming, Ian

Moonraker.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1955.

First edition of the third novel in the James Bond series and what many critics to be his finest. Octavo, original black cloth. Boldly signed on the title page by Roger Moore, who played 007 in the fi...

$15,000.00 Item Number: RRB-30022

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Stevenson, Robert Louis

Treasure Island.

London: Cassell & Company, 1883.

First edition, first issue of Stevenson’s timeless tale of adventure which set the gold standard for the pirate genre. With the following first issue points: 8 page publisher’s list at end, Dece...

$15,000.00 Item Number: RRB-147069

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Handel, George Frideric

Rodelinda: An Opera.

London: J. Cluer, 1725.

First edition of one of Handel’s finest operas, a highly dramatic work whose taut plot resembles that of Fidelio. Quarto, contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards, engraved illustrated titl...

$15,000.00 Item Number: RRB-132176

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Lorca, Federico Garcia [Leonard Cohen]

The Poet In New York and Other Poems.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1940.

First edition of Lorca’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by fellow poet Leonard Cohen on the front free endpaper. Cohen was deeply influenced by the work of Lorca for the duration of his p...

$15,000.00 Item Number: RRB-110825

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Alcott, Louisa May

Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. [with] Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy Part Second. [with] Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo’s Boys.

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1868-1871.

First editions of Louisa May Alcott’s “outstanding achievement of 19th-century American literature” together with its sequels. Octavo, three volumes, original publisher’s emerald gre...

$15,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151060

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Armstrong, Neil; Buzz Aldrin; Michael Collins

Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins Signed Apollo 11 Beta Cloth Swatch.

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Cut portion of NASA aerospace beta cloth used as exterior spacesuit fabric during the Apollo program. The cloth is illustrated with the Apollo 11 logo. Boldly signed by Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and...

$15,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151659

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Feynman, Richard P

QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985.

First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning physicist regarding quantum electrodynamics. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the title page, “Richard P. Feynman.” Fin...

$15,000.00 Item Number: RRB-96977

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Clinton, Bill [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

My Life.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.

First edition of President Clinton’s autobiography. Large octavo, original blue boards, illustrated with 32 pages of photographs. Boldly signed on the title page by Bill and Hillary Clinton and...

$15,000.00 Item Number: RRB-124933

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