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Select Poetry: Chiefly on Subjects Connected with Religion. [Fore-Edge Painting].

London: R. B. Seeley, 1830.

Finely bound poetry collection decorated with a concealed fore-edge painting. 18mo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt fleuron cornerpieces to the front and rear pan...

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-142387

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Davila, Enrico Caterino

Historia delle guerre civili di Francia.

Venice: Paolo Baglioni, 1642.

Thick octavo, bound in contemporary vellum, 1056 pages. Woodcut title vignette. In excellent condition.

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-1833

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Addams, Charles. [Chas Addams]

Drawn and Quartered.

New York: Random House, 1942.

First edition of this classic collection of Addams’ cartoons. Quarto, original half cloth, illustrated. Near fine in a good price-clipped dust jacket. Foreword by Boris Karloff. Uncommon in this condi...

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-147269

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France, Anatole; Bernard Lamotte [Illustrator]

Crainquebille.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1949.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of Anatole France’s satirical novel. Quarto, bound in full modern morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe / Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles to the spine...

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-148559

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Falconer, Ian

Olivia.

New York: Atheneum Books, 2000.

First edition, early printing of the author’s first book. Quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, ” To He...

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-140970

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Tan, Amy

The Joy Luck Club.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1989.

First edition of the author’s most well known work. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Amy Tan on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket without wear. Jacket illustration by Gretc...

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-114321

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Donne, John

John Donne, Dean of St. Paul’s: Complete Poetry and Selected Prose.

London: The Nonesuch Press, 1972.

The Nonesuch Press edition of this collection of poetry and prose from prominent English poet and preacher John Donne. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco with gilt titles to the spine in six comp...

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-148781

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Vizzini, Ned

It’s Kind of a Funny Story.

New York: Miramax Books, 2006.

Early printing of the author’s second novel. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Thorn and Edith- Thank you! Enjoy Ned Vizzini NedViz...

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-102348

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Klich, Kent; Essay by Herta Muller

Children of Ceaucescu.

New York: Umbrage, 2001.

First edition of the photographer’s powerful collection of images taken after the reign of the Romanian dictator, Nicolae Ceaucescu. The aftermath is sobering, the pictures telling. Essay by Nob...

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-1590

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Bernanke, Ben

The Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013.

Later printing of this collection of lectures given by the former chief of the Federal Reserve. Octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed by the author on the half-title page, “Best wishes Ben Be...

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-147189

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Samuelson, Paul A

Paul A. Samuelson Typed Letter Signed.

Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, March 13, 1956.

Rare typed letter signed by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Quarto, one page on Department of Economics and Social Science stationary, the letter reads, ‘Many thanks for your letter of March...

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-147279

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Keynes, J.M. [John Maynard]

Laissez-Faire and Communism.

New York: New Republic, 1926.

First edition of this work by one of the greatest economists of the twentieth century. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition.

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-134110

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Linney, Romulus [Alan Schneider]

The Love Suicide at Schofield Barracks and Democracy and Esther: Two Plays

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973.

First edition of this collection of two plays by Romulus Linney. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpap...

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-152218

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Johnson, Alvin J. and Benjamin P. Ward [Asia]

Johnson’s Map of Asia.

New York: Johnson and Ward, c, 1865.

Large hand-colored map of Asia by American cartographers Johnson and Ward. One page, hand-colored. In near fine condition. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 21.5 inches by 19 inches.

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-137233

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Pasteur, Louis

Études Sur le Vinaigre, sa Fabrication, ses Maladies, Moyens de Les Prévenir; Nouvelles Observations Sur la Conservation des Vins par la Chaleur.

Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1868.

First edition of this classic work of Pasteur’s process of pasteurization. Octavo, modern black half-cloth over marbled boards with black leather label and gilt titles to the spine, all edges sp...

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-148604

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Brooke, Rupert

The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke.

London: Philip Lee Warner Publisher to The Medici Society, 1919.

The Medici Society limited edition collection of Rupert Brooke’s classic poems. Octavo, bound in full vellum with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, wood...

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-148850

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Palestine. Department of Migration. Annual Report 1936.

Jerusalem: Printing and Stationary Office, 1937.

Scarce printing of the Palestine Department of Migration Annual Report for 1936. Thin quarto, original wrappers, illustrated with tables, errata slip tipped in. In good condition with toning, some rub...

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-146823

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Kleinrock, Leonard

Leonard Kleinrock Signed Photograph.

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Large format color photograph of American computer scientist Leonard Kleinrock with the ARPANET, the forerunner to the Internet. Inscribed by him, “To Kent, Leonard Kleinrock.” In fine con...

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-117401

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[Kipling, Rudyard]

The Salvation Army British Exhibition Handbook.

New York: Harper & Brothers, [1924].

First edition of The Salvation Army British Empire Exhibition Handbook compiled for the information of visitors at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley in 1924; containing the first appearance of...

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-121047

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Atkinson, Rick

The Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point’s Class of 1966.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1989.

First edition of the historian’s first book, which was reviewed by James Salter as “enormously rich in detail and written with a novelist’s brilliance, the pages literally hurry befo...

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-151032

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Martin, George R.R

A Feast For Crows.

New York: Bantam Books, 2005.

First edition of the fourth volume in the author’s Song of Ice and Fire series. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers. Signed and dated by the author in the year of publication, “G...

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-126734

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Dimock, Anthony W

Wall Street and the Wilds.

New York: Outing Company, 1915.

First edition of Dimock’s autobiography, including his great success in cornering the gold market, also hunting grizzly bear, buffalo, deer, waterfowl, early wildlife photography, and some menti...

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-4562

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Lewis, C.S

The Four Loves.

London: Geoffrey Bles, 1960.

First edition of this influential theological work in which C. S. Lewis examines the nature of human affection, friendship, eros, and charity, exploring their distinctions and their relation to divine...

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-151795

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Saramago, Jose

Death With Interruptions.

Orlando: Harcourt, 2008.

First edition of Saramago’s philosophical page-turner, which hinges on death taking a holiday. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated by the author in the year of public...

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-138908

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