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The Waste Land.

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1922.

First edition, first issue of one of the most influential works of the 20th century, from the library of poet Allen Tate. Octavo, original black flexible cloth, lettered in gilt. One of one thousand c...

$14,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149678

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Reiser, Anton. [Albert Einstein]

Albert Einstein: A Biographical Portrait.

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1930.

First edition of this Einstein biography written by Rudolf Kayser, a German literary historian and husband to Albert Einstein’s stepdaughter Ilse under the pseudonym Anton Reiser. Octavo, origin...

$14,000.00 Item Number: RRB-138499

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Dahl, Roald; Illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkert

James and the Giant Peach.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961.

First edition of this Dahl classic. Octavo, original cloth, beautifully illustrated, many full-page and in color. Boldly signed by Roald Dahl on the front free endpaper and also signed by the illustra...

$14,000.00 Item Number: RRB-144130

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Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

Hartford, Conn: The American Publishing Company, 1876.

First edition, second issue of one of the great masterpieces of American literature and Twain’s best-selling book. Octavo, original blue cloth elaborately stamped in gilt, illustrated with front...

$14,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149830

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Armstrong, Neil; Michael Collins; Buzz Aldrin

Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin Signed Photograph.

:, 1969.

Rare large signed photograph of the Apollo 11 crew. Color photograph of the Apollo 11 crew posing in their white space suits against a lunar backdrop. Boldly signed by Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins,...

$14,000.00 Item Number: RRB-147310

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Dylan, Bob

Tarantula.

New York: MacMillan & Company, 1966.

First edition of Dylan’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Bob Dylan on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with some light wear to the extremities. Housed in a cust...

$14,000.00 Item Number: RRB-75081

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Lowry, Malcolm

Under the Volcano.

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947.

First edition of the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Lengthily signed by the author on the front free endpaper, “—Not to mention the Rhumerit Martiniqueist, with the milk pun...

$14,000.00 Item Number: RRB-150627

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Darwin, Charles

The Works of Charles Darwin. Including: The Origin of Species; The Descent of Man; Variation of Plants and Animals Under Domestication; Formation of Vegetable Mould; The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom; The Movement and Habits of Climbing Plants; The Various Contrivances by Which Orchids are Fertilised by Insects. Second Edition, Revised. A Naturalist’s Voyage. Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of Countries Visited During the Voyage of the H.M.S Beagle; The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896-97.

The Authorized edition of the works of Charles Darwin. Octavo, 15 volumes, bound in original three quarters morocco, gilt titles to the spine, top edge gilt, illustrated with in-text drawings and plat...

$14,000.00 Item Number: RRB-133260

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Churchill, Winston S

Marlborough: His Life and Times.

London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1933-38.

First editions of Churchill’s magisterial biography of his notable ancestor John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough. Octavo, 4 volumes, original cloth, top edge gilt, illustrated with hundreds o...

$14,000.00 Item Number: RRB-144235

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Whitman, Walt

Leaves of Grass.

Brooklyn, New York: Fowler and Wells, 1856.

Rare second edition, one of 1000 copies of the most important volume in American poetry, with an additional twenty poems not found in the first edition as well as a new section of correspondence and r...

$14,000.00 Item Number: RRB-50052

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Orwell, George

Nineteen Eighty-Four.

London: Secker & Warburg, 1949.

First edition of Orwell’s classic dystopian novel. 312 pages ; 19 cm. Octavo. Original light green cloth, spine lettered in red. Fenwick records two variant states of the dust jacket, one green and on...

$14,000.00 Item Number: RRB-152264

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Cohen, Leonard

Let Us Compare Mythologies.

Montreal: McGill Poetry Series by Contact Press, 1956.

First edition of Cohen’s first book, which explores philosophy, sexuality, death, a world of violent contrasts that would define his future literary and musical careers. Octavo, original cloth....

$14,000.00 Item Number: RRB-107435

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Poe, Edgar Allan

Eureka: A Prose Poem.

New York: George P. Putnam, 1848.

First edition, first issue of Poe’s classic work. Duodecimo, original publishers blind stamped black cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. First issue, without the review for Eureka on page 2...

$14,000.00 Item Number: RRB-140614

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Adams, Douglas

The Hitch Hiker’s Guide To the Galaxy. [Hitchhiker’s]

London: PAN, 1979.

First British edition of this modern classic, preceding the hardcover edition. Octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed by Douglas Adams in a contemporary hand on the front pastedown. In fine conditio...

$14,000.00 Item Number: RRB-147972

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Einstein, Albert

Out of My Later Years.

New York: Philosophical Library, 1950.

First edition of Einstein’s collection of social science-related articles, addresses and speeches. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Einstein on the front free endpaper in the year of pub...

$14,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149463

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Warhol, Andy; Julia Warhola

Holy Cats By Andy Warhol’s Mother.

New York: Privately Printed, 1954.

First and only edition of Julia Warhola‘s delightfully illustrated book of cats. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers over boards, illustrated with twenty off-set lithographs on various colored p...

$14,000.00 Item Number: RRB-147827

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Gandhi, Mohandas K. (M.K.)

Mohandas K. Gandhi Signed Photograph.

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Rare signed photograph depicting Mohandas K. Gandhi in profile with his palms pressed together, inscribed in Gujarati (“[Truth at all costs]”) and signed in English M.K. Gandhi on the imag...

$13,500.00 Item Number: RRB-100048

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MacKay, Charles

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.

London: Richard Bentley, 1841.

First edition of this classic study of crowd psychology, a compilation of human folly throughout the ages. Octavo, three volumes, illustrated. Bound in three quarter calf over marbled boards, gilt tit...

$13,500.00 Item Number: RRB-129387

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Cohen, Leonard

Let Us Compare Mythologies.

Montreal: McGill Poetry Series by Contact Press, 1956.

First edition of Cohen’s first book, which explores philosophy, sexuality, death, a world of violent contrasts that would define his future literary and musical careers. Octavo, original cloth....

$13,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151360

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Verne, Jules

The Mysterious Island: Dropped From the Clouds.

London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1875.

First edition in English in book form of the first volume of Verne’s Mysterious Island trilogy, preceding the Scribner Armstrong’s first American edition. Octavo, original publisher’...

$12,900.00 Item Number: RRB-125618

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Webb, Charles. [Dustin Hoffman; Katharine Ross; William Daniels]

The Graduate: A Novel of Today’s Youth, Unlike Any You Have Read.

New York: The New American Library of World Literature, Inc., 1963.

First edition of the “brilliant… sardonic, ludicrously funny” (The New York Times) story of an aimless college graduate in 1960s America that inspired of the iconic 1967 film starring Dustin Hoffman,...

$12,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150939

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Carlos II, King of Spain

Carta Executoria of King Carlos II of Spain for Diego Merino de Bargas of Tornavacas and His Sons Rodrigo, Francisco, and Luis Merino de Bargas.

Valladolid, Spain:, 1685.

Rare 17th century elaborately illuminated nobility patent of King Carlos II of Spain for the late Diego Merino de Bargas of Tornavacas, represented by two procurators, and his sons Rodrigo, Francisco,...

$12,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148310

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Leigh Fermor, Patrick; Artemis Cooper and Colin Thubron [Editors]; [Daphne Fielding]

A Time of Gifts; Between the Woods and the Water; The Broken Road.

London: John Murray, 1977-2013.

First editions of each volume in Leigh Fermor’s trilogy. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with maps. A Time of Gifts is an association copy, warmly inscribed by Patrick L...

$12,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150875

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Kipling, Rudyard [Cormac McCarthy]

Being a Man [If-].

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Rare print of Rudyard Kipling’s poem Being a Man, more commonly referred to as “If-“. One page, typed. Boldly signed by author Cormac McCarthy at the bottom right corner. Cormac McCa...

$12,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150490

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