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Lectures on the Elevation of the Labouring Portion of the Community.

Boston: Published by William D. Ticknor, 1840.

First edition of this collection of three important essays on slavery, the poor, and social change, written by Channing and Martineau, two major Unitarian reformers. Duodecimo, bound in nineteenth cen...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-152019

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Bird, Larry

Larry Bird Signed 1991 and 1992 Upper Deck Cards.

California: The Upper Deck Co, 1991-1992.

1991 and 1992 Upper Deck Larry Bird signed Celtics cards. Two Upper Deck cards, each depicting Larry Bird in his Celtics uniform with a basketball, numbered 344 and 33a. Boldly signed by Larry Bird on...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-152279

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Bocuse, Paul

Bocuse A La Carte.

London: Aurum Press, 1987.

First edition. Quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Pour Lyn avec ma sympathique Paul Bocuse 3 Giullet 1990....

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-139625

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Boccaccio, Giovanni

Il Decamerone.

Amsterdam: Giovanni Ghiara, 1703.

Early eighteenth century edition of Giovanni Boccaccio’s masterpiece. Duodecimo, original full brown calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, marbled endpapers, all edges speckled blue, illustr...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-146400

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Burgess, Anthony

Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare’s Love-life.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1964.

First edition of this fictionalized, stylistically experimental reimagining of William Shakespeare’s life. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the ti...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-150047

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Burgess, Anthony

Enderby Outside.

London: William Heinemann, 1968.

First edition of the second novel in the author’s acclaimed Enderby series. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, ” The recipient, Rolland...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-125843

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Chaucer, Geoffrey

Chaucer’s Romaunt of the Rose Troilus and Creseide and the Minor Poems.

London : William Pickering, 1846.

First edition of this exemplary collection of poems. Octavo, three volumes, bound in full contemporary tan calf with blue and black morocco labels stamped in gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-146339

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Christie, Agatha

The Murder at the Vicarage.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1930.

First American edition of this classic detective novel introducing one of Christie’s most enduring and influential detectives, Miss Marple. Octavo, original publisher’s green cloth, cartog...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-149981

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Nabokov, Vladimir

Bend Sinister.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1947.

First edition of Nabokov’s first novel written in America. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. An exceptional example.

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-132322

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Harrari, Yuval Noah

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow.

London: Harvill Secker, 2016.

First edition of this “remarkable book, full of insights and thoughtful reinterpretations of what we thought we knew about ourselves and our history” (The Guardian). Octavo, original boards. Bol...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-147021

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Lincoln, Abraham

Broadside Advertisement of Abraham Lincoln’s Birthplace, The Lincoln Spring Farm.

LaRue County, Kentucky:, August 28, 1905.

Rare original broadside advertisement of the bankruptcy sale of Abraham Lincoln’s birthplace, The Lincoln Spring Farm. One page, printed broadside advertisement by L.B. Handley, Special Commissi...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-148440

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King, Coretta Scott

My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969.

First edition of Coretta Scott King’s autobiography, which recounts the history of the Civil Rights Movement and offers an inside look at Dr. King, his sermons and speeches. Octavo, original clo...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-90443

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Cruikshank, George

George Cruikshank’s Fairy Library: Hop-O’My-Thumb and the Seven-League Boots.

London: David Bogue, 1853.

First edition of this retelling of the classic French fairy tale. Duodecimo, bound in three-quarters morocco by W.J. Mansell with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in three compartments within rais...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-148885

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Henderson, James M. and Richard E. Quandt

Microeconomic Theory: A Mathematical Approach.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1958.

First edition of this classic work in microeconomic theory. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Quandt on the front free endpaper, “With my best wishes to John Roger Richard...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-112369

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Cheever, John

The Wapshot Chronicle and the Wapshot Scandal.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1979.

First edition of the collected reissue of Cheever’s National Book Award and William Dean Howells Medal-winning Wapshot novels. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by t...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-143273

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Friedman, David

The Machinery of Freedom. Guide to a Radical Capitalism.

New York: Arlington House Publishers, 1978.

First edition of David Friedman’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Toni David Friedman.” Fine in a near fin...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-116181

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Early English Prose Romances I-III: Robert the Deuyll, Robin Hood, and Fryer Bacon.

Edinburgh: Otto Schulze & Co, 1904.

Finely bound edition of this collection of three prose romances from early English literature. Quarto, three volumes, original publisher’s half-cloth, title page vignettes in red and black, pict...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-149489

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Bank of Augusta Uncut Banknote Sheet.

Georgia: Bank of Augusta, c. 1850.

Rare original uncut banknote sheet from the Bank of Augusta. One sheet with three notes priced at one dollar and the last bottom note priced at two dollars. Not signed, dated, or marked with serial nu...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-149946

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Meier, Richard

Richard Meier: Buildings and Projects 1979 – 1989.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990.

First Edition of this monograph of the architects projects compiled from the late 1970’s to the 1980’s. Inscribed and dated by Richard Meier. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

$470.00 Item Number: RRB-874

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Kennedy, William

Ironweed.

New York: The Viking Press, 1983.

First edition of Kennedy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original half gray cloth. Signed by William Kennedy on the front free endpaper. Laid in is a newspaper article on Kennedy winning...

$450.00 Item Number: RRB-690

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Thiers, Adolphe

Atlas de L’Histoire du Consulat et de L’Empire Dresse et Dessine Sous La Direction de M. Thiers Par MM. A. Dufour et Duvotenay. [The Thiers Atlas].

Paris: Librairie Furne, n.d..

Rare finely bound example of the Theirs Atlas, containing 66 maps and battle plans drawn by two of the best cartographers of Second Empire. Quarto, quarter cloth over marbled boards, illustrated with...

$450.00 Item Number: RRB-131402

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Acts Passed at the First Session of the Ninth Congress of the United States…Begun and Held at the City of Washington, in the Territory of Columbia, on Monday, the second of December, 1875.

:, [1875].

Rare printing of the Acts Passed at the First Session of the Ninth Congress of the United States including Indian treaties with the Creek, Cherokee, Delaware, Pottawatomie, Miami Indian tribes. Octavo...

$450.00 Item Number: RRB-135321

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King, Ethel

The Calendar In Rime.

Portland, Maine: Falmouth Publishing House, 1947.

First edition of this collection of poems. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, “With my compliments- Ethel King.” Near fine in the rare original glassi...

$450.00 Item Number: RRB-114523

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Frankfurter, Felix

Felix Frankfurter Typed Letter Signed.

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Typed letter signed by Supreme Court justice Felix Frankfurter. Two pages, typescript on Frankfurter’s Supreme Court letterhead, the letter is dated November 14, 1949 and reads in part, “My dear...

$450.00 Item Number: RRB-114070

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