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Carrie.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1974.

First edition, first printing of the novel that launched King’s career, with ‘First Edition’ stated on the copyright page and ‘P6’ in the gutter of page 199. Octavo, orig...

$9,800.00 Item Number: RRB-144855

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Bolivar, Simón

Simón Bolívar Autograph Letter Signed.

Bogota:, 1827.

Rare autograph letter signed by ‘El Libertador’, Simón Bolívar as President of Gran Colombia. One page, script in Spanish. Sent from Bogota, the letter is dated December 6, 1827 and reads...

$9,800.00 Item Number: RRB-126188

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Dahl, Roald

Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964.

First edition, first issue with the six line colophon on the last page of the author’s classic work. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine i...

$9,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147116

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Popper, Karl R

The Open Society And Its Enemies.

London: George Routledge & Sons, 1957.

Author’s presentation copy, third editions of Popper’s magnum opus, one of the most important books of the twentieth century. Octavo, 2 volumes, original black cloth. Presentation copy, in...

$9,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149712

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Popper, Karl R

First edition of this undisputed classic in the philosophy of social science. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication,...

$9,800.00 Item Number: RRB-104071

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Darwin, Charles

Charles Darwin Autograph.

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Rare autograph from Charles Darwin, boldly signed, “With M. Darwin‘s Best Compliments.” Matted and framed with a portrait of Darwin. The entire piece measures 11.9 inches by 9 inches...

$9,800.00 Item Number: RRB-145367

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Palladio, Andrea. Translated from the Italian by Giacomo Leoni

The Architecture of A. Palladio: In Four Books Containing a Short Treatise of the Five Orders, and the Most Necessary Observations Concerning All Sorts of Building; As Also The Different Construction of Private and Publick Houses, High-ways. Bridges, Market-places, Xystes, and Temples, with their Plans, Sections and Uprights.

London: Printed by John Darby for the Author, 1721.

Rare second English edition of Leoni’s English translation of Palladio‘s monumental work, containing new typesetting, but reusing the same plates from the first edition. Folio, two volumes...

$9,800.00 Item Number: RRB-146284

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Kidder, Tracy. [Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis]

The Soul of a New Machine.

Boston: Atlantic, Little, Brown and Company, 1981.

First edition of Kidder’s second book. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis on the title page, “For Jacqueline With Best Wis...

$9,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151509

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Kai-shek, Chiang and Madame

General Chiang Kai shek: An Account Of The Fortnight In Sian.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1937.

First edition of this autobiography of Chiang Kai-shek. Octavo, original cloth. Signed on the half-title page in Chinese by Chiang Kai-shek and in English by Mei-ling Soong Chiang, former First Lady o...

$9,800.00 Item Number: RRB-48012

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[Dante Alighieri]

Dante Alighieri Italian Marble Bust.

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Rare Italian marble bust of Dante Alighieri mounted on a stack of his own books, ‘Divina Commedia.’ In near fine condition. The entire piece measures 11.75 inches by 22.5 inches.

$9,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148254

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Becker, Gary S

The Economics of Discrimination.

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1957.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning economist’s first book and groundbreaking work on discrimination. Octavo, original green cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title p...

$9,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150304

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Ravel, Maurice

Maurice Ravel Autographed Signed Letter and Signed Musical Quotation.

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Autograph musical quotation signed and an autograph letter signed by Maurice Ravel. The quotation, 3 bars from his Chansons madécasses, notated on a two-stave system, with holograph title, lyrics, tem...

$9,800.00 Item Number: RRB-72755

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Dickens, Charles

The Personal History of David Copperfield.

London: Bradbury and Evans, May 1849 - November 1850.

First edition in the original monthly parts of “the most perfect of all the Dickens novels” (Virginia Woolf). Octavo, original blue-green illustrated paper wrappers, twenty parts in ninete...

$9,800.00 Item Number: RRB-96035

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Catton, Bruce

Mr. Lincoln’s Army; Glory Road; A Stillness At Appomattox.

New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1951-53.

First editions of each volume in the author’s acclaimed Army of the Potomac trilogy. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Mr. Lincoln’s Army and Glory Road are presentation copi...

$9,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148976

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Dickens, Charles

The Selected Works of Charles Dickens: Sketches by Boz Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Master Humphrey’s Clock, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son, The Personal History of David Copperfield, Bleak House, Hard Times. For These Times, Little Dorrit, A Tale of Two Cities, The Uncommercial Traveller, The Adventures of Oliver Twist, Our Mutual Friend, The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

London: Chapman and Hall; Bradbury and Evans, 1838-1870.

Finley bound collection of the selected works of Charles Dickens. Octavo, 15 volumes finely bound in full straight grain morocco by Carss & Co. with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six com...

$9,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149516

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11-Star “Stars and Bars” Confederate States of America Flag.

:, 1861.

Rare Civil War era Confederate States of America Flag, in use between July 2 and November 28, 1861 commemorating the admittance of Tennessee and North Carolina into the Confederacy. Cotton, hand-sewn...

$9,800.00 Item Number: RRB-133072

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Dickens, Charles

The Personal History of David Copperfield.

London: Bradbury and Evans, May 1849-November 1850.

First edition in parts of “the most perfect of all the Dickens novels” (Virginia Woolf). Original serial issue. Twenty parts in nineteen, octavo four to thirty-two pages of preliminary adv...

$9,800.00 Item Number: RRB-91369

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Trollope, Anthony

Barchester Towers.

London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1857.

Rare first editions, first issue of one of Trollope’s most important novels. Octavo, original cloth, blind stamped boards. Half-title present in Volume I, brick-red endpapers with advertisements...

$9,800.00 Item Number: RRB-98876

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Lewis, C.S

The Silver Chair.

London: Geoffrey Bles, 1953.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Illustrated by Pauline Baynes. An exceptional example, as this is...

$9,800.00 Item Number: RRB-144244

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Jones, Robert T. [Bobby]; Gary Player

Right and Wrongs of Golf.

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Rare autograph album bound into the original limp leatherette of Rights and Wrongs of Golf by Robert T. Jones. Duodecimo, gilt titles to the front panel. Signed on the first blank by Robert T. Jones,...

$9,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151326

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Green, Michael B.; John H. Schwarz and Edward Witten. [Stephen Hawking]

Superstring Theory.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

First edition of the fundamental text on superstring theory. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of Stephen Hawking. Hawking was a theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director...

$9,800.00 Item Number: RRB-119483

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Lee, Harper

To Kill A Mockingbird.

Philadelphia & New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1960.

First edition, fifth printing (published the same year as the first) of one of the most important American novels of the 20th century. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth. Presentation copy,...

$9,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149909

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Hayek, Friedrich August von [F.A.]

Friedrich August von Hayek Autograph Note Signed.

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Rare autograph note signed by and entirely in the hand of Austrian-British economist Friedrich August von Hayek. One-page lined index card, the note reads, “We cannot admit that all words are eq...

$9,800.00 Item Number: RRB-115089

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McKay, Claude

Harlem: Negro Metropolis.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc, 1940.

Scarce first edition of this intimate history of the Black Mecca of the world, authored by one of the central figures in the Harlem renaissance. Octavo, original brown cloth with gilt titles, red tops...

$9,800.00 Item Number: RRB-145357

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First Edition Books for Sale Online

Carrie.

Simón Bolívar Autograph Letter Signed.

Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.

The Open Society And Its Enemies.

The Poverty of Historicism.

Charles Darwin Autograph.

The Soul of a New Machine.

General Chiang Kai shek: An Account Of The Fortnight In Sian.

Dante Alighieri Italian Marble Bust.

The Economics of Discrimination.

Maurice Ravel Autographed Signed Letter and Signed Musical Quotation.

The Personal History of David Copperfield.

Mr. Lincoln’s Army; Glory Road; A Stillness At Appomattox.

11-Star “Stars and Bars” Confederate States of America Flag.

The Personal History of David Copperfield.

Barchester Towers.

The Silver Chair.

Right and Wrongs of Golf.

Superstring Theory.

To Kill A Mockingbird.

Friedrich August von Hayek Autograph Note Signed.

Harlem: Negro Metropolis.