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Norbert Wiener Signed Passport and Photograph.

United States: Department of State, 1922.

Rare 1922 signed passport of the father of cybernetics Norbert Wiener with a signed photograph by him. The United States of America passport from the Department of State signed by Norbert Wiener with...

$9,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149323

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Dylan, Bob

Bob Dylan: Chronicles.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004.

First edition of Dylan’s revealing autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Bob Dylan on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Coco Shinomiya. PSA/DNA...

$9,800.00 Item Number: RRB-143531

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Beard, Peter Hill

The End of the Game.

New York: The Viking Press, 1965.

First edition of the photographer’s first book with over 75 black-and-white and color photographic plates. Tall quarto, original ivory cloth. Uniquely inscribed by Peter Beard across four pages,...

$9,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148059

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Lowry, Malcolm

Under the Volcano.

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947.

First edition of the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Malcolm Lowry on the half-title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some rubbing and wear. Housed in a cu...

$9,800.00 Item Number: RRB-136883

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Crichton, Michael

Jurassic Park and The Lost World.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990 and 1995.

First editions of Crichton’s gripping, bestselling scientific thriller and its sequel The Lost World. Octavo, two volumes, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers in The Lost World. Presenta...

$9,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151540

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Halley, Edmond

Astronomical Tables with Precepts both in English and Latin for Computing the Places of the Sun, Moon, Planets, and Comets.

London: Printed for William Innys, 1752.

First edition in English of Halley’s classic work. Quarto, bound in contemporary full calf, gilt titles to the spine, gilt embossed stamp of The Society of Writers to the Signet on the front and...

$9,800.00 Item Number: RRB-70038

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Dahl, Roald; Illustrated by Quentin Blake

The BFG: Illustrations by Quentin Blake.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1982.

First edition of this Dahl classic, which has sold over 20 million copies. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Quentin Blake. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front pastedown,...

$9,800.00 Item Number: RRB-109358

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Keynes, John Maynard. [J.M.] [Robert M. Solow]

The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1936.

First edition of the economist’s masterpiece, generally regarded as the most influential social science treatise of the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nobel Prize-winning e...

$9,800.00 Item Number: RRB-138055

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Clinton, Bill, Yitzhak Rabin, Yasser Arafat, King Hussein and Hosni Mubarak

Bill Clinton, Yasser Arafat, King Hussein Signed Photograph.

:, 1995.

Color photograph taken during the the signing of the Oslo II Accords of Bill Clinton, Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and King Hussein of Jordan and Hosni Mubarak on the White House lawn, signed by Clint...

$9,800.00 Item Number: RRB-123430

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Achebe, Chinua

Things Fall Apart.

New York: Astor-Honor/ An Obolensky Book, 1959.

First edition, early printing of this “true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world” (Barac...

$9,800.00 Item Number: RRB-132663

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Baldwin, James

The Fire Next Time.

New York: The Dial Press, 1963.

First edition of one of the most influential works on race relations published in the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the title page, “Peace! James Baldwin....

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-129331

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Watson, James D

The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA.

New York: Atheneum, 1968.

First edition of Watson’s ground breaking work regarding the discovery of DNA for which the author, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1962. Octavo, or...

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-99462

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1903.

The Autograph Centenary edition of the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of 600 numbered copies containing a double sided manuscript in Emerson’s hand bound into volume one. Octavo, 12 volumes, pub...

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-138934

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McCullers, Carson [Henry Miller, George Seferis]

Reflections In A Golden Eye.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941.

First edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For George Seferiades Cordially yours and good lu...

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-127428

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Lewis Carroll [Charles. L. Dodgson]; Illustrated by Salvador Dali

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

New York: Maecenas Press & Random House, 1969.

Limited illustrated edition of Lewis Carroll’s beloved children’s classic, signed by and with twelve illustrations by Salvador Dali. Folio, loose portfolio as issued in original brown silk...

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147228

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Gibran, Kahlil

Kahlil Gibran Autograph Letter Signed.

:, 1928.

Rare autograph letter signed by the author of The Prophet Kahlil Gibran on his letterhead, which reads, “March 25 1928 My dear Mrs. Scribner, I regret very much that I shall not be able to dine...

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-144143

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Roth, Philip

Goodbye, Columbus.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1959.

First edition of the author’s first book and winner of the National Book Award. Octavo, original cloth. Review copy with the slip laid in, fine in a fine dust jacket without wear. From the colle...

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151200

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Kennedy, John F

John F. Kennedy Signed Inaugural Address.

:, .

Rare Souvenir Edition of Life Magazine’s Inaugural Spectacle commemorating the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy. Quarto, original wrappers, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by...

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-117063

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Monroe, James

Message from the President of the United States, to Both Houses of Congress, at the Commencement of the First Session of the Eighteenth Congress. December 2, 1823.

Washington, D.C: Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1823.

First edition in book form of the Monroe Doctrine. Octavo, bound in contemporary calf, numerous folding charts and tables. In very good condition. Rare.

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-131707

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Wells, H.G. [George Bernard Shaw]

The World Set Free: A Story of Mankind.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1914.

First edition, first issue of Wells’ prophetic novel predicting the arrival of atomic weaponry with the publisher listed as Macmillan and Co. Limited (as opposed to Ltd.), 8 pages of advertiseme...

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-109903

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Twain, Mark. [Samuel Clemens]

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade).

New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885.

First edition, first issue of Mark Twain’s masterpiece. Octavo, bound in full dark green morocco with morocco spine label lettered in gilt, raised bands to the spine, mar top edge gilt, with 174 illus...

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-127896

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Faulkner, William

The Hamlet, The Town, and The Mansion [The Snopes Trilogy].

New York: Random House, 1940-1959.

A complete set of the limited signed first edition of Faulkner’s acclaimed Snopes Trilogy. Octavo, original cloth. Each volume is signed by William Faulkner. Each are in near fine to fine condit...

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-109883

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Faulkner, William

The Town.

New York: Random House, 1957.

First edition, first state with the 5/57 at the bottom of the front flap of the dust jacket. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the title page in the year of publication, “11 Nov 57...

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-125095

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The Torah: Pentateuch, Five Megillot, and Haftorot.

Amsterdam: Caspar Steen, 1702.

Rare 18th century Danish printing of the Hebrew Bible printed in Hebrew with Yiddish paraphrase. Quarto, two volumes bound in one in contemporary full brown calf, remnants of the original clasps, reba...

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146336

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