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Carrie.

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

First edition 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, original maroon clot...

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147126

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O'Brien, Robert C. [Robert Leslie Conly]

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh.

New York: Atheneum, 1971.

First edition of this Newbery Medal-winning children’s fantasy novel. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with titles and a small mouse stamped in purple, title page vignette, illustrated t...

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151840

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Steinbeck, John

The Grapes of Wrath.

New York: The Viking Press, 1939.

First edition of this pivotal Pulitzer prize-winning novel, with “First Published in April 1939” on the copyright page and first edition notice on the front flap of the dust jacket. Octavo...

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151791

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Stevenson, Robert Louis

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson [Including Treasure Island; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Kidnapped].

Edinburgh: Printed by T. and A. Constable for Longmans, Green and Company, 1894.

Edinburgh edition of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, often considered the finest edition of Stevenson due to the paper quality used. Octavo, complete set, 34 volumes, bound in full contemporary...

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-25015

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Baldwin, James

Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone.

New York: The Dial Press, Inc., 1968.

Rare uncorrected galley proof of Baldwin’s fourth novel. Square quarto, original spiral bound wrappers. Signed by the author on the title page, “Peace James Baldwin.” In very good co...

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-140823

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von Mises, Ludwig

The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality.

Princeton, NJ: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc, 1956.

First edition of this powerful work by the famed economist. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Ludwig von Mises on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Uncommon signed.

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-140667

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Shakespeare, William. Revised by George Steevens

The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare.

London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. for John and Josiah Boydell, George and W. Nicol., 1802.

Rare finely bound complete set of “by far the largest single engraving enterprise ever undertaken in England”, John Boydell’s magnificent illustrated folio edition of the dramatic wo...

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-109329

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McCarthy, Cormac

Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West.

London: Picador , 1989.

First British edition of the author’s classic fifth novel. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Cormac McCarthy on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by...

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149220

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Stone, Oliver. [Sylvia Miles]

Original Wall Street Shooting Script.

: Oaxatal Productions, Inc, 1987.

Rare original shooting script from the classic 1987 film Wall Street with an autograph note signed by Oliver Stone and boldly signed by Stone on the title page. Quarto, bound in a spiral-bound folder....

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-116582

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Hughes, Howard, Henry H. Arnold, Oscar Westover

Howard Hughes Signed Photograph.

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Rare United States Air Force photograph of legendary aviator Howard Hughes, Major General Oscar Westover, and General of the Air Force Henry H. Arnold. Signed and inscribed by each aviation pioneer,...

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-109582

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Ono, Yoko; Introduction by John Lennon

Grapefruit.

London: Sphere Books Limited, 1971.

First Sphere edition of Ono’s seminal piece of conceptual art. 12mo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed by John Lennon and Yoko Ono on the front free endpaper. The uncommon Sphere edition of...

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-142829

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Ferrari, Enzo; Foreword by Stirling Moss

The Enzo Ferrari Story. [with] Enzo Ferrari Signed Postcard.

New York: MacMillan, 1964.

First edition of Enzo Ferrari’s autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Enzo Ferrari in his customary purple ink on a Ferrari postcard featuring Gilles Villeneuve on...

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-20091

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Joyce, James; Henri Matisse

Ulysses.

New York : The Limited Editions Club, 1935.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of Joyce’s landmark Ulysses, widely recognized as the first illustrated edition. Large quarto, original gilt-stamped pictorial brown cloth, with 26 ill...

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151736

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Stephenson, Neal

Snow Crash.

New York : Bantam Books, 1992.

First edition of this “brilliantly realized” (The New York Times Book Review) breakthrough novel from visionary author Neal Stephenson, a modern classic that predicted the metaverse and inspired gener...

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151085

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Knight, Frank H

Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit.

Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1920.

First edition of Knight’s classic treatise, published the same year as the first but without the publication year to the title page. Octavo, original cloth, printer’s device to the title p...

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-140654

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Cooper, Susan

The Dark is Rising Series: Over Sea, Under Stone; The Dark is Rising; Greenwitch; The Grey King; Silver on the Tree.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1965-1977.

First British editions and true firsts of each book in the Dark is Rising Sequence. Octavo, 5 volumes. Each copy is signed or inscribed by the author. Each are in excellent condition in the original d...

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-1254

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Du Bois, W.E.B

Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920.

First edition of the first of Du Bois’ three autobiographies. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with some wear to the extremities. Exceptionally rare, with only...

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-136790

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Molière. [Poquelin, Jean-Baptiste]

Oeuvres de Moliere. Nouvelle Edition.

Paris: [Pierre Prault], 1734.

First edition, first issue of one of the greatest French illustrated books of the first half of the eighteenth century. First issue with “Comteese” in vol. VI, p. 360, line 12. Quarto, six...

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-130224

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Rand, Ayn

The Fountainhead.

London: Cassell, 1947.

First British edition of Rands’s breakthrough work and her first major literary success. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments...

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151403

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Potter, Beatrix

The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle.

London: Frederick Warne and Co, 1905.

The earliest known first edition, presentation copy of Potter’s popular children’s story. Octavo, original boards with embossed titles and pictorial cover label, pictorial endpapers, illus...

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-135913

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Edwards, Jonathan

A History of the Work of Redemption.

Edinburgh:, 1774.

Rare first edition of this work by the famed philosopher and theologian. Octavo, bound in contemporary calf. In very good condition, contemporary name to the front free endpaper. Rare with only one ap...

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-141701

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Illuminated Astrological Sign Symbol Painting Collection.

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Rare collection of illuminated paintings depicting the twelve signs of the Zodiac. Quarto, bound in full calf with gilt tooling to the spine, elaborate gilt ruling to the front and rear panels with fl...

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-199552

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Smythe, William R. [Richard P. Feynman]

Static and Dynamic Electricity.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, 1950.

Richard Feynman’s copy of Smythe’s central work on static and dynamic electricity. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with mathematic equations and diagrams. Signed in ink by Feynman on t...

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145207

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Seuss, Dr. [Theodor Seuss Geisel]

The Seven Lady Godivas.

New York: Random House, 1939.

First edition, first printing of this classic Dr. Seuss title. Quarto, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated throughout. Association copy, inscribed by the author opposite the title page,...

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-104001

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