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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). Octavo, original blue-green illustrated serial issue wrappers being twenty parts in nineteen with t...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-96702

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Siren, Osvald

The Walls and Gates of Peking.

New York: Orientalia, 1924.

First edition of this work limited to 800 copies. Quarto, original half cloth, over papered boards. brown morocco label to the spine. Title page printed in red and black, folding map, 128 photogravure...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-27086

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Shirer, William L

The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960.

First edition of “one of the most important works of history of our time” (Orville Prescott, New York Times). Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed b...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148281

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Fleming, Ian [Roger Moore]

The Spy Who Loved Me.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1962.

First edition of the ninth novel in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series. Octavo, original black cloth. Boldly signed by Roger Moore on the title page. Moore played 007 in the film adaptation. Fine in a ne...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150152

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Hall, Joseph

An Oration Pronounced July 4, 1800, at the Request of the Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, in Commemoration of the Anniversary of American Independence.

Boston: From the Printing-Office of Manning & Loring, [1800].

First edition of Hall’s famed speech tracing the history of the American Revolution. Octavo, bound in paper-covered boards, original wrapper bound in at rear. Presentation copy, inscribed by the...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-125043

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Lemon, Frank; [Orville Wright]

Orville Wright Signed Lithograph of The Wright Brothers ‘Strange Contraption’ Rises at Kitty Hawk, 1903.

:, 1928.

Lithograph of The Wright Brothers ‘Strange Contraption’ Rises at Kitty Hawk, 1903. Wright Aeronautical Corporation off-set color lithograph of a Frank Lemon watercolor painting honoring th...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-146523

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Roth, Philip [Richard Benjamin, Ali MacGraw, Larry Peerce]

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. Boldly signed Philip Roth on the title page and additionally by the director of the film L...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-146869

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Samuelson, Paul A

Foundations of Economic Analysis.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1947.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning economist’s magnum opus and one of the most influential economic texts of the twentieth century. Octavo, original burgundy cloth with titles in gilt. Signed...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-3541

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Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de

Vida Y Hechos Del Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote De La Mancha: Con Muy Bellas Estampas Gravadas Sobre Los Dibujos de Coypel, Primer Pinto de el Rey de Francia.

En Haia [The Hague]: Por P. Gosse y A. Moetjens, 1744.

Rare early printing and one of the most highly coveted editions of Cervantes’ masterpiece. Octavo, 4 volumes, bound in full calf, gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine, burgundy sp...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-92807

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McCarthy, Cormac

Suttree.

New York: Random House, 1979.

First edition of the author’s fourth novel and what many consider to be his finest. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Cormac McCarthy on the front free endpaper and title page. Fine...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151471

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Le Guin, Ursula K. [LeGuin]

The Lathe of Heaven.

New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1971.

First edition of this classic science fiction work, which revolves around a character whose dreams alter reality, including past events. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Ursula K. Le Guin...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148187

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Ptolomaeus, Claudius. Edited and with Commentary by Federico Commandino

Ptolemaei Planisphaerium. Iordani Planisphaerium. Federici Commandini Urbrinatis in Ptolemaei Planisphaerium Commentarius.

Venice: Paulus Manutius (Aldine Press), 1558.

First separate edition and first edition of Commandino’s commentary of Ptolemy’s Planisphaerium, the original Greek text of which is no longer extant. Octavo, two volumes bound into one in...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-95289

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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...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-140788

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Martin, George R.R

Game of Thrones; A Clash of Kings; A Storm of Swords; A Feast for Crows; A Dance with Dragons.

New York: Bantam, 1996-2011.

First editions of each of the five volumes in the author’s Game of Thrones series. Octavo, five volumes, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers. Each volume is signed by the author, George...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149500

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Williams, Tennessee

A Streetcar Named Desire.

New York: New Directions, 1947.

Early printing of Williams’ classic play, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. Octavo, original illustrated boards. association copy, inscribed or signed by several cast members for p...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-87896

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Woolf, Virginia

The Second Common Reader.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1932.

First edition of the second collection of Woolf’s critical essays. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Virginia Woolf on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Rare...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-132047

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Burnett, W.R. [John Wayne; Roy Rogers; Gene Autry]

The Dark Command: A Kansas Iliad.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1938.

First edition thus of Burnett’s best-selling novel adapted into the popular Western of the same name which was nominated for two Academy Awards and stands as the only film where Western icons Wa...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-132134

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Bogle, John C. [Burton Malkiel]

Bogle On Mutual Funds: New Perspectives for the Intelligent Investor; Common Sense on Mutual Funds: New Imperatives for the Intelligent Investor; John Bogle on Investing: The First 50 Years; Character Counts: The Creation and Building of The Vanguard Group; The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism; The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns; Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life; Common Sense on Mutual Funds: Fully Updated 10th Anniversary Edition; Don’t Count on it!: Reflections on Investment Illusions, Capitalism, “Mutual” Funds, Indexing, Entrepreneurship, Idealism, and Heroes; The Clash of the Cultures: Investment vs. Speculation; Stay the Course: The Story of Vanguard and the Index Revolution.

New York: McGraw Hill and Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1994-2019.

Complete first edition collection of every book published by the Chairman of the Vanguard Group, all but one volume signed or inscribed by him and signed by legendary investor and author of A Random W...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-143557

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Shostakovich, Dmitri

Dmitri Shostakovich Autograph Musical Quotation Signed.

:, 1947.

Handwritten musical quotation inscribed by Russian composer and pianist Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich in Russian above the opening three bars of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 in D minor (Op....

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-82418

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Ferrari, Enzo; Stirling Moss [Lewis Hamilton]

The Enzo Ferrari Memoirs.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1963.

First edition in English of Enzo Ferrari’s autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Stirling Moss and Lewis Hamilton on the front free endpaper. These signatures were...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151045

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The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature, for the Year 1776.

London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1777.

Rare first edition, first issue of the The Annual Register for the Year 1776, a long-established reference work, written and published each year beginning in 1758 under the editorship of Edmund Burke....

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151072

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Kubrick, Stanley & Anthony Burgess

Stanley Kubrick’s Clockwork Orange.

New York: Abelard-Schuman, 1972.

First edition of the book recreation of Stanley Kubrick’s epic film adaptation of Anthony Burgess’ dystopian masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Kubrick, “To Mark Best...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-3062

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Boulle, Pierre

Planet of the Apes.

New York: The Vanguard Press, Inc, 1963.

First edition in English of Pierre Boulle’s chilling novel that launched one of the greatest science fiction sagas in motion picture history. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-129718

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Kripke, Saul

Naming and Necessity.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1980.

First edition of this work widely considered one of the most important philosophical works of the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the title page, “Best wishes...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-138119

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