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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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Bloomfield, Robert. [Herman Melville]

The Farmer’s Boy.

London: Sampson, Low, Son & Co, 1858.

Later printing of the poem that made Robert Bloomfield’s reputation. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth elaborately stamped in gilt, all edges gilt, illustrated with thirty engravings from...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-144051

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Machiavel, Nicolas. [Niccolo Machiavelli]

The Works of the Famous Nicolas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence: The History of Florence; The Prince; The Discourses of Nicholas Machiavel; The Art of War In Seven Books.

London: John Starkey at the Miter in Fleetstreet, near Temple-Bar, 1675.

First edition in English of the most important writings of Niccolo Machiavelli, widely considered the foundation of the modern study of politics. Includes The History of Florence, The Prince, Discours...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148533

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Crick, Francis; James D. Watson; Maurice Wilkins; Max Ferdinand Perutz; John Kendrew

1962 Nobel Prize-Winning Scientists Signed Photograph. [James D. Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins Signed Photograph].

:, 1962.

Original photograph from the 1962 Nobel Prize Ceremony signed by Francis Crick, James Watson, and Maurice Wilkins (jointly awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine) as well as Max Ferdi...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-138937

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Clancy, Tom. [Harrison Ford, Willem Dafoe, Steve Zallian]

Clear and Present Danger.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Son's, 1989.

First edition of this classic work, basis for the 1994 film directed by Philip Noyce, starring Harrison Ford, Willem Dafoe, and James Earl Jones. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Tom Clan...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-152987

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King, Stephen

The Green Mile.

London: Penguin, 1996.

First edition of each of the six books published in self-contained monthly installments of this classic work, which tells the story of death row supervisor Paul Edgecombe’s encounter with John C...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-139667

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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...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151163

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Neale Hurston, Zora

Their Eyes Were Watching God.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1937.

First edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition, erasure to the front pastedown. First editions are rare, especially in this condition.

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147655

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Tuchman, Barbara W

The Guns of August.

New York: Macmillan, 1962.

First edition of Tuchman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the opening episodes of World War I. Octavo, original black cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. Presentation copy, warmly ins...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150400

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Ben-Gurion, David

David Ben-Gurion Signed Photograph.

:, 1947.

Large original silver gelatin photograph of the Founding Father of Israel David Ben-Gurion, boldly signed by him. Ben–Gurion‘s signature measures 5.25 inches by 1.25 inches. x 1.25″...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-133617

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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 with a number of other congressional reports in contemporary sheep, numerous folding charts and tables. In very good condition with rub...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-146543

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Churchill, Winston S

The First Collected Works of Sir Winston Churchill: Centenary Limited Edition.

London: Library of Imperial History In association With Charles Scribner's Sons and The Hamlyn Publishing Group Limited, 1973-76.

Centenary limited edition of Churchill’s complete Works, one of only 3000 sets produced, with the additional four volumes usually not present. Octavo, original full vellum, 38 volumes, stamped with th...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-140050

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Leigh Fermor, Patrick; Artemis Cooper [Editor]; [Daphne Fielding]

A Time of Gifts; Between the Woods and the Water; The Broken Road.

London: John Murray, 1977-2013.

First editions of each volume in Leigh Fermor’s trilogy. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with maps. A Time of Gifts is signed by Patrick Leigh Fermor on the front free e...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149386

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Albee, Edward

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

New York: Atheneum, 1962.

First edition of Albee’s classic work, a remarkable association copy linking the play to its original Broadway production. Octavo, original cloth, in dust jacket. Association copy, inscribed by the au...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-152170

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Knight, Frank H

Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit.

Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1921.

First edition of Knight’s classic treatise. Octavo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-106575

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Harper’s Weekly, A Journal of Civilization. [Harper’s Weekly’s Complete Coverage of the American Civil War: January 1, 1861-December 30, 1865].

New York: Harper & Brothers, January 1, 1861-December 30, 1865.

Rare continuous run of 260 issues of Harper’s Weekly, covering the entirety of the American Civil War. Folio, five volumes, bound in full buckram with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, illu...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-142619

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Mitchell, Margaret

Gone With the Wind.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936.

First edition of Margaret Mitchell’s masterpiece which remains one of the fastest selling novels in the history of American publishing, with 50,000 copies sold in a single day. Octavo, original...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149717

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Kazantzakis, Nikos

Captain Michalis or Freedom and Death.

Athens:, 1953.

First Greek edition of Kazantzakis’ classic novel. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by Nikos Kazantzakis on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. First editions are rare, signed...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-5746

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Brunhoff, Jean de; [Maurice Sendak]

Le Chateau de Babar.

Paris: Hachette, 1961.

First edition of this winsome children’s story in the original French, from the library of Maurice Sendak. Folio, original pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Association copy, i...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147137

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William, Oscar [Editor]; Dylan Thomas; Wallace Stevens; W.H. Auden; Marianne Moore; Robinson Jeffers; Randall Jarrell; Delmore Schwartz; Conrad Aiken; Muriel Rukeyser; Stephen Spender; Robert Penn Warren

New Poems 1942: An Anthology of British and American Verse.

Mount Vernon, N.Y: Peter Pauper Press, 1942.

First edition, signed limited issue of the second in a series of wartime poetry anthologies selected by Oscar Williams, this being the first to be issued as a signed limited edition. Octavo, original...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-138329

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Riesman, David with Reuel Denney and Nathan Glazer

The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1950.

First edition of this landmark work. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by David Riesman on the title page. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell bo...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-140940

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