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The Journal of Symbolic Logic: A Completeness Theorem in Modal Logic.

New Haven, New Jersey: Association for Symbolic Logic, Inc, March 1959.

First edition of Volume 24 of The Journal of Symbolic which includes the first appearance of Kripke’s landmark paper, A Completeness Theorem in Modal Logic. Presentation copy, inscribed by Saul...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-88076

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West, Nathanael

A Cool Million.

New York: Covici-Friede, 1934.

Rare review copy, of the first edition of the author’s classic third novel. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by William Cotton. Rare in this condition.

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-140435

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Auster, Paul

The New York Trilogy: City of Glass. WITH: Ghosts. WITH: The Locked Room.

Los Angeles: Sun and Moon, 1985-86.

First editions of Auster’s classic detective novels, each signed by him on the title page with a quote from each book. Octavo, 3 volumes, original cloth. City of Glass is signed as follows, “It...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150312

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Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de. Translated by Tobias Smollet

The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote.

Philadelphia: Published for Birch and Small, 1811.

Scarce first separate American edition of Cervantes’ classic novel. Duodecimo, four volumes bound in full contemporary mottled calf with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt ruling to the...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151239

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Richardson, Henry Handel [Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson]; [Ernest Hemingway]

The Fortunes of Richard Mahony.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1931.

First collected edition of this foundational work in Australian literature. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the spine and gilt author’s initials to the front panel....

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148697

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Franklin, Benjamin

Mémoires de la Vie Privée de Benjamin Franklin, Écrits Par Lui-Même, et Adressés à Son Fils, Suivis d’un Précis Historique de Sa Vie Politique, et de Plusieurs Pièces, Relatives à Ce Père de la Liberté. [Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin].

Paris: Chez Buisson, Libraire, 1791.

True first edition of the first part of Franklin’s famed autobiography which preceded the first English edition by two years. Octavo, bound in full contemporary calf with a morocco spine label lettere...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-139755

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White, E.B.; Ed Frascino

E.B. White ‘The Trumpet of the Swan’ Drawing. [with] Ed Frascino Autograph Letter Signed.

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Rare original drawing for E.B. White’s children’s novel, The Trumpet of the Swan. Pencil drawing of a swan standing on her nest looking at her clutch of eggs with translucent paper attache...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149363

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Caro, Robert A. [Paul Schrader]

The Power Broker.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974.

First edition of Caro’s Pulitzer-Prize winning work on Robert Moses. Thick octavo, original black cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with numerous photographs and maps, top stain red. As...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149431

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Edward, David Barnett

The History of Texas; or, The Emigrant’s, Farmer’s, and Politician’s Guide to the Character, Climate, Soil and Productions of That Country.

Cincinnati: Stereotyped and Published by J. A. James & Co., 1836.

First edition of “one of the essential Texas books” (Streeter), published the year the Republic of Texas became a sovereign nation, and with the rarely seen hand-colored map of the state....

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151241

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Russell, Bertrand

Marriage and Morals.

New York: Horace Liveright, 1929.

First edition of this work by Russell, in which he questions the Victorian notions of morality regarding sex and marriage. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the fron...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-54042

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Gibbon, Edward

The Works of Edward Gibbon, Including The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

New York: Fred Defau & Company, 1906.

The Complete Works of Edward Gibbon, one of numbered 73 sets, this is number 7. Octavo, 15 volumes, bound in full dark blue levant morocco, inlaid red tulips at the corners of boards and center of eac...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-98478

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Garner, Alan

The Weirdstone of Brisingamen.

London: Collins, 1960.

First edition of one of the greatest fantasies of all-time. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers by Charles Green. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication to his...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-117102

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De Cervantes, Miguel [Gabriel Garcia Marquez]

Don Quixote.

New York: Ecco/ Harper Collins Publishers, 2003.

First edition of this new translation which is considered one of the finest English-language translations of the Spanish novel, by authors and critics including Carlos Fuentes and Harold Bloom, who ca...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-118745

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Baum, L. Frank

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz.

Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co. Publishers, 1908.

Rare first edition, second printing of the fourth book in Baum’s Oz series, in the exceptionally rare dust jacket. Quarto, original publisher’s light blue cloth (Bienvenue and Schmidt...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151926

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Murdoch, Iris

Under the Net.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1954.

First edition of Murdoch’s first novel which announced “the emergence of a brilliant talent” (Times Literary Supplement). Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Iris Murdoch on the...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-142046

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Miles, Sylvia

Sylvia Miles Original Working Script Collection.

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Sylvia Miles’ personal collection of over 50 working shooting and play scripts used by her, with her ownership signatures, and with her annotations throughout. Approximately 50 volumes, scripts...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-110785

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Howe, Wolfe [Abraham Lincoln]

Loyalty in the American Republic, What is it? And What its Object? A Discourse Delivered in St. Luke’s Church, Philadelphia, on Thursday, November 26, 1863.

Philadelphia: J. S. McCalla, PR, 1863.

Rare first edition of this printed oration regarding President Abraham Lincoln’s new proclamation of Thanksgiving. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition with a small loss to the bott...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146847

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Schumpeter, Joseph A

Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy.

London : George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1942.

First edition of Schumpeter’s ground-breaking work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the original dust jacket with some chips to the extremities. Rare in the original dust jacket.

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-133716

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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. Boldly signed by William Shire...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-152130

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Crichton, Michael [Chip Kidd]

Jurassic Park and The Lost World.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2008 .

Signed limited first edition of Crichton’s gripping, bestselling scientific thriller and its sequel The Lost World. Octavo, 2 volumes, original leather, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, fro...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151181

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Carret, Philip L

The Art of Speculation.

New York: Barron's, 1927.

First edition of the Wall Street legend’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Philip Carret on the title page. Fine in the rare original dust jacket with a few small chips. Housed in...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-18027

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Doyle, Arthur Conan

Our African Winter.

London: John Murray, 1929.

First edition of this classic travelogue by the author of Sherlock Holmes. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page. Near fine in the rare original dust jac...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151579

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Browning, Robert

Dramatis Personae.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1864.

First edition of Browning’s popular poetry collection. Octavo, contemporary tree calf bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within gilt raised bands...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147759

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Saunders, Richard [Benjamin Franklin]

An Old Man’s Experience, or Poor Richard’s Maxims Improved.

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Rare printing of Benjamin Franklin’s An Old Man’s Experience, or Poor Richard’s Maxims Improved, published under the pseudonym Richard Saunders in full, “An Old Man’s Exp...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-96182

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