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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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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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Doyle, Arthur Conan

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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The Thirde Parte of the Bible, Conteining These Bookes. The Psalter. The Proverbes. Ecclesiastes. Cantica Canticorum. The Prophetes.

London: Henry Bynneman and Richard Jugge for William Norton, 1575.

Rare 16th century English printing of a portion of the Bishop’s Bible. Quarto, bound in 18th century half calf over marbled boards, gilt ruling to the spine, paper titular label to the front pan...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151946

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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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Disney, Walt

Walt Disney’s Cinderella.

Stuttgart: Bluchert-Verlag, 1951.

First German edition of the classic retelling of one of the most celebrated Disney films. Octavo, original illustrated boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Walt Disney...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-106556

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Guest, Montague and William B. Boulton [Ernest Shackleton]

Memorials of the Royal Yacht Squadron.

London: John Murray, 1902.

First edition of the standard history of the Royal Yacht Squadron and Solent yachting in the 19th century, with a complete list of member and their yachts. Octavo, original cloth, top edge gilt, with...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-136030

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von Mises, Ludwig

Bureaucracy.

London: William Hodge & Company, 1945.

First edition of this early work by von Mises. Small octavo, original cloth. Signed by Ludgwig Mises on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed by von Mises.

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-99538

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Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Or, Life Among the Lowly.

Boston: John P. Jewett & Company. Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, 1852.

First edition, first issue of Stowe’s classic American novel, widely considered the book that precipitated the American Civil War. Octavo, two volumes in the original publisher’s cloth sta...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-142642

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Schwed, Fred; Illustrated by Peter Arno

Where Are the Customers’ Yachts: or A Good Hard Look at Wall Street.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940.

First edition of “one of the funniest books ever written about Wall Street” (The Washington Post). Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Peter Arno. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150951

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Jordan, Michael; Scotty Pippen; Steve Kerr; et al

1997-98 Chicago Bulls Team Signed NBA Basketball.

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Official NBA Spalding Basketball, boldly signed by 13 members of the 1997-98 NBA Champion Chicago Bulls including Hall of Famers Michael Jordan and Scotty Pippen. Additionally accompanied by a James S...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145461

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Palladio, Andrea. Translated out of Italian by Pierre Le Muet. Translated into English by Godfrey Richards

The First Book of Architecture.

London: Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, and J. Osborn in Pater-noster-Row, 1733.

Finely bound eighteenth century example of Godfrey Richards’ English translation of the first book in Palladio’s monumental work. Octavo, bound in full contemporary polished calf with a mo...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151582

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Paterson, Katherine

Bridge To Terabithia.

New York: Thomas Crowell, 1977.

First edition of the author’s first Newbery-Award winning classic novel. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Donna Diamond. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the title p...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-135413

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Brown, Christy. [Cormac McCarthy]

Down All The Days.

London: Secker & Warburg, 1970.

First edition of the author’s deeply autobiographical account of living with cerebral palsy in mid-twentieth-century Ireland. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, from the library of Pulitz...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151931

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Paton, Alan

Cry, the Beloved Country: A Story of Comfort in Desolation.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1948.

First edition of Paton’s classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, “Alan Paton November 2, 1948.” Fine in...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-44024

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Roosevelt, Eleanor [Mrs. Franklin]

A Trip to Washington with Bobby and Betty.

New York: Dodge Publishing, 1935.

First edition of this early work by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Quarto, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Bill from his loving grandmere...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-7296

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Eliot, George

The Works of George Eliot [Including Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Romola, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda].

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1908.

Large paper edition of the works of George Eliot, with an autographed signed letter tipped in. Octavo, 25 volumes, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, elaborate tooling to...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-100111

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[Napoleon Bonaparte]. Emil Ludwig. Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul

Napoleon. [Cosway Binding].

London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1927.

Elaborately bound Cosway style first edition in English of Emil Ludwig’s biography of Napoleon Bonaparte. Octavo, bound by Bayntun-Riviere in full Cosway style scarlet morocco with gilt titles a...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150488

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Dickens, Charles

A Tale of Two Cities.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1859.

First edition, first issue of one of Dickens’ most enduring works. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands,...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149304

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Fisher, Philip A

Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits.

New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1958.

First edition with C-H on the copyright page of Fisher’s classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Foreword by Jeremy C. Jenks. An exceptional example, uncommon...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-119748

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Kipling, Rudyard

A Patrol Song.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1909.

Scarce separate edition of Kipling’s song for the Boy Scouts. Octavo, original wrappers. One of only 20 copies printed by Doubleday for copyright purposes. In near fine condition. Bookplate. Hou...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-120708

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Thirteenth to Fifteenth Century Illuminated Book of Hours Leaf Book.

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Exceptionally rare illuminated Book of Hours leaf book, containing various illuminated leaves from several Books of Hours, most executed in France. Duodecimo, bound in full late 19th century velvet, s...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150731

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Hawking, Stephen W.; Introduction by Carl Sagan

A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes.

London: Bantam Press, 1988.

First British edition and true first of Hawking’s groundbreaking work. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Ron Miller. Signed by Carl Sagan on the title page, who wrote the introduction. Addi...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-46009

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First Edition Books for Sale Online

Jurassic Park and The Lost World.

The Art of Speculation.

Dramatis Personae.

Our African Winter.

The Thirde Parte of the Bible, Conteining These Bookes. The Psalter. The Proverbes. Ecclesiastes. Cantica Canticorum. The Prophetes.

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

Walt Disney’s Cinderella.

Memorials of the Royal Yacht Squadron.

Bureaucracy.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Or, Life Among the Lowly.

Where Are the Customers’ Yachts: or A Good Hard Look at Wall Street.

1997-98 Chicago Bulls Team Signed NBA Basketball.

The First Book of Architecture.

Bridge To Terabithia.

Down All The Days.

Cry, the Beloved Country: A Story of Comfort in Desolation.

A Trip to Washington with Bobby and Betty.

The Works of George Eliot [Including Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Romola, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda].

Napoleon. [Cosway Binding].

A Tale of Two Cities.

Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits.

A Patrol Song.

Thirteenth to Fifteenth Century Illuminated Book of Hours Leaf Book.

A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes.