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The Way to Wealth or Poor Richard Improved.

Paris: Printed for Ant. Aug. Renouard, 1795.

The rare Renouard‘s bi-lingual edition of Franklin’s popular aphorisms, first published as the preface to the Poor Richard‘s Almanac. “The prettiest edition yet printed”...

$7,200.00 Item Number: RRB-151325

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Silverstein, Shel

The Giving Tree.

New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1964.

Later printing of this classic work. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Boldly signed by Shel Silverstein with an original drawing on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in...

$7,200.00 Item Number: RRB-144497

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Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de; D. Juan Antonio Pellicer

El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha: Nueva Edicion.

Madrid: Gabriel de Sancha, 1797-98.

First large paper edition of Juan Antonio Pellicer’s new edition of Don Quixote. Octavo, five volumes, bound in full red morocco by Clarke & Bedford with gilt titles and ornately tooled flor...

$7,200.00 Item Number: RRB-148969

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Fielding, Henry

The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling.

London: Printed for A. Millar, 1749.

First edition, first issue, one of a first printing run of only 2,000 copies with errata leaf in volume one, the errata uncorrected, and all cancels and final blanks, K12 in volume one and R12 in volu...

$7,200.00 Item Number: RRB-3894

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Arrow, Kenneth J

The Collected Papers of Kenneth J. Arrow.

Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1983-1985.

First editions of each volume in the Nobel Prize-winning economist’s collected papers. Octavo, original cloth, 6 volumes. Each volume is signed “Best wishes Kenneth J. Arrow” on the...

$7,200.00 Item Number: RRB-35011

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Wallace, David Foster

The Broom of the System.

New York: The Viking Press, 1987.

First edition of the author’s first book, which had an initial print run of only 1300 copies. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by David Foster Wallace on the title page,...

$7,200.00 Item Number: RRB-151611

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Steinbeck, John

East of Eden.

New York: The Viking Press, 1952.

First edition, first printing of Steinbeck’s epic and moving story of a modern Cain and Abel. Octavo, original cloth. First issue with the word “bite” present on page 281, line 38. W...

$7,200.00 Item Number: RRB-148721

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White, E.B

Here Is New York.

New York: The Curtis Publishing Company, 1949.

First edition of this classic meditation on the City of New York. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Presentation copy, signed by the author on the front free endpaper, “E.B. White Dec. 1949....

$7,200.00 Item Number: RRB-74056

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von Mises, Ludwig

Epistemological Problems of Economics.

Princeton, New Jersey: D. Van Nostrand Co, 1960.

First edition in English of a “milestone” in Mises’ groundbreaking theory of human action, containing “his seminal philosophical and methodological” argument for the scope of economic science. Octavo,...

$7,200.00 Item Number: RRB-96745

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Bronte, Charlotte; Edited by Currer Bell

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1848.

First American edition of this revolutionary feminist romance, issued as number 109 in Harper’s Library of Select Novels. Octavo, finely bound in half calf over marbled boards with gilt titles a...

$7,200.00 Item Number: RRB-145709

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Stevens, John Paul; Sandra Day O’Connor; Antonin Scalia; William H. Rehnquist; David Souter; Anthony Kennedy; Clarence Thomas; Byron R. White; Harry A. Blackmun

Rehnquist Supreme Court Signed Oversized Photograph.

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William Rehnquist Supreme Court oversized photograph signed by all nine justices, dressed in robes. Signed on the mat by John Paul Stevens, Sandra Day O’Connor, Antonin Scalia, William H. Rehnqu...

$7,200.00 Item Number: RRB-146710

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Armstrong, Neil

Neil Armstrong Signed Americans on Moon Chicago Tribune.

Chicago: Chicago Tribune, 1969.

1969 Chicago Tribune with the headline “Americans on Moon! Eagle Has Landed – Armstrong.” The article was commemorating the moon landing from the day before and is dated Monday, July 21, 1...

$7,200.00 Item Number: RRB-148978

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Tennyson, Alfred Lord

Queen Mary: A Drama.

London: Henry S. King and Co, 1875.

First edition of the first book in Tennyson’s historical trilogy. Small octavo, original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Association copy, inscribed by the author to his son on the ti...

$7,200.00 Item Number: RRB-109503

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[Bible]

The Bible, that is the Holy Scriptures conteined in the Old and New Testament: Translated According to the Ebrewe and Greeke, and Conferred with the Best Translations in Divers Languages. [WITH] The Booke of Common Prayer, and the Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England.

London: Deputies of Christopher Barker, [1599]; London: Robert Barker, 1636.

Rare “Breeches” Bible, printed by Christopher Barker with the fictitious 1599 publication date. “There are many editions bearing this date, which while agreeing closely are yet disti...

$7,200.00 Item Number: RRB-146373

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Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [Tom Sawyer’s Comrade].

New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885.

First edition of Twain’s masterpiece, with the first state of the frontispiece portrait. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated green cloth gilt to the spine and front panel. With frontisp...

$7,200.00 Item Number: RRB-85975

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Stevenson, Robert Louis

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1886.

First English edition of Stevenson’s classic book. Octavo, original cloth, olive green floral endpapers. In near fine condition. Armorial bookplate to the pastedown.

$7,200.00 Item Number: RRB-117203

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Roosevelt, Theodore; William H. Taft; John D. Rockefeller Jr.; Elihu Root; Henry Cabot Lodge; George Dewey; et al. [Thomas D. Neelands]

Autograph Album Containing Letters Signed by Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, John D. Rockefeller Jr., and Others.

:, c. 1919.

Rare original autograph album containing nearly 200 signed letters, notes, and responses addressed to Thomas D. Neelands, longtime President of the Canadian Club of New York. Quarto, bound in full lin...

$7,200.00 Item Number: RRB-150548

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Fisher, Irving

Stable Money.

New York: Adelphi Publishers, 1934.

First edition of Fisher’s classic treatise. Octavo, original blue cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Mr. Alden A. Potter with the c...

$7,200.00 Item Number: RRB-2825

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Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1876.

First edition, first printing, mixed state of the apotheosis of American boyhood. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over cloth, gilt topstain. In near fine condition with half-title and frontisp...

$7,200.00 Item Number: RRB-119453

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The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testament. Newly Translated out of the original tongues and with the former translations diligently compared and revised by his Majesties special Command.

London: N.p, 1672.

Rare 17th century edition of the King James version of the Holy Bible in folio, with Geneva Bible notes. Herbert 708; Wing B2285. Folio, 2 parts bound into one in three quarter speckled calf over marb...

$7,200.00 Item Number: RRB-146832

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott [Harold Pinter]

The Last Tycoon. An Unfinished Novel. Together with The Great Gatsby and Selected Stories.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1941.

First edition with the “A” and the publisher’s seal on the copyright page. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Harold Pinter, who wrote the screenplay to the 1976 film The Last Tycoon...

$7,200.00 Item Number: RRB-126456

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Rothbard, Murray N

The Mystery of Banking.

New York: Richardson and Snyder, 1983.

First edition of this work which explains the modern fractional-reserve banking system and its origins. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Murray Rothbard on the title page. Fine in a near fine...

$7,200.00 Item Number: RRB-14056

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Alcott, Louisa May

Louisa May Alcott Manuscript Leaf.

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Autograph manuscript page from Louisa May Alcott’s Jack and Jill, Chapter VIII, page 129. One page. The manuscript page reads, “up no capers with that child! The idea of a hot bath in the middle...

$7,200.00 Item Number: RRB-65051

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Dostoevsky, Fyodor

The Possessed.

London: William Heinemann, 1913.

First edition in English of Dostoevsky’s classic novel. Octavo, original red cloth. Translated into English by Constance Garnett. In near fine condition. With a two-page letter signed and entire...

$7,200.00 Item Number: RRB-111316

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