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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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Elizabeth II, Queen; King Charles III; Prince Philip; Princess Anne

Queen Elizabeth II, King Charles III, and Family Photograph Signed.

New Zealand:, 1970.

Rare photograph of the British royal family; signed by them. Vintage glossy color photograph of the British royal family posing in front of a New Zealand National Airways Corporation jet during their...

$7,200.00 Item Number: RRB-146732

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Columbus, D. Ferdinand [Christopher Columbus]

The History of the Life and Actions of Adm. Christopher Columbus, and of his Discovery of the West-Indies, Call’d the New World.

London: Awnsham and John Churchill, 1704.

First edition in English of this biography of Christopher Columbus written by his son. Folio, half-cloth, all edges marbled, paper label to front panel. Extracted from vol. II of the Churchills’...

$7,200.00 Item Number: RRB-147848

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Neruda, Pablo. Translated by Nathaniel Tarn. Preface by Robert Pring-Mill.

The Heights of Macchu Picchu.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1966.

First edition in English of Neruda’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Pablo Neruda on the half-title page. Translated by Nathaniel Tarn. Preface by Robert Pring-Mill. Fine i...

$7,200.00 Item Number: RRB-150452

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Cook, Mariana [Photographer]; Introduction by Jamaica Kincaid [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

Generations of Women.

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1998.

First edition of this multidimensional visual portrayal of women’s lives. Quarto, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, with a lengthy auto...

$7,200.00 Item Number: RRB-149944

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Lee, Robert E

Robert E. Lee Signed Carte-de-Visite.

Lexington, Va: Boude & Miley, [1869].

Rare Reconstruction era carte-de-visite portrait of former Confederate commander General Robert E. Lee in civilian attire, boldly signed “RE Lee.” The carte-de-visite measures 2.5 inches b...

$7,200.00 Item Number: RRB-140513

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Golding, William

Lord of the Flies.

London: Faber and Faber, 1954.

First edition of Golding’s first book, one of the best-known works in modern literature. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six co...

$7,200.00 Item Number: RRB-150005

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Petty, Sir William

The Political Anatomy of Ireland…To Which is Added Verbum Sapienti.

London: Printed for D. Brown and W. Rogers, 1691.

First edition of this seminal, early statistical survey that analyzes 17th-century Irish land, people, and government to propose improvements for efficiency, taxation, and union with England. Duodecim...

$7,200.00 Item Number: RRB-151139

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Dickens, Charles

The Christmas Books: A Christmas Carol; The Chimes; The Cricket on the Hearth; The Battle of Life; The Haunted Man and The Ghost’s Bargain.

London: Chapman and Hall/Bradbury & Evans, 1845-48.

Complete set of Charles Dickens’ Christmas Books. Octavo, 5 volumes, original cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panels, all edges gilt. A Christmas Carol is an eleventh e...

$7,200.00 Item Number: RRB-141512

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Malamud, Bernard

The Natural.

New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1952.

First edition of the author’s first book, and one of the greatest baseball novels of all time. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper,...

$7,200.00 Item Number: RRB-150456

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Crane, Stephen

The Red Badge of Courage.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1895.

First edition, first printing with page [235] advertising the three works of Gilbert Parker’s Best Books, and the last page of advertisements (page 238) ending with The Land of the Sun, by Chris...

$7,200.00 Item Number: RRB-127362

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Mill, James

Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind.

London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1829.

First edition of this classic exploration of the processes of human thought by the father of John Stuart Mill, whose own “logical and ethical doctrines are evidently suggested” by this work. Octavo, b...

$7,200.00 Item Number: RRB-141327

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Ovid

Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Latin and English Translated by the Most Eminent Hands.

Amsterdam: Printed for the Wetsteins and Smith, 1732.

First English edition of Ovid’s Metamorphoses with Picart’s illustrations. Folio, two volumes in one, bound in full in early mottled calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in seven...

$7,200.00 Item Number: RRB-149005

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Woolf, Virginia

On Being Ill.

London: Hogarth Press, 1930.

Signed limited first book edition of this meditation on the literary possibilities of illness, number 54 of 250 copies signed by Woolf in her characteristic purple ink. Octavo, original half vellum an...

$7,000.00 Item Number: RRB-143661

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Kipling, Rudyard

The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book.

London: Macmillan, 1894-95.

First editions of both volumes of The Jungle Book. Octavo, two volumes, original blue cloth decorated and lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, engraved tissue-guarded frontispiece, illustrated by J. L. K...

$7,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149681

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1903.

Autograph Centenary edition with a double sided manuscript in Emerson’s hand bound into volume one. Octavo, 12 volumes, bound in three quarters contemporary morocco over cloth, elaborately gilt-decora...

$7,000.00 Item Number: RRB-104898

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Earhart, Amelia

The Fun of It.

New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1932.

First edition of Earhart’s account of her childhood, her fascination with aviation, and her life through her 1932 flight across the Atlantic. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated throughout, with...

$7,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149914

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Friedman, Milton; With the Assistance of Rose Friedman

Capitalism And Freedom.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962.

First edition of Friedman’s magnum opus. Octavo, original blue cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light wear with a laid in signature of Milton Friedman. Housed in a custom half mo...

$6,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148398

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