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The Great Crash 1929.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1955.

First edition, first printing with the date of 1955 on the title page of this classic work. Octavo, original red cloth. Boldly signed by John Kenneth Galbraith on the front free endpaper. Near fine in...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151346

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Arrow, Kenneth J

Social Choice and Individual Values.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1951.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning economist’s groundbreaking work. Octavo, original blue cloth with titles and frontispiece in gilt. Boldly signed by the author on the front free endpaper...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147898

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Kahneman, Daniel

Attention and Effort.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1973.

First edition of the Nobel laureate’s influential first book, which claimed that attention can be identified with effort, cemented the association as a research paradigm in the cognitive science...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148161

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Baldwin, James

Just Above My Head.

New York: The Dial Press, 1979.

First edition of the last novel published in Baldwin’s lifetime. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the dedication page, “for my beloved David Adams Leemi...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-129068

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Gann, William Delbert [W.D.]

The Tunnel Thru The Air or Looking Back from 1940.

New York: Financial Guardian Publishing Company, 1927.

First edition of this work by the legendary investor. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Robert Rend With all good wishes for the...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-7387

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Stowe, Harriet Beecher

The Chimney-Corner.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1888.

Later printing of this classic collection of essays which deals primarily with women’s issues, such as property rights, voting and education in post-Civil War America. Octavo, original publisher...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149908

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le Carre, John

The Spy Who Came In From The Cold.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1963.

First edition of le Carre’s classic work, which went on to reinvigorate the spy genre. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on a tipped-in page, “John le Carre with best wishes 16...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-135319

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Fuchs, Vivian; Ralph Lenton; Ken Blaiklock; George Lowe; Alan Rogers; Geoff Pratt; David Pratt; et al

Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition Party Signed Photograph.

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Original black and white photograph of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition party signed by all twelve members of the team. One page, the photograph shows all twelve members of the team in fron...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-136055

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Yates, Richard

Revolutionary Road.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1961.

First edition of the author’s classic first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated by Yates on the front free endpaper, “For Jim Brady With best wishes a...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-2784

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Grisham, John

A Time To Kill: Novel of Retribution.

New York: Wynwood Press, 1989.

First edition of Grisham’s first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author before publication on the half-title page, “To Jim Brantley – I hope you...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151362

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Cook, Captain James; Captain James King

A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken, By The Command of His Majesty For Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. [Cook’s Third Voyage].

London: Printed by H. Hughs, for G. Nicol, Bookseller to His Majesty, in the Strand; and T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1785.

Finely bound example of Cook’s Third Voyage, “one of the most important English books published in the last quarter of the eighteenth century… considered typographically superior to...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151486

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Shapiro, David L. [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

Wrong Turns: The Eleventh Amendment and the Pennhurst Case.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Harvard Law Review Association, 1984.

Original November 1984 offprint Harvard Law Review containing David L. Shapiro’s “Wrong Turns: The Eleventh Amendment and the Pennhurst Case.” Octavo, original publisher’s wrappers, Volume...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151277

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McCarthy, Cormac; Richard Ford; Thomas McGuane; Tobias Wolff; Edward Abbey; Raymond Carver

Triquarterly 48: Western Stories [Blood Meridian].

Evanston, IL: Northwestern University, 1980.

Original Spring 1980 issue of TriQuarterly magazine containing the first excerpt from Cormac McCarthy’s classic Blood Meridian, this being chapter 12, with several textual differences from the 1...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-142374

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Attlee, Clement; [Harry S. Truman]

A Tour of the United States of America.

:, 1959.

The only copy of this beautiful record of the friendship between The Right Honourable Clement ‘Earl’ Attlee and President Harry S. Truman. Folio, original presentation faux leather boards...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145339

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Smith, Adam

Essays on Philosophical Subjects… To Which Is Prefixed, an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Dugald Stewart.

London: Printed for T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1795.

First edition of this important collection of Smith’s essays, featuring the important first publication of his History of Astronomy. Quarto, bound in quarter calf with gilt titles to the spine....

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151270

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Bronte, Charlotte; Emily Bronte; Anne Bronte

The Life and Works of Charlotte Bronte and Her Sisters.

London: John Murray, 1920-1926.

The Haworth edition of the works of the sisters Bronte. Octavo, 7 volumes bound in full crushed levant scarlet morocco by Riviere & Son, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments wi...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-143434

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Fisher, Louis [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

The Politics of Executive Privilege.

Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2004.

First edition of this discussion of constitutional principles and political settlements. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Justice...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147159

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Keyes, Daniel

Flowers for Algernon.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, 1966.

First edition of the author’s Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel, basis for the Oscar award-winning movie adaptation Charly. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author o...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-703

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von Mises, Ludwig

Ludwig Von Mises Signed Portrait.

:, 1971.

Portrait of the influential Austrian School economist Ludwig von Mises. Boldly signed, “August 27, 1971 Ludwig Mises.” The portrait measures 8 inches by 10 inches. Double matted and framed. The entire...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-62034

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Woolf, Virginia

Kew Gardens.

London: The Hogarth Press, 1927.

Signed limited edition, number 172 of 500 numbered copies, signed by Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell in purple ink. Quarto, original illustrated paper boards, text printed within woodcut borders desig...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-143769

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Merton, Robert C.; Foreword by Paul A. Samuelson

Continuous-Time Finance.

Oxford and Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell, 1990.

First edition of Merton’s landmark work, which introduced the concepts of continuous-time optimization. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page,...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146444

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Thomas, Dylan

The Map of Love: Verse and Prose.

London: J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd, 1939.

First edition, first issue of Thomas’s third book with “Dent” blind-stamped on spine. Octavo, original purple cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, with the frontispiece portrait...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-139597

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Winik, Jay. [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800.

New York: HarperCollins, 2007.

First edition of Winik’s “cinematic reconstruction of the birth of the modern world” (Robert Dallek). Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Presentation copy, ins...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146983

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Flaubert, Gustave

Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners.

Paris: Michel Lévy frères, 1857.

True first edition, first printing with the mistake in the name of the dedicatee, “Sénart” written with T and not a D, “nor of your dedication” on the same page, which will bec...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-144079

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