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The Works of George Eliot: Scenes of Clerical Life, Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe, Romola, Felix Holt the Radical, The Spanish Gypsy, The Legend of Jubal and Other Poems, Daniel Deronda, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, Theophrastus Such, Essays and Leaves From a Notebook.

Edinburgh and London: Various Publishers, 1858-1885.

Uniformly bound set of twelve first editions of works by George Eliot. Octavo, thirty volumes bound in three quarter crushed levant morocco over marbled boards by Club Bindery with gilt titles to the...

$6,000.00 Item Number: RRB-148530

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Coelho, Paulo [Annie Dillard]

The Alchemist.

San Francisco: Harper Collins, 1993.

First edition in English of Coelho’s classic work, which has been translated into over 70 languages. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page...

$6,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149942

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Sholokhov, Mikhail. Translated by Stephen Gary

And Quiet Flows the Don and The Don Flows Home To The Sea.

London: Putnam, 1934-1940.

First edition in English of the major epic of Soviet literature and one of the first works of Soviet literature to be translated into English. Octavo, two volumes, original publisher’s cloth. An...

$6,000.00 Item Number: RRB-143722

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Meier, Frank. [Judy Garland; Bob Considine; Irving Berlin]

The Artistry of Mixing Drinks.

Paris: Fryam Press, 1936.

First edition of Meier’s classic work on the art of mixing cocktails. Octavo, original wrappers, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper by Judy Garland, “To G...

$6,000.00 Item Number: RRB-133015

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Kammer, Jack. [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

Good Will Toward Men: Women Talk Candidly About the Balance of Power Between the Sexes.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994.

First edition of Kammer’s candid work on the gender gap. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, lengthily inscribed by the author opposite the title page, “To Justice Ruth Bader Gi...

$6,000.00 Item Number: RRB-146501

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Lerner, Gerda [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

The Feminist Thought of Sarah Grimké.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

First edition of this scholarly compilation of Sarah Grimké’s pioneering feminist writings. Octavo, original publisher’s wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by Jane Sherron De Hart on th...

$6,000.00 Item Number: RRB-148313

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Milton, John

The Works of Mr. John Milton.

London: n.p, 1697.

First collected edition of Milton’s prose works, including his timeless Areopagitica, which would become “the first Milton book published in America (1774).” Folio, bound in full pan...

$6,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149811

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Wilde, Oscar

The Works of Oscar Wilde.

London: Methuen & Co, Ltd./Paris: Charles Carrington, 1908-1922.

Complete set of the works of Oscar Wilde, including For Love of a King issued in 1922 and often missing from this set. Octavo, 15 volumes in the publisher’s original gilt-decorated full buckram,...

$6,000.00 Item Number: RRB-139028

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott

All the Sad Young Men.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926.

First edition, first issue of Fitzgerald’s third collection of short stories. Octavo, original green cloth. Fine in a near fine first issue dust jacket with the woman’s lips unbattered (Br...

$6,000.00 Item Number: RRB-96010

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O'Hara, John

Appointment in Samarra.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1934.

First edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine first issue dust jacket with a few small closed tears, contemporary bookplate to the front pastedown. H...

$6,000.00 Item Number: RRB-5829

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Maugham, W. Somerset

Of Human Bondage: A Novel

London: William Heinemann, 1915.

First edition, first printing of Maugham’s masterpiece and one of the most important novels of the 20th century. First printing with the list of other “Works” by Maugham facing half-title, plus publis...

$6,000.00 Item Number: RRB-147535

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Regan, Milton C. [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

Alone Together: Law and the Meanings of Marriage.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

First edition of Regan’s interdisciplinary work examining the legal implications of marriage and divorce. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on t...

$6,000.00 Item Number: RRB-146023

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Katzmann, Robert A. [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

Induction Proceedings for Robert A. Katzmann.

New York: United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1999.

Original offprint of the “proceedings held on the occasion of the induction of Honorable Robert A. Katzmann as United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Ci...

$6,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151274

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Bourdain, Anthony

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly.

New York: Bloomsbury, 2000.

First edition of the legendary chef’s bestselling memoir and first work of non-fiction. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page in a contemporary fu...

$6,000.00 Item Number: RRB-150273

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Dickens, Charles and John Forster

Works of Charles Dickens.

London:, 1837-1874.

Finely bound collection of a selection of Dickens’ works as well as Foster’s acclaimed biography. Octavo, 16 volumes uniformly bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards with elabo...

$6,000.00 Item Number: RRB-131992

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Kennedy, John F

The National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame Annual Award Dinner [John F. Kennedy Signed Program].

:, 1961.

The National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame Annual Award Dinner held at The Waldorf-Astoria in New York City on December 5, 1961, boldly signed by President John F. Kennedy and college Hall of F...

$6,000.00 Item Number: RRB-124804

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Steinbeck, John

The Moon Is Down.

New York: The Viking Press, 1942.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s classic work. Octavo, original blue cloth. Lengthily signed by the author in a contemporary signature, “Affectionate Regards and memories of the...

$6,000.00 Item Number: RRB-147549

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Kaplan, Benjamin [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

Harvard Law Review.

: The Harvard Law Review Association, 2011.

The April 2011 issue of the Harvard Law Review. Octavo, original publisher’s wrappers. From the library of American lawyer and jurist Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Ruth Bader Ginsburg served as an associ...

$6,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149933

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Bojaxhiu, Mary Teresa. [Mother Teresa]

Mother Teresa Autograph Quotation Signed.

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Autograph quotation signed by Mother Teresa, “God is love and he love [sic] you love others as he loves you God bless you M Teresa mc.” One page, on an off-white slip which measures 4.75 i...

$6,000.00 Item Number: RRB-144060

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Steinbeck, John

The Short Reign of Pippin IV: A Fabrication.

New York: The Viking Press, 1957.

First edition of Steinbeck’s only political satire. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to his sister on the front free endpaper, “Mary avec l’aimi...

$6,000.00 Item Number: RRB-145514

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Osler, William

The Principles and Practice of Medicine.

Edinburgh & London: Young J. Pentland, 1892.

First British edition of Osler’s magnum opus. Thick octavo, original publisher’s three quarter deluxe leather binding with gilt titles to the spine, illustrated with charts and graphs. Wit...

$6,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151313

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Deer, Sarah [Ruth Bader Ginsburg] [Judge Myron H. Bright]

The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America.

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015.

First edition of this collection of powerful essays. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by Judge Myron H. Bright on the title page to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, “For Just...

$6,000.00 Item Number: RRB-148145

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Orwell, George

Nineteen Eighty-Four.

London: Secker & Warburg, 1949.

First edition of Orwell’s classic dystopian novel. Octavo, bound in full leather by Exeter Bookbinders in a limited edition binding with a striking glass eye onlay and three titanium skull-shape...

$6,000.00 Item Number: RRB-148854

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Pfander, James E. [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

Principles of Federal Jurisdiction.

St. Paul, Minnesota: Thomson/West, 2006.

First edition of this analysis of the constitutional and statutory limits of U.S. federal court authority. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title p...

$6,000.00 Item Number: RRB-148301

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