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Appalachian Spring. (Ballet for Martha).

New York: Boosey and Hawkes, 1945.

First edition of the Booksey and Hawkes Pocket Orchestral Score of Copland’s Appalachian Spring, one of the most enduring of the twentieth century. Large octavo, original wrappers as issue. Insc...

$5,800.00 Item Number: RRB-96244

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Travers, P.L. [Dick Van Dyke]

Mary Poppins.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1997.

Signed limited edition of this children’s classic, one of 100 numbered copies, this is number 37. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Mary Shepard. In fine condition. Additionally signed...

$5,800.00 Item Number: RRB-142005

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Williams, Joan C [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

Reshaping the Work-Family Debate: Why Men and Class Matter.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2010.

First edition of this analysis of the American work-family conflict. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Justice Ginsburg, with admiratio...

$5,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147834

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Christie, Agatha

Passenger to Frankfurt: An Extravaganza.

London: Collins Crime Club, 1970.

First edition of Christie’s final spy novel, published on the occasion of her 80th birthday. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Leon...

$5,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148203

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Gershwin, George

George Gershwin’s Song-Book.

New York: Simon and Schuster Inc, 1932.

First edition of Gershwin’s classic songbook, with stunning full-page illustrations by Constantin Alajalov. Quarto, original half-cloth, frontispiece photograph of Gershwin playing the piano taken by...

$5,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149432

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West, Rebecca

Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: The Record of a Journey Through Yugoslavia in 1937.

London: Macmillan, 1941.

First editions of Rebecca West’s masterpiece. Octavo, 2 volumes, original green cloth, cartographic endpapers. Both volumes are signed by West with volume one inscribed and dated in 1965 by the...

$5,800.00 Item Number: RRB-1495

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Huxley, Aldous

Brave New World.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1932.

First edition of Huxley’s masterpiece. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised bands, gilt ruling to th...

$5,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150336

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[Lincoln, Abraham]

[Emancipation Proclamation]. General Orders, No. 1. War Department Adjutant General’s Office, Washington, January 2, 1863.

Washington: Government Printing Office, January 2, 1863.

Rare first War Department and fifth overall printing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Twelvemo, General Orders No. 1 extracted from the larger volume of orders for 1863, 4 pages, disbound. President...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149486

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Meltzer, Allan H.; Foreword by Alan Greenspan

A History of the Federal Reserve, Volumes 1 & 2.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001 & 2009.

First editions of this seminal work on the Federal Reserve. Octavo, original cloth, 2 volumes. Both volumes one and two are inscribed by Allan Meltzer and signed Alan Greenspan in volume one. Fine in...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150022

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Slocum, Joshua

Voyage of the Liberdade.

Boston: Press of Robinson & Stephenson, 1890.

First edition of Slocum’s account of his fifty-five days at sea with his wife and sons aboard the 35-foot junk-rig The Liberdade. Small octavo, original cloth with gilt title to the front panel,...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-152088

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Schulberg, Budd

What Makes Sammy Run?

New York: Random House, 1941.

First edition of what many consider one of the most important novels on Hollywood and the film industry. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper i...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-89545

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Edleson, Michael E. [Warren E. Buffett]

Value Averaging: The Safe and Easy Strategy for Higher Investment Returns.

Chicago: International Publishing Corporation, 1991.

First edition of this work which evolved out of Edleson’s 1988 article which first introduced his concept of value averaging to the world. Octavo, original glossy wrappers. Presentation copy, in...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-90411

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Schumpeter, Joseph A

Business Cycles: A Theoretical, Historical, And Statistical Analysis of the Capitalist Process.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, 1939.

First edition of the economist’s ground-breaking work. Octavo, 2 volumes, original cloth. In near fine condition. An exceptional example of this landmark work.

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147704

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Silverman, David

David Silverman Signed Early Sketch of Homer Simpson and Production Booklet for Jazques to Be Wild.

:, May 17, 1991.

An uncommonly early original drawing of Homer Simpson by David Silverman, and a production booklet for the classic Simpsons episode, ‘Jacques to be Wild,’ the first episode to win an Emmy...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145426

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Wong, K. Chimin and Wu Lien-Teh

History of Chinese Medicine: Being a Chronicle of Medical Happenings in China from Ancient Times to Present Period.

Tientsin, China: The Tientsin Press, Ltd, 1932.

First edition of this extensive history of Chinese medicine. Thick octavo, original publisher’s blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, frontispiece of Founder of the Republic...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145581

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Maugham, W. Somerset

The Razor’s Edge Original Dust Jacket Design Signed.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday Doran & Company, 1944.

Rare W. Somerset Maugham’s original ink sketch showing his dust jacket design concept for his greatest novel, The Razor’s Edge, executed on a blank Western Union telegram form, which was followed by t...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-128489

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Steinbeck, John

East of Eden.

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1952.

First British edition of Steinbeck’s epic and moving story of a modern Cain and Abel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Michae...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147356

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Pileggi, Nicholas

Casino: Love and Honor In Las Vegas.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.

First edition of Pileggi’s true crime story, basis for the classic Martin Scorsese movie of the same name, starring Robert De Niro. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by t...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-152020

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Nabokov, Vladimir

Lolita.

Paris: The Olympia Press, 1955.

First edition of Nabokov’s masterpiece, published in Paris by the Olympia Press in 1955. First issue with the price of 900 francs on the rear panel of each volume. Octavo, 2 volumes, original gr...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-107536

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Churchill, Winston S

The Story of the Malakand Field Force, An Episode of Frontier War.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1898.

First edition, first issue, of Winston Churchill’s first book, an account of his service with the Malakand Field Force in India, with frontispiece portrait of Sir Binden Blood and six maps, two of the...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-133224

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Hamsun, Knut

Vagabonds.

London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1931.

First English edition of the first novel in the Nobel Prize-winning author’s “August” trilogy—Hamsun’s magnum opus. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of pu...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-131407

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Voltaire (Arouet, Francois-Marie)

Oeuvres Completes De Voltaire avec des Remarques et des Notes Historiques, Scientifiques, et Literaires Par Mm. Auguis, Clogenson, Daunou, Etc. [The Works of Voltaire].

Paris: Deslangle Frères, 1828-34.

Finely bound set of the complete works of Voltaire with historic, scientific and literary notes. Octavo, 97 volumes, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-96178

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Gazette of the United States. No. XXXI. Wednesday, July 29, 1789.

New York: John Fenno, July 29, 1789.

Rare original printing of the Gazette of the United States, issued during the presidency of George Washington on July 29, 1789. Folio, one page, folded, this issue includes a the following articles, m...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-116728

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Groom, Winston [Tom Hanks, Gary Sinise, Sally Field]

Forrest Gump.

New York : Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1986.

First edition of this modern classic, basis for one of the most iconic films of the twentieth century, starring Tom Hanks, Gary Sinise and Sally Field. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bi...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150933

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