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Concerning Children.

Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1900.

First edition of this book on child rearing. Octavo, original blue pictorial cloth. The dedication copy, inscribed by the author on the dedication page to her daughter Katharine, who the book is dedic...

$5,000.00 Item Number: RRB-145600

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Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United States.

New York: R. Spalding, 1865.

Rare first edition of this Civil War publication of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, which features the text of the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery, its first appearance in book...

$5,000.00 Item Number: RRB-117244

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Baldwin, James

Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son.

New York : The Dial Press, 1961.

First edition of Baldwin’s second major book of essays, featuring his powerful analyses of the politics of race and his controversial three-part essay on Richard Wright. Octavo, original half cloth. S...

$5,000.00 Item Number: RRB-145473

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Nixon, Richard M. and Gerald Ford

Richard Nixon and Gerald R. Ford Signed Presidential Proclamation of Pardon.

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Typescript reproduction of the final paragraphs of Ford’s 1974 Proclamation of Pardon granting a full and unconditional pardon to Richard Nixon, his predecessor, for any crimes that he might hav...

$5,000.00 Item Number: RRB-134249

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Flaubert, Gustave

Madame Bovary.

London: Vizetelly & Co, 1886.

First English edition of a seminal novel in literary realism, renowned for its psychological depth and critique of bourgeois society. Octavo, original publisher’s full cloth, gilt tiles and deta...

$5,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149906

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Keynes, John Maynard [J.M.]

A Treatise On Money. Volume I: The Pure Theory of Money.

London: MacMillan & Company, 1930.

First edition of the first volume of Keynes’ classic work. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine. In near fine condition with light rubbing and toning. Ownership signature to the...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151441

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Collins, Michael; James Lovell; Edward H. White II; Frank Borman; Jim McDivitt; Clifton Williams

Pictorial History of Cape Kennedy 1950-1965.

Indialantic, Florida: C.W. Scarboro, 1965.

First edition of this visual chronicle documenting the early development of the U.S. space program at Cape Canaveral. Quarto, original pictorial wrappers, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by six...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148483

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Arrow, Kenneth; Eric Maskin; Amartya Sen; Joseph Stiglitz and Partha Dasgupta

The Arrow Impossibility Theorem (Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture Series).

New York: Columbia University Press, 2014.

First edition of this work which explores Kenneth Arrow’s impossibility theorem. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Nobel Prize-winning economists on the front free endpaper, “Kenne...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150198

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Bunyan, John

The Pilgrim’s Progress From This World to That Which is to Come: Complete in Three Parts: Delivered Under the Similitude of a Dream: To Which is Added, the Life and Death of the Author.

Worcester, MA: Isaiah Thomas, 1790-91.

Likely first illustrated edition of one of the most significant works of religious English literature. Small octavo, early half sheep over marbled boards, three frontispieces, illustrated with eleven...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-146540

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Reagan, Ronald

Ronald Reagan Signed Photograph.

:, 1986.

Signed photograph of President Ronald Reagan showing him saluting graduates at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in South Carolina, boldly signed by him on the matte, “Ronald Reagan Parris Island M...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-132101

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Diego Sanz of Lardero

Diego Sanz of Lardero Nobility Patent.

Valladolid, Spain:, 18 June 1569.

Rare 16th century elaborately illuminated nobility patent for Diego Sanz of Lardero. Folio, original full limp parchment, the patent is comprised of 37 leaves sewn as a single signature, text in manus...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148286

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Vonnegut, Kurt [David Hayman]

Kurt Vonnegut Signed David Hayman Portrait.

:, 1971.

Rare original pastel on paper portrait of the drawing’s recipient, David Hayman. Inscribed by Kurt Vonnegut at the bottom left corner, “Dear David, You said you wanted a picture by me. But...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148736

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Major, R.H. [Christopher Columbus]

The Bibliography of the First Letter of Christopher Columbus, Describing His Discovery of the New World.

London: Ellis & White, 1872.

First limited edition of this comprehensive bibliography cataloging the various editions and translations of Columbus’s first letter to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella describing his initial v...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149418

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Mahfouz, Naguib

The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street.

New York: Doubleday, 1990-1992.

Uncorrected proofs of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s classic work; a trilogy originally published in Egypt in the 1950’s and which garnered him the Nobel Prize in literature decades late...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-1754

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Pasternak, Boris

Zemnoi Prostor. [Earthly Space].

Moscow: Sovietskiy Pistatel, 1945.

Rare first edition paperback of this collection of poems. Duodecimo, original wrappers with embossed titles to the front panel. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front pastedown,...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-145453

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Atwood, Margaret

The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments.

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1985-2019.

First Canadian edition and true first of Atwood’s modern masterpiece and it’s Booker Prize Award-winning sequel, The Testaments. Octavo, two original half cloth. The Handmaid’s Tale...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148283

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Trotsky, Leon

The Third International After Lenin.

New York: Pioneer Publishers, 1936.

First edition of this collection of writings and speeches by Trotsky. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, “T...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-97388

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Hubble, Edwin

Edwin Hubble Signature On Card.

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Rare signature of influential American astronomer Edwin Hubble. Boldly signed in ink below his bust portrait, clipped from a newspaper and mounted to cardstock. In near fine condition with remnants of...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148496

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Burchard, Peter [Julia Child]

One Gallant Rush: Robert Gould Shaw & His Brave Black Regiment. [Glory].

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1965.

First edition of this work, basis for the Academy Award-winning film Glory, starring Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman and Cary Elwes. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, insc...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150397

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Heilbroner, Robert L

The Worldly Philosophers.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1953.

First edition of this bestselling classic, which has went on to sell more than 4 million copies. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the yea...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-115615

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Auletta, Ken. [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

Greed and Glory on Wall Street: The Fall of the House of Lehman.

New York: Random House, 1986.

First edition of this account of the Lehman Brother takeover, from the library of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg with her bookplate to the pastedown. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth. Signed...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-146519

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Golding, William

Lord of the Flies.

New York: Coward-McCann, 1955.

First American edition of Golding’s classic 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 th...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150004

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Hemingway, Ernest

A Farewell To Arms.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929.

First edition of this Hemingway classic, which established him among the American masters. Octavo, original black cloth. Near fine in a near fine first state dust jacket with the misspelling “Ka...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-139430

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[Oppenheimer, J. Robert; Kitty Oppenheimer; Norris Bradbury; Niels Bohr]

J. Robert Oppenheimer Photo Album Commemorating his Return to the Los Alamos Laboratory.

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Rare original photo album commemorating J. Robert Oppenheimer’s return to the Los Alamos Laboratory on May 18th, 1964. Square octavo, blue boards with white plastic comb binding, with 30 black a...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149178

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