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The Dharma Bums.

New York: The Viking Press, 1958.

First edition of this classic work which introduced writer Gary Snyder to the world as Japhy Ryder. Octavo, original black cloth. Lengthily signed by fellow Beat writer and character in this novel, Ga...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150614

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Kilpatrick, Andrew. [Warren E. Buffett]

Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett.

New York: AKPE , 1994.

First edition of this early Buffett biography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Warren Buffett on the front free endpaper and additionally inscribed by Andrew Kilpatrick on the fr...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-146329

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McCarthy, Cormac

No Country For Old Men.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.

First edition of this “harrowing, propulsive drama… about a stone-cold killer, a small-town sheriff, and an average Joe” (New York Times). Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Cormac McCarthy on the...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-152030

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Schwinger, Julian [Behram Kursonoglu]

Julian Schwinger Autograph Letter Signed.

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Rare original autograph letter signed by Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist Julian Schwinger to Turkish physicist Behram Kursonoglu. One page, on Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques statio...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151914

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Ethiopian Coptic Ge’ez Bible.

Ethiopia:, C. 18th Century.

Rare illustrated Ethiopian Coptic Ge’ez Bible. Duodecimo, bound with twine between two wood blocks carved with ornate patterns and hand-painted miniatures to the verso of each board with depictions of...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-145313

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Dahl, Roald; Illustrated by Quentin Blake

Matilda.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1988.

First British edition of Dahl’s popular story of a young girl, her genius, and her indifferent parents. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, boldly inscribed by the author on the fr...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-143009

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Armstrong, Neil

Neil Armstrong Signed Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company Stock Certificate.

Cincinnati, Ohio:, May 7, 1974.

Printed Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company stock certificate boldly signed in full by American astronaut Neil Armstrong. One page, printed on recto and verso, the certificate is entitled “For...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149954

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Silverstein, Shel

Falling Up.

New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1996.

Early printing of this classic poetry collection published by Shel Silverstein. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with drawings by the author throughout. Signed by the author opposite the half-title...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147074

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Reagan, Ronald and John Wayne

Ronald Reagan and John Wayne Signed Letter Collection.

California:, May 20-26, 1967.

Rare pairing of letters exchanged and signed by President Ronald Reagan as Governor and American actor John Wayne, comprised of a typed letter signed by Wayne to Reagan and Regan’s handwritten d...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-145408

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Sidney, J.C

Map of the City and Vicinity of Boston, Massachusetts.

Boston: J.B. Shields, 1852.

A stunning and uncommon large map of Boston with a fine depiction of the harbor. Two small vignettes in the upper border provide views of the State House and Faneuil Hall. Lithographed map with hand-c...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-133907

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Churchill, Winston S

Geschichte. [A History of the English-Speaking Peoples].

Bern, Switzerland: Alfred Scherz Verlag, 1956-1958.

First Swiss editions of each of the four volumes of this set of Churchill’s classic history. Octavo, original cloth, 4 volumes, illustrated from maps and diagrams. Boldly signed in volume two by Winst...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-133321

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Drucker, Peter F

Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1974.

First edition of this management classic. Octavo, original red cloth. Boldly signed Peter Drucker on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with touch of rubbing. Jacket design by Ro...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-44009

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Capote, Truman

Breakfast At Tiffany’s. A Short Novel and Three Stories.

New York: Random House, 1958.

First edition of Capote’s seductive, wistful masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Truman Capote on the half-title page. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Ismar David.

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150922

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Malcolm X. with the assistance of Alex Haley

The Autobiography of Malcolm X.

New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1965.

First edition of one of TIME Magazine’s ten most important nonfiction books of the twentieth century. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with 22 karat gilt titles and tooling...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150961

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Jackson, Andrew

Proclamation by Andrew Jackson, President of the United States.

:, 10 December 1832.

Rare broadside containing the entirety of President Andrew Jackson’s Proclamation to the people of the United States in the wake of the Nullification Crisis of 1832. Dated December 10, 1832, one...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148260

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Germains, Victor Wallace [Winston S. Churchill]

The Truth About Kitchener. To Which is Appended a Letter From General Von Ludendorff.

London: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd, 1925.

First edition of Germains’ defense of Kitchener’s role in the First World War, from the library of Winston S. Churchill. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author o...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-138052

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Nehru, Jawaharlal

Toward Freedom: The Autobiography of Jawaharlal Nehru.

New York: The John Day Company, 1941.

Second printing, published the same year as the first of Nehru’s classic autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Jawaharlal Nehru on the title page. In near fine con...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-124759

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Fisher, Philip A

Paths To Wealth Through Common Stocks.

Englewood, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1960.

First edition, second printing of Fisher’s second book. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, signed by the author on the front free end paper, “To Vernon Patterson whose approva...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-128599

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Lewis, Sinclair

It Can’t Happen Here.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1935.

First edition of Lewis’ later masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to novelist Alison Lurie, “To Alison with love Sincl...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151701

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Slocum, Joshua

Voyage of the Liberdade.

Boston: Press of Robinson & Stephenson, 1890.

First edition of Slocum’s classic 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 fron...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-152147

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Bradbury, Ray

The Illustrated Man.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1951.

First edition of Bradbury’s classic third book. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper with a large drawing of the illust...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-152252

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Trollope, Anthony

The Last Chronicle of Barset.

London: Smith, Elder, 1867.

First edition in original 32 weekly parts of the final novel in Trollope’s acclaimed Barsetshire series. Octavo, original color pictorial wrappers. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. In ve...

$4,600.00 Item Number: RRB-140447

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Carson, Rachel

Silent Spring.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962.

First edition of Carson’s landmark work. Octavo, original green cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Rachel Carson on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine unclipped dust jacket. Drawings b...

$4,600.00 Item Number: RRB-151213

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Thackeray, William Makepeace

Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero.

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848.

First edition, first issue of Thackeray’s masterpiece. Octavo, bound in full green morocco elaborately bound by Bayntun in Cosway-style with a portrait of Thackeray inset on the front cover, ela...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150809

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