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Thompson, Kay. Illustrated by Hilary Knight

Eloise: A Book for Precocious Grown ups, Eloise in Paris, Eloise at Christmastime.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1955-1958.

First editions of the first three books in Kay Thompson’s beloved Eloise series. Quartos, 3 volumes, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Each volume lengthily inscribed by illustrator Hilary Knigh...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-92481

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An Essay on Civil Government In Two Parts: Part I: An Enquiry into the Ends of Government, and the Means of Attaining Them. Part II: On the Government and Commerce of England; with Reflections on Liberty, and the Method of Preserving the present Constitution.

London: Printed for R. Willock, At Sir Isaac Newton's Head, 1743.

First edition of this bold attack on the Whig administration of Robert Walpole. Octavo, bound in full contemporary calf with gilt tooling to the spine, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, all ed...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-90461

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Wallace, David Foster

The Broom of the System.

New York: Penguin Books, 1987.

First edition of the author’s classic first book. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling a...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146609

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Grant, Ulysses S

Ulysses S. Grant Autograph Letter Signed.

:, 1876.

Autograph letter signed by and entirely in the hand of Ulysses S. Grant as President. Addressed to the Attorney General of the United States Edwards Pierrepont the letter reads, “Elizabeth, N.J....

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-101208

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Spratt, Capt. Thomas Abel Bremage

Travels and Researches in Crete.

London: John van Voorst, 1865.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, 2 volumes, original cloth, hand colored folding engraved maps, 14 tinted lithographed plates, 3 further plates (of inscriptions and coins), lithographed pla...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-135308

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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 Kenneth Arrow on the title page. In n...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-140964

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Burger, Warren; William Rehnquist; William J. Brennan; Thurgood Marshall; Potter Stewart; Lewis Franklin Powell; William O. Douglas; Harry Blackmun; and Bryon White

Warren E. Burger Supreme Court Signed Photograph.

:, [1972-1975].

Large photograph of the Burger Court, signed by nine justices below their portrait. Large black and white photograph depicting the Supreme Court in robes seated or standing. The justices are Potter St...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147471

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Mandela, Nelson

Long Walk To Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela.

South Africa: MacDonald Purnell, 1994.

First South African edition of this classic autobiography, which has went on to sell over six million copies worldwide. Octavo, original black cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with photograp...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-126733

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Samuelson, Paul A

Foundations of Economic Analysis.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1948.

Third printing of the Nobel Prize-winning economist’s magnum opus and one of the most influential economic texts of the twentieth century. Octavo, original burgundy cloth with titles in gilt. Boldly s...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150265

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Dyson, Freeman J. [Edward O. Wilson]

The World, The Flesh and the Devil.

London: Birbeck College, 1972.

First edition of this lecture given by Dyson at Birbeck College in London on May 16, 1972. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Association copy, inscribed by the author to fellow scientist Edward O....

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150268

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Nehru, Jawaharlal

Toward Freedom: The Autobiography of Jawaharlal Nehru.

New York: The John Day Company, 1942.

Early printing of Nehru’s classic autobiography, from the collection of actor and author Aly Wassil. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed on the front free endpaper by the first Prime Min...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146425

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Carroll, Lewis. [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]

Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There.

London: MacMillan and Co, 1872.

Octavo, two volumes, uniformly bound in full red morocco, all edges gilt, gilt titles and tooling to the spines, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, raised bands, original cloth bindings tipped i...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-130848

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Levitt, Helen; Essay by Agee, James

A Way of Seeing: Photographs of New York by Helen Levitt with an Essay by James Agee.

New York: The Viking Press, 1965.

First edition of Levitt and Agee’s classic collaboration. Oblong quarto, original black cloth, illustrated with 50 black-and-white photogravures. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-807

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Kennedy, John F.; Robert Kennedy

As We Remember Joe.

Cambridge, MA: University Press, 1945.

First edition, second issue (of only 250 copies), of this tribute to the eldest of the Kennedy brothers. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece, illustrated throughout. Inscribed by Robert Kennedy on th...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-69057

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Knight, Hilary

Hilary Knight Original Vanity Fair Watercolor Illustration.

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Rare original watercolor fashion illustration by American artist Hilary Knight for Vanity Fair. Knight was flown to Paris by Vanity Fair in 2006 to attend Paris Fashion Week, where he illustrated mode...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-95324

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Roosevelt, Eleanor

When You Grow Up to Vote.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1932.

First edition of Eleanor Roosevelt’s first book, published the same year Franklin Delano Roosevelt won his first presidential election. Octavo, original cloth, with illustrations by Manning de V...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-124558

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Dickens, Charles

The Personal History of David Copperfield.

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1850.

First edition of “the most perfect of all the Dickens novels” (Virginia Woolf). Octavo, bound in full morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, gilt m...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-130508

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Loeb, Gerald M. (G.M.)

The Battle for Stock Market Profits.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1971.

First edition of this classic work on high-risk investment for maximum profit, including the Loeb Checklist for managing stocks. Octavo, original boards. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light she...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-820

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Tuchman, Barbara W

August 1914. [The Guns of August].

London: Constable and Co. Ltd, 1962.

First British edition of Tuchman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic of the opening episodes of World War I. Octavo, original black cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. Boldly signed by Barb...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150301

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Churchill, Winston S

Winston S. Churchill Typed Letter Signed.

Hyde Park Gat, London:, 1949.

Rare typed letter signed by Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill to a Lady Aberconway, likely Christobel Aberconway. Octavo, one page on Western letterhead, the letter reads in full, ’28, Hyde Pa...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146911

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Faulkner, William

Sanctuary.

New York: Johnathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1931.

First edition of the novel that established Faulkner’s literary reputation. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with some professional restorat...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-138101

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Thorp, Edward O

Beat the Dealer: A Winning Strategy for the Game of Twenty One.

New York: Random House, 1962.

First edition of Thorp’s classic first book. Octavo, original cloth, with charts and illustrations. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Alfred Best Wish...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146421

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Penn, Irving; Alexander Liberman

Moments Preserved.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960.

First edition of this classic work. Large quarto, original beige cloth, original pictorial slipcase. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by Irving Penn, “For Babs and John with affectionate gree...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-968

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Mandela, Nelson

Long Walk To Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela.

Boston: Little Brown, 1994.

First American edition of the autobiography of one of the greatest moral leaders of the twentieth century. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with photographs. Signed by the...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-55043

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