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Call For The Dead.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1961.

First edition of the author’s first book, which introduced the world to the recurring protagonist, George Smiley. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and rulin...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151968

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Franklin, Benjamin

Oeuvres.

Paris: Chez Quillau, Esprit, et l'Auteur, 1773.

First French edition of Franklin’s complete works on electricity, based on the fourth and best British edition. Quarto, two volumes bound in one, contemporary calf, illustrated with engraved fro...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-133908

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Janis, Harriet and Sidney. [Pablo Picasso]

Picasso: The Recent Years 1939-1946.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1946.

Signed limited edition of this compendium of over one hundred reproductions of Picasso’s wartime paintings. Quarto, original publisher’s half buckram, illustrated with 135 plates. One of...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-140734

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Schulz, Charles M

You Don’t Look 35, Charlie Brown.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1985.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author with a large drawing of Charlie Brown on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fin...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-146002

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Butler, Octavia E

Xenogenesis Trilogy: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, Imago.

New York: Warner Books, Grand Central Publishing, 1987-1989.

First editions of each volume in Butler’s acclaimed Xenogenesis trilogy. Octavo, 3 volumes, original half cloth. Each are signed or inscribed by Octavia E. Butler. Each are fine in a fine dust j...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-137805

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Silverstein, Shel

The Missing Piece Meets the Big O.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1981.

First edition of this work of poetry by the author on The Giving Tree. Small quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author with a large drawing of a hand w...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-145791

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Woolf, Virginia

The Common Reader. [and] The Common Reader Second Series.

London: The Hogarth Press, 1925 & 1932.

First British editions of these classic collections of Woolf’s critical essays. Octavo, volume one in the original publisher’s pictorial half-cloth boards, volume two in the original publi...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151114

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Garcia Marquez, Gabriel

Love in the Time of Cholera.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1988.

First British edition of Garcia Marquez’s classic work, which ranks as one of the great novels of the last half of the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Gabriel Garcia...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-67079

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Scott, Walter

The Works of Sir Walter Scott, Including The Waverley Novels and The Poems.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912.

Finely bound complete set of the Works of Sir Walter Scott. Octavo, 50 volumes, bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards, raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. In fine condition. A...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-56742

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Mishima, Yukio

The Sound of Waves.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956.

First edition in English, preceding the British first by one year of “this classic work, its action might take place at any point across a thousand years” (The New York Times). Octavo, ori...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-131297

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Hazlitt, Henry

Economics In One Lesson.

New York: Laissez Faire Books, 1986.

Signed limited edition, one of only 200 numbered copies of the author’s seminal work. Octavo, original leather, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt tooling to the front and rear panels, all edg...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149556

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Bellow, Saul

Dangling Man.

New York: The Vanguard Press, 1944.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s first book. Octavo, original beige cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Matthew and Adrienne greeting...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-18037

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Armstrong, Neil

Neil Armstrong Signed Delaware Evening Journal.

Wilmington: Delaware Evening Journal, July 21, 1969.

Rare original Delaware Evening Journal featuring the headline “Eagle Jets Safely Off Moon; In Orbit for Rendezvous”, a front page article on the Apollo 11 moon landing, and large photograp...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-100158

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Obama, Barack

Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance.

New York: Times Books/ Random House, 1995.

First edition of this memoir by the 44th President of the United States. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Barack Obama on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket d...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149164

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Ball, John

In The Heat of The Night.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1965.

First edition of the author’s classic mystery drama which was adapted into the Academy Award-winning film of the same name starring Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger and Lee Grant. Octavo, original ha...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-144307

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Blatty, William Peter [Kitty Winn]

The Exorcist.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1971.

First edition of Blatty’s landmark horror novel, basis for the 1973 film. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by William Peter Blatty and actress Kitty Winn, who starred in...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-147935

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Oliver, Mary

Twelve Moons.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1979.

First edition of Mary Oliver’s fourth book. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication, “June 22, 1979 Love to Ray and Nicky from Mary. Pr...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-85561

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Carle, Eric

The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

Cleveland: World Publishing, 1969.

First edition, first printing of Carle’s most recognizable work (with the complete number line 1-5 on the copyright page and A3450 on the rear board). Oblong quarto, original illustrated boards....

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-140979

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Eliot, George

The Mill On The Floss.

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1860.

First edition, first issue of Eliot’s most deeply autobiographical work with no inserted preliminary advertisement leaf in volume I and with the seventh edition of Adam Bede cited in the 16 page...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-146315

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Friedman, Milton & Rose

Free To Choose: A Personal Statement.

New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1980.

First edition of Friedmans’ persuasive argument for the free market, based on the PBS series Free to Choose. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Milton Friedman on the title page. Fine...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-133148

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King-Smith, Dick

The Sheep-Pig.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1983.

First edition, first issue of the basis for the Oscar-winning film ‘Babe’. Octavo, original cloth. Illustrated by Mary Rayner. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, “With...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-131618

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Hunter, Alexander

Johnny Reb and Billy Yank.

New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1905.

First edition of this epic Civil War novel. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the dust jacket with some chips and inner strengthening. First editions are rare, examples with the original dust jacke...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-5588

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Collins, Mrs. Jane S

Free At Last.

Pittsburgh: Murdoch, Kerr & Co, 1896.

First edition of this historical story of Black civil rights in the Jim Crow era. Octavo, original cloth, with 16 drawings and portraits, including Frederick Douglass and Abolitionist Wendell Phillips...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-137487

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von Braun, Wernher

Wernher von Braun Signed Time Magazine Cover.

Havana: Time Magazine Latin American Edition, 1958.

Rare Time Magazine Latin American Edition cover signed by legendary German-American aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun. Quarto, the cover is from the February 17, 1958 issue and features a reproduct...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-138504

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