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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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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, topstain brown. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the dedication page, “For Poetry a...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-147721

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Buck, Pearl S

The Good Earth.

New York: The John Day Company, 1931.

First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and masterpiece. First issue with “flees” for “fleas” on page 100, line 17. Octavo, bound in full morocco by th...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-143999

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Mill, John Stuart

The Subjection of Women.

London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869.

First edition of Mill’s classic work defending the rights of women, publisher’s presentation copy, with a blind stamp to title, “Presented by the Publishers.” Octavo, original...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-144100

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Bellow, Saul

Herzog.

New York: The Viking Press, 1964.

First edition of the author’s second of three National Book Award winning novels, which was and remains an unprecedented literary accomplishment. Octavo, original blue cloth. Association copy, i...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-3538

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Rowling, J.K.; Illustrated by Jim Field

The Christmas Pig.

London: Little Brown Books for Young Readers, 2021.

First edition of this heartwarming holiday fantasy. Octavo, original publisher’s red cloth with gilt Christmas decorations to the front and rear panels, illustrated endpapers, with black-and-whi...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-152116

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Melville, Herman

Omoo.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1847.

First edition of this classic Melville work. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco chemise slipcase. BAL 13656. A sharp example.

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-144159

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Wise, Isaac Mayer

The Combat of the People; or Hillel and Herod: A Historical Romance of The Time of Herod I.

Cincinnati: Bloch & Co, 1859.

First edition of American Reform Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise’s historical account of the era of Herod I. Octavo, contemporary cloth over boards, lacking the front free endpaper, library bookplate to...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-82600

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Jagger, Mick; Keith Richards; Brian Jones; Bill Wyman; Charlie Watts

1963 Rolling Stones Signed Decca Records Publicity Card.

: Decca Records, [1963].

Early Rolling Stones advertising card issued by Decca Records in promotion of the group’s first two singles: “Come On” and “I Wanna Be Your Man.” The front of the card fe...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-143818

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Joyce, James

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

London: The Egoist Ltd, 1917.

First English edition of Joyce’s classic stream-of-consciousness work, his first novel, one of about 1000 copies. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and ch...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-142971

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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...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-117889

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Shipley, Joseph T. [James Joyce]

King John.

New York: Greenberg, Publisher, Inc, 1925.

First limited edition of this classic work inspired by King John. Octavo, original half-cloth. One of 500 numbered copies, this is number 8. Association copy, inscribed by the author to fellow writer...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151568

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Brown, James [Rosa Parks]

Portrait of James Brown.

:, c. 2000.

Portrait of “The Godfather of Soul” inscribed twice by James Brown to Civil Rights legend Rosa Parks. Digital color portrait of James Brown. Inscribed twice, first on the lower margin in b...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-148228

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Hughes, Langston

Three Autograph Poems Signed By Langston Hughes.

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Three original autograph poems by Langston Hughes. Quarto, three pages, one typed and two handwritten in green ink for Marshall Bean. Each boldly signed by Langston Hughes. The first, “Personal...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-148255

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Dickens, Charles

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1837.

First edition in book form of Dickens’ first novel and one of his greatest works. Octavo, bound in full twentieth-century olive morocco with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in five compartme...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-148735

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Conrad, Joseph

Lord Jim.

London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1900.

First edition of one of Conrad’s finest novels. Octavo, original cloth. First printing with the first issue points including the misprints “anyrate” p. 77, l. 5, “cure” (instea...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149379

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Callender, James Thomson

The American Annual Register, or, Historical Memoirs of the United States, for the Year 1796.

Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by Bioren & Madan, January 19, 1797.

First edition, first issue in book form of Callender’s searing exposé. Octavo, bound in three quarter contemporary calf over marbled boards, morocco spine label lettered in gilt. In very good co...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-125974

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Duke, Charlie and Fred Haise

Charlie Duke and Fred Haise Apollo 11 Mission Control Signed Photograph.

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Large black and white photograph of Apollo 11 Mission Control Capsule Communicator Charlie Duke, Fred Haise, and James Lovell, boldly signed by Duke with his famous words, “We copy you down eagl...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-135611

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Sagan, Carl and Ann Druyan

Comet.

New York: Random House, 1985.

First edition of this work which describes the scientific nature of comets, as well as their varying roles and perceptions throughout history. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. The dedic...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-50082

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