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London: Jonathan Cape, 1946.

First edition in English of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s most well-known work. Octavo, original black cloth. Signed by Elias Canetti on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine price-cli...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-48755

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Lewis, Sinclair

Babbitt.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1922.

First edition, first issue of this famous satirical work, with “Purdy” for “Lyte” on Page 49 line 4 & “my” on line 5. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy,...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148120

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Watson, James D

Molecular Biology of the Gene.

New York: W.A. Benjamin, Inc, 1965.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning scientist’s first book. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers as issued. Boldly signed by James Watson on the title page. Editor’s foreword by Cyru...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-125103

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Harris, Joel Chandler

Uncle Remus and His Friends: Old Plantation Stories, Songs, and Ballads with Sketches of Negro Character.

Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1892.

First edition of the fourth collection of “Uncle Remus” tales. Octavo, original pictorial cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, illustrated with frontispiece and 11 plates by A.B. Frost...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-133016

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Kirk, Russell

The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot.

Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1953.

First edition of one of the greatest contributions to twentieth-century American Conservatism. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. First editions are scarce.

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-142023

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Verne, Jules

A Tour of the World in 80 Days. [Around the World in 80 Days].

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1873.

Rare first American edition of the author’s classic work. Duodecimo, bound in green cloth, pictorially decorated in gilt and blind, dark blue endpapers, edges stained red, two color title page....

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150041

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Baldwin, James

Another Country.

London: Michael Joseph, 1963.

First edition of Baldwin’s classic work, nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-144034

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Millhauser, Steven

Steven Millhauser Collection: Edwin Mullhouse, Portrait of A Romantic, In The Penny Arcade, From the Realm of Morpheus, The Barnum Museum, Little Kingdoms, Martin Dressler, The Knife Thrower, Enchanted Night, The King in the Tree, Dangerous Laughter.

New York:, 1972-2008.

Uncorrected proofs of the first editions of the first eleven books by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steven Millhauser. Octavo, 11 volumes, original wrappers as issued. Each are in near fine to fine co...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-1330

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Harris, Joel Chandler

Nights With Uncle Remus: Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation.

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883.

First edition of the second book of Uncle Remus stories. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with frontispiece and 19 plates by Frederick Church. In fine condition. Housed in a custom folding chemise...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-133125

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Ronalds, Alfred

The Fly-Fisher’s Entomology: With Directions for Making the Artificial Representation of Each Fly; and a Few Observations and Instructions on Trout and Grayling Fishing.

Liverpool: Henry Young & Sons, 1913.

The de Luxe limited edition of this guide to fly fishing and the making of artificial flies. Imperial octavo, two volumes, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles and lure detailing to the s...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150424

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Ames, Nathaniel. [Benjamin Franklin]

An Astronomical Diary or Almanack, for the Year of Our Lord Christ 1771.

Boston: Printed and Sold by the Printers and Booksellers, [1770].

First edition of Nathaniel Ames’ 1771 Almanack, containing the first known printing of “the most famous of American epitaphs” (Mark Van Doren). 12mo, original wrappers stitched as is...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-125283

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Soros, George

The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987.

First edition of “this seminal investment book” (Barton Biggs). Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Bos Todol...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-33768

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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 three quarters morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six com...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-99840

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Walton, Izaak and Charles Cotton

The Complete Angler of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton: Extensively Embellished with Engravings on Copper and Wood, From Original Paintings and Drawings, by First-Rate Artists.

London: John Major, Fleet Street, 1823.

First Major edition, large paper copy of this classic of English literature. Octavo, bound in full crushed levant forest green morocco by Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six co...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147997

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[General William T. Sherman] [Ulysses S. Grant]

General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Persian Kard.

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Rare Persian kard, a straight, single-edged dagger that is worn on the left side of the belt, from the collection of General William T. Sherman preserved in his military trunk. The kard has a bone han...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147824

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Atlee, Clement; Ben Chifley; Walter Nash; Jan Smuts; et al

Clement Atlee Signed 1946 Commonwealth Prime Ministers’ Conference Photograph.

:, 1946.

Large original photograph of the 1946 Commonwealth Prime Ministers’ Conference, signed by UK Prime Minister Clement Atlee among every other sitter. The large silver gelatin print is signed on th...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-137423

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Popper, Karl

Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge.

London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1965.

Second edition of this major work by Popper. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Lionel, the most generously appreciative of readers...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-100965

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Levi, Primo

Se Non Ora, Quando? [If Not Now, When?].

Torino: Einaudi, 1982.

First Italian edition and true first of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. folded map. Boldly signed by Primo Levi on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare and de...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-2872

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Fisher, Irving

The Stock Market Crash—And After.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1930.

First edition of Fisher’s important work tracing the causes and the immediate aftermath of the 1929 Stock Market Crash. Octavo, original red cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-116232

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Armstrong, Neil; Robert White

Neil Armstrong and Robert White Signed Photograph.

:, c. 1960.

Rare photograph of a North American X-15 aircraft signed by Neil Armstrong and Robert White. Color matte photograph of Neil Armstrong, fellow-test pilot Robert White, and four others posing in front o...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151767

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Dinesen, Isak. [Karen Blixen]

Out of Africa. [with] Isak Dinesen Autograph Letter Signed.

New York: Random House, 1938.

First edition of the author’s classic memoir, which recounts events of the seventeen years when Blixen made her home in Kenya. Octavo, original pictorial half cloth, top stain green. Near fine in a ve...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150903

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Burrough, Bryan and Helyar, John [James Garner]

Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1992.

James Garner’s original shooting script for the film in which he starred, Barbarians at the Gate. Quarto, bound in the original binder, with Garner’s embossed name in gilt to the front pan...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-114514

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Fermor, Patrick Leigh [Daphne Fielding]

Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece.

London: John Murray, 1966.

First edition of the author’s travelogue companion piece to Mani. Octavo, original cloth, a map, and illustrated with black and white photographs. Association copy, lengthily inscribed by the au...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148859

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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, parchment manuscript in black and red ink, with full-page hand-painted miniatures depicting the Tran...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145316

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