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The Ways and Means of Payment: A Full Analysis of the Credit System, With Its Various Modes of Adjustment.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co, 1859.

First edition of this detailed critique of the 19th-century credit system. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the fron...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148629

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Williams, Ted and Jim Thorpe

Ted Williams and Jim Thorpe Signed Photograph.

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Rare original photograph of Olympic Gold medalist Jim Thorpe and Baseball Hall of Famer Ted Williams smiling together at the New England Sportsman’s and Boat Show in 1952. Signed by both William...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-96152

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Kirk, Charlie

Right Wing Revolution: How to Beat the Woke and Save the West.

: Winning Team Publishing, 2024.

First edition of this work by the founder of Turning Point USA, the leading political youth organization in the country, which reaches 100’s of million people per month, and Axios has named Char...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150542

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Schmutzer, E. [Stephen Hawking]

Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation . . Jena, 14-19 July 1980.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.

First edition of this work on relativity and gravitation. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of Stephen Hawking with his name written on the front free endpaper. Stephen Hawking was a theoretica...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-119378

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Spielberg, Steven. Photographs by David James; [Tom Hanks]

Saving Private Ryan: A Film by Steven Spielberg.

New York: Newmarket Press, 1999.

First edition of the illustrated book companion to the Academy Award-winning film. Quarto, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated with photographs by David James. Presentation copy, inscribed by S...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-132619

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Galbraith, John Kenneth

The Great Crash 1929.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1955.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front a...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150045

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Eliot, George

Daniel Deronda.

Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood, 1876.

First edition in the original parts of Eliot’s final and most controversial work, which essentially predicts the foundation of Israel. Octavos, four volumes in eight parts in the original wrappe...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-96596

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Hughes, Langston

Shakespeare in Harlem.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942.

First edition of Hughes classic collection of poems. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Olive Johnson, Sincerely, Langston Hughes...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148169

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Grahame, Kenneth

The Wind in the Willows.

London: Methuen and Co, 1908.

First edition of the beloved children’s novel, which author A.A. Milne once referred to as a “household book,” “one of the classic read-aloud books that should not be missed by...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149387

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Hemingway, Ernest

The Torrents of Spring.

New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1926.

First edition of Hemingway’s first novel, one of 1250 printed. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a good dust jacket with chipping to the spine extremities and front panel.

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-119154

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Smith, Adam

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

London: Printed for William Allison & J. Maynard; Edinburgh: W. Blair, 1819.

Early edition of Adam Smith’s magnum opus and cornerstone of economic thought. Octavo, 3 volumes, bound in contemporary full calf, gilt titles to the spine, red and green spine labels. In near f...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-133843

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Wallace, David Foster & Mark Costello

Signifying Rappers.

New York: Ecco Press, 1990.

First edition of the first book to seriously consider rap and its position as a vital force in American culture. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers as issued. Boldly signed by David Foster Wallace...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150145

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Girdler, Tom M., In Collaboration with Boyden Sparkes [Ayn Rand]

Boot Straps.

New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1943.

First edition of this autobiography of the CEO of one of the “Big Three” steel companies of the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-122678

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Palestine Pamphlets. Terrorist Methods With Mines and Booby Traps.

Jerusalem: Headquarters, Chief Engineer, Palestine & Transjordan, 1946.

Very rare restricted British Army manual dealing with terrorist explosive devices and methods. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers, frontispiece and 6 plates, 16 full-page text-illustrations. Only 2...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-125181

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Grant, Ulysses S.; Hamilton Fish; Leonard Wood; Joseph Wheeler

Ulysses S. Grant, Hamilton Fish, Leonard Wood and Joseph Wheeler Autographs.

: N.p., [1874-1902].

Autographs of President Ulysses S. Grant, Secretary of State Hamilton Fish, and United States Army Generals Leonard Wood and Joseph Wheeler. Octavo, one page. Signed by Grant, “U. S. Grant....

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146684

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Parks, Rosa

Rosa Parks Photograph Signed.

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Rare iconic photograph of Rosa Parks “the first lady of civil rights” and “the mother of the freedom movement,” signed by her. In fine condition. The photograph measures 10 inc...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147223

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[Lincoln, Abraham]

Bust of Abraham Lincoln.

:, c. 1909.

Painted plaster bust of Abraham Lincoln mounted on a wood pedestal base. After Raffaello Gironi for The Boston Sculpture Company. Signed faintly on reverse of integrated plaster pedestal, “R. Gi...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148487

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Shaw, George Bernard

Man and Superman.

Westminster: Archibald and Constable & Co., Ltd, 1903.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning playwright’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Charles Roebuck Ramsden G...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-132653

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Mishima, Yukio

After The Banquet.

London: Secker & Warburg, 1963.

First British edition of “the biggest and most profound thing Mishima has done so far in an already distinguished career” (The New Yorker). Octavo, original cloth. Translated from the Japa...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148136

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Larsson, Stieg; Translated by Reg Keeland

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; The Girl Who Played with Fire; The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest.

London: Maclehose Press, 2008-2009.

First editions in English of each volume of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy. Octavo, three volumes, original boards. Each volume is signed by the translator Reg Keeland, with a quotation added by t...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-82278

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Hughes, Richard

A High Wind in Jamaica.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1929.

First edition of the author’s classic novel, one of Modern Library’s 100 greatest novels of the 20th century and an inspiration for William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. Octavo, origi...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150217

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Schatzman, Evry (editor), [Stephen Hawking]

Cargèse Lectures in Physics, Volume Six.

New York : Gordon and Breach, 1973.

First edition of this work. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of Stephen Hawking with his name written on the front free endpaper. Stephen Hawking was a theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-115754

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Lovell, James and Frank Borman

James Lovell and Frank Borman Inscribed ‘Earthrise’ NASA Photograph.

:, 1968.

Official NASA photograph of ‘Earthrise.’ Glossy, color photograph of the Earth as seen from space by the Apollo 8 crew after performing lunar orbit insertion burn, NASA caption text and Ko...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145373

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Joyce, James

James Joyce Ulysses Collection.

London and New York: Various publishers, 1932-1998.

Collection of several editions of Joyce’s masterpiece Ulysses. The collection is comprised of a first American edition of Ulysses [New York: Random House, 1934]; early printing of the Unlimited...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-132480

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