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An Oration Pronounced July 4, 1800, at the Request of the Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, in Commemoration of the Anniversary of American Independence.

Boston: From the Printing-Office of Manning & Loring, [1800].

First edition of Hall’s famed speech tracing the history of the American Revolution. Octavo, bound in paper-covered boards, original wrapper bound in at rear. Presentation copy, inscribed by the...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-125043

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Ferrari, Enzo; Stirling Moss [Lewis Hamilton]

The Enzo Ferrari Memoirs.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1963.

First edition in English of Enzo Ferrari’s autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Stirling Moss and Lewis Hamilton on the front free endpaper. These signatures were...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151045

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Adams, Douglas

The Hitch Hiker’s Guide To the Galaxy. [Hitchhiker’s]

London: PAN, 1979.

First British edition of this modern classic, preceding the hardcover edition. Octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed by Douglas Adams in a contemporary hand on the front pastedown. In fine conditio...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-140788

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Kubrick, Stanley & Anthony Burgess

Stanley Kubrick’s Clockwork Orange.

New York: Abelard-Schuman, 1972.

First edition of the book recreation of Stanley Kubrick’s epic film adaptation of Anthony Burgess’ dystopian masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Kubrick, “To Mark Best...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-3062

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Lemon, Frank; [Orville Wright]

Orville Wright Signed Lithograph of The Wright Brothers ‘Strange Contraption’ Rises at Kitty Hawk, 1903.

:, 1928.

Lithograph of The Wright Brothers ‘Strange Contraption’ Rises at Kitty Hawk, 1903. Wright Aeronautical Corporation off-set color lithograph of a Frank Lemon watercolor painting honoring th...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-146523

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Mitchell, Margaret

Gone With the Wind.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936.

First edition of Margaret Mitchell’s masterpiece which remains one of the fastest selling novels in the history of American publishing, with 50,000 copies sold in a single day. Octavo, original...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149717

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Kennedy, John F

The Strategy of Peace.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1960.

First edition of the selected foreign policy speeches and statements on defense, peace, and national security delivered by Kennedy during his 1960 presidential campaign. Octavo, original pictorial wra...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-142889

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[William T. Sherman]

The Army Reunion: With Reports of the Meetings of the Societies of The Army of the Cumberland; The Army of the Tennessee; The Army of the Ohio; and The Army of Georgia.

Chicago: S. C. Griggs and Company, 1869.

First edition of this record of post-war social meetings by members of the army; from the library of General William Tecumseh Sherman. Small quarto, bound in full deluxe red morocco stamped in blind w...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-145742

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Shirer, William L

The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960.

First edition of “one of the most important works of history of our time” (Orville Prescott, New York Times). Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed b...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148281

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Steinbeck, John

The Wayward Bus.

New York: The Viking Press, 1947.

First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning writer. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by John Steinbeck on the front free endpaper. From the library of John and Carol Steinbeck with thei...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150377

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Fleming, Ian; Angus Wilson; Edith Sitwell; Cyril Connolly; Patrick Leigh Fermor; Evelyn Waugh; Christopher Sykes; W.H. Auden [Larry Hughes]

The Seven Deadly Sins.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1962.

First edition of this anthology introduced by Ian Fleming. Octavo, bound in three quarters green morocco over green cloth covered boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments w...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149775

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Kazantzakis, Nikos

Captain Michalis or Freedom and Death.

Athens:, 1953.

First Greek edition of Kazantzakis’ classic novel. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by Nikos Kazantzakis on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. First editions are rare, signed...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-5746

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Friedman, Milton

Price Theory: A Provisional Text.

Chicago: Aldine Publishing, 1962.

First edition of the economist’s classic text on price theory used at the University of Chicago. Quarto, original wrappers as issued. Signed by Milton Friedman on the title page. In near fine co...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-99675

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Goldin, Claudia. [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History of American Women.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

First edition of this a comprehensive economic analysis of two centuries of women’s labor force participation, wages, and workplace dynamics in the United States by the Nobel Prize-winning econo...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151922

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Ruscha, Ed [Edward]

Every Building on the Sunset Strip.

Los Angeles: Edward Ruscha, 1966.

First edition, second issue of the artist’s classic work. Small octavo, original stiff self-wrappers, original slipcase. Association copy, inscribed by Ruscha to his aunt, “For Aunt Carol...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-1012

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[Lely, Gilbert; Alberto Giacometti]

La Folie Tristan.

Paris: Jean Hugues, 1959.

Definitive limited edition of this 12th-century Anglo-Norman poem about the medieval legend of Tristan and Iseult. Duodecimo, written in French, bound in three-quarters bordeaux morocco with gilt titl...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151301

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Kennedy, John F

John F. Kennedy Unsmoked Cigar.

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Rare unopened cigar given to 35th U.S. President John F. Kennedy by a Philippine Ambassador to the United States, handsomely presented with a portrait of Kennedy. The Coronas Alhambra cigar is mounted...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-140653

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William, Oscar [Editor]; Dylan Thomas; Wallace Stevens; W.H. Auden; Marianne Moore; Robinson Jeffers; Randall Jarrell; Delmore Schwartz; Conrad Aiken; Muriel Rukeyser; Stephen Spender; Robert Penn Warren

New Poems 1942: An Anthology of British and American Verse.

Mount Vernon, N.Y: Peter Pauper Press, 1942.

First edition, signed limited issue of the second in a series of wartime poetry anthologies selected by Oscar Williams, this being the first to be issued as a signed limited edition. Octavo, original...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-138329

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Bloomfield, Robert. [Herman Melville]

The Farmer’s Boy.

London: Sampson, Low, Son & Co, 1858.

Later printing of the poem that made Robert Bloomfield’s reputation. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth elaborately stamped in gilt, all edges gilt, illustrated with thirty engravings from...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-144051

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Roth, Philip [Richard Benjamin, Ali MacGraw, Larry Peerce]

Goodbye, Columbus.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1959.

First edition of the author’s first book and winner of the National Book Award. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed Philip Roth on the title page and additionally by the director of the film L...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-146869

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The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Translated Out of the Original Tongues; and With the former Translations diligently compared and revised, by His Majesty’s Special Command. Appointed to be Read in Churches.

Cambridge: Printed by John Burges Printer to the University, 1798.

Exquisitely bound 18th century Cambridge University printing of the Holy Bible. Octavo, sumptuously bound in full contemporary straight grain morocco with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149747

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Woolf, Virginia

The Second Common Reader.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1932.

First edition of the second collection of Woolf’s critical essays. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Virginia Woolf on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Rare...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-132047

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Wilder, Thornton

Our Town: A Play in Three Acts.

New York: Coward McCann, 1938.

First edition of the author’s second Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed and dated by Thornton Wilder on the half-tit...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151489

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Shostakovich, Dmitri

Dmitri Shostakovich Autograph Musical Quotation Signed.

:, 1947.

Handwritten musical quotation inscribed by Russian composer and pianist Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich in Russian above the opening three bars of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 in D minor (Op....

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-82418

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