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The Scarlet Letter.

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1920.

First edition thus of Hawthorne’s masterpiece. Quarto, bound in full morocco by Bennett, elaborate gilt tooling to the spine, with scarlet leather onlay of the letter A on the front panel, gilt turn-i...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-133264

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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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Dickens, Charles

The Personal History of David Copperfield.

London: Bradbury and Evans, May 1849-November 1850.

First edition in parts of “the most perfect of all the Dickens novels” (Virginia Woolf). Octavo, original blue-green illustrated serial issue wrappers being twenty parts in nineteen with t...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-96702

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Silverstein, Shel

The Missing Piece.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1976.

First edition of Silverstein’s classic work, published by Ursula Nordstrom. Octavo, original illustrated cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the pastedown and front...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-135135

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Adams, Richard

Watership Down.

London: Rex Collings, 1972.

First edition of the author’s first and most beloved work. Octavo, original brown cloth, folding map. Boldly signed the author on the title page, “Yours sincerely Richard Adams.” Nea...

$8,200.00 Item Number: RRB-136602

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Charles Dickens

The Christmas Books: A Christmas Carol; The Chimes; The Battle of Life; Cricket on the Hearth; The Haunted Man and The Ghost’s Bargain.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1843-48.

Complete set of Charles Dickens’ Christmas Books. Octavo, 5 volumes, original cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panels, all edges gilt. A Christmas Carol, in Prose. Being...

$8,200.00 Item Number: RRB-125019

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Autograph Centenary Edition.

Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1903.

The Autograph Centenary edition of Emerson’s complete works with an autograph manuscript in his hand and with his notations tipped in. One of six hundred copies additionally signed by the publis...

$8,200.00 Item Number: RRB-137099

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Shackleton, Ernest H

The Heart of the Antarctic: Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909 by E.H. Shackleton, C.V.O.

London: William Heinemann, 1909.

First trade edition of Shackleton’s thrilling account of one of the earliest attempts to reach the South Pole, “the best book of polar travel which has ever been written” (Manchester...

$8,200.00 Item Number: RRB-148914

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Lewis, C.S

Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia.

London: Geoffrey Bles, 1951.

First edition of the second book in Lewis’ beloved Narnia series. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated by Pauline Baynes. With an autograph note signed by C.S. Lewis to hi...

$8,200.00 Item Number: RRB-135229

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Crowley, Aleister

The Works of Aleister Crowley.

Foyers: Society For The Propagation of Religious Truth , 1905-1907.

First collected edition, “Essay Competition” issue of the collected writings of the noted occult writer. Octavo, three volumes bound into one as issued in the original publisher’s li...

$8,200.00 Item Number: RRB-149730

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Thackeray, William

The Works of William Thackeray.

London: Various Publishers, 1840-1867.

First edition of the works of William Thackeray. Octavo, 34 volumes, uniformly bound in three-quarters morocco. From the library of Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, with hi...

$8,000.00 Item Number: RRB-19005

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Mackenzie, Compton [Franklin Delano Roosevelt]

Mr. Roosevelt.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1944.

First edition of Compton Mackenzie’s classic biography of the 32nd President of the United States. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt o...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151521

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Handel, George Frideric and Charles Jennens

Messiah. An Oratorio. As it is Performed at the Theatre Royal in the Hay-Market. Set to Music by Mr. Handel.

[London]: Sold at the Theatre only, [1769].

Rare 18th century printing of the Handel’s Messiah as it was performed at the Theatre Royal in the Hay-Market. Ocravo, bound in contemporary wrappers. Handel composed Messiah in 1741. It was fir...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149233

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Begley, Louis; [Bill Bader] [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.

First edition of this case study on corruption in the justice system. Octavo, original publisher’s boards. Association copy, inscribed by Bill Bader to Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the front free endp...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147322

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Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Tiresias and Other Poems.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1885.

First edition of this collection of poems by one of the most famous poets of the Victorian era. Duodecimo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Association copy, inscribed by Lord Alfred Tenn...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147858

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Dickens, Charles

The Personal History of David Copperfield.

London: Bradbury and Evans, May 1849-November 1850.

First edition in the original parts of “the most perfect of all the Dickens novels” (Virginia Woolf). Complete set of the original parts, with all of the etched plates and most of the adve...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149546

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Carroll, Lewis [Alice Hargreaves]

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland [and] Through The Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1932-1935.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of Lewis Carroll’s beloved children’s classic. Octavo, two volumes, bound in full leather with gilt titles and elaborate tooling to the spine in six co...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-152054

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Lagerfeld, Karl

Karl Lagerfeld Signed Original Fashion Design Sketch.

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Rare original fashion design sketch done and signed by legendary fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld. Mixed-media full-body sketch of a female model wearing a multi-buttoned long-sleeved collared shirt. S...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147291

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Morgan, J. Pierpont

J. Pierpont Morgan Signed Railroad Mortgage Bond.

:, June 30, 1886.

First mortgage bond of the New Jersey Junction Railroad Company in the amount of $1000, signed on the reverse by J. P. Morgan and H. C. Fahnestock as trustees. Unaccomplished and bound at the left edg...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150475

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Sale, George. [Translator]

The Koran: Commonly Called The Alcoran of Mohammed: Translated From The Original Arabic. With Explanatory Notes, Taken From the Most Approved Commentators. To Which is Prefixed, A Preliminary Discourse.

London: Printed by C. Ackers for J. Wilcox, 1734.

First edition in English of George Sale’s important translation of the Koran, the first to translate directly from the Arabic into English. Quarto, bound in full contemporary speckled calf with morocc...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-152248

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Disney, Walt

Walt Disney’s Cinderella.

Stuttgart: Bluchert-Verlag, 1951.

First German edition of the classic retelling of one of the most celebrated Disney films. Octavo, original illustrated boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Walt Disney...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-106556

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Dickens, Charles

The Christmas Books: A Christmas Carol; The Chimes; The Battle of Life; Cricket on the Hearth; The Haunted Man and The Ghost’s Bargain.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1843-60.

Early printings of all five of Charles Dickens’ Christmas Books, finely bound. Octavo, 5 volumes, bound in full calf with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gi...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-121293

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Du Maurier, Daphne. [Alfred Hitchcock and Joan Fontaine]

Rebecca.

New York: Garden City Publishing Co., Inc, 1940.

Finely bound example of Du Maurier’s most popular novel, the basis for Alfred Hitchcock’s Academy Award-winning 1940 film, signed by Alfred Hitchcock and the film’s heroine Joan Fontaine....

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151590

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Austro-Hungarian Nobility Patent

Vienna:, 1911.

Rare Austro-Hungarian Nobility Patent bestowing upon Brunn industrialist Adolf Noble von Kurschner and his descendants a Hungarian noble title. Folio, bound in full morocco with elaborate gilt metal o...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-132158

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