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Dahl, Roald; Illustrated by Quentin Blake

The BFG: Illustrations by Quentin Blake.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1982.

First edition, early printing of this Dahl classic, which has sold over 20 million copies. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Quentin Blake. Boldly signed by the author on the half-title page,...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-130928

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Masson, Charles [James Lewis]

Narrative of Various Journeys in Balochistan, Afghanistan, The Panjab, & Kalat, During a Residence in those Countries.

London: Richard Bentley, 1842.

First edition of this narrative of Lewis’ travels between 1826 and 1838 through Balochistan, Sind, the Hazara, Afghanistan and the Punjab. Octavo, four volumes. Bound in full morocco, gilt title...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-95145

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Frost, Robert

A Boy’s Will.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1915.

First American edition of Frost’s first published work. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, gilt title to the front panel. Boldly signed and dated by the poet on front free endpaper,...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147558

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Houdini, Harry

Harry Houdini Signed Houdini Picture Corporation Stock Certificate.

New York: The Brown-Green Co., January 23, 1922.

Rare stock certificate signed by the world’s greatest escape artist, master illusionist Harry Houdini. One page, partially printed in brown and black ink with an embossed seal, the document is dated J...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-129031

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Thompson, Kay. Illustrated by Hilary Knight

Eloise; Eloise in Paris; Eloise at Christmastime; Eloise in Moscow.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955-1959.

First editions of the four classic books in Kay Thompson’s beloved Eloise series. Quarto, four volumes, original boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated by Hilary Knight. Each volume is near fi...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-138622

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Disney, Walt; Brown, Margaret Wise

Little Pig’s Picnic and Other Stories.

Boston : D.C. Heath and Company, 1939.

First edition of this collection of stories. Octavo, original illustrated cloth, pictorial endpapers. Boldly signed by Walt Disney on the half-title page. Illustrated throughout by the Walt Disney Stu...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-30060

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Poe, Edgar Allan

The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe.

New York and Pittsburgh: The Colonial Company, Limited, 1903.

Limited manuscript edition of the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe. Octavo, ten volumes, bound in full crushed levant morocco by The Monastery Hill Bindery with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147348

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Hartley, Dorothy

Food In England.

London: Macdonald, 1954.

First edition of this classic work by the social historian Dorothy Hartley, which is both a cookery book and a history of English cuisine. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with Hartley’s own...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-131335

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Shakespeare, William; John Dryden; William Congreve; et al

Tragedies and Comedies of the Great English Playwrights.

London: Various Publishers, c.1730-1760.

Finely bound sammelband collection of comedies and tragedies by early English playwrights including William Shakespeare, John Dryden, and William Congreve. Octavo, 43 volumes bound into 7 in half cont...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-137210

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[The Bible. Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke].

London: Robert Barker, 1605.

Rare early 17th century printing of Robert Barker’s Geneva Bible. Small quarto, bound in three quarter calf over marbled boards, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, text in black letter, double colu...

$5,200.00 Item Number: RRB-149784

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Churchill, Winston S

The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1899.

First editions of Churchill’s second book. Octavo, 2 volumes, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated with 22 maps and plans, several folding. Woods A2(a). In very good condition.

$5,000.00 Item Number: RRB-144851

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Twain, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens]

A Tramp Abroad.

Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, 1880.

First edition, first state of Twain’s classic fictionalized account of his walking tour of central and southern Europe. Octavo, original publisher’s pictorial gilt-stamped brown cloth, wit...

$5,000.00 Item Number: RRB-136080

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Flaubert, Gustave

Madame Bovary.

London: Vizetelly & Co, 1886.

First English edition of a seminal novel in literary realism, renowned for its psychological depth and critique of bourgeois society. Octavo, original publisher’s full cloth, gilt tiles and deta...

$5,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149906

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Albrizzi, Giambattista; Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

Mappamondo o sia Descrizione Generale Del Globo Terrestre Ed Acquatico.

Venice: Giambattista Albrizzi, c. 1750.

Fine hand-colored example of Albrizzi’s double hemisphere map of the World, one of the most elaborately decorated world maps to appear in mid-18th century Italy and a beautiful example of the It...

$5,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149274

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Charignon, Antoine Joseph Henri

Le Livre de Marco Polo. [The Book of Marco Polo].

Peking: Albert Nachbaur, 1924.

First edition of each volume of French sinologist Antoine Joseph Henri Charignon’s monumental work on the life and discoveries of Marco Polo. Quarto, three volumes bound in three quarter polishe...

$5,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151227

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Baum, L. Frank

The Road to Oz.

Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co, 1909.

First edition, first printing of the fifth book in L. Frank Baum’s classic Oz series, from the library of Nobel Laureate George Snell. Quarto, original publisher’s light green pictorial cloth va...

$5,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149612

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Dahl, Roald; Illustrated by Quentin Blake

Matilda.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1988.

First British edition of Dahl’s popular story of a young girl, her genius, and her indifferent parents. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, boldly inscribed by the author on the fr...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-143009

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The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Church of England: Together with the Psalter, or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches: And the Form or Manner of Making, Ordaining, and Consecrating of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons.

London: Printed by Thomas Baskett, Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty, 1751.

Elegantly bound 18th century English Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments, printed by Thomas Baskett and from the library of John Bird Sumner (1780-1862), Archbishop of Canterbur...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149524

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Aries, Elizabeth [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

Men and Women in Interaction: Reconsidering the Differences.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

First edition of this enlightening study in gender relations, from the library of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg with her ownership stamp to the front free endpaper. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers....

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147638

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Bronte, Charlotte; Emily Bronte; Anne Bronte. Edited by Temple Scott

Novels of the Sisters Bronte. [The Professor; Jane Eyre; Villette; Shirley; Tenant of Wildfell Hall; Agnes Grey; Wuthering Heights].

Edinburgh: John Grant, 1905.

The Thornton edition of the novels of the Sisters Bronte. Octavo, 12 volumes bound in three quarter crushed levant morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartm...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147601

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Beard, Peter Hill

The End of the Game.

New York: The Viking Press, 1965.

First edition of the photographer’s first book with over 75 black-and-white and color photographic plates. Tall quarto, original ivory cloth. Boldly signed by Peter Beard on the half-title page....

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150093

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Silverstein, Shel

Falling Up.

New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1996.

Early printing of this classic poetry collection published by Shel Silverstein. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with drawings by the author throughout. Signed by the author opposite the half-title...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147074

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Rey, H.A. [Ian Fleming]

Zebrology.

London: Chatto & Windus, [n.d.].

First edition, fourth impression of this charming children’s book by the author of Curious George, inscribed by Ian Fleming to his lover Clare Blanshard. Oblong octavo, original illustrated wrap...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150484

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Naha, Ed. [Frank Herbert]

The Making of Dune.

New York: Berkley Books, 1984.

First edition of the fascinating story behind the filming of 1984 American epic space opera film Dune, directed by David Lynch and based on Frank Herbert’s bestselling science fiction masterpiec...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147876

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