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[Napoleon Bonaparte]. Emil Ludwig. Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul

Napoleon. [Cosway Binding].

London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1927.

Elaborately bound Cosway style first edition in English of Emil Ludwig’s biography of Napoleon Bonaparte. Octavo, bound by Bayntun-Riviere in full Cosway style scarlet morocco with gilt titles a...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150488

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Richardson, Henry Handel [Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson]; [Ernest Hemingway]

The Fortunes of Richard Mahony.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1931.

First collected edition of this foundational work in Australian literature. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the spine and gilt author’s initials to the front panel....

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148697

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George Gershwin. Libretto by DuBose Heyward. Lyrics by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin. Production Directed by Rouben Mamoulian

Deluxe limited edition of Porgy and Bess, number 55 of only 250 copies signed by George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward and director Rouben Mamoulian. Folio, original full red morocco, raised b...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-98943

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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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Baum, L. Frank; Illustrated by John R. Neill

The Scarecrow of Oz.

Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1915.

First edition, second printing of the ninth Oz book in L. Frank Baum’s celebrated Oz series. Quarto, original publisher’s full emerald green cloth with pictorial label affixed to the front board, pict...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151937

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Hawking, Stephen W.; Introduction by Carl Sagan

A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes.

London: Bantam Press, 1988.

First British edition and true first of Hawking’s groundbreaking work. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Ron Miller. Signed by Carl Sagan on the title page, who wrote the introduction. Addi...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-46009

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Armstrong, Neil

Neil Armstrong Signed Time Magazine “Man on the Moon”.

New York: Time Magazine, 1969.

Rare original Time Magazine July 25, 1969 issue covering the Apollo 11 mission titled “Man on the Moon.” Quarto, featuring a thirteen page article on the Moon landing, offering information...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148420

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Schumpeter, Joseph A

Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy.

London : George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1942.

First edition of Schumpeter’s ground-breaking work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the original dust jacket a few small chips. Rare in the original dust jacket.

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-144692

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Edison, Thomas A

Thomas Edison Signed Edison Phonograph Works Stock Certificate.

New Jersey: Edison Phonograph Works, 1899.

Rare Edison Phonograph Works stock certificate boldly signed by Thomas Edison. Printed document boldly signed “Thomas A. Edison” as President and “J.F. Randolph” as Treasurer,...

$7,200.00 Item Number: RRB-148074

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Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [Tom Sawyer’s Comrade].

New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885.

First edition of Twain’s masterpiece, with the first state of the frontispiece portrait. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated green cloth gilt to the spine and front panel. With frontisp...

$7,200.00 Item Number: RRB-85975

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Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de; D. Juan Antonio Pellicer

El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha: Nueva Edicion.

Madrid: Gabriel de Sancha, 1797-98.

First large paper edition of Juan Antonio Pellicer’s new edition of Don Quixote. Octavo, five volumes, bound in full red morocco by Clarke & Bedford with gilt titles and ornately tooled flor...

$7,200.00 Item Number: RRB-148969

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Columbus, D. Ferdinand [Christopher Columbus]

The History of the Life and Actions of Adm. Christopher Columbus, and of his Discovery of the West-Indies, Call’d the New World.

London: Awnsham and John Churchill, 1704.

First edition in English of this biography of Christopher Columbus written by his son. Folio, half-cloth, all edges marbled, paper label to front panel. Extracted from vol. II of the Churchills’...

$7,200.00 Item Number: RRB-147848

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Beckett, Samuel; Marcel Brion; Frank Budgen; Stuart Gilbert; Eugene Jolas; Victor Llona; Robert McAlmon; Thomas McGreevy; Elliot Paul; John Rodker; Robert Sage; William Carlos Williams; G.V.L. Slingsby; Vladimir Dixon [James Joyce]

Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress.

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1929.

First limited British edition of this collection of critical essays and two letters on James Joyce’s book Finnegans Wake. Small octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Boldly signed by Samuel...

$7,200.00 Item Number: RRB-148668

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Armstrong, Neil

Neil Armstrong Signed Americans on Moon Chicago Tribune.

Chicago: Chicago Tribune, 1969.

1969 Chicago Tribune with the headline “Americans on Moon! Eagle Has Landed – Armstrong.” The article was commemorating the moon landing from the day before and is dated Monday, July 21, 1...

$7,200.00 Item Number: RRB-148978

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Petty, Sir William

The Political Anatomy of Ireland…To Which is Added Verbum Sapienti.

London: Printed for D. Brown and W. Rogers, 1691.

First edition of this seminal, early statistical survey that analyzes 17th-century Irish land, people, and government to propose improvements for efficiency, taxation, and union with England. Duodecim...

$7,200.00 Item Number: RRB-151139

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Wallace, David Foster

The Broom of the System.

New York: The Viking Press, 1987.

First edition of the author’s first book, which had an initial print run of only 1300 copies. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by David Foster Wallace on the title page,...

$7,200.00 Item Number: RRB-151611

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Roosevelt, Theodore; William H. Taft; John D. Rockefeller Jr.; Elihu Root; Henry Cabot Lodge; George Dewey; et al. [Thomas D. Neelands]

Autograph Album Containing Letters Signed by Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, John D. Rockefeller Jr., and Others.

:, c. 1919.

Rare original autograph album containing nearly 200 signed letters, notes, and responses addressed to Thomas D. Neelands, longtime President of the Canadian Club of New York. Quarto, bound in full lin...

$7,200.00 Item Number: RRB-150548

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Steinbeck, John

East of Eden.

New York: The Viking Press, 1952.

First edition, first printing of Steinbeck’s epic and moving story of a modern Cain and Abel. Octavo, original cloth. First issue with the word “bite” present on page 281, line 38. W...

$7,200.00 Item Number: RRB-148721

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Armstrong, Neil

Neil Armstrong Apollo 11 Lunar Module ‘Eagle’ Signed Photograph.

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Rare image of the official NASA photograph of the Lunar Module ‘Eagle’. Boldly signed in black ink by the first man to step foot on the moon “Neil Armstrong.” Triple matted and frame...

$7,200.00 Item Number: RRB-147583

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Schulz, Charles M

Charles Schulz Original Signed Snoopy Drawing.

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Fantastic original felt tip sketch of beloved Peanuts character Snoopy perched atop his dog house with a heart. Boldly signed and inscribed by Charles M. Schulz, “For Tory – Schulz.”...

$7,200.00 Item Number: RRB-148907

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Browning, Robert

The Ring and The Book.

London: Smith, Elder, & Co, 1869.

First edition of Robert Browning’s greatest work. Octodecimo, four volumes, contemporary tree calf bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spines in six compartments within gil...

$6,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147757

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Galbraith, Robert [J.K. Rowling]

Cormoran Strike Series: Lethal White, Troubled Blood, The Ink Black Heart, The Running Grave.

London: Sphere, 2018-2023.

First editions of the fourth to seventh novels in the Cormoran Strike series, written by J. K. Rowling and published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. Octavo, four volumes, original cloth. Signed...

$6,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148833

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Abbott, Berenice

Changing New York.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1939.

First edition stated on copyright page; first issue with blue topstain of Abbott’s landmark work on New York. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated with 97 halftone plates that display “the...

$6,800.00 Item Number: RRB-57048

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Irving, Washington [William T. Sherman]

A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada: From the MSS. of Fray Antonio Agapida.

Paris: Baudry's European Library, 1842.

General William T. Sherman’s copy of this romanticized historical narrative. Octavo, bound in full dark green calf with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, all...

$6,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149597

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