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The National Game.

St. Louis, MO: National Game Publishing Co, 1910.

Rare first edition of this cornerstone of baseball history. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, gilt embossed title to the front panel, triple ruled and detailing stamped in blind on...

$9,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147838

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Seuss, Dr. [Theodor Geisel]

Dr. Seuss Signed Cat in the Hat Ink Drawing.

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Rare illustrated ink drawing of Dr. Seuss’s signature children’s book character. Ink drawing on eggshell white thick paper stock of the Cat in the Hat. Boldly signed in red by Dr. Seuss [T...

$9,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148305

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Ravel, Maurice

Maurice Ravel Autographed Signed Letter and Signed Musical Quotation.

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Autograph musical quotation signed and an autograph letter signed by Maurice Ravel. The quotation, 3 bars from his Chansons madécasses, notated on a two-stave system, with holograph title, lyrics, tem...

$9,800.00 Item Number: RRB-72755

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Bloch, Robert. [Philip Jose Farmer]

Psycho: An Inner Sanctum Mystery.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959.

First edition of this classic thriller novel, the basis for Alfred Hitchcock’s film. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper,...

$9,800.00 Item Number: RRB-124949

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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. Uniquely inscribed by Peter Beard across four pages,...

$9,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148059

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[Pewtress, Percy L.]

An Address To Percy L. Pewtress Esq. Organist at Lee Chapel 1883 – 1922.

London: From the Congregation, April 1922.

Rare 20th century elaborately illuminated address to Percy L. Pewtress Esq. organist at Lee Chapel 1883 – 1922. Octavo, bound in full green morocco by G. E. Strong, Lee, S.E. with gilt fleur-de-...

$9,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149926

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[Dante Alighieri]

Dante Alighieri Italian Marble Bust.

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Rare Italian marble bust of Dante Alighieri mounted on a stack of his own books, ‘Divina Commedia.’ In near fine condition. The entire piece measures 11.75 inches by 22.5 inches.

$9,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148254

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Faulkner, William

The Town.

New York: Random House, 1957.

First edition, first state with the 5/57 at the bottom of the front flap of the dust jacket. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the title page in the year of publication, “11 Nov 57...

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-125095

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Wharton, Edith

The Age of Innocence.

New York: D. Appleton, 1920.

First edition of the author’s Pulitzer-Prize winning novel. Octavo, original red cloth. A very good example with some rubbing to the bottom cloth in the rare original unrestored dust jacket with some...

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-14040

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O'Brien, Robert C. [Robert Leslie Conly]

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh.

New York: Atheneum, 1971.

First edition of this Newbery Medal-winning children’s fantasy novel. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with titles and a small mouse stamped in purple, title page vignette, illustrated t...

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151840

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Steinbeck, John

The Grapes of Wrath.

New York: The Viking Press, 1939.

First edition of this pivotal Pulitzer prize-winning novel, with “First Published in April 1939” on the copyright page and first edition notice on the front flap of the dust jacket. Octavo...

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151791

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Joyce, James; Henri Matisse

Ulysses.

New York : The Limited Editions Club, 1935.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of Joyce’s landmark Ulysses, widely recognized as the first illustrated edition. Large quarto, original gilt-stamped pictorial brown cloth, with 26 ill...

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151736

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Ferrari, Enzo; Foreword by Stirling Moss

The Enzo Ferrari Story. [with] Enzo Ferrari Signed Postcard.

New York: MacMillan, 1964.

First edition of Enzo Ferrari’s autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Enzo Ferrari in his customary purple ink on a Ferrari postcard featuring Gilles Villeneuve on...

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-20091

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Hayek, Friedrich August von [F.A.]

The Constitution of Liberty.

Chicago: The University of Chicago, 1960.

First edition, third printing of Hayek’s classic statement on the ideals of freedom and liberty. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Hayek on the title page beneath his name. Near fine in a very...

$9,200.00 Item Number: RRB-152043

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Steinbeck, John

The Grapes of Wrath.

New York: The Viking Press, 1939.

First edition, with “First Published in April 1939” on copyright page and first edition notice on the front flap of the dust jacket. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery w...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149708

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Williams, Tennessee

A Streetcar Named Desire.

New York: New Directions, 1947.

Early printing of Williams’ classic play, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. Octavo, original illustrated boards. association copy, inscribed or signed by several cast members for p...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-87896

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Neale Hurston, Zora

Their Eyes Were Watching God.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1937.

First edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition, erasure to the front pastedown. First editions are rare, especially in this condition.

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147655

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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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[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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Stephenson, Neal

Snow Crash.

New York: Bantam Books, 1992.

First edition of this “brilliantly realized” (The New York Times Book Review) breakthrough novel from visionary author Neal Stephenson, a modern classic that predicted the metaverse and inspired gener...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151163

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Fleming, Ian [Roger Moore]

The Spy Who Loved Me.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1962.

First edition of the ninth novel in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series. Octavo, original black cloth. Boldly signed by Roger Moore on the title page. Moore played 007 in the film adaptation. Fine in a ne...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150152

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Brunhoff, Jean de; [Maurice Sendak]

Le Chateau de Babar.

Paris: Hachette, 1961.

First edition of this winsome children’s story in the original French, from the library of Maurice Sendak. Folio, original pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Association copy, i...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147137

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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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The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature, for the Year 1776.

London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1777.

Rare first edition, first issue of the The Annual Register for the Year 1776, a long-established reference work, written and published each year beginning in 1758 under the editorship of Edmund Burke....

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151072

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