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Collins, Joseph [James Joyce]

Taking the Literary Pulse: Psychological Studies of Life and Letters.

New York : George H. Doran Company, 1924.

First edition of this work analyzing modern authors and their literary characters through a psychological lens. Octavo, original publisher’s red cloth, illustrated with tipped in plates. Association copy, inscribed by the author to fellow writer James Joyce on the front free endpaper, “James Joyce with the writers compliments Joseph Collins.” The recipient, James Joyce wasContinue reading "Taking the Literary Pulse: Psychological Studies of Life and Letters."

$8,800.00

Item Number: RRB-151436

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Lightman, Alan

Einstein’s Dreams.

New York : Pantheon Books, 1993.

First edition of this fictional, philosophical novel where a young Albert Einstein imagines 35 different, fantastical worlds, each with a unique perception of time. Duodecimo, original publisher’s half-cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Ruth with good wishes Alan Lightman February 1998.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacketContinue reading "Einstein’s Dreams."

$600.00

Item Number: RRB-151488

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Collins, Michael; Foreword by Charles A. Lindbergh

Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut’s Journey.

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1974.

First edition, first printing of one of the finest memoirs of space travel. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “All the Best to Robert Shaw from Mike Collins.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert T. McCall. Foreword by Charles A. Lindbergh.Continue reading "Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut’s Journey."

$1,250.00

Item Number: RRB-151475

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Freud, Sigmund

The Interpretation of Dreams.

New York : The Basic Books, 1955.

First edition of this translation English of this cornerstone of psychoanalysis. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edgesContinue reading "The Interpretation of Dreams."

$1,600.00

Item Number: RRB-151453

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Osler, William

The Principles and Practice of Medicine.

Edinburgh & London : Young J. Pentland, 1892.

First British edition of Osler’s magnum opus. Thick octavo, original publisher’s three quarter deluxe leather binding with gilt titles to the spine, illustrated with charts and graphs. With loose leaves of ”Sir William Osler and the Muniments of the Almshouse at Ewelme” from the Bodleian Library Record laid in. In near fine condition. Rare.

$6,000.00

Item Number: RRB-151313

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Kidder, Tracy. [Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis]

The Soul of a New Machine.

Boston : Atlantic, Little, Brown and Company, 1981.

First edition of Kidder’s second book. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis on the title page, “For Jacqueline With Best Wishes Tracy Kidder. “From the library of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis with the bookplate from the Sotheby’s 23 – 26 April 1996 sale of the estate of JacquelineContinue reading "The Soul of a New Machine."

$9,800.00

Item Number: RRB-151509

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Robinson, Kim Stanley

The Ministry for the Future.

Burton, Michigan : Subterranean Press, 2023.

Signed limited edition of this New York Times bestselling science fiction novel set in the near future. Thick octavo, original publisher’s cloth, pictorial endpapers. One of 400 numbered copies and 26 lettered copies, this is number 129. Boldly signed by Kim Stanley Robinson on the limitations page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustrationContinue reading "The Ministry for the Future."

$400.00

Item Number: RRB-151423

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Powers, Richard

The Overstory.

New York : W.W. Norton Company, 2017.

First edition of this Pulitzer Prize-winning work, “the best novel ever written about trees, and really just one of the best novels, period” (Ann Patchett). Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Richard Powers. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Evan Gaffney.

$1,500.00

Item Number: RRB-151356

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BB [Denys Watkins-Pitchford]

Wild Lone: The Story of a Pytchley Fox.

London : Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1947.

First edition, early printing of this classic British nature novel. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, frontispiece, illustrated throughout with wood engravings. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Illustrated by Denys Watkins-Pitchford. Foreword by Sir Charles Frederick.

$125.00

Item Number: RRB-151919

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Feynman, Richard P

QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter.

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1985.

First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning physicist regarding quantum electrodynamics, which James Gleick calls it “a model of science writing.” Octavo, original cloth with violet titles to the spine, and no advertisement for Peierls’s Bird of Passage to the jacket. Boldly signed by Richard Feynman with an original Feynman diagram on theContinue reading "QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter."

$25,000.00

Item Number: RRB-151354

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Minsky, Marvin L

Computation Finite and Infinite Machines.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice-Hall, 1967.

Rare first edition of Minsky’s first book, the father of AI. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper, owners stamp to the half-title page. Rare, especially in the original dust jacket.

$2,500.00

Item Number: RRB-151401

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Bracegirdle, Brian [Stephen Hawking]

The Archaeology of the Industrial Revolution.

London : Heinemann Educational Publishers, 1973.

First edition of this comprehensive survey of physical, surviving industrial sites in the United Kingdom. Quarto, original publisher’s cloth with industrial vignette stamped in silver, cartographic endpapers, richly illustrated. Signed by Stephen Hawking in blue ballpoint. Additionally signed by fifteen colleagues in various inks, as a presentation to a faculty member. The inscription in oneContinue reading "The Archaeology of the Industrial Revolution."

$45,000.00

Item Number: RRB-151334

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Douglas, Marjory Stoneman

Florida: The Long Frontier.

New York : Harper & Row, Publishers, 1967.

First edition of this historical and cultural study of Florida that traces the region’s development from early exploration through the modern era. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, cartographic endpapers. Signed by the author on the half-title page, “With best wishes, Marjory Stoneman Douglas.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Uncommon in this condition and signed.

$750.00

Item Number: RRB-151312

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Higgs, Peter

Peter Higgs Signed Photograph.

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Color close-up photograph of Nobel Prize-Winning physicist Peter Higgs, who discovered The Higgs mechanism which predicted the existence of a new particle, the Higgs boson, the detection of which became one of the great goals of physics. Boldly signed by Peter Higgs. In fine condition. The piece measures 5.75 inches by 4 inches.

$1,250.00

Item Number: RRB-151319

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Hersey, John

Hiroshima.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1946.

First edition of Hersey’s classic work, which has sold over three million copies. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edgesContinue reading "Hiroshima."

$2,500.00

Item Number: RRB-151265

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Douglas, Marjory Stoneman; John Rothchild

Voice of the River.

Sarasota, Florida : Pineapple Press, Inc, 1987.

First edition, early printing of this autobiography of Marjory Stoneman Douglas, detailing her life as a pioneering environmentalist, journalist, and feminist who championed the protection of the Florida Everglades. Octavo, original publisher’s half-cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the verso of the half-title page, “For Will DurhamContinue reading "Voice of the River."

$200.00

Item Number: RRB-151257

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Wilson, Ernest H

Plant Hunting.

Boston, Massachusetts : The Stratford Company, 1927.

Special autographed first edition of this autobiographical account of Ernest H. Wilson’s adventures and discoveries as a renowned British plant collector. Octavo, two volumes, bound in full green faux leather cloth, cartographic endpapers, frontispiece to volume one, with 128 illustrations mostly from photographs taken by the author. Boldly signed by Ernest H. Wilson on theContinue reading "Plant Hunting."

$200.00

Item Number: RRB-151387

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Douglas, Marjory Stoneman

The Everglades: River of Grass.

New York : Rinehart & Company, Inc, 1947.

First edition of this environmental classic and foundational text in American conservation literature about the Everglades. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the spine, pictorial endpapers, with black and white illustrations. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Mildred and Elmer In recognition of their care for Florida inContinue reading "The Everglades: River of Grass."

$2,800.00

Item Number: RRB-151349

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Simon, Herbert A.; Donald W. Smithburg; Victor A. Thompson

Public Administration.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1950.

First edition of this classic study of administrative theory and governmental organization. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Fine in a very good dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper. Uncommon in the original dust jacket.

$975.00

Item Number: RRB-151195

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Ortelius, Abraham

La Florida. [The Earliest Separately Printed Map of Florida from Oretlius’ Theatrum Orbis Terrarum].

Antwerp : Abraham Ortelius, ca. 1592-1601.

Abraham Ortelius’ seminal map of Florida and the North American south with additional maps of Central and South America from the 1609 Spanish edition of Oretlius’ Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. One page, engraved map with hand-coloring, divided into three smaller maps of Peru, Florida, and Guasteca based upon Spanish sources, specifically Geronimo de Chaves, the RoyalContinue reading "La Florida. [The Earliest Separately Printed Map of Florida from Oretlius’ Theatrum Orbis Terrarum]."

$3,500.00

Item Number: RRB-151236

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Frigyes, Karinthy

Minden Másképpen Van (Ötvenkét Vasárnap). [Everything is Different (Fifty-Two Sundays)].

Budapest : Athenaeum, 1929.

Rare first edition of this collection of stories in the original Hungarian which introduced the sociological phenomena of “six degrees of separation.” Octavo, original wrappers with titles in red and black. In very good condition. Exceptionally rare in the original wrappers.

$2,500.00

Item Number: RRB-146211

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Greene, Brian

The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory.

New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 1999.

First edition of this introduction to string theory. Octavo, original publisher’s boards, illustrated with graphs and diagrams throughout. Boldly signed by the author on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by The ATTIK, NY. Author photograph by Dan Dieth.

$475.00

Item Number: RRB-151210

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Wells, H.G

What Are We To Do With Our Lives?

London : Watts & Co., 1935.

The Thinker’s Library edition of this blueprint for a unified, scientifically planned world state. Duodecimo, original publisher’s cloth with titles stamped in black. From the collection of British science fiction author Christopher Priest with his ownership signature to the front free endpaper and the previous ownership crossed out. Priest’s most famous works include The InvertedContinue reading "What Are We To Do With Our Lives?"

$150.00

Item Number: RRB-151145

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Baring-Gould, Sabine

The Book of Were-Wolves: Being an Account of a Terrible Superstition.

London : Smith, Elder, and Co., 1865.

First edition of this pioneering, scholarly study of lycanthropy. Duodecimo, bound in three-quarters leather over marble covered boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece. In very good condition.

$2,800.00

Item Number: RRB-151122

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