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Twain, Mark .

The Innocents Abroad, Or The New Pilgrims’ Progress.

Hartford : American Publishing Company, 1869.

First edition, third state of the author’s second book with “The History of the Bible advertisement on page 654. BAL 3316. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, with two hundred and thirty-four illustrations. From theContinue reading "The Innocents Abroad, Or The New Pilgrims’ Progress."

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$1,500.00
Item Number: RRB-127837
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Einstein, Albert; Hermann Struck.

Albert Einstein Signed Etching.

1923.

Lithograph portrait of “the father of modern physics”, Albert Einstein by well-known artist Hermann Struck. Signed by Einstein, “Albert Einstein 1923” and Struck, “Herman Struck 138/150”. In fine condition. Matted and framed, the entire piece measures 19.75 inches by 15.5 inches. An exceptional piece.

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$15,000.00
Item Number: RRB-127204
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Joyce, James.

Ulysses.

Paris : Shakespeare and Company, 1922.

First edition of Joyce’s masterpiece, one of 750 numbered copies printed on handmade paper from a total edition of 1000 copies, this is number 276. Thick quarto, original blue and white wrappers. In near fine condition, square and tight with a touch of rubbing to the crown and foot of the spine. Housed in aContinue reading "Ulysses."

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$75,000.00
Item Number: RRB-126933
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Tolstoy, Leo. [Count Lyof N Tolstoi].

Anna Karenina.

Moscow : T. Ris, 1878.

First edition in Russian of Tolstoy’s masterpiece. Octavo, 3 volumes, bound in three quarters calf, gilt titles, raised bands. Housed in a custom box. In near fine condition. First editions in Russian are rare.

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$27,500.00
Item Number: RRB-126365
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Fitzgerald, F. Scott [Harold Pinter].

The Last Tycoon. An Unfinished Novel. Together with The Great Gatsby and Selected Stories.

New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1941.

First edition with the “A” and the publisher’s seal on the copyright page. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Harold Pinter, who wrote the screenplay to the 1976 film The Last Tycoon, directed by Elia Kazan and starring Robert DeNiro, Tony Curtis and Jack Nicholson. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Foreword by EdmundContinue reading "The Last Tycoon. An Unfinished Novel. Together with The Great Gatsby and Selected Stories."

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$7,200.00
Item Number: RRB-126456
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Vidal, Gore.

1876: A Novel.

New York : Random House, 1976.

First edition of this classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the “Valerie love Gore.” The recipient, Valerie Gore was the author’s sister. Vidal’s father remarried in 1939 and had two children with his second wife; Valerie was born in 1946. The two remained close throughout the years. Near fineContinue reading "1876: A Novel."

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$600.00
Item Number: RRB-126331
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Mandela, Nelson .

Long Walk To Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela.

South Africa : MacDonald Purnell, 1994.

First South African edition of this classic autobiography, which has went on to sell over six million copies worldwide. Octavo, original black cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with photographs. Boldly signed on the title page by the author, “NMandela 28.2.96.” Fine in a fine dust jacket.

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$4,500.00
Item Number: RRB-126733
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Vidal, Gore.

The Judgment of Paris.

New York : E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc, 1952.

First edition of this classic coming of age story. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Valerie, from Gore Vidal, June 1954.” The recipient Valerie Gore was the author’s sister. Vidal’s father remarried in 1939 and had two children with his second wife; Valerie was born in 1946.Continue reading "The Judgment of Paris."

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$975.00
Item Number: RRB-124488
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Watson, James D.

Molecular Biology of the Gene.

New York : W.A. Benjamin, Inc, 1965.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning scientist’s first book. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers as issued. Boldly signed by James Watson on the title page. Editor’s foreword by Cyrus Levinthal. In near fine condition, name to the front free endpaper. Uncommon signed.

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$3,500.00
Item Number: RRB-125103
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Weinberg, Steven.

To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science.

New York : Harper, 2015.

First edition of this “thoughtful history of science” (The New Yorker). Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by on the title page, “To Roy Snodgrass with thanks for friendly help Steven Weinberg.” The recipient was a close friend of the authors. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Milan Bozic.

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$500.00
Item Number: RRB-125653
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Murakami, Haruki.

Kafka on the Shore.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.

Advanced reader’s edition of the first edition of Murakami’s award-winning novel. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed twice by dust jacket illustrator, once on the front panel and on the title page and on the rear jacket flap. Cover design by Chip Kidd. In near fine condition.

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$300.00
Item Number: RRB-125773
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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano.

Whither Bound? A Lecture at Milton Academy on the Alumni War Memorial Foundation May 18, 1926.

Boston and New York : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926.

First edition of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first book, being the text of a lecture delivered by him at Milton Academy on the Alumni War Memorial Foundation on May 18, 1926. Octavo, original cloth. One of one thousand copies printed. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page on the occasion of publication (andContinue reading "Whither Bound? A Lecture at Milton Academy on the Alumni War Memorial Foundation May 18, 1926."

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$15,000.00
Item Number: RRB-125163
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Baldwin, James.

Go Tell It On The Mountain.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1953.

First edition of Baldwin’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by James Baldwin on the front free endpaper to his mother, “Mama from Rizzy from Jimmy – August 21st!” The recipient, Baldwin’s mother Emma Berdis Jones, left Baldwin’s biological father before moving to Harlem where Baldwin was born on August 2, 1924. WhenContinue reading "Go Tell It On The Mountain."

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$40,000.00
Item Number: RRB-125755
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Baldwin, James.

The Fire Next Time.

New York : The Dial Press, 1963.

First edition of one of the most influential works on race relations published in the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing to the extremities. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. An exceptional example.

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$800.00
Item Number: RRB-124915
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Fleming, Ian.

Moonraker.

London : Jonathan Cape, 1963.

Early printing of the third novel in the James Bond series and what many critics to be his finest. Octavo, original black cloth. Boldly signed by Ian Fleming on the front free endpaper. From the personal collection of a close female friend of Fleming’s who visited him in Jamaica frequently. Fine in a near fineContinue reading "Moonraker."

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$18,000.00
Item Number: RRB-122972
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Kuhn, Thomas S.

The Copernican Revolution. Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought.

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1957.

First edition of Kuhn’s classic treatise. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket, which is in very good condition. Foreword by James Bryant Conant.

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$475.00
Item Number: RRB-126596
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Wilson, Edward O.

Sociobiology: The New Synthesis.

Cambridge MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1975.

First edition of Wilson’s classic work. Oblong quarto, original cloth, illustrations by Sarah Landry. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Helen Vaitaitis with best wishes and thanks for your help Edward O. Wilson Museum of Comparative Biology Harvard University October 22, 1976.” Additionally signed again in full on theContinue reading "Sociobiology: The New Synthesis."

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$1,500.00
Item Number: RRB-122579
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Murakami, Haruki.

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.

First edition of Murakami’s heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II. Octavo, original boards. Signed three times by the jacket illustrator Chip Kidd; once on the front panel, on the half-title page and on theContinue reading "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle."

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$650.00
Item Number: RRB-125609
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Foster Wallace, David.

Oblivion: Stories.

Boston : Little Brown & Company, 2004.

First edition of this collection of stories. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by David Foster Wallace on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mario J. Pulice.

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$750.00
Item Number: RRB-121399
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Bunyan, John.

Pilgrim’s Progress [Fore-Edge Painting]

London : L. and G. Seeley, 1840.

Finely bound example with a foredge painting of a sailing ship initialed and dated 1840 of one of the most significant works of religious English literature, Pilgrim’s Progress. Octavo, bound in full morocco, all edges gilt, 15 plates and illustrations, all hand-colored, with a fore-edge painting of a sailing ship initialed and dated 1840, engravedContinue reading "Pilgrim’s Progress [Fore-Edge Painting]"

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$1,600.00
Item Number: RRB-120842
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Wallace, David Foster.

Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity.

New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2003.

First edition of this work which examines the history of infinity, focusing primarily on the work of Georg Cantor, the 19th-century German mathematician who created set theory. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by David Foster Wallace on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Base Art Co./ Terry Rohrbach.

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$850.00
Item Number: RRB-120564
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Burger, Warren E.

The Supreme Court of the United States.

Washington, DC 1973.

First edition of this work on the Burger Court. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by eight justices beneath their portraits accompanying their biographies. They include: Warren E. Burger, William J. Brennan, Jr., Byron R. White, Thurgood Marshall, Harry A. Blackmun, Lewis F. Powell, Jr., William H. Rehnquist and John P. Stevens. 20 page pamphlet on theContinue reading "The Supreme Court of the United States."

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$2,000.00
Item Number: RRB-120344
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Kundera, Milan.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

New York : Harper & Row, Publishers, 1984.

First edition of Kundera’s magnum opus. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Peter Milan Kundera.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Fred Marcellino. Translated from the Czech by Michael Henry Heim. Rare signed and inscribed.

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$3,200.00
Item Number: RRB-119818
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Rutherford, Ernest [Stephen Hawking].

The Collected Papers of Lord Rutherford of Nelson O.M., F.R.S

London : George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1962.

First editions of this work, from the library of Stephen Hawking with a presentation inscription, “To Stephen Hawking To mark the International Relativity Conference, Cambridge, June 1976, the papers of the Cambridge genius of an earlier generation. G. L. W.” Stephen Hawking was a theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research atContinue reading "The Collected Papers of Lord Rutherford of Nelson O.M., F.R.S"

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$7,500.00
Item Number: RRB-119358
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