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Samuelson, Paul A. [Edited by Joseph E. Stiglitz; Robert C. Merton; Hiroaki Nagatni; Kate Crowley]

The Collected Scientific Papers of Paul A. Samuelson. Volumes I-VII.

Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 1966-2011.

First editions of each volume of the collected papers of Nobel Prize-winning economists papers. Octavo, 7 volumes, original cloth. Volumes 1-5 are near fine in very good to near fine dust jackets. Volumes 1-5 are signed by Paul A. Samuelson; volumes I & II are signed by fellow Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz, whoContinue reading "The Collected Scientific Papers of Paul A. Samuelson. Volumes I-VII."

$8,800.00

Item Number: RRB-2071

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Atkinson, Rick

The Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point’s Class of 1966.

Norwalk, CT : The Easton Press, 1989.

Signed limited first edition of the historian’s first book, which was reviewed by James Salter as “enormously rich in detail and written with a novelist’s brilliance, the pages literally hurry before one.” Octavo, bound in full leather, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, front and rear panels, raised bands, all edges gilt, illustrated withContinue reading "The Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point’s Class of 1966."

$350.00

Item Number: RRB-151031

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Catlin, George W

North American Indians: Being Letters and Notes on Their Manners, Customs, and Conditions, Written During Eight Years’ Travel Amongst the Wildest Tribes of Indians in North America, 1832-1839.

London : Published by the Author, 1841.

First edition, later issue of this detailed anthropological history. Royal octavo, two volumes, original publisher’s cloth elaborately stamped in gilt, frontispiece, with 400 black and white illustrations carefully engraved from the author’s original paintings by Catlin. In very good condition with some toning to the spines. A very nice example with bright gilt decoration.

$1,250.00

Item Number: RRB-147786

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Malamud, Bernard

The Natural.

New York : Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1952.

First edition of the author’s first book, and one of the greatest baseball novels of all time. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Richard L. Neuberger for daring to lead with sincere best wishes Bernard Malamud Corvallis Oregon 1954.” The recipient, Richard L. Neuberger (1912-1960) wasContinue reading "The Natural."

$7,200.00

Item Number: RRB-150456

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Twain, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens]

Is Shakespeare Dead? From My Autobiography.

New York : Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1909.

First edition, first printing of Twain’s work regarding the Shakespeare-Bacon controversy, without the advertisement for the Greenwood book. BAL 3509. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with two frontispiece plates statues of Shakespeare and Bacon. In near fine condition. Neat ownership inscription to the front free endpaper.

$400.00

Item Number: RRB-150455

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Twain, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens]

Life on the Mississippi.

London : Chatto & Windus, 1883.

First edition, first issue of Twain’s provocative portrait of the great Mississippi River which preceded the first American edition. First issue with the publisher’s advertisements at rear dated March 1883. Octavo, original publisher’s red pictorial boards stamped in black and gilt, patterned endpapers, frontispiece, plates and over 300 illustrations. In near fine condition with toningContinue reading "Life on the Mississippi."

$750.00

Item Number: RRB-150454

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Herbert, Frank

The Heaven Makers.

New York : Ballantine Books, 1977.

First Ballantine Books edition of this standalone science fiction novel from the author of Dune. Small octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Boldly signed by Frank Herbert on the title page beneath his name. In very good condition with some wear to the spine. Cover art by Darrell Sweet. Uncommon signed.

$975.00

Item Number: RRB-150244

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Crawford, Samuel W

Genesis of the Civil War: The Story of Sumter1860-1861.

New York : Charles L. Webster & Company, 1887.

Rare first edition of this classic work on the genesis of The Civil War. Octavo, original publisher’s green cloth, patterned endpapers, illustrated with tissue-guarded frontispiece, plans, map. The publishing firm Charles L. Webster & Co. was founded in 1884 by Mark Twain, together with his business partner (and niece’s husband) Charles Webster, initially to publishContinue reading "Genesis of the Civil War: The Story of Sumter1860-1861."

$2,800.00

Item Number: RRB-150840

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Durrell, Gerald [John Drinkall]

The Overloaded Ark.

London : Faber and Faber & The Book Society, 1953.

First edition of the Book Society edition of Durrell’s first book. Octavo, original green cloth, top stain blue. Boldly signed by Gerald Durrell on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Illustrated by Sabine Baur. Signed bookplate of John Drinkall, who was a distinguished British diplomat whose career in theContinue reading "The Overloaded Ark."

$850.00

Item Number: RRB-150367

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Schelling, Thomas C

National Income Behavior: An Introduction to Algebraic Analysis.

New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1951.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Lengthily inscribed by Thomas Schelling on the title page. Near fine in the rare dust jacket with light wear.

$1,750.00

Item Number: RRB-25056

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Young, George Frederic, Col. [Medici]

The Medici.

London : John Murray, 1909.

First editions of Young’s authoritative history of the Medici, extra-illustrated with 91 plates, 20 in color. Octavo, four volumes bound in full contemporary crushed levant morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, quadruple gilt ruling and fleuron cornerpieces to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-insContinue reading "The Medici."

$4,800.00

Item Number: RRB-150704

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[Fitzgerald, F. Scott]

The Great Gatsby Clamshell Box.

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Custom full morocco clamshell box hand made by The Harcourt Bindery to house a first edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Pictorial clamshell box with gilt titles and an onlay of the woman from the original dust jacket to the front panel. In fine condition. An exquisite presentation.

$2,500.00

Item Number: RRB-150365

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Twain, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens]

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

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

First edition, first issue of Mark Twain’s masterpiece. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated green cloth, with 174 illustrations by Edward W. Kemble. Contains all of the agreed upon first issue points for the clothbound book: page 9 with “Decided” remaining uncorrected (to “Decides”); page 13, illustration captioned “Him and another Man” listed as on page 88;Continue reading "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."

$15,000.00

Item Number: RRB-117039

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Saint-Exupery, Antoine de; Translated by Katherine Woods

The Little Prince.

New York : Reynal and Hitchcock, 1943.

First edition of Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s masterpiece, which precedes the first edition in French. Translated from the French by Katherine Woods. Small quarto, bound in full modern full pictorial brown morocco with inlay tooling to the front panel by the Harcourt Bindery, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated by the author. In fine condition. A stunning example.

$5,500.00

Item Number: RRB-151028

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Baldwin, James; Schapiro, Steve

The Fire Next Time.

Koln : Taschen, 2019.

First illustrated edition of one of the most influential works on race relations published in the twentieth century. Quarto, original boards, photographs by Steve Schapiro. In fine condition. Introduction by John Lewis. Boldly signed by Steve Schapiro on the title page.

$500.00

Item Number: RRB-150898

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Ward, Geoffrey C. and Ken Burns

The American Revolution: An Intimate History.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2025.

First edition of this compendium volume to Burns’ Revolution. Quarto, original boards, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Ken Burns on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

$225.00

Item Number: RRB-151019

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Nabokov, Vladimir

Laughter in the Dark.

Indianapolis/ New York : The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1938.

First edition of this classic early Nabokov novel. Octavo, original green cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. An exceptional example.

$2,250.00

Item Number: RRB-151015

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Twain, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens]

A Tramp Abroad.

Hartford, Conn : American Publishing Company, 1880.

First edition of Twain’s classic fictionalized account of his walking tour of central and southern Europe, inscribed by him to his secretary. Octavo, original publisher’s pictorial gilt-stamped brown cloth, with 328 illustrations by Walter Francis Brown, True Williams, W.W. Denslow, and with four ‘pictures made by the author of this book, without outside help’, engravedContinue reading "A Tramp Abroad."

$45,000.00

Item Number: RRB-151014

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Huxley, Aldous

Brave New World.

New York : Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1932.

First American edition of Huxley’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. A nice example.

$3,000.00

Item Number: RRB-151013

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Twain, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens]

The Prince and the Pauper. A Tale For Young People of All Ages.

James R. Osgood and Company : Boston, 1882.

First edition, first issue of of the author’s first historical novel with the Franklin imprint on the copyright page. BAL 3402. Johnson pp. 39-41. Octavo, bound in three quarter burgundy morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, with one hundred and ninety-two illustrations.Continue reading "The Prince and the Pauper. A Tale For Young People of All Ages."

$1,100.00

Item Number: RRB-150845

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Twain, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens]

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade).

London : Chatto & Windus, 1884.

First English edition, first issue, preceding the first American edition of “the most praised and most condemned 19th-century American work of fiction” (Legacies of Genius). Octavo, original decorative red cloth stamped in black and lettered in gilt, patterned endpapers, illustrated with 174 drawings by E.W. Kemble. The English edition of Huckleberry Finn preceded the AmericanContinue reading "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade)."

$1,250.00

Item Number: RRB-150843

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Burns, Ken; Geoffrey C. Ward & Dayton Duncan

Mark Twain: An Illustrated Biography.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2001.

First edition of this companion volume to the documentary by Ken Burns. Quarto, original original cloth, illustrated. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson.

$50.00

Item Number: RRB-150841

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Sherman, William T

Memoirs of General William T. Sherman.

New York : Charles L. Webster & Company, 1891.

First edition of this memoir by one of the most well-regarded generals, “oft-consulted and much-quoted reminiscences… Sherman wrote as he fought; dynamically and bluntly” (Nevins II, 89). Octavo, two volumes, original publisher’s green cloth, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of William T. Sherman, illustrated with folding maps in each volume. The publishing firm Charles L. Webster &Continue reading "Memoirs of General William T. Sherman."

$1,100.00

Item Number: RRB-150800

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McClellan, George B

McClellan’s Own Story. The War for the Union.

New York : Charles L. Webster & Company, 1887.

First edition of the Civil War memoir of Lincoln’s controversial commander of the Army of the Potomac. Octavo, original publisher’s green cloth decorated in gilt, patterned endpapers, steel-engraved frontispiece portrait, nine illustrations, three full-page maps, and one two-page facsimile letter. The publishing firm Charles L. Webster & Co. was founded in 1884 by Mark Twain,Continue reading "McClellan’s Own Story. The War for the Union."

$850.00

Item Number: RRB-150709

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