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Agee, James [LITERATURE]. A Death in the Family. First edition, first issue, of Agee's posthumously-published Pulitzer-prize winning autobiographical novel.

$400
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Aiken, Howard Hathaway and Grace Murray Hopper [COMPUTERS].  The automatic sequence controlled calculator. WITH: Tables of the modified Hankel functions. First edition of the famous three-part article on the Mark I, the first automatic calculator. WITH: The first published mathematical tables calculated by a programmed automatic computer.

$2400
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(American Academy of Arts and Sciences) [SCIENCE; AMERICANA]. Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 1785 First edition in original boards of the first volume of the Memoirs of one of the United States' most important and influential intellectual societies. 

$1450
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American Prohibitory Act [AMERICANA].  A pivotal moment in the prelude to American Independence: No document played a more decisive role in the debate over independence at the Second Continental Congress than the American Prohibitory Act of 1776.

$12,500
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George Barbier's Design on the Dances of Vaslav Nijinsky. $7500. [details]

First edition of Johnson's Dictionary in contemporary binding. $25,000. [details]

Fine first edition of Keynes' General Theory, a fine copy in the rare dust jacket. $9500. [details]

Martin Luther's Babylonian Captivity, exceedingly rare 1520 first edition. $48,000. [details]

Hemingway's classic novella, The Old Man and the Sea, first edition. $2400. [details]

Anderson,Carl [PHYSICS].  First printing in original wrappers of Carl Anderson's announcement of the discovery of the positron, the first antiparticle. A landmark in 20th century physics.  

$2000
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Anderson, Sherwood [LITERATURE]. First edition of an American classic: Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio. 

$1200
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$2800
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Babbage, Charles [COMPUTERS]. First edition in journal form of Charles Babbage’s system of mechanical notation, essential to the development of the early computer. A truly remarkable copy: the complete issue in scarce original wrappers. 

$4600
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$1800
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$3000
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Barbier, George [ART]. Designs on the Dances of Vaslav Nijinsky. Limited edition, number 107 of only 400 copies, of Barbier's first illustrated book, with 12 magnificent pochoir plates Barbier.  Scarce, particularly complete in the original wrappers.  

$7500
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Bardeen, John, and Brattain, William [PHYSICS]. "Physical Principles Involved in Transistor Action" et al. Two landmark journals documenting the revolutionary invention of the transistor: the April 1949 issue of The Bell System Technical Journal containing the first description of the invention, and the famous July 1949 “Semiconductor Issue” dedicated entirely to the discuss of the transistor and semiconductor devices. Fine copies in original wrappers.

$3800
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Bardeen, J., L. N. Cooper & J. R. Schrieffer [PHYSICS]. Theory of Superconductivity. First printing in original wrappers of arguably the most important papers in the field of superconductivity.

$5000
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Barth, John [LITERATURE]. The Sot-Weed Factor. First edition of Barth's breakthrough novel, a masterpiece of early postmodernist fiction; publisher's complimentary copy with Doubleday bookplate on front pastedown. 

$600
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First edition of Carswell's Pathological Anatomy, with 48 stunning hand-colored  plates. $25,000. [details]

The founding document of Major League Baseball. One of two known copies.  [details]

First edition, first issue in rare dust jacket of Dr. Seuss's classic The Cat in the Hat. $8500. [details]

Richard Avedon's Autobiography, with special photographic proof of Marlyn Monroe. $3600. [details]

The first issue of Verve, with lithographs by Miro, Leger, and others. $1450. [details]

Beckett, Samuel [LITERATURE]. Malone meurt [Malone Dies]. (Paris): Les Editions de Minuit, (1951). Original wrappers; glassine. First edition of the second novel of Beckett's great trilogy (with Molloy and The Unnamable). 

$500
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$11,000
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Bell, John S. [PHYSICS]. On the Einstein Podolsky Rosen Paradox. First printing in rare original wrappers of John Bell's dramatic refutation of the Einstein Podolsky Rosen (EPR) Paradox, confirming the "completeness" and accuracy of quantum theory.

$6000
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$5300
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First edition of Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim.  $5000. [details]

Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's. First edition in exceptional condition. $2500. [details]

Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, each signed by Lewis Carroll. $15,000. [details]

First edition of a special issue of Verve, with 16 lithographs by Pablo Picasso. $2200. [details]

First edition of WIlliam Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, one of 300 signed copies. $8500. [details]

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First edition in exceptionally fine condition of E.B. White's Stuart Little. $2400. [details]

First edition of Aubrey Beardsley's illustrated edition of Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur. $4000. [details]

First edition of Norman Mailer's masterpiece, The Naked and the Dead. $1900. [details]

Beautiful 7-volume set bound in full morocco of the first editions of Winston Churchill's War Speeches. $4500. [details]

 Magnificent first English edition of Lewis and Clark's Travels to the Source of the Missouri. $35,000. [details]

$1300
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$1600
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Churchill, Winston S. [HISTORY]. First English editions in original dust jackets of Churchill's masterpiece, The Second World War, inscribed by Churchill.

$7800
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Churchill, Winston S. [HISTORY]. First English editions of Churchill's most important work, The Second World War, very handsomely bound in 3/4 morocco. 

$2000
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Churchill, Winston S. [HISTORY]. First English editions of Churchill's most important work, The Second World War, beautifully bound in full morocco leather bindings. 

$2800
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Churchill, Winston S. [HISTORY]. A Speech by the Prime Minister in the House of Commons. August 20, 1940. First printing of Churchill's historic speech: "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few".

$1400
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Churchill, Winston S. [HISTORY]. The People's Rights. Very rare early and important Churchill work in original wrappers. 

$3400
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Churchill, Winston S. [HISTORY]. War Speeches. Beautiful 7-volume set bound in full morocco of the first editions of Churchill's War Speeches. 

$4500
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The foundation of wireless communication: First printings of Heinrich Hertz's foundational work. $2500. [details]

A pivotal moment in the American Revolution: 1776 first printing of the American Prohibitory Act. $12,500. [details]

First edition of Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. $2500. [details]

First printing of Ernest Rutherford's announcement of the splitting of the atom. $3700. [details]

First edition of The Knave of Hearts, illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. $4000. [details]

Clare, John [LITERATURE]. Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery. First edition (1820) of the first book of one of the greatest poets of the Romantic movement. An outstanding copy, expertly re-spined, in original boards. 

$3500
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$5000
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Conrad, Joseph [LITERATURE]. Lord Jim, A Tale.  First edition in original cloth of what is perhaps Conrad's finest novel.  

$5000
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Copland, Aaron [MUSIC]. Signed typescript, "On the Art and Meaning of Music", by one of America's greatest composers: "As a composer, I am occupied each day with this very subject, namely, the expression by way of music of a basic human spirit..."  

$4000
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Davis, Jefferson [CIVIL WAR]. Superb autograph letter from Jefferson Davis telling of his "bitterest trials" Two pages, date 25 November, 1869.

$4700
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$2600
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De Sitter, Willem [SCIENCE; COSMOLOGY]. On the relativity of inertia. WITH: On the curvature of space. 1917 First editions in English of two of cosmology's most important papers: Willem de Sitter's solution to Einstein's field equations, later to become known as the "De Sitter universe", providing a mathematical basis for an expanding universe.

$4500
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Dickens, Charles [Literature]. An exceptional set of Dickens's Christmas Books. The first edition, first state of The Christmas Carol, in particular, is a beautiful copy of a notoriously fragile and well-handled book. An outstanding set of one of the true high-spots of nineteenth-century book collecting. Scarce in this condition.

$38,000
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Dickens, Charles [LITERATURE]. The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club.  With 43 plates of illustrations by R. Seymour and Phiz. First book edition, first issue of one of Dickens' most amusing and best loved novels. Handsomely bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe.

$3500
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Dickens, Charles [LITERATURE]. A Tale of Two Cities. First edition, first state of one of Dickens' most accomplished works, beautifully bound in full red morocco.

$3800
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First edition of Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities, handsomely bound. $3800. [details]

The most beautifully illustrated work on the brain: Charles Bell's The Anatomy of the Brain. $11,000. [details]

First edition, first state of Boswell's immortal Life of Johnson. $8500. [details]

First edition of Ralph Ellison's classic, The Invisible Man. $4000. [details]

Francois Michaux's North American Sylva, first editions, presentation copies. $24,000. [details]

Dio Cassius [HISTORY]. (Greek Title): Romanarum Historiarum libri XXIII, a XXXVI ad LVIII usque. Paris: Robert Estienne, 1548. First edition, the editio Princeps, of Dio Cassius's important Roman history. Scarce.

$4800
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Doyle, Arthur Conan [LITERATURE]. The Hound of the Baskervilles. First edition in original cloth of the most celebrated of all the Sherlock Holmes adventures, the only full-length Sherlock Holmes novel.

$4000
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Einstein, Albert [PHYSICS]. Ist die Trägheit eines Körpers von seinem Energieinhalt abhängig?. First printing of Albert Einstein's groundbreaking 1905 paper, the introduction and derivation of the most famous equation in modern physics: E=mc².

$6500
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Einstein, Albert [PHYSICS]. First edition, first printing of Einstein's first published work, written and printed when he was only twenty-one years old. This volume also includes the second appearance of Max Planck's announcement of the discovery of the indivisibility of nature, the founding document for quantum theory (PMM 391b). 

$2600
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$7000
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Eisenhower, Dwight D. [HISTORY]. Mandate for Change, 1953-56. First edition, one of 1434 signed copies; this copy additionally inscribed by Eisenhower (...with best wishes from Dwight D. Eisenhower). A fine copy of Eisenhower's fascinating memoir of his first term in office. 

$2600
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Eliot, T. S. [LITERATURE]. Ash Wednesday. Signed limited first edition of one of Eliot's most intimate and mature works, one of only 600 copies signed by Eliot. An unusually fine copy in the original fragile glassine.

$3500
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First edition of Francis Hauksbee's extremely influential discoveries in electricity. $7800. [details]

Extremely scarce official broadside printing declaring Robert E. Lee "General in Chief" of the Confederate forces. $8000. [details]

First edition of Ayn Rand's classic Atlas Shrugged in fine condition. $2300. [details]

James Joyce's Ulysses: first edition in unrestored original wrappers. SOLD

The most important paper in the history of rocketry: Robert Goddard's Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes. $9000. [details]

Eliot, T. S. [LITERATURE].  First edition, first issue of T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets in rare original dust jacket. 

$4200
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Ellison, Ralph [LITERATURE]. Invisible Man. First edition of Ellison's masterful first book, for which he would win the National Book Award. 

$4000
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Eustachius, Bartholomeo [MEDICINE]. First edition, a wide-margined copy in contemporary full calf, of the great anatomical atlas of Eustachius, complete with 47 full-page copperplate engravings.

$12,000
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$700
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$8500
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Faulkner, William [LITERATURE]. The Town. First edition, first issue of Faulkner's second installment in the Snopes trilogy. Book fine; in clean, bright first issue jacket with very light edgewear. 

$450
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Fisher, Irving [ECONOMICS]. The Nature of Capital and Income. 1906 First edition in original cloth of Irving's classic economic text, the first book to develop a theory of capital on an actuarial and accounting basis.

$1600
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Fitzgerald, F. Scott [LITERATURE]. First edition, first issue of The Great Gatsby, generally considered the greatest and most famous of all American novels. A beautiful copy.

$4600
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Fitzgerald, F. Scott [LITERATURE]. First printing in original monthly parts of Fitzgerald's classic Tender is the Night. In outstanding condition.

$1600
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Fleming, Ian [LITERATURE]. Dr. No. First edition in excellent condition of the 6th of Fleming's classic James Bond novels. 

$1800
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Fleming, Ian [LITERATURE]. The Man with the Golden Gun. First edition, a fine copy.

$500
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Fleming, Ian [LITERATURE]. Thunderball. First edition in beautiful dust jacket of the ninth book in the James Bond series.

$850
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Frazier, Charles [LITERATURE]. Cold Mountain. First edition of Frazier's remarkable literary debut. A fine copy, signed by Frazier on the title page in the year of publication.

$600
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Freud, Sigmund and Joseph Breuer [SCIENCE; MEDICINE]. First edition, first printing of Freud and Breuer's Studies in Hysteria, the account of their discovery of the profound benefits of "free association"; generally considered the founding paper of psychoanalysis. Most rare in original wrappers.

$9000
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Frost, Robert [LITERATURE]. Collected Poems. First trade edition, presentation copy signed and inscribed by Frost on title with a line of verse. In outstanding condition: a fine copy.

$4500
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First edition of Freud's Studies in Hysteria, the origin of psychoanalysis. $9000. [details]

First edition of William Godwin's Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, one of the most important political tracts of the 18th century. $8000. [details]

J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye. First edition in outstanding condition. $20,000. [details]

Rare first edition of the great anatomical atlas of Eustachius. $12,000. [details]

First edition of Robert Frost's Collected Poems, signed and inscribed with a line of verse. $4500. [details]

Frost, Robert [LITERATURE]. In the Clearing. The author's last collection of poems. First edition, one of 1500 copies signed by the Frost.

$700
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Frost, Robert [LITERATURE]. Selected Poems. First edition of Frost's early collection of poetry, signed and inscribed by the author. 

$2000
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Frost, Robert [LITERATURE]. West-Running Brook. First edition, one of 1000 copies signed by the Frost. With three signed woodcut illustrations by J.J. Lankes.

$800
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Galton, Francis [SCIENCE]. Natural Inheritance. First edition in original cloth of Galton's pioneering work in the field of statistical genetics. By introducing, for the first time, his complete theory and use of regression, he laid the statistical foundation for studies in heredity. 

$1100
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Goddard, Robert H. [SCIENCE]. A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes. First edition, first printing of the most important paper in the history of rocketry: Robert Goddard's famous explanation of the powerful potential of rocketry and, specifically, on the possibility of projecting an object beyond the atmosphere of the Earth.

$6500
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Goddard, Robert H. [SCIENCE]. A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes. First edition, first printing of the most important paper in the history of rocketry. A most rare copy in the original wrappers with noted provenance. 

$9000
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Godwin, William [PHILOSOPHY; POLITICS]. An Enquiry concerning Political Justice and its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness. First edition of one of the most important political tracts of the 18th century, Godwin's famous socialist and anarchist doctrine. PMM 234.

$8000
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Grant, Ulysses S. [CIVIL WAR]. Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant. First edition, in rare publisher's deluxe morocco bindings, of Grant's important and fascinating memoirs, illustrated throughout with numerous steel engravings, facsimiles, and over forty maps. 

$1500
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Gray, Thomas [LITERATURE]. Stanza’s Written in a Country Church-yard. Presumed first printing, second issue (preceded by one day by the extremely scarce Dodsley printing), of Gray's famous Elegy, one of the most celebrated poems in the English language.

$5300
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Gregg, Josiah [AMERICANA]. Commerce of the Prairies. First edition, first issue, in original cloth, complete with large folding map. One of the most valuable and comprehensive sources for understanding pioneer life in the Great Plains and Southwest.

$5500
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First printing of the most important paper in the history of television. $4800. [details]

First printing of Thomas Gray's famous Elegy, one of the most celebrated poems in the English language. $5300. [details]

Marc Chagall's Jerusalem Windows, first edition with two original color lothographs. $2000. [details]

First edition of the quintessential American novel: Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. $4600. [details]

Winston Churchill's masterpiece, The Second World War. First editions, handsomely bound. $1850. [details]

$1000
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Hardee, William [CIVIL WAR]. Rifle and Light Infantry Tactics. First revised edition (1861), complete with 58 lithographs, of the most widely used infantry manual of the Civil War. Confederate soldier Isaac Howard's copy.

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First printing, one of only 500 copies, of Whitman's impassioned assessment of the future of America. $2800. [details]

Extremely scarce first edition of Hepplewhite's The Cabinet-Maker, complete with 126 plates of furniture designs. $17,000. [details]

Rare first edition of Santorini's great anatomical text, Observationes anatomicae. $6800. [details]

Scarce first edition of Henry James's The Bostonians, in unrestored original cloth. $10,000. [details]

1590 first illustrated edition of Tasso's great epic, La Gierusalemme Liberata. $4500. [details]

Hepplewhite, George [ART; FURNITURE]. The extremely rare 1788 first edition of Hepplewhite's The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer’s Guide, complete with 126 plates of furniture designs.

$17,000
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Hertz, Heinrich [PHYSICS; TECHNOLOGY]. First printing of Hertz's first three papers on electromagnetic waves; the foundation for wireless communication.

$2500
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Hesse, Hermann [LITERATURE].  First edition of Das Glasperlenspiel (The Glass Bead Game), Hesse's great utopian magnum opus, the work cited when Hesse was awarded the 1946 Nobel Prize for Literature.

$1800
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Irving, John  [LITERATURE]. The Cider House Rules. Signed limited first edition, one of only 750 copies signed by Irving. A fine copy in the original slipcase.

$600
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James, Henry  [LITERATURE]. First edition in original cloth of The Bostonians, one of James’ greatest works, one of only 600 copies printed. 

$10,000
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Kennedy, John F. [HISTORY; POLITICS]. Profiles in Courage. 1955 First edition of Kennedy's third and finest book, for which he won the Pulitzer prize for biography in 1957. "Today the challenge of political courage looms larger than ever before." A fine copy in beautiful full leather binding.

$1500
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Kennedy, John F. [HISTORY; POLITICS]. Why England Slept. First edition of Kennedy's first book, originally written as his senior thesis at Harvard and conceived as a follow-up to Churchill's 1938 book, While England Slept. 

$950
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Keynes, John Maynard [ECONOMICS]. General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money. Fine first edition of the most influential economic work of the 20th century.

$9500
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Lawrence, T.E. [HISTORY; LITERATURE]. Seven Pillars of Wisdom. First trade edition of Lawrence's remarkable memoirs of the Arab Revolt. 

$1300
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Lee, Robert E. [CIVIL WAR]. Official broadside Confederate printing with seal on top left corner appointing Robert E. Lee "General in Chief" of the Confederate forces. A highly important piece of Confederate legislation. Extremely scarce.

$8000
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Lewis, C.S.  [LITERATURE]. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. First edition of the first book of Lewis's celebrated Narnia Chronicles. With colored frontispiece and illustrations throughout. Fine condition, handsomely bound. 

$3500
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Scarce first printing of Claude Shannon's Master's thesis, essential to computer design. $18,000. [details]

Alexander Pope's Essay on Man, rare first edition of all four parts. $9000. [details]

First printings of two of the most important papers of modern physics: Thomas Young's theories of light. $6500. [details]

Scarce first edition of Oscar Wilde's De Profundis, one of only 50 copies on Japanese vellum. $10,000. [details]

 First edition of the most celebrated of all the Sherlock Holmes adventures, The Hound of the Baskervilles. $4000. [details]

Lewis, Meriwether; and William Clark [AMERICANA]. Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. First English edition of definitive account of the travels of Lewis and Clark, the most important expedition in the history of the American continent. An exceptionally fine copy.

$35,000
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Locke, John [PHILOSOPHY]. "Man hath by nature a power to preserve his property- that is, his life, liberty, and estate--against the injuries and attempts of other men."  The third edition of the works of John Locke in beautiful bindings.

$2800
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Luther, Martin [THEOLOGY]. One of the central documents of the Protestant Reformation.  1520 first edition of Martin Luther's revolutionary call to spiritual individualism, The Babylonian Captivity. Extremely scarce: We can find no record of another copy being offered for sale in the last 30 years.

$48,000
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Mailer, Norman  [LITERATURE]. The Naked and the Dead. First edition of Mailer's masterpiece: an exemplary copy.

$1900
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Matisse, Henri; Reverdy, Pierre [ART]. Les Jockeys Camoufles. Original wrappers, original glassine. 1918 First edition, one of only 300 numbered copies on verge d’Arches (out of a total edition of 343), with five plates by Henri Matisse illustrating three poems by Pierre Reverdy. In outstanding condition.

$5000
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Maxwell, James Clerk [SCIENCE]. On the Dynamical Theory of Gases. Very rare 1867 first printing in original wrappers of one of Maxwell’s seminal papers: the most developed and complete exploration of his theory of gases.

$3000
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Melville, Herman  [LITERATURE].  First American edition of Melville's Mardi, his third book, containing the first glimpses of Melville's rich symbolism and allegorical style that would later be more fully developed in Moby Dick.

$3800
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Michaux, F.A. [BOTANY; SCIENCE; ILLUSTRATED]. Superb presentation copies of the first English editions of F.A. Michaux's North American Sylva, the most famous and, until the twentieth-century, the most comprehensive of all American botanicals.  WITH: Nuttall's three volume supplement.  All six volumes magnificently bound in mid-19th century straight grain morocco.

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Michell John. [SCIENCE]. On the means of discovering the Distance, Magnitude, &c. of the Fixed Stars. WITH: Cavendish, Henry. Experiments on Air. A remarkable volume containing the first printings (1784) of two landmark papers in the history of science: John Michell's paper containing the first discussion of the concept of black holes and Henry Cavendish's experiments to determine the composition of water.

$4400
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Miller, Francis Trevelyan [CIVIL WAR]. First editions of all ten volumes of Miller’s famous photo-documentary of the Civil War. Miller’s work "still remains the major source for photographs of the Civil War; the greatest single collection of Brady illustrations" (Allan Nevins).

$1800
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$3000
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Millikan, Robert Andrews  [PHYSICS].  First edition reporting one of the most important experiments in modern physics: Millikan's famous 'oil drop' experiment to determine electron charge.

$1500
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Milne, A.A.  [CHILDREN'S]. Winnie-the-Pooh. 1926 First edition of Milne's classic Winnie-the-Pooh, finely bound with elaborately decorated spine with leather on-lay of Winnie-the-Pooh.

$2700
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Milton, John  [LITERATURE]. Superb early sammelband of Milton's poetical works in magnificent contemporary Cambridge-style panelled calf binding.

$8200
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Minkowski, Hermann [PHYSICS]. Raum und Zeit. First separate printing of Minkowski’s explanation of the fourth dimension, a critical bridge between Einstein’s theories of special and general relativity.

$2500
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Miró,Joan [ART]. Derriere le Miroir. No. 164/165: l'Oiseau Solaire, l'Oiseau Lunaire Etincelles. Folio, original lithographic wrappers. Original issue of Derriere le Miroir, with five original color lithographs (including one tri-fold) by Miro.

$975
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Miró,Joan [ART]. The complete catalogue raisonné of Miró's lithographic work, with 32 superb original lithographs (many double-page) and four original lithographic dust jackets. 

$3000
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[Miró, Joan; Henri Matisse, et al.]  [ART]. Verve. An outstanding copy in original wrappers and glassine of the first printing (preceding the English-language edition) of the first issue of Verve, with four original lithographs: L'Eau by Leger, L'Air by Miro, le Feu by Rattner & la Terre by Bores. 

$1450
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Mitchell, Margaret [LITERATURE]. Gone With The Wind. First edition, first issue (May, 1936), of Mitchell's Pulitzer prize winning tale of Scarlett O'Hara's and Rhett Butler in the Old South, one of the most popular and enduring American novels ever written. Finely bound in full morocco.

$2200
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Montesquieu, Charles Secondat, baron de [AMERICANA; POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY]. The Spirit of Laws. First edition in English of one of the central works in western political thought. A superb copy in a beautiful contemporary binding. 

$11,000
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Morgagni, Giovanni Battista  [MEDICINE]. The Seats and Causes of Diseases. First edition in English of the foundation of pathological anatomy, “one of the most fundamentally important works in the history of medicine.”

$5000
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First edition, in rare publisher's deluxe morocco bindings of the Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant. $1500. [details]

The cause of the American Revolution: complete collection of British Acts of Parliament, 1763-83, with exceptional provenance. $135,000. [details]

First edition of Ian Fleming's Dr. No, the sixth novel in the James Bond series. $1800. [details]

 First edition in English of Montesquieu's The Spirit of Laws. An exceptional copy. $11,000. [details]

 "That's one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind": Rare first printed announcement of the Apollo 11 lunar landing. $1400. [details]

Nabokov, Vladamir [LITERATURE]. "Lolita, light of life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta."  First edition, first issue in original wrappers of Lolita.

$7000
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$1100
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O'Hara, John [LITERATURE; SIGNED LETTER]. Typed letter signed, two pages, to Leonard Lyons. Dated May 31, 1938. Discusses O'Hara's fondness for London, plans for Leonard and Sylvia Lyons to visit and the merits of English cars, Opels and Chevrolets.

$950
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O'Hara, John [LITERATURE; SIGNED LETTER]. Typed letter signed, to his close friend, Leonard Lyons. Circa 1940. Recounts the fascinating tale of O'Hara's attempt to have his cigarette case signed by F.D.R.

$550
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Orwell, George [LITERATURE]. First edition of Orwell's 1984, his enormously influential dystopian novel.  

$3500
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(Parrish, Maxfield, illust.); Saunders, Louise [ILLUSTRATED; CHILDREN'S]. The Knave of Hearts. Vibrant, well preserved copy of the first edition of this lovely collaboration by Parrish and Saunders.

$4000
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Penn, Irving [PHOTOGRAPHY]. Inventive Paris Clothes 1909-1939. With text by Diana Vreeland. Foreword by Irvin Penn. First edition, signed and inscribed by Irving Penn, and illustrated with reproductions of Penn's elegant photographs. A lovely copy of a marvelous collaboration by Penn and Vreeland.

$1000
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Planck, Max [SCIENCE; THERMODYNAMICS]. First edition of Planck’s popular collection of fundamental papers on thermodynamics. "Planck's Vorlesungen was effective for more than thirty years as an extremely clear, systematic, and skillful presentation of thermodynamics” (DSB).

$600
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Pope, Alexander [LITERATURE]. First edition of Pope's Essay on Man, an enduring masterpiece.  "A thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope." —Samuel Johnson

$7000
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Pound, Ezra [LITERATURE; TYPED LETTER SIGNED]. Significant letter by Ezra Pound defining the intended content of his new literary magazine, The Exile, and offering interesting insights into his literary tastes.

$950
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Priestley, Joseph [SCIENCE; CHEMISTRY]. Observations on different kinds of air. First printing of Joseph Priestley’s major work on gas theory, preceding by two years its appearance in book form. Includes a wealth of discoveries (including the first description of photosynthesis) and advancements that would set the course for future studies in chemistry.

$4000
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Pynchon, Thomas [LITERATURE]. Gravity's Rainbow. First edition. Often compared to Ulysses and Moby-Dick for its vast scope and intellectual complexity, Gravity's Rainbow is arguably one of the most important fictional work of the last thirty years. 

$2500
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Pynchon, Thomas [LITERATURE]. First printing, advance proof copy of Pynchon's first novel, V., a literary debut of immediate and lasting significance.

$1400
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[Rackham, Arthur] Morley, Christopher [LITERATURE; ILLUSTRATED]. Where the Blue Begins. Signed limited deluxe first edition, one of only 100 copies signed by both Christopher Morley and Arthur Rackham.

$2200
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[Rackham, Arthur] Poe, Edgar Allan [LITERATURE; ILLUSTRATED]. Signed limited first edition, one of only 460 copies signed by Arthur Rackham, of Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination.

$3400
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[Rackham, Arthur] Stephens, James [LITERATURE; ILLUSTRATED]. Irish Fairy Tales. Signed limited first edition, one of only 520 copies signed by Arthur Rackham. With 16 mounted color illustrations by Rackham.

$3000
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[Rackham, Arthur] Swinburne, Algernon Charles [LITERATURE; ILLUSTRATED].  Signed limited first edition of Swinburne's The Springtide of Life, number 354 of only 765 copies signed by illustrator Arthur Rackham. 

$1400
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Rand, Ayn [LITERATURE]. Atlas Shrugged. First edition. "My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute."

$2400
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Rand, Ayn [ECONOMICS]. Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal. Signed limited first e edition, #68 of 700 copies, signed by Rand on the limitation page. With additional articles by Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, and Robert Hessen. Fine copy. 

$2800
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Rand, Ayn [LITERATURE]. For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand. First edition, first printing, of Rand’s most concise explanation of her philosophy, signed by Rand on the half-title.

$2500
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First edition of Charles Babbage’s system of mechanical notation, critical to the development of the computer. $4600. [details]

First edition of George Washington's Letters to Congress, very handsomely bound. $1700. [details]

First editions of Charles Dickens' Christmas Books, including s fine copy of The Christmas Carol. $38,000. [details]

 Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination, one of only 460 copies signed and illustrated by Arthur Rackham. $3400. [details]

 First edition of Josiah Gregg's Commerce of the Prairies, a valuable source for pioneer life. $5500. [details]

[Rontgen] Roentgen, Wilhelm Conrad [PHYSICS; MEDICINE].  First complete edition of Rontgen’s announcement of the discovery of the X-Ray:  "completely revolutionized the study of chemistry and physics."

$2400
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Roosevelt, Theodore [HISTORY; AMERICAN PRESIDENTS]. Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter. 1905 First edition, illustrated with frontispiece portrait and 48 photographic plates, of Roosevelt 's interesting collection of anecdotes about his hunting experiences.

$950
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Rosenblatt, Frank [COMPUTERS; AI]. The Perceptron: A Probabilistic Model for Information Storage and Organization in the Brain. First edition in original wrappers of Frank Rosenblatt’s widely influential contribution to the field of artificial intelligence. 

$2300
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$1900
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$13,000
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Rutherford, Ernest [PHYSICS]. The splitting of the atom and the discovery of the proton: Ernest Rutherford's landmark 1919 paper, first printing in contemporary three-quarter calf.

$2300
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Salinger, J.D. [LITERATURE]. Franny and Zooey. First edition of Salinger's powerful and influential stories of the Glass family. An outstanding copy.

$950
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Salten, Felix [CHILDREN'S; LITERATURE]. Bambi. A Life in the Woods. First edition in English of Felix Salten's classic Bambi. Very handsomely bound in full morocco gilt.

$1600
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Santorini, Giovanni Domenico [MEDICINE]. Observationes anatomicae. 1724 First edition, with three engraved folding plates, of Santorini's most important contribution to medical science. Rare. 

$6800
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Sendak, Maurice [CHILDREN'S; ILLUSTRATED]. LANES, Selma. The Art of Maurice Sendak. First edition, signed by Sendak and Selma Lanes. Complete with 261 illustrations. A magnificent production celebrating the work of one the most inspired book illustrators of the last half century. 

$400
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Sendak, Maurice [CHILDREN'S; ILLUSTRATED]. Keeshan, Robert. She Loves Me… She Loves Me Not. First edition, signed and dated by illustrator Maurice Sendak (1981). A delightful collaboration between Sendak and Keeshan, better known for his role as Captain Kangaroo. Rare signed.

$1300
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Sendak, Maurice [CHILDREN'S; ILLUSTRATED]. Where the Wild Things Are. The 25th anniversary edition, signed by Maurice Sendak. Fine condition.

$500
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Shaara, Michael [LITERATURE]. The Killer Angels. First edition of Shaara's celebrated novel about the battle at Gettysburg. A superb copy.

$3000
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Shannon, Claude E. [COMPUTERS; INFORMATION THEORY] A symbolic analysis of relay and switching circuits. Rare first edition of the Shannon's celebrated master's thesis, the foundation of practical digital circuit design. 

$18,000
(details)

Shannon, Claude E. [COMPUTERS; INFORMATION THEORY]  A Mathematical Theory of Communication. First printing of Shannon’s extremely influential theory of communication, the founding document of information theory; virtually all electronic forms of communication today are indebted to Shannon’s work.

$3400
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Steinbeck, John [LITERATURE]. Cup of Gold. First edition of Steinbeck's first novel, in the extremely scarce original dust-jacket

$25,000
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Steinbeck, John [LITERATURE].  First Edition, first issue of Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, in the original dust jacket.  One of the true high-spots of American literature.

$3000
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Steinbeck, John [LITERATURE].  Signed limited first edition of Steinbeck's The Red Pony, number 44 of 699 printed on La Garde paper and signed by Steinbeck.

$3000
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Steinbeck, John [LITERATURE]. First edition of Steinbeck's The Long Valley.  Includes such classics as "The Chrysanthemums", "The Snake", "The Vigilante", "Johnny Bear", and "Saint Katy the Virgin". The four stories comprising The Red Pony ("The Gift", "The Great Mountains", "The Leader of the People", and "The Promise") appear here together for the first time. 

$2500
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Steinbeck, John [LITERATURE]. Of Mice and Men. Rare first edition, first printing of Steinbeck's dramatic adaptation of Of Mice and Men (published in prose form the same year). A beautiful copy.

$1650
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Robert Thornton's Temple of Flora: the most famous of all English botanicals. $32,500. [details]

First edition of They Asked for a Paper, inscribed by C.S. Lewis. $5000. [details]

1727 edition of the Works of John Locke, in handsome contemporary bindings. $2800. [details]

"One of the most fundamentally important works in the history of medicine”: Morgagni’s Seats and Causes of Diseases, rare 1769 first edition in English. $5000. [details]

 First edition of John Steinbeck's classic collection of short stories, The Long Valley. $2500. [details]

Swinton, A.A. Campbell [TELEVISION; SCIENCE]  Distant Electric Vision. Very scarce 1908 first printing of what is generally considered the most important paper in the history of television. 

$4800
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Veblen, Thorstein [ECONOMICS]. The Theory of the Leisure Class. 1899 First edition of Veblen's savage analysis of the social and economic structure of society. A highly influential work, in The Theory of the Leisure Class Veblen introduced, among other ideas, the now ubiquitous concept of "conspicuous consumption".

$3800
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Virchow, Rudolph [MEDICINE]. Die Cellularpathologie. 1858 First edition of "the foundation stone of cellular pathology."

$5500
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Virchow, Rudolph [MEDICINE]. Cellular Pathology. First edition in English of one of the most influential works in the history of medicine.

$1200
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Virchow, Rudolph  [MEDICINE]. Die Krankhaften Geschwülste. First edition, in scarce original wrappers, of Virchow's pioneering work on tumor pathology: "one of the most important source books on cancer."

$4800
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$3500
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White, E.B. [CHILDREN'S; LITERATURE]. Stuart Little. First edition of White's classic tale, with illustrations by Garth Williams. An exceptionally fine copy.

$2400
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Wilde, Oscar [LITERATURE]. De Profundis. Extraordinarily rare first edition, one of only 50 copies printed on Japanese vellum, of Wilde's deeply personal account of his thoughts and state of mind during his imprisonment at Reading Gaol.

$10,000
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Wilde, Oscar [LITERATURE]. The Importance of Being Earnest. First edition, number 57 of only 1000 copies, of one of the English theatre's greatest comedies.

$2800
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Wilson, C.T.R. [SCIENCE; PHYSICS]. First edition of the first description of WIlson's famous cloud chamber, the first type of detector to show the tracks of elementary particles; "the most original and wonderful instrument in scientific history" (Ernest Rutherford).

$1600
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Wood, Robert  [ARCHITECTURE; ILLUSTRATED]. The Ruins of Palmyra. First edition, large paper copy, of Robert Wood’s most famous work, illustrated with 62 large engraved plates.  "Of immediate and lasting influence on Neo-Classical thought and taste."

$7500
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Woolf, Virginia [LITERATURE]. The Years. 1937 First edition in rare dust jacket of one of Woolf's finest novels. 

$2500
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Young, Thomas [PHYSICS]. First printing of two of the most fundamental papers in modern physics: Thomas Young's evidence of the wave theory of light and the first statement of his interference principle and double-slit experiment, the most influential experiment in quantum theory.

$6500
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