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Koufax, Sandy.

Koufax.

New York: The Viking Press, 1966.

First edition of the baseball legend’s autobiography. Octavo, original half-cloth, top stain green, illustrated. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Bert Scored again! Keep Pitchin’! Sandy.” Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with several clear tape repairs. Stamp to the front free endpaper. Jacket paintingContinue reading "Koufax."

$1,250.00

Item Number: RRB-152605

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Curtis, Edward S.

North American Indian Clippings and Letters, with Edward S. Curtis’s Los Angeles Studio Guest Book.

Los Angeles: 1921-1923.

Three of the scarce blank volumes issued to accompany Edward S. Curtis’s monumental work The North American Indian. Two of the three volumes are entirely blank, while the third was used as the guest book of Curtis’s Los Angeles studio. Three quarto volumes, bound to match the sets of The North American Indian in brownContinue reading "North American Indian Clippings and Letters, with Edward S. Curtis’s Los Angeles Studio Guest Book."

$32,800.00

Item Number: RRB-152533

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Ginsberg, Allen.

Howl and Other Poems.

San Francisco: The City Lights Pocket Bookshop, 1956.

First edition, first issue of the incendiary poem that became the manifesto of the Beat Generation, signed by Allen Ginsberg. Square duodecimo, publisher’s original printed wrappers, the fourth title in the Pocket Poets Series. First issue, with the Lucien Carr present in the dedication and in the eighth line of the second paragraph on theContinue reading "Howl and Other Poems."

$14,000.00

Item Number: RRB-152530

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Jones, James [Frank Sinatra; Burt Lancaster; Montgomery Clift; Deborah Kerr; Fred Zinnemann; Buddy Adler].

From Here to Eternity.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952.

First edition, early printing of James Jones’s monumental first novel, one of the great novels of World War II, signed by the leading stars of the classic 1953 film adaptation. Octavo, publisher’s cloth. Boldly signed on the front free endpaper by four of the film’s top stars: Frank Sinatra, Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, and DeborahContinue reading "From Here to Eternity."

$7,800.00

Item Number: RRB-152623

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Churchill, Winston S.

A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.

London: Cassell and Company, 1956-58.

First edition of Churchill’s sweeping four-volume history of the English-speaking peoples, carrying the story from Julius Caesar’s invasion of Britain to the dawn of the twentieth century. Octavo, four volumes bound in three quarter burgundy morocco with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt ruling and rampant lion motifs to the spine in six compartmentsContinue reading "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples."

$2,250.00

Item Number: RRB-152560

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Benezet, Anthony.

A Caution and Warning to Great-Britain, and Her Colonies, in a Short Representation of the Calamitous State of the Enslaved Negroes in the British Dominions.

Philadelphia: D. Hall and W. Sellers, 1767.

Rare 1767 Philadelphia edition of one of the most influential antislavery works of the eighteenth century, the first appearance to include an extract of the antislavery sermon preached by the Bishop of Gloucester before the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. Octavo, bound marbled wrappers, with a printed paper label to the front wrap.Continue reading "A Caution and Warning to Great-Britain, and Her Colonies, in a Short Representation of the Calamitous State of the Enslaved Negroes in the British Dominions."

$12,500.00

Item Number: RRB-152519

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Gunther, John.

Death Be Not Proud: A Memoir.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949.

First edition of John Gunther’s profoundly moving memoir of his son, finely bound by the Harcourt Bindery. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with 22 karat 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-signedContinue reading "Death Be Not Proud: A Memoir."

$2,000.00

Item Number: RRB-152613

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Barton, Rebecca Chalmers [Julia and Paul Child].

Witnesses for Freedom: Negro Americans in Autobiography.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1948.

First edition of this pioneering study of African American life as revealed through autobiography. Octavo, publisher’s green cloth stamped in gilt. From the personal library of Paul and Julia Child, with a gift inscription on the front pastedown, “Julia and Paul C. Child en route à Paris from Helen and Leonard C. Rennie 10/24/48.” JuliaContinue reading "Witnesses for Freedom: Negro Americans in Autobiography."

$750.00

Item Number: RRB-152586

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Theroux, Paul.

Dark Star Safari: Overland From Cairo to Cape Town.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003.

First edition of one of the Theroux’s finest books, which takes the reader through the heart of the African continent. Octavo, original half-cloth. Boldly signed by Paul Theroux on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by John Gall.

$225.00

Item Number: RRB-152498

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The Pessah Hagada. [Passover Haggadah].

Jerusalem: Jerusalem Bible Publishing Co., c. 1952.

Handsome large-folio facsimile of the celebrated illustrated Venice Haggadah, one of the most famous of all printed Passover Haggadot, reproducing its striking sixteenth-century woodcuts of the seder and the story of the Exodus. Folio, bound in decorative linen boards with a color reproduction of an illuminated Haggadah panel mounted to the front cover. Text inContinue reading "The Pessah Hagada. [Passover Haggadah]."

$600.00

Item Number: RRB-152603

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Vonnegut, Kurt.

A Man Without a Country.

New York: Seven Stories Press, 2005.

First edition, second printing of Vonnegut’s final book, a collection of personal essays and speeches. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Kurt Vonnegut on the limitations page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Cover art by Kurt Vonnegut. Housed in a custom clamshell box.

$1,250.00

Item Number: RRB-152440

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Ginsberg, Allen.

Wichita Vortex Sutra.

San Francisco: Coyote, 1966.

First edition of Ginsberg’s incantatory anti-war masterpiece, composed aloud into a tape recorder as he drove across the Kansas plains in February 1966, in which the poet declares, by the ancient authority of the mantra, an end to the Vietnam War. Slim octavo, original printed wrappers. Association copy, lengthily inscribed by the author with anContinue reading "Wichita Vortex Sutra."

$1,500.00

Item Number: RRB-152541

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Wiesel, Elie.

The Night Trilogy. Night, Dawn and The Accident.

New York: Hill and Wang, 1960-1962.

First American editions of each work in the author’s acclaimed Night Trilogy. Octavo, three volumes, original cloth. Each volume is signed by Elie Wiesel. Night is near fine in a good to very good dust jacket. Dawn is near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Alex Tsao. The Accident is nearContinue reading "The Night Trilogy. Night, Dawn and The Accident."

$8,200.00

Item Number: RRB-152607

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Ginsberg, Allen.

Kaddish and Other Poems: 1958-1960.

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1961.

First edition of this significant collection of poems—including the title piece, part lamentation for his mother, part protest of American society. Duodecimo, original printed wrappers as issued, number fourteen in the Pocket Poets series. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page with an original drawing in black ink of a haloed skullContinue reading "Kaddish and Other Poems: 1958-1960."

$2,800.00

Item Number: RRB-152538

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Kinsella, W.P. [Kevin Costner].

Shoeless Joe. [Field of Dreams].

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1992.

Signed limited first edition of this classic work, basis for the film Field of Dreams starring Kevin Costner. Octavo, bound in full leather with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, all edges gilt, watered silk moire endpapers, with a silk bookmark bound in. Boldly signed by Bill Kinsella andContinue reading "Shoeless Joe. [Field of Dreams]."

$2,000.00

Item Number: RRB-152581

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Powys, John Cowper.

The Owl, the Duck, and – Miss Rowe! Miss Rowe!

Chicago: The Black Archer Press, 1930.

Signed limited first edition of this darkly comic novella, a miniature study of obsession and thwarted desire in the mind of a lonely office clerk. Small octavo, bound in the original vellum over boards, with the gilt archer device to the front cover and gilt lettering to the spine, frontispiece portrait of the author. OneContinue reading "The Owl, the Duck, and – Miss Rowe! Miss Rowe!"

$250.00

Item Number: RRB-152597

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Kelly, Princess Grace; Prince Rainier III; Princess Antoinette of Monaco; et al.

Royal Family of Monaco Photograph Collection.

Monaco: circa 1950 to 1980.

An intimate archive of approximately fifty photographs of the royal family of Monaco, six of them signed or inscribed, ranging from formal portraiture to private family snapshots of the house that joined Hollywood glamour to a European throne. The collection comprises color and black-and-white photographs, portraits, greeting cards, and holiday greeting cards. Among them aContinue reading "Royal Family of Monaco Photograph Collection."

$2,750.00

Item Number: RRB-152546

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Gaddis, John Lewis.

Surprise, Security, and the American Experience.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2004.

First edition of the eminent Cold War historian John Lewis Gaddis’s incisive meditation on surprise attack, security, and American grand strategy, written in the shadow of September 11. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page in the year of publication, “For Mark Toomey, with best wishes, John Gaddis,Continue reading "Surprise, Security, and the American Experience."

$300.00

Item Number: RRB-152591

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Hoffa, James R.

The Trials of Jimmy Hoffa: An Autobiography.

Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1970.

First edition of the autobiography of the legendary and notorious Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Lengthily signed by Jimmy Hoffa on the front free endpaper, “Good Luck, James R. Hoffa.” Written with Donald I. Rogers and published while its author was in federal prison, the book is Hoffa’s own account of theContinue reading "The Trials of Jimmy Hoffa: An Autobiography."

$2,000.00

Item Number: RRB-152587

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Hugo, Victor.

Les Miserables.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1887.

Early American printing of Victor Hugo’s epic historical novel. Thick octavo, original cloth, floral endpapers, complete in one volume. In good condition, signature to the front free endpaper. Translated from the French by Isabel F. Hapgood.

$750.00

Item Number: RRB-152377

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Ben-Aharon, Yosef H.

Yosef H. Ben-Aharon Typed Letter Signed.

Jerusalem: December 3, 1991.

Rare typed letter signed by Yosef H. Ben-Aharon as Director General of the Prime Minister’s Office of Israel, setting out the position of the Shamir government in the weeks following the Madrid Peace Conference. One page on the official bilingual letterhead of the Prime Minister’s Office, Jerusalem, with a blind-embossed Emblem of Israel, dated DecemberContinue reading "Yosef H. Ben-Aharon Typed Letter Signed."

$300.00

Item Number: RRB-152551

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Ginsberg, Allen.

Reality Sandwiches: 1953-60.

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1963.

First edition of Ginsberg’s exuberant gathering of the poems he scribbled between 1953 and 1960, ranging from tender elegy to Beat travelogue and visionary fragment. Duodecimo, original printed wrappers as issued, number eighteen in the Pocket Poets series. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page with inked rays around the title andContinue reading "Reality Sandwiches: 1953-60."

$1,250.00

Item Number: RRB-152539

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Rubinstein, Elyakim.

Elyakim Rubinstein Typed Letter Signed.

Jerusalem: November 27, 1991.

Rare typed letter signed by Elyakim Rubinstein as Government Secretary of Israel, written only weeks after he chaired the Israeli delegation to the Madrid Peace Conference. One page on the official bilingual letterhead of the Government Secretary, Jerusalem, headed with the Emblem of Israel, dated November 27, 1991, and signed by him in ink aboveContinue reading "Elyakim Rubinstein Typed Letter Signed."

$175.00

Item Number: RRB-152550

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Morrison, Toni.

The Bluest Eye.

New York: Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1970.

First edition of Morrison’s classic first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the second free endpaper, “Best wishes Toni Morrison.” Near fine in a very good first issue dust jacket with the $5.95 price and 1070 on the bottom of front flap. Dust jacket design by Herb Lubalin and JayContinue reading "The Bluest Eye."

$17,500.00

Item Number: RRB-152582

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