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Hardtack and Coffee or The Unwritten Story of Army Life.

Boston: George M. Smith & Co, 1887.

First edition of Billings’ classic Civil War memoir. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with six color plates and over two hundred sketches by Charles W. Reed. In very good condition. First edi...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-132819

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Bates, Daisy

The Long Shadow of Little Rock: A Memoir.

New York: David McKay Company, 1962.

First edition, early printing of this powerful work by the NAACP activist behind the successful integration of Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentatio...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146037

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Svin'in, Pavel Petrovich (Paul Svinine)

Sketches of Russia.

London: Printed for R. Ackermann, 1814.

Scarce first edition of this sketch of Russian locations and historical figures. Octavo, bound in three quarter red calf over red cloth boards with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartme...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146468

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Satrapi, Marjane

Persepolis: The Story of A Childhood.

New York: Pantheon Books, 2003.

First edition of “the most original coming-of-age story from the Middle East yet” (People). Octavo, original illustrated boards. Boldly signed by Marjane Satropi on the front free endpaper...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-152994

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Nixon, Richard M. [Henry A. Kissinger]

The Memoirs of Richard Nixon.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1978.

Signed limited edition of Richard Nixon’s memoirs. Thick octavo, original cloth, illustrated, original slipcase. Signed by Richard Nixon. Additionally signed by Henry Kissinger, who served as a...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151700

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West, Rebecca

Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: The Record of a Journey Through Yugoslavia in 1937.

New York: The Viking Press, 1941.

First American editions of Rebecca West’s masterpiece. Octavo, 2 volumes, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Association copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145979

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Obly, Robert; Foreword by Francis Crick

The Path to the Double Helix.

Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1974.

First edition of this work on the history of the double helix. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by both the author and Francis Crick on the title page, who contributed the foreword. The aut...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-3394

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Brown, John. [Woodrow Wilson; Charles A. Salmond; Alexander Stewart; James Stark; et al]

John Bunyan: His Life, Times and Work.

London: Wm. Ibister Limited, n.d..

Early edition of Reverend John Brown’s important biography of his predecessor and the author of Pilgrim’s Progress, English Puritan preacher John Bunyan. Octavo, original cloth. Presentati...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-121964

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Churchill, Winston S

Marlborough: His Life and Times.

London: George G. Harrap & Company, 1933-36.

Rare original publisher’s advance proofs of the first edition of the first three volumes of Churchill’s important biography of his notable ancestor, John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough...

$2,400.00 Item Number: RRB-145482

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Washington, Booker T

Tuskegee & Its People: Their Ideals and Achievements.

New York: D. Appleton and Co, 1906.

First edition, early printing of this overview of Tuskegee Institute. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “B. G. Hardwick from Booker T...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-130484

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[Prince, Marie]

1940s Westover Schoolgirl Scrapbook.

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Rare scrapbook from the collection of Marie Prince, documenting her tenure at The Westover preparatory school for girls in the early 1940s. Quarto, bound in three quarters morocco, the scrapbook conta...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-116294

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Gunther, John

Death Be Not Proud.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1949.

First edition of this deeply moving book, a father’s memoir of a brave, intelligent, and spirited boy. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-146071

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Trump, Donald J. with Tony Schwartz

Trump: The Art of the Deal.

New York: Random House, 1987.

First edition of Trump’s first book. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in a contemporary hand on the front free endpaper, “Jan...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-151961

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Muir, John

The Story of My Boyhood and Youth.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913.

First edition, first issue of Muir’s autobiography of his youth with the biting criticism of his neighbor’s treatment of his son on p. 217: “…none was bold enough or kind enoug...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-126377

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Grant, Ulysses S. [U.S.]

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant.

New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885-86.

First edition of the memoirs of one of the most recognized figures in American military history, illustrated with tissue-guarded portrait frontispieces, numerous steel engravings, facsimiles and 43 ma...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-146691

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Carrington, Charles. [Rudyard Kipling; Lafcadio Hearn]

Rudyard Kipling: His Life and Work.

London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1955.

First edition of Carrington’s famed biography of Kipling. Octavo, original cloth. With an autograph note signed by Lafcadio Hearn adhered to the front pastedown which reads, “Kipling is pr...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-123050

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Gunther, John

Death Be Not Proud.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1949.

First edition of this deeply moving book, a father’s memoir of a brave, intelligent, and spirited boy. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-143451

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Chennault, Claire Lee; Robert Hotz [Editor]

Way of a Fighter: The Memoirs of Claire Lee Chennault.

Tucson, Arizona: James Thorvardson & Sons, 1991.

Limited edition of this autobiographical account of Chennault’s military career. Octavo, original green cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with black and white photographs. Boldly signed on th...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-149141

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O'Neill, Terry [David Bowie]

David Bowie: A Photographic Memoir. Through the Lens of Terry O’Neill. [Bowie by O’Neill].

Dublin and St. Albans: Iconic Images and Red Engine Media Ltd, 2016.

First edition of Terry O’Neill’s stunning photographic tribute to one of the most influential musicians of the twentieth century, David Bowie. Folio, original cloth with onlay bas-relief p...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-143109

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Truman, Harry S

The Economic Reports of the President: As Transmitted to the Congress January 1948, January 1947, July 1947.

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1948.

First edition of this compilation of three of Truman’s most memorable economic reports. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author opposite the title page, “Most sincerely Harry Truman....

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-139753

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Gault de Saint-Germain, Pierre-Marie. [Marie de Rabutin-Chantal]

Lettres de Madame de Sevigne, De Sa Famille, Et De Ses Amie. [The Letters of Madame de Sevigne].

A Paris: Chez Dalibon Libraire, 1823.

Finely bound 19th century French printing of the Letters of Madame De Sevigne. Octavo, twelve volumes bound in full contemporary calf with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt stamping and ruli...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-149508

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Herodotus; Rawlinson, George

History of Herodotus.

London: John Murray, 1880.

Finely bound example of Rawlinson’s significant translation of Herodotus’ Histories. Octavo, four volumes bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards by Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles and to...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-151528

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Roosevelt, Eleanor

This Is My Story.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1937.

First edition of Eleanor Roosevelt’s first autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by Eleanor Roosevelt on the half-title page. Small bookplate to the front pastedown, near fi...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-21057

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Nicklaus, Jack with Herbert Warren Wind

Greatest Game of All: My Life in Golf.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1969.

First edition of the golfing legend’s autobiography, which includes six full chapters on instruction. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-150792

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