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Ecrits de Napoleon.

Paris: Editions Buchet / Chastel, 1969.

Finely bound example of Octave Aubry’s Ecrits de Napoleon. Octavo, bound in full crushed red morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments with...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-130509

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Freeman, Douglas Southall

George Washington: A Biography.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948-54.

First edition of the author’s monumental Pulitzer Prize-winning work, widely considered the definitive biography of Washington. Octavo, six volumes, original black cloth, spines lettered in gilt, cart...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-149571

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Hazlitt, William

Political Essays, with Sketches of Public Characters.

London: Printed for William Hone, 1819.

First edition of one of Hazlitt’s most interesting collections, including his estimates and reviews of Southey as Laureate, of Coleridge, Burke, and Malthus (at length). Octavo, bound in three q...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-127349

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Tarbell, Ida. [Abraham Lincoln]

The Life of Abraham Lincoln. Drawn from Original Sources and Containing Many Speeches, Letters and Telegrams Hitherto Unpublished.

New York: The Doubleday & McClure Co., 1900.

First Special Illustrator’s edition of the work that earned Tarbell a national reputation as a major writer and the leading authority on Abraham Lincoln. Quarto, two volumes, half cloth over pap...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-131290

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Keller, Hellen

The Story of My Life.

Garden City: Doubleday, Dorian & Company, Inc, 1935.

Later printing of Keller’s autobiography of her early life, particularly detailing her relationship with Anne Sullivan. Octavo, original cloth, engraved frontispiece portrait of Keller after a p...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-146138

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Dickens, Charles

Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi. Edited by “Boz.”

London: Richard Bentley, 1838.

First edition in the rare original cloth of Dickens’ popular retelling of the memoirs of celebrated English clown Joseph Grimaldi. Octavo, two volumes, original pink cloth with floral design sta...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-149060

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Berners-Lee, Tim

Weaving the Web: The Original Destiny of the World Wide Web by It’s Inventor.

New York: HarperSanFrancisco, 1999.

First edition of this autobiography by the inventor of the world wide web. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Bob Tim Be...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-151728

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Junger, Sebastian [George Clooney]

The Perfect Storm.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1997.

First edition of this work, basis for the 2000 film starring Wolfgang Petersen starring George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Diane Lane, William Fichtner, Karen Allen, Bob Gunton, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantoni...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-150103

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Goodwin, Doris Kearns

No Ordinary Time. Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.

First edition of this dual biography on the Roosevelts. Octavo, original publisher’s half-cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the autho...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-149796

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Carter, Jimmy

Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President.

New York: Bantam Books, 1982.

First edition of the 39th President of the United States’ memoirs. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by President Carter to former four-term United States Senator...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-119599

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Palmer, Arnold [Payne Stewart, Vijay Singh]

A Golfer’s Life.

New York: Ballantine Books, 1999.

First edition of the golfing legend’s autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, with 16 black-and-white photographic plates. Boldly signed by Arnold Palmer and Payne Stewart on the half-title...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-149555

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Sarazen, Gene with Herbert Warren Wind

Thirty Years of Championship Golf: The Life and Times of Gene Sarazen.

New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1950.

First edition of Sarazen’s classic autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Foreword by Robert T. Jones, Jr. Inscribed by the author opposite the title page, “To Dick Garlington...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-53022

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Huxley, Elspeth

The Mottled Lizard.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1962.

First edition of this sequel to Huxley’s The Flame Trees of Thika. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Elspeth Huxley on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Rosemary...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-46332

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Boccaccio, Giovanni

Opera Dim Giovanni Boccaccio Soprai Casi Degli Huomini Illustri. [Giovanni Boccaccio’s Work on the Cases of Illustrious Men].

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Sixteenth century edition of Giovanni Boccaccio’s Latin work on the downfalls of powerful or famous historical and biblical figures. Duodecimo, written in Italian, bound in full vellum, woodcut chapte...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-146548

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Keller, Helen

Midstream: My Later Life.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1930.

First edition, later printing of Keller’s autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, top stain red, frontispiece, illustrated with plates from photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by Helen Kell...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-151551

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Sloan, Alfred P

Adventures of a White-Collar Man.

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1941.

First edition of the story of Alfred P. Sloan’s rise to become General Motors executive. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of Alfred P. Sloan. Boldly signed and dated by the author on the fro...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-54084

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Beisner, Robert L. [Madeleine Albright]

Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War.

New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

First edition of a comprehensive biography of Dean Acheson. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, illustrated with black and white photographs. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title pa...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-149095

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Leaves From A Trooper’s Diary.

Philadelphia: Published by the Author, 1869.

First edition of an Anderson Cavalry officer’s Civil War memoir. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt. In good condition. Rare.

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-132681

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Williams, Tennessee

Memoirs.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1975.

First edition of this classic memoir by the author of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and A Streetcar Named Desire. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endp...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-142240

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Roosevelt, Eleanor

This I Remember.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1949.

First edition of Eleanor Roosevelt’s wonderful autobiography. Octavo, original blue cloth, illustrated with 41 photographs of the Roosevelt family, including frontispiece of the First Lady. Boldly sig...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-138860

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Lawrence, T.E

Seven Pillars of Wisdom.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1935.

First trade edition of the author’s classic work. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated with photogravures and folding maps. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with sunning to the spine,...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-150700

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O'Casey, Sean

I Knock At The Door: Swift Glances Back at Things That Made Me.

London: Macmillan & Co, 1939.

First edition of this autobiography by the famed Irish playwright. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication, “To Joe Cummins, w...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-108016

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Gretzky, Walter; Jim Taylor [Wayne Gretzky]

Gretzky: From the Back Yard Rink to the Stanley Cup.

Toronto, Ontario: McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1984.

First edition of this biography of the greatest hockey player of all-time told through the eyes of his father, Walter Gretzky, to respected columnist, Jim Taylor. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated w...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-148212

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Einstein, Albert. Edited by Paul Arthur Schilpp

Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist.

Evanston: The Library of Living Philosophers, Inc., 1949.

First edition of Einstein’s singular autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of Einstein by Yousuf Karsh. Presentation copy, inscribed by editor Paul Arthur Schilpp on the front free...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-145894

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