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The Unexpurgated Case Against Woman Suffrage.

London: Constable and Company Ltd., 1913.

First edition of Almroth Wright’s anti-feminist treatise. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition with rubbing to the extremities.

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-135621

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Parks, Rosa

Rosa Parks: My Story.

New York: Dial Books, 1992.

First edition of Parks’ powerful autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by the author in the year of publication on the title page, “3/15/92 Rosa Parks....

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-147914

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Churchill, Winston S

The World Crisis 1916-1918.

London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1927.

First edition, second printing of the first two volumes of Churchill’s The World Crisis. Octavo, two volumes, bound in full modern morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compar...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-148597

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Burrough, Bryan [Michael Mann and Christian Bale]

Public Enemies: America’s Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34.

New York: The Penguin Press, 2004.

First edition of this work, basis for the 2009 film, directed by Michael Mann, starring Johnny Depp and Christian Bale. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Bryan Burrough, Michael M...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-151493

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Kipling, Rudyard

Lettres du Japon.

Paris: Rene Kieffer, 1925.

Deluxe limited edition of Kipling’s collected letters written during his 1889 travels in Japan. Octavo, original wrappers, decorated by H. Tirman. One of 50 copies printed on Japan paper. Transl...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-122943

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Merlin, Olivier [Juan Manual Fangio]

Fangio: Racing Driver.

London: B.T. Batsford Ltd, 1961.

First edition of this biography on the legendary racing champion. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Juan Manual Fangio on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. From...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-133518

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Churchill, Winston S

Ian Hamilton’s March.

London: Longman's, Green, and Co, 1900.

First edition of Churchill’s fifth book, a continuation of his coverage of the Boer War which he began in London to Ladysmith via Pretoria. Octavo, original red cloth with gilt titles to the spi...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-129329

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Myers, William Starr; Walter H. Newton [Herbert Hoover]

The Hoover Administration: A Documented Narrative.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936.

First edition of this complete, fully documented, and authoritative story of Herbert Hoover’s four years as President. Octavo, original navy cloth, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Hoover...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-146699

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Miles, General Nelson A

Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles: Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War or From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development and Progress of Our Great Western Empire.

Chicago: The Werner Company, 1896.

Publisher’s deluxe first edition of this autobiography of a great military general; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Quarto, bound in full crushed morocco with gilt titles to the f...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-145738

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White, Edmund [Chip Kidd]

A Boy’s Own Story; The Beautiful Room is Empty; The Farewell Symphony.

New York: E.P. Dutton, Inc.; Alfred A. Knopf, 1982-1997.

First editions of this classic trilogy tracing the coming-of-age story of a gay man across mid-to-late 20th-century America. Octavo, three volumes, original half cloth. A Boy’s Own Story is a fi...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-151482

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