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Pierce, Michael; John Golley; Roy Asser; Bill Gunston; Brian Masterton; AVM Freddie Hurrell

…So Few. A Folio Dedicated to All Who Fought and Won the Battle of Britain 10th July – 31st October 1940.

London: The Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund, 1990.

First edition, deluxe signed limited issue of this lavishly illustrated folio commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain and the distinguished RAF pilots who fought in it, the most cr...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-139010

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Castaneda, Carlos

The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge.

Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1968.

First edition of this classic account of spiritual knowledge in the West. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For James Shipounoff wit...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148250

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Caro, Robert A

The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path To Power, Means of Ascent, Master of the Senate, The Passage of Power.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982-2012.

First editions of each volume in Robert A Caro’s ground-breaking biography of President Lyndon Johnson, each signed or inscribed by Caro. Octavo, original publisher’s gilt-lettered cloth,...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147878

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York, Alvin C

Sergeant York: The Story of His Life.

New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1928.

Alvin C. York’s first edition copy of his autobiography, basis for the 1941 film directed by Howard Hawks, starring Gary Cooper. Octavo, original yellow cloth, frontispiece of a portrait of Alvi...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-145328

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Earhart, Amelia

20 Hrs. 40 Min. Our Flight in the Friendship: The American Girl, First Across the Atlantic by Air, Tells Her Story.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1928.

Early printing of Earhart’s thrilling account of her experience as a passenger aboard the Friendship, which made her the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by air in 1928. Octavo, original publis...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150000

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Harlan, Malvina Shanklin; Foreword by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Some Memories of a Long Life, 1854-1911.

New York: The Modern Library, 2002.

First edition of this memoir rediscovered by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Justice Ginsburg on the title page, “Best wishes to Bonnie Brewe...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-133534

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Lindbergh, Charles A

We.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1927.

Signed limited edition of Lindbergh’s autobiography, which provides the account of the life of one of the century’s greatest adventurers, the first man to complete a solo non-stop transatl...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-140383

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Kroc, Ray

Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald’s.

Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1977.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original leather, gilt titles to the spine, all edges gilt, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To All...

$3,600.00 Item Number: RRB-151218

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Victoria, Queen. Edited by Arthur Christopher and Viscount Esher

Letters of Queen Victoria: A Selection from her Majesty’s Correspondence Between the Years 1837 and 1861.

London: John Murray, 1907.

First edition set of this selection of the letters of Queen Victoria, written between 1837 and 1861. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco by Henry Southeran and Co. with gilt titles and tooling to t...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-132058

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Standing Bear, Luther [Chief Standing Bear]

My People the Sioux.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928.

First edition of this foundational work of Native American autobiography. Octavo, original publisher’s pictorial orange cloth, top stain brown, frontispiece of Chief Standing Bear at council, il...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149609

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Goldsmith, Warren [steve McQueen; Julie Andrews; Dick Van Dyke; Lucille Ball; Natalie Wood; Warren Beatty; Joan Crawford; et al.]

Film Fame.

Beverly Hills, California: Fame Publishing, 1966.

First edition of this collection of one hundred actors and actresses that transformed cinema into a defining form of twentieth-century mass entertainment. Imperial octavo, custom bound half-cloth with...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149124

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Girdler, Tom M., In Collaboration with Boyden Sparkes [Ayn Rand]

Boot Straps.

New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1943.

First edition of this autobiography of the CEO of one of the “Big Three” steel companies of the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-122678

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Caro, Robert A

The Power Broker.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974.

First edition of the author’s Pulitzer-Prize winning work on Robert Moses. Thick octavo, original black cloth, cartographic endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-titl...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146799

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Houdini, Harry

The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin.

New York: The Publishers Printing Co, 1908.

First edition of this work by Houdini regarding his one-time idol. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of Houdini, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Harry Houdini on the front free endpaper. B...

$3,250.00 Item Number: RRB-99655

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Goldman, Emma

Living My Life.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931.

First editions of the famous radical’s autobiography, with frontispiece portraits and eleven additional photogravures of Goldman, fellow anarchist Alexander Berkman and others. Octavo, 2 volumes. Near...

$3,250.00 Item Number: RRB-108742

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Dailey, Abram H. [Mollie Fancher]

Mollie Fancher: the Brooklyn Enigma. An Authentic Statement of Facts in the Life of Mary J. Fancher, The Psychological Marvel of the Nineteenth Century.

Brooklyn: Eagle Book Printing Dept, 1894.

First edition of this work on Mollie Fancher. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by Mollie Fancher on the title page. In very good condition. Books signed by Fancher are rare.

$3,250.00 Item Number: RRB-129342

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Smith, Charlene; Desmond Tutu; [Nelson Mandela]; [Graca Machel]

Mandela.

London: Johnnic / Struik, 1999.

First edition of this exceptional biography of South Africa’s most influential leaders, signed for a flight attendant of President Nelson Mandela’s flight crew en route to a UN general ass...

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-147323

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Lawrence, T.E

Seven Pillars of Wisdom.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1935.

First English deluxe edition of the author’s classic work. Quarto, original publisher’s pigskin-backed buckram with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, marbled endpapers, illustrated with...

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-150783

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Alexander, Jules. [Ben Hogan]

The Hogan Mystique.

Greenwich, Connecticut: The American Golfer, 1994.

First edition of this photographic tribute to the golfing legend. Folio, original cloth, illustrated throughout with black and white photographs by Jules Alexander. Signed by Ben Hogan on the title pa...

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-152269

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Churchill, Winston S

The World Crisis 1916-1918.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927.

True first editions of the first two volumes of Churchill’s The World Crisis. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with numerous maps (many folding), charts, facsimiles, photographs. Near fine in...

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-103784

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Jordan, Michael

For the Love of the Game.

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Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front panel, “To Bill Happy 50th Birthday Hope you make it to 50 more Michael Jordan.” From the collection of Bill Zwecker, the former lon...

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-131781

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Hoover, Herbert

The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover: Years of Adventure 1874-1920; The Cabinet and the Presidency 1920-1933; The Great Depression 1929-1941: Three Volume Complete Set.

New York: MacMillan, 1951-1952.

First editions of each volume in Hoover’s memoirs. Octavo, 3 volumes, illustrated. Each volume is inscribed by Herbert Hoover on the front free endpaper. Each are near fine in near fine dust jackets....

$3,200.00 Item Number: RRB-94356

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Beveridge, Albert J. [Abraham Lincoln]

Abraham Lincoln: 1809-1858.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928.

Limited manuscript edition of this complex and revealing biography of one of the most popular Presidents of the United States. Octavo, four volumes bound in the publisher’s cherry-red three-quar...

$3,000.00 Item Number: RRB-146970

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Sanger, Margaret

My Fight For Birth Control.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated, 1931.

First edition of Sanger’s remarkable first autobiography with the publisher’s device to the copyright page. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with twenty black and white photographs. Bol...

$3,000.00 Item Number: RRB-129460

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