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Acts of the First General Assembly of the State of Missouri; Passed at the First Session, which was Begun and Held at the Town of Saint Louis…1820. [and] Acts of the First General Assembly of the State of Missouri; Passed at the Special Session, Began and Held at the Town of St. Charles…1821.

St. Louis / St. Charles: Isaac N. Henry / St. Charles, 1820-1821.

First editions of the first official printing of the Acts of Missouri’s 1820 First General Assembly and 1821 Special Session, two rare works marking a turning point in the constitutional and sec...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-152042

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Woolley, Edwin C. Revised and enlarged by Franklin W. Scott [Raymond Chandler]

New Handbook of Composition: Rules and Exercises.

Boston: D.C. Heath And Company, 1926.

Early printing of the most theoretical principles and practices of composition. 16mo, original wrappers. With a full page inscription from Raymond Chandler, which reads, “This book is interestin...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149037

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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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Ortelius, Abraham

La Florida. [The Earliest Separately Printed Map of Florida from Oretlius’ Theatrum Orbis Terrarum].

Antwerp: Abraham Ortelius, ca. 1592-1601.

Abraham Ortelius’ seminal map of Florida and the North American south with additional maps of Central and South America from the 1609 Spanish edition of Oretlius’ Theatrum Orbis Terrarum....

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151236

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Stafford, Tom; Wally Schirra; James Lovell; Frank Borman

Tom Stafford, Wally Schirra, James Lovell, and Frank Borman Signed Photograph.

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Rare photograph of the Gemini 6 and 7 rendezvous. Color, satin-finish photograph of the Gemini 6 and 7 rendezvous, boldly signed in blue and black felt tip by the Gemini 6 and 7 crews: “Photo by...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145378

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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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Heath, Dave

A Dialogue With Solitude.

New York: Community Press, 1965.

First edition of the photographer’s seminal work, one of the great photobooks of the second half of the twentieth century. Tall quarto, original gray cloth. Signed by Dave Heath on the half-titl...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-1763

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Conway, Moncure Daniel

Testimonies Concerning Slavery.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1864.

First edition of Conway’s powerful abolitionist work, published only one year after he left America at the height of the Civil War to continue his fight against slavery in England. Octavo, origi...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-152037

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Chatwin, Bruce

In Patagonia.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1977.

First edition of author’s most well-known work and one of the great travel books of the last half of the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece map and 4 black and white photographic...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-44025

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Spielberg, Steven. Photographs by David James; [Tom Hanks]

Saving Private Ryan: A Film by Steven Spielberg.

New York: Newmarket Press, 1999.

First edition of the illustrated book companion to the Academy Award-winning film. Quarto, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated with photographs by David James. Presentation copy, inscribed by S...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-132619

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Hemingway, Ernest

A Farewell To Arms.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929.

First edition, first issue of this early Hemingway classic, which established him among the American masters. Octavo, original black cloth with gilt labels to the spine and front panel. First issue wi...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148052

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Truman, Harry S

Harry Truman Signed Photograph.

:, 1957.

Large black and white photograph of the Senate Committee investigation headed by Harry Truman into the $40 million contract for wartime planes with Howard Hughes and Henry J. Kaiser, lengthily inscrib...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-94776

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Colwell, Stephen [Peter Cooper]

The Ways and Means of Payment: A Full Analysis of the Credit System, With Its Various Modes of Adjustment.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co, 1859.

First edition of this detailed critique of the 19th-century credit system. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the fron...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148629

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Williams, Ted and Jim Thorpe

Ted Williams and Jim Thorpe Signed Photograph.

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Rare original photograph of Olympic Gold medalist Jim Thorpe and Baseball Hall of Famer Ted Williams smiling together at the New England Sportsman’s and Boat Show in 1952. Signed by both William...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-96152

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Kirk, Charlie

Right Wing Revolution: How to Beat the Woke and Save the West.

: Winning Team Publishing, 2024.

First edition of this work by the founder of Turning Point USA, the leading political youth organization in the country, which reaches 100’s of million people per month, and Axios has named Char...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150542

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Schmutzer, E. [Stephen Hawking]

Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation . . Jena, 14-19 July 1980.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.

First edition of this work on relativity and gravitation. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of Stephen Hawking with his name written on the front free endpaper. Stephen Hawking was a theoretica...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-119378

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McMurtry, Larry

Lonesome Dove; Streets of Laredo; Dead Man’s Walk; Comanche Moon.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985-1997.

First editions of each novel in the author’s Pulitzer-Prize Lonesome Dove series. Octavo, four volumes, original half cloth. Each are signed or inscribed by Larry McMurtry. Each are near fine to...

$3,400.00 Item Number: RRB-151613

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Schelling, Thomas C

The Strategy of Conflict.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1960.

First edition of this work that pioneered the study of bargaining and strategic behavior. Octavo, original yellow cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Roger...

$3,400.00 Item Number: RRB-89467

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London, Jack

White Fang.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1906.

First edition of London’s beloved novel. Octavo, original pictorial cloth with white and gilt lettering, pictorial endpapers. Tissue-guarded frontispiece and 7 color plates by Charles Livingston...

$3,250.00 Item Number: RRB-149996

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Hutchinson, Horace G

Hints on the Game of Golf.

Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1886.

First edition one of the earliest books on golf instruction and the impetus for all other books of instruction on the game. Small octavo, original cloth, publishers advertisements before the half titl...

$3,250.00 Item Number: RRB-95902

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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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McCarthy, Cormac

The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses; The Crossing; Cities of the Plain.

New York: Everyman's Library, 2008.

First edition of McCarthy’s classic trilogy, appearing here in one volume for the first time. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author, “For Tom and Corinn...

$3,250.00 Item Number: RRB-145835

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Wharton, Edith

The Age of Innocence.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1920.

First edition of the author’s Pulitzer-Prize winning novel. Octavo, original red cloth. In very good with some light toning to the spine. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.

$3,250.00 Item Number: RRB-92355

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Young, Brigham

Brigham Young Signed Document.

Salt Lake City:, 1872.

Brigham Young signed document as President of the Utah Central Railroad Company, ordering the treasurer of the UCRC to pay $13 to C.W. Penrose, with Penrose’s signature on verso. The entire piec...

$3,250.00 Item Number: RRB-123738

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