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Miracle On 34th Street.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1947.

First edition of this modern Christmas classic. Octavo, original red cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with the first edition point of “Double Your Enjoyment” on the rear panel....

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149673

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Banks, Lynne Reid

The Indian In The Cupboard.

London: J.M. Dent, 1980.

First edition of the author’s classic novel and one that has went on to sell over 10 million copies. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Robin Jacques. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150896

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Sharma, Robin S

The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny.

San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1997.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To David- Live life fully! Warmly Robin Sharma.” Fine in a f...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147742

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Maximilian, Emperor Ferdinand

Estatuto Provisional del Imperio Mexicano.

Mexico: Imprenta de Andrade y Escalante, 1865.

Rare first edition pamphlet declaring the provisional laws of Mexico declared by Emperor Ferdinand Maximilian at the start of his brief three-year reign. Octavo, original wrappers, six pages. Text in...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-89060

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Melville, Herman

Omoo.

London: John Murray, 1847.

First British edition, which precedes the American edition of this classic Melville work Omoo. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition, bookplate to the front pastedown. BAL 13656. Uncommon in...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-144152

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Forty-Five Star American Flag.

:, [c. 1896].

Rare forty-five star American Flag. The forty-five star American Flag was in use between July 4, 1896 when the state of Utah was admitted into the Union and July 3, 1908 when Oklahoma was admitted as...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-133095

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Thaw, Harry K

The Traitor: Being the Untampered with, Unrevised Account of the Trial and All That Led to It.

Philadelphia: Dorrance and Company, 1926.

First edition of this memoir of one of the most sensational scandals of twentieth century America. Octavo, original red cloth, frontispiece, illustrated with black and white photographs. Lengthily sig...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148434

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Nash, John F.; Edited by Harold W. Kuhn and Sylvia Nasar

The Essential John Nash.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.

First edition of this volume which compiles John Nash’s most well-known papers. Octavo, original black cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by Nash on the half-title page, “For...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-103443

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Kama Sutra.

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Illustrated Sanskrit manuscript of the definitive ancient Indian Hindu guide to the philosophy of love and desire. Late 19th century or earlier, bound accordion style. Twenty-three leaves, Sanskrit te...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148932

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Churchill, Winston S

Steg for Steg 1936-1939. [Step by Step 1936-1939]. [Winston Churchill’s Copy]

Stockholm: Skoglunds Bokforlag, 1939.

First Swedish edition and Churchill’s own copy of the last book he published before the outbreak of the Second World War. Octavo, in the publisher’s rare full morocco presentation binding...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-146028

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Collins, Michael

Michael Collins Signed Lunar Module Eagle Oversized Photograph.

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Oversized photograph of LMP Buzz Aldrin and the Lunar Module Eagle. Glossy color oversized photograph of LMP Buzz Aldrin working next to the Lunar Module Eagle during the Apollo 11 mission, with the S...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-145781

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Rawls, John

John Rawls Autograph Letter Signed.

Cambridge, Massachusetts:, January 14, 1985.

Rare autograph letter signed by one of the most influential political philosophers of the 20th century. Small octavo, one page on Harvard University Department of Philosophy letterhead, the text reads...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-146554

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Roosevelt, Franklin D

Franklin D. Roosevelt Signed Presidential Cruise Pamphlets.

City of Washington: Published by the Smithsonian Institution, 1939.

First editions of two zoological pamphlets published as a result of collections and investigations made during Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Presidential Cruise of 1938 to the Galapagos, both being presenta...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-146601

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Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater or Pearls Before Swine.

New York: Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1965.

First edition of the author’s fifth novel, a classic satire, which introduces the reader to Kilgore Trout. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed “Kurt Vonnegut Feb. 26 2000” on...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147951

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Kennedy, Jacqueline

Jacqueline Kennedy Signed White House Print.

:, 1961.

White House photographic print taken in 1961 by White House photographer Cecil Stoughton. Boldly signed by Jacqueline Kennedy at the lower left. Stoughton took multiple photos in front of the White Ho...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-28045

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Lindbergh, Charles A

Charles Lindbergh Signed Photograph.

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Black and white photograph of Charles A. Lindbergh in his flying gear, inscribed by Lindbergh, “To Ms. Elizabeth Reynolds Sincerely, Charles A. Lindbergh.” In fine condition. Matted and fr...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-89010

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Wodehouse, P.G

The Clicking of Cuthbert.

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1926.

Early printing of this classic collection of short stories. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To James Douglas With the author...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-124787

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Shirer, William L

Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent, 1934-1941.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1941.

First edition of this classic work, “the most complete news report yet to come out of war time Germany” (Time). Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by William L. Shirer on the front free...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148007

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Bagby, George W. [Moses Adams]

For Virginians Only: What I Did With My Fifty Millions.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co, 1874.

Rare first edition of this satirical novel from popular Virginia physician, essayist, and author George W. Bagby. Sextodecimo, original wrappers. In very good condition. Toning to the wrappers with ru...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147740

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de Poncins, Gontran. In collaboration with Lewis Galantiere. Illustrated by the author

Kabloona.

New York: Reynal, Hitchcock, Inc, 1941.

First limited edition of French adventurer Gontran de Poncins’ classic account of his solo unsupported journey in the Canadian Arctic. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over cloth covered...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-95094

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Melville, Herman

White Jacket; or the World in a Man-Of-War.

New York: Harper and Brothers, Publishers, 1850.

First edition, first printing with 6pp. of publisher’s advertisements, brown cloth with Harper and Brothers New York stamped at center. In very good condition, previous ownership inscription, bookplat...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-144154

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Dyson, Freeman J

Infinite in All Directions: Gifford Lectures Given at Aberdeen, Scotland April–November 1985.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1988.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Lengthily signed by the author on the half-title page with a quote from this work, “The expansion of life and mankind into the univers...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-117097

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Ford, Gerald R. Sidey, Hugh; Fred Ward [Photographer]

Portrait of a President.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1975.

First edition of this intimate, behind-the-scenes look at President Gerald R. Ford during his early days in office. Square octavo, original publisher’s cloth with a vignette of the Whitehouse st...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151131

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Blatty, William Peter

The Exorcist.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1971.

First edition of Blatty’s landmark horror novel, basis for the 1973 film. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by William Peter Blatty and actress Kitty Winn, who starred in the film on the fro...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147119

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