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The Everglades: River of Grass.

New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc, 1947.

First edition of this environmental classic and foundational text in American conservation literature about the Everglades. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the spine, pict...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151349

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Collins, Billy

Pokerface.

Los Angeles: Kenmore Press, 1977.

First edition of Collins’ first collection of poetry. Oblong octavo, original wrappers. One of 400 numbered copies, this is number 302. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title pa...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-140906

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Dickens, Charles

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1839.

First edition of one of Dickens’ most popular novels. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Morrell, ornate inlay to the spine, front and rear panels, raised bands, inner dentelles, illustrated with 40 pla...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-109263

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Illuminated Czech Prayer Book.

[Czech Republic]:, c. 1830.

Rare wonderfully illustrated Czech prayerbook. Duodecimo, bound in half leather over gray boards with approximately forty-five pages of added prayers appended and without all leaves before page twenty...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-146578

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Silverstein, Shel

The Giving Tree.

New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1964.

First edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, bound in full green morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt r...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150802

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Arlent-Edwards, Samuel

Samuel Arlent-Edwards Signed Izaak Walton Mezzotint Portrait.

:, c. 1898.

Rare mezzotint print of Samuel Arlent-Edwards’ portrait of Izaak Walton, inscribed by the artist. Folio, color mezzotint. Inscribed by Samuel Arlent-Edwards in the lower right corner, “Eng...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-132607

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Schultz, Gus; Paul Tibbets; George Caron; J. Robert Oppenheimer

Inspection Mirror That Built the Atomic Bomb Used By Oppenheimer’s Foreman Gus Schultz. [with] Paul Tibbets and George Caron Signed Photograph.

Los Alamos, New Mexico:, c. 1943-1945.

Inspection mirror used in the construction of the atomic bomb by Gus Schultz, foreman of the drafting room and machine shop at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project. Schultz was a key member of J. R...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148078

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Knight, Hilary. [Coco Chanel]

Hilary Knight Original Chanel Watercolor Illustration.

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Rare original watercolor fashion illustration by American artist Hilary Knight for Chanel. In an envelope affixed to the rear of the framed piece is the original tissue guard featuring an inscription...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-95329

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Alger, Horatio

The Five Hundred Dollar Check. [$500].

New York : United States Book Company, 1890.

First edition, first state of this rare novel. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece, illustrated. This book was produced by “Porter and Coates” in 1890 but acquired and released by “...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149449

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Hughes, Langston

The First Book of Africa.

New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1960.

First edition of Hughes’ concise history of Africa. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For the Ri...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-129607

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[Livingstone, David]

The Life and Explorations of David Livingstone, LL.D. Carefully Compiled From Reliable Sources.

London and Newcastle: The Tyne Publishing Company, Limited, c. 1875.

First edition of this magnificently illustrated and bound compendium of David Livingstone’s life and explorations. Folio, bound in full black morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six c...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151484

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Posner, Richard

Economic Analysis of Law.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1973.

First edition of the author’s groundbreaking work. Octavo, original cloth. Issued without a dust jacket. Signed by Richard Posner on the title page. In near fine condition, the text has some lig...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-3866

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Kazantzakis, Nikos

Christ Recrucified.

Athena:, 1954.

First Greek edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Nikos Kazantzakis on the copyright page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed.

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150226

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Roosevelt, Eleanor

Eleanor Roosevelt Signed Dollar Bill.

:, 1935.

Original series 1935 A one dollar silver certificate, boldly signed by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. In fine condition. The entire piece measures 15 inches by 12 inches. We have never seen another sig...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-133851

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Malamud, Bernard

Assistant.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1957.

First edition of Malamud’s second novel, which went on to win the Daroff Fiction Award from the Jewish Book Council of America and the Award of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Octav...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-100045

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de Balzac, Honoré [Czar Alexander II]

La Dernière Incarnation de Vautrin. [The Last Incarnation of Vautrin].

Paris: Chez Louis Chlendowski, 1848.

Finely bound edition of the final volume of ‘La Comédie Humaine’, from the library of Czar Alexander II of Russia. Octavo, three volumes bound in half crushed morocco over marbled boards w...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-145572

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Beerbohm, Max

The Works of Max Beerbohm.

London: William Heinemann, 1922-1928.

The Harlequin edition of the collected works of Max Beerbohm. Octavo, ten volumes bound in three quarter calf by Henry Sotheran Ltd. with gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gi...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-145008

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Crawford, Samuel W

Genesis of the Civil War: The Story of Sumter1860-1861.

New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1887.

Rare first edition of this classic work on the genesis of The Civil War. Octavo, original publisher’s green cloth, patterned endpapers, illustrated with tissue-guarded frontispiece, plans, map....

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150840

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Sikorsky, Igor; Eddie Rickenbacker; James H. Doolittle; Alford J. Williams; Anthony Fokker; Charles E. Rosendahl; Sherman Fairchild; Roscoe Turner; Thomas Sopwith; George Stainforth; Richard Atcherley; Clyde Pangborn; Ruth Nichols; Glenn L. Martin; Hugh Herndon, Jr; Frank Hawks; William A. Bishop; Giuseppe Mario Bellanca

Aviator Autograph Collection.

:, 1935-36.

Autograph collection with signatures from eighteen of the world’s famous aviation pioneers and fighter pilots. Octodecimo, eighteen pages mounted on carbon paper, the collection includes: postca...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147210

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Bernstein, Carl & Bob Woodward

All The President’s Men.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1974.

First edition, early printing of this groundbreaking work in American journalism. Octavo, original blue cloth, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by Carl Bernstein to his wife on the front free...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-140699

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Nehru, Jawaharlal

Inside America: A Voyage of Discovery.

New Dehli: National Book Stall, n/d.

First printing of this edition of this collection of speeches by Nehru in America. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Boldly signed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Jawaharlal Nehru...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-142442

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Wells, H.G. [Rebecca West]

The Autocracy of Mr. Parham: His Remarkable Adventures in this Changing World.

London: William Heinemann, 1930.

First edition, early printing of this novel which was praised by Bertrand Russell, inscribed by him to lover and fellow writer Rebecca West. Octavo, original cloth, with 10 illustrations by David Low....

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150810

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Wolfe, Tom [Ken Babbs]

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968.

First edition of the classic account of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters during their bus trip across America in the late 1960’s. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by Ken Kesey and fellow merry Pran...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149900

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Young, Brigham

Brigham Young Signed Utah Southern Railroad Company Check.

Salt Lake City, UT: Utah Southern Railroad Company, 1872.

Rare original Utah Southern Railroad Company uncashed check signed by Brigham Young. Partially printed document signed “Brigham Young” as President and “George Swan” as Secreta...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148327

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