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[Rudolph, Donald; Robert E. Simanek; John F. Baker; Ray Davis; Francis S. Currey; Charles A. MacGillivary; et al]

The Congressional Medal of Honor: The Names, The Deeds.

Forest Ranch, California: Sharp & Dunnigan Publications, 1984.

First edition of the complete record of recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor, from the Civil War through Vietnam. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, signed by 30 recipients of the Me...

$2,600.00 Item Number: RRB-142565

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Kerouac, Jack [John]

The Town and the City.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950.

First edition of Jack Kerouac’s first book. Octavo, original red cloth. Boldly signed by Lucien Carr, Carolyn Cassady, and Kennett Love on the front free endpaper, and by Helen Weaver on the tit...

$2,600.00 Item Number: RRB-149677

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Koolhaas, Rem

Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.

First edition of the Pritzker Prize-winning architect classic work. Folio, original cloth, illustrated endpapers, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Rem Koolhaas on the half-title page. Fine in...

$2,600.00 Item Number: RRB-150101

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Rand, Ayn

The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature.

New York: The World Publishing Company, 1969.

First edition of this collection of essays regarding the nature of art. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in five compartments within raise...

$2,600.00 Item Number: RRB-151966

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Dreyfus, Alfred; Colonel De Galle; Theodore Roosevelt; Emile Zola; [Eleanor Roosevelt]; [Ilya Trotzky]

Visiting Card Collection.

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Rare collection of seven printed visiting cards. The collection includes: Alfred Dreyfus, inscribed by him in ink, “avec tous les remerciements,” n.d., 2.25 inches by 3.8 inches; Colonel D...

$2,600.00 Item Number: RRB-146844

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Anderson, Maxwell

Key Largo: A Play in a Prologue and Two Acts.

Washington, D.C: Anderson House, 1939.

First edition of this classic fast-paced play in blank verse, basis for the 1948 film directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson and Lauren Bacall. Octavo, original cloth...

$2,600.00 Item Number: RRB-147690

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Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]

Life On The Mississippi.

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883.

First American edition, first state of this provocative portrait of the great Mississippi River with tailpiece of Twain in flames on p. 441 and “The St. Louis Hotel” caption on p. 443. Octavo, origina...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-142314

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Scott, Paul. [Charles Dance]

The Raj Quartet. [The Jewel in the Crown, The Day of the Scorpion, The Towers of Silence, A Division of the Spoils, Staying On].

London: Heinemann, 1966-1975.

Complete first edition set of “one of the most important landmarks of post-war fiction” (The Times). Octavo, five volumes, original cloth. Presentation copies, each volume inscribed by Bri...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-144627

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Svin'in, Pavel Petrovich (Paul Svinine)

Sketches of Russia.

London: Printed for R. Ackermann, 1814.

Scarce first edition of this sketch of Russian locations and historical figures. Octavo, bound in three quarter red calf over red cloth boards with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartme...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146468

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Porsche, Ferry

Ferry Porsche Signed Photograph.

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Rare photograph of Austrian technical automobile designer and entrepreneur. Glossy black and white photograph of Ferry Porsche at his desk. Signed by him in at the bottom of the photograph. In fine co...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151554

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Lessing, Doris

Martha Quest, A Proper Marriage, A Ripple from the Storm, Landlocked, The Four-Gated City.

London: Michael Joseph, 1952-1969.

First editions of the author’s Children of Violence Series. Octavo, 5 volumes. Original cloth. Each of the five volumes are signed by Doris Lessing. Near fine in very good to near fine dust jack...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-796

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Auden, W.H

Epistle To A Godson & Other Poems.

London: Faber and Faber, 1972.

First edition of this classic collection of poems. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by W.H. Auden on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed as Auden passed away a yea...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147744

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Detaille, Eduoard; Text by Jules Richard

L’Armee Francaise. Types et Uniformes.

Paris: Boussod et Valadon, 1885-89.

First edition of this wonderfully illustrated work. Large folios, 3 volumes. Elegantly bound in full red morocco, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, top edge gilt. Limited to 100 sets with the 2...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-4161

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Palladio, Andreas

Traicté des Cinq Ordres d’Architecture desquels se sont seruy les Anciens Traduit du Palladio Par Le Sr. Le Muet.

Paris: F.Langlois , 1645.

First edition of Le Muet’s free translation of Palladio’s treatise and the second edition of Le Muet’s L’Art de Bien Bastir, first published in 1623. Two volumes bound into one...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-96516

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Levi-Strauss, Claude

The Savage Mind.

Chicago: University of Chicago, 1966.

First edition in English of the author’s magnum opus. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Claude Levi- Strauss on the half-title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150252

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Medieval Gregorian Chant Manuscript.

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Rare medieval Gregorian chant manuscript on vellum with the “S” for Sanctus in elaborately illuminated in gilt. One page with text and illustrations on both the recto and verso. In very go...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149450

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Fitzpatrick, Percy

Jock of the Bushveld.

London: Longmans, Green and Company, 1913.

Early printing of this classic work. Octavo, original green cloth, gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Percy Fitzpatrick on the title page. I...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-119744

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Reagan, Ronald

Ronald Reagan Signed Photograph.

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Limited edition panoramic photograph of ‘The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library’ in Simi Valley, California. Glossy color 14.5 inch by 5 inch panoramic photograph of ‘The Ronald Reag...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146516

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[Hondius, Jodocus]

Terra Sancta quae in Sacris Terra Promissionis olim Palestina [Holy Land Map].

Amsterdam: Blaeu, Willem, 1629.

Copper engraved, hand-colored map of one of the most decorative maps of the Holy Land of the 17th century. One page with hand-colored borders, the map depicts the tribes of Israel and the route the Is...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147519

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Ralph Waldo Emerson Autograph Letter Signed.

:, 1864.

Autograph letter signed by Ralph Waldo Emerson. The letter reads, “Concord 8 Feb. 1864 Dear Mrs. Botta, In obedience to your request sent to me through my daughter, I enclose this paper. Yours f...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-64045

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Bunyan, John

The Pilgrim’s Progress From This World to that Which is to Come.

London: Routledge, Warne and Routledge, 1861.

Finely bound edition of one of the most significant works of religious English literature. Octavo, bound in full crushed teal levant morocco by Bayntun Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-139796

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King, Stephen

The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition.

New York: Doubleday, 1990.

The complete and uncut edition of one of the author’s best-known works being a complete and uncut version. Octavo, bound in original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on t...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150495

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Dickens, Charles

Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi. Edited by “Boz.”

London: Richard Bentley, 1838.

First edition of Dickens’ popular retelling of the memoirs of celebrated English clown Joseph Grimaldi. Octavo, two volumes bound in full polished calf by Root with morocco spine labels lettered...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148217

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Handel, George Frideric and Joseph Hayden

Celebrated Symphonies and Overtures of Joseph Haydn and George Frideric Handel.

London: I. Walsh, William Randall, C.S. Thompson, G. Walker, et al. Ossenbach sul Meno: Giovanni Andre, c. 1740-1815.

Rare collection of late 18th and early 19th century sheet music of the Celebrated Symphonies and Overtures of Joseph Haydn and George Frideric Handel. Quarto, bound in a variety of marbled wrappers an...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-112946

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