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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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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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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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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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Galbraith, John Kenneth

The Affluent Society.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1958.

First edition of the economist’s landmark work. Octavo, original cloth with titles to the spine in silver. Boldly signed by John Kenneth Galbraith on the front free endpaper. Laid in this book i...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-3855

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Gunther, John

Inside U.S.A.

New York: Harper & Brothers , 1947.

First edition of this classic work, “riveting from start to finish” (Robert Gottlieb, The New York Times). Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, pullout map. Boldly signed by Joh...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-134601

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Wilde, Oscar

The Works of Oscar Wilde. [Double Fore-Edge Painting].

London: Collins, 1931.

First Naschen edition of Oscar Wilde’s collected works, decorated with a concealed double fore-edge painting. Octavo, bound in twentieth-century light brown morocco with gilt titles and five raised ba...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-152272

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Kelly, Princess Grace and Prince Rainier III

Princess Grace and Prince Rainier of Monaco Signed Photograph.

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Rare photograph of Prince Rainier and Princess Grace holding United Nations pamphlets. Octavo, black and white photograph. Boldly signed by Princess Grace, “Grace de Monaco” and Prince Rainier, “Raini...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148715

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Knight, Hilary

Hilary Knight Original Christian LaCroix Watercolor Illustration.

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Rare original watercolor fashion illustration by American artist Hilary Knight for Vanity Fair. Knight was flown to Paris by Vanity Fair in 2006 to attend Paris Fashion Week, where he illustrated mode...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-95330

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Cobb, Humphrey [Kirk Douglas]

Paths of Glory.

New York: The Viking Press, 1935.

First edition of the author’s first and only book, the basis for Stanley Kubrick’s classic film, starring Kirk Douglas. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by both Humphrey Cobb and actor Kirk Douglas. Nea...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-89922

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Tartt, Donna

The Secret History.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.

First edition of this contemporary literary classic and “an accomplished psychological thriller…absolutely chilling” (Village Voice). Octavo, original illustrated boards. Presentatio...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-143517

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Russell, Bertrand

My Philosophical Development.

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1959.

First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author in which he summarizes his philosophical beliefs and explains how they changed during his life. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Bertrand...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-117453

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Hart, James V. and Francis Ford Coppola [Gary Oldman] [Bram Stoker]

Bram Stoker’s Dracula: the Film and the Legend.

New York: Newmarket Press, 1992.

First edition of this work basis for the film, starring Gary Oldman, Wynona Ryder and Anthony Hopkins. Quarto, original boards, illustrated. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the the author on...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151034

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Mundell, Robert A & Jacques J. Polak [Paul A. Volcker]

The New International Monetary System.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1977.

First edition of this collection of essays by the Nobel Prize-winning economist and father of the Euro currency. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Mundell a...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150267

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Gluck, Louise

Firstborn.

Oxford: Anvil Press Poetry, 1969.

Signed limited first edition of the Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning poet’s first book, one of only 50 numbered copies. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Louise Gluck on the half-title page. Fin...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-136043

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Knight, Hilary

Hilary Knight Original Vanity Fair Watercolor Illustration.

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Rare original watercolor fashion illustration by American artist Hilary Knight for Vanity Fair. Knight was flown to Paris by Vanity Fair in 2006 to attend Paris Fashion Week, where he illustrated mode...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-95327

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Eisenhower, Dwight D. and Mamie Doud Eisenhower

Dwight D. and Mamie Doud Eisenhower Signed Photograph.

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Photograph of Dwight D. and Mamie Eisenhower, boldly signed by each, “Dwight D. Eisenhower”, and signed, “Mamie Doud Eisenhower.” Double matted and framed. The entire piece mea...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-110337

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Watson, Richard

An Apology for the Bible; In a Series of Letters, Addressed to Thomas Paine, Author of a book entitled The Age of Reason, Part the Second, Being and Investigation of True and of Fabulous Theology.

Philadelphia: Printed for W. Young, Mills & Son, 1796.

Rare early printing of this response to Thomas Paine’s ‘The Age of Reason.’ Duodecimo, original full leather with gilt titles and ruling to the spine. In very good condition with rub...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146706

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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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