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If I Die In a Combat Zone, Box Me Up & Ship Me Home.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1973.

First edition of O’Brien’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Tim O’Brien on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Wendell Minor. Photograph...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-142299

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Ben-Gurion, David

Shderot D. Ben Gurion [David Ben-Gurion Boulevard].

Israel:, .

Rare original Israeli boulevard sign named after the first Prime Minister of Israel. Blue metal street sign written in Hebrew, “Boulevard D. Ben-Gurion.” In very good condition. Framed, th...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148070

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Rand, Ayn. [Annie Dillard]

Night of January 16th.

New York and Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1968.

First edition in book form of the successful Broadway play by the author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Ayn Rand on the front free endpaper. From...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151371

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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-145865

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Haise, Fred; Jim Lovell

Jim Lovell and Fred Haise Signed Apollo 13 Saturn V Launch Vehicle Emergency Procedure Manual.

: Prepared for Launch Vehicle Operations by the Boeing Company Atlantic Test Center Saturn V - Launch Operations, March 10, 1970.

Rare NASA Apollo 13 Saturn V Launch Vehicle Emergency Procedure Manual signed by Apollo 13 Mission Commander Jim Lovell and Lunar Module Pilot Fred Haise. Quarto, original wrappers, contains approxima...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146265

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Gilman, Charlotte Perkins [Stetson]

In This Our World.

Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1899.

Second edition of Gilman’s first collection of poetry, coupled with almost eighty previously uncollected pieces. Duodecimo, enclosed in a handsewn black silk cover, tissue-guarded frontispiece p...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146575

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Fleming, Ian

The Spy Who Loved Me.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1962.

First edition of the ninth novel in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series. Octavo, original black cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Chopping. A very sharp example.

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151427

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Howitt, Margaret. [Fredrika Bremer]

Twelve Months with Fredrika Bremer in Sweden.

London: Jackson, Walford, and Hodder, 1866.

First edition of Howitt’s work on the twelve months she spent with close friend and writer Fredrika Bremer. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine and fr...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-124150

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Nathaniel Hawthorne Signed Document.

Port of Liverpool:, 1854.

Rare original Naval “Oath of the Master and Mate” document signed by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Printed “Consul’s Certificate” accomplished in manuscript and signed in ink...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151822

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Remington, Frederic

John Ermine of the Yellowstone.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1902.

First edition of this thought-provoking work of a young Native American man who is torn between his traditional way of life and the rapidly changing world around him. Octavo, original cloth, frontispi...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148081

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Chadwick, Mark [Peter Thomson; Rory McIlroy; Gary Player; Arnold Palmer; et al]

“St Andrews – Home of Golf” Print Signed by Twenty-One Open Champions.

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Rare 1973 limited-edition color art print of Mark Chadwick’s “St Andrews – Home of Golf” showing the approach to the 18th hole on the “Old Course.” Boldly signed by twent...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-152086

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Dai, Bao

World League of Peace Manuscript Document Signed By Vietnam Emperor Bao Dai.

:, c. 1925-1932.

Original World League of Peace manuscript document signed by the last ruling emperor of the Nguyen dynasty of Vietnam, Emperor Bao Dai. Folio, one page, manuscript document in French, docketed on vers...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148417

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Cruise, Tom; Jeanne Tripplehorn; Sydney Pollack [Director]; John Grisham [Author]

The Firm Signed Half-Title Page and Theatrical Poster.

: Paramount Pictures Corporation, .

Theatrical release poster for John Grisham’s classic legal thriller, The Firm, basis for the classic film. Framed with a half-title page from Grisham’s novel of the same name and boldly signed b...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148623

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Garvey, Robert. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak

Good Shabbos, Everybody.

: United Synagogue of America, 1951.

First edition of this charming picture book celebrating the Shabbat, with early illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Quarto, original pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers. Boldly signed by Maurice Sendak...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150171

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Malamud, Bernard

The Fixer.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966.

First edition of the author’s fourth novel, which went on to win the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-tit...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-99846

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Dickens, Charles

The Personal History of David Copperfield.

London: Bradbury & Evans, 1850.

First edition in book form of “the most perfect of all the Dickens novels” (Virginia Woolf). Octavo, bound in three quarter calf over marbled boards by Henry Sotheran, morocco spine label...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149762

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Eliot, George

The Works of George Eliot.

Boston: Dana Estes & Company, n.d..

The Arbury edition of the works of George Eliot. Octavo, 24 volumes bound in three quarter half russet crushed morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-144866

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Salinger, J.D

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1963.

First edition of this collection of two novellas by the author of The Catcher in the Rye. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150818

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Carter, Jimmy and Menachem Begin

Photograph Signed by Jimmy Carter and Menachem Begin.

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Photograph signed by President Jimmy Carter and Prime Minister Menachem Begin on the front panel. The photograph is of Carter and Begin in The White House with their cabinets. The photograph is stampe...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-123824

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[Lloyd George, David]

The Scottish Countryside Being the Report of the Scottish Liberal Land Inquiry Committee 1927-1928.

[Edinburgh]: Published by The Scottish Liberal Federation, 1928.

First edition of the 1928 report of the Scottish Liberal Land Inquiry Committee. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Presen...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151324

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Dana, Richard Henry

To Cuba and Back.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1859.

First edition of this classic travelogue that reveals the character of pre-Spanish American war Cuba. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author,...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147922

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Forester, C.S

The African Queen.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1935.

First edition, early printing of C.S. Forester’s beloved African adventure, basis for John Huston’s 1951 Oscar-winning film starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. Octavo, original cloth. Sign...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-132321

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Mason, Robert. [Peter Matthiessen]

Chickenhawk.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1983.

The Easton Press edition of Mason’s classic first book, one of the finest about the Vietnam War. Octavo, bound in full leather with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in four compartments with...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-152157

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Yoshida, Hatsusaburo

Guide to the Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan (1931); Kumamoto-ken.

Kumamoto: O Aso Kokuritsu Koen Kyokai, 1931.

First edition of this photobook of the Kumamoto Prefecture. Quarto, original velvet bound, copiously illustrated with gravure photo pages with captions and text, occasional mounted gravure photos, all...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-86877

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