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Michael Jackson Signed 1988 Wembley Stadium Bad Tour Polo T-Shirt.

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1988 Wembley Stadium Bad Tour polo t-shirt signed by Michael Jackson. The t-shirt is a size small with printed text on the verso of the shirt, ‘Pepsi Presents Michael Jackson Live in London Wemb...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-144350

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Churchill, Winston S

Arms and the Covenant. Speeches by The Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill. Compiled by Randolph S. Churchill.

London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1938.

First edition of this important collection of Churchill’s speeches. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-149282

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Hurston, Zora Neale

Moses, Man on the Mountain.

New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1939.

First edition of this classic retelling of Moses’ exodus. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles to the spine, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, raised bands,...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-141712

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Chennault, Claire Lee; Robert Hotz [Editor]

Way of a Fighter: The Memoirs of Claire Lee Chennault.

Tucson, Arizona: James Thorvardson & Sons, 1991.

Limited edition of this autobiographical account of Chennault’s military career. Octavo, original green cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with black and white photographs. Boldly signed on th...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-149141

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von Mises, Ludwig

Die Gemeinwirtschaft: Untersuchungen uber den Sozialismus.

Verlag von Gustav Fischer: Jena, 1922.

First German edition of this early work by von Mises. Octavo, bound in cloth. In near fine condition. The English translation appeared in 1936, as Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis.

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-6001

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Fleming, Ian

Thunderball.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1961.

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 art by Richard Chopping. A bright example.

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-149913

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Pinter, Harold [Alan Schneider]

Tea Party and Other Plays.

London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1967.

First edition of Pinter’s collection of three plays originally written for television. Duodecimo, original cloth. A remarkable association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publicatio...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-152191

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Truman, Harry S

The Economic Reports of the President: As Transmitted to the Congress January 1948, January 1947, July 1947.

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1948.

First edition of this compilation of three of Truman’s most memorable economic reports. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author opposite the title page, “Most sincerely Harry Truman....

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-139753

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Segal, Erich [Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal]

Love Story.

New York, Evanston, and London: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1970.

First edition, early printing of the author’s best-selling novel, a “sweet, sad, and, in its closing sentences, startlingly sentimental” work (John Barkham). Octavo, original cloth....

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-147308

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Bishop, Elizabeth

North Haven: In Memoriam Robert Lowell.

Northridge, CA: Richard Bigus for the Lord John Press, 1979.

Memorial broadside, signed by Elizabeth Bishop, one of only 150 examples. It measures 21 inches by 14.5 inches. Framed, signature lightly faded, small stain to the bottom edge. Rare.

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-143985

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Karsten, Karl G

Charts and Graphs: An Introduction to Graphic Methods In the Control and Analysis of statistics.

New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1923.

First edition of this seminal work on charts and graphs. Octavo, original leatherette boards, illustrated throughout. Introduction by Carl Snyder. In very good condition with some light rubbing to the...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-67089

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Kipling, Rudyard

Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1910.

Signed limited edition of the collected verse of Rudyard Kipling, beautifully illustrated by W. Heath Robinson. Quarto, bound in three quarters crushed levant morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-141581

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Morrison, Toni

Sula.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s second novel. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Toni Morrison in a contemporary hand on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-141498

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Malamud, Bernard

The 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...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-112915

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Martin, George R.R

A Game of Thrones; A Clash of Kings; A Storm of Swords; A Feast for Crows; A Dance with Dragons.

New York: Bantam Books, 1996-2011.

First editions of each of the five volumes in the author’s classic Game of Thrones series. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers. Each volume is fine in near fine to fine dust jackets. A...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-148293

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Fowles, John

The Magus.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1966.

First edition of the author’s most well-known work. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-143508

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Armstrong, Neil

Neil Armstrong Signed Photograph.

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Original color photograph of Neil Armstrong, boldly inscribed by him, “To ___ ____ _____- Congratulations on a century of achievement Neil Armstrong.” Double matted and framed. The entire...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-117575

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Browning, Robert

Balaustion’s Adventure: Including a Transcript From Euripides.

London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1871.

First edition of this poetic retelling of Euripides’ ‘Alkestis’ by Victorian poet Robert Browning. Octodecimo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and decorative borders sta...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-147688

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Tibbets, Paul W

Paul Tibbets Signed B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay Model.

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Rare limited edition B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay model on stand. Hand painted 1/72 scale model of the Enola Gay with a 23.5 inch wingspan and accompanied by four attachable propellors, each measuring...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-148418

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de Beauvoir, Simone

The Mandarins.

Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1956.

Signed limited edition and first English edition of the novel for which de Beauvoir won the Prix Goncourt, awarded to the best and most imaginative prose work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-137901

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Maugham, W. Somerset

On A Chinese Screen.

London: William Heinemann, 1922.

First edition of this classic travel book by the author of The Razor’s Edge. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Edward Wasse...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-116152

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Elizabeth II, Queen and King Gustaf VI Adolf Bernadotte

Queen Elizabeth II and King Gustaf VI Adolf Bernadotte Signed Swedish Guestbook from 1956 State Visit.

Stockholm:, 1956.

Guestbook signed by Queen Elizabeth II on a state visit to Sweden in 1956. Royal octavo, bound in full leather decoratively rimmed with black leather ribbon, 28 pages of signatures, inscriptions, and...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-145324

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Matheson, Richard

I Am Legend.

New York: Walker and Company, 1954.

First hardcover edition of Matheson’s “instant classic,” his groundbreaking treatment of “a traditional horror theme in a science-fictional manner” (Horror 100 Best, 162)...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-149894

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott

The Beautiful and the Damned.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922.

First edition, first state of the author’s second novel. Octavo, original green cloth, titles to the spine in gilt. Near fine in a very good second issue dust jacket with some unnecessary tape r...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-119223

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