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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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Washington, Booker T

Tuskegee & Its People: Their Ideals and Achievements.

New York: D. Appleton and Co, 1906.

First edition, early printing of this overview of Tuskegee Institute. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “B. G. Hardwick from Booker T...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-130484

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Shaw, George Bernard

Everybody’s Political What’s What?

London: Constable and Company, 1944.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of Shaw. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “Inscribed for Professor Chen Yuam G. Bernard...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-148661

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Blume, Judy

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.

New York: Bradbury Press, 1970.

First edition, early printing of this landmark novel in the history of young adult literature. Octavo, original publisher’s boards. Boldly signed by the author on the half-title page, “Lov...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-148620

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Gunther, John

Death Be Not Proud.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1949.

First edition of this deeply moving book, a father’s memoir of a brave, intelligent, and spirited boy. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-143451

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Dickens, Charles

The Personal History of David Copperfield.

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1850.

First edition in book form of “the most perfect of all the Dickens novels” (Virginia Woolf). Octavo, bound in three quarters calf over marbled boards with black morocco spine label lettere...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-117844

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Asimov, Isaac

Life and Energy.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1962.

First edition of Asimov’s work on the chemistry of life processes. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Isaac Asimov on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by A...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-142652

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Nabokov, Vladimir

Laughter in the Dark.

Indianapolis/ New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1938.

First edition of this classic early Nabokov novel. Octavo, original green cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. An exceptional example.

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-151015

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Nicklaus, Jack with Herbert Warren Wind

Greatest Game of All: My Life in Golf.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1969.

First edition of the golfing legend’s autobiography, which includes six full chapters on instruction. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-150792

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Bush, George W. [Henry A. Kissinger; Dana Perino]

Decision Points.

New York: Crown Publishers, 2010.

First edition of George W. Bush’s autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by George W. Bush, Henry Kissinger and Bush’s White House Press Secretary Dana Peri...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-152100

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Cropper, James

Cobbett’s Weekly Political Register (January – May 1821) with Letters Addressed to William Wilberforce, M. P. Recommending the Encouragement of the Cultivation of Sugar in Our Dominions in the East Indies, as the Natural and Certain Means of Effecting the General and Total Abolition of the Slave-Trade.

Liverpool: James Smith, 1822.

First edition of this compilation of issues of Cobbett’s Register collected in 1821 bound together with Cropper’s letters to Wilberforce. Octavo, bound in three quarters calf over marbled...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-75022

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Di Maggio, Joe and Mickey Mantle

Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle Signed Photograph.

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Original black and white photograph of American baseball legends Joe Di Maggio and Mickey Mantle in New York Yankees uniform. Boldly signed by both Di Maggio and Mantle. In fine condition with a PSA/D...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-146708

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Aleman, Matheo

The Rogue: Or The Life of Guzman de Alfarache.

London: Printed for Edward Blount, 1623.

First edition in English of this seminal Spanish picaresque novel. Imperial octavo, written in English with a few leaves in Spanish, bound in full polished calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spi...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-151266

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Dickens, Charles; Illustrations by Marcus Stone

The Works of Charles Dickens [Including: Bleak House; A Tale of Two Cities; Little Dorrit; Great Expectations; Oliver Twist; A Christmas Carol; David Copperfield; Dombey & Son; The Old Curiosity Shop; Nicholas Nickleby].

London: Chapman and Hall, .

Complete set of Charles Dickens’ works. Octavo, 30 volumes, bound in three quarters leather over marbled boards, gilt tooling to the spine, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated througho...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-3144

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Wood, Gordon S

The Radicalism of the American Revolution.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.

First edition of this classic Pulitzer Prize-winning work that argues the Revolution was not a conservative defense against British taxation, but a deeply radical social transformation. Octavo, origin...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-152005

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Irving, John

The World According to Garp.

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1978.

First edition of Irving’s fourth novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page in a contemporary hand, “For John another world according to a water-met...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-15003

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Lee, Harper

To Kill A Mockingbird.

New York: HarperCollins, 1999.

First edition, first printing of the 40th Anniversary edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Harper Lee on the half-title page. Fine in a fine...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-147849

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Euripides; Translated by Robert Potter

The Tragedies of Euripides.

London: J. Dodsley, 1783.

First translation of Euripides into English, translated by Robert Potter, from his own library. Octavo, two volumes, bound in contemporary leather, engraved frontispiece to volume I, list of subscribe...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-135391

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Stone, Oliver and Zachary Sklar [Kevin Costner and Gary Oldman]

JFK: The Documented Screenplay.

New York: Applause Books, 1992.

First edition of this work which was the basis for the award-winning film, starring Kevin Cosner, Tommy Lee Jones and Gary Oldman. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Boldly signed by Oliver Stone...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-151402

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Claxton, William and Berendt, Joachim E

Jazzlife [Jazz Life].

Offenburg: Burda Druck und Verlag, 1961.

First edition of Claxton’s seminal photobook on jazz. Quarto, original black cloth, pictorial front endpapers. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. Presentation copy, inscribed by the p...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-393

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Mandela, Nelson

I Am Prepared to Die.

Kent: A.G. Bishop & Sons, Ltd, c. 1965.

Second edition of Mandela’s Rivonia Speech. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed and dated on the front panel, “NMandela 25.3.05.” In fine condition.

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-125089

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Woods, Tiger

How I Play Golf.

Boston: Warner Books, 2001.

First edition of this work in which the legendary Masters champion displays his techniques. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the half-title pag...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-1501000

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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...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-95328

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Chaplin, Charlie

Charlie Chaplin Signed Photograph.

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Rare original sepia-toned photograph of a young Charlie Chaplin, signed, “With Love Charles Aug 26th 14.” Signed along the left edge in white, “Witzel L.A.” for the photographe...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-145797

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