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Bush, George H.W.; Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justice Sandra Day O'Connor

President George Bush, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Associate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor Signed 1989 Inaugural Invitation.

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President George H.W. Bush, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Associate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor Signed 1989 Inaugural Invitation. 8.5″ x 11″; Washington, D.C.; with First Da...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-74988

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Mandela, Nelson; Jesse Jackson

Nelson Mandela and Jesse Jackson Signed Photograph.

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Photograph of civil rights leaders Nelson Mandela and Jesse Jackson. Glossy black and white photograph of Mandela and Jackson sitting next to each other. Boldly signed by Mandela in black felt tip on...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-148764

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Joyce, James

Finnegans Wake.

New York: The Viking Press, 1939.

First American edition, one of 6000 copies printed. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a few chips to the spine. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase.

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-106753

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Clews, Henry

Twenty-Eight Years In Wall Street.

New York: Irving Publishing Company, 1888.

First edition of Clews’ classic work. Thick octavo, original green cloth, with titles to the spine in gilt and engraved frontispiece and nearly 50 portrait plates. Presentation copy, inscribed b...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-46042

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Haise, Fred and Jack Lousma

Fred Haise and Jack Lousma Signed Apollo 13 Revised Trajectory Panoramic Print.

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Semi-glossy color panoramic photo print of the revised trajectory of the Apollo 13 mission, signed by Apollo 13 Lunar Module pilot Fred Haise in silver ink, “Fred Haise, Apollo 13 LMP, ‘Sp...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-145825

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Roosevelt, Eleanor & Helen Ferris

Partners: The United Nations and Youth.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1950.

First edition of this work which tells the dramatic story of the United Nations. Small quarto, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Inscribed by Eleanor Roosevelt on the half-title page,...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-62052

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Emïn, Joseph; Amy Apcar [Editor]

The Life and Adventures of Joseph Emïn 1726-1809, an Armenian.

Calcutta: Printed and Published by the Baptist Mission Press, 1918.

English translation of 18th-century autobiography detailing the life of an Armenian patriot dedicated to liberating his people from Persian and Ottoman rule. Royal octavo, two volumes, original publis...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-150768

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Colton, George Woolworth and Charles B

Colton’s Map of Florida.

New York: J. H. Colton, 1872.

Rare hand-colored lithographed pocket map of Florida with an inset of the Keys. One page, with hand-colored borders and counties, the map folds into the publisher’s original 16 mo. cloth binding...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-127045

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Hemingway, Ernest

Winner Take Nothing.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933.

First edition of Hemingway’s third collection of short stories. Octavo, original black cloth. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase. A very nice presentation.

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-142401

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Robinson, Jackie; Duke Snider; Clyde King

Jackie Robinson, Duke Snider, and Clyde King Signed Baseball.

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Rare Lively Center official baseball signed by legends Jackie Robinson, Duke Snider, and Clyde King. In very good condition. Housed in a custom acrylic display case.

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-149851

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Putnam, Hilary [Daniel Bell]

Meaning and the Moral Sciences.

London:, 1978.

First edition of this work by Hilary Putnam. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Hilary Putnam on the front free endpaper. From the library of Harvard colleague Daniel Bell, with his signature above Put...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-19096

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Pynchon, Thomas

Gravity’s Rainbow.

New York : The Viking Press, 1973.

First edition, early printing of Pynchon’s National Book Award-winning novel. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments w...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-151452

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[Washington; George; Benjamin Franklin]

The Apotheosis of Franklin and Washington Printed Textile.

:, c. 1785-1790.

Rare copperplate-printed toile fragment from the popular eighteenth-century English pattern “The Apotheosis of Franklin and Washington.” The fragment features a copper-plate printed portra...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-139191

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Dickens, Charles

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit.

London: London: Chapman and Hall, 1839.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, gilt medallion portrait of Dickens on the front panel, gilt si...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-130567

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Hund, Wiguleus

Metropolis Salisburgensis.

Ingolstadt: David Sartor, 1582.

First edition of this important work on Bavaria and northern Italy, covering the history of churches and monasteries in that region including Freising, Regensburg, Passau and Brixen. Adams H-1161. Fol...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-76088

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Boccaccio, Giovanni

Il Decameron Di Messer Giovanni Boccacci, Tratto dall’ ottimo Testo scritto Da Francesco D’Amaretto Mannelli Sull’Originale Dell’Autor.

1813: Vitarelli, Venezia.

Finely bound 19th century Venetian printing of Boccaccio’s masterpiece. 12mo, five volumes bound in full straight grain morocco with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in five compart...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-149651

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Shaara, Michael

The Killer Angels.

New York: David Mckay, 1974.

First edition of Shaara’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth, maps by Don Pitcher. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. Rare and desirable in thi...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-146142

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Dickens, Charles

Dombey and Son.

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848.

First edition in book form of Dickens’ novel of “Pride,” with 40 etchings by Hablôt Knight Browne (“Phiz”). Octavo, bound in full morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, rais...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-130507

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Muir, John

Travels in Alaska.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915.

First edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original grey cloth lettered in white, color illustrated paper cover label, top edge gilt. Illustrated with several plates from photographs, i...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-139821

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Churchill, Winston S

My African Journey.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1908.

First edition of this early Churchill travelogue. Octavo, original bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, illustrated, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gi...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-150176

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King, Stephen

The Dark Half.

New York: The Viking Press, 1989.

First edition of this novel by the author of The Shining. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Stephen King on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, name to the front fre...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-144694

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Durrell, Lawrence

Clea.

London: Faber & Faber , 1969.

First edition of the author’s final novel in his classic Alexandria Quartet. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “Inscribed for Lewis Lawr...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-124897

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Yeats, W.B. Edited by Peter Allt and Russel K. Alpach [William Butler]

The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W.B. Yeats.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1957.

The Variorum signed limited edition of this classic collection of poetry by the Nobel Prize-winning author, one of 825 numbered copies signed by the poet. Large octavo, original half cloth, original s...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-149136

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