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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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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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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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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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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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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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Churchill, Winston S

Winston S. Churchill Typed Letter Signed.

10 Downing Street, Whitehall:, October 15, 1954.

Rare typed letter signed by Winston Churchill as Prime Minister to “Mrs. Martin.” Octavo, one page on Prime Minister Downing Street headed paper, the letter reads in full, “15”...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-146845

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Ellard, Harry

Baseball In Cincinnati: A History.

Cincinnati: Press of Johnson & Hardin, 1907.

First edition of this rare baseball work. One of 500 numbered examples, this copy is 309. Octavo, original cloth. Rubbing to the cloth extremities, one page has an old tape repair, in very good condit...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-3964

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Roosevelt, Eleanor and William DeWitt

UN: Today and Tomorrow.

New York: Harper and Brothers, Publishers, 1953.

First edition of this work on the United Nations by the former First Lady. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by Eleanor Roosevelt on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-22053

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Rowling, J.K. [Kennelworthy Whisp]

Quidditch: Through the Ages.

London: Bloomsbury/Whizz Hard Books, 2001.

First British edition of this “amazingly imaginative work” (Associated Press). Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Boldly signed by J.K. Rowling on the title page. In fine condition. Rare...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-148087

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Chaplin, Charlie

Charlie Chaplin Signed Photograph.

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Rare original photograph of a young Charlie Chaplin. Signed by Chaplin beneath his portrait, “Faithfully Chas Chaplin.” In fine condition. Double matted and framed. The photograph measures...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-95208

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Doyle, Arthur Conan

The Great Boer War.

London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1903.

Complete final edition of Arthur Conan Doyle’s work on the Boer War, which he revised sixteen times throughout the course of the war. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine, all edges...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-96130

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Conrad, Joseph

Lord Jim.

London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1900.

First edition of one of Conrad’s finest novels. Octavo, original cloth. First printing with the first issue points including the misprints “anyrate” p. 77, l. 5, “cure” (instea...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-144315

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Brown, John J

The American Angler’s Guide.

New York: Burgess, Stringer & Co, 1845.

First edition of the first angling book written in America. Small octavo, original brown cloth, gilt titles and tooling to the spin and front panel. In very good condition. Period name to the front fr...

$2,150.00 Item Number: RRB-88015

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