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Margaret Mitchell Signed Letters.

:, 1941-42.

Two letters signed in full by Margaret Mitchell, author on the classic Gone With the Wind. Both letters addressed to Rear Admiral Edward J. Marquart and his wife, one dated December 26, 1941, the othe...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-21082

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Roosevelt, Eleanor

This Is My Story.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1937.

Signed limited large-paper edition of Eleanor Roosevelt’s first autobiography. Quarto, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in five compartments...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151877

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Despard, Charlotte. With an Appreciation by Christopher St. John

Woman in the New Era.

London: The Suffrage Shop, 1910.

First edition of Charlotte Despard’s impassioned feminist tract. Octavo, original wrappers. With an Appreciation by Christopher St. John. In good condition. Exceptionally rare with no other copi...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-135290

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Tolstoy, Leo

Where Love Is, There God Is Also.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. Publishers, 1887.

First American edition in English of Tolstoy’s short story in reference to the Catholic hymn Ubi Caritas. Small octavo, original cloth with elaborate gilt tooling to the front panel. Translated...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-96100

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Wharton, Edith

Ethan Frome.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911.

First edition, first issue with “wearily” in perfect type on penultimate line of page 135 and with four pages of publisher’s advertisements at rear, of Wharton’s greatest tragic story, a “grim tale of...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-99339

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Hesketh, Henry

Piety the Best Rule of Orthodoxy. Or, an Essay Upon this Proposition: That the Conduciveness of Doctrines to Holiness or Vice, is the best Rule for private Christians to judge the Truth or Falshood of them by.

London: Printed by Walter Kettilby, at the Bishops-Head in S. Paul's Church-yard, 1680.

Rare first edition of Hesketh’s classic essay. 12mo, bound in full contemporary mottled calf with gilt tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised bands, gilt turn-ins, all edges mar...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-140234

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Salter, James

The Hunters.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956.

First edition of the author’s first novel and landmark in the literature of war. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by James Salter on the title page. Fine in a very good dust jacket with some wear to the...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-117479

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Huxley, Aldous

Eyeless In Gaza.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1927.

Signed limited edition of what is considered by many to be Huxley’s definitive work of fiction. Octavo, original cloth. Number 108 of 200 numbered copies, signed by Aldous Huxley. In near fine c...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-117342

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Wright, Richard

12 Million Black Voices: A Folk History of the Negro in the United States.

New York: The Viking Press, 1941.

First edition of this powerful work by the author of The Native Son, featuring photographs by Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange and Ben Shahn. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Boldly sign...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-119447

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Freud, Sigmund

Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics.

New York: Moffat, Yard and Company, 1918.

First American edition of Freud’s classic collection of Wilhelm Wundt and Carl Jung inspired essays. Octavo, original light blue cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket, ownership inscriptio...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-147070

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Kundera, Milan

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980.

First edition of the novel that brought Kundera his first big international success. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by Milan Kundera on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacke...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-131074

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Curtius Rufus, Quintus

De Rebus Alexandri Magni, Cum Commentario Perpetuo & Indice Absolutissimo Samuelis Pitisci. [History of Alexander the Great].

Utrecht: Apud Franciscum Halma, 1685.

Rare 17th century printing of Rufus’ celebrated history of Alexander the Great. Octavo, bound in full vellum, with engraved title, folding map and 9 engraved plates (some folding) depicting the...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-131499

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Frank, Anne

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.

London: Constellation Books, 1952.

Rare first British edition of “one of the wisest and most moving commentaries on war” (Eleanor Roosevelt). Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spi...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151624

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Samuelson, Paul A.; Robert M. Solow; Robert Dorfman

Linear Programming and Economic Analysis.

New York: McGraw-Hill Company, Inc, 1958.

First edition of this classic text. Octavo, original gray cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed Paul Samuelson to colleague and close friend Francis Bator on the front free endpaper, “With thanks...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-88234

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Vidal, Gore [Anais Nin]

The City and the Pillar. [with] Gore Vidal Signed Dedication Page To Anais Nin.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1948.

First edition of this landmark novel, from the library of Anais Nin. Octavo, original black cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Accompanied by a clipped dedication page that reads, “For...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-144891

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The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church. According to the Use of the Church of England. Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches: And the Form and Manner of Making, Ordaining, and Consecrating of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons.

Oxford: Printed by the University Printers, 1701.

Rare early 18th century Book of Common Prayer in a royal binding bearing the ciphers of Queen Anne. Folio, bound in full contemporary green calf with gilt royal ciphers of Queen Anne to the spine in s...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149561

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Cohn, Roy

McCarthy.

New York : The New American Library, 1968.

First edition of this work by Cohn, who came to prominence for his role as Senator Joseph McCarthy’s chief counsel during the Army–McCarthy hearings in 1954. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated....

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-128627

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Bell, Daniel

The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism.

New York: Basic Books, Inc. Publishers, 1976.

First edition of the author’s magnum opus. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Daniel Bell on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Vincent Torre.

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-4274

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Nixon, Richard. [Henry A. Kissinger]

Leaders: Profiles and Reminisces of Men Who Have Shaped the Modern World.

New York: Warner Books, 1982.

First edition of this work which recollects Nixon’s memories of leaders such as Churchill, de Gaulle and Khrushchev. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with 32 photographs. Boldly signed b...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151742

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Vardon, Harry

Progressive Golf.

London: Hutchinson & Company, 1920.

First edition of this work by the legendary golfer. Octavo, original green cloth, illustrated with several folding plates from action-shot photographs. . Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-13012

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Lee, Harper

Harper Lee Autographed Letter Signed.

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Autograph letter signed by Harper Lee on her personal monogram letterhead, June 26, 2009. The letter is written to her longtime friend Bruce Higgison. It reads, “My own Bruce: You are without a...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-65033

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Ethiopian Ge’ez Healing Scroll.

Ethiopia:, c. 19th century.

Rare original parchment healing scroll written in Ge’ez, the liturgical language of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Portable manuscript on parchment in red and black ink, with a talismanic design at th...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-148657

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Missale Romanum, ex Decreto Sacrosancti Concilii Tridentini Restitutum S.PIIV. Pontificis Maximi Jussu Editum: Clementis VII. Et Urbani PP. VII.

Augsburg: Philippi Jacobi Veith, 1739.

Rare 18th century printing of the Roman Missal. Folio, bound in full contemporary black morocco with gilt tooling to the spine in seven compartments within raised gilt bands, elaborate triple gilt rul...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-103526

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Wassilewska, Wanda [Wasilewska]

Rainbow. The Story of a Ukrainian Village Under German Occupation.

London: Hutchinson & Co, 1945.

First edition of this work by Wassilewska. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Wanda Wassilewska Kiev. XI.63.” Near fine in a very good dust ja...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-112421

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