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Make New History.

Los Angeles: MOCA, 2009.

Signed limited edition of this rare artist’s book, or “art object” published on the occasion of the Gala of the 30th Anniversary of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Obl...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-143401

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Burger, Warren E

The Supreme Court of the United States.

Washington, DC:, 1973.

First edition of this work on the Burger Court. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by eight justices beneath their portraits accompanying their biographies. They include: Warren E. Burger, William J. B...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-120344

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Harriman, Edward Henry

Edward Henry Harriman Signed Stock Certificate for the Cedar Falls and Minnesota Railroad Company.

New York: Central Trust Company of New York, 1895.

Rare Cedar Falls and Minnesota Railroad Company stock certificate signed by American financier and railroad executive E.H. Harriman. Quarto, one page partially printed and accomplished in manuscript,...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-146742

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Victoria, Queen

Queen Victoria Royal Military Appointment Signed.

:, 1898.

Rare large format Royal Military Appointment signed by Her Majesty Queen Victoria. One vellum leaf, partially printed. The document is dated 9th April 1898 and appoints Francis Duncombe Astley-Russell...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-124088

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Camus, Albert

L’Exil et Le Royaume.

Paris: Gallimard, 1947.

First edition, Service de Presse-copy of Camus’ short story collection exploring themes of existentialism and absurdism, with “S P” perforated stamp at top of rear wrapper. Small oct...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-146463

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Kipling, Rudyard

Kim.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1901.

First English edition of what many consider Kipling’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Illustrated with photographs of clay reliefs by John Lockwood Kipling including tissue-guarded frontispiece,...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-136986

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Disraeli, Benjamin

Vivian Grey.

London: Henry Colburn, 1826-27.

First edition of Disraeli’s first novel. Octavo, original gray boards with printed spine labels, 5 volumes, half-titles present in Volumes 2 and 5, as issued; terminal ads in Volumes 1-4. Bookpl...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-82398

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Shakespeare, William

The Poems of William Shakespeare.

London: Paradine Publications, 1975.

Paradine Publications limited edition facsimile reprint of the Kelmscott Press edition of The Poems of William Shakespeare written in the original 16th and 17th century spelling. Octavo, bound in full...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-148849

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Ellinger, Barnard

The City: The London Financial Markets.

Westminster: P. S. King & Staples, Limited, 1940.

First edition of Ellinger’s work on the London financial markets. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. Exceedingly rare.

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-124205

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Kipling, Rudyard

The First Assault Upon the Sorbonne (Le Premier Assault Contre la Sorbonne).

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1922.

Rare first American edition of Kipling’s classic work on the Sorbonne. Octavo, original publisher’s half vellum, text in French and English. One of fifty copies. In near fine condition. Sc...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-123604

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le Carre, John

The Spy Who Came In From The Cold.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1963.

First edition of the le Carre’s classic work, which went on to reinvigorate the spy genre. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light toning to the spine. An exceptional...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-146385

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Wharton, Edith & Ogden Codman Jr

The Decoration of Houses.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897.

First edition of Edith Wharton’s first published book. Quarto, original marbled paper boards. Illustrated with 56 plates. In very good condition. First editions are uncommon.

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149521

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Cartier-Bresson, Henri

Moscou [Moscow].

Paris: Collection Neuf/ Robert Editeur, 1955.

First edition of this wonderfully illustrated work by the famed photographer. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-138199

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Saramago, Jose

O Evangelho Segundo Jesus Cristo. [The Gospel According To Jesus Christ].

Lisboa: Caminho, 1991.

First Portuguese edition and true first of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s classic work. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Signed by Jose Saramago on the title page. In near fine condition,...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-114809

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Grant, Ulysses S

Ulysses S. Grant Autograph Document Signed.

:, 1871.

Autograph document signed by Ulysses S. Grant as President of the United States of America. Quarto, one page, partially printed, the document reads, ‘I hereby authorize and direct the Secretary...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-146683

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Sherman, William T

William T. Sherman Autograph Letter Signed.

:, 1888.

Rare handwritten letter signed by William T. Sherman to Manhattan socialite Margaret Middleton. Octavo, one page, the letter reads in full, “Please come to our Parlor 22 say at 1/2 past seven th...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-147771

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Clews, Henry

Twenty-Eight Years In Wall Street.

New York: Irving Publishing Co, 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...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-46052

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Ginsberg, Allen (John Clellon Holmes)

Iron Horse.

Toronto: The Coach House Press, 1972.

First edition of Ginsberg’s beatific visionary poem, an important part of his The Fall of America: Poems of These States sequence. Oblong octavo, original illustrated metallic wrappers. Associat...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-96567

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Mandelbrot, Benoit

Fractals: Form, Chance, and Dimension.

San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1977.

First edition of the mathematician’s groundbreaking work. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Samuel With the author...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-144375

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Rushdie, Salman

Midnight’s Children.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1981.

First British edition of the author’s Booker Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Charles- Salman Rushdie....

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-144363

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Gaines, Ernest J

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.

New York: The Dial Press, 1971.

First edition of this classic novel, which depicts the struggles of African Americans as seen through the eyes of the narrator, a woman named Jane Pittman. Octavo, original boards. Lengthily signed by...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-146411

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Trump, Donald J. with Tony Schwartz

Trump: The Art of the Deal.

New York: Random House, 1987.

First edition of Trump’s first book. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in a contemporary hand on the front free endpaper, “To Judy...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151733

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Albers, Josef. [Henri Cartier-Bresson]

Despite Straight Lines.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1961.

First edition of this work by the famed artist. Octavo, original boards. Association copy, inscribed by the author to Henri Cartier-Bresson, “For Henry Cartier-Bresson Josef Albers May 20, ‘68....

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-3783

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Knight, Hilary

Original Hilary Knight Ch’i-Lin and her Chinese Unicorn Watercolor Painting.

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Rare original water color painting of Hilary Knight’s characters Ch’i-Lin and her Chinese Unicorn. Rondo, painted in watercolor, ink and gold paint. Captioned by Knight in the lower left c...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-96228

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