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Persian Miniature Painting. [Ancient Game of Polo].

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Rare Persian miniature painting depicting an ancient game of Chovgan, later adopted in the Western World as the game of polo. Affixed to an elaborately decorated paper mount, the painting depicts two...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-124633

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Bellow, Saul

The Adventures of Augie March.

New York: The Viking Press, 1953.

First edition of Bellow’s first National Book Award winning novel. Octavo, original cloth, salmon topstain. Signed by Saul Bellow on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good first issue...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-58004

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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 calf by Root and Son, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, inner dent...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-137984

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Victoria, Queen

Queen Victoria Royal Military Appointment Signed.

:, 1854.

Rare Royal Military Appointment signed by Her Majesty Queen Victoria. One vellum leaf, partially printed. The document is dated 13th June 1854 and appoints Francis Eastwood Newport Tuiley to the posit...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-125238

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O'Hara, John

The Works of John O’Hara.

New York: : Random House, .

First editions. Octavo, 16 volumes. Elegantly bound in three quarter red morocco. Gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt topstain, marbled endpapers. An a...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-4370

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Bernays, Edward L

Biography of an Idea: Memoirs of Public Relations Counsel Edward L. Bernays.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1965.

First edition of the father of public relations’ biography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Edward L. Bernays on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine price-clipped...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-49006

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Dewey, John (Alfred H. Lloyd)

Studies in Logical Theory.

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1903.

First edition of this collection of studies by Dewey. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, “Alfred H. Lloyd Fr...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-77952

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Townshend, Pete; Roger Daltrey; John Entwistle; Keith Moon

The Magic Bus: The Who.

:, 1968.

Original album of this iconic work, boldly signed by legendary musician Pete Townshend on the front panel. In very good condition. Record is included.

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150540

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Seller, John

17th Century John Seller Map of New England and New York.

London: Seller, Price & Senex, 1703.

Rare 17th century John Seller map of New England and New York from Daniel Fenning’s A New System of Geography. One page, with intricate topographical details and hand-colored borders, the map di...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-123177

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Owens, Delia

Where the Crawdads Sing.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2018.

First edition of one of the best-selling books of all-time and basis for the 2022 film. Octavo, original boards. Lengthily signed by the author on the title page, “Way out yonder, where the craw...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-136037

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Selby Jr., Hubert. [Darren Aronofsky]

Requiem For A Dream.

London: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 1979.

First edition of this work, which served as the basis for the 2000 film directed by Darren Aronofsky starring Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans and Ellen Burstyn. Octavo, original half clot...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151581

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Doyle, Arthur Conan

Arthur Conan Doyle Autograph Note Signed.

:, c. 1919.

Rare handwritten note signed by Arthur Conan Doyle concerning spiritualism. One page on plain paper, not date. The letter reads, “Such cases are unhappily not very rare. For this reason people s...

$1,760.00 Item Number: RRB-152085

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Russell, Bertrand

History of the World in Epitome (For Use in Martian Infant Schools).

London: Gaberbocchus Press, 1962.

First edition of Russell’s 21-word summary of human history, issued on the occasion of his 90th birthday and written in reaction to the Cuban missile crisis. 16 mo, original wrappers, illustrate...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-149474

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Lee, Harper

To Kill A Mockingbird.

New York: HarperCollins, 1995.

First edition, early printing of the 35th Anniversary edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title pa...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-144177

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Stein, Joseph, Book by, Music by Jerry Bock, Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick

Fiddler on the Roof.

New York: Crown Publishers, 1964.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the lyricist Sheldon Harnick on the title page, “For Candy: Sheldon Harnick 12/16/15....

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-131388

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Burrough, Bryan and John Helyar

Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1990.

First edition of this business classic. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Lengthily signed by both authors on the half-title page as follows, “What did all this have to do with doing bus...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-119559

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Kipling, Rudyard

Rudyard Kipling’s Verse: Inclusive Edition 1885-1918.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1919.

First trade edition of the Inclusive Edition of Rudyard Kipling’s Verse. Octavo, three volumes, original publisher’s full vellum, gilt titles to the spine, gilt ruling to the front and rea...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-121882

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Grass, Gunter

Die Blechtrommel [The Tin Drum].

Darmstadt: Hermann Luchterhand Verlag, 1959.

Rare uncorrected proof of the first edition of the author’s first novel. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. In near fine condition. An exceptional example.

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-107469

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Eaker, Ira C.; James M. Gavin; Alfred M. Gruenther; Earle E. - Pat' Partridge; Elwood - Pete' Quesada; Ralph C. Smith; Dean C. Strother; Maxwell D. Taylor; James Van Fleet; Matthew B. Ridgway; Lauris Norstad

Souvenir Typescript of the “Declaration of War on Germany December 11, 1941” Signed by Eleven World War II Generals.

:, 1941.

Souvenir typescript of the the United States’ “Declaration of War on Germany December 11, 1941” signed by eleven World War II generals. One page, typed. Boldly signed with their rank...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-151560

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Penrose, Roger

The Emperor’s New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.

First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, which won The Science Book Prize. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by on the title page, “For...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-147818

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Johnson, Lyndon B. and Lady Bird

Signed Family Photograph of Lyndon B. Johnson.

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Large photograph of President Lyndon and First Lady Lady Bird Johnson. Signed by Lyndon B. Johnson and additionally inscribed by Lady Bird, as follows, “To Mary Lasker from her friends Lady Bird...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-81062

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Lee, Harper

Go Set A Watchman.

New York: Harper Collins, 2015.

First trade edition of Lee’s second novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Harper Lee on a bookplate to the front free endpaper. Lee gave signed bookplates attached to this book up...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-150002

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Fowles, John

The French Lieutenant’s Woman.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1969.

First edition of Fowles’ third novel. Octavo, original brown cloth, pictorial endpapers Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “Phil Thayer – with gratitu...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-97577

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Davison, Jane and Lesley Davison. [Joan Didion]

To Make a House a Home: Four Generations of American Women and the Houses They Lived In.

New York: Random House, 1994.

First edition of Jane and Lesley Davison’s timeless work. Quarto, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by Lesley Davison on a bookplate adhered to the second free endpaper, “Fo...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-141054

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