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I Go By Sea, I Go By Land.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1941.

First edition of this classic work, a fictional diary of Sabrina Lind, an eleven-year-old English girl who is sent on the long voyage across the sea to her aunt in America. Octavo, original cloth, fro...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-103991

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Bradshaw, George [Peter O'Toole]

Practise to Deceive.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962.

First edition of this collection of short stories, one of which Venus Rising was the basis for the classic film How to Steal A Million, starring Peter O’Toole and Audrey Hepburn. Octavo, origina...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-110748

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Motley, John Lothrop

The Selected Works of John Lothrop Motley: The Rise of the Dutch Republic; Life and Death of John Barneveld; The United Netherlands.

London: John Murray, 1903-1904.

Finely bound set of the selected works of John Lothrop Motley. Octavo, 9 volumes bound in three quarters morocco with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, top e...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-143815

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Murakami, Haruki

Sputnik Sweetheart.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2001.

First edition of this work which “grabs you from its opening lines. . . . [Murakami’s] never written anything more openly emotional” (Los Angeles Magazine). Octavo, original half cloth. Signed b...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-123751

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Churchill, Winston S.; Arthur Pan

Winston S. Churchill Arthur Pan Portrait.

Bristol: Venture Prints Limited, 1971.

Limited color print of Arthur Pan’s iconic portrait of Winston S. Churchill. Double matted and framed, the entire piece measures 35.75 inches by 42 inches. In fine condition.

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-147554

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Gilbert, Martin. [Gary Oldman] [Winston S. Churchill]

Winston S. Churchill: Finest Hour 1939-1941.

New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983.

First edition of this classic work, which starts with the outbreak of war in September 1939 and ends with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 7, 1941. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-152992

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Stravinsky, Igor

Autographed Letter Signed From Carl Haverlin To Igor Stravinsky.

:, 1962.

Single page typed signed letter with notes in Stravinsky’s hand. Typed signed letter from 1962 to Igor Styravinsky from Carl Haverlin, pioneer in radio broadcasting, and longtime president of Br...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-84762

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Cohen, Leonard

Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs.

New York: Pantheon, 1993.

First edition of this collection of poems and songs. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page in the year of publication, “To Mort and Judy warm regard...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-117464

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Lincoln, Abraham

Political Debates Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen Douglas, In the Celebrated Campaign of 1858, in Illinois.

Columbus: Follett, Foster and Company, 1860.

First edition, early issue of the most famous debates in American history which cemented Lincoln as a national presidential candidate. Octavo, original cloth stamped in blind, with rule above the publ...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-147733

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Obama, Barack

Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance.

New York: Crown Publishers, 2004.

First paperback edition of the future President’s first book. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Bob – A...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-133108

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Paine, Thomas

Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Burke’s Attack on the French Revolution.

Albany: Re-Printed by Charles R. & George Webster, n.d.

Fourth American edition of Paine’s classic work. Octavo, disbound. In near fine condition. A rare and desirable American separate printing.

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-134509

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Thomas, Lowell [Count Felix von Luckner]

Count Luckner, The Sea Devil.

Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc, 1927.

First edition of this captivating biography of German nobleman and naval officer Count Felix von Luckner. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, top stain yellow, cartographic endpapers, frontispie...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-148746

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Lesy, Michael

Wisconsin Death Trip.

New York: Pantheon, 1973.

First edition of Lesy’s classic first book; a remarkable photobook on a turn-of-the-century Wisconsin town, with 154 photographs and photocollages, and nine black-and-white illustrations. Oblong quart...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-150401

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Didion, Joan; Introduction by John Leonard

We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live. Including: Slouching Towards Bethlehem; The White Album; Salvador; Miami; After Henry; Political Fictions; and Where I Was From.

New York: Everyman's Library, 2006.

Early printing of this Everyman’s Library’s compilation of the author’s collected non-fiction work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Joan Didion on the title page. Near fine...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-70983

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Coleman, Chapman; [John J. Crittenden] [William T. Sherman]

The Life of John J. Crittenden: With Selections from His Correspondence and Speeches.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co, 1871.

First edition of this collection of memoirs of American statesman John J. Crittenden, edited by his daughter; from the library of General William Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo, original brick-red cloth wit...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-145755

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Barnum, P.T

Struggles and Triumphs; or, Forty Years’ Recollections of P. T. Barnum.

Buffalo: The Courier Company, 1879.

Author’s edition of this utterly engaging autobiography, revised, enlarged, newly illustrated and written up to December 1878 by the author. Duodecimo, original hard-grain cloth with gilt titles...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-145347

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Friedman, Milton & Rose

Tyranny of the Status Quo.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984.

First edition of this work which analyzes the Reagan Administration’s attempts to greatly reduce taxes, regulations, and government spending and suggests practical changes. Octavo, original half cloth...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-4646

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De Land’s Automatic Playing Cards. [with] Mental Pictoria.

New Jersey/ Ohio: S.S. Adams Co./ S.W. Reilly, 1913/1914.

Two rare early twentieth century antique magicians card decks. The first deck is De Land’s Automatic Playing Cards, a standard 52-card deck with a De Land’s Card Locator that has an affixe...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-150366

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Collins, Michael

Michael Collins Signed Apollo 11 Rocket Oversized Photograph.

:, July 16, 1969.

Oversized photograph of the Apollo 11 Saturn V rocket. Glossy color oversized photograph of the Apollo 11 Saturn V rocket during the first stage separation. Boldly signed in silver by American astrona...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-148227

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Tan, Amy [Larry McMurtry]

The Joy Luck Club.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1989.

First edition, advance reading copy of Tan’s masterpiece. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Larry McMurtry with thanks for the pleasure of your company and...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-143578

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Murakami, Haruki

After Dark.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.

First edition of this “hypnotically eerie, sometimes even funny, but most of all, it’s [a book] that keeps ratcheting up the suspense”(The New York Times). Octavo, original half cloth. Bol...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-151622

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Bunyan, John

Bunyan’s Choice Works: The Pilgrim’s Progress, The Holy War, The Barren Fig-Tree, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, and Heart’s Ease in Heart Trouble.

Glasgow: James Semple, c.1880.

Finely bound edition of one of the most significant works of religious English literature. Quarto, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gil...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-148101

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Carter, Jimmy and His Holiness the Dalai Lama

His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Jimmy Carter Signed Photograph.

:, .

Color photograph of His Holiness the Dalai Lama warmly shaking the hand of President Jimmy Carter in 2002, signed by both. The two leaders met in 2002 and later 2005 during the American Himalayan Foun...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-137343

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Sherman, William T

William T. Sherman Autograph Letter Signed.

St. Louis, Missouri:, May 21, 1885.

Autograph letter signed by William T. Sherman to the widowed Mary Audenried, whom he is rumored to have had a decade-long affair with. In this personal letter, William T. Sherman advises Mary Audenrie...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-145302

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