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Bust of Albert Einstein.

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Plaster bust of theoretical physicist Albert Einstein mounted on a wood pedestal base, with an incised signature within the plaster. The entire piece measures 15 inches by 8 inches. From the collectio...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-150644

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Gandhi, Mahatma [Mohandas K.]

Mahatma Gandhi: His Own Story.

London: George Allen& Unwin, 1930.

First edition of Gandhi’s revealing autobiography. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, marbled...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-133894

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Lessing, Doris

The Golden Notebook.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1962.

First American edition of the Nobel Prize winning author’s magnum opus. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the half-title page, “I wish you good fortune- Doris Lessing 17.7.80...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-114758

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Clinton, Hillary Rodham

It Takes A Village and Other Lessons Children Teach Us.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.

First edition. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by the author on the half title page to former New York United States Senator Patrick Moynihan, “To Pat- Thanks for the visit- Hillary Rodha...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-5387

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Woodward, Bob [Gerald and Betty Ford]

The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate’s Deep Throat.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005.

First edition of this reflective memoir of the Watergate scandal. Octavo, original boards. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To President Ford & Betty. With great...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-148402

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Mendell, David [Barack Obama]

Obama: From Promise to Power.

New York : Armistad, 2007.

First edition of this early Obama biography. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Barack Obama in person in Keene, New Hampshire in full on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fin...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-150812

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White, Hervey; [Charlotte Perkins Gilman]

When Eve Was Not Created and Other Stories.

Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1901.

First edition of this collection of short stories; from the library of writer and social reformer Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Small octavo, original pictorial cloth, slip tipped in on the front free end...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-145590

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A New and Accurate Map of East and West Florida. Drawn from the best Authorities. [18th Century Map of Florida].

London:, [c. 1765].

Engraved 18th century English map of the state of Florida; one of the earliest printed maps of the state which appeared in the London Magazine in March of 1765. One page, the map is divided into Briti...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-138232

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Hemingway, Ernest. Photogravures by Alfred Eisenstaedt. Introduction by Charles Scribner

The Old Man and the Sea.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1990.

First Limited Editions Club limited edition of Hemingway’s Nobel Prize-winning masterpiece, signed by photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt. Oblong quarto, bound in one quarter morocco over cloth-cove...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-132702

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Wilson, Edward O

Sociobiology: The New Synthesis.

Cambridge MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1975.

First edition of Wilson’s classic work. Oblong quarto, original cloth, illustrations by Sarah Landry. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Helen Vait...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-122579

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Stone, Oliver [Screenwriter]; Alan Parker [Director]; Tim Rice, Andrew Lloyd Webber [play]; Madonna, Antonio Banderas, Jonathan Pryce [Starring]

Evita.

New York: Warner Brothers, 1996.

First edition of the draft script for the 1996 film, boldly signed by Oliver Stone, based on the 1978 musical stage production by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, which was in turn based on Rice and...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-133217

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[Alcott, Louisa May; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Harriet Beecher Stowe]

Souvenir of Eminent Poets and American Authors Series I & II.

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Rare collection of albumen silver print portraits of eminent 19th century poets and American authors. Octavo, three volumes, original pictorial covers, bound with the original ribbons. Including the p...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-134524

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Huxley, Elspeth

The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1959.

First edition of Huxley’s autobiographical work based on her early life among white settlers on her father’s coffee plantation in Kenya. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Elspeth Huxley on...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-110441

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Lewis, Edna and Evangeline Peterson

The Edna Lewis Cookbook.

Indianapolis and New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1972.

First edition of Lewis’ first book. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Norman Ives. Jacket photograph by John T. Hill. First editions are scarce.

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149610

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Ben-Gurion, David

David Ben-Gurion Inscribed Democracy in the World Presentation Copy.

:, March 12, 1966.

Copy of David Ben-Gurion’s undelivered speech for the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. Unable to attend, Ben-Gurion sent the text of the speech, which was then published by the C...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145288

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Griffiths, Philip Jones [Noam Chomsky]

Vietnam, Inc.

New York: Collier Books, 1971.

First edition of Philip Jones Griffith’s first book. Quarto, original illustrated wrappers as issued. Boldly signed by Noam Chomsky, who in a later edition contributed an introduction to this vo...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146352

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Allende, Isabel

The House of Spirits Trilogy: House of the Spirits, Daughter of Fortune, and Portrait in Sepia.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985.

First edition of each work in the author’s classic House of Spirits trilogy. Octavo, 3 volumes, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To ____ ____...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147493

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Grandier, Lydia Landon; Constantine Hassalevris [Photographer] [Raymond Chandler]

Souvenir de Ballet.

San Diego, CA: Hester & Smith, Inc, 1947.

First edition of this photographic compilation showcasing the artistry of ballet. Imperial octavo, original publisher’s cloth, frontispiece, illustrated with black and white photographs by Const...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147870

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Byron, George Gordon [Lord]

The Poetical Works of Lord Byron. [Fore-edge Painting].

London: John Murray, 1850.

Finely bound edition of the complete poetical works of Lord Byron. Octavo, bound in full crushed red morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, quadruple gilt ruling and fleuron cornerpieces t...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-135627

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Goldsmith, Oliver. With Prefatory Memoir by George Saintsbury

The Vicar of Wakefield.

London: John C. Nimmo, 1886.

Finely bound example of one of the most popular and widely read novels among Victorians. Octavo, bound in full crushed levant morocco by Bayntun Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six co...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-139375

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Frost, Robert

A Further Range.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1936.

First edition of Frost’s Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of verse. Octavo, original maroon cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper to h...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-114778

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Balfour, Arthur James

Nationality and Home Rule.

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1913.

First edition of this work by the British Prime Minister and issuer of the Balfour Declaration of 1917. Octavo, bound in full tan russia by Harrods Ltd., original printed wrappers bound in, marbled en...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-116882

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Stegner, Wallace

Angle of Repose.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1971.

First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To John with best wishes Wallace Steg...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-118652

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Bean, Alan; Edgar Mitchell; Charlie Duke

Alan Bean, Edgar Mitchell, and Charlie Duke Signed Photograph.

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Rare photograph signed by moonwalkers Alan Bean, Edgar Mitchell, and Charlie Duke. Satin finish photograph of a lunar bootprint on the moon. Boldly signed by Bean in blue felt tip at the top left corn...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150544

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