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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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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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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.

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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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Baker, Dorothy [Kirk Douglas]

Young Man with a Horn.

Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938.

First edition of this novel, which was the basis for the classic 1950 American film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day, Hoagy Carmichael, and Juano Hernande...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-110742

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Davis, Angela Y

Women, Race & Class.

New York: Random House, 1981.

First edition of this thought-provoking piece of history by Civil Rights activist, Angela Davis. Octavo, original textured half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page,...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145195

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Wolfe, Tom; Umberto Eco; Don DeLillo; Joyce Carol Oates; Margaret Atwood; John Ashbery; Robert Stone; John Updike; et al

Modern Authors Signed Baseball.

St. Louis: Rawlings, .

Rare Rawlings Official National League baseball signed by over 20 authors including: Peter Dexter (on the sweetspot), Tom Wolfe, Umberto Eco, Don DeLillo, Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood, John Ashb...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-128460

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Ephron, Nora

I Remember Nothing and Other Reflections.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.

First edition of Ephron’s edgy collection of short observational stories. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Bill Zwecks With best w...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-132355

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[MacLean, Lyell]

Manuscript Diary of an Ocean Voyage to the Far East in 1927.

:, 1927.

Rare manuscript diary kept during an ocean voyage aboard the steamer ship Korean Maru from California to Hawaii and the Far East, as far as Ceylon, where the account ends. Octavo, bound in red morocco...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147717

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Kushner, Harold S. [Norman Vincent Peale]

When Bad Things Happen To Good People.

New York: Schocken Books, 1981.

Early printing of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to fellow writer Norman Vincent Peale on the front free endpaper, “To Norman With my prayer...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-135474

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Dickens, Charles

Master Humphrey’s Clock.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1840-1841.

First edition of this classic collection of short stories. Royal octavo, 3 volumes, bound in full calf by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148213

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Dreman, David

Contrarian Investment Strategy: The Psychology of Stock Market Success.

New York: Random House, 1979.

First edition of Dreman’s revolutionary work on the stock market success. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Ken with be...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-141431

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Lovell, Jim; Jeffrey Kluger [Tom Hanks]

Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994.

First edition, early printing of this work, the basis of the 1995 film adaptation Apollo 13, directed by Ron Howard, starring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Ed Harris, and Gary Sinise. Octavo, o...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150341

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Balfour, Arthur James

A Fragment on Progress. Inaugural Address Delivered on his Installation as Lord Rector.

Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1892.

First edition of Balfour’s Inaugural Address delivered on his installation as Lord Rector . Octavo, bound in full calf with Balfour’s signature stamped in gilt to the front panel. Presenta...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-117521

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Cohen, Leonard; Irving Layton

Pan-ic: A Selection of Contemporary Canadian Poems.

New York: Alan Brilliant, 1958.

First edition of this anthology of Canadian poetry. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, four issues of poetry, number two. Boldly signed and dated by Leonard Cohen on the title page, “Leonard C...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149947

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Williams, Tennessee

Summer and Smoke.

New York: New Directions, 1948.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Tennessee Williams on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Alvin Lustig. Housed in a...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145444

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King Charles III, Former Prince of Wales

King Charles III Signed Photograph.

:, 2001.

Photograph of King Charles III as Prince of Wales seated with royal staff. Framed glossy color photograph of King Charles as Prince of Wales seated with royal staff, signed and dated by him “Cha...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145406

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Crichton, Michael [Jasper Johns]

Jasper Johns.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc/Whitney Museum of American Art, 1977.

First edition of this comprehensive, insightful, and visually rich monograph on the influential American artist by famous author and art enthusiast Michael Crichton. Quarto, original pictorial wrapper...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150380

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Whyte, William H

The Organization Man.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1956.

First edition of one of the most influential books on management ever written. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Best to Lydia Bronte about whom t...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-2141

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Didion, Joan

Slouching Towards Bethlehem.

New York: The Modern Library, 2000.

First Modern Library edition of what many consider her magnum opus. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Joan Didion on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Introduction by Elizabeth H...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-79043

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The Beatles: John Lennon; Paul McCartney; George Harrison; Ringo Starr; Max Wilk; Written by Lee Minoff, Al Brodax, Jack Mendelsohn and Erich Segal

The Beatles Yellow Submarine.

New York: The New American Library, 1968.

First edition of the book companion to the classic Beatles album. Small octavo, original illustrated boards. Signed by Ringo Starr on the front panel, with the signature slightly faded. In very good c...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-132593

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