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The Soul of a New Machine.

Boston: Atlantic, Little, Brown and Company, 1981.

First edition of Kidder’s second book. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Tracy Kidder on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Peter deAngeli. A...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-151790

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Viorst, Judith; Illustrated by Ray Cruz

Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday.

New York: Atheneum Publishers, 1978.

First edition of the second book in the author’s acclaimed Alexander series. Oblong quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by the author on the title page, “Save your money! Judith Vi...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-5685

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Bloom, Allan; Foreword by Saul Bellow

The Closing of the American Mind.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987.

First edition, early printing of Bloom’s landmark work. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Richard A. Ware, One of the most...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-22016

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Kipling, Rudyard; Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.

A Song of the English.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, c. 1909.

Signed limited edition of Kipling’s collection of songs of the seas and cities, elaborately illustrated by W. Heath Robinson. Quarto, original publisher’s full pictorial vellum decorated i...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-148683

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Heller, Joseph

Something Happened.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974.

First edition of this classic work by the author of Catch-22. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Ted Solotaroff, With good wishes...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-142998

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[Aldrin, Buzz]

Buzz Aldrin Signed Two Dollar Bill.

Washington, D.C: United States Treasury, 1976.

Rare two dollar bill signed by American astronaut and the second man to land on the moon, Buzz Aldrin on the 200th anniversary of the signing of the American Declaration of Independence. Matted and fr...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-117394

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McCullough, David [Tom Hanks]

John Adams.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.

First edition of the author’s second Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Boldly signed by David McCullough and by Academy-Award winning ac...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-150573

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King, Stephen

The Dark Half and Four Past Midnight Stephen King Signed Promotional Poster.

New York: Signet/Penguin/Viking, .

Combined promotion and advertising campaign poster for Stephen King’s best-selling horror novels The Dark Half and Four Past Midnight. One page, the poster features a full color image of Stephen...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-145483

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Eisenhower, Dwight D. and Mamie Doud

Dwight D. and Mamie Doud Eisenhower Signed Photograph.

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Original color photograph inscribed by the 34th President and First Lady of the United States, Dwight D. and Mamie Doud Eisenhower. Presentation photograph, inscribed on the mount, “For Mrs. Hel...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-194042

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Winston Churchill; Clement Atlee

Britain’s Memorial to Franklin Roosevelt Souvenir Book.

London:, 1947.

First edition of this tribute to President Roosevelt with contributions by Eleanor Roosevelt, Winston S. Churchill and Clement Atlee, a selection of excerpts from the speeches of Franklin Delano Roose...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-123823

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Markowitz, Harry and William F. Sharpe

Nobel Lectures: Economic Sciences 1981-1990.

Singapore: World Scientific, 1992.

First edition of this work which contains the Nobel lectures in economics from 1981-1990. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by both Harry Markowitz and William F. Sharpe on the title page. Fine in...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-146331

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Annals of The Club. 1764-1914.

London: Printed for The Club [by Horace Hart at the Oxford University Press, 1914.

First edition of this work on the Club in London. which was founded by Samuel Johnson and Sir Joshua Reynolds, and whose rolls would later include Oliver Goldsmith, Adam Smith, Edward Gibbon and James...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-125191

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Johnson, Alvin Jewett

Johnson’s Map of Florida.

New York: A.J. Johnson, 1863.

Rare 19th century example of Johnson’s famed Civil War era map of the state of Florida. One page, the hand-colored lithographic map depicts the state in full with color coding according to count...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-138227

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Sagan, Carl

Cosmos.

Barcelona: Editorial Planeta, 1980.

First Spanish edition of one of the best-selling science books ever published. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers as issued. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “Por...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-54017

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Pindar

Odes of Victory: Volume I – The Nemean and Isthmian Odes; Volume II – The Olympian and Pythian Odes.

Oxford: Shakespeare Head Press, 1928-1930.

The Shakespeare Head Press limited edition of Pindar’s victory odes. Quarto, two volumes, bound in full red crushed morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe / Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles and tooling...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-148564

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Powell, Anthony

Books Do Furnish a Room.

London: Heinemann, 1971.

First edition of this classic work in the author’s Dance to the Music of Time series. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by James Broom-Lynne. Housed in a custom h...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-142098

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Abish, Walter

Duel Site.

New York: Tibor de Nagy Editions, 1970.

First edition of the award winning poet’s first book. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, illustrated. One of 300 copies, 1 to 0 of which are signed. Signed by the author on the title page. In...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-128294

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[Charlie Kirk]

The U.S. Constitution.

San Diego: Applewood Books, 2017.

Finely bound example of the Constitution of the United States. Small octavo, bound in full leatherette, illustrated endpapers, all edges gilt. Boldly signed by Charlie Kirk on the front free endpaper....

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-151391

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Beardsley, Aubrey; Sir Thomas Malory; William Caxton; John Rhys; Aymer Vallance

[Morte D’Arthur]. The Birth Life and Acts of King Arthur of His Noble Knights of the Round Table Their Marvellous Enquests and Adventures the Achieving of the San Greal and in the End Le Morte Darthur with the Dolourous Death and Departing Out of This World of Them All.

Edinburgh: Turnbull & Spears, 1927.

Limited Beardsley illustrated edition of perhaps the best-known work of Arthurian literature in English, containing two additional illustrations not appearing in the second edition, in addition to the...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-146914

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Lamming, George

In The Castle Of My Skin.

London: Michael Joseph, 1953.

First edition of Lamming’s masterpiece. Octavo, original gray cloth. Signed by the author, “With the compliments of George Lamming.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket desi...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-1856

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Brockedon, W. [Lord George Gordon Noel Byron]

Finden’s Landscape & Portrait Illustrations, to the Life and Works of Lord Byron. [with] Finden’s Byron Beauties: or, the Principal Characters in Lord Byron’s Poems.

London: John Murray, 1833-1834; 1836.

First edition in book form of Finden’s celebrated illustrated edition of Byron’s works; uniformly bound with a first edition of Finden’s Byron Beauties. Octavo, four volumes bound in...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-130405

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Barrett, Judi and Ron

Pickles to Pittsburgh: The Sequel to Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs.

New York: Antheneum Books For Young Readers, 1997.

First edition of the charming sequel to the classic Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. Oblong quarto, illustrated. Boldly signed by both the author and illustrator on the front free endpaper, “J...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-147847

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Stoppard, Tom. [Gary Oldman]

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead.

London: Faber & Faber, 1967.

First paperback edition (issued simultaneously in hardback) of the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed by Academy Award-winning actor Gary Oldman on the front free end...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-151743

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Mehl, Ernest [Roger Maris]

The Kansas City Athletics.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1956.

First edition, second printing of this work on the famed baseball team. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by hall of famer Roger Maris on the front free endpaper,...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-133163

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