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Gus Grissom Annotated Staff Report of the Select Committee on Astronautics and Space Exploration: The Next Ten Years in Space 1959-1969.

Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1959.

Rare Astronautics and Space Exploration Staff Report booklet; from the library of Gus Grissom. Octavo, original wrappers, annotated with mathematical equations in Grissom’s hand on the rear pane...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-146615

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Bell, Daniel

The Coming of Post-Industrial Society: A Venture in Social Forecasting.

New York: Basic Books, 1973.

First edition of this insightful work which speaks about the coming of the service economy and the importance of knowledge for creating stratification in the new society. Octavo, original half cloth....

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-4497

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Snyder, Gary

Turtle Island.

New York: New Directions, 1974.

First edition of the legendary poet’s Pulitzer Prize-winning collection. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Gary Snyder on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket woodcut by Michael Co...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-131784

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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 John Pugsle...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-133045

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Yarrow, David

David Yarrow: Storytelling.

New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc, 2022.

First edition of this collection of tales of adventure and misadventure told through Yarrow’s magnificent high-art photography, with a foreword by Cindy Crawford. Quarto, original publisher’s bo...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-147931

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Amishah Umshei Torah, Im Haft Arot Le-Khol Ha-Shanah. [Hebrew Chumash/The Pentateuch].

Tel Aviv: Hotsa at Sinai, c. 1950.

Rare Hebrew Chumash containing the Five Books of Moses, blessings before and after the Haftarah, and accents according to the Ashkenazic, Sephardic, and Italian rites. 32mo, five volumes, original clo...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-138452

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Russell, Bertrand

The Good Citizen’s Alphabet.

London: Gaberbocchus Press Limited, 1953.

First edition of this playful work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth, with drawings by Franciszka Themerson. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpape...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-138589

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Fleming, Ian

The Spy Who Loved Me.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1962.

First edition of the ninth novel in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series. Octavo, original black cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Chopping.

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-138826

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Bacher, Robert F. [Berlyn Brixner]

Robert Bacher Signed Trinity Nuclear Test Mushroom Cloud Photograph.

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Rare original vintage Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory photograph of the first mushroom cloud from the Trinity nuclear test, the first detonation of a nuclear weapon. Semi-glossy, black and white phot...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-148771

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Amis, Martin

Money.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1984.

First edition of this modern classic. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Martin Amis on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mon Mohan/ Dick Jones. Author...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-143070

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West, Geoffrey [H.G. Wells]

The Problem of Arnold Bennett.

London: Joiner and Steele, 1932.

First edition of this work, inscribed to H.G. Wells. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to H. G. Wells by the author on the front endpaper in the year of publication,...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-116936

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King Edward VIII

House of Lords Doc. 20, Minutes of Proceedings, December 10, 1936, Printing Edward VIII’s “Instrument of Abdication” in which he officially renounces claim to the Throne.

:, 1936.

Rare extract from the printed Minutes and a singular moment in British royal history. “Abdication of Edward R. I.” in blue pencil at top right. Framed such that both sides of the document...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-119889

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Kerouac, Jack

Jack Kerouac’s Personally Owned Hermes 3000 Typewriter Manual and Repair Slip.

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Jack Kerouac’s personally owned Hermes 3000 typewriter user’s manual and repair slip, which he used to compose most of his 1968 autobiographical novel Vanity of Duluoz. The manual is recta...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-150210

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Kipling, Rudyard

A Fleet In Being.

London: The Morning Post, 1898.

First appearance of of this collection of 5 articles written by Kipling when he joined the fleet of the Royal Navy at sea in 1898. Royal octavo, bound in blue boards, consisting of the original 5 Morn...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-121680

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Luce, R. Duncan and Howard Raiffa

Games and Decisions: Introduction and Critical Survey.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Publishers, 1957.

First edition of this classic introduction to game theory. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Howard Raiffa on the front free endpaper. From the library of Harvard economist Sidney S. Alexander wi...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-127657

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King Jr., Martin Luther. [Coretta Scott King]

The Measure of Man.

Philadelphia/Boston: Pilgrim Press, 1968.

First edition thus of this collection of King’s two notable devotional addresses “What is Man?” and “The Dimensions of a Complete Life.” 12mo, original cloth, illustrated...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-146528

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Roubayyat de Hafiz et d’Omar Khayyam. [The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám].

Paris: Francis LeBegue, [1921].

Finely bound example of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Octavo, bound in full levant morocco with gilt titles to the spine, gilt Art Deco style decorations to the front and rear panel, gilt turn-ins and...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-127096

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Churchill, Charles

The British Poets: Charles Churchill.

London: British Literary Society, n.d.

The extra-illustrated Crown edition of the poems of Charles Churchill, limited to ten numbered and registered sets. Duodecimo, two volumes, publisher’s exquisite deluxe full morocco binding with gilt...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-151512

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Connery, Sean. [Ian Fleming]

Sean Connery and Jill St. John Signed James Bond Photograph.

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Black and white photograph of Sean Connery and posing as James Bond and Jill St. John as Tiffany Case, signed by both. They were the stars of the 1971 film Diamonds Are Forever In fine condition. The...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-132959

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Oliver, Mary

The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays.

Boston: Beacon Press, 2008.

First edition of this collection by the award-winning poet. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Mary Oliver on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Bob Kosturko.

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-133714

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Spark, Muriel

The Ballad of Peckham Rye.

London: Macmillan, 1960.

First edition of this satirical gem from the “master of malice and mayhem” (The New York Times). Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Muriel Spark on the title page. Very good in a very good dust...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-59022

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Venizelos, Eleftherios

Eleftherios Venizelos Autograph Letter Signed.

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One folding page letter hand-written and signed by “the father of modern Greece,” Eleftherios Venizelos. Dated December 24th, 1921 on letterhead from the El Mirasol in Santa Barbara, Calif...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-82454

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Washington, Booker T

Booker T. Washington Typed Letter Signed.

Alabama:, January 6, 1896.

Typed letter signed by Booker T. Washington to American mining engineer John Birkinbine. One page on Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute stationary, square octavo, the letter reads in full,...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-148640

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Basso, Hamilton [Norman Maclean]

Sun in Capricorn.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942.

First edition of Basso’s classic Southern novel. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, “For Norman MaClea...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-132988

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