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The Architecture of Frank Gehry.

New York: Rizzoli Publishers, 1986.

First edition of this early monograph of the work of renowned architect Frank Gehry. Oblong quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Inscribed by Frank Gehry on the title page. Fine in a fine d...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-44675

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Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiastical, Treated Upon by the Bishop of London, President of the Convocation For the Province of Canterbury, and the Rest of the Bishops and Clergie of the said Province: And Agreed upon with the Kings Majesties License in their Synod begun at London, Anno Domini 1603.

London: Printed by the Assigns of John Bill Deceas'd: And by Henry Hills, and Thomas Newcomb, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, 1683.

Rare 17th century printing of the Ecclesiastical Constitutions of the Province of Canterbury. Quarto, bound in full contemporary mottled calf with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartmen...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-140232

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Copland, Aaron

Aaron Copland Autograph Letters and Programs Signed.

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Rare collection of three programs and two typed letters signed by American conductor Aaron Copland. The programs include a 1957-1958 Season Program for the Juilliard School of Music presenting The Wor...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-104920

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Baron, Peter [Pseudonym of Leonard Worswick Clyde]

The Opium Murders.

New York: The Macaulay Company, 1930.

First edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with some light expert restoration to the spine tips. Jacket design by Beth Krebs Mor...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-112463

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Kipling, Rudyard; Lewis Carroll; Norman Gale; Mary E. Manners et al

Tommy and Other Poems For Recitation.

London: James Clarke & Co., 1895.

First edition of this humorous collection of poems for recitation including Rudyard Kipling’s Tommy and Lewis Carroll’s The Walrus and the Carpenter. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers....

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-123443

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Lewis, John

Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America.

New York: Hyperion Books , 2012.

First edition of this award-winning work by the Civil Rights icon. Octavo, original boards. “To Dan, Thank you for all of your good work. Keep the faith. John Lewis, 8-2-12.” Near fine in...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-146391

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Doran, Dr.; [Ulysses S. Grant]

Table Traits with Something on Them.

New York: W. J. Widdleton, 1865.

Early printing of this anecdotal history of eatery; from the library of the eighteenth President of the United States. Octavo, bound in contemporary three quarter calf over marbled boards with gilt ti...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-146695

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Ben-Gurion, David

David-Ben Gurion Signed Photograph.

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Rare photograph of the Founding Father of Israel David Ben-Gurion. Glossy black and white photograph of David Ben-Gurion seated with a book in his lap. Presentation copy, inscribed by Ben-Gurion in th...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-146735

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Compiled by Abel Chevalley and Marguerite Chevalley

The Concise Oxford French Dictionary.

London: Oxford University Press, 1966.

Finely bound example of The Concise Oxford French Dictionary. Octavo, bound in full crushed red morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-130149

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Marias, Javier

Los Dominios del Lobo.

Barcelona: Edhasa, 1971.

First edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers as issued. Signed by Javier Marias on the title page. In near fine condition.

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-994

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Ford, Gerald R. and John R. Stiles

Portrait of an Assassin.

New York : Simon and Schuster, 1965.

First edition of the first book about the Kennedy assassination and Lee Harvey Oswald to be authored by a member of the Warren Commission. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by both authors on the front f...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-148153

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Penick, Harvey with Bud Shrake [Tom Kite] [Ben Crenshaw]

Harvey Penick’s Little Red Book: Lessons And Teachings From A Lifetime In Golf.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.

First edition, early printing of the best-selling golf book ever published. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Al Nelso...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-147829

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Cobbe, Frances Power

Why Women Desire The Franchise.

London: Spottiswoode & Co., Printers, 1869.

First edition of prolific Anglo-Irish suffragette Frances Power Cobbe’s feminist treatise. Octavo, bound in half morocco over marbled boards with gilt ruling to the spine, burgundy morocco spine...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-135210

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Searle, John R

Mind, Language and Society: Philosophy In The Real World.

New York: Basic Books, 1998.

First edition of this classic philosophical work. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by John R. Searle on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Michael Storrings.

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-152211

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P.B. Socci (Cary Grant)

Cary Grant Signed Sketch.

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Rare graphite artist’s sketch of classic Hollywood actor Cary Grant. Boldly signed by Cary Grant below his portrait. Additionally signed by the artist, P.B. Socci. Active in the mid 1970s, Ameri...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-89100

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Freeman, Douglas Southall

George Washington: A Biography.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948-54.

First edition of the author’s monumental Pulitzer Prize-winning work, widely considered the definitive biography of Washington. Octavo, six volumes, original black cloth, spines lettered in gilt, cart...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-149571

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Durrell, Lawrence

The Alexandria Quartet. Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea.

London: Faber & Faber, 1962.

Signed limited first edition of Durrell’s masterpiece, one of 500 numbered copies. Signed by Lawrence Durrell on the limitation page. Octavo, original orange cloth, hand-print design to upper bo...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-97421

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Hughes, Langston

Five Plays.

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1963.

First edition of this collection of five of Hughes’ best-known plays. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author with a full page inscription on the front free endpaper,...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-139812

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Garcia Marquez, Gabriel

El Otono del Patriarca [The Autumn of the Patriarch].

Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, 1975.

First Argentine edition of this “majestic, superb…a stunning portrait of the archetype, the pathological fascist tyrant” (The New York Times). Octavo, original illustrated wrappers....

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-119741

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Dickens, Charles

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.

London: Chapman and Hall and Bradbury Evans, 1858.

Rare finely bound Library Edition of Dickens’ first novel and one of his greatest works. Octavo, two volumes bound in three quarter morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with gilt titles and elab...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-119937

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Bainbridge, George C

The Fly Fisher’s Guide.

Liverpool: Printed for the Author by G.F. Harris's Widow and Brothers, 1816.

First edition of this guide to fly fishing, covering everything from equipment and techniques to the different types of fish that can be caught. Octavo, bound in half morocco over cloth covered boards...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-150432

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[Lincoln, Abraham]

Abraham Lincoln Engraving.

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Engraved oval portrait of Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States. Displayed in an antique wooden frame. The engraving measures 4.5 inches by 6 inches. The entire piece measures...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-146474

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Lowell, Robert [Erica Jong]

Selected Poems.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976.

First edition of this collection of over two hundred poems, selected by Lowell himself. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Erica f...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-142530

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Tarbell, Ida. [Abraham Lincoln]

The Life of Abraham Lincoln. Drawn from Original Sources and Containing Many Speeches, Letters and Telegrams Hitherto Unpublished.

New York: The Doubleday & McClure Co., 1900.

First Special Illustrator’s edition of the work that earned Tarbell a national reputation as a major writer and the leading authority on Abraham Lincoln. Quarto, two volumes, half cloth over pap...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-131290

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