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Calvin Coolidge Signed Consular Appointment.

Washington, D.C.:, March 13, 1925.

Fine consular appointment signed by Calvin Coolidge as President. One page, partially printed and accomplised in manuscript, the document appoints Samuel Sokobin a Consul of the United States at Harbi...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-150468

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Burn, Richard and George Chetwynd

The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer.

London: Printed by A. Strahan , 1820.

Finely bound set of this monumental work. Octavo, 5 volumes, bound in contemporary full calf, morocco spine labels. In near fine condition.

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-126858

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Carpenter, Scott; Gordon Cooper; Wally Schirra

Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, and Wally Schirra Signed Project Mercury Decal.

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Unused decal honoring Project Mercury; signed by three of the Mercury Seven. Four-cent Project Mercury stamp decal, depicting an illustration of the Freedom 7 capsule in space, surrounded by the surna...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-147226

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Hillary, Edmund

High Adventure.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1955.

First British edition of Hillary’s account of his ascent of Everest. Octavo, original blue cloth, with maps by A. Sparks and sketches by George Djurkouic. Boldly signed by the author in a contem...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-132749

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Brantome [Pierre de Bourdeille]

Les Vies Des Dames Galantes. [Lives of the Gallant Ladies].

Paris: Éditions de la Belle Etoile, 1938.

First edition of Brantôme’s sensational work on 17th century Parisian court life. Quarto, 2 volumes, original wrappers, illustrations in color by Jacques Touchet. One of 1250 numbered copies. th...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-132808

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Arrow, Kenneth J

Essays In the Theory of Risk-Bearing.

Amsterdam-London: North -Holland Publishing Company, 1971.

First edition of this collection of essays by Nobel Prize-winning economist Kenneth Arrow. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Kenneth J. Arrow on the title page. Small name to the front free endpaper,...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-29023

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Kertesz, Imre

Kaddis A Meg Nem Szuletett Gyermekert (Kaddish For A Child Not Born).

Budapest: Magveto, 1990.

First Hungarian edition of Kertesz’s mesmerizing novel of identity and memory. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Imre Kertesz on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-83049

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Hench, Philip S

Chronic Arthritis: Chronic Infectious Arthritis, Chronic Senescent Arthritis, Gout.

NP: Williams & Wilkins Company, 1940.

Rare offprint from The Modern Medical Therapy in General Practice, inscribed by Nobel Prize winning physician Philip Hench, “To Jerry with affection – Phil.” The recipient, Gerald Ro...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-140016

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Gandhi, Mohandas K. [Mahatma]

Mahatma Gandhi Photograph.

:, 1942.

Large format gelatin silver print photograph of Mahatma Gandhi spinning at Birla House in 1942. In the early 1920s, Gandhi expanded his nonviolent non-co-operation platform to include the swadeshi pol...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-139253

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Kneeland, Samuel

The Wonders of the Yosemite Valley, and of California.

Boston: Alexander Moore, 1871.

First edition of Kneeland’s historic guide to Yosemite; “one of the better early guide books to the Yosemite Valley” (Cowan, 333). Quarto, bound in full dark blue morocco with gilt t...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-101328

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Milnor, John W

Topology From the Differentiable Viewpoint.

Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia, 1965.

First edition of this collection of lectures delivered by Milnor at the University of Virginia in December 1963. Octavo, original half cloth over illustrated boards. Signed by John Milnor on the title...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-114852

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Abbott, Berenice

Changing New York.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1939.

First edition stated on copyright page of this classic work. Quarto, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, gi...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-145815

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Catlin, George W

North American Indians: Being Letters and Notes on Their Manners, Customs, and Conditions, Written During Eight Years’ Travel Amongst the Wildest Tribes of Indians in North America, 1832-1839.

London: Published by the Author, 1841.

First edition, later issue of this detailed anthropological history. Royal octavo, two volumes, original publisher’s cloth elaborately stamped in gilt, frontispiece, with 400 black and white ill...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-147786

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Hare, Chauncey

Interior America.

New York: Aperture, 1978.

First edition of this classic work. Oblong quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by the author on the title page, “Very best wishes Chauncey Hare.” Near fine in a v...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-146111

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Reisman, George

Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics.

: TJS Books, 1996.

First edition of this classic work. Quarto, original half cloth. Boldly signed by George Reisman on a bookplate attached to the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-146302

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Roosevelt, Eleanor

Eleanor Roosevelt Signed Israel Bond Committee Invitation.

B'Nai Israel Social Hall (Kenwood Blvd.): The Toledo Israel Bond Committee, November 11, 1957.

Rare invitation from the Toledo Israel Bond Committee, addressed to “The Outstanding Woman of Our Time” First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. One page, invitation administered on behalf of State o...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-146600

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Higgs, Peter

Peter Higgs Signed Photograph.

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Color close-up photograph of Nobel Prize-Winning physicist Peter Higgs, who discovered The Higgs mechanism which predicted the existence of a new particle, the Higgs boson, the detection of which beca...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-151319

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Weaver, Warren

Lady Luck: The Theory of Probability.

New York: Anchor Books/Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1963.

First edition of this engaging and thorough discussion of the probability theory in science by one of the pioneers of machine translation and as an important figure in creating support for science in...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-151420

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Schulz, Charles M

Happiness is a Warm Puppy.

San Francisco: Determined Publications, 1962.

First edition of Charlie Brown and the gang’s words on happiness, with 30 Peanuts cartoons by Schulz. Small octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-147811

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Weizmann, Chaim

Trial and Error.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1949.

First edition of the first president of Israel’s classic autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of Weizmann. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-134391

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Wilson, Rathmell

Re-Birth: A Romantic Novel.

London: Greening & Co. LTD, 1909.

First edition of this early romance novel. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles. In very good condition. Greening’s Catalogue from 1908 to rear of text block. Ownership signature to the front...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-147981

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Maugham, W. Somerset

Of Human Bondage.

New York: The Modern Library, c. 1939.

Modern Library edition of Maugham’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Vincent Starett in an economical mood Chicago 11...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-150081

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Andrews, Julie; Dick Van Dyke; Karen Dotrice; Glynis Johns; David Tomlinson [P.L. Travers]

Walt Disney’s Mary Poppins Original Cast Soundtrack Signed LP.

: Walt Disney Productions, 1964.

Rare original LP of the Mary Poppins: Original Cast Soundtrack, boldly signed by Julie Andrews on the front panel. In near fine condition.

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-140268

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Dickens, Charles

The Old Curiosity Shop: A Tale.

London: Chapman And Hall, Strand, 1841.

First edition of Dickens’s classic novel. Octavo, bound in half calf, full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, all edges gilt, with il...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-147630

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