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Reagan, Ronald; Richard Nixon; Gerald Ford; Jimmy Carter

Ronald Reagan Signed Photograph of Presidents Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Richard Nixon.

:, 1981.

Rare photograph of American Presidents Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Richard Nixon gathered at the White House before departing for Anwar Sadat’s funeral in 1981. Anwar Sadat (19...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-148495

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Hazzard, Shirley

The Transit of Venus.

New York: The Viking Press, 1980.

First edition of “one of the great English-language novels of the twentieth century” (The Paris Review). Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author in t...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-140429

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Tennyson, Alfred

Idylls of the King. [Fore-edge Painting].

London: Edward Moxon & Co, 1859.

First edition, second issue of one of the greatest and most enduring of Victorian literary works, with the imprint of Bradbury and Evans to the verso of title. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-139723

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Kornberg, Arthur

DNA Synthesis.

San Francisco: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1974.

First edition of this important work by the Nobel Prize-winning scientist. Octavo, original boards. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Morris: With affecti...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-144689

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Carr, Lucien [Helen Weaver] [Jack Kerouac]

Lucien Carr Autograph Letter Signed to Helen Weaver.

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Autograph letter signed by American journalist and editor Lucien Carr. One page, handwritten to Jack Kerouac’s former girlfriend Helen Weaver on a yellow legal pad page and dated “Sept. 04...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-149953

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Wells, H.G

The Peace of the World.

London: The Daily Chronicle, 1915.

First edition of Wells’ early First World War political tract examining the causes of modern conflict and arguing for new forms of international cooperation and organization as the foundation for last...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-151328

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Lawrence, T.E

Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1949.

Finely bound edition of Lawrence’s classic account of his role in the Arab rebellion against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Bayntun Riviere, frontispie...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-147244

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Mailer, Norman

The Naked and the Dead.

London: Allan Wingate, 1949.

First British edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For ________ ________, Spent a winter once in...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-833

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Palm Beach, Florida Souvenir View Book.

Buffalo, New York: Union Souvenir Co. [Plates printed by] The Albertype Co., Brooklyn, [n.d., circa 1910s].

Rare early photographic souvenir view book of Palm Beach, Florida. Oblong format, 16 pages, original printed wrappers bound with the publisher’s silk cord, the upper wrapper lettered “Palm...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-152161

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Warren, Patricia Nell

The Front Runner.

New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc, 1974.

First edition of the first contemporary gay novel to achieve mainstream commercial and critical success. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpa...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-87690

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Blunden, Edmund

Undertones of War.

London: Richard Cobden-Sanderson, 1928.

First edition of Blunden’s moving narrative of life on the Western Front told in prose and verse,. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. An exceptional example, uncommon in thi...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-130487

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Blake, Michael [Kevin Costner]

Dances with Wolves.

New York: Fawcett Gold Medal, 1988.

First edition of this classic novel, basis for the Academy Award-winning film starring Kevin Costner. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, all edges stained yellow. Boldly signed by Michael Blake and...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-151587

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Levin, Ira

The Boys From Brazil.

New York: Random House, 1976.

First edition of this classic suspense novel, basis for the the 1978 film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, starring Gregory Peck and Laurence Olivier. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth w...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-148684

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Sendak, Maurice

In the Night Kitchen.

New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1970.

First edition of Sendak’s classic work. Quarto, original cloth with illustrated paper cover label, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Nich...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-140617

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Huxley, Aldous

The Art of Seeing.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1942.

First edition, early printing of this classic work which details Huxley’s experience with and views on the controversial Bates method, which according to him improved his eyesight. Octavo, origi...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-140889

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Fast, Howard

Spartacus.

New York: Published by the Author, 1951.

First edition of this work, basis for the classic 1960 film starring Kirk Douglas. Boldly signed by Howard Fast on a page bound-in. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titl...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-150338

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Williams, Tennessee

Memoirs.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1975.

First edition of this classic memoir by the author of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and A Streetcar Named Desire. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endp...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-142240

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Gluck, Louise

Ararat.

New York: The Ecco Press, 1990.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s collection of poetry, prompted by the death of her father. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the poet opposite the hal...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-124951

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Junger, Sebastian [George Clooney]

The Perfect Storm.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1997.

First edition of this work, basis for the 2000 film starring Wolfgang Petersen starring George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Diane Lane, William Fichtner, Karen Allen, Bob Gunton, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantoni...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-150103

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Churchill, Winston S

Ian Hamilton’s March.

London: Longman's, Green, and Co, 1900.

First edition of Churchill’s fifth book, a continuation of his coverage of the Boer War which he began in London to Ladysmith via Pretoria. Octavo, original red cloth with gilt titles to the spi...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-129329

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O'Casey, Sean

I Knock At The Door: Swift Glances Back at Things That Made Me.

London: Macmillan & Co, 1939.

First edition of this autobiography by the famed Irish playwright. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication, “To Joe Cummins, w...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-108016

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Cothren, William [William Tecumseh Sherman]

History of Ancient Woodbury, Connecticut, from the First Indian Deed in 1659 to 1854: Including the Present Towns of Washington, Southbury, Bethlem, Roxbury, and a Part of Oxford and Middlebury.

Waterbury, Connecticut: Bronson Brothers, 1854.

Second volume of the first edition of this history of Ancient Woodbury, the location of the Sherman family’s initial establishment in early 1673; from the library of General William Tecumseh Sherman....

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-145760

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Arnold, Katie. [Joan Didion]

Chemical Pink: A Novel of Obsession.

New York: A Tom Doherty Associates Book, 2001.

First edition of the author’s first novel. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Joan – Thank you for being so generous &...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-141135

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Puzo, Mario [Francis Ford Coppola]

The Godfather.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1969.

Finely bound edition of Puzo’s definitive novel of the Mafia underworld, boldly signed by director Francis Ford Coppola. Octavo, bound in full leather, all edges gilt, ribbon bound in. Boldly si...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-150897

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