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Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1958.

First edition of Dr. Martin Luther King’s first book. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Best Wishes Martin Luther King, Jr....

$17,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145065

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Melville, Herman

Omoo.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1847.

First edition of this classic Melville work Omoo, the Martin-Manney copy in the rare original wrappers. Octavo, two volumes, original wrappers. Volume 1 with half-title, title-page printed in black an...

$17,500.00 Item Number: RRB-142411

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Dumas, Alexandre. [Alexander]

The Works of Alexandre Dumas.

Boston: Dana Estes & Company Publishers, 1894-1904.

The Artists’ Edition of the complete works of Alexander Dumas. Octavo, 46 volumes bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and botanical decorations to the spine in f...

$17,500.00 Item Number: RRB-144834

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Lewis, C.S

Out of the Silent Planet.

London: The Bodley Head, 1938.

First edition of the author’s classic first book in his acclaimed Space Trilogy. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with some professional restoration. Ho...

$17,500.00 Item Number: RRB-130744

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Oppenheimer, J. Robert; [George Little]

J. Robert Oppenheimer Typed Letter Signed. [WITH] Related Manhattan Project Ephemera.

Santa Fe: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, 1945.

Rare typed letter signed by the Father of the Atomic Bomb, J.R. Oppenheimer. Quarto, one page on Oppenheimer’s Santa Fe stationary, dated October 13, 1945, the letter reads in part, ‘Dear...

$17,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147275

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Churchill, Winston S

My Early Life; Thoughts and Adventures; Great Contemporaries; Step by Step.

London: Odhams Press Limited, 1936-1939.

First Odhams press edition of four of Churchill’s best-known works. Octavo, 4 volumes, original cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, illustrated. Presentation set, inscribed by Churc...

$17,500.00 Item Number: RRB-131601

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Hemingway, Ernest

For Whom the Bell Tolls.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940.

First edition, early printing of Hemingway’s third novel, a tragic exploration of love, duty, and the futility of war. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Association copy, lengthily inscr...

$17,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149834

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King Jr., Martin Luther

Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1958.

First edition of Dr. Martin Luther King’s first book. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Martin Luther King, Jr. on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacke...

$17,500.00 Item Number: RRB-130938

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Finaly, Marguerite. [James Joyce]

Reliquiae.

Paris: Privately Printed, 1925.

James Joyce’s first edition copy of the collected works of Marguerite Finaly, compiled by her husband, Horace Finaly, in her memory and privately printed for distribution to friends; with Joyce...

$17,500.00 Item Number: RRB-131904

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Bertraux, Emile

Globe Terrestre d’apres les Decouvertes les Plus Recentes [Terrestrial Globe].

Paris: Emile Bertraux, 1879.

A fine and highly detailed French terrestrial library globe showing the earth’s geography as it was mapped in the late nineteenth century. The globe includes the oceans’ major currents, th...

$17,500.00 Item Number: RRB-136769

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Mandela, Nelson

No Easy Walk To Freedom: Articles, Speeches, and Trial Addresses.

New York: Basic Books Inc., Publishers, 1965.

First edition of Nelson Mandela’s classic account of the struggle against South Africa’s apartheid system. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the title page, “NMa...

$17,500.00 Item Number: RRB-109564

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Churchill, Winston S

The Second World War: The Gathering Storm; Their Finest Hour; The Grand Alliance; The Hinge of Fate; Closing the Ring; Triumph and Tragedy.

London: Cassell & Co. Ltd, 1948-1954.

First editions of each volume in Churchill’s World War II masterpiece. Octavo, six volumes, original black cloth with spines lettered in gilt, patterned endpapers, illustrated with in-line and folding...

$17,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149835

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Swift, Jonathan

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, first Surgeon, and then Captain of Several Ships. [Gulliver’s Travels].

London: Printed for Benj. Motte, at the Middle Temple-Gate in Fleet-Street, 1726.

First edition of one of the most important works in all of English literature, Teerink’s “AA” edition of Jonathan Swift’s masterpiece. Octavo, four parts in two volumes bound i...

$17,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146104

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Boswell, James

The Life of Johnson.

London: Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, in The Poultry, 1791.

First edition, first issue of both volumes of the most celebrated biography in the English language, which was published on May 16, 1791 in a print run of only 1,750 copies. Quarto, bound in contempor...

$17,500.00 Item Number: RRB-80005

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Martin, Pete. [Marilyn Monroe]

Will Acting Spoil Marilyn Monroe?

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1956.

First edition in book form of the famed actress’s ghostwritten piece for Pageant magazine, often considered the closest thing to an autobiographical work published during her lifetime. Octavo, o...

$17,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151580

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Lennon, John. [The Beatles]

John Lennon Signed “Bag One” Lithograph.

New York: Cinnamon Press, 1970.

Rare Bag One lithograph signed by Beatles icon John Lennon. One page, the title page from Lennon’s Bag One Portfolio. Signed by him beneath the image. One of 300 numbered copies, this is number...

$17,500.00 Item Number: RRB-123601

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Graham, Benjamin & David L. Dodd

Security Analysis: Principles and Technique.

New York: Whittlesey House/ McGraw Hill, 1940.

First printing of the second edition, in the rare original dust jacket. Octavo, original black cloth. Near fine in the original dust jacket with two chips to the front panel. Housed in a custom half m...

$17,500.00 Item Number: RRB-138599

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le Carre, John

Call For The Dead.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1961.

First edition of the author’s first book, which introduced the world to the recurring protagonist, George Smiley. Octavo, original red cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in a cu...

$17,500.00 Item Number: RRB-139418

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Dylan, Bob

Like A Rolling Stone.

London: Blossom Music Ltd, 1965.

Original sheet music of the classic song, Like A Rolling Stone, named by Rolling Stone magazine as the number 1 song of the all-time, boldly signed by Bob Dylan on the front panel. Quarto, original il...

$17,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150112

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Lewis, C.S

The Chronicles of Narnia Set: The Lion, the Witch and The Wardrobe, Prince Caspian, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Silver Chair, The Horse and His Boy, The Magician’s Nephew, The Last Battle.

London: Geoffrey Bles, 1950-1956.

First editions of each book in the author’s classic Chronicles of Narnia series, which has sold over 100 million copies in 47 languages. Octavo, 7 volumes, illustrated by Pauline Baynes, bound i...

$17,500.00 Item Number: RRB-140690

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Steinbeck, John

Tortilla Flat.

New York: Covici-Friede Publishers, 1935.

First edition of Steinbeck’s first commercially successful book. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For George Goo...

$17,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149596

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Churchill, Winston S

The World Crisis 1911-1914; The World Crisis 1915; The World Crisis 1916-1918 Part One and Part Two; The World Crisis. The Aftermath; The World Crisis. The Eastern Front.

London: Thornton Butterfield, 1923-31.

Complete first edition set of Churchill’s important history of World War I, with the first volume signed by Churchill and an autograph note signed by Jack Churchill. Octavo, six volumes, origina...

$17,500.00 Item Number: RRB-144259

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Churchill, Winston S

The Second World War: The Gathering Storm; Their Finest Hour; The Grand Alliance; The Hinge of Fate; Closing the Ring; Triumph and Tragedy.

London: Cassell & Company, 1948-54.

First editions of each volume in Churchill’s World War II masterpiece. Octavo, six volumes, original black cloth, patterned endpapers, illustrated with in-line and folding maps and documents. Boldly s...

$17,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150079

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Leeser, Issac

Discourses on the Jewish Religion.

Philadelphia: Sherman & Co, 1836-1867.

Rare complete first edition set of one of the ‘major builders of American Judaism’, Isaac Leeser’s Discourses on the Jewish Religion. Octavo, 10 volumes, bound in the original cloth with gilt titles t...

$17,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146786

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