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Tenting on the Plains or General Custer in Kansas and Texas.

New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1887.

First edition of Elizabeth Custer’s famous defense of Custer. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated green cloth, patterned endpapers, engraved tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait and 28...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-150708

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Armstrong, Louis

Louis Armstrong Signed Program.

New York: Associated Booking Corp, n.d.

‘Louis Armstrong and his Concert Group’ program. Quarto, original wrappers, 20 pages, illustrated with black and white photographs of the band and its members. Boldy signed by Louis Armstrong on...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-146533

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Hardy, Thomas; Agnes Miller Parker [Illustrator]

Jude the Obscure.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1969.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of the last completed novel by Hardy. Octavo, bound in full modern morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe / Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles and tooling to th...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-148808

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Woolf, Virginia

Flush: A Biography.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1933.

First edition of Woolf’s fictional “stream of consciousness” tale by Flush, a dog, telling the story of his owner, Elizabeth Browning. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt B...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-146583

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Hagen, Walter; As told to Margaret Seaton Heck

The Walter Hagen Story.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956.

First edition of Hagen’s autobiography. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-151625

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Sanger, Margaret

Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1938.

First edition of Sanger’s autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of Sanger. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Franklin M. Watts Marga...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-60034

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Palmer, Arnold

Arnold Palmer’s Golf Book “Hit It Hard!”

New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1961.

First edition of Arnold Palmer’s first book. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the fr...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-144210

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Frost, Robert

A Boy’s Will.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1934.

Second American edition of Frost’s first published work. Octavo, original beige linen cloth, engraved title page. Signed and dated by the poet on the title page, “Robert Frost February 25...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-130124

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Maugham, W.Somerset

The Maugham Reader.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1950.

First edition of this collection by the author of The Razor’s Edge. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Bayntun, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-134572

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Kerouac, Jack

The Town and the City.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950.

First edition of Kerouac’s first book. Octavo, original red cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Leo Manso.

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-138596

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Tolstoy, Leo

The Cossacks: A Tale of the Caucasus in 1852.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1878.

First edition in English of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Translated by Eugene Schuyler. In very good condition.

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-123937

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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...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-148772

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Frost, Robert

Steeple Bush.

New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1947.

First edition, first printing of this spiritually-themed Frost collection. Octavo, original half cloth over boards, front panel decorated in gilt. One of 751 copies signed by the author on the limitat...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-110271

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Flynn, Gillian

Gone Girl.

New York: Crown Publishers, 2012.

First edition of this “instant classic” (Vanity Fair), basis for the film starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Gillian Flynn and Academy Award-winning...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-131752

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Conrad, Joseph

The Rover.

London: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd, 1923.

First British edition of the last complete novel by Joseph Conrad. Octavo, finely bound in full morocco by Bayntun, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, double gilt ruled, inner dentell...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-119454

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Burger, Warren E.; Ronald Reagan

Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Signed 1985 Inauguration Program.

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Official program for Ronald Reagan’s 1985 inauguration and has a First Day Cancellation at the top. Signed by Chief Justice Warren E. Burger at the bottom. Burger administered the oath of office...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-47021

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Warhol, Andy; Bailey, David

Andy Warhol: Transcript of David Bailey’s ATV Documentary.

London: Bailey Litchfield/Matthew Miller Dunbar Ltd, 1972.

First edition of the transcript of David Bailey’s documentary film ‘Warhol’ which was banned upon release due to its alleged explicit content. Folio, original illustrated wrappers, i...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-116014

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His Holiness the Dalai Lama

His Holiness the Dalai Lama Signed Photograph.

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Color photograph of His Holiness The Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso. Glossy color photograph of the Dalai Lama standing in his traditional robes with his hands folded. Boldly signed in black felt tip at th...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-147468

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McCullough, David

The Johnstown Flood.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1968.

First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian’s first book. Octavo, original brown cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-59021

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Huxley, Aldous

After Many A Summer.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1939.

First edition of this classic novel. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the fro...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-151687

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Carroll, W

The Angler’s Vade Mecum, Containing a Descriptive Account of the Water Flies, Their Seasons, and the Kind of Weather that Brings Them Most on the Water.

Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co, 1818.

First edition of this descriptive account on water flies. Octavo, bound in half vellum over cloth covered boards, frontispiece, illustrated with twelve hand-colored plates. Pages from the “Edinb...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-150466

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Malthus, Thomas Robert [T.R.]

Principles of Political Economy Considered with a View to Their Practical Application.

Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1821.

First American edition of this landmark work in political economy. Octavo, bound in three quarters leather over marbled boards, black leather morocco spine label. In near fine condition.

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-23029

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Kipling, Rudyard

Letters of Marque.

Allahabad: A. H. Wheeler & Co, 1891.

Rare first edition of this collection of letters published without Kipling’s permission and so quickly suppressed. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth. One of one thousand copies,...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-120684

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Twain, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens]

The Prince and the Pauper. A Tale For Young People of All Ages.

James R. Osgood and Company: Boston, 1882.

First edition, first issue of of the author’s first historical novel with the Franklin imprint on the copyright page. BAL 3402. Johnson pp. 39-41. Octavo, bound in three quarter burgundy morocco...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-150845

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