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What About the Airship? The Challenge to the United States.

New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1938.

First edition of this spirited defense of the airship that calls for America to secure and maintain airship superiority. Octavo, original publisher’s blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine and...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-150526

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Haise, Fred

Fred Haise Signed Apollo 13 Photograph.

:, 1970.

Rare photograph of the Apollo 13 service module. Small quarto, color satin-finish photograph of the crippled Apollo 13 service module floating in space. Boldly signed by Fred Haise, “Our view of...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-147067

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Coetzee, J.M

Dusklands.

Johannesburg: Raven Press, 1974.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the title page. Near fine in an excellent dust jacket that shows some light soiling...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-224

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Szarkowski, John

The Photographer’s Eye.

New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1966.

First edition. Square quarto, original cloth. Inscribed by the author to Robert Lewis; former head of the Yale School of Drama, author, actor, and founder of the Actor’s Studio, “with warm...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-1115

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Dickens, Charles

Oliver Twist.

London: Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars, 1846.

Early edition of Dickens’s classic second novel. Octavo, bound in full calf, full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to t...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-147626

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Cook, James

Carte d’une Partie de la Côte de la Nle. Galles Meridle…from: Relation des voyages entrepris par ordre de sa majesté britannique, et successivement exécutés par le Commodore Byron, le Capitaine Carteret, le Capitaine Wallis & le Capitaine Cook, dans les vaisseaux le Dauphin, le Swallow & l’Endeavour.

Paris:, 1774.

First French printing of this well-known first map of the east coast of Australia. The map measures 13.25 inches by 12 inches. Matted. The entire piece measures 29 inches by 18 inches. One of the firs...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-120762

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Blackmun, Harry A.; Stephen Breyer; Elena Kagan; David Souter

Supreme Court Justice Signed Pamphlet Collection.

Washington, D.C.:, 1991-2015.

Rare collection of four typescript Supreme Court ruling pamphlets signed by Harry A. Blackmun (Diane Griffin v. United States: December 3, 1991), David Souter (William “Sky King v. St. Vincent...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-122987

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Baba, Meher

God to Man And Man To God.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1955.

First edition of this work by Meher Baba. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. With an introduction by C.B. Purdom.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-117989

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Blume, Judy

Here’s To You, Rachel Robinson.

New York: Orchard Books, 1993.

First edition of the author’s sequel to her best-selling young adult novel ‘Just as Long as We’re Together.’ Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the au...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-145014

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Kornai, János

A Beruházások Matematikai Programozása. [Mathematical Programming of Investments].

Budapest: Közgazdasági és Jogi Könyvkiadó, 1962.

First edition of this economic work. Octavo, original light blue cloth, illustrated with graphs and a folding chart at the rear. Presentation copy, inscribed in Hungarian by the author on the title pa...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-146268

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Moses, Robert

Working for the People: Promise and Performance in Public Space.

New York : Harper & Brothers, 1956.

First edition of this work by the legendary Robert Moses. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Janet Hooper Ostahn, the daughter of...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-124814

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Christie, Agatha

The Mystery of the Blue Train.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1928.

First American edition of Christie’s classic work of detective fiction. Octavo, original publisher’s blue cloth. In good condition, loss to the front free endpaper. From the collection of...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-149992

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Saramago, Jose

Manual De Pintura E Caligraphia [Manual of Painting and Calligraphy].

Lisboa: Moraes Editores, 1976.

First Portuguese edition and true first of this early work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Inscribed and dated Jose Saramago. In very good condition with some...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-2630

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Diamond, Jared

The Third Chimpanzee.

New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1992.

First edition of this early work by the award-winning scientist. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, warmly and lengthily inscribed by the author to fellow writer Peter Matthiessen on the f...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-15078

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Report From The Secretary of War, Transmitting, In Compliance with a Resolution of the Senate, the Report of the Commissioner to Investigate Claims Against the Miami Indians, with a Statement of Expense of Said Commission, &c. March 2, 1839.

:, 1839-1886.

Rare sammelband collection of three Congressional Reports regarding the Miami Indian Treaties. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt to the...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-135438

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Johnson, Lady Bird

The White House: An Historic Guide.

Washington, DC: White House Historical Association, 1964.

First edition of this wonderfully illustrated work on The White House. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Inscribed by Lady Bird Johnson on the title page, “To Bill Walton...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-69056

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Publius Vergilius Maro [Virgil]; Bruno Bramanti [Illustrator]; Giovanni Mardersteig [Printer]

The Georgics.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1952.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of Virgil’s classic didactic poem. Quarto, bound in full modern morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe / Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles and tooling to...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-148543

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Marx, Groucho

Groucho and Me. The Autobiography of Groucho Marx by (of all people!) Groucho Marx.

New York: Bernard Geis Associates, 1959.

First edition of the autobiography of Groucho Marx. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Glenn from Grouch...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-138618

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Oliphant, Margaret

The Makers of Venice: Doges, Conquerors, Painters and Men of Letters. [Fore-edge Painting].

London: Macmillan and Co, 1893.

Finely bound example of the Scottish historian’s classic work on the foundation of Venice. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles to the spine, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-138708

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Brown, Joe David [Ryan O'Neal]

Addie Pray.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971.

First edition of this classic work, basis for the 1973 film Paper Moon starring Ryan and Tatum O’Neal. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by actor Ryan O’Neal on the front free endpaper...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-141312

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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...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-145919

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Nabokov, Vladimir

Pale Fire.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1962.

First edition of this “witty, ironic and complex tour de force” (Hart, 521). Octavo, original black cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. A very sharp example.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-133621

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Williams, Ted; Carl Yastrzemski

Ted Williams and Carl Yastrzemski Signed Photograph.

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Color photograph of Boston Red Sox legends Ted Williams and Carl Yastrzemski. Boldly signed in silver felt tip by both Williams and Yastrzemski. In fine condition. The piece measures 8 inches by 10 in...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-148076

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Cummings, E. E

[No Title]. [An Imaginary Dialogue Between Almost Any Publisher and a Certain Author A.D. 1930].

New York: Covici Friede Publishers, 1930.

First edition and signed limited edition of Cumming’s cleverly titled untitled work. Quarto, original cloth stamped in silver, illustrated with 8 full-page drawings by the author. One of 491 cop...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-136284

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