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Wilt: Just Like Any Other 7-Foot Black Millionaire Who Lives Next Door.

New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc, 1973.

First edition of this autobiography that captures and reveals NBA All-Star Wilt Chamberlain as “a complex, diverse, immensely self-assured and self-possessed human being” (David Shaw). Oct...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-148626

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Kirzner, Israel M

Ludwig von Mises: The Man and His Economics.

Wilmington, Delaware: ISI Books, 2001.

First edition of Kirzner’s authoritative biography of Ludwig von Mises. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Israel M. Kirzner on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-144496

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Mitchell, Edgar

Edgar Mitchell Signed Apollo 14 Landing Site Oversized Photograph.

:, February 1971.

Poster-sized photograph of Edgar Mitchell standing on the lunar surface of the Fra Mauro formation, the future landing site of the Apollo 14 mission. Color photograph of Edgar Mitchell standing at the...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-145298

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Lawrence, T. E.

Revolt in the Desert.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1927.

First edition, first impression with the publisher’s device to the rear board of T. E. Lawrence’s own abridgment of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, which achieved immediate popular success. Quarto, ori...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-150793

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Kipling, Rudyard

Kim.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1901.

First English edition of what many consider Kipling’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Illustrated with photographs of clay reliefs by John Lockwood Kipling including tissue-guarded frontispiece,...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-134755

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Naipaul, V.S

In A Free State.

London: Andre Deutsch, 1971.

First edition of the author’s Booker Prize-winning novel. Octavo. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with just a touch of wear. Jacket design by Sam Houston.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-3701

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Stein, Gertrude

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.

New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1933.

First edition of Gertrude Stein’s most famous work; one of the richest biographies ever written. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated from photographs. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-135222

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Eichenwald, Kurt [Matt Damon]

The Informant.

New York: Broadway Books, 2000.

First edition of this work, basis for the film directed by Steven Soderbergh, starring Matt Damon, Scott Bakula and Joel McHale. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-150375

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Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]

A Tramp Abroad.

Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1880.

First edition of Twain’s humorous and semi-autobiographical work of travel literature with the frontispiece captioned “Titian’s Moses” opposite the portrait of Twain. BAL 3386....

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-150844

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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 a bust portrait of His Holiness The Dalai Lama in scarlet monk’s robes, boldly signed by him. In very g...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-145416

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Bean, Alan

Alan Bean Signed ‘EVA’ Photograph.

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Official NASA photograph of Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean. Glossy color photograph of Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean using a fuel transfer tool on the Lunar Module. Lengthily signed by Alan Bean in sil...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-146031

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Gurnah, Abdulrazak

Paradise.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1994.

First edition of the work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original boards. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, small ownership name to the front free endpaper.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-129499

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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-146311

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Stoppard, Tom

The Real Inspector Hound.

London: Faber & Faber, 1968.

First edition of this work by the legendary playwright. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by Tom Stoppard on the title page. Very good in wrappers.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-2376

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Neutra, Richard

Survival Through Design.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1954.

First edition of this work by one of the great modernist architects of the twentieth century. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by Richard Neutra on the front free en...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-147720

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Norris, Christopher

Hilary Putnam: Realism, Reason, and the Uses of Uncertainty.

Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2002.

First edition of Christopher Norris’s study of the philosophy of Hilary Putnam. Octavo, original boards, gilt titles to the spine and front panel. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpa...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-88088

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Irving, Washington

Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography. [Fore-edge Painting].

London: Henry G. Bohn, 1861.

Finely bound example of Goldsmith’s biography of the famed novelist. 16 mo, bound in full polished calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, do...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-138922

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Jay-Z

Decoded.

New York: Speigel and Grau, 2010.

First edition of this work by the Grammy Award-winning artist. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Boldly signed by Jay-Z on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Ro...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-150114

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Kipling, Rudyard

Rudyard Kipling First Appearance Collection: The Burning of the Sarah Sands, An English School, and My Personal Experience With a Lion.

Boston: The Youth's Companion, 1898.

Rare collection of Kipling first appearances including the first appearance of The Burning of the Sarah Sands, An English School, and My Personal Experience With a Lion. Quarto. Housed in a custom fol...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-123595

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Wells, H.G

The Food of the Gods and How it Came to Earth.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1904.

First edition of Wells’ satiric utopian novel. Octavo, original blind-stamped green cloth, gilt titles to the spine and front panel. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and c...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-95220

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Noble, Denis

The Music of Life.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.

First edition of this work by the award-winning physiologist. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Colin Hall with the compliments o...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-142042

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Getty, J. Paul

How To Be A Successful Executive.

New York: Playboy Press, 1971.

First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Additionally with a signed personal check, stamped and typed on Pacific Safety paper, made payable to the Irene Andres. for $36.17 on July 24, 1946. “Paid” hole-...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-146195

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Green, Hannah [Joanne Greenberg]

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964.

First edition, early printing of the author’s semi-autobiographical modern classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the half-title page using her pseudonym and real name, ...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-147081

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Stone, Robert

A Hall of Mirrors.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967.

First edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Stone who has additionally added the line from this title as follows, “They killed my girl,” Rheinhar...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-1108

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