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Milnes, Richard Monckton. [The Right Honorable Lord Houghton]

Opening Address by Lord Houghton, President of the Society.

:, c. 1873.

Rare first edition of Lord Houghton’s Opening Address before the Norwich Congress of the Social Science Association. Octavo, bound in three quarters contemporary calf over marbled boards, gilt t...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-112568

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Owens, Mark and Delia

Cry of the Kalahari: Seven Years in Africa’s Last Great Wilderness.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984.

First edition of this classic work, which ranks with “Goodall’s In the Shadow of Man and Fossey’s Gorillas in the Mist” (Chicago Tribune). Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpape...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-149866

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Roberts, H. A. [John Neville Keynes]

In Memoriam: John Bascombe Lock.

Cambridge: Printed at the University Press, 1921.

First edition of this in memoriam of John Bascombe Lock from the Caian magazine of Cambridge. Octavo, original wrappers, frontispiece of John Bascombe Lock. Presentation copy, inscribed by H.A. Robert...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-150696

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Lee, Geddy

Geddy Lee Signed Presto CD.

Toronto: Anthem Records Inc, 1989.

Rare ‘Presto’ album CD, signed by lead vocalist, bassist, and keyboardist Geddy Lee. Duodecimo, original CD case and illustrated lyrics booklet. Boldly signed by Lee in blue felt tip on th...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-146558

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Dahl, Roald

Switch Bitch.

London: Michael Joseph, 1974.

First British edition of this collection of Dahl’s short stories. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Ann Love Roald Dahl....

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-129604

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The Political History of Palestine Under British Administration: Memorandum by His Britannic Majesty’s Government presented in 1947 to the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine at Jerusalem, 1947.

New York: British Information Services, 1947.

Rare first edition of this political history. Thin octavo, original publisher’s wrappers. In very good condition with rubbing and a few small losses to the extremities.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-147165

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Gogol, Nikolai V

Dead Souls.

London: Vizetelly & Co., n.d..

Finely bound example of Gogol’s masterwork, “the first novel from which the world began to form its ideas of 19th-century Russia” (Hornstein, 139). Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over m...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-132581

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Cornwell, Bernard

Sharpe’s Company. Richard Sharpe and the Seige of Badajoz, January to April 1812.

London: Collins, 1982.

First edition of the third book in the Richard Sharpe series. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author who has added the first lines of this book as follows, “Wit...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-1812

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Sikorsky, Igor

The Story of the Winged-S: Late Developments and Recent Photographs of the Helicopter.

New York: Dodd, Meade & Company, 1958.

First edition, early printing of the autobiography of the Russian-American aviation pioneer and designer of the first viable American helicopter. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece, illustrated with...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-148067

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Millett, Kate

Sexual Politics: A Surprising Examination of Society’s Most Arbitrary Folly.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1970.

First edition of the author’s landmark work. Octavo, original cloth. Warmly inscribed by Kate Millett on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. Jacket typograph...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-46008

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Cerf, Vint

Vint Cerf Sketch Signed.

:, 1977.

Rare autograph sketch signed by internet pioneer Vint Cerf. One page, the sketch draws a set of connections between Packet Radio Network (PRNET), Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), a...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-147510

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Alarcon, Pedro Antonio de; Roger Duvoisin [Illustrator]

The Three-Cornered Hat.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1959.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of this comically satirical novella. Quarto, bound in full modern morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe / Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles and tooling to the...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-148648

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VergÉ, Roger

Roger Vergé’s Vegetables in the French Style.

New York: Artisan, 1994.

First American edition of this cookbook that elevates humble produce to the centerpiece of refined Provençal cuisine. Quarto, original publisher’s boards, illustrated throughout. Signed by the a...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-149198

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Rothbard, Murray

Power & Market: Government and the Economy.

Kansas City: Sheed Andrews and McMeel, 1977.

Second edition of this classic work. Octavo, original wrappers. “For Dan Haag, July 1981 For the market and against Power Best wishes Murray Rothbard.” In near fine condition.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-143965

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Apcar, Amy

Melodies of the Holy Apostolic Church of Armenia: The Liturgy as Sung in Ordinary, During Lent, and on Festivals.

Leipzig: Printed by Breitkopf & Haertel, 1920.

Second and enlarged edition of these rich chant traditions of the Armenian Apostolic Church. Octavo, three volumes, written in English and Armenian, bound in three-quarters morocco with gilt titles to...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-149490

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McDonough, James R

Platoon Leader: A Memoir of Command in Combat.

Navato, CA: Presidio Press, 1985.

First edition of this classic memoir of small-unit leadership and the coming of age of a young soldier in combat in Vietnam. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-120907

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Wiesenthal, Simon; Joseph Wechsberg

Murderers Among Us: The Wiesenthal Memoirs.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1967.

First edition of Simon Wiesenthal’s classic autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Simon Wiesenthal on the title page. Ticket to a Wiesenthal lecture attached...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-150857

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[Newhall, Frederic Cushman]. [Philip Sheridan]

With General Sheridan in Lee’s Last Campaign.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1866.

First edition of Frederic Cushman Newhall’s Civil War memoir. Octavo, original cloth, tissue-guarded frontispiece, folding map. In good condition. Ownership name. Rare.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-132434

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Morris, Desmond

The Naked Ape: A Zoologist’s Study of the Human Animal.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1967.

First edition of the author’s classic work, which established the field of evolutionary anthropology. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by the author, “For Barry -The Paine was a plea...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-3627

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Eliot, George

Felix Holt: The Radical.

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1866.

First editions of this classic work. Octavo, 3 volumes, original cloth, half-title to each volume, 4 pp publisher’s ads at rear of volume 3. Publisher’s orange-brown cloth, spines lettered...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-148184

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Penn, Irving

Flowers.

New York: Harmony Books, 1980.

First edition of this iconic collection of photographs of flowers taken between 1967-1973. Quarto, original beige cloth, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Irving Penn on the half-title page. Fi...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-84689

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Milnor, John W. and James D. Stasheef

Characteristic Classes. Annals of Mathematics Studies, No. 76.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1974.

First edition of this work by the famed mathematician. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by John Milnor on the title page. In very good condition, name to the half-title page and pastedown.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-57021

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Bemelmans, Ludwig

Madeline’s Rescue.

London: Andre Deutsch/Derek Verscholyle, 1957.

First British edition, early printing of the second book in the Madeline series, which went on to win the Caldecott Medal. Thin quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Ludwig...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-114234

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Pershing, General John J

General John J. Pershing Signed United States Army Citation.

:, 1919.

Early 20th century United States Army Citation signed by General John J. Pershing. One page, partially printed, the citation awards Lieut. Colonel Arthur A. Tasker for “exceptionally meritorious...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-120411

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