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Ovid; Hans Erni [Engraver]; Giovanni Mardersteig [Printer]

Ovid’s Metamorphoses: In Fifteen Books.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1958.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of Sir Samuel Garth’s translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, with engraved book pages. Octavo, bound in full modern morocco by Sangorski & Sutc...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-148535

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Chamberlain, Wilt; David Shaw

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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Halberstam, David

The Best and the Brightest.

New York: Random House, 1972.

First edition, early printing of the author’s magnum opus. Octavo, original blue cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Rik and Margaret with esteem and...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-144036

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Dumas, Alexandre [Alexander]

Les Trois Mousquetaires.

Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1921.

Finely bound example of Dumas’ classic work in the original French. Octavo, two volumes bound in three quarter crimson crushed levant morocco with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six comp...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-145243

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Zeppelin, Ferdinand von

Ferdinand von Zeppelin Autograph Postcard Signed.

Friedrichshafen:, November 2, 1908.

Autograph postcard signed, in German, by Ferdinand von Zeppelin to Stuttgart publishers Levy & Müller thanking them for sending 6 copies of his book, ‘Zeppelins Kampf und Sieg,’ first...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-145305

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Le Carre, John

The Naïve and Sentimental Lover.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972.

First American edition of le Carré’s classic sixth novel. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the half-title page, “David Cornwell aka John le Carre.” Near fine in...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-146330

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Cobb, Thomas

Crazy Heart.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1987.

First edition of this work which “might be the finest country-western novel ever written, bar none” (Houston Post), basis for the 2009 film starring Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Colin...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-137411

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Friedman, Milton and Rose D

Two Lucky People: Memoirs.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.

First edition of this memoir by the Nobel Prize-winning economist and his wife Rose, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, warmly...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-3148

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Auel, Jean M

Earth’s Children: The Clan of the Cave Bear; The Valley of Horses; The Mammoth Hunters; The Plains of Passage.

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1980-1990.

First editions of the first four volumes of the author’s acclaimed Earth’s Children series, each inscribed by Jean Auel. Octavo, four volumes, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers....

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-147750

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Ayer, Alfred J. [A.J.]

Philosophical Essays.

London: Macmillan & Co, 1963.

Later printing of this classic work. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by the author on the half-title page, “with best wishes A.J. Ayer September 15, 1963 Mexico City.” In very good condi...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-133105

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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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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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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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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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