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Apollo Astronauts Signed Note.

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Rare note signed by Apollo astronauts John Young (Gemini 3, Gemini 10, Apollo 10, Apollo 16, STS-1, STS-9), Ronald Evans (Apollo 17), and Gene Cernan (Gemini 9A, Apollo 10, Apollo 17). One page, signe...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-120894

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Malkiel, Burton G.; Patricia A. Taylor; with Jianping Mei and Rui Yang

From Wall Street to the Great Wall: How Investors Can Profit from China’s Booming Economy.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2008.

First edition of this work by the author of A Random Walk Down Wall Street. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Burt Malkiel on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. From the libra...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-149189

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Di Maggio, Joe

Joe DiMaggio Signed Model Builder Magazine.

Mount Morris, Illinois: Lionel Corporation, December, 1939.

December 1939 Issue of Model Builder Magazine, the ‘The Magazine of Model Railroading for Men and Boys’ published every other month by Lionel Corporation. Imperial octavo, original wrapper...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-145454

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le CARRÉ, John

John le Carré Autograph Letter Signed.

Cornwall:, 2006.

Autograph letter signed by British author John le Carré. Quarto, two pages on John le Carré’s personal stationary, the letter reads in full, “Dear Stacy, Thanks for your letter. Mine will...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-146942

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Fletcher, Colin

The Thousand-Mile Summer in Desert and High Sierra.

Berkeley, CA: Howell-North Books, 1964.

First edition of Fletcher’s classic first book. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with photographs from the author. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on half t...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-132615

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Griswold, Frank Gray

The Cascapedia Club.

Norwood: The Plimpton Press, 1920.

First edition of Griswold’s guide to fishing the Great Cascapedia. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Percy R. Pyne 2nd from G. Gray Griswold 1921...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-88022

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Adonis [Ali Ahmed Said]; Translated by Samuel Hazo

The Blood of Adonis.

Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1971.

First edition of the poet’s first book to be translated into English. Octavo, original red cloth. Inscribed by both the poet Adonis and by the translator, Samuel Hazo. Fine in a near fine dust j...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-1544

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Signal Corps

World War I Original Photographs.

Rochester, NY: Eastman Kodak Company, .

Rare original Signal Corps photographs from the First World War. Over one hundred warfare photographs including: troops, destruction, invasion, tanks, and casualties. In fine condition with slight cur...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-146551

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Dahl, Roald

Two Fables.

Middlesex: Viking, 1986.

Signed limited edition of Dahl’s short fable collection. Octavo, original half leather with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, illustrated by Graham Dean. One of a limited edition of 300...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-129318

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West, Rebecca

The Vassall Affair.

London: Sunday Telegraph, 1963.

First edition of this work by the author of Black Lamb and Grey Falcon. Octavo, original wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, “M...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-145882

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Auchincloss, Louis; Gary Hart; Michael F. Holt; George McGovern; Garry Wills; Et. Al

The American Presidents.

New York: Times Books, 2004-2015.

Collection of biographies of the presidents of the United States. Octavo, forty-one volumes, frontispiece portrait to each volume, original boards. Each are near fine to fine in near fine to fine dust...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-146356

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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. Boldly signed by J.M. Coetzee on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-145915

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[Eldridge, John S.]

Boston, Hartford, and Erie Rail Road Company Bond.

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Handsomely engraved bond of the Boston, Hartford, and Erie Rail Road Company in the amount of $1,000. One page, the bond is signed by John Seabury Eldridge as the company’s president. The lower...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-150470

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Selby, Jr., Hubert

Last Exit To Brooklyn.

New York: The Grove Press , 1964.

First edition of Selby’s first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Glenn With All Best Wishes H. Selby Jr 6/22/91....

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-51892

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Fermor, Patrick Leigh

The Traveller’s Tree: A Journey Through the Caribbean Islands.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1950.

First edition of Leigh Fermor’s first book. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by A. Costa. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. An exceptional example.

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-150727

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Coolidge, Calvin

Calvin Coolidge Signed Photograph.

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Photograph of Calvin Coolidge by Harris & Ewing. Inscribed in the lower border, “To Frederick I. Cox, With regards, Calvin Coolidge.” Blindstamped in the lower left by Harris & Ewing. Th...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-43071

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Blumberg, Stanley A.; Gwinn Owens; Edward Teller

Energy and Conflict: The Life and Times of Edward Teller.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1976.

First edition of this biography on legendary theoretical physicist Edward Teller. Octavo, original publisher’s orange cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, insc...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-149165

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Donleavy, J.P

The Ginger Man.

New York: McDowell, Obelensky, 1958.

Rare uncorrected proof of the first American edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and chemise clamshell box.

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-120176

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Nixon, Richard M

The Memoirs of Richard Nixon.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1978.

Signed limited edition of Richard Nixon’s memoirs. Thick octavo, original cloth, illustrated, original slipcase. Association copy, inscribed by the author, “To Congressman Bob Badham with...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-133998

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Scopoli, Giovanni Antonio [Carl Linnaeus]

Flora Carniolica: Exhibens Plantas Carnioliae Indigenas et Distributas in Classes, Genera, Species, Varietates, Ordine Linnaeano. Volume I.

Vienna: Johann Paul Krauss, 1772.

Second edition, enlarged and revised, of one of the most important 18th-century botanical works documenting the flora of Carniola following Carl Linnaeus’s system of plant classification. Octavo, writ...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-149464

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[Steinbeck, John]

Two Russian Books From the Library of John Steinbeck.

Moscow: Various, c. 1960.

Two volumes in Russian from the library of American literary master John Steinbeck. Quarto, two volumes including a book of early Russian Orthodox paintings with many in color and a folio of loose pla...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-117588

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Edited by Isaac Asimov, George R.R. Martin and Martin H. Greenberg [Frederik Pohl; Robert Silverberg]

The Science Fiction Weight-Loss Book.

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1983.

First edition of this anthology of fifteen short stories and novellas from legendary science-fiction authors. Octavo, original publisher’s half-cloth. Boldly signed by Frederik Pohl on the half-...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-151965

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Roosevelt, Eleanor

India and the Awakening East.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1953.

First edition, early printing of Eleanor Roosevelt’s account of her travels through the Middle East and India. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with 32 pages of p...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-148146

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Jerrold, Douglas

A Man Made of Money.

London: Punch, 1848-49.

First edition of this work. Octavo, original, six volumes, illustrated wrappers. Illustrated with 12 engraved plates by John Leech. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell bo...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-121345

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