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The Foes of Our Own Household.

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1917.

First edition, third issue of Roosevelt’s call to arms rallying the United States to engage in World War I. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Association copy, inscribed by Theodore Roos...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-140355

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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. Association copy, inscribed by the author to his wife on the title page, “Philippa – love from J...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-112981

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Kazantzakis, Nikos

Zorba The Greek.

Athens: Plateia Syntagmatos, 1946.

First Greek edition, preceding all other editions of the author’s most popular novel and basis for the Oscar-winning film starring Anthony Quinn. Octavo, bound in contemporary cloth. Signed by N...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-131303

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James, Henry

The Princess Casamassima: A Novel.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1886.

First edition in book form of one of James’s “three formidable novels” published in the 1880s along with The Bostonians and The Tragic Muse. Octavo, three volumes, original publisher...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-135364

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Stevenson, Robert Louis

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson [Including Treasure Island; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Kidnapped].

Various: Various Publishers, 1878-1926.

An extensive collection of forty-nine works by Robert Louis Stevenson, publishing date 1878-1926 to include the Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Sidney Colvin, Methuen 1899 and The Life of Robert Lo...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-136463

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott

The Beautiful and the Damned.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922.

First edition, first state of the author’s second novel. Octavo, original green cloth, titles to the spine in gilt. Very good in a very good dust jacket with some professional restoration. Jacke...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-138104

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Kuznetsov, Anatoly. Translated by David Floyd

Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1970.

First English uncensored edition of soviet writer Anatoly Kuznetsov’s most acclaimed work in its complete, unredacted form. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Presentation copy, ins...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-143812

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The Macallan James Bond 60th Anniversary Release Decade I-VI [Full Set].

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Through a behind the scenes exploration of the James Bond archives this release celebrates 007 and The Macallan as modern innovators linked by their Scottish heritage. The Macallan and James Bond are...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145007

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Hubbard, L. Ron

Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health A Handbook of Dianetic Therapy.

New York: Hermitage Press, 1950.

First edition of the author’s most well-known work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by L. Ron Hubbard on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a single short tear. Housed in...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-1785

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Roosevelt, Theodore

Theodore Roosevelt Rough Riders Era Document Collection.

:, c. 1898.

Rare collection of original signed documents and photographs taken during President Theodore Roosevelt’s days as Colonel of the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, or Rough Riders. The collecti...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-95371

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Wyckoff, Richard D

Wall Street Ventures and Adventures: Through Forty Years.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1930.

First edition of this classic work by Wyckoff who implemented his methods of technical analysis of the financial markets (the study of charts showing movements of stock-prices and other data). Octavo,...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145604

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Douglass, Frederick

Frederick Douglass Autograph Letter Signed.

Washington, D.C:, November 30, 1888.

Autograph letter signed by Frederick Douglass to M. M. Rodgers. Octavo, one page on Lyons Parchment, the handwritten letter reads in part, “Since you have so much to desire a letter by my own ha...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145323

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Dodge, W.C.; Andrew Johnson; Henry J. Raymond; et al

Civil War Political Pamphlet Collection.

: Various publishers, c. 1861-1865.

Extensive collection of over fifty first edition Civil War era pamphlets on topics including politics, battles, foreign relations, debt, and the draft. Octavo, 52 volumes, original wrappers. The colle...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-135127

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Hamilton, Alexander

Sundry Estimates and Statements Relative to Appropriations for the Service of the Year 1794.

:, 1794.

Rare printed Treasury Department report detailing projected expenditures by the federal government for the year 1794. Quarto, 20 pp. Includes reporting on sources of revenue, duties on imports and ton...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-132301

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Vonnegut, Kurt

Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade, A Duty-Dance With Death.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1969.

First edition, review copy with the original publisher’s slip laid in of Vonnegut’s masterpiece, named by Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century. Octavo,...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147938

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Lovell, James; Fred Haise; Jack Lousma

James Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Lousma Signed First Edition Apollo 13 Trajectory Plotting Chart.

Aeronautical Chart and Information Center: Department of Defense ACIC 3-70, March 16, 1970.

Rare lithographed ‘Apollo Translunar/Transearth Trajectory Plotting Chart’ for the Apollo 13 mission. Color ‘Apollo Translunar/Transearth Trajectory Plotting Chart’ for the Apo...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145395

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[Abraham Lincoln] George Bissell

Bust of Abraham Lincoln.

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Patinated bronze cast of Abraham Lincoln by George Bissell, one of only three commissioned by Ralph Newman for THE USS AL. Boldly signed by the artist in the back Geo. E. Bissell Sc. George Bissell wa...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-131044

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Thirty-Eight Star American Flag.

:, c. 1877.

Rare thirty-eight star American flag in use between July 4, 1877 when the state of Colorado was admitted into the Union as the 38th state and July 4, 1890 when North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Was...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149349

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Confucius

La Morale De Confucius, Philosophe De La Chine.

Amsterdam: Pierre Savouret, 1688.

Rare first edition of The Morals of Confucius preceding the English translation, regarded as the first work which introduced readers to Confucianism. Small octavo, bound in half vellum over marbled bo...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-135381

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Thomas, Dylan

In Country Sleep.

New York: New Directions, 1952.

First edition of this collection of poems, including the first book appearance of “Do not go gentle into that good night.” Octavo, original cloth. Signed and dated by the author in the yea...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-106778

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Fischer, Bobby

My 60 Memorable Games.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1968.

First edition of this classic work, which is regarded as one of the great pieces of chess literature. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Bobby Fischer on the front free endpaper. Introducti...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145616

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Faulkner, William

Intruder In The Dust.

New York: Random House, 1948.

First edition of this classic Faulkner novel, which explores the lives of a family of characters in the South. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpa...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-114816

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Heaney, Seamus

Death of a Naturalist.

London: Faber and Faber, 1966.

First edition of Heaney’s first major published volume. Octavo, original green cloth with titles to the spine in gilt. Association copy, inscribed by the author to his aunt in a contemporary han...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-3529

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Foxe, John

Acts and Monuments of matters of most speciall and memorable happenyng in the Church, with an Universall history of the same…Newly revised and recognized. [Foxe’s Book of Martyrs].

London: John Daye, 1583.

Fourth edition of Foxe’s Book of Martyrs (as it was later known), and the last to be published in his lifetime. The first English edition was published in 1563. Folio, 2 volumes bound into one i...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145220

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