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Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life.

Ginzberg, Lori D. [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life.

New York : Hill and Wang, A Division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.

First edition of this biography about one of the founding philosophers of the American movement for women’s rights. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, illustrated with black and white photographs. Association copy, inscribed by Bill Bader on the half-title page, “For Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, With respect and best wishes on her birthday, Bill Bader, 8 March 2011.” American lawyerContinue reading "Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life."

$3,800.00

Item Number: RRB-147665

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Hope For Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink.

Goodall, Jane with Thane Maynard and Gail Hudson

Hope For Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink.

New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2009.

First edition of this work by this by Goodall. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Signed by Jane Goodall on the half-title page and inscribed by the co-author on the title page, “For Mike- with hope Thane Maynard.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Flag.

$400.00

Item Number: RRB-138447

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Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems.

Snyder, Gary

Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems.

Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint Press, 2009.

First edition, second printing of the 50th anniversary edition. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Gary Snyder on the title page. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by David Bullen. Accompanied by an autograph note initialed by the author on their personalized stationery laid in.

$250.00

Item Number: RRB-151645

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Guardians of the Revolution: Iran and the World in the Age of the Ayatollahs.

Takeyh, Ray [Madeleine K. Albright]

Guardians of the Revolution: Iran and the World in the Age of the Ayatollahs.

New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

First edition of this accessible and authoritative history of Iran’s relations with the world since the revolution in 1979. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth, bookplate to the front pastedown from “The Private Collection of Secretary Madeleine K. Albright.” Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Secretary Albright, Much appreciation forContinue reading "Guardians of the Revolution: Iran and the World in the Age of the Ayatollahs."

$400.00

Item Number: RRB-147592

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Evolution: The First Four Billion Years.

Ruse, Michael and Joseph Travis, Editors; Foreword by Edward O. Wilson

Evolution: The First Four Billion Years.

Cambridge, MA : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.

First edition of this work on evolutionary thought. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Edward O. Wilson on the title page, who has drawn a picture of an ant. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear.

$300.00

Item Number: RRB-14051

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High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg.

Ferguson, Niall

High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg.

New York : The Penguin Press, 2010.

First edition of this groundbreaking biography. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Niall Ferguson on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Darren Haggar.

$375.00

Item Number: RRB-151101

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Johnson, Simon and James Kwak

13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown.

New York : Pantheon Books, 2010.

First edition of this authoritative history of America’s financial oligarchy by one of the most prominent and frequently cited economists in the nation. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Simon Johnson on the title page, “To John and Pam Best Wishes Simon Johnson.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by BrianContinue reading "13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown."

$650.00

Item Number: RRB-149728

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Pizza.

Stoppard, Tom

Pizza.

London : The Cuckoo Press for John Sandoe Books, 2010.

First edition, one of only 200 copies printed given as a Christmas gift of this sketch was written for The Laws of War, a Cries from the Heart production in support of the charity Human Rights Watch, which took place at the Royal Court Theatre on 16th May 2010, which was performed by Bill NighyContinue reading "Pizza."

$1,250.00

Item Number: RRB-150927

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Oprah Presents Master Class: Every Life Has a Story, Every Story Has a Lesson.

Winfrey, Oprah

Oprah Presents Master Class: Every Life Has a Story, Every Story Has a Lesson.

Auckland, New Zealand : PQ Blackwell Limited/Los Angeles: Harpo, Inc., 2010.

First edition of the book companion to Oprah Winfrey’s Master Class series. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated with color photographs. From the collection of Bill Zwecker. A member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association, Zwecker was a longtime entertainment and celebrity journalist. A Chicago native and second-generation newspaper star (his late mother, Peg Zwecker, was theContinue reading "Oprah Presents Master Class: Every Life Has a Story, Every Story Has a Lesson."

$475.00

Item Number: RRB-140634

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Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend.

Hirsch, James S. [Willie Mays]

Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend.

New York : Scribner, 2010.

First edition of this definitive biography authorized by Willie Mays and written by Wall Street Journal and New York Times journalist James Hirsch. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Boldly signed by Willie Mays on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jason J. Heuer.Continue reading "Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend."

$475.00

Item Number: RRB-149847

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Our Kind of Traitor and An Address Given at the Oxford Literary Festival March 2010.

Carre, John le

Our Kind of Traitor and An Address Given at the Oxford Literary Festival March 2010.

London : Viking and London Review Bookshop, 2010.

Signed limited first edition of this thrilling novel which was the inspiration for the 2016 film by the same name starring Ewan McGregor, Naomie Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Damian Lewis and Alicia von Rittberg, together with the bound text of the author’s address at the Oxford Literary Festival on 24th March 2010. Octavo, original publisher’s morocco-backed half cloth with gilt titlesContinue reading "Our Kind of Traitor and An Address Given at the Oxford Literary Festival March 2010."

$2,500.00

Item Number: RRB-145764

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Packing For Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void.

Roach, Mary

Packing For Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void.

New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2010.

First edition of the author’s best-selling fourth book. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Mary Roach on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Keenan.

$300.00

Item Number: RRB-136594

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Nancy Pelosi, John Lewis, Steny Hoyer, and John Larsson Signed Photograph.

Lewis, John; Nancy Pelosi; Steny Hoyer; John Larsson

Nancy Pelosi, John Lewis, Steny Hoyer, and John Larsson Signed Photograph.

2010.

Rare photograph of Nancy Pelosi, John Lewis, Steny Hoyer, and John Larsson; signed by them. Color satin-finish photograph of Nancy Pelosi holding a large gavel while walking alongside Steny Hoyer, John Lewis, and John Larsson, as they prepare to pass the Affordable Care Act, signed by each in black felt tip by their person, dated inContinue reading "Nancy Pelosi, John Lewis, Steny Hoyer, and John Larsson Signed Photograph."

$1,250.00

Item Number: RRB-146737

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Life: Keith Richards.

Richards, Keith

Life: Keith Richards.

New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2010.

First edition, second printing of Richards’ autobiography. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with photographs. Signed and dated by the author year of publication on the half-title page, “Keith Richards ’10.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mario J. Pulice. Front jacket photograph by David LaChapelle. Rear jacket photograph by Deborah Feingold.

$1,500.00

Item Number: RRB-148338

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A Little War That Shook The World: Georgia, Russia, And The Future Of The West.

Asmus, Ronald D. [Madeleine Albright]

A Little War That Shook The World: Georgia, Russia, And The Future Of The West.

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

First edition of this detailed account of the 2008 Russo-Georgian War. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Association copy, inscribed by author on the title page, “To Madeleine With great admiration and thanks for your friendship, support and the opportunities I have had to serve our country with you-Ronald D. Asmus January 12, 2010” The recipient, MadeleineContinue reading "A Little War That Shook The World: Georgia, Russia, And The Future Of The West."

$650.00

Item Number: RRB-149091

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Luka and the Fire of Life.

Rushdie, Salman

Luka and the Fire of Life.

New York : Random House, 2010.

First edition of the Booker Prize-winning author’s dazzling modern classic. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth. Boldly signed by Salman Rushdie on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Dust jacket design by Robbin Schiff and Anna Bauer. Dust jacket illustration by Niroot Puttapipat. Book design by Caroline Cunningham, who assisted as a literaryContinue reading "Luka and the Fire of Life."

$125.00

Item Number: RRB-150730

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The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe.

Godwin, Peter [Peter Matthiessen]

The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe.

New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2010.

First edition of this “important book detailing the violent realities, the grotesque injustices, the hunger, the sadness, and a portrait of Mugabe” (Paul Theroux). Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Peter Godwin on the title page. From the library of National Book Award-winning author Peter Matthiessen with his bookplate to the front pastedown. Very goodContinue reading "The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe."

$275.00

Item Number: RRB-139495

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Choose Your Weapons: The British Foreign Secretary 200 Years of Argument, Success and Failure.

Hurd, Douglas

Choose Your Weapons: The British Foreign Secretary 200 Years of Argument, Success and Failure.

London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2010.

First edition of Douglas Hurd’s authoritative study of two centuries of British foreign policy leadership and diplomatic debate. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with maps, sketches, and photographs. Boldly signed by the author in the year of publication on the title page, “Douglas Hurd 13. 10.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. WrittenContinue reading "Choose Your Weapons: The British Foreign Secretary 200 Years of Argument, Success and Failure."

$300.00

Item Number: RRB-151185

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Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC.

Edited by Faith S. Holsaert; Martha Prescod Norman Noonan; Judy Richardson; Betty Garman Robinson; Jean Smith Young; Dorothy M. Zellner

Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC.

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2010.

First edition of these powerful testimonies gathered presented sweeping a personal history of SNCC. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed in the year of publication by Jean Smith Young on the front free endpaper, “To Ms. T… Ella Peniston, I hope you enjoy this book. Onward, Jean Smith Young November, 2010.” Jean Smith Young isContinue reading "Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC."

$400.00

Item Number: RRB-145216

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Kashmir In Conflict: India, Pakistan and the Unending War.

Schofield, Victoria [Madeleine Albright]

Kashmir In Conflict: India, Pakistan and the Unending War.

New York : I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 2010.

First printing of the revised edition of the comprehensive historical and political analysis of the Kashmir conflict. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by author on the title page, “To Madeleine Albright who cares about Kashmir with best wishes, Victoria Schofield. London, December 2011.” With an article about “The tangle of issues hindering aContinue reading "Kashmir In Conflict: India, Pakistan and the Unending War."

$500.00

Item Number: RRB-149093

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Reshaping the Work-Family Debate: Why Men and Class Matter.

Williams, Joan C [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

Reshaping the Work-Family Debate: Why Men and Class Matter.

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2010.

First edition of this analysis of the American work-family conflict. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Justice Ginsburg, with admiration and thanks for your work. Joan Williams, Sept. 2011.” American lawyer and jurist Ruth Bader Ginsburg served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court ofContinue reading "Reshaping the Work-Family Debate: Why Men and Class Matter."

$5,800.00

Item Number: RRB-147834

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Johnson, Simon and James Kwak

13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown.

New York : Pantheon Books, 2010.

First edition of this authoritative history of America’s financial oligarchy by one of the most prominent and frequently cited economists in the nation. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Simon Johnson on the title page, “James Thank you! Simon Johnson.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Brian Barth.

$475.00

Item Number: RRB-149620

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Brief Lives.

Johnson, Paul

Brief Lives.

Hutchinson : London, 2010.

First edition of this personal portrait of the twentieth century. Octavo, original black boards. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Author portrait by Catrina Bovill.

$40.00

Item Number: RRB-145153

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Imperial Bedrooms.

Ellis, Bret Easton

Imperial Bedrooms.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.

First edition of the sequel to Easton’s bestselling literary debut, Less Than Zero. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Meghan best wishes Bret Easton Ellis.” Additionally signed two times by legendary dust jacket illustrator Chip Kidd in gold with the horns outlined in his hand, onContinue reading "Imperial Bedrooms."

$850.00

Item Number: RRB-151202

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