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Breakfast At Tiffany’s. A Short Novel and Three Stories.

New York: Random House, 1958.

First edition of Capote’s seductive, wistful masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Truman Capote on the half-title page. Fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145653

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The Political Beacon: Or the Life and Character of Oliver Cromwell.

London: Printed for the Editor, 1770.

First edition of this historical and cautionary work about revolutionary figure Oliver Cromwell. Octavo, original calf spine with paper boards. In good condition. Contains a dedication “To the S...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148879

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Friedman, Milton with the Assistance of Rose D. Friedman

Capitalism and Freedom.

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 1995.

Special anniversary edition of Friedman’s magnum opus. Octavo, bound in full leather, gilt titles to the spine, front and rear panels, all edges gilt, silk bookmark bound in. Boldly signed by Mi...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150901

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Churchill, Winston S

The Second World War: The Gathering Storm; Their Finest Hour; The Grand Alliance; The Hinge of Fate; Closing the Ring; Triumph and Tragedy.

London: Cassell & Company, 1948-54.

First editions of each volume in Churchill’s World War II masterpiece. Octavo, six volumes, finely bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within gilt raise...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147347

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Greene, Graham

The Heart of the Matter.

New York: The Viking Press, 1948.

First American edition of what many consider the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Bob Goldstein from...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-3736

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Adams, Richard

Watership Down.

London: Paradine, 1976.

Signed limited edition, one of only 250 numbered examples and with an original watercolor, this copy being number presentation copy from the author. Octavo, bound in full morocco bound by Sangorski an...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147959

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Disney, Walt; Brown, Margaret Wise

Little Pig’s Picnic and Other Stories.

Boston : D.C. Heath and Company, 1939.

First edition of this collection of stories. Octavo, original illustrated cloth, pictorial endpapers. Boldly signed by Walt Disney on the half-title page. Illustrated throughout by the Walt Disney Stu...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-30060

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Shakespeare, William; John Dryden; William Congreve; et al

Tragedies and Comedies of the Great English Playwrights.

London: Various Publishers, c.1730-1760.

Finely bound sammelband collection of comedies and tragedies by early English playwrights including William Shakespeare, John Dryden, and William Congreve. Octavo, 43 volumes bound into 7 in half cont...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-137210

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Norris, Charles G; Music by Harry I. Wiel; [Walt Disney]

Ivanhoe: A Grove Play.

San Francisco: Bohemian Club, 1936.

First edition of this Grove Play produced and performed by and for Bohemian Club members. Octavo, original orange boards. Signed by Walt Disney opposite the dedication page. Additionally signed and in...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146500

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Friedman, Milton with the Assistance of Rose D. Friedman

Capitalism and Freedom.

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 1995.

Special anniversary edition of Friedman’s magnum opus. Octavo, bound in full leather, gilt titles to the spine, front and rear panels, all edges gilt, silk bookmark bound in. Boldly signed by Mi...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147392

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Waldo, S. Putnam. [James Monroe; John Adams; Thomas Jefferson]

Biographical Sketches of Distinguished American Naval Heroes and the War of the Revolution, Between the American Republic and the Kingdom of Great Britain; Comprising Sketches of Com. Nicholas Biddle, Com. John Paul Jones, Com. Edward Preble and Com. Alexander Murray. With Incidental Allusions to other Distinguished Characters.

Hartford: Published by Silas Andrus, 1823.

Rare first edition of Putnam’s work dedicated to American naval heroes of the Revolutionary War including James Monroe, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-120635

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Herr, Michael

Dispatches.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977.

First edition of “the best book to have been written about the Vietnam War” (The New York Times Book Review). Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-5609

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Williams, Ted; Eddie Murray; Mickey Mantle; Hank Aaron; Frank Robinson; Reggie Jackson; Willie McCovey; Ernie Banks; Eddie Mathews; Mike Schmidt; Harmon Killebrew; Willie Mays

500 Home Run Club Signed Baseball.

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Rare Rawlings Official American League baseball signed by 12 members of the 500 Home Run Club. Signed by Ted Williams, Mickey Mantle (on the sweet spot), Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Eddie Murray, Frank R...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149305

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Thomas, George C., Jr. (A.W. Tillinghast)

Golf Architecture in America: Its Strategy and Construction.

Los Angeles: The Times-Mirror Press, 1927.

First edition of one of the most comprehensive books on the fundamentals of golf course construction written by one of the field’s leading architects. Octavo, original green cloth, pictorial end...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-95896

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Dickens, Charles

Charles Dickens Signature [with] Carte-de-visite Portrait.

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Rare signature of the great Victorian novelist Charles Dickens. Carte-de-visite bust portrait by John Watkins, photographer to the Queen, showing Dickens in three-quarter view. Clipped signature mount...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148497

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White, E.B.; Illustrated by Edward Frascino

The Trumpet of the Swan.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1970.

First edition of White’s classic novel. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “Isabel Russel...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149322

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Wells, H.G

The War of the Worlds.

London: William Heinemann, 1898.

First edition, first issue of this science fiction cornerstone. Octavo, original grey cloth lettered in black. Currey’s state (A) with 16 pages publisher’s advertisements at end dated Autu...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-143783

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Sagan, Carl; F.D. Drake; Anne Druyan; Timothy Ferris; Jon Lomberg; Linda Salzman Sagan

Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record.

New York : Random House, 1978.

First edition of this fascinating story which covers the story of the interstellar record. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Association copy, lengthily inscribed by both Carl Sagan and Anne Druyan...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-138246

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Thompson, Kay. Illustrated by Hilary Knight

Eloise; Eloise in Paris; Eloise at Christmastime; Eloise in Moscow.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955-1959.

First editions of the four classic books in Kay Thompson’s beloved Eloise series. Quarto, four volumes, original boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated by Hilary Knight. Each volume is near fi...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-138622

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Frank, Anne. [Elie Wiesel]

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.

New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1952.

First edition, early printing of “one of the wisest and most moving commentaries on war” (Eleanor Roosevelt). Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece, illustrated. Boldly signed by Holocaust survivor and...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151753

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Mizner, Addison; Introduction by Ida M. Tarbell

Florida Architecture of Addison Mizner.

New York: William Helburn, Inc, 1928.

First edition of this scarce monograph on the works of Addison Mizner, with 185 striking large folio photogravures of Mizner’s iconic Florida buildings. Folio, bound in full red crushed levant morocco...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151934

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Grant, Ulysses S

Ulysses S. Grant Signed Engraving.

Washington, D.C:, 1871.

Portrait engraving of President Ulysses S. Grant. Boldly signed U.S. Grant. The engraving measures 5.5 inches by 4 inches. This portrait engraving produced by the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-44047

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Hayek, Friedrich A. [F.A.]

Monetary Theory and the Trade Cycle.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co, 1933.

Scarce first edition in English of Hayek’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper. Translated from the German by N. Kaldor and...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150344

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Kushner, Tony [Milton Glaser]

Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes.

New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1993.

First editions of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Octavo, 2 volumes, original cloth. Each volume is boldly signed by Tony Kushner on the title page and each front panel jacket signed b...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150257

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