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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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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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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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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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Falconer, Ian

Olivia, Olivia Saves the Circus, Olivia Forms a Band, Olivia Helps With Christmas.

New York: Atheneum, 2000-2006.

First editions of each of these four Olivia books. Quarto, original pictorial paper boards, pictorial endpapers. The set comprises of Olivia, Olivia Saves the Circus, Olivia Forms A Band, and Olivia H...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-140778

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Rutherford, Ernest, Mary, Rutherford, Thomas Hudson Beare, Charles W. Kimmins, John Layard, Henry Tizard, et al

Ernest Rutherford Signed SS Euripides Photograph.

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Rare original photograph of the SS Euripides signed by the father of nuclear physics, Ernest Rutherford and 21 other scientists and crew members present on the 1914 voyage from England to Australia fo...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-190502

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Murakami, Haruki

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.

First edition of Murakami’s heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II. Oc...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148290

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Foote, Shelby

The Civil War: A Narrative: Fort Sumter to Perryville; Fredericksburg to Meridian; Red River to Appomattox.

New York: Random House, 1958-74.

First editions of the author’s authoritative text on The Civil War. Octavo, 3 volumes, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, gi...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-91861

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Clinton, President William Jefferson [Bill] [Madeleine Albright]

Selected Remarks.

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Collection of speeches and addresses from the 47th president of the United States, all first edition; from the library of Secretary Madeleine Albright. Octavo, seven volumes, original cloth and wrappe...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145736

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Cohen, Marcia [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

The Sisterhood: The Inside Story of the Women’s Movement and the Leaders Who Made it Happen.

Santa Fe: Sunstone Press, 2009.

Early edition of this brilliant record of feminist history, with a new foreword by the author, from the library of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, illustrated with bl...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146275

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Hoon, Chng Huang [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

Not Among Peers: The Judicial Construction of Rights and Gender Roles.

Singapore: Centre for Advanced Studies, 1991.

Original scholarly work from the Centre for Advanced Studies Research Paper Series examines how U.S. Supreme Court judges use language to construct and reinforce gender roles in their legal opinions....

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150836

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Taft, William Howard; Theodore Marburg; Horace E. Flack

Taft Papers on League of Nations.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1920.

First edition of this collection of speeches and articles by President William Howard Taft from May 1915 to the adoption of the revised Paris Covenant on April 28, 1919. Octavo, original publisher...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146671

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Drucker, Peter F

The Future of Industrial Man.

New York: John Day, 1942.

First edition of the author’s second book. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Peter F. Drucker on the front free end paper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, name to the front free end...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-144693

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Hartley, Dorothy

Food In England.

London: Macdonald, 1954.

First edition of this classic work by the social historian Dorothy Hartley, which is both a cookery book and a history of English cuisine. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with Hartley’s own...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-131335

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Black, Charles L. Jr. [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

The Yale Law Journal: “And Our Posterity.”

New Haven, Connecticut: The Yale Law Journal Co., Inc., 1993.

Original May 1993 offprint of The Yale Law Journal containing Charles L. Black, Jr.’s “And Our Posterity.” Octavo, original wrappers, The Yale Law Journal Volume 102, May 1993, Numb...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150833

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Heywood, Thomas

The Life of Merlin, Sirnamed Ambrosius. His Prophesies, and Predictions Interpreted; and their truth made good by our English Analls. Being a Chronological History of all the Kings, and memorable passages of this Kingdome, from Brute to the Reigne of our Royall Soveraigne King Charles.

London: Printed by J. Okes for Jasper Emery, 1641.

First edition of “one of Heywood’s most interesting pot-boilers” (Pforzheimer). Octavo, bound in three quarter polished calf over marbled boards, morocco spine label lettered in gilt...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-139455

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Lem, Stanislaw

Solaris.

Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej, 1961.

True first edition of this classic work. Octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed by Stanislaw Lem on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. A very sharp example, uncommon in this condi...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-143784

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Tolkien, J.R.R

The Hobbit or There and Back Again.

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1955.

First edition, seventh impression of Tolkien’s classic tale, “among the very highest achievements of children’s authors during the 20th century” (Carpenter & Pritchard, 530). Octavo, original clot...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151384

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