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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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[The Bible. Translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke].

London: Robert Barker, 1605.

Rare early 17th century printing of Robert Barker’s Geneva Bible. Small quarto, bound in three quarter calf over marbled boards, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, text in black letter, double colu...

$5,200.00 Item Number: RRB-149784

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Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa Signed Photograph.

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Color photograph of Mother Teresa, boldly signed by her, “God bless you M. Teresa mc.” In fine condition. The entire piece measures 10 inches by 8 inches.

$5,200.00 Item Number: RRB-140031

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Shestack, Jerome J. [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

Leadership and the Legal Profession in a Democratic Society.

: The Peter Gruber Foundation, .

Original offprint of Jerome J. Shestack’s Leadership and the Legal Profession in a Democratic Society. Octavo, original wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front wrapper,...

$5,200.00 Item Number: RRB-151281

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Bryant, Peter [Peter George]

Two Hours to Doom: A Novel of Suspense.

London: T.V. Boardman & Company, 1958.

First edition of this work, basis for the classic Stanley Kubrick film Dr. Strangelove. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front endpaper, “For Joe, with a...

$5,200.00 Item Number: RRB-150395

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le Carre, John

The Spy Who Came In From The Cold.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1963.

First edition of le Carre’s classic work, which went on to reinvigorate the spy genre. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by John le Carre in a card laid in. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Ho...

$5,200.00 Item Number: RRB-149886

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Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa Signed Photograph.

:, 1984.

Color photograph portrait of Mother Teresa with her hands clasped in prayer boldly inscribed, “God bless you M. Teresa mc.” In fine condition. Double matted and framed. The entire piece me...

$5,200.00 Item Number: RRB-145478

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le Carre, John

The Karla Trilogy] Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy; The Honourable Schoolboy; Smiley’s People.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1974-1979.

First editions of each title in the author’s acclaimed Karla Trilogy. Octavo, 3 volumes, bound in full morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, inner dentelles, all edges gil...

$5,200.00 Item Number: RRB-135339

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Roosevelt, Theodore

The Wilderness Hunter: An Account Of The Big Game Of The United States And Its Chase With Horse, Hound And Rifle.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1905.

Finely Bound Standard Library edition of Theodore Roosevelt’s American big game epic. Octavo, bound in three-quarters red morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and detailing to the spine...

$5,200.00 Item Number: RRB-150190

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Tolstoy, Leo. [Count Lyof N Tolstoi]. Translated by Nathan Haskell Dole

Anna Karenina.

New York: Thomas J. Crowell & Co, 1886.

First edition in English of Tolstoy’s masterpiece with all the points of first issue: sheets bulk to 35 mm, floral patterned endpapers, “13 Astor Place” on title page, no front adver...

$5,200.00 Item Number: RRB-147388

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Frost, Robert; Woodcuts by J.J. Lankes

New Hampshire.

New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1923.

First edition, first printing of Robert Frost’s first Pulitzer Prize-winning collection. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with woodcuts by J.J. Lankes. Association copy, inscribed by the...

$5,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151681

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Fawcett, Millicent Garrett

Political Economy For Beginners.

London and Cambridge: Macmillan and Co, 1870.

Scarce first edition of Millicent Fawcett’s immensely successful work on political economy, published the year before she helped found Newnham College for women at Cambridge in 1871. Octavo, ori...

$5,000.00 Item Number: RRB-134388

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Parks, Rosa

Rosa Parks Signed Photograph.

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Rare photograph of Rosa Parks “the first lady of civil rights” and “the mother of the freedom movement”, signed by her. The photograph measures 10 inches by 8 inches.

$5,000.00 Item Number: RRB-138006

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Gilman [Stetson], Charlotte Perkins

Concerning Children.

Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1900.

First edition of this book on child rearing. Octavo, original blue pictorial cloth. The dedication copy, inscribed by the author on the dedication page to her daughter Katharine, who the book is dedic...

$5,000.00 Item Number: RRB-145600

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Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United States.

New York: R. Spalding, 1865.

Rare first edition of this Civil War publication of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, which features the text of the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery, its first appearance in book...

$5,000.00 Item Number: RRB-117244

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Nixon, Richard M. and Gerald Ford

Richard Nixon and Gerald R. Ford Signed Presidential Proclamation of Pardon.

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Typescript reproduction of the final paragraphs of Ford’s 1974 Proclamation of Pardon granting a full and unconditional pardon to Richard Nixon, his predecessor, for any crimes that he might hav...

$5,000.00 Item Number: RRB-134249

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Flaubert, Gustave

Madame Bovary.

London: Vizetelly & Co, 1886.

First English edition of a seminal novel in literary realism, renowned for its psychological depth and critique of bourgeois society. Octavo, original publisher’s full cloth, gilt tiles and deta...

$5,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149906

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