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50-50 Gender Balance: Why We Have to “Get” It and Get It – Now!

: Full Circle Living, Inc, 2009.

First edition of this study on balancing our masculine and feminine qualities. Imperial octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the dedication page...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147835

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Ethiopian Coptic Ge’ez Bible.

Ethiopia:, C. 18th Century.

Rare illustrated Ethiopian Coptic Ge’ez Bible. Small octavo, bound in full leather, parchment manuscript in black and red ink, illustrated with full-page hand-painted miniatures. Some writings and age...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149160

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Livy

The Roman History Written in Latine by Titus Livius. With the Supplements Of the Learned John Freinshemius, and John Dujatius. From the Foundation of Rome to the middle of the Reign of Augustus. Faithfully done into English.

London: Awnsham Churchill, 1686.

An exceptional early English edition of Livy’s classic Roman History. Folio, bound in period calf, illustrated with four plates, including frontispiece woodcut portraits of emperors and Hannibal...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-133257

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Roth, Philip

The Anatomy Lesson.

New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1983.

First edition of the third novel from Roth to feature Nathan Zuckerman as the main character. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by Roth to his wife Claire Bloom on the title page,...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-84755

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Cervantes, Miguel de

Comedias y Entremeses.

Madrid: En la Imprenta de Antonio Marin, 1749.

Finely bound example of this collection of plays from the author of “Don Quixote”. Octavo, two volumes, written in Spanish, bound in full contemporary Spanish limp parchment with alum-tawe...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149183

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Cervantes, Miguel de

Vida Y Hechos del Ingeniso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha.

Tarragona: Joseph Barber, 1757.

Eighteenth century finely bound example of Cervantes’ masterpiece “which is to Spanish literature what Shakespeare is to English” (Bloom). Duodecimo, four volumes, bound in full uniform contemporary l...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149186

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DeMille, Cecil B. [Fortunino Matania]

Cecil DeMille Signed Letter Archive.

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Rare archive of typed letters signed by legendary American film producer and star Cecil B. DeMille to Italian artist Fortunino Matania discussing paintings commissioned to assist in the set design of...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-131466

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Faulkner, William

Mosquitoes.

New York: Boni & Liveright, Inc, 1927.

First edition of Faulkner’s second novel. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a small chip to the front flap. From the library of Virginia bibl...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-91795

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Kerouac, Jack [Gary Snyder]

The Dharma Bums.

New York: The Viking Press, 1958.

First edition of this classic work which introduced writer Gary Snyder to the world as Japhy Ryder. Octavo, original black cloth. Lengthily signed by fellow Beat writer and character in this novel, Ga...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150614

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Kilpatrick, Andrew. [Warren E. Buffett]

Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett.

New York: AKPE , 1994.

First edition of this early Buffett biography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Warren Buffett on the front free endpaper and additionally inscribed by Andrew Kilpatrick on the fr...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-146329

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McCarthy, Cormac

No Country For Old Men.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.

First edition of this “harrowing, propulsive drama… about a stone-cold killer, a small-town sheriff, and an average Joe” (New York Times). Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Cormac McCarthy on the...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-152030

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Schwinger, Julian [Behram Kursonoglu]

Julian Schwinger Autograph Letter Signed.

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Rare original autograph letter signed by Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist Julian Schwinger to Turkish physicist Behram Kursonoglu. One page, on Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques statio...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151914

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Ethiopian Coptic Ge’ez Bible.

Ethiopia:, C. 18th Century.

Rare illustrated Ethiopian Coptic Ge’ez Bible. Duodecimo, bound with twine between two wood blocks carved with ornate patterns and hand-painted miniatures to the verso of each board with depictions of...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-145313

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Dahl, Roald; Illustrated by Quentin Blake

Matilda.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1988.

First British edition of Dahl’s popular story of a young girl, her genius, and her indifferent parents. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, boldly inscribed by the author on the fr...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-143009

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Armstrong, Neil

Neil Armstrong Signed Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company Stock Certificate.

Cincinnati, Ohio:, May 7, 1974.

Printed Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company stock certificate boldly signed in full by American astronaut Neil Armstrong. One page, printed on recto and verso, the certificate is entitled “For...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149954

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Silverstein, Shel

Falling Up.

New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1996.

Early printing of this classic poetry collection published by Shel Silverstein. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with drawings by the author throughout. Signed by the author opposite the half-title...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147074

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Reagan, Ronald and John Wayne

Ronald Reagan and John Wayne Signed Letter Collection.

California:, May 20-26, 1967.

Rare pairing of letters exchanged and signed by President Ronald Reagan as Governor and American actor John Wayne, comprised of a typed letter signed by Wayne to Reagan and Regan’s handwritten d...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-145408

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Sidney, J.C

Map of the City and Vicinity of Boston, Massachusetts.

Boston: J.B. Shields, 1852.

A stunning and uncommon large map of Boston with a fine depiction of the harbor. Two small vignettes in the upper border provide views of the State House and Faneuil Hall. Lithographed map with hand-c...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-133907

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Churchill, Winston S

Geschichte. [A History of the English-Speaking Peoples].

Bern, Switzerland: Alfred Scherz Verlag, 1956-1958.

First Swiss editions of each of the four volumes of this set of Churchill’s classic history. Octavo, original cloth, 4 volumes, illustrated from maps and diagrams. Boldly signed in volume two by Winst...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-133321

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Drucker, Peter F

Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1974.

First edition of this management classic. Octavo, original red cloth. Boldly signed Peter Drucker on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with touch of rubbing. Jacket design by Ro...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-44009

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Capote, Truman

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 dust jacket. Jacket design by Ismar David.

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150922

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Malcolm X. with the assistance of Alex Haley

The Autobiography of Malcolm X.

New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1965.

First edition of one of TIME Magazine’s ten most important nonfiction books of the twentieth century. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with 22 karat gilt titles and tooling...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150961

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Jackson, Andrew

Proclamation by Andrew Jackson, President of the United States.

:, 10 December 1832.

Rare broadside containing the entirety of President Andrew Jackson’s Proclamation to the people of the United States in the wake of the Nullification Crisis of 1832. Dated December 10, 1832, one...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148260

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Germains, Victor Wallace [Winston S. Churchill]

The Truth About Kitchener. To Which is Appended a Letter From General Von Ludendorff.

London: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd, 1925.

First edition of Germains’ defense of Kitchener’s role in the First World War, from the library of Winston S. Churchill. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author o...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-138052

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