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Doubling the North American Isle: A Review of Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, British America, the Pacific Slope and Ancient Quibera, with a Graphic Description of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado.

Camden, NJ: The Long Art Studios, .

First edition of this early twentieth century travelogue of Canada and the western part of the United States of America. Quarto, original blue cloth with gilt titles to the front panel, triple ruling...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148827

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Bond, Michael; Illustrated by Peggy Fortnum

A Bear Called Paddington.

London: Collins, 1958.

First edition of the first book in the Paddington series. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150170

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Baltimore, David; Renato Dulbecco; James D. Watson

Nobel Lectures in Molecular Biology 1933-1975.

New York: Elsevier, 1977.

First edition of this collection of lectures related to molecular biology delivered by Nobel Laureates between 1933 and 1975. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed on the half-title page by David Baltimor...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-116314

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Grisham, John [Francis Ford Coppola and Matt Damon]

The Rainmaker.

New York: Doubleday, 1995.

First edition of Grisham’s sixth novel, basis for the film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Matt Damon, Danny DeVito, Claire Danes, Jon Voight, and Danny Glover. Octavo, original half...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150804

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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 photogra...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147665

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Yule, Colonel Henry

The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East.

London: John Murray, 1871.

First edition of Yule’s important work which correlated Polo’s travels with their present-day locations. Octavo, two volumes. Bound in full morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt tit...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-111068

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Jorgensen, Christian August; [Virgil W. Jorgensen]

Christian August Jorgensen Signed Watercolor Painting of Emerald Bay.

:, c. 1925.

Rare original watercolor painting of Emerald Bay. Folio, a dark, moody impression of Emerald Bay at the southeast corner of Lake Tahoe, by the noted Norwegian-American landscape painter Christian Augu...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147520

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Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich

Symphonies I-VI.

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Quarto, 6 volumes. Bound in full red morocco, gilt titles, gilt ruling to the spine, front and rear panels. In near fine condition. Mixed early editions. Rare and desirable.

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-51080

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Joyce, James

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

London: The Egoist Ltd, 1917.

First English edition of Joyce’s classic stream-of-consciousness work, his first novel, one of about 1000 copies. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and ch...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-144189

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200 Utaibon Noh Chantbooks.

Kyoto: Tsunenosuke Hinoki, 1943-1944.

A theatrical collection of exactly 200 Utaibon Noh chantbooks. Original wrappers with stitched binding, average of approximately 20 pp. each, title labels on rice paper, patterned paper covers, callig...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-145827

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Cole, Ernest; Introduction by Joseph Lelyveld; Text by Thomas Flaherty

House of Bondage: A South African Black Man Exposes in His Own Pictures and Words the Bitter Life of His Homeland Today.

New York: : Random House, 1967.

First edition of this classic work. Quarto, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Signed by both “Ernest Cole” and Pulitzer Prize-winning author “Joseph Lelyveld 9.18.14...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-127758

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Carpenter, Scott; Gordon Cooper; John Glenn Jr.; Gus Grissom; Alan Shepard; Wally Schirra; D.K. Slayton

Project Mercury Astronauts Signed Photograph.

Langley Air Force Base:, 1961.

Large color semi-glossy photograph of the Project Mercury astronauts, signed by six of the Mercury Seven. This group shot was taken in front of a Convair F106-B aircraft at Langley Air Force Base on J...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148754

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Travers, P.L

Mary Poppins. [AND] Mary Poppins Comes Back.

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1936.

Later printings of this children’s classic and its sequel. Octavo, two volumes, original cloth, top stain navy blue, illustrated with 27 line cuts and chapter tailpieces by Mary Shepard in Mary...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147246

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Castaneda, Carlos

The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge.

Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1968.

First edition of this classic account of spiritual knowledge in the West. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For James Shipounoff wit...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148250

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Martin, George R.R

A Song of Ice and Fire: A Game of Thrones; A Clash of Kings; A Storm of Swords; A Feast for Crows; A Dance with Dragons.

London: Harper Collins, 1996-2011.

First British editions of each volume in George R.R. Martin’s acclaimed Game of Thrones series. Octavo, 5 volumes, original cloth. Each volume is fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket artwork by Ji...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-135214

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Dahl, Roald

Fantastic Mr. Fox.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970.

First edition, early printing of Dahl’s classic children’s work in the tradition of The Adventures of Peter Rabbit, this is a “garden tale” of farmer versus vermin, or vice ver...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-117828

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Davidson, William H.; John A. Davidson

The Story of Harley-Davidson.

Milwaukee, WI: Harley-Davidson Motor Co, Inc, [1970s].

First edition of this history of the legendary motorcycle company published by Harley-Davidson. Quarto, original brown pictorial wrappers, illustrated with black and white photographs. Signed on the t...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147523

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Hoover, Herbert

Addresses Upon The American Road Complete Set.

New York: Scribners and Van Nostrand and Stanford University Press, 1938-1955.

Signed and inscribed set of President Hoover’s famed addresses given upon the American Road. Octavo, 7 volumes. Each volume is inscribed by Herbert Hoover on the front free endpaper. Volume one...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-48016

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Becker, Gary S

Human Capital.

New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1966.

First edition, second printing of the economist’s magnum opus. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Gary Becker on the title page. Fine in a very good dust jacket with a chip to the rear pan...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-42091

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McCarthy, Cormac

Cities of the Plain.

New Orleans: B.E. Trice Publishing, 1998.

Signed limited first edition of McCarthy’s classic trilogy. Octavo, original half leather over marbled boards. Signed by Cormac McCarthy on the half-title page and three times by legendary desig...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151365

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Kennedy, John F. [George H.W. Bush; George W. Bush; and Rudy Giuliani]

Profiles In Courage.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1956.

First edition of Kennedy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth, with eight pages of black-and-white photogravures. Boldly signed by both Presidents George H.W. Bush and Geor...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-112452

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Earhart, Amelia

20 Hrs. 40 Min. Our Flight in the Friendship: The American Girl, First Across the Atlantic by Air, Tells Her Story.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1928.

Early printing of Earhart’s thrilling account of her experience as a passenger aboard the Friendship, which made her the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by air in 1928. Octavo, original publis...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150000

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Dana, Charles Anderson; [Theodore Roosevelt; General Nelson A. Miles; Admiral W. S. Schley]

Lincoln and His Cabinet: A Lecture Delivered Before the New Haven Colony Historical Society, Tuesday, March 10, 1896.

New York: Republican Club of the City of New-York, 1899.

Special limited edition souvenir of the thirteenth annual Lincoln Dinner of the Republican Club of the city of New-York, 1899. Duodecimo, original half-cloth with gilt titles to the spine, frontispiec...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149405

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Grant, Ulysses S

Collection of documents signed by President Grant and eight members of his presidential administration.

:, 1860-1891.

A collection of eleven letters and documents signed and hand-written by the 18th President of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant, and eight members of his presidential administration. Contents includ...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-73063

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