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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. Inscribed by both Carl Sagan and Anne Druyan on the half-title page to her family in...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-20028

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Doyle, Richard

Jack the Giant Killer.

London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1888.

First manuscript facsimile edition, reproduced from Richard Doyle’s original text. Slim quarto, original cloth, patterned endpapers, illustrated. Near fine in the original dust jacket with some chips...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-59056

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Bellow, Saul

The Adventures of Augie March.

New York: The Viking Press, 1953.

First edition of Bellow’s first National Book Award winning novel. Octavo, original cloth, salmon topstain. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Ann...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-111689

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Yeats, William Butler

The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats.

London: Imprinted at the Shakespeare Head Press for Chapman and Hall, 1908.

First collected edition of the works of William Butler Yeats. Octavo, original publisher’s half vellum over cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to the spine and front panels, top edge gilt,...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-146956

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Buck, Pearl S

The Good Earth.

New York: The John Day Company, 1931.

First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and masterpiece. First issue with “flees” for “fleas” on page 100, line 17. Octavo, bound in full morocco by th...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147462

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Greene, Graham

The Comedians.

London: The Bodley Head, 1966.

First edition of this novel set in Haiti under the rule of “Papa Doc” Duvalier, which explores the political suppression and terrorism through the figure of an English hotel owner, Brown....

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149206

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Bemelmans, Ludwig

Fifi.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940.

First edition of this children’s story. Thin quarto, original illustrated boards, color illustrations throughout, illustrated endpapers. Association copy, inscribed by the author opposite the ti...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-146782

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Graves, Robert

I, Claudius [and] Claudius The God and His Wife Messalina.

London: Arthur Barker, 1934.

First editions of Graves’ classic “autobiography” of Claudius and its sequel. Octavo, two volumes, original cloth. Both volumes are near fine in very good to near fine dust jackets. Rare in the...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151576

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Felton, Cornelius C.; [Fred Fraley]; [Ino Welsh]

Centennial International Exhibition Capital Stock Certificate.

Philadelphia: Centennial Board of Finance, 1877.

Rare Centennial International Exhibition lithographic capital stock certificate. Elephant folio, one page, the certificate is dated April 24, 1877 and grants one share of stock in the Centennial Board...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-146769

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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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Long, William Simon [W.S.]

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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