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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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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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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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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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Rankin, Ian

Knots & Crosses.

London: Bodley Head, 1987.

First edition of the author’s first Inspector Rebus mystery. Octavo, original red cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Rankin who has additionally added the words, “Rebus, unable t...

$3,750.00 Item Number: RRB-995

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Galbraith, Robert. [J.K. Rowling]

Lethal White.

London: Sphere, 2018.

First edition of the fourth book in Rowling’s Cormoran Strike Series, published under the pen name Robert Galbraith. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Rowling on the title page “Robert Gal...

$3,600.00 Item Number: RRB-127099

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Kroc, Ray

Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald’s.

Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1977.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original leather, gilt titles to the spine, all edges gilt, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To All...

$3,600.00 Item Number: RRB-151218

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Taft, William H

Ethics in Service.

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1915.

First edition of this collection of addresses delivered by the 27th president of the United States in the 1914 Page Lecture Series. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by William Howard Taft on the...

$3,600.00 Item Number: RRB-146513

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Churchill, Winston S

Winston Churchill’s War Speeches: Into Battle, The Unrelenting Struggle, The End of the Beginning, Onwards to Victory, The Dawn of Liberation, Victory, Secret Session Speeches.

London: Cassell and Company Ltd, 1941-1946.

First editions of each volume of Churchill’s collected War Speeches, with Into Battle in the first state lacking page numbers on pp. 78 and 294. Octavo, 7 volumes, original publisher’s clo...

$3,600.00 Item Number: RRB-149421

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Eliot, T.S

The Three Voices of Poetry.

New York: Cambridge University Press, 1954.

First edition of Eliot’s essay on the modes of poetic composition delivered as the annual lecture of England’s National Book League. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151598

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McKay, Claude

Banjo.

New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1929.

First edition of this seminal work of the Harlem Renaissance that explores themes of Black identity, diaspora, and transnationalism. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth, pictorial endpapers....

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149907

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Cohen, Leonard

Beautiful Losers.

New York: The Viking Press, 1966.

First edition of Cohen’s second and final novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the title page, “To William on his 60th Birthday warm regar...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-99786

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Kipling, Rudyard

The Graves of the Fallen: Imperial War Graves Commission.

London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1919.

Exceptionally rare first edition of this pamphlet honoring every British soldier who died in World War I. Oblong octavo, original publisher’s pictorial wrappers, illustrated with black and white...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149313

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Jefferson, Joseph

Rip Van Winkle: As Played by Joseph Jefferson.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1899.

The Dodd, Mead and Company trade edition of Joseph Jefferson’s play adapted to text. Octavo, original green cloth over boards with gilt-stamped lettering and illustration of the Catskill Mountai...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149442

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Kipling, Rudyard

A Call to the Nation.

London: The Daily Express, 1908.

First edition of Kipling’s speech delivered at Lord Derby’s Recruiting Campaign for the West Lancashire Territorial Battalions. Quarto, original wrappers. Housed in a custom half morocco a...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-121049

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Forty-Four Star American Flag.

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Rare forty-four star American flag. The American flag bearing 44 stars was in use between July 10, 1890 when the state of Wyoming was admitted into the Union and January 4, 1896 when Utah was admitted...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-109201

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Tagore, Rabindranath

Rabindranath Tagore Signed Photograph.

:, 1921.

Photograph of Nobel Prize-winning author Rabindranath Tagore. Signed and dated on the photograph, “Rabindranath Tagore Jul. 22, 1921.” Double-matted and framed. The photograph measures 3.5...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-33058

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Lewis, Sinclair

Babbitt.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1922.

First edition, first issue of this famous satirical work, with “Purdy” for “Lyte” on Page 49 line 4 & “my” on line 5. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy,...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148120

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