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Abraham Lincoln Portrait.

:, c. 1860.

Rare original painting of the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. After a photograph by Civil War photographer Alexander Gardner. Scottish photographer Alexander Gardner immigrated t...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-95830

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[Earhart, Amelia]

Amelia Earhart Signed Oldsmobile Girls Club Christmas Party Program.

[Lansing, Michigan]:, [1928].

Rare original program from the holiday luncheon held for female employees of Olds Motor Works held on December 19th 1928, signed by legendary aviator Amelia Earhart. Octavo, bound in handmade tissue p...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-142535

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Ethiopian Coptic Ge’ez Bible.

Ethiopia:, C. 18th Century.

Rare illustrated Ethiopian Coptic Ge’ez Bible. Duodecimo, bound in full leather with elaborate tooling stamped in blind to the front and rear panels, parchment manuscript in black and red ink, with si...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145311

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Galbraith, Robert. [J.K. Rowling]

Troubled Blood: A Strike Novel.

London: Sphere, 2020.

First edition of the fifth novel in the Cormoran Strike series, written by J. K. Rowling and published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the title p...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151258

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Mishima, Yukio

Five Modern Nō Plays.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957.

First edition in English of the author’s collection of five Nō plays. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated wit ten photographs in half tone. Translated, with am introduction by Donald Keene....

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-138221

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Victoria, Queen of England

The Great Seal of Queen Victoria with Royal Patent.

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Rare wax Great Seal of Queen Victoria presented with a large, elaborately illustrated patent granted to William Edward Newton. Housed in a custom metal case, the patent measures 7 inches in diameter a...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-108053

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Shapiro, David L. [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

New York University Law Review: Continuity and Change in Statutory Interpretation.

New York: New York University Law Review, 1992.

Original November 1992 offprint of the New York University Law Review containing David L. Shapiro’s Continuity and Change in Statutory Interpretation. Octavo, original publisher’s wrappers, volu...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151267

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Irving, John

Setting Free the Bears.

New York: Random House, 1968.

First edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed [5 line inscription] by John Irving on the half- title page. Fine in a near fine dus...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-1351

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Dreiser, Theodore

The Titan.

New York: John Lane Company, 1914.

First edition of the second book in the author’s acclaimed Trilogy of Desire. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For George T. Keating m...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-56090

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Bemelmans, Ludwig

Madeline In London.

New York: The Viking Press, 1961.

First edition of the final book in the Madeline series published in Bemelmans lifetime. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated endpapers, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Ludwig Bemelmans on the...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-136987

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Loeb, Gerald M. [G.M.]

The Battle For Investment Survival.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1957.

First edition of the third edition of Loeb’s classic work. Boldly signed by Gerald M. Loeb on the front free endpaper. Octavo, original half cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Rare and...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148704

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Eisenhower, Dwight D

A History of the 90th Division in World War II: 6 June 1944 to 9 May 1945.

Baton Rouge, LA: Army & Navy Publishing Company , 1946.

First edition of this work on the 90th division in World II. Quarto, original leatherette boards, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by General Dwight Eisenhower on the...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-140008

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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

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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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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Mandela, Nelson

Nelson Mandela Signed Photograph.

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Original color photograph of Nelson Mandela. Boldly signed and dated “N Mandela 18.6.2000.” Double matted and framed. The photograph measures 8 inches by 12 inches. The entire piece measur...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-24057

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Canetti, Elias

Auto-Da-Fe.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1946.

First edition in English of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s most well-known work. Octavo, original black cloth. Signed by Elias Canetti on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine price-cli...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-48755

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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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Watson, James D

Molecular Biology of the Gene.

New York: W.A. Benjamin, Inc, 1965.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning scientist’s first book. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers as issued. Boldly signed by James Watson on the title page. Editor’s foreword by Cyru...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-125103

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