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Palestine Pamphlets. Terrorist Methods With Mines and Booby Traps.

Jerusalem: Headquarters, Chief Engineer, Palestine & Transjordan, 1946.

Very rare restricted British Army manual dealing with terrorist explosive devices and methods. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers, frontispiece and 6 plates, 16 full-page text-illustrations. Only 2...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-125181

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Grant, Ulysses S.; Hamilton Fish; Leonard Wood; Joseph Wheeler

Ulysses S. Grant, Hamilton Fish, Leonard Wood and Joseph Wheeler Autographs.

: N.p., [1874-1902].

Autographs of President Ulysses S. Grant, Secretary of State Hamilton Fish, and United States Army Generals Leonard Wood and Joseph Wheeler. Octavo, one page. Signed by Grant, “U. S. Grant....

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146684

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Parks, Rosa

Rosa Parks Photograph Signed.

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Rare iconic photograph of Rosa Parks “the first lady of civil rights” and “the mother of the freedom movement,” signed by her. In fine condition. The photograph measures 10 inc...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147223

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Wallace, David Foster & Mark Costello

Signifying Rappers.

New York: Ecco Press, 1990.

First edition of the first book to seriously consider rap and its position as a vital force in American culture. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers as issued. Boldly signed by David Foster Wallace...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150145

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Shaw, George Bernard

Man and Superman.

Westminster: Archibald and Constable & Co., Ltd, 1903.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning playwright’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Charles Roebuck Ramsden G...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-132653

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Mishima, Yukio

After The Banquet.

London: Secker & Warburg, 1963.

First British edition of “the biggest and most profound thing Mishima has done so far in an already distinguished career” (The New Yorker). Octavo, original cloth. Translated from the Japa...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148136

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[Lincoln, Abraham]

Bust of Abraham Lincoln.

:, c. 1909.

Painted plaster bust of Abraham Lincoln mounted on a wood pedestal base. After Raffaello Gironi for The Boston Sculpture Company. Signed faintly on reverse of integrated plaster pedestal, “R. Gi...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148487

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Schatzman, Evry (editor), [Stephen Hawking]

Cargèse Lectures in Physics, Volume Six.

New York : Gordon and Breach, 1973.

First edition of this work. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of Stephen Hawking with his name written on the front free endpaper. Stephen Hawking was a theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-115754

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Lovell, James and Frank Borman

James Lovell and Frank Borman Inscribed ‘Earthrise’ NASA Photograph.

:, 1968.

Official NASA photograph of ‘Earthrise.’ Glossy, color photograph of the Earth as seen from space by the Apollo 8 crew after performing lunar orbit insertion burn, NASA caption text and Ko...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145373

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Joyce, James

James Joyce Ulysses Collection.

London and New York: Various publishers, 1932-1998.

Collection of several editions of Joyce’s masterpiece Ulysses. The collection is comprised of a first American edition of Ulysses [New York: Random House, 1934]; early printing of the Unlimited...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-132480

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Kazantzakis, Nikos

The Last Temptation of Christ [First Edition in Greek].

Athena: Thiphros, 1955.

First edition in Greek, preceding the English translation of this historical novel, basis for the 1988 Academy Award nominated film. Octavo, original wrappers. Lengthily signed by the translator Peter...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-138555

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Shahn, Ben

Haggadah for Passover.

The Trianon Press: Paris, 1966.

Signed limited edition of Lithuanian-born American artist Ben Shahn’s magnificently illustrated retelling of the Haggadah for Passover. Large folio, original wrappers, gilt titles to the front p...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-152160

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Larsson, Stieg; Translated by Reg Keeland

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; The Girl Who Played with Fire; The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest.

London: Maclehose Press, 2008-2009.

First editions in English of each volume of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy. Octavo, three volumes, original boards. Each volume is signed by the translator Reg Keeland, with a quotation added by t...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-82278

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Hughes, Richard

A High Wind in Jamaica.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1929.

First edition of the author’s classic novel, one of Modern Library’s 100 greatest novels of the 20th century and an inspiration for William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. Octavo, origi...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150217

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[Armstrong, Neil]

Neil Armstrong Class of 1947 Signed Yearbook.

Wapakoneta, Ohio: Blume High School Class of 1947, 1947.

Rare Blume High School Class of 1947 yearbook, signed by Neil Armstrong as a graduating senior. Quarto, original leatherette. Signed by Neil Armstrong beneath his senior portrait on page 12 of the yea...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-122684

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18th Century Catholic Antiphonal.

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Rare 18th Century Catholic antiphonal containing the Festa Februarii, Festa Martii, and Festa Aprilis. Quarto, bound in full leather, hand-written script of both music and lyrics in black and red, all...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-123047

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Bellow, Saul

Humboldt’s Gift.

New York: The Viking Press, 1975.

First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Karyl, with love I could n...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-1289

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Trollope, Anthony

The Works of Anthony Trollope.

London: Ward, Lock & Co, 1881.

The New Edition of the Works of Anthony Trollope. Octavo, 28 volumes bound into 14 in three quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt ba...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-110205

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Ford, Ford Madox

Some Do Not, No More Parades, A Man Could Stand Up and Last Post.

New York:, 1924-1928.

First editions of each novel in the author’s classic modernist series Parade’s End. Octavo, four volumes. Each volume is in very good to near fine condition, with A Man Could Stand Up in t...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-143044

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Loeb, Gerald M.; Bernard M. Baruch; Benjamin Graham; William S. Goedecke; Walter Maynard; John Stevenson et al

Wall Street 1955: Investment Careers, Procedures & Precepts.

New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Daily News, 1954.

First edition of this compilation of reports published by Yale as an introduction to Wall Street for aspiring students. Quarto, original wrappers, illustrated. Boldly signed by Gerald M. Loeb on the f...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-116393

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Dinesen, Isak [Karen Blixen]

Last Tales.

New York: Random House, 1957.

First edition of this classic collection of short stories. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the half-title page, “Isak Dinesen Je Responderai.” While in Africa, Blixe...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145946

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Paine, Thomas

A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal, on the Affairs of North-America. In Which the Mistakes in the Abbes Account of the Revolution of America Are Corrected and Cleared Up.

London: Printed for J. Ridgway, 1791.

1791 London edition of Paine’s passionate reply to the Abbe Raynal, preceded by the 1782 Philadelphia and London editions Octavo, bound in half diced calf over marbled boards, all edges speckled...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-134029

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Conrad, Joseph

Lord Jim.

London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1900.

First edition of one of Conrad’s finest novels. Octavo, original cloth. A near fine example with some wear to the extremities and the endpapers ever so slightly browned. First printing with the first...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-45003

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McCarthy, Cormac

The Passenger and Stella Maris.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.

First editions of McCarthy’s two-volume masterpiece: The Passenger is the story of a salvage diver, haunted by loss, afraid of the watery deep, pursued for a conspiracy beyond his understanding,...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-14753

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