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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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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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[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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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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Jones, Bobby [Robert Tyre Jones, Jr.]

Bobby Jones Signed Photograph.

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Photograph of Bobby Jones, boldly inscribed by him, “For Dave Christensen with warmest regards Bob Jones.” The photograph measures 7 inches by 9 inches. Double matted and framed. The enti...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-92769

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Peterson, Roger Tory

Field Guide to the Birds: Giving Field Marks of All Species Found in Eastern North America.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1934.

First edition, third state with the date on the copyright page of Peterson’s first book. Octavo, original green pebbled cloth, illustrated with 4 color plates with printed overlays, 32 monochrom...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-102012

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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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Defoe, Daniel

The Novels and Selected Writings of Daniel Defoe: The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; Captain Singleton; Memoirs of a Cavalier; A Journal of the Plague Year; Colonel Jack; Moll Flanders; Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress; A Plan of the English Commerce.

Oxford: Basil Blackwell Publisher to the Shakespeare Head Press, 1927.

The Shakespeare Head Press limited edition of the novels and selected writings of Daniel Defoe, limited to seven hundred and fifty copies. Octavo, 11 volumes bound in full navy morocco with gilt title...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149672

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King, Stephen

The Green Mile.

New York: A Plume Book, 1997.

First edition of this work, which tells the story of death row supervisor Paul Edgecombe’s encounter with John Coffey, an unusual inmate who displays inexplicable healing and empathetic abilitie...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-139312

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Reagan, Ronald [Lech Walesa]

Speaking My Mind.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989.

First edition of President Reagan’s collection of speeches. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the dedication page,...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150462

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Schelling, Thomas C

The Strategy of Conflict.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1960.

First edition of this work that pioneered the study of bargaining and strategic behavior. Octavo, original yellow cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Thomas Schelling on the title page. Near fine i...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-30057

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Gardner, Alexander. [Abraham Lincoln]

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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Sondheim, Stephen [Annie Dillard]

The Collected Lyrics of Stephen Sondheim. Look, I Made a Hat.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.

First editions of the collected lyrics of Stephen Sondheim. Quarto, original boards, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author opposite the title page to fellow writer Annie D...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-133175

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Schrader, Paul; Robert De Niro; Martin Scorsese; Mike Watt [Editor]

Taxi Driver.

Colorado Springs: Gauntless Press, 2018.

Signed limited first edition of this screenplay based on the 1976 film ‘Taxi Driver’, including the full shooting script, one of 500 copies. Quarto, original cloth with black and white pic...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-152039

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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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