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Maybelle: The Cable Car.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1952.

First edition of this classic work. Oblong quarto, original cloth, illustrated endpapers, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Virginia Lee Burton on the title page. Near fine in a near fine price...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-132568

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[Walesa, Lech]

The Berlin Wall: An Historical Artifact.

Montana: Hyman Products, Inc, 1989.

Rare authentic cut from the Berlin Wall. Fragmented piece of the Berlin Wall within a soft pouch, with an informative booklet. Boldly signed by Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Walesa on the verso. Lech...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149858

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Miller, Glenn

Glenn Miller’s Method For Orchestral Arranging.

New York: Mutual Music Society, 1943.

First edition of the great swing-era American jazz musician’s guide to orchestral arranging. Royal octavo, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated. Signed by the author on the front free e...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-141030

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Leigh Fermor, Patrick; George Psychoundakis

George Psychoundakis: A Letter to C.A. Trypanis.

Athens: The American College of Greece, 1999.

First edition of this work by the author of A Time of Gifts. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, warmly inscribed by both Patrick Leigh Fermor and George Psychoundakis to John Leatham, who contr...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-3911

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Marshall, Paule

Brown Girl, Brownstones.

New York: Random House, 1959.

First edition of Marshall’s classic coming-of-age tale and a vivid portrait of one family’s struggle to achieve the American Dream. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-128761

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Stone, Oliver [Screenwriter]; Alan Parker [Director]; Tim Rice, Andrew Lloyd Webber [play]; Madonna, Antonio Banderas, Jonathan Pryce [Starring]

Evita.

New York: Warner Brothers, 1996.

First edition of the draft script for the 1996 film, boldly signed by Oliver Stone, based on the 1978 musical stage production by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, which was in turn based on Rice and...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-133217

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Fowles, John

The Magus.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965.

First American edition, preceding the British edition by one year of the author’s most well-known work. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, bookplate of famed coll...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-142119

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Pirsig, Robert M

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values.

New York: William Morrow & Company, 1984.

First edition of the tenth anniversary edition of one of the most important and influential books written in the past half-century. Octavo, original half cloth. One of only 1,000 numbered copies, this...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-152124

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Gillon, Diana And Meir. [Winston Churchill]

Vanquish The Angel.

London: Constable , 1955.

First edition of this novel, inscribed by both authors to Winston Churchill. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the authors in the year of publication on the front free endpaper to...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145911

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Warhol, Andy

Andy Warhol’s Exposures.

New York: Andy Warhol Books/ Grosset & Dunlap, 1979.

First edition of Warhol’s candid and engaging photobook. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, boldly inscribed by Andy Warhol on the half-title, who has added a drawing of a heart a...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145874

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Aldrin, Buzz and James Lovell

James Lovell and Buzz Aldrin Signed Jetstream Photograph.

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Rare official NASA photograph of the jetstream over Egypt. Oversized, color semi-glossy photograph of the jetstream high over the Sahara Desert and Nile River, with the Red Sea and the Sinai Peninsula...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147294

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Menand, Louis

The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001.

First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page to fellow Pulitzer Prize award winning author...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-111949

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Lawrence, T.E. [A.W. Lawrence]

The Mint: A Day-Book of the R.A.F. Depot Between August and December 1922 with Later Notes by 352087 A/C Ross.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1955.

First edition, limited issue of Lawrence’s semi-autobiographical account of his R.A.F. training days. Quarto, original quarter morocco, patterned endpapers, top edge gilt with others uncut. One...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-117566

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Richards, Keith

Life: Keith Richards.

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2010.

First edition, second printing of Richards’ autobiography. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with photographs. Signed and dated by the author year of publication on the half-title page,...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148338

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Buckingham Palace Bound List of Subscribers.

:, 1927.

Finely bound list of subscribers to Mr. J. Parr’s farewell gift, presented on his retirement , 31 March 1927. Octavo, bound by Truscott & Son in full crushed scarlet morocco with gilt titles...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-125737

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Atherton, Gertrude Franklin

The Conqueror: Being the True and Romantic Story of Alexander Hamilton.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1902.

First edition of this historical novel that blends biographical narrative with romanticized fiction to construct a dramatic portrait of one of America’s founding figures. Octavo, original publisher...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149273

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DeLillo, Don

White Noise.

New York: The Viking Press, 1985.

First edition of the author’s National Book Award-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “T...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-133723

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Crichton, Michael [Jasper Johns]

Jasper Johns.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc/Whitney Museum of American Art, 1977.

First edition of this comprehensive, insightful, and visually rich monograph on the influential American artist by famous author and art enthusiast Michael Crichton. Quarto, original pictorial wrapper...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150380

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Kissinger, Henry A.; Eric Schmidt; Daniel Huttenlocher

The Age of AI: And Our Human Future.

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2021.

First edition of this work by three of the world’s most accomplished and deep thinkers come together to explore AI and the way it is transforming human society—and what this technology means for us al...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151691

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Irving, John

The Cider House Rules.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1985.

First British edition of Irving’s sixth novel. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “Dear Ka...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-144200

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Burger, Warren

Warren Burger Signed Letter To Irving Kaufman.

:, 1969.

Autographed signed letter from Chief Justice Warren Burger to the Chief Judge of the Second Court of Appeals Irving Kaufman on The Supreme Court letterhead. The letter reads, “Dear Irving, Today...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-38008

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Bouvier, Jacqueline and Lee [Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis]

One Special Summer.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1974.

First edition of this delightful memoir written by the Bouvier sisters about their summer in Europe. Folio, original marbled blue paper boards, illustrated with drawings and decorations by both author...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149776

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Hansen, James R. [Ryan Gosling] [Neil Armstrong]

First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong.

New York : Simon & Schuster, 2005.

First edition of the authorized biography of the first man to touch the moon, basis for the 2018 starring Ryan Gosling as Armstrong. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151037

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Powers, Richard

The Overstory.

New York: W.W. Norton Company, 2017.

First edition of this Pulitzer Prize-winning work, “the best novel ever written about trees, and really just one of the best novels, period” (Ann Patchett). Octavo, original boards. Boldly...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151356

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