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Cecil Beaton’s Fair Lady.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964.

First edition of Beaton’s Fair Lady, a witty compilation of his personal diary entries recorded while managing the costume and set design of the 1957 Warner Brothers film starring Audrey Hepburn...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-141409

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Shirer, William L

The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960.

First edition, later printing of “one of the most important works of history of our time” (Orville Prescott, New York Times). Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Presentation c...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-152156

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Lewis, Sinclair

Main Street.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920.

First edition, first printing of Lewis’ classic work. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-144082

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ELIZABETH II, Queen and Prince Philip

Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip Signed Photograph.

:, 1955.

Rare photograph of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip with their children. Vintage matte-finish photograph removed from a Royal Christmas card from 1955, featuring a charming photo of Queen Elizabet...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146530

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Roosevelt, Eleanor

India and the Awakening East.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1953.

First edition of Eleanor Roosevelt’s account of her travels through the Middle East and India. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with 32 pages of photographs. Pre...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-110954

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Remington, Frederic

John Ermine of the Yellowstone.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1902.

First edition of this thought-provoking work of a young Native American man who is torn between his traditional way of life and the rapidly changing world around him. Octavo, original cloth, frontispi...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148081

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Groom, Winston [Tom Hanks]

Forrest Gump.

Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2002.

Signed limited first edition of this modern classic, basis for one of the most iconic films of the twentieth century, starring Tom Hanks. Octavo, elaborately bound in full leather, gilt titles and too...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150200

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Reagan, Ronald

An American Life.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990.

First edition of the 40th President of the United States’ memoir. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “T...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151315

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Obly, Robert; Foreword by Francis Crick

The Path to the Double Helix.

Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1974.

First edition of this work on the history of the double helix. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by both the author and Francis Crick on the title page, who contributed the foreword. The aut...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-3394

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Fowles, John [Harold Pinter]

The French Lieutenant’s Woman.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1969.

First edition of Fowles’ classic third novel. Octavo, original brown cloth, pictorial endpapers. Signed by both John Fowles and Harold Pinter on the title page. Pinter wrote the screenplay for t...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-91873

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Trail, Armitage. [Al Pacino]

Scarface.

New York: Dell Publishing Co., Inc, 1959.

First Dell paperback edition of Trail’s sensational American organized crime novel, the basis for one of the greatest gangster films ever made directed by Brian De Palma, written by Oliver Stone...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149364

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Didion, Joan

Play It As It Lays.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1970.

First edition of Didion’s classic third book. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Joan Didion on the second endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Janet Halverson....

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151345

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Peale, Norman Vincent

The Power of Positive Thinking.

New York: Prentice-Hall, 1952.

First edition of Norman Vincent Peale’s enduring classic. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Norma-Jean Roth with best wish...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-140273

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Jay-Z; Strouse, Charles

Jay-Z Vol. 2… Hard Knock Life RIAA Multi-Platinum Award Presented to Charles Strouse.

:, 1999.

RIAA multi-platinum sales award for Jay-Z’s Vol. 2… Hard Knock Life, presented to Charles Strouse, the composer of the song that gave the album its title. Platinum cassette and compact disc mounted in...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-152200

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Verne, Jules

Jules Verne Autograph Letter Signed.

:, January 4, 1889.

Rare autographed letter signed by the father of science fiction Jules Verne. One page, the letter reads in full (translated), “I ask Madame Poritzer to please supply Mr. Debry with his tickets f...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146475

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Donleavy, J.P

The Ginger Man.

Paris: The Olympia Press, 1955.

First edition, first issue with the words, Special Volume, Francs: 1.500 to the rear panel. Small octavo, original green wrappers as issued. Boldly signed by J.P. Donleavy on the front free endpaper....

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-91458

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Doyle, Arthur Conan

Arthur Conan Doyle Autograph Letter Signed.

:, .

Rare handwritten letter signed by Arthur Conan Doyle to lecture manager James B. Pond, Jr. Octavo, one page on Windlesham letterhead, the letter reads in full, “Dear Mr. Pond It is pleasant to s...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147770

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Gunther, John

Inside U.S.A.

New York: Harper & Brothers , 1947.

First edition of this classic work, “riveting from start to finish” (Robert Gottlieb, The New York Times). Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, pullout map. Boldly signed by Joh...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-134601

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Saramago, Jose

Ensaio Sobre a Cegueira [Blindness].

Lisboa: Caminho, 1995.

First Portuguese edition and true first of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by Jose Saramago on the title page. In near fine...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-138766

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Solow, Robert M

Capital Theory and the Rate of Return.

Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1963.

First edition of the Nobel prize-winning economist’s De Vries Lectures on economics. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by Robert Solow on the title page. In near fine condi...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-46014

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Kilmer, Joyce

Summer of Love.

New York: The Baker & Taylor Company, 1911.

First edition, first issue of Joyce Kilmer’s first book of verse. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to fellow poet and literary critic Thomas Walsh, “To...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-92792

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Calligraphic Manuscript on Vellum with a Color Miniature of the Painting by Leonardo Da Vinci.

:, c.1900.

Rare illuminated manuscript regarding Da Vinci’s master drawing The Head of Christ (c. 1495), the basis for Da Vinci’s depiction of Jesus in The Last Supper. Da Vinci himself considered the drawing so...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-119865

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[Charlie Kirk]

The U.S. Constitution and Other Writings.

San Diego: Canterbury Classics, 2017.

Finely bound example of the Constitution of the United States. Octavo, bound in full leatherette, illustrated endpapers, all edges gilt. Boldly signed by Charlie Kirk on the half-title page. Kirk sign...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150507

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Russell, Bill and Taylor Branch

Second Wind: The Memoirs of an Opinionated Man.

New York: Random House, 1979.

First edition of this powerful memoir by the legendary champion and civil rights advocate. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed the author and co-author Taylor Branch on the front free endpaper,...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-134622

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