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Edgar Mitchell Signed Apollo 14 Landing Site Oversized Photograph.

:, February 1971.

Poster-sized photograph of Edgar Mitchell standing on the lunar surface of the Fra Mauro formation, the future landing site of the Apollo 14 mission. Color photograph of Edgar Mitchell standing at the...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-145298

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Haise, Fred

Fred Haise Signed Apollo 13 Photograph.

:, 1970.

Rare photograph of the Apollo 13 service module. Small quarto, color satin-finish photograph of the crippled Apollo 13 service module floating in space. Boldly signed by Fred Haise, “Our view of...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-147067

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Dickens, Charles

Oliver Twist.

London: Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars, 1846.

Early edition of Dickens’s classic second novel. Octavo, bound in full calf, full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to t...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-147626

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Hillary, Edmund

High Adventure.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1955.

First British edition of Hillary’s account of his ascent of Everest. Octavo, original blue cloth, with maps by A. Sparks and sketches by George Djurkouic. Boldly signed by the author in a contem...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-145919

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Wolfe, Tom

The Right Stuff.

New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1979.

First edition of Wolfe’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth with titles to the spine in silver. Presentation copy, lengthily and warmly inscribed by the author in the year of publication on t...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-151079

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Wells, H.G

The Food of the Gods and How it Came to Earth.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1904.

First edition of Wells’ satiric utopian novel. Octavo, original blind-stamped green cloth, gilt titles to the spine and front panel. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and c...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-95220

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Gorbachev, Mikhail

Reykjavik: Results & Lessons.

Madison, Connecticut: Sphinx Press, Inc, 1987.

First edition of this collection of speeches and writings of the historic meeting in Reykjavik between Gorbachev and President Reagan. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Mikhail Gorbachev on the...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-95984

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Egan, Pierce

Sporting Anecdotes, Original and Selected; Including Numerous Characteristic Portraits of Persons in Every Walk of Life, Who have acquired Notoriety from their Achievements on the Turf, at the Table, and in the Diversions of the Field.

London: Printed For Sherwood, Jones, and Co, 1825.

First edition with colored plates of Egan’s classic collection of sporting anecdotes. Octavo, bound in full red straight grain morocco by Lloyd with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-147752

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Kennedy, William

Ironweed.

New York: The Viking Press, 1983.

First edition of Kennedy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original half gray cloth. Boldly signed William Kennedy on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a fine dust jacket, offsetting t...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-140796

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Kirzner, Israel M

Ludwig von Mises: The Man and His Economics.

Wilmington, Delaware: ISI Books, 2001.

First edition of Kirzner’s authoritative biography of Ludwig von Mises. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Israel M. Kirzner on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-144496

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Sikorsky, Igor

The Story of the Winged-S: Late Developments and Recent Photographs of the Helicopter.

New York: Dodd, Meade & Company, 1958.

First edition, early printing of the autobiography of the Russian-American aviation pioneer and designer of the first viable American helicopter. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece, illustrated with...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-148067

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Wouk, Herman

Marjorie Morningstar.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1955.

First edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Herman Wouk on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. Jacket design by...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-110555

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Gary, Romain (Patrick Leigh Fermor)

The Roots of Heaven.

London: Michael Joseph, 1958.

First edition in English of this novel, which was awarded France’s Prix Goncourt in 1956. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Patrick Leigh Fermor on the front free endpaper. Leigh Fermor co-wrote...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-47063

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Dos Passos, John

Nineteen-Nineteen [1919].

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1932.

First edition of the second novel in the author’s U.S.A. trilogy. Octavo, original cloth. Advance review copy with the publisher’s advance copy slip laid in dated March 10th 1932. Near fin...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-90402

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Langer, Bernhard

Masters 1985.

: Augusta National Club, 1985.

First edition of the Augusta publication of the 1985 Masters. Quarto, original boards, gilt titles to the spine and front panel, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Bernhard Langer on the half-ti...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-135231

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Journal of the Eighteenth Annual Session, of the National Encampment, Grand Army of the Republic.

Philadelphia: Town Book and Job Printing House, 1884.

First edition of this record of post-war social meetings by members of the army; from the library of General William Tecumseh Sherman. Royal octavo, original morocco with gilt titles and tooling to th...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-145743

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Borman, Frank

Frank Borman Signed Apollo 8 Mission Report.

Houston, TX: National Aeronautics and Space Administration / Manned Spacecraft Center, 1969.

Apollo 8 Mission Report describing the observations and objectives, trajectory, biomedical evaluations, and anomalies of the mission flight. Quarto, original wrappers, unbound. Signed on the front pan...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-147240

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Lawrence, T.E

Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1965.

Finely bound edition of Lawrence’s classic account of his role in the Arab rebellion against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Brentano’s, frontispi...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-144546

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Nelson, Byron

Byron Nelson’s Winning Golf.

New York: A.S. Barnes and Company, 1946.

First edition of Nelson’s first book. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Foreword by Grantland Rice. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To G.R. Tate...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-146822

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Eisenhower, Susan [Madeleine K. Albright]

Mrs. Ike: Memories and Reflections on the Life of Mamie Eisenhower.

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996.

First edition of this compelling biography of an army captain’s wife who becomes First Lady. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presenta...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-147575

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Parker, Dorothy

Enough Rope: Poems.

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926.

Rare first edition of Parker’s poignant collection of poetry exploring the complexities of human nature. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth over marbled paper covered boards. In very good conditi...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-147800

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Walker, R. J.; Jas. Shields

Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office. Letter From the Secretary of the Treasury, Transmitting The Annual Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office. December 8, 1845. Document No. 12, 29th Congress, 1st Session.

:, 1845.

Rare printing of the 1845 annual report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office of the United States of America. Octavo, disbound. Contains numerous folding maps and public surveys of Indiana,...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-135884

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Loeb, Marshall and William Safire

Plunging into Politics: How to Become or Support a Candidate of the National, State, of Local Level.

New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1964.

First edition of Safire and Loeb’s classic work. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, double gilt ruling to the f...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-128605

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Eckert, Allan W

The Frontiersmen: A Narrative.

Ashland, Kentucky: Jesse Stuart Foundation, 2001.

First edition of the re-issue of Eckert’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth, Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Ed- With warmest good wishes! Allan E...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-149902

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