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Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend.

New York: Scribner, 2010.

First edition of this definitive biography authorized by Willie Mays and written by Wall Street Journal and New York Times journalist James Hirsch. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with black...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-149847

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Brickell, Paul

Reach For The Sky: The Story of Douglas Bader.

London: Collins, 1954.

First edition, early printing of the biography of one of the great heroes of the Battle of Britain. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Signed and dated by Douglas Ba...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-146974

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The Campaign Text Book. Why The People Want A Change. The Republican Party Reviewed: Its Sins of Commission and Omission.

New York:, 1876.

First edition of this 19th century summary of the leading events in American history under Republican administration. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles to the sp...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-136488

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Johnson, Simon and James Kwak

13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown.

New York: Pantheon Books, 2010.

First edition of this authoritative history of America’s financial oligarchy by one of the most prominent and frequently cited economists in the nation. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-149620

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Player, Gary

Gary Player’s Golf Secrets.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1962.

First edition of Gary Player’s first book. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Inscribed by Gary Player on the title page and additionally signed by Player on the front panel of the dust jacket...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-109227

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Sante, Luc

No Smoking.

New York: Assouline Publishing, 2004.

First edition of this comical book regarding smoking. Octavo, original illustrated cardstock, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For John We m...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-38221

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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. Signed by William Kennedy on the title page. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Nei...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-132767

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Lewis, George Cornewall

An Essay on the Influence of Authority in Matters of Opinion.

London: John W. Parker, 1849.

First edition of Cornewall Lewis’ classic work of political philosophy. Octavo, original half cloth. From the library of American journalist William Safire, although not marked. William Safire w...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-134128

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Asimov, Isaac

More Tales of the Black Widowers.

Garden City, NY: Published For The Crime Club By Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976.

First edition of the second book in Asimov’s Black Widowers series. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Stephen Isaac Asimov.”...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-142873

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Manchester, Herbert

The Diamond Match Company: A Century of Service, of Progress, and of Growth 1835-1935.

New York: The Diamond Match Company, 1935.

First edition of Manchester’s history of the Diamond Match Company. Octavo, original stiff paper wrappers, illustrated. In near fine condition. Rare.

$450.00 Item Number: RRB-138319

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Schmitt, Harrison. Foreword by Neil Armstrong

Return to the Moon: Exploration, Enterprise, and Energy in the Human Settlement of Space.

New York: Copernicus Books in Association with Praxis Publishing, 2006.

First edition of the author’s visionary plan for humankind’s future in space. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Bob Harri...

$450.00 Item Number: RRB-144631

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Bush, George H. W

George H. W. Bush Vice Presidential Fountain Pen.

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Rare George H. W. Bush Vice Presidential Fountain Pen bearing Bush’s signature in facsimile. Housed in the original pen box bearing the seal of the Vice President of the United States. In fine c...

$450.00 Item Number: RRB-114942

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Moss, Stirling with Ken W. Purdy

All But My Life: Face To Face With Ken W. Purdy.

London: William Kember , 1963.

First edition of the racing legend’s autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by Stirling Moss on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light wear.

$450.00 Item Number: RRB-138012

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Thiers, Adolphe

Atlas de L’Histoire du Consulat et de L’Empire Dresse et Dessine Sous La Direction de M. Thiers Par MM. A. Dufour et Duvotenay. [The Thiers Atlas].

Paris: Librairie Furne, n.d..

Rare finely bound example of the Theirs Atlas, containing 66 maps and battle plans drawn by two of the best cartographers of Second Empire. Quarto, quarter cloth over marbled boards, illustrated with...

$450.00 Item Number: RRB-131402

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Twain, Mark. [Samuel L. Clemens]

Merry Tales.

New York: Charles L. Webster & Co, 1892.

First edition, first state with patterned endpapers, without the frontispiece portrait of Twain, and with 7 pages of undated advertisements. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. In very good cond...

$450.00 Item Number: RRB-137246

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Allen, Woody

Don’t Drink the Water.

London/ New York: Samuel French, 1967.

First English edition of Allen’s rapid-fire dialogue. 16mo, original wrappers. Boldly signed by Woody Allen on the front free endpaper. In near fine condition.

$450.00 Item Number: RRB-149022

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Jones, Alfred Winslow

Life, Liberty, and Property: A Story of Conflict and a Measurement of Conflicting Rights.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1941.

First edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with light wear. Laid in is an advertisement to purchase war bonds. Rare in...

$450.00 Item Number: RRB-45087

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Churchill, Randolph S

Winston S. Churchill. [The Official Biography]. Volume II: Young Statesman 1901-1914 [with] Volume II Companion Parts I, II, and III.

London: Heinemann, 1967-1969.

First edition of the second volume in Randolph S. Churchill’s official biography of his father, Winston S. Churchill; complete with first editions of all three parts of its companion volume. Octavo, 4...

$450.00 Item Number: RRB-144722

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Martin, H.B

Pictorial Golf: Practical Instruction for the Beginner, and Valuable Hints for the Star.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1928.

First edition of this wonderfully illustrated work on practical instruction for the game of golf. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper,...

$450.00 Item Number: RRB-84714

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Fermor, Patrick Leigh; Edited by Artemis Cooper

Words of Mercury.

London: John Murray, 2003.

Early printing of this collection of essays by Leigh Fermor. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Leigh Fermor on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket designed by Octavius Murray. Edited b...

$450.00 Item Number: RRB-78903

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Sherman, Philemon Tecumseh [William Tecumseh Sherman]

General Sherman in the Last Year of the Civil War: An Address Delivered at the Thirty-eighth Reunion of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee at St. Louis, Missouri.

New York: Robert Grier Cooke, 1908.

First edition of this biographical address of the author’s father, delivered at the Thirty-eighth reunion of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee. Octavo, original wrappers. Author’s c...

$450.00 Item Number: RRB-145970

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Greene, Graham

A Burnt-Out Case.

London: Heinemann, 1961.

First edition of this Greene novel set in a leproserie on the upper reaches of a tributary of the Congo River in Africa. Octavo, original cloth. Small name to the front free endpaper, near fine in a f...

$450.00 Item Number: RRB-104522

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Fischer, Bobby

“I Was Tortured in a Pasadena Jailhouse!”

np: Published by Bobby Fischer, 1982.

First edition of Bobby Fischer’s notorious self-published pamphlet, a raw and unsettling account of his 1981 detention by the Pasadena police, among the strangest and most sought-after artifacts...

$425.00 Item Number: RRB-152067

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Gilder, George

Visible Man: A True Story of Post-Racist America.

New York: Basic Books, 1978.

First edition of Gilder’s seminal first book. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by George Gilder with a full page inscription on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket desig...

$400.00 Item Number: RRB-59027

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