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The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.

London: Oxford University Press, 1967.

Early printing of the Oxford Illustrated edition of Dickens’ first novel. Octavo, bound in full crushed red morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six co...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-129149

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Alexander, William

Picturesque Representations and the Dress and Manners of the Chinese. Illustrated with Fifty Coloured Engravings, with Descriptions.

London: Printed for James Goodwin, c. 1829.

Finely bound example of Alexander’s profusely illustrated work on t19th century China. Octavo, original full straight-grain morocco richly decorated in gilt, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, a...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-133048

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Benear, M. A.

Eastland Cosden Oil and Gas Company Oil Map.

Eastland, TX:, 1919.

Rare original oil map of the Cosden Oil and Gas Company in Eastland, Texas. Cadastral oil map of the central Texas county west-southwest of Ft. Worth, showing land ownership, oil, and mineral claims,...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147521

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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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Masson, Frederic [Napoleon de Bonaparte]

Napoleon and The Fair Sex.

London: William Heinemann, 1984.

Extra-illustrated edition, with 80 extra engraved portraits, of Octavo, two volumes bound in full crushed levant morocco by Root & Son with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartment...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151583

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Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel De

El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha, Compuesto por Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. [The History of Don Quixote].

New York: The Hispanic Society of America, c. 1905.

The Hispanic Society of America’s notable, limited, and highly regarded facsimile edition of Don Quixote. Octavo, three volumes, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the spine, a...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150967

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Winfrey, Oprah; Danny Glover; Thandiwe Newton; Kimberly Elise. [Toni Morrison]

Journey to Beloved.

New York: Hyperion, 1998.

First edition of Oprah Winfrey’s emotional account of playing the part of Sethe, the former slave who must come to terms with a haunting past in Jonathan Demme’s film adaptation of Toni Morrison’s Pul...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-135044

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Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George

The Last Days of Pompeii.

London: Richard Bentley, 1834.

First edition of Bulwer-Lytton’s most celebrated work, a classic of historical fiction and the basis for the 1935 Hollywood film of the same name directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack and Merian C. C...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149376

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Aday, Michael Lee [Meat Loaf]

Meat Loaf Signed Bat Out of Hell Album.

New York: Cleveland International Records, 1977.

Meat Loaf’s debut studio album, released in 1977. Boldly signed by Meat Loaf on the front panel. In fine condition. Record included.

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146751

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Goldsmith, Oliver. With Prefatory Memoir by George Saintsbury

The Vicar of Wakefield.

London: John C. Nimmo, 1886.

Finely bound example of one of the most popular and widely read novels among Victorians. Octavo, bound in full crushed levant morocco by Bayntun Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six co...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-139375

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Maguire, Gregory

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West.

New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc, 1995.

First edition of Gregory Maguire’s immensely popular reinvention of Oz. Octavo, original illustrated boards, cartographic endpapers. Signed by the author on the half-title page, “Wickedly yours,...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151603

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Ruth, Babe

The Babe Ruth Story.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1948.

First edition of Babe Ruth’s autobiography. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt rul...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-152122

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The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David.

University of Oxford: Printed by John Baskett, 1716.

Rare 18th Century Oxford Book of Common Prayer printed by John Baskett. Octavo, bound in full contemporary morocco richly decorated in gilt with gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within ra...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-140601

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Roosevelt, Jr, Theodore

Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. Silverplate Presentation Tray.

:, 1924.

Rare engraved silverplate presentation tray. Oval silverplate tray with wire loop sides interrupted on each long side with a vacant panel, raised on flattened bun feet. Engraved in the center, “...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147200

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Sinatra, Frank

Frank Sinatra Signed “Johnny Concho” Poster.

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Rare magazine poster featuring a full-length portrait of Frank Sinatra as Johnny Concho, inscribed by him, “For Bonnie – Affectionately Frank.” In very good condition. Rare and desir...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-132490

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Levitt, Helen; Essays by Robert Coles

In the Street.

Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1987.

First edition of the photographer’s second major photobook. Quarto, original cloth. Signed by Helen Levitt on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Not to be confused with the more common...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-810

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Lindbergh, Charles A

Of Flight and Life.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons , 1948.

First edition of this prophetic discourse on weapons of mass destruction. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, “To Dean Walter Bartky with...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-144537

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Lovell, Jim; Jeffrey Kluger [Tom Hanks]

Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994.

First edition, early printing of this work, the basis of the 1995 film adaptation Apollo 13, directed by Ron Howard, starring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Ed Harris, and Gary Sinise. Octavo, o...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150341

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Camus, Albert

Oeuvres Completes de Albert Camus.

Paris: Imprimierie Nationale, 1965.

The Louis XIV national deluxe illustrated edition of the works of Albert Camus with over 90 original lithographs in color by Carzou. Quartos, 7 volumes, pages loosely bound within black vellum backed...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-94697

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Hawks, Frank

Speed.

New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1931.

First edition of the legendary World War I aviator’s autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated, lacking the frontispiece. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the fro...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-138244

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Fleming, Ian

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1963.

First edition of the tenth novel in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series. Octavo, original brown cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket, contemporary name to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Richa...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148035

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Duportal, Antoine Simon

Recherches Sur L’état Actuel de la Distillation du Vin en France, et Sur Les Moyens d’Améliorer la Distillation des Eaux-de-vie. (Research on the Current State of Wine Distillation in France, and on Ways to Improve the Distillation of Eaux-de-vie).

Paris, Saint Petersbourg: Klostermann, 1811.

Scarce first edition of early work on the distillation of wine and eau-de-vie. Octavo, bound in full period tree calf, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, red morocco spine label, five folding maps...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-95242

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Byron, George Gordon [Lord]

The Poetical Works of Lord Byron. [Fore-edge Painting].

London: John Murray, 1850.

Finely bound edition of the complete poetical works of Lord Byron. Octavo, bound in full crushed red morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, quadruple gilt ruling and fleuron cornerpieces t...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-135627

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Dickens, Charles

Oliver Twist.

London: Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars, 1846.

First single volume edition of “the most perfect of all the Dickens novels” (Virginia Woolf). Octavo, bound in full polished calf by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spine i...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149159

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