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What Diantha Did.

New York: Charlton Company, 1910.

First edition of Gilman’s first novel about Diantha Bell, a resourceful young woman who breaks societal norms by turning domestic labor into a professional, profitable business. Octavo, original...

$6,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151849

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Browning, Robert

The Ring and The Book.

London: Smith, Elder, & Co, 1869.

First edition of Robert Browning’s greatest work. Octodecimo, four volumes, contemporary tree calf bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spines in six compartments within gil...

$6,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147757

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Grisham, John

A Time To Kill: Novel of Retribution.

New York: Wynwood Press, 1989.

First edition of Grisham’s first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author before publication on the half-title page, “To Jim Brantley – I hope you...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151362

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Isaacson, Walter [Vint Cerf; Leonard Kleinrock; Robert Kahn; Tim Berners-Lee; Linus Torvalds]

The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014.

First edition of this sweeping history of the computer and the Internet, signed by Isaacson and several legendary internet pioneers. Octavo, original publisher’s half-cloth, circuit board endpap...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-152132

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Robinson, Jackie; Roy Campanella; Gil Hodges; Andy Pafko; Carol Erskine; Ralph Branca; George Pfister; et al

1952 Jackie Robinson and Brooklyn Dodgers Team Signed Baseball.

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Rare Official National League baseball signed by 25 members of the 1950 Brooklyn Dodgers. Signed by Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Gil Hodges, Andy Pafko, Carol Erskine, Ralph Branca, and George Pfi...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149853

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Mikva, Abner J; Patti B. Saris [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

The American Congress: The First Branch.

New York: Franklin Watts, 1983.

First edition of this comprehensive view of the history and function of Congress. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with black and white photographs. Association copy, inscribed by co-author Abner...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146582

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Thompson, Kay; Illustrated by Hilary Knight

Eloise, Eloise in Paris, Eloise At Christmastime, Eloise In Moscow, Eloise Takes a Bawth.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955-2002.

First editions of each of the five Eloise titles. Quarto, 5 volumes. Each are signed by the illustrator, Hilary Knight. Each are near fine in very good to near fine dust jackets. A brilliant set of th...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-5600

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Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [Tom Sawyer’s Comrade].

New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885.

First edition of Twain’s masterpiece, photogravure plate of a portrait bust of Clemens by Karl Gerhardt, title-leaf a cancel with copyright notice dated 1884; illustrated captioned “Him an...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-100058

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Dirac, Paul [Behram Kursonoglu]

Paul Dirac Autograph Letter Signed.

:, 1973.

Rare original autograph letter signed by British theoretical physicist Paul Dirac to Turkish physicist Behram Kursonoglu. One page, on Department of Physics, Florida State University letterhead, FSU w...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151897

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Stowe, Harriet Beecher

The Chimney-Corner.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1888.

Later printing of this classic collection of essays which deals primarily with women’s issues, such as property rights, voting and education in post-Civil War America. Octavo, original publisher...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149908

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Nabokov, Vladimir

Lolita.

Paris: The Olympia Press, 1955.

First edition of Nabokov’s masterpiece, published in Paris by the Olympia Press in 1955. First issue with the price of 900 francs on the rear panel of each volume. Octavo, 2 volumes, original gr...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150702

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Teale, Oscar S. [Harry Houdini]

Oscar Teale Signed Houdini Contract Draft, Personal Notebook, and Harper & Brothers Editorial Letter To Harry Houdini.

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Rare collection of items from the magician Oscar Teale, the private secretary to famous magician Harry Houdini. Including a typed contract copy signed by Teale regarding him agreeing to compile and ed...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151126

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[Chapman, John Gadsby; George Washington]

View of the Birthplace of George Washington.

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Rare nineteenth century oil painting after John Gadsby Chapman (New York/Italy, 1808-1889) depicting the birthplace of President George Washington in Westmoreland County, Virginia. Oil on canvas, the...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145244

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Chng, Huang Hoon [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

Separate and Unequal: Judicial Rhetoric and Women’s Rights.

Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2002.

First edition of this examination of the language of judges with respect to the issues of gender discrimination. Octavo, original pictorial boards. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the tit...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148300

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Hoyle, William [Ian Fleming]

Hoyle’s Hymns and Songs: For Temperance Societies & Bands of Hope.

London: S.W. Partridge and Co./National Temperance Publication, c. 1890.

Early edition of this collection of hymns, inscribed by legendary creator of 007 Ian Fleming. Octavo, bound in the original full black morocco with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150873

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Edwards, Jonathan

Miscellaneous Observations on Important Theological Subjects, Original and Collected.

Edinburgh: M. Gray, 1793.

First edition of this collection of theological reflections and exegetical notes by the famed philosopher and theologian. Duodecimo, bound in full contemporary calf with gilt titles to the spine in se...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148320

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Peterson, Eugene H

The Message: The Bible In Contemporary Language.

Colorodo: Navpress, 2002.

First edition of the Message translation of the Bible. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, lenghthily inscribed by Eugene Peterson on the front free endpaper, who has written out the opening v...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-152004

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Laws of the United States of America: Containing, The Federal Constitution; The Acts of the Sessions of the First and Second Congress; The Treaties Existing Between the United States and Foreign Nations, and the Several Indian Tribes. Also, Sundry Resolves of the First and Second Congress.

Boston: Adams and Larkin, 1795.

Rare first edition of the collected laws of the United States, containing the treaties and acts from the three sessions of the first Congress and the first two sessions of the second Congress. Stated...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148285

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Schneider, Elizabeth M. [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

Battered Women & Feminist Lawmaking.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000.

First edition of this seminal work in feminist legal activism. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “November 2000. For Justice Ruth...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147156

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Ray, Tom [Dr. Seuss]

Original Drawing of The Grinch. [How the Grinch Stole Christmas].

: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc, 1966.

Rare original drawing of The Grinch from the 1966 film How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Graphite and colored pencil on animation paper of a smiling Grinch preparing to slide down a chimney. Inscribed b...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148223

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Dali

Dali…Dali…Dali…

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1974.

The New Concise Nal Edition of this lavishly illustrated work by Salvador Dali. Quarto, original pictorial wrappers, with 98 illustrations in both black and white and color interspersed with text. Bol...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149869

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Katzmann, Robert A. [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

New York University Law Review. Madison Lecture: Statutes.

New York: New York University Law Review, 2012.

Original June 2012 offprint of the New York University Law Review containing Robert A. Katzmann’s Madison Lecture: Statutes. Octavo, original publisher’s wrappers, volume 87, number 3. Pre...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151268

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Catton, Bruce

Mr. Lincoln’s Army; Glory Road; A Stillness At Appomattox.

New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1951-53.

First editions of each volume in the author’s acclaimed Army of the Potomac trilogy. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Mr. Lincoln’s Army and Glory Road are presentation copi...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151778

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Livermore, Jesse

How to Trade in Stocks: The Livermore Formula for Combining Time Element and Price.

New York : Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1940.

First edition of the only book by Jesse Livermore, one of Wall Street’s most well-known traders. Octavo, original blue cloth, contains 16 full color charts. Octavo, original blue cloth. In very good c...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150867

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