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Onward, Christian Soldiers.

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Rare original autograph manuscript of the famous hymn. Quarto, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling and detailing t...

$6,000.00 Item Number: RRB-147736

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Pfander, James E. [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

Principles of Federal Jurisdiction.

St. Paul, Minnesota: Thomson/West, 2006.

First edition of this analysis of the constitutional and statutory limits of U.S. federal court authority. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title p...

$6,000.00 Item Number: RRB-148301

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Blixen, Karen [Isak Dinesen]

Out of Africa.

London: Putnam, 1937.

First British edition of the author’s classic memoir, which recounts events of the seventeen years when Blixen made her home in Kenya. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Near fine in a very goo...

$6,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151112

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Schiot, Molly [Lisa Beattie Frelinghuysen] [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

Game Changers: The Unsung Heroines of Sports History.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 2016.

First edition of this inspiring work that highlights the overlooked achievements of female athletes throughout history, showcasing their resilience and impact on the world of sports. Imperial octavo,...

$6,000.00 Item Number: RRB-147837

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Stoker, Bram

Bram Stoker Autograph Poem Signed.

Greeba Castle:, 1900.

Rare original autograph poem signed and entirely in the hand of Bram Stoker. Quarto, one page on a leaf removed from an album, complete four stanza poem titled “The One Thing Needful,” pic...

$6,000.00 Item Number: RRB-148526

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Copland, Aaron

Appalachian Spring. (Ballet for Martha).

New York: Boosey and Hawkes, 1945.

First edition of the Booksey and Hawkes Pocket Orchestral Score of Copland’s Appalachian Spring, one of the most enduring of the twentieth century. Large octavo, original wrappers as issue. Insc...

$5,800.00 Item Number: RRB-96244

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Huxley, Aldous

Brave New World.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1932.

First edition of Huxley’s masterpiece. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised bands, gilt ruling to th...

$5,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150336

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Williams, Joan C [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

Reshaping the Work-Family Debate: Why Men and Class Matter.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2010.

First edition of this analysis of the American work-family conflict. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Justice Ginsburg, with admiratio...

$5,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147834

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Leeser, Isaac

Discourses, Argumentative and Devotional, on the Subject of Jewish Religion.

Philadelphia: C. Sherman and Co, 1836-1841.

First edition of “the first anthology of Jewish sermons in America” which “marked the coming of age of the American synagogue and ministry”(Goldman). Association copy linking t...

$5,800.00 Item Number: RRB-82404

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Drucker, Peter F

The Effective Executive.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1967.

First edition of Drucker’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on his letterhead notecard, “I never quote with best wishes Peter F. Drucker.” With the original...

$5,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150314

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Demuth, Patricia Brennan [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

What Is the Constitution?

New York: Penguin Workshop, 2018.

First edition of this introduction for young readers to the United States Constitution. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, with black and white illustrations and photographs. Association copy, inscr...

$5,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148306

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Schulberg, Budd

What Makes Sammy Run?

New York: Random House, 1941.

First edition of what many consider one of the most important novels on Hollywood and the film industry. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper i...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-89545

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Mandela, Nelson

Long Walk To Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela.

South Africa: MacDonald Purnell, 1994.

First South African edition of this classic autobiography, which has went on to sell over six million copies worldwide. Octavo, original black cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with photograp...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-140892

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Slocum, Joshua

Voyage of the Liberdade.

Boston: Press of Robinson & Stephenson, 1890.

First edition of Slocum’s account of his fifty-five days at sea with his wife and sons aboard the 35-foot junk-rig The Liberdade. Small octavo, original cloth with gilt title to the front panel,...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-152088

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Black, Charles L. Jr. [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

The Yale Law Journal: “And Our Posterity.”

New Haven, Connecticut: The Yale Law Journal Co., Inc., 1993.

Original May 1993 offprint of The Yale Law Journal containing Charles L. Black, Jr.’s “And Our Posterity.” Octavo, original wrappers, The Yale Law Journal Volume 102, May 1993, Numb...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150833

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Rand, Ayn

Atlas Shrugged.

New York: Random House, 1957.

First edition, later printing of one of the most influential novels of the twentieth century. Large octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Ayn Rand on the front free endpaper. Fine in a very go...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151372

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Dickens, Charles

The Personal History of David Copperfield.

London: Bradbury & Evans, 1850.

First edition of “the most perfect of all the Dickens novels” (Virginia Woolf). Octavo, original publisher’s variant olive green cloth with gilt titles to the spine, panels and spine...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149344

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Pope John XXIII [Martin Luther King, Jr.]

Pacem in Terris: Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Pope John XXIII. [Peace on Earth].

Glen Rock, NJ: Paulist Press, 1963.

Original printed pamphlet of Pope John XXIII’s 1963 Pacem in Terris. Boldly signed by Martin Luther King, Jr. at the bottom of the title page. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and a...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149593

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Salinger, J.D

The Catcher In The Rye.

Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1951.

First edition of the author’s classic first book. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised bands, gilt r...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-143026

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Shanley, Mary Lyndon [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

Feminism, Marriage, and the Law in Victorian England, 1850-1895.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989.

First edition of this comprehensive study of Victorian reforms in marriage law and how it reshapes our understanding of the feminist movement of that period. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147831

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The Political Beacon: Or the Life and Character of Oliver Cromwell.

London: Printed for the Editor, 1770.

First edition of this historical and cautionary work about revolutionary figure Oliver Cromwell. Octavo, original calf spine with paper boards. In good condition. Contains a dedication “To the S...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148879

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Groom, Winston [Tom Hanks]

Forrest Gump.

New York : Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1986.

First edition of this modern classic, basis for one of the most iconic films of the twentieth century, starring Tom Hanks. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, lengthily inscribed by the aut...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150204

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Stansell, Christine; [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

City of Women: Sex and Class in New York 1789-1860.

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987.

Early printing of this historical analysis of the laboring women of New York. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by Christine Stansell on the half-title page, “To J...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146930

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Frank, Anne. [Elie Wiesel]

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.

New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1952.

First edition, early printing of “one of the wisest and most moving commentaries on war” (Eleanor Roosevelt). Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece, illustrated. Boldly signed by Holocaust survivor and...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151753

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