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2008-09 LA Lakers Team Signed NBA Basketball.

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Official NBA Spalding Basketball, boldly signed by 12 members of the 2008-09 NBA Champion LA Lakers including Hall of Famers Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol. Additionally signed by Lamar Odom, Sasha Vujacic...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148823

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Kipling, Rudyard

Rudyard Kipling’s Verse: Inclusive Edition 1885-1918.

Doubleday, Page & Company: Garden City, New York, 1919.

The Autograph edition of the inclusive collection of Kipling’s poetry. Octavo, bound in full crushed levant morocco with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments w...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-152081

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Ginzberg, Lori D. [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life.

New York: Hill and Wang, A Division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.

First edition of this biography about one of the founding philosophers of the American movement for women’s rights. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, illustrated with black and white photogra...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147665

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Buck, Pearl S

The Good Earth.

New York: The John Day Company, 1931.

First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and masterpiece. First issue with “flees” for “fleas” on page 100, line 17. Octavo, bound in full morocco by th...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147462

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Davidson, William H.; John A. Davidson

The Story of Harley-Davidson.

Milwaukee, WI: Harley-Davidson Motor Co, Inc, [1970s].

First edition of this history of the legendary motorcycle company published by Harley-Davidson. Quarto, original brown pictorial wrappers, illustrated with black and white photographs. Signed on the t...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147523

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Browning, Robert

The Inn Album.

London: Smith, Elder, & Co, 1875.

First edition of this compelling narrative poem. Octodecimo, contemporary tree calf bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within gilt raised bands, gilt r...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147756

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Castaneda, Carlos

The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge.

Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1968.

First edition of this classic account of spiritual knowledge in the West. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For James Shipounoff wit...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148250

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Murakami, Haruki

1Q84.

Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Boldly signed by Haruki Murakami on the half-title page and additionally five times by legendary jacket designer Chip Kidd in t...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151718

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Carpenter, Scott; Gordon Cooper; John Glenn Jr.; Gus Grissom; Alan Shepard; Wally Schirra; D.K. Slayton

Project Mercury Astronauts Signed Photograph.

Langley Air Force Base:, 1961.

Large color semi-glossy photograph of the Project Mercury astronauts, signed by six of the Mercury Seven. This group shot was taken in front of a Convair F106-B aircraft at Langley Air Force Base on J...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148754

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Edward Heath, Margaret Thatcher, James Callaghan, John Major and Tony Blair

Big Ben Tower Signed Photograph of British Prime Ministers.

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Color photograph of Big Ben Tower, signed by six British prime ministers: Edward Heath, Margaret Thatcher, James Callaghan, John Major and Tony Blair. In fine condition. The photograph measures 8 inch...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-73058

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Long, William Simon [W.S.]

Doubling the North American Isle: A Review of Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, British America, the Pacific Slope and Ancient Quibera, with a Graphic Description of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado.

Camden, NJ: The Long Art Studios, .

First edition of this early twentieth century travelogue of Canada and the western part of the United States of America. Quarto, original blue cloth with gilt titles to the front panel, triple ruling...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148827

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Lee, Harper

Go Set A Watchman.

London: William Heinemann, 2015.

Signed limited edition of the author’s second novel. Octavo, bound in full morocco. One of a 100 numbered copies, signed by Harper Lee. Housed in a custom clamshell box. In fine condition.

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-5503

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Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich

Symphonies I-VI.

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Quarto, 6 volumes. Bound in full red morocco, gilt titles, gilt ruling to the spine, front and rear panels. In near fine condition. Mixed early editions. Rare and desirable.

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-51080

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Carroll, Lewis. [Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge]

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There.

London: MacMillan and Co, 1872.

First edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Bayntun with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt vignettes to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, front...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-130522

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Bemelmans, Ludwig

Fifi.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940.

First edition of this children’s story. Thin quarto, original illustrated boards, color illustrations throughout, illustrated endpapers. Association copy, inscribed by the author opposite the ti...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-146782

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Dana, Charles Anderson; [Theodore Roosevelt; General Nelson A. Miles; Admiral W. S. Schley]

Lincoln and His Cabinet: A Lecture Delivered Before the New Haven Colony Historical Society, Tuesday, March 10, 1896.

New York: Republican Club of the City of New-York, 1899.

Special limited edition souvenir of the thirteenth annual Lincoln Dinner of the Republican Club of the city of New-York, 1899. Duodecimo, original half-cloth with gilt titles to the spine, frontispiec...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149405

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Joyce, James

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

London: The Egoist Ltd, 1917.

First English edition of Joyce’s classic stream-of-consciousness work, his first novel, one of about 1000 copies. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco and ch...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-144189

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Graves, Robert

I, Claudius [and] Claudius The God and His Wife Messalina.

London: Arthur Barker, 1934.

First editions of Graves’ classic “autobiography” of Claudius and its sequel. Octavo, two volumes, original cloth. Both volumes are near fine in very good to near fine dust jackets. Rare in the...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151576

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Seuss, Dr. [Theodor Geisel]

How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

New York: Random House, 1957.

First edition, early printing of one of the most celebrated and memorable Christmas stories. Thin quarto, original illustrated glossy paper boards, pictorial endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-152029

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Pair of French Bronze Models of Marly Horses.

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Bronze sculpture models of French Marly horses. Two bronze sculptures of rearing horses with their grooms modeled after Guillaume Coustou’s horse statues for the Château de Marly. In fine condit...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148155

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Rowling, J.K. [Kennelworthy Whisp]

Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

London: Bloomsbury/Whizz Hard Books, 2001.

First British editions of this “amazingly imaginative work” (Associated Press), each volume signed by her. Duodecimo, 2 volumes, original pictorial wrappers as issued. Boldly signed by J.K...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149529

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Earhart, Amelia

20 Hrs. 40 Min. Our Flight in the Friendship: The American Girl, First Across the Atlantic by Air, Tells Her Story.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1928.

Early printing of Earhart’s thrilling account of her experience as a passenger aboard the Friendship, which made her the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by air in 1928. Octavo, original publis...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150000

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Bond, Michael; Illustrated by Peggy Fortnum

A Bear Called Paddington.

London: Collins, 1958.

First edition of the first book in the Paddington series. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150170

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Tagore, Rabindranath

The King of The Dark Chamber.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1915.

First edition, early printing of this drama, translated into English by the author. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Rabindranath Tagore on the half-title page. Near fine in the original dust jacket...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-96033

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