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Wolf Hall. WITH: Bring Up the Bodies. WITH: The Mirror and the Light.

London: Fourth Estate, 2009.

First trade editions of Mantel’s acclaimed historical trilogy, each book signed by the author on the title page. Octavo, 3 volumes, original boards, illustrated endpapers. Each volume is signed...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149875

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Jorgensen, Christian August; [Virgil W. Jorgensen]

Christian August Jorgensen Signed Watercolor Painting of Emerald Bay.

:, c. 1925.

Rare original watercolor painting of Emerald Bay. Folio, a dark, moody impression of Emerald Bay at the southeast corner of Lake Tahoe, by the noted Norwegian-American landscape painter Christian Augu...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147520

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Bryant, Kobe; Pao Gasol; et al

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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Goldsmith, Warren [steve McQueen; Julie Andrews; Dick Van Dyke; Lucille Ball; Natalie Wood; Warren Beatty; Joan Crawford; et al.]

Film Fame.

Beverly Hills, California: Fame Publishing, 1966.

First edition of this collection of one hundred actors and actresses that transformed cinema into a defining form of twentieth-century mass entertainment. Imperial octavo, custom bound half-cloth with...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149124

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Dickens, Charles

The Personal History of David Copperfield.

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1850.

First edition of “the most perfect of all the Dickens novels” (Virginia Woolf). Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with 38 etchings by Hablot Knight Browne. In very good condition, bookpl...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-139470

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Dickens, Charles

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1838-39.

First edition in the original monthly parts, mixed issue of this titular hero’s journey through hardship. Octavo, original blue-green wrappers, 20 parts in 19 volumes, dated April 1838-October 1839. I...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149369

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Ronalds, Alfred

The Fly-Fisher’s Entomology: With Directions for Making the Artificial Representation of Each Fly; and a Few Observations and Instructions on Trout and Grayling Fishing.

Liverpool: Henry Young & Sons, 1913.

The de Luxe limited edition of this guide to fly fishing and the making of artificial flies. Imperial octavo, two volumes, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles and lure detailing to the s...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150424

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Shapiro, David L. [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

New York University Law Review: Continuity and Change in Statutory Interpretation.

New York: New York University Law Review, 1992.

Original November 1992 offprint of the New York University Law Review containing David L. Shapiro’s Continuity and Change in Statutory Interpretation. Octavo, original publisher’s wrappers, volu...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151267

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Eliot, T.S

The Three Voices of Poetry.

New York: Cambridge University Press, 1954.

First edition of Eliot’s essay on the modes of poetic composition delivered as the annual lecture of England’s National Book League. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151598

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Armstrong, Neil; Robert White

Neil Armstrong and Robert White Signed Photograph.

:, c. 1960.

Rare photograph of a North American X-15 aircraft signed by Neil Armstrong and Robert White. Color matte photograph of Neil Armstrong, fellow-test pilot Robert White, and four others posing in front o...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151767

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Kipling, Rudyard

The Graves of the Fallen: Imperial War Graves Commission.

London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1919.

Exceptionally rare first edition of this pamphlet honoring every British soldier who died in World War I. Oblong octavo, original publisher’s pictorial wrappers, illustrated with black and white...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149313

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[General William T. Sherman] [Ulysses S. Grant]

General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Persian Kard.

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Rare Persian kard, a straight, single-edged dagger that is worn on the left side of the belt, from the collection of General William T. Sherman preserved in his military trunk. The kard has a bone han...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147824

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Dickens, Charles

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1837.

First edition in book form of Dickens’ first novel and one of his greatest works. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six com...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-99840

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Grahame, Kenneth

The Wind in the Willows.

London: Methuen and Co, 1908.

First edition of the beloved children’s novel, which author A.A. Milne once referred to as a “household book,” “one of the classic read-aloud books that should not be missed by...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149387

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Defoe, Daniel

The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel Defoe.

Oxford: Printed by D.A. Talboys, for Thomas Tegg, 1840-41.

The Talboys edition of the complete works of Daniel Defoe. Octodecimo, twenty volumes bound in red half morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, infor...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147162

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Hemingway, Ernest

The Torrents of Spring.

New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1926.

First edition of Hemingway’s first novel, one of 1250 printed. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a good dust jacket with chipping to the spine extremities and front panel.

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-119154

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Dinesen, Isak. [Karen Blixen]

Out of Africa. [with] Isak Dinesen Autograph Letter Signed.

New York: Random House, 1938.

First edition of the author’s classic memoir, which recounts events of the seventeen years when Blixen made her home in Kenya. Octavo, original pictorial half cloth, top stain green. Near fine in a ve...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150903

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Ethiopian Coptic Ge’ez Bible.

Ethiopia:, C. 18th Century.

Rare illustrated Ethiopian Coptic Ge’ez Bible. Duodecimo, bound in full leather with elaborate tooling stamped in blind to the front and rear panels, parchment manuscript in black and red ink, with si...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145311

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McKay, Claude

Banjo.

New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1929.

First edition of this seminal work of the Harlem Renaissance that explores themes of Black identity, diaspora, and transnationalism. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth, pictorial endpapers....

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149907

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Colwell, Stephen [Peter Cooper]

The Ways and Means of Payment: A Full Analysis of the Credit System, With Its Various Modes of Adjustment.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co, 1859.

First edition of this detailed critique of the 19th-century credit system. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the fron...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148629

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Chatwin, Bruce

In Patagonia.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1977.

First edition of author’s most well-known work and one of the great travel books of the last half of the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece map and 4 black and white photographic...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-44025

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Woolley, Edwin C. Revised and enlarged by Franklin W. Scott [Raymond Chandler]

New Handbook of Composition: Rules and Exercises.

Boston: D.C. Heath And Company, 1926.

Early printing of the most theoretical principles and practices of composition. 16mo, original wrappers. With a full page inscription from Raymond Chandler, which reads, “This book is interestin...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149037

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Larsson, Stieg; Translated by Reg Keeland

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; The Girl Who Played with Fire; The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest.

London: Maclehose Press, 2008-2009.

First editions in English of each volume of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy. Octavo, three volumes, original boards. Each volume is signed by the translator Reg Keeland, with a quotation added by t...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-82278

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Ethiopian Coptic Ge’ez Bible.

Ethiopia:, C. 18th Century.

Rare illustrated Ethiopian Coptic Ge’ez Bible. Duodecimo, bound with twine between two wood blocks, parchment manuscript in black and red ink, with full-page hand-painted miniatures depicting the Tran...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145316

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