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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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[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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Mussolini, Benito

Benito Mussolini Signed Photograph.

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Rare original photograph of Benito Mussolini. Vintage matte-finish oversized photograph of Benito Mussolini seated at his desk taken by the Luce photography studio. Boldly signed by Mussolini in fount...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148638

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Schmutzer, E. [Stephen Hawking]

Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation . . Jena, 14-19 July 1980.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.

First edition of this work on relativity and gravitation. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of Stephen Hawking with his name written on the front free endpaper. Stephen Hawking was a theoretica...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-119378

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Dickens, Charles

The Christmas Books: The Chimes; The Battle of Life; Cricket on the Hearth; The Haunted Man and The Ghost’s Bargain.

London: Chapman and Hall/Bradbury & Evans, 1845-1848.

First editions of the four final novellas in Charles Dickens’ Christmas Book series. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panels, all edges gilt, frontispiece, ti...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149771

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Standing Bear, Luther [Chief Standing Bear]

My People the Sioux.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928.

First edition of this foundational work of Native American autobiography. Octavo, original publisher’s pictorial orange cloth, top stain brown, frontispiece of Chief Standing Bear at council, il...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149609

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Conrad, Joseph

Lord Jim.

London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1900.

First edition of one of Conrad’s finest novels. Octavo, original cloth. A near fine example with some wear to the extremities and the endpapers ever so slightly browned. First printing with the first...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-45003

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Jefferson, Joseph

Rip Van Winkle: As Played by Joseph Jefferson.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1899.

The Dodd, Mead and Company trade edition of Joseph Jefferson’s play adapted to text. Octavo, original green cloth over boards with gilt-stamped lettering and illustration of the Catskill Mountai...

$3,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149442

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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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