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Up From Slavery. An Autobiography.

New York: A.L. Burt Company Publishers, 1901.

First edition of the A.L. Burt Publishers edition of Booker T. Washington’s landmark biography. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Exceptionally rare in...

$2,750.00 Item Number: RRB-132410

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Roosevelt, Franklin

The Democratic Book 1936.

:, 1936.

Signed Limited edition, number 1858, with illustrated title and limitation pages, 19 full-page portraits, dozens of in-text half-tones and illustrations, and a facsimile of the Constitution. Large fol...

$2,750.00 Item Number: RRB-38075

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Beckett, Samuel

From An Abandoned Work.

London: Faber and Faber, 1958.

First edition of this classic prose monologue. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers, stitched pamphlet. Presentation copy, inscribed by the Samuel Beckett to his favorite American director, Alan Schn...

$2,750.00 Item Number: RRB-149901

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Giovanni, Nikki

Black Judgement.

Detroit, MI: Broadside Press, 1968.

First edition, first printing of one of Giovanni’s earliest works, containing her famous poem, “Nikki-Rosa”. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Boldly signed by Nikki Giovanni be...

$2,750.00 Item Number: RRB-151915

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Ernst, Bernard M.L.; Hereward Carrington [Harry Houdini; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Oscar Teale]

Houdini and Conan Doyle.

New York: Albert and Charles Boni, Inc, 1932.

First edition of this historical account on the friendship between writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and magician Harry Houdini. Octavo, original publisher’s orange cloth, top stain green, frontispi...

$2,750.00 Item Number: RRB-149956

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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, 4 volumes bound in full morocco by Root & Son with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartm...

$2,600.00 Item Number: RRB-148129

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Rand, Ayn

The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature.

New York: The World Publishing Company, 1969.

First edition of this collection of essays regarding the nature of art. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in five compartments within raise...

$2,600.00 Item Number: RRB-151966

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[Martin, George R.R.]. [The Harcourt Bindery]

Complete A Song of Ice and Fire Custom Half Morocco Clamshell Box Collection Made By The Harcourt Bindery.

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Fine collection of custom half morocco clamshell boxes hand made by The Harcourt Bindery to house each of the five signed first editions in George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones series. Octavo,...

$2,600.00 Item Number: RRB-152283

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Anderson, Maxwell

Key Largo: A Play in a Prologue and Two Acts.

Washington, D.C: Anderson House, 1939.

First edition of this classic fast-paced play in blank verse, basis for the 1948 film directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson and Lauren Bacall. Octavo, original cloth...

$2,600.00 Item Number: RRB-147690

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Kerouac, Jack [John]

The Town and the City.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950.

First edition of Jack Kerouac’s first book. Octavo, original red cloth. Boldly signed by Lucien Carr, Carolyn Cassady, and Kennett Love on the front free endpaper, and by Helen Weaver on the tit...

$2,600.00 Item Number: RRB-149677

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Eliot, T.S

Ash-Wednesday.

New York: The Fountain Press Inc./London Faber & Faber Ltd, 1930.

Signed limited edition of T. S. Eliot’s classic “conversion poem.” Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt. One of six hundred numbered copies, this is number 329. Boldly signed by...

$2,600.00 Item Number: RRB-149679

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Porsche, Ferry

Ferry Porsche Signed Photograph.

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Rare photograph of Austrian technical automobile designer and entrepreneur. Glossy black and white photograph of Ferry Porsche at his desk. Signed by him in at the bottom of the photograph. In fine co...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151554

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Ben-Gurion, David

Shderot D. Ben Gurion [David Ben-Gurion Boulevard].

Israel:, .

Rare original Israeli boulevard sign named after the first Prime Minister of Israel. Blue metal street sign written in Hebrew, “Boulevard D. Ben-Gurion.” In very good condition. Framed, th...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148070

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Warhol, Andy

Andy Warhol Signed Miniature Facsimile One Dollar Bill.

:, c. 1980.

Rare Andy Warhol signed miniature facsimile one dollar bill. Dollar bill removed from a novelty PaperBox stationery pad, “Memorandum” printed on the verso with printed ruling. Boldly signe...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149335

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Huxley, Aldous

The Art of Seeing.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1942.

First edition, early printing of this classic work which details Huxley’s experience with and views on the controversial Bates method, which according to him improved his eyesight. Octavo, origi...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-139661

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Gilman, Charlotte Perkins [Stetson]

In This Our World.

Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1899.

Second edition of Gilman’s first collection of poetry, coupled with almost eighty previously uncollected pieces. Duodecimo, enclosed in a handsewn black silk cover, tissue-guarded frontispiece p...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146575

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Wilder, Thornton

Our Town: A Play in Three Acts.

New York: Coward McCann, 1938.

First edition of the author’s second Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gi...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149898

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Carre, John le

Our Kind of Traitor and An Address Given at the Oxford Literary Festival March 2010.

London: Viking and London Review Bookshop, 2010.

Signed limited first edition of this thrilling novel which was the inspiration for the 2016 film by the same name starring Ewan McGregor, Naomie Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Damian Lewis and Alicia von...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145764

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Chadwick, Mark [Peter Thomson; Rory McIlroy; Gary Player; Arnold Palmer; et al]

“St Andrews – Home of Golf” Print Signed by Twenty-One Open Champions.

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Rare 1973 limited-edition color art print of Mark Chadwick’s “St Andrews – Home of Golf” showing the approach to the 18th hole on the “Old Course.” Boldly signed by twent...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-152086

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Medieval Gregorian Chant Manuscript.

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Rare medieval Gregorian chant manuscript on vellum with the “S” for Sanctus in elaborately illuminated in gilt. One page with text and illustrations on both the recto and verso. In very go...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149450

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Fitzgerald, Edward; Illustrated by F. Sangorski and G. Sutcliffe

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

London: Siegle, Hill & Company, 1910.

Signed limited first edition of this work reproduced in color from the manuscript written and illuminated by Francis Sangorski & George Sutcliffe, number 247 of 550 copies signed by the publisher....

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-108452

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Mandela, Nelson

Long Walk To Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela.

South Africa: MacDonald Purnell, 1994.

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

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-132402

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Bocuse, Paul

Paul Bocuse’s French Cooking.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1977.

First American edition of Bocuse’s classic work on French cuisine. Quarto, original publisher’s boards, illustrated with color photographs. Boldly signed by Paul Bocuse on the title page....

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149872

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Mason, Robert. [Peter Matthiessen]

Chickenhawk.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1983.

The Easton Press edition of Mason’s classic first book, one of the finest about the Vietnam War. Octavo, bound in full leather with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in four compartments with...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-152157

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