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The Spy Who Loved Me.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1962.

First edition of the ninth novel in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series. Octavo, original black cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Chopping. A very sharp example.

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151427

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Nathaniel Hawthorne Signed Document.

Port of Liverpool:, 1854.

Rare original Naval “Oath of the Master and Mate” document signed by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Printed “Consul’s Certificate” accomplished in manuscript and signed in ink...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151822

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Darwin, Charles

The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication.

London: John Murray, 1868.

First edition, first issue of Darwin’s hypothesis of pangenesis in which he first uses the phrase “survival of the fittest” for the first time. First issue without publisher’s...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151873

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Martínez, Tomás Eloy [Chip Kidd]

First American edition of this international bestselling historical novel based, one of the best-selling novels in the Spanish language. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Tomas Eloy Martinez o...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148508

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Douglas, Marjory Stoneman

The Everglades: River of Grass.

New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc, 1947.

First edition of this environmental classic and foundational text in American conservation literature about the Everglades. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the spine, pict...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151563

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Baum, L. Frank

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz.

Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co. Publishers, 1908.

First edition, first printing of the fourth book in L. Frank Baum’s celebrated Oz series. First printing with the verso of the half-title page listing three Baum titles. Quarto, original publisher...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151861

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Remington, Frederic

John Ermine of the Yellowstone.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1902.

First edition of this thought-provoking work of a young Native American man who is torn between his traditional way of life and the rapidly changing world around him. Octavo, original cloth, frontispi...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148081

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Kelly, Princess Grace and Prince Rainier III

Princess Grace and Prince Rainier of Monaco Signed Photograph.

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Rare photograph of Prince Rainier and Princess Grace holding United Nations pamphlets. Octavo, black and white photograph. Boldly signed by Princess Grace, “Grace de Monaco” and Prince Rainier, “Raini...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148715

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Bunyan, John

The Pilgrim’s Progress From This World to that Which is to Come.

London: Routledge, Warne and Routledge, 1861.

Finely bound edition of one of the most significant works of religious English literature. Octavo, bound in full crushed teal levant morocco by Bayntun Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-139796

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Kerouac, Jack

Big Sur.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1962.

First edition of Kerouac’s poignant masterpiece of self-reflection. Octavo, original quarter cloth, top stain blue. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Janet Halverson. The nicest examp...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151182

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Habermas, Jurgen

The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1989.

First edition in English of this analysis of the historical rise and decline of a space for critical, rational debate between citizens and the state. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Boldly s...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151430

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Dickens, Charles

Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi. Edited by “Boz.”

London: Richard Bentley, 1838.

First edition of Dickens’ popular retelling of the memoirs of celebrated English clown Joseph Grimaldi. Octavo, two volumes bound in full polished calf by Root with morocco spine labels lettered...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148217

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Armstrong, Louis [Barney Bigard]

Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans.

New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1954.

First edition of the autobiography of one of the most influential figures in the history of jazz, Louis “Pops” Armstrong. Octavo, original half cloth, top stain red, pictorial endpapers, i...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148635

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Eisenhower, Dwight D. and Mamie Doud Eisenhower

Dwight D. and Mamie Doud Eisenhower Signed Photograph.

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Photograph of Dwight D. and Mamie Eisenhower, boldly signed by each, “Dwight D. Eisenhower”, and signed, “Mamie Doud Eisenhower.” Double matted and framed. The entire piece mea...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-110337

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Dinsdale, Alfred

Television: Seeing by Wire or Wireless.

London: Sir Issac Pitman & Sons Ltd, 1926.

First edition of the first book on television, a key work on the history of technology. Octavo, original stiff boards, frontispiece halftone reproduction of photograph of John Logie Baird. Fine in a n...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-119245

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Beard, Peter

Peter Beard: Fifty Years of Portraits.

Sante Fe, NM: Arena Editions, 1999.

First edition of this classic monograph. Quarto, original leatherette cover. illustrated throughout. Elaborately signed and inscribed by Peter Beard in the year of publication, with his left hand impr...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146133

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Eisenhower, Dwight D. and Mamie Doud Eisenhower; David Eisenhower

Eisenhower Family Signed Photograph.

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Photograph of the Eisenhower family, signed by Dwight D. and Mamie Eisenhower, their son and daughter-in-law and only grandchild. Inscribed by Dwight D. Eisenhower, “For Ken & Joyce Browne w...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-95836

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[Hondius, Jodocus]

Terra Sancta quae in Sacris Terra Promissionis olim Palestina [Holy Land Map].

Amsterdam: Blaeu, Willem, 1629.

Copper engraved, hand-colored map of one of the most decorative maps of the Holy Land of the 17th century. One page with hand-colored borders, the map depicts the tribes of Israel and the route the Is...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147519

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Dai, Bao

World League of Peace Manuscript Document Signed By Vietnam Emperor Bao Dai.

:, c. 1925-1932.

Original World League of Peace manuscript document signed by the last ruling emperor of the Nguyen dynasty of Vietnam, Emperor Bao Dai. Folio, one page, manuscript document in French, docketed on vers...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148417

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[Fitzgerald, F. Scott]

The Great Gatsby Clamshell Box.

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Custom full morocco clamshell box hand made by The Harcourt Bindery to house a first edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Pictorial clamshell box with gilt titles and an onlay of t...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150365

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Wharton, Edith & Ogden Codman Jr

The Decoration of Houses.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897.

First edition of Edith Wharton’s first published book. Quarto, original marbled paper boards. Illustrated with 56 plates. In very good condition. First editions are uncommon.

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-124586

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Yang, Chen Ning

Elementary Particles: A Short History Of Some Discoveries In Atomic Physics.

United States of America: Princeton University Press, 1962.

First edition of this overview of the evolution of atomic physics, focusing on the discovery and understanding of elementary particles. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Boldly signed by Chen...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-141088

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Chinese Medicine and Physiognomy Manual Collection.

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Rare collection of nine Chinese woodblock physiognomy manuals, wonderfully illustrated with xiangfatu representing the principles and practices of Chinese physiognomy. Octavo, nine volumes bound in il...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149715

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Wallace, David Foster [Steve Snider]

Infinite Jest: A Novel.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1996.

Uncorrected proof of the first edition of the author’s magnum opus. Thick octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed by David Foster Wallace with his added smiley face on the front free endpaper a...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-152258

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