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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

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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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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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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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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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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Eliot, T.S

Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats.

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1939.

First British edition of Eliot’s beloved collection of whimsical feline poems which served as the basis for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1981 megamusical phenomenon Cats. Octavo, original pictori...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149333

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Saramago, Jose

Ensaio Sobre a Cegueira [Blindness].

Lisboa: Caminho, 1995.

First Portuguese edition and true first of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by Jose Saramago on the title page. In near fine...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-138766

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Aldrin, Buzz

Buzz Aldrin Signed Apollo Saturn V Launch Vehicle Diagram.

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Rare Apollo Saturn V Launch Vehicle diagram. Oversized print diagram of the Apollo Saturn V Launch Vehicle, boldly signed by Buzz Aldrin in black felt tip toward the top, “Buzz Aldrin, Apollo XI...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148456

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Seuss, Dr. [Theodor Geisel]

The Cat in the Hat Comes Back.

New York: Beginner Books: A Division of Random House, 1958.

First edition, stated first printing of the sequel of Dr. Seuss’ The Cat in the Hat. Octavo, original illustrated boards, pictorial endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author opposite...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151999

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Doyle, Arthur Conan

Arthur Conan Doyle Autograph Letter Signed.

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Rare handwritten letter signed by Arthur Conan Doyle to lecture manager James B. Pond, Jr. Octavo, one page on Windlesham letterhead, the letter reads in full, “Dear Mr. Pond It is pleasant to s...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147770

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

General Sherman’s Indo-Persian Khanjar.

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Rare Indo-Persian khanjar, a 20th century curved dagger, from the collection of General William T. Sherman preserved in his military trunk. The khanjar has decorative wooden and metal inlays and intri...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147820

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Dickens, Charles

The Personal History of David Copperfield.

London: Bradbury & Evans, 1850.

First edition in book form of “the most perfect of all the Dickens novels” (Virginia Woolf). Octavo, bound in three quarter calf over marbled boards by Henry Sotheran, morocco spine label...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149762

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Weiner, Jonathan [Edward Wilson; Chip Kidd]

The Beak of the Finch: The Story of Evolution in Our Time.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.

First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page to naturalist Edward O...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-152288

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Herlihy, James Leo. [Eva Marie Saint]

All Fall Down.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1960.

First edition of this classic work, basis for the 1962 film directed by John Frankenheimer with the screenplay adapted by playwright William Inge starring Eva Marie Saint and Warren Beatty. Octavo, or...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147761

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Levin, Ira

Rosemary’s Baby.

New York: Random House, 1967.

First edition of this influential horror classic, which helped launch the “horror boom.” Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five...

$2,450.00 Item Number: RRB-150653

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Catlin, George W

North American Indians: Being Letters and Notes on Their Manners, Customs, and Conditions, Written During Eight Years’ Travel Amongst the Wildest Tribes of Indians in North America, 1832-1839.

London: Published by the Author, 1841.

First edition, first issue of this detailed anthropological history. Royal octavo, two volumes, original publisher’s cloth, frontispiece, with 400 black and white illustrations carefully engrave...

$2,450.00 Item Number: RRB-147796

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Pinter, Harold [Alan Schneider]

Tea Party and Other Plays.

London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1967.

First edition of Pinter’s collection of three plays originally written for television. Duodecimo, original cloth. A remarkable association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publicatio...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-152191

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Mill, John

The Fossil Spirit: A Boy’s Dream of Geology.

London: Darton and Co, c. 1854.

Rare second edition of this didactic novel about geology and paleontology. Octodecimo, original cloth with gilt titles, all edges gilt, frontispiece, advertisement endpapers, with black and white illu...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-148118

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