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Thomas, Lowell [Count Felix von Luckner]

Count Luckner, The Sea Devil.

Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc, 1927.

First edition of this captivating biography of German nobleman and naval officer Count Felix von Luckner. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, top stain yellow, cartographic endpapers, frontispie...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-148746

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Rogers, Kenny [Yousuf Karsh]

Kenny Rogers’ America.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1986.

First edition of this collection of photographs in celebration of the beauty, the drama, and the diversity of America. Square quarto, original publisher’s red cloth, illustrated with over 100 me...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-151963

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[Reagan, Ronald; Nancy Reagan]

A Great New Beginning: The 1981 Inaugural Story.

Washington, D.C: Created by the 1981 Inaugural Book Committee, 1981.

First limited edition of this commemorative publication documenting the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan. Quarto, original red leather with gilt titles to the spine, gilt stamped vignette of th...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-150115

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Chomsky, Noam

Problems of Knowledge and Freedom: The Russell Lectures.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1971.

First edition of Chomsky’s Russell lectures in honor of Bertrand Russell. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For John Best wishes Noam C...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-148674

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Atherton, Gertrude Franklin

The Conqueror: Being the True and Romantic Story of Alexander Hamilton.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1902.

First edition of this historical novel that blends biographical narrative with romanticized fiction to construct a dramatic portrait of one of America’s founding figures. Octavo, original publisher...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-149217

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De Land’s Automatic Playing Cards. [with] Mental Pictoria.

New Jersey/ Ohio: S.S. Adams Co./ S.W. Reilly, 1913/1914.

Two rare early twentieth century antique magicians card decks. The first deck is De Land’s Automatic Playing Cards, a standard 52-card deck with a De Land’s Card Locator that has an affixe...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-150366

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Blixen, Karen [Isak Dinesen]

Den Afrikanske Farm. [Out of Africa].

Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1937.

First Danish edition of the author’s classic memoir, which recounts events of the seventeen years when Blixen made her home in Kenya. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition. Rare in this co...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-151113

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Wilson, Lanford [Alan Schneider]

The Gingham Dog.

New York: Hill & Wang, 1969.

First edition of the play that marked Lanford Wilson’s Broadway debut. Octavo, original publisher’s black cloth, top stain black. Association copy, lengthily and warmly inscribed by the au...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-152237

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[Einstein, Albert]

Bust of Albert Einstein.

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Plaster bust of theoretical physicist Albert Einstein mounted on a wood pedestal base, with an incised signature within the plaster. The entire piece measures 15 inches by 8 inches. From the collectio...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-150644

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Freud, Sigmund

The Interpretation of Dreams.

New York: The Basic Books, 1955.

First edition of this translation English of this cornerstone of psychoanalysis. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments with...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-151453

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Johns, Jasper

Jasper Johns: 17 Monotypes.

New York: Universal Limited Art Editions, Inc., 1982.

First edition of this exhibition catalog highlighting a series of Johns’ experimental works. Quarto, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles, illustrated with 17 lithographic monotypes...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-149232

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Roosevelt, Eleanor

You Learn By Living.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1960.

First edition of Eleanor Roosevelt’s classic work on how to discover life’s lessons. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Eleanor Roosevelt in the year of publicati...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-150596

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Dickens, Charles

Bleak House.

London: Bradbury Evans, 1853.

First edition of this Dickens’ classic. Octavo, bound in three quarters calf over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, top edge gilt, marble endpapers. In near fin...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-136226

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Kingsley, Charles

Politics for the People.

London: John W. Parker, 1848.

First edition of this collection of essays and sermons on political reform in England. Octavo, bound in three quarters turkey morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and floral tooling to the spi...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-150134

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Collins, Michael

Michael Collins Signed Apollo 11 Rocket Oversized Photograph.

:, July 16, 1969.

Oversized photograph of the Apollo 11 Saturn V rocket. Glossy color oversized photograph of the Apollo 11 Saturn V rocket during the first stage separation. Boldly signed in silver by American astrona...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-148227

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Gibbon, Lewis Grassic [James Leslie Mitchell] [Ray Mitchell; Seumas Stewart; Bill Craig]

A Scots Hairst: Essays and Short Stories.

London: Hutchinson, 1967.

First edition of this posthumous collection of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s shorter works. Octavo, original publisher’s blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Boldly signed by his wife Ray Mitchell...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-151457

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Wright, Richard

Native Son.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1940.

First edition, first issue with “A – P” on the copyright page. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-145947

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Maugham, W. Somerset

The Razor’s Edge.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday Doran & Company, 1944.

First American edition, which precedes the British edition of Maugham’s 20th-century manifesto for human fulfillment. Octavo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-133892

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Wells, H.G

H.G. Wells Autograph Letter Signed.

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Autograph letter signed and entirely in the hand of H.G. Wells. One page, hand-written and signed, “Yours sincerely, H.G. Wells.” Matted and doubled framed with a bust portrait and drawing...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-148534

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Tutu, Desmond and The Dalai Lama

Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu Signed Photograph.

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Rare photograph signed by the two Nobel Peace Prize winners. Color photograph of Archbishop of Cape Town Desmond Tutu and His Holiness the Dalai Lama holding hands in a joyous pose. Signed by each ben...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-147286

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Carnegie, Andrew

James Watt: Famous Scots Series.

Edinburgh and London: Oliphant Anderson & Ferrier, c. 1905.

First edition of this biographical work celebrating Watt’s refinement of the steam engine as a symbol of Scottish ingenuity and moral progress. Octavo, original publisher’s red cloth stamped in...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-149388

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Huntington, Samuel P

Who Are We? The Challenges to America’s National Identity.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004.

First edition of Samuel P. Huntington’s last work. Octavo, original publisher’s half-cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the second free endpaper, “To our favorite S...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-149454

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[Conder, Josiah] [Millard Fillmore]

The Modern Traveller. A Popular Description, Geographical, Historical and Topographical, of the Various Countries of the Globe: Volume VII Mexico and Guatimala. Volume X Russia.

Boston and Philadelphia: Wells & Lilly and Thomas Wardle, 1830.

Early American editions of these travel and reference volumes with accessible accounts of world geography and culture. Duodecimo, volumes VII and X, bound in full calf, rebacked with archival cloth ta...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-151233

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Einstein, Albert. [Stephen Hawking]

The Meaning of Relativity.

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1956.

Sixth edition of Einstein’s clear and systematic exposition of the theory of relativity, with the ownership stamp on the front and rear pastedowns, “Stephen Hawking Newton Institute Univer...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149754

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