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Kurt Vonnegut Signed Photograph.

:, 1974.

Rare original photograph of award-winning author Kurt Vonnegut. Black and white photograph of Vonnegut smiling with a cigarette in hand. Inscribed below the portrait in the margin, “Love to Davi...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-148737

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Smith, D. Murray

Arctic Expeditions from British and Foreign Shores from the Earliest Times to the Expedition of 1875-76.

Glasgow, Melbourne, and Sydney: Thomas Liddell, 1877.

Finely bound edition of this history of Arctic exploration. Quarto, bound in full contemporary black morocco with gilt titles and elaborate tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-150762

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[Seeley, Emma Louise]

Belt and Spur: Stories of the Knights of the Middle Ages from the Old Chronicles. [Fore-Edge Painting].

London: Seeley, Jackson, & Halliday, 1883.

Finely bound example of this classic on Knights and the Middle Ages. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, inner dentell...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-131780

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Breyer, Stephen G.; Paul W. Macavoy

Energy Regulation by the Federal Power Commission.

Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1974.

First edition of this study examining the regulatory practices of the Federal Power Commission (FPC) in overseeing natural gas and electric power markets, inscribed by Justice Breyer and the office co...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-150931

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Bainbridge, George C

The Fly Fisher’s Guide.

Liverpool: Printed for the Author by G.F. Harris's Widow and Brothers, 1816.

First edition of this guide to fly fishing, covering everything from equipment and techniques to the different types of fish that can be caught. Octavo, bound in half morocco over cloth covered boards...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-150432

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Collins, Michael; Foreword by Charles A. Lindbergh

Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut’s Journey.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1974.

First edition, first printing of one of the finest memoirs of space travel. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “All the Best to Ro...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-151475

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Dickens, Charles

The Old Curiosity Shop: A Tale.

London: Chapman And Hall, Strand, 1841.

First edition of Dickens’s classic novel. Octavo, bound in half calf, full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, all edges gilt, with il...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-147630

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Yarrow, David

David Yarrow: Americas, Africa, Antarctica, Arctic, Asia, Europe.

New York: Rizzoli, 2019.

First edition of this breathtaking collection of high-art nature photographs with a foreword by Tom Brady, introduction by Holden Luntz, and afterword by Cindy Crawford. Folio, original black cloth, p...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-148820

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Stafford, Tom and Gene Cernan

Tom Stafford and Gene Cernan Signed Augmented Target Docking Adapter Photograph.

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Rare official NASA photograph of the Augmented Target Docking Adapter (ATDA), or ‘angry alligator’. Oversized, color semi-glossy photograph of the ATDA as seen from the Gemini 9 spacecraft...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-147293

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Wilson, Rathmell

Re-Birth: A Romantic Novel.

London: Greening & Co. LTD, 1909.

First edition of this early romance novel. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles. In very good condition. Greening’s Catalogue from 1908 to rear of text block. Ownership signature to the front...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-147981

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Robinson, James M. [Director] [Elaine Pagels]

The Nag Hammadi Library in English.

Leiden, The Netherlands: E.J. Brill, 1977.

First edition of this collection of early Christian and Gnostic texts discovered in Egypt in 1945. Octavo, original publisher’s green cloth. Boldly signed and dated by Elaine Pagels on the half-...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-149301

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Carr, Lucien [Helen Weaver] [Jack Kerouac]

Lucien Carr Autograph Letter Signed to Helen Weaver.

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Autograph letter signed by American journalist and editor Lucien Carr. One page, handwritten to Jack Kerouac’s former girlfriend Helen Weaver on a yellow legal pad page and dated “Sept. 04...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-149953

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Hemingway, Ernest; Mary Hemingway [Taylor Williams]

Ernest and Mary Hemingway Christmas Card Signed by Mary Hemingway.

:, c. 1953.

Rare Christmas card of Ernest and Mary Hemingway, inscribed by Mary to Taylor Williams. A circa 1953 folding Christmas card depicting Ernest Hemingway holding a cat and Mary Hemingway sitting on the p...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-150111

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Ali, Muhammad

The Greatest: My Own Story.

New York: Random House, 1975.

First edition of Ali’s autobiography. Octavo, original publisher’s half-cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Muhammad Ali on the front free endpaper, “To Danny Williams from Muhamm...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-151567

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Lane, Edward William; Edited by Edward Stanley Poole [Charlotte Perkins Gilman]

The Thousand and One Nights, Commonly Called, In England, The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments.

London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1865.

Second volume of the new edition of Lane’s annotated translation of The Arabian Nights, edited by his nephew; from the library of writer and social reformer Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Octavo, bou...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-145597

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Smollett, Tobias; John Austen [Illustrator]

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle in Which is Included Memoirs of a Lady of Quality.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1936.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of Smollett’s second novel. Quarto, two volumes, bound in full modern morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe / Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles and numb...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-148809

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Yeats, William Butler

October Blast.

Dublin, Ireland: The Cuala Press, 1927.

First edition of this collection of poems, containing the first appearance in print of the author’s celebrated poems “Sailing to Byzantium” and “Among School Children”. O...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-149478

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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: David Bogue, 1844.

Finely bound fourth edition of this detailed anthropological history. Octavo, two volumes, bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gi...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-147797

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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, later issue of this detailed anthropological history. Royal octavo, two volumes, original publisher’s cloth elaborately stamped in gilt, frontispiece, with 400 black and white ill...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-147786

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Sassoon, Siegfried; Paul Hogarth [Illustrator]

Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1977.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of the first volume in Sassoon’s semi-autobiographical Sherston trilogy. Octavo, bound in full modern morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe / Zaehnsdorf...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-148810

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Copland, Aaron

Aaron Copland Autograph Letters and Programs Signed.

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Rare collection of three programs and two typed letters signed by American conductor Aaron Copland. The programs include a 1957-1958 Season Program for the Juilliard School of Music presenting The Wor...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-104920

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Ethiopian Coptic Ge’ez Bible.

Ethiopia:, C. 18th Century.

Rare Ethiopian Coptic Ge’ez Bible. Octodecimo, bound with twine between two wood blocks, parchment manuscript in black and red ink. The book measures 4 inches in height by inches 6 in width. Annotatio...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-151190

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Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly.

London: H. G. Bohn, 1852.

Early English printing of Stowe’s enormously influential work, published the same year as the first. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated by Leech, Gilbert, etc. In very good conditio...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-134862

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Grady, James

Six Days of the Condor.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1974.

First edition of the author’s first thriller, basis for the classic film film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, and Max von Sydow. Octavo, or...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-145182

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