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Inauguration Invitation for President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon.

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Rare original inauguration invitation for President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon. Octavo, finely printed inauguration invitation on cardstock with tissue-guarded black and whi...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-151893

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Malkiel, Burton G

The Journal of Portfolio Management: The Structure of Closed-End Fund Discounts Revisited.

New York: Institutional Investor, Inc., 1995.

Facsimile offprint of the Summer 1995 issue of The Journal of Portfolio Management, containing Burton Malkiel’s article “The Structure of Closed-End Fund Discounts Revisited”, from h...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-152014

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Penn, Irving

Flowers.

New York: Harmony Books, 1980.

First edition of this iconic collection of photographs of flowers taken between 1967-1973. Quarto, original beige cloth, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Irving Penn on the half-title page. Fi...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-84689

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Welty, Eudora

One Writer’s Beginnings.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1984.

First edition, early printing of this reflective memoir. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-151399

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Dickens, Charles

Oliver Twist.

London: Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars, 1846.

Early edition of Dickens’s classic second novel. Octavo, bound in full calf, full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to t...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-147626

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Ovid; Hans Erni [Engraver]; Giovanni Mardersteig [Printer]

Ovid’s Metamorphoses: In Fifteen Books.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1958.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of Sir Samuel Garth’s translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, with engraved book pages. Octavo, bound in full modern morocco by Sangorski & Sutc...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-148535

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Collins, Norman Keith [Sailor Jerry]; [Michael “Rollo” Malone]

Sailor Jerry Tattoo Flash: Michael Malone Collection.

San Francisco: Hardy Marks Publications, 2001.

First edition, early printing of volume one of this iconic collection of flash art curated by Michael “Rollo” Malone, Sailor Jerry Collins’s protégé and the inheritor of his Honolulu studio archive. O...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-148816

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Herbert, Frank

The Heaven Makers.

New York: Ballantine Books, 1977.

First Ballantine Books edition of this standalone science fiction novel from the author of Dune. Small octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Boldly signed by Frank Herbert on the title page beneath his...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-150244

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Evans, Larry & Tom Wiswell

Championship Chess and Checkers for All.

New York: A.S. Barnes and Company, 1953.

First edition of this work by the chess grandmaster. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by Larry Evans on the front free endpaper, “To Ambassador Thompson Best wis...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-3981

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Eisenhower, Susan [Madeleine K. Albright]

Mrs. Ike: Memories and Reflections on the Life of Mamie Eisenhower.

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996.

First edition of this compelling biography of an army captain’s wife who becomes First Lady. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presenta...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-147575

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The Entry of Christ into Jerusalem Devotional Painting.

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Rare late 18th to early 19th-century devotional painting on panel depicting the entry of Christ into Jerusalem. Oil and tempera on thick wood panel, devotional painting in the iconographic tradition....

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-150478

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Plato; Hans Erni [Illustrator] Giovanni Mardersteig [Printer]

The Trial and Death of Socrates.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1962.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of this collection of four dialogues written by Plato recounting the death of Socrates. Octavo, bound in full modern morocco by Sangorski & Sutclif...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-148539

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Sassoon, Siegfried

The Heart’s Journey.

New York: Crosby Gaige, 1927.

First signed limited edition of Sassoon’s classic poetry collection. Octavo, bound in full tan crushed morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compa...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-149133

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Kingsley, Charles

The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby.

London and Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1863.

First edition of this Victorian moral fantasy. Octavo, bound in three-quarter crushed levant over marbled boards with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, gilt...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-151121

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Boorstin, Daniel J

The Discoverers: A History of Man’s Search to know his World and Himself.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Publishers, 1991.

First illustrated edition of this classic work. Octavo, two volumes, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the front free end paper in the year of publication of both volumes. Volume one’s...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-5026

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Royo, Jose

Utopia.

Valencia, Spain: ROYO art, 2008.

First edition of this luxury art monograph celebrating Royo’s artistic world. Folio, original publisher’s pictorial boards with magnetic fore-edge closure, profusely illustrated with high-qualit...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-148836

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Sophocles; Translated by Elizabeth Wyckoff; Harry Bennett [Illustrator]

Sophocles: Antigone.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1975.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of Sophocles’ classical Greek tragedy. Quarto, bound in three-quarters modern morocco by Morrell over cloth covered boards with gilt titles to th...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-148542

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Rhodes, Richard

The Making of the Atomic Bomb.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986.

First edition of the author’s classic work which won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with black...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-149251

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Stephens, James

The Crock of Gold.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1926.

Finely bound example of this whimsical and philosophical novel. Octavo, bound in full green pictorial morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gi...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-148370

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Schulz, Charles M

Happiness Is A Sad Song.

San Francisco: Determined Productions, 1967.

First edition of this wonderfully illustrated work from the creator of Peanuts. Small Octavo, original pictorial boards, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by Charles Schulz on the f...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-149115

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Dickens, Charles

Little Dorrit.

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857.

First edition, first issue in book form of one of Dickens’ most outstanding novels with the three line errata on page xiv, “William” for “Frederick” on page 317 line 27, B2 ins...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-149676

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Fargo, William

William Fargo Signed Stock Certificate for American Merchants Union Express Company.

New York: American Merchants Union Express Company, 1869.

Rare American Merchants Union Express Company stock certificate signed by American businessman William Fargo. In November 1868, the American Express Company and the Merchants Union Express Company mer...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-148491

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Simon, Andre L

The History of the Wine Trade in England.

London: Wyman & Sons, 1906-07.

First edition of Simon’s landmark work. Octavo, original cloth. Volumes I. Presentation copy, inscribed by Andre L. Simon opposite the title page, “With the author’s Compliments Andr...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-112957

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[Steinbeck, John]

Two Russian Books From the Library of John Steinbeck.

Moscow: Various, c. 1960.

Two volumes in Russian from the library of American literary master John Steinbeck. Quarto, two volumes including a book of early Russian Orthodox paintings with many in color and a folio of loose pla...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-117588

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