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Looking for a unique and personal gift? A rare book is a gift they will treasure for a lifetime. There are few gifts that are as lasting and appreciated as a rare book. They hold within its pages not only historical and cultural significance, but often also a personal significance to the recipient. Whether it is a beloved childhood book that turned them on to the joys of reading or a favorite title they read in high school or college, people treasure these books like a close friend.

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Armstrong, Neil; Michael Collins; Edwin [Buzz] E. Aldrin, Jr.; Epilogue by Arthur C. Clarke

First On The Moon: A Voyage With Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr.

Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1970.

First edition of this work, signed by each of the Apollo XI and XII astronauts, which describes the events leading up to and during the Apollo 11 mission, the first manned landing on the Moon. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by each astronaut of both Apollo XI and Apollo XII to two time Oscar winnerContinue reading "First On The Moon: A Voyage With Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr."

$22,500.00

Item Number: RRB-147910

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Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa Signed Photograph.

1984.

Rare photograph portrait of Mother Teresa boldly signed, “God bless you M. Teresa mc.” In fine condition. The piece measures 5 inches by 7 inches.

$2,000.00

Item Number: RRB-147287

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Pistone, Joe and Charles Brandt

Donnie Brasco: Unfinished Business.

Philadelphia : Running Press, 2007.

First edition of this account of the FBI agent’s undercover operation. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by Joe Pistone (Donnie Brasco) on the title page, “Howard Best Wishes Regards Joe Pistone Donnie Brascoe.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Uncommon signed and inscribed.

$500.00

Item Number: RRB-147903

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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 beneath their respective portraits. In fine condition. The piece measures 7.5 inches by 5.75 inches. Rare and desirable.

$1,600.00

Item Number: RRB-147286

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First modern library edition of Joan Didion's magnum opus: Slouching Towards Bethlehem; Signed by the author on the title page

Didion, Joan

Slouching Towards Bethlehem.

New York : The Modern Library, 2000.

First Modern Library edition of what many consider her magnum opus. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Joan Didion on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Introduction by Elizabeth Hardwick.

$1,500.00

Item Number: RRB-79043

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Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater or Pearls Before Swine.

New York : Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1965.

First edition of the author’s fifth novel, a classic satire, which introduces the reader to Kilgore Trout. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed “Kurt Vonnegut Feb. 26 2000” on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Murray Tinkelman. A very sharp example.

$2,800.00

Item Number: RRB-147951

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Brunhoff, Jean de; [Maurice Sendak]

Le Voyage de Babar.

Paris : Editions du Jardin des Modes, 1932.

First edition of the sequel to de Brunhoff’s first Babar story in the original French; from the library of Maurice Sendak, although not marked. Folio, original half cloth over pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. In very good condition. Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are, is often hailed as “the Picasso of children’sContinue reading "Le Voyage de Babar."

$1,100.00

Item Number: RRB-147154

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"I am a Christian Because of Owen Meany": First Edition of A Prayer For Owen Meany; Warmly signed by John Irving

Irving, John

A Prayer For Owen Meany.

New York : William Morrow and Company, 1989.

First edition of the author’s seventh novel and what many consider his finest. Octavo, original half gray cloth. Warmly signed by the author on the title page, “Merry Christmas John Irving.” Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Honi Werner.

$1,800.00

Item Number: RRB-145910

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Albach, J. S

Heilige Anklänge: Gebete für Katholische Christen. [Sacred Echoes: Prayers for Catholic Christians].

Germany : Julius Muller, 1850.

Rare 19th century Catholic prayer book in the German language. Octodecimo, bound in leather with stylized botanical designs stamped in blind to the spine, front and rear panels, metallic crucifixion of Jesus to the front panel, original metallic locking mechanism preserved, all edges gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece of Mary with the cross, illustrated with six steelContinue reading "Heilige Anklänge: Gebete für Katholische Christen. [Sacred Echoes: Prayers for Catholic Christians]."

$475.00

Item Number: RRB-147277

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Garcia Marquez, Gabriel

Love in the Time of Cholera.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1988.

First American edition of the author’s work, which ranks as one of the great novels of the last half of the twentieth century. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “Para Erich, del amigo, Gabriel Garcia Marquez 98.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by CarolContinue reading "Love in the Time of Cholera."

$4,500.00

Item Number: RRB-147602

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Addams, Charles. [Chas Addams]

Homebodies.

New York : Simon and Schuster, 1954.

First edition of this classic collection of Addams’ cartoons. Quarto, original half cloth, illustrated. Near fin in a near fine dust jacket.

$200.00

Item Number: RRB-147272

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Kranz, Gene and Sy Liebergot

Apollo 13 Eugene Kranz and Seymour Liebergot Signed Photograph.

April 13, 1970.

Signed photograph of the damaged Apollo 13 spacecraft. Satin-finish photograph of the damaged Apollo 13 spacecraft, boldly signed in gold felt tip by NASA’s heroic mission controllers Eugene Kranz, “Eugene F. Kranz, ‘Flight,'” and Seymour Liebergot, “‘We may have had an instrumentation problem, Flight.’ 4/13/70, Sy Liebergot, Apollo 13 EECOM.” Ironically, the station anomaly was far greaterContinue reading "Apollo 13 Eugene Kranz and Seymour Liebergot Signed Photograph."

$750.00

Item Number: RRB-147225

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Addams, Charles. [Chas Addams]

Drawn and Quartered.

New York : Random House, 1942.

First edition of this classic collection of Addams’ cartoons. Quarto, original half cloth, illustrated. Near fine in a good price-clipped dust jacket. Foreword by Boris Karloff. Uncommon in this condition.

$650.00

Item Number: RRB-147269

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Schwartz, Steven; John Michael Tebelak

Godspell: New Testaments Sections on Which the Musical is Based.

New York : The British and Foreign Bible Society in association with Collins Fontana Books, 1966.

First edition of this collection of gospels in Today’s English Version used in Godspell the Musical by Stephen Schwartz and John Michael Tebelak as played at Wyndham’s Theatre, London. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, illustrated. Boldly signed by Stephen Schwartz on the title page. In near fine condition. Rare, especially signed.

$850.00

Item Number: RRB-147245

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Adams, Richard

Watership Down.

London : Rex Collings, 1972.

First edition of the author’s first and most beloved work. Octavo, original brown cloth, folding map. Boldly signed the author on the title page, “Yours sincerely Richard Adams.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box by Asprey. An exceptional example, uncommon signed.

$8,200.00

Item Number: RRB-136602

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Roosevelt, Franklin D

Franklin D. Roosevelt Signed Commemorative WWI Lake Torpedo Boat Company Photographs.

Bridgeport, CT : Lake Torpedo Boat Co, c. May 20, 1918.

Rare vintage photographs of Franklin D. Roosevelt as Assistant Secretary of the U. S. Navy, signed by him. Two gelatin silver photographs showing FDR on his May 20, 1918 visit to Lake Torpedo Boat Company in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the first of Roosevelt seated next to various officials on the speaker’s stand, and the second ofContinue reading "Franklin D. Roosevelt Signed Commemorative WWI Lake Torpedo Boat Company Photographs."

$2,750.00

Item Number: RRB-147241

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Carpenter, Scott; Gordon Cooper; Wally Schirra

Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, and Wally Schirra Signed Project Mercury Decal.

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Unused decal honoring Project Mercury; signed by three of the Mercury Seven. Four-cent Project Mercury stamp decal, depicting an illustration of the Freedom 7 capsule in space, surrounded by the surnames of the Mercury Seven astronauts. Boldly signed along the outer border by Scott Carpenter and Gordon Cooper and by Wally Schirra. In very good condition.

$1,250.00

Item Number: RRB-147226

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Rendell, Ruth

A Judgement in Stone.

London : Hutchinson, 1977.

First edition of the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Lengthily signed by the author on the title page with a transcription from the opening line of this work, “Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read or write” Ruth Rendell.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. A unique example.

$1,750.00

Item Number: RRB-44083

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Yeats, William Butler [W.B.]

Plays in Prose and Verse: Written for an Irish Theatre, and Generally with the Help of a Friend.

New York : The Macmillan Company, 1924.

Signed limited edition of this collaborative collection of prose and verse plays. Octavo, original half cloth with paper labels to the spine and front panel. One of two hundred and fifty copies signed by William Butler Yeats limitation page, this is number 173. In very good condition.

$1,750.00

Item Number: RRB-147264

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Poe, Edgar Allan

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe.

Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1875-1881.

Finely bound edition of the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe. Octavo, four volumes bound in three quarter calf over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, all edges marbled, tissue-guarded frontispiece to Vols. I and II, illustrated with etchings and headpieces in each volume, foldingContinue reading "The Works of Edgar Allan Poe."

$1,800.00

Item Number: RRB-147262

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Schneider, Elizabeth M. [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

Battered Women & Feminist Lawmaking.

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2000.

First edition of this seminal work in feminist legal activism. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “November 2000. For Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg – who has contributed so much to the feminist lawmaking I desire. With warm regards, Liz Schneider.” From the library of Ruth BaderContinue reading "Battered Women & Feminist Lawmaking."

$6,500.00

Item Number: RRB-147156

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Oates, Joyce Carol [Annie Dillard]

Them.

New York : The Vanguard Press, 1969.

First edition of the third in Oates’ Wonderland Quartet and winner of the National Book Award. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Annie – with best wishes – Joyce Carol Oates 7 Sept. 2022.” The recipient, fellow author Annie Dillard has published works of poetry, essays, prose,Continue reading "Them."

$3,000.00

Item Number: RRB-146934

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Stewart, James B

Disney War.

New York : Simon & Schuster, 2005.

Early printing of this incredibly enthralling exposé on one of America’s most powerful entertainment companies. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Fred, James B. Stewart.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jackie Seow.

$175.00

Item Number: RRB-147019

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Brunhoff, Jean de; [Maurice Sendak]

Le Chateau de Babar.

Paris : Hachette, 1961.

First edition of this winsome children’s story in the original French, from the library of Maurice Sendak. Folio, original pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “A Maurice Sendak amicoleures Laurent de Brunhoff,” with a drawing of one of Babar’s children peeking out from behind a gardenerContinue reading "Le Chateau de Babar."

$8,800.00

Item Number: RRB-147137

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