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Kilpatrick, Andrew. [Warren E. Buffett and Bob Kerrey]

Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett.

New York: AKPE , 1994.

First edition of this early Buffett biography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Warren Buffett and Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey on the front free endpaper. Bob Kerrey (born 1943) i...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149787

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Begley, Louis; [Bill Bader] [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.

First edition of this case study on corruption in the justice system. Octavo, original publisher’s boards. Association copy, inscribed by Bill Bader to Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the front free endp...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147322

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Robinson, Jackie; Alfred Duckett

Breakthrough to the Big League: The Story of Jackie Robinson.

New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1965.

First edition of this autobiography detailing Robinson’s journey as the first Black player in Major League Baseball. Octavo, original pictorial boards, frontispiece, illustrated with 21 black an...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151428

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Churchill, Winston S.; Jawaharlal Nehru

Winston S. Churchill Signed 1953 Meeting of Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference Photograph.

London:, June 1953.

Large original photograph of the 1953 Commonwealth Prime Ministers’ Conference. The large silver gelatin print is signed below signed by UK Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill, India Prime Minister Ja...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147883

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McCullers, Carson

The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1940.

First edition, first printing with the date of 1940 on the title page of the author’s first novel and masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. With a note laid in from the author which reads,...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-138095

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Lagerfeld, Karl

Karl Lagerfeld Signed Original Fashion Design Sketch.

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Rare original fashion design sketch done and signed by legendary fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld. Mixed-media full-body sketch of a female model wearing a multi-buttoned long-sleeved collared shirt. S...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147291

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Armstrong, Neil; Jack Swigert; Dave Scott [Kevin Steen]

Neil Armstrong, Jack Swigert, and Dave Scott Signed Apollo 14 Launch Day Cover.

Florida: Kennedy Space Center, 1971.

Rare original 1971 Apollo 14 launch day cover signed by Neil Armstrong, Jack Swigert, and Dave Scott. Apollo 14 “Man on the Moon” envelope depicting an astronaut in his space suit walking...

$7,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150575

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George Gershwin. Libretto by DuBose Heyward. Lyrics by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin. Production Directed by Rouben Mamoulian

Porgy and Bess.

New York: Random House, 1935.

Deluxe limited edition of Porgy and Bess, number 55 of only 250 copies signed by George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward and director Rouben Mamoulian. Folio, original full red morocco, raised b...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-98943

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Baum, L. Frank; Illustrated by John R. Neill

The Scarecrow of Oz.

Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1915.

First edition, second printing of the ninth Oz book in L. Frank Baum’s celebrated Oz series. Quarto, original publisher’s full emerald green cloth with pictorial label affixed to the front board, pict...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151937

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Austro-Hungarian Nobility Patent

Vienna:, 1911.

Rare Austro-Hungarian Nobility Patent bestowing upon Brunn industrialist Adolf Noble von Kurschner and his descendants a Hungarian noble title. Folio, bound in full morocco with elaborate gilt metal o...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-132158

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Armstrong, Neil

Neil Armstrong Signed Time Magazine “Man on the Moon”.

New York: Time Magazine, 1969.

Rare original Time Magazine July 25, 1969 issue covering the Apollo 11 mission titled “Man on the Moon.” Quarto, featuring a thirteen page article on the Moon landing, offering information...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148420

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Hawking, Stephen W.; Introduction by Carl Sagan

A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes.

London: Bantam Press, 1988.

First British edition and true first of Hawking’s groundbreaking work. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Ron Miller. Signed by Carl Sagan on the title page, who wrote the introduction. Addi...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-46009

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Schumpeter, Joseph A

Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy.

London : George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1942.

First edition of Schumpeter’s ground-breaking work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the original dust jacket a few small chips. Rare in the original dust jacket.

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-144692

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Post, Robert C. [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

Citizens Divided: Campaign Finance Reform and the Constitution.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2014.

First edition of this critique on campaign finance regulations. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to Ruth Bader Ginsburg,...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148140

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Robinson, Jackie; Roy Campanella; Duke Snider; Gil Hodges; Jim Romano; Carl Furillo; Dan Bankhead; Pee Wee Reese; et al

1950 Jackie Robinson and Brooklyn Dodgers Team Signed Baseball.

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Rare Official National League baseball signed by 31 members of the 1950 Brooklyn Dodgers. Signed by Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Duke Snider, Gil Hodges, Jim Romano, Carl Furillo, Dan Bankhead, Pe...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149840

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Schumpeter, Joseph A

Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy.

London : George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1942.

First edition of Schumpeter’s ground-breaking work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the original dust jacket with some chips to the extremities. Rare in the original dust jacket.

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-133716

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De Cervantes, Miguel [Gabriel Garcia Marquez]

Don Quixote.

New York: Ecco/ Harper Collins Publishers, 2003.

First edition of this new translation which is considered one of the finest English-language translations of the Spanish novel, by authors and critics including Carlos Fuentes and Harold Bloom, who ca...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-118745

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Mercury, Freddie; Roger Taylor; John Deacon [Queen]

Freddie Mercury, Roger Taylor, and John Deacon Signed Queen II Album.

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Queen’s second album, which brought the band to the rock genre, released in 1974. Boldly signed on the iconic gatefold image in black felt tip by Freddie Mercury, Roger Taylor, and John Deacon....

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148499

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Mathews, Donald G; Jane Sherron de Hart [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

Sex, Gender, and the Politics of ERA: A State and the Nation.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

First paperback edition of this “comprehensive analysis of the politics of the Equal Rights Amendment” (Journal of American History). Octavo, original publisher’s pictorial wrappers,...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146580

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Spiegelman, Art; Francoise Mouly [Jules Feiffer]

Raw 3 Magazine Call For Submissions Print with Personalized Drawing Inscribed by Art Spiegelman.

:, 1991.

Rare original Raw 3 comics magazine call for submissions print with a personalized drawing and note to Jules Feiffer from Art Spiegelman. Octavo, one page, ink on photocopy paper. Inscribed and initia...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148481

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Sale, George. [Translator]

The Koran: Commonly Called The Alcoran of Mohammed: Translated From The Original Arabic. With Explanatory Notes, Taken From the Most Approved Commentators. To Which is Prefixed, A Preliminary Discourse.

London: Printed by C. Ackers for J. Wilcox, 1734.

First edition in English of George Sale’s important translation of the Koran, the first to translate directly from the Arabic into English. Quarto, bound in full contemporary speckled calf with morocc...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-152248

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Gagarin, Yuri

Дорога в космос. [Road to Space].

Moscow: Military Publishing House of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR, 1961.

First edition of this autobiographical account by the first man in space, a cosmonaut’s early life, aviation training, and historic 1961 mission aboard Vostok 1. Octavo, written in Russian, original p...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151157

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Caro, Robert A. [Paul Schrader]

The Power Broker.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974.

First edition of Caro’s Pulitzer-Prize winning work on Robert Moses. Thick octavo, original black cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with numerous photographs and maps, top stain red. As...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149431

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McCord Jr., James W

James W. McCord Jr. Typed Letter Signed.

:, March 19, 1973.

Rare typed letter from James W. McCord Jr. to Judge John Sirica regarding the Watergate Scandal. Two pages, replicated in copy from the original with corrections approved by McCord with his initials i...

$7,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151564

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