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Shelley’s Mythmaking.

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1959.

First edition of Bloom’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed and dated by Harold Bloom on the half-title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a chip to the spine crown and o...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-5721

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Wright, N.T

The New Testament and the People of God.

Minneapolis : Fortress Press, 1992.

Early printing of this work by the award-winning theologian. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Inscribed by N.T. Wright on the title page. In good condition with some dampstaining.

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-117388

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Doyle, James E

A Chronicle of England. B.C. 55 – A.D. 1485.

London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1864.

First edition of Doyle’s elaborately illustrated history of ancient and medieval England. Quarto, bound in three quarter crushed levant morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling t...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-139284

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Graham, A. A; E. S. Colborn [William Tecumseh Sherman]

History of Fairfield and Perry Counties, Ohio: Their Past and Present.

Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co, 1883.

First edition of this comprehensive history of Ohio’s townships, industries, soldiers, pioneer families, and prominent men; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Quarto, bound in full m...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-145737

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Toll, Ian W.

Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2006.

First edition of this “fluent, intelligent history…give[s] the reader a feel for the human quirks and harsh demands of life at sea” (New York Times Book Review). Octavo, original hal...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-151296

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Office of the Floridian & Journal

The Acts and Resolutions Adopted by the General Assembly of Florida, at Its Eleventh Session, Begun and Held at the Capitol, in the City of Tallahassee, on Monday, November 18, 1861.

Tallahassee: Printed by Dyke & Carlisle, 1862.

Rare first edition documenting the acts and resolutions passed by the General Assembly of Florida in the first year of the American Civil War. Octavo, disbound. In very good condition. Scarce and desi...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-95814

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Ellis, Leonard Bolles

History of New Bedford and its Vicinity 1602-1892.

Syracuse: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1892.

First edition of Ellis’ profusely illustrated history of New Bedford. Large octavo, 2 volumes bound in three quarters morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, marbled endpapers, top edge g...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-131249

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Porter, Kirk H

A History of Suffrage in the United States.

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1918.

First edition of this wonderful history of voting in America, focusing on the disenfranchisement of women and Black Americans. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with photographs. In near fine condit...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-142058

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Kagan, Elena

Elena Kagan Collection of Signed Photographs and Typed Letter Signed.

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A pair of original photographs of Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan. The first photograph is of Kagan being sworn in and is signed by her in blue felt tip. The second is of Kagan signing documents and...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-151397

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Antique Post Card Album.

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Antique postcard collection containing dozens of vintage postcards postdated in the early 1900s. From the collection of Dora Sims. Oblong octavo, bound in decorated cloth. The collection includes post...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-116071

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Cutler, Carl C

Greyhounds of the Sea: The Story of the American Clipper Ship.

New York: Halcyon House, 1930.

First edition of Cutler’s masterwork on the history of the American clipper ship. Quarto, bound in three quarters morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, frontispiece. In near fine condit...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-131492

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[Mayo, Winifred]

The Idler: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine. Vol. 33. April 1908 to September 1908.

London: The Idler Magazine, 1908.

First edition of Vol. 33 of The Idler, containing the first appearance of Winifred Mayo’s Prison Experiences of a Suffragette. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco over pebbled boards, illustr...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-135904

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Martineau, Harriet

Eastern Life, Present and Past.

London: Edward Moxon, 1848.

First English edition of this sociological travelogue. Octavo, three volumes, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the spine, blindstamping to the front panel. In good condition with r...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-146067

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Caputo, Philip

A Rumor of War.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1977.

First edition, early printing of Caputo’s unsparing Vietnam memoir, which the Los Angeles Times Book Review called “heartbreaking, terrifying, and enraging. It belongs to the literature of...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-152007

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Fulford, Roger

Votes For Women: The Story of Struggle.

London: Readers Union/Faber and Faber, 1958.

Reader’s Union edition of Fulford’s work on the UK women’s suffrage movement. Octavo, original cloth. English journalist, historian, writer and politician Roger Fulford authored seve...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-135490

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Roberts, Kenneth

Kenneth Roberts Signed Letter Collection.

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Collection of typed letters signed by American author Kenneth Roberts. The collection includes two typed letters signed by Roberts and addressed to Malcolm Decker dated May 21, 1937 and May 16, 1946....

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-114028

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Costner, Kevin; Cale Glendening

The Great Horizon.

: Weldon Owen, 2024.

First edition of this work through Cale Glendening’s intimate cast portraits and behind-the-scenes photography of Costner’s epic film The Great Horizon. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throu...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-148218

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Quarles, Benjamin

The Negro in the American Revolution.

Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1976.

Later printing of this examination of the roles and experiences of Black Americans during the Revolutionary War. Octavo, original publisher’s blue cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the title...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-150747

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Mankiewicz, Frank

The U.S. V Richard M. Nixon: The Final Crisis.

New York: Quadrangle/ The New York Times Book Co., 1975.

First edition. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by the author on the half title page, “To ____ ______, with best wishes- Frank Mankiewicz Mar. ’75.” Additionally inscribed by B...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-57001

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Buergenthal, Thomas; Foreword by Elie Wiesel

A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy.

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2009.

First edition of this “incredible tale” (The Free Lance-Star). Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Elie Wiesel at his foreword. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Foreword by Elie Wiesel. J...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-152090

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Plantinga, Alvin

Warrant: The Current Debate.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed by Alvin Plantinga on the half-title page. In near fine condition. Cover design by Ann Lowe.

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-139243

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King, Coretta Scott

The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr.

New York: Newmarket Press, 1987.

First edition of this classic collection of the words of Dr. King, selected by Coretta Scott King. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by Coretta Scott King on the front...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-146270

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Nixon, Richard

Real Peace: A Strategy for the West.

New York: Privately Printed for Richard Nixon, 1983.

The privately printed limited first edition of Nixon’s fifth book. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the spine. One of 1,000 copies. Presentation copy, inscribed by th...

$550.00 Item Number: RRB-152046

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Caputo, Philip

A Rumor of War.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1977.

Advanced reading copy of the first edition of this classic work which the Los Angeles Times Book Review called “heartbreaking, terrifying, and enraging. It belongs to the literature of men at wa...

$550.00 Item Number: RRB-140064

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