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The Hero With A Thousand Faces.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1949.

First edition of Joseph Campbell’s magnum opus. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with 22 textual drawings, 12 plates. Boldly signed by Joseph Campbell on the title page. Near fine in a v...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145938

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Churchill, Winston S

Winston S. Churchill Signed Walter Stoneman Photograph.

:, 1942.

Silver gelatin print portrait of Winston Churchill by Walter Stoneman, boldly signed and dated by him, “Winston Churchill 1947” on the mount. Photographer’s stamp on verso. The photo...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-132579

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Shannon, Claude & Warren Weaver

The Mathematical Theory of Communication.

Urbana: University of Illinois, 1949.

First edition of the “the magna carta of the information age” (Scientific American), Shannon’s work provided “a mathematical guide for the system’s engineers [at Bell Lab...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150853

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Confucius

La Morale De Confucius, Philosophe De La Chine.

Amsterdam: Pierre Savouret, 1688.

Rare first edition of The Morals of Confucius preceding the English translation, regarded as the first work which introduced readers to Confucianism. Small octavo, bound in half vellum over marbled bo...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-135381

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Thirty-Eight Star American Flag.

:, c. 1877.

Rare thirty-eight star American flag in use between July 4, 1877 when the state of Colorado was admitted into the Union as the 38th state and July 4, 1890 when North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Was...

$12,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149349

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Waugh, Evelyn [Daphne Fielding]

The Sword of Honour Trilogy: Men At Arms; Officers and Gentlemen; Unconditional Surrender.

London: Chapman & Hall, 1952-1961.

First editions of each volume in the author’s acclaimed Sword of Honour Trilogy. Octavo, 3 volumes, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper of Office...

$12,000.00 Item Number: RRB-146294

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Kennedy, John F. (Wally Schirra)

John F. Kennedy Signed Photograph to Astronaut Wally Schirra.

:, .

Color photograph of President Kennedy meeting with astronaut Wally Schirra and his family in the Oval Office, affixed to its original mount. Boldly inscribed, “To Commander Walter Schirra—and his fami...

$12,000.00 Item Number: RRB-80092

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King Jr., Martin Luther

Strength to Love.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1963.

First edition of Dr. King’s second book, of which Coretta Scott King noted, “If there is one book Martin Luther King, Jr. has written that people consistently tell me has changed their lives, it is St...

$12,000.00 Item Number: RRB-130633

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Halley, Edmond [Philip Schuyler]

Astronomical Tables with Precepts both in English and Latin for Computing the Places of the Sun, Moon, Planets, and Comets.

London: Printed for William Innys in Pater-noster Row, 1752.

First edition in English of Halley’s classic work, from the library of American Revolutionary War General Philip Schuyler and subsequently Harvard University professor Owen Gingerich. Quarto, bo...

$12,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149862

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Sparks, Jared. [George Washington]

The Writings of George Washington Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1858.

The complete writings of George Washington compiled by Jared Sparks. Large octavo, 12 volumes, uniformly bound in full modern calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within...

$12,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151670

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Douglass, Frederick

My Bondage and Freedom.

New York & Auburn: Miller, Orton, & Mulligan, 1855.

Rare first edition of Douglass’ second autobiography. Octavo, original publisher’s brown cloth, with three engraved plates, including the engraved frontispiece from the classic daguerreoty...

$12,000.00 Item Number: RRB-133267

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Powell, William; Peter Bergman [Salvador Dali]

The Anarchist Cookbook.

New York: Lyle Stuart, Inc, 1971.

Rare first edition of this book of illegal recipes. Square quarto, original boards, illustrated with diagrams throughout. Association copy, inscribed by the publisher to Salvador Dali, “To [Salv...

$12,000.00 Item Number: RRB-148162

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Armistead, Wilson

A Tribute For The Negro: Being a Vindication of the Moral, Intellectual, and Religious Capabilities of the Coloured Portion of Mankind; with Particular Reference to the African Race.

Manchester: William Irwin [and London, Charles Gilpin; New York, William Harned; Philadelphia, H. Longstreth and G. W. Taylor], 1848.

First edition, deluxe issue of Armistead’s best known work, containing possibly the most extensive collection of nineteenth-century slave narratives and biographies. Octavo, original publisher...

$12,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151977

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Jefferson, Thomas

The Proceedings of the Government of the United States in Maintaining the Public Right to the Beach of the Missisipi [sic], adjacent to New-Orleans, against the Intrusion of Edward Livingston.

New York: Ezra Sergeant, 1812.

First edition, one of only 250 copies printed for Jefferson to distribute to senators, congressman and other political figures. Octavo, original wrappers, frontispiece map. Some wear to the wrappers,...

$12,000.00 Item Number: RRB-84930

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Biblia Cum Concordantiis Veteris et Novi Testamenti. [The Bible with Concordances of the Old and New Testaments]. [Jerome’s Latin Vulgate].

[Lugundi]: [Jacobum Mareschal], 1527.

Rare 16th century printed seminary copy of Jerome’s Latin Vulgate. Folio, bound in full elaborately blind-stamped vellum with remains of iron clasps, all edges red, finely printed in gothic lett...

$12,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149325

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Carter, Jimmy [James]

Carter Farms Red Wine: Vinted and Bottled by Jimmy Carter in Plains, Georgia 1998.

Plains, Georgia: Carter Farms, 1998.

Rare original bottle of red wine produced by the 39th President of the United States from grapes harvested in Plains, Georgia, bottled in a small release intended for family, friends, and a small numb...

$12,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151978

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Nixon, Patricia. [Preface]; [Jacqueline Kennedy; Rose Kennedy]

The White House Gardens: A History and Pictorial Record.

New York: Great American Editions, 1973.

First edition of the first book to trace the history of and fully illustrate the grounds of the White House gardens. Oblong quarto, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with color plates b...

$12,000.00 Item Number: RRB-142435

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Truman, Harry S

Radio Address to the American People on Wages and Prices in the Reconversion Period. [Harry S. Truman Advance Press Copy Signed Presidential Address].

Washington, D.C:, [October 30, 1945].

Exceptionally rare original advance press copy of the typed transcript of Truman’s historic October 30, 1945 prime time Presidential address: “Radio Address to the American People on Wages...

$12,000.00 Item Number: RRB-147625

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Catlin, George

O-Kee-Pa: A Religious Ceremony: and other Customs of the Mandans.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co, 1867.

First edition of Catlin’s important work on the Mandan people and their rituals, one of the only records of the Mandan tribe which was almost entirely exterminated in the smallpox epidemic of 18...

$12,000.00 Item Number: RRB-119463

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Churchill, Winston S

Winston Churchill Signed Photograph.

:, c. 1949.

Rare glossy black and white photograph of Winston Churchill in profile with a cigar in his mouth, standing next to his wife, Clementine, and noted financier Bernard Baruch, signed by Churchill,...

$12,000.00 Item Number: RRB-150720

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Churchill, Winston S.

Winston S. Churchill Typed Letter Signed.

London:, June 14, 1955.

Rare typed letter signed by Winston S. Churchill to the Ninth Army Association, framed with a portrait of Churchill and a broadside from his famous speech “We Shall Fight on the Beaches”....

$12,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151782

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Zohrabian, Hovhannes. [Giovanni Zohrab] [Translator]

The Holy Bible: The Old and New Testaments: An Accurate Translation of the Old Words Newly Brought to Light by the Most Select Penmanship From the Original Hellenic Greek.

Venice: San Lazzaro, 1805.

The first critical edition of the Bible in classical Armenian, translated by famed Benedictine monk Giovanni Zohrab (Hovhannes Zohrapian) nearly 140 years after the first Armenian Bible was printed in...

$12,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149504

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MacKay, Charles

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.

London: Richard Bentley, 1841.

First edition of this classic study of crowd psychology, a compilation of human folly throughout the ages. Octavo, three volumes, bound in full morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised ba...

$12,000.00 Item Number: RRB-134293

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Einstein, Albert

Albert Einstein Signed Photograph.

:, 1952.

Rare original black and white silver gelatin photograph of Albert Einstein. Signed “A Einstein 52.” Full-length group portrait showing Albert Einstein standing with Hadassah National Presi...

$12,000.00 Item Number: RRB-72091

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