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Hilton, James [Cecil B. DeMille, actors Gary Cooper, Laraine Day, Carol Thurston, Paul Kelly, Signe Hasso, Elliott Reid, Dennis O'Keefe, Barbara Britton, Renny McEvoy, Oliver Thorndike]

The Story of Dr. Wassell.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1943.

First edition, early printing of this biographical narrative based on the real-life heroism of Dr. Corydon M. Wassell, basis for the classic film. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Presentatio...

$3,000.00 Item Number: RRB-148748

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Ford, Gerald R. [Betty Ford]

A Vision for America.

Northridge, California: Lord John Press, 1980.

First limited edition of President Gerald R. Ford’s address to the Republican National Convention in Detroit, Michigan in 1980, inscribed by Ford to his son. Octavo, bound in full blue leather w...

$3,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151130

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Truman, Harry S

Mr. Citizen.

New York: Bernard Geis, 1960.

First edition, the author’s edition. Octavo, original half leatherette, slipcase, illustrated with 32 pages of black-and-white photographs. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-...

$3,000.00 Item Number: RRB-3806

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[Brown, Oliver]

In the Supreme Court of the United States October Term, 1952. Oliver Brown, Mrs. Richard Lawton, Mrs. Sadie Emmanuel v. Board of Education of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas.

New York: Bar Press Inc., 1952.

Scarce Amicus brief issued for the historic 1954 Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled racial segregation in American schools to be unc...

$3,000.00 Item Number: RRB-135377

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Bentsen, Lloyd Millard [Jimmy Carter]

Lloyd Millard Bentsen Autograph Letter Archive.

:, 1981-1985.

Rare archive of autograph letters, photographs, and commemorative stamp folios from the collection of former United States Secretary of the Treasury Lloyd Millard Bentsen. The archive includes a photo...

$3,000.00 Item Number: RRB-119532

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Schweitzer, Albert

Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1949.

First edition, early printing of the Nobel laureate’s classic autobiography. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by Schweitzer on the recto of a photograph to Miss Margaret Lial...

$3,000.00 Item Number: RRB-140103

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Lindbergh, Charles A

The Spirit of St. Louis.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953.

First edition of Lindbergh’s autobiographical account about the events leading up to and including his 1927 solo trans-Atlantic flight. Octavo, original blue cloth, illustrated endpapers, illust...

$3,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149841

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Bates, Daisy

The Long Shadow of Little Rock: A Memoir.

New York: David McKay Company, 1962.

First edition, second printing of this powerful work by the NAACP activist behind the successful integration of Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentati...

$3,000.00 Item Number: RRB-142048

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[Americana]

7-Star American Confederate Flag.

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Rare 19th or 20th century flag of the American Confederacy’s first official national flag, known as the “Stars and Bars,” likely made for reunions or parades. The flag features seve...

$3,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151809

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Nansen, Fridtjof (Roald Amundsen)

Nord I Takeheimen: Utforskningen av Jordens Nordlige Strok i Tidlige Tider.

Christiana: Jacob Dybwads, 1911.

First edition of Nansen’s history of Arctic exploration, from the library of explorer Roald Amundsen with his signature. In the year this work was published, Amundsen became the first man to rea...

$3,000.00 Item Number: RRB-78072

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Ben-Gurion, David

David Ben-Gurion Autograph Letter Signed.

:, 1965.

Autograph letter signed by the founder of modern day Israel and first Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion regarding his controversial meeting with Angelica Balabanoff, a close associate of Benito Mussolin...

$3,000.00 Item Number: RRB-110631

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Ginsburg, Ruth Bader

State Dinner In Honor Of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

:, 1996.

Signed Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Lotos Club menu for a State Dinner held in her honor on May 14, 1996, featuring a reproduction of the oil-on-canvas portrait of her by Everett Raymond Kinstler. Addit...

$3,000.00 Item Number: RRB-144101

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Beveridge, Albert J. [Abraham Lincoln]

Abraham Lincoln: 1809-1858.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928.

Limited manuscript edition of this complex and revealing biography of one of the most popular Presidents of the United States. Octavo, four volumes bound in the publisher’s cherry-red three-quar...

$3,000.00 Item Number: RRB-146970

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Bell, Daniel

The Coming of Post-Industrial Society: A Venture in Social Forecasting.

New York: Basic Books, 1973.

First edition of this insightful work which speaks about the coming of the service economy and the importance of knowledge for creating stratification in the new society. Octavo, original half cloth....

$3,000.00 Item Number: RRB-118638

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Gibbon, Edward

Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire. With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, Composed by Himself: Illustrated from His Letters, with Occasional Notes and Narrative by John Lord Sheffield.

London: Printed for A. Strahan, and T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1796.

First edition of Gibbon’s memoirs, letters, and additional works, posthumously collected and published by his closest friend, John Baker Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield. Quarto, bound in three quarters...

$3,000.00 Item Number: RRB-135133

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Villeray, Le Coq de [Voltaire]

Reponse ou Critique des Lettres Philosophiques De Monsieur de Voltaire (Response and Critique of the Philosophical Letters of Mr. Voltaire).

Basle: Chez Christophe Revis, 1735.

First edition of Le Coq de Villeray’s response to Voltaire’s Letters Concerning the English Nation, published in 1733. Octavo, bound in contemporary calf, gilt title to the spine, raised bands,...

$3,000.00 Item Number: RRB-82395

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Herzl, Theodor

Philosophische Erzählungen. [Philosophical Narratives].

Berlin: Verlag con Gebruder Paetel, 1900.

First edition of this collection of seventeen narratives written by Herzl during his years as a correspondent for the Viennese Neue Freie Presse. Octavo, bound in three quarters calf over embossed boa...

$3,000.00 Item Number: RRB-143199

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'de Medici, Marie

Marie de Medici Signed Document.

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Letter signed by Marie ‘de Medici. Signed “Marie,” dated September 12, 1613. Letter to M. de Bouthwoud, the president of the Parliament at Rouen, ordering him in the name of her son to convene a...

$3,000.00 Item Number: RRB-44039

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Garfield, James A. [Charles Lamb]

The Works of Charles Lamb.

New York: Derby & Jackson, 1856.

Signed on the first free end page in pencil with his ownership signature, “J. A. Garfield, Hiram, Ohio, Sept. 1856.” Garfield’s personal bookplate, “Inter Folia Fructus, Librar...

$3,000.00 Item Number: RRB-58090

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Collins, Michael; Buzz Aldrin

Michael Collins Signed Apollo 11 Lunar Footprint Photograph.

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Rare large format photograph of Buzz Aldrin’s footprint on the lunar surface, taken by him on July 20, 1969 as the second person to set foot on the moon. Signed by Aldrin’s co-astronaut Mi...

$3,000.00 Item Number: RRB-135722

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Dalio, Ray [Madeleine Albright]

Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail.

New York : Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, 2021.

First edition of this provocative read read from the legendary investor. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Madeleine- Thank yo...

$3,000.00 Item Number: RRB-147667

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Forty-Five Star American Flag.

:, [c. 1896].

Rare forty-five star American Flag. The forty-five star American Flag was in use between July 4, 1896 when the state of Utah was admitted into the Union and July 3, 1908 when Oklahoma was admitted as...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-133095

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Cable, George W

The Negro Question.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890.

First edition of this key piece of social reform. Duodecimo, original maroon cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf, “To Frederick H. Hitchcock from G.W. Cable No...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-145443

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Alison, Sir Archibald [Millard Fillmore]

History of Europe: From the Fall of Napoleon in MDCCCXV to the Accession of Louis Napoleon in MDCCCLII Vol IV.

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1855.

Early edition of this influential work chronicling European events from the French Revolution to the mid-19th century. Sir Archibald Alison was a Scottish historian, writer, and advocate whose most no...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148824

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