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The Voyage of the ‘Discovery.’

London: Smith, Elder, & Co, 1905.

First edition of this pioneering journey of the British National Antarctic Expedition of 1901–1904. Octavo, two volumes, original publisher’s navy cloth with gilt titles to the spine, front pane...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-148924

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Rickenbacker, Edward [Eddie]

Edward Rickenbacker Signed Photograph.

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Rare black and white photograph of American in World War I fighter ace Edward “Eddie” Rickenbacker. Inscribed by Rickenbacker, “With best wishes to Jerome Miller Capt. E. V. Rickenba...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-109853

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Custer, Elizabeth B

Tenting on the Plains or General Custer in Kansas and Texas.

New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1887.

First edition of Elizabeth Custer’s famous defense of Custer. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated green cloth, patterned endpapers, engraved tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait and 28...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-150708

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Baruch, Bernard M

Bernard Baruch Signed Portrait.

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A portrait of Bernard Baruch signed to humorist Harry Hershfield. It reads, “For Harry Hershfield who radiates sunshine and good feeling wherever he goes with appreciation and best wishes from o...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-71053

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Aikman, Lionelle. Foreword by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson. Introduction by Bruce Catton

The Living White House.

Washington, D.C: White House Historical Association with the cooperation of the National Geographic Society Special Publications Division, 1966.

First edition of this beautiful pictorial history of the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States. Octavo, original cloth, patterned endpapers, illustrated with numerous...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-140981

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His Holiness the Dalai Lama

His Holiness the Dalai Lama Signed Photograph.

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Color photograph of His Holiness The Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso. Glossy color photograph of the Dalai Lama standing in his traditional robes with his hands folded. Boldly signed in black felt tip at th...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-147468

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Bacher, Robert F. [Berlyn Brixner]

Robert Bacher Signed Trinity Nuclear Test Mushroom Cloud Photograph.

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Rare original vintage Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory photograph of the first mushroom cloud from the Trinity nuclear test, the first detonation of a nuclear weapon. Semi-glossy, black and white phot...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-148772

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Chesterton, G.K

What I Saw In America. [with] G.K. Chesterton Signed Postcard.

London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1922.

First edition of this paradoxical travelogue of Chesterton’s visit to America in 1921. Octavo, original publisher’s green cloth with gilt titles to the spine. In very good condition. Accompanied...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-148966

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McCullough, David

The Johnstown Flood.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1968.

First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian’s first book. Octavo, original brown cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-59021

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Aldrin, Buzz

Buzz Aldrin Signed Life Magazine: Anniversary Edition of Apollo 11.

New York: Life Magazine, 1969.

Rare original Life Magazine July 20, 1969 commemorative issue celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission. Quarto, original pictorial wrappers, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed on t...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-148484

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Homer; TRANSLATED BY ALEXANDER POPE

The Iliad.

London: The Nonesuch Press, 1931.

The Nonesuch Press limited edition of Alexander Pope’s monumental translation of Homer’s Iliad. Royal octavo, bound in full russet morocco with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within rais...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-148778

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Malthus, Thomas Robert [T.R.]

Principles of Political Economy Considered with a View to Their Practical Application.

Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1821.

First American edition of this landmark work in political economy. Octavo, bound in three quarters leather over marbled boards, black leather morocco spine label. In near fine condition.

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-23029

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[Beaton, Cecil; Winston S. Churchill]

War In Pictures.

London: L. T. A. Robinson, 1940-1941.

Rare collection of five issues of War in Pictures featuring several rare Cecil Beaton wartime photographs. Folio, the collection includes the August 1940, September 1940, January 1941, June 1941, and...

$1,050.00 Item Number: RRB-125681

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Parfit, Derek

Reasons and Persons.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984.

First edition of one of the most important philosophical texts of the second half the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Small name to the front free endpaper.

$1,050.00 Item Number: RRB-138268

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Clinton, Bill. (William Rehnquist and Byron White)

President Bill Clinton Inauguration Ceremonies Program.

Washington, D.C: Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, 1993.

Original program for the ceremonies held at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore on January 20th 1993. Octavo, original wrappers with the gold Presidential seal to the...

$1,000.00 Item Number: RRB-100004

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Doriot, Georges F

The Management of Racial Integration in Business [Special Report to Management].

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1964.

First edition of this work by the father of venture capitalism. Quarto, original half cloth. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-112869

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Carter, Jimmy

Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President.

New York: Bantam Books, 1982.

First edition of the 39th President of the United States’ memoirs. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by Jimmy Carter and Secretary of Defense Harold Brown on the title page. Brown was...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-132220

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Journal of the Eighteenth Annual Session, of the National Encampment, Grand Army of the Republic.

Philadelphia: Town Book and Job Printing House, 1884.

First edition of this record of post-war social meetings by members of the army; from the library of General William Tecumseh Sherman. Royal octavo, original morocco with gilt titles and tooling to th...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-145743

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Scholes, Myron S. and Mark A. Wolfson

Taxes and Business Strategy. A Planning Approach.

Englewood, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1992.

First edition of this classic work, now in it’s sixth edition. Quarto, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “_____ Good luck in all of yo...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-117632

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Keynes, John Maynard. [J.M.]

Indian Currency and Finance.

London: Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1913.

First edition of Keynes’ first major work on economics. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition. Neat ownership inscription to the front free endpaper.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-136408

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Graham, Benjamin; Foreword by Alvin Johnson

Storage and Stability: A Modern Ever-Normal Energy.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, 1937.

First edition of the author’s classic third book. Octavo, original red cloth. Foreword by Alvin Jonson. In very good condition.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-143023

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Friedman, Thomas L. [Madeleine Albright]

The Lexus And The Olive Tree.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999.

First edition of this groundbreaking work about globalization. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth, bookplate to the front pastedown from “The Private Collection of Secretary Madeleine K. Al...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-147597

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Putnam, Hilary

Ethics Without Ontology.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004.

First edition of this work on ontology by one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper,...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-68341

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Sikorsky, Igor

The Story of the Winged-S: Late Developments and Recent Photographs of the Helicopter.

New York: Dodd, Meade & Company, 1958.

First edition, early printing of the autobiography of the Russian-American aviation pioneer and designer of the first viable American helicopter. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece, illustrated with...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-148067

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