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Edwin Hubble Signature On Card.

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Rare signature of influential American astronomer Edwin Hubble. Boldly signed in ink below his bust portrait, clipped from a newspaper and mounted to cardstock. In near fine condition with remnants of...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148496

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Hall, Oakley

Warlock.

New York: The Viking Press, 1958.

First edition of this classic of American West literature. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Jim Dunham with best wishes Oakley Hall...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-140967

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Born, Max

The Restless Universe.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1936.

First edition of this classic introduction to physics. Quarto, original cloth. Signed by Max Born on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some rubbing and wear to the ext...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-81190

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Mann, Thomas

Thomas Mann Signed Photograph.

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Rare silver gelatin print signed by Nobel Prize-winning author Thomas Mann. Inscribed by him on the lower portion of the photograph, “Mr. Satoru Yamano, with all my good wishes, Thomas Mann....

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-123909

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O'Brien, Edna

The Country Girls.

London: Hutchinson & Co, 1960.

First edition of the author’s classic first book. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to her father on the front free endpaper, “To Marianna and Father with l...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-124592

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Washington, Booker T

Up From Slavery. An Autobiography.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1901.

First edition of Booker T. Washington’s landmark biography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. With a portion of a typed letter signed by Booker T. Washington tipped in to the pastedown. In ne...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-137020

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Pasternak, Boris

Zemnoi Prostor. [Earthly Space].

Moscow: Sovietskiy Pistatel, 1945.

Rare first edition paperback of this collection of poems. Duodecimo, original wrappers with embossed titles to the front panel. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front pastedown,...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-145453

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Silverstein, Shel

Falling Up.

New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1996.

Early printing of this classic poetry collection published by Shel Silverstein. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with drawings by the author throughout. Signed by the author opposite the half-title...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147074

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McKinley, William

Speeches and Addresses of William McKinley.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1893, [1895].

First edition of this collection of speeches by the United State’s 25th president. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, pale yellow endpapers,...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147248

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Berger, Thomas. [Dustin Hoffman]

Little Big Man.

New York: The Dial Press, 1964.

First edition of Berger’s acclaimed award-winning novel that was adapted to the screen in the 1970 film starring Dustin Hoffman. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Inscribed by Thom...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150934

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Rey, H.A. [Ian Fleming]

Zebrology.

London: Chatto & Windus, [n.d.].

First edition, fourth impression of this charming children’s book by the author of Curious George, inscribed by Ian Fleming to his lover Clare Blanshard. Oblong octavo, original illustrated wrap...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150484

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von Mises, Ludwig

Theory and History. An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1963.

First edition, second printing of Mises’ classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Mr. Merle Gwinn Ludwig von Mises.”...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-133816

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Lewis, Sinclair

It Can’t Happen Here.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1935.

First edition of Lewis’ later masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to novelist Alison Lurie, “To Alison with love Sincl...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151701

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Golding, William

Lord of the Flies.

New York: Coward-McCann, 1955.

First American edition of Golding’s classic first book, one of the best-known works in modern literature. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to th...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150004

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Beckford, William. [John Singer Sargent]

Italy; with Sketches of Spain and Portugal.

London: Richard Bentley, 1834.

Finley bound first edition of Beckford’s beautifully descriptive account of his travels through Italy, Spain, and Portugal from the library of American painter John Singer Sargent with his owner...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151242

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Dahl, Roald; Illustrated by Quentin Blake

Matilda.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1988.

First British edition of Dahl’s popular story of a young girl, her genius, and her indifferent parents. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, boldly inscribed by the author on the fr...

$4,800.00 Item Number: RRB-143009

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Carson, Rachel

Silent Spring.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962.

First edition of Carson’s landmark work. Octavo, original green cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Rachel Carson on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine unclipped dust jacket. Drawings b...

$4,600.00 Item Number: RRB-151213

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Ngugi, James [Ngugi wa Thiongo]

A Grain of Wheat.

London: William Heinemann, 1967.

First edition of the author’s magnum opus. Octavo, original cloth. Lengthily signed by the author on the title page, “I’ll change the woman’s figure. I shall curve a woman big-...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-144382

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Seuss, Dr. [Theodor Geisel]

McElligot’s Pool.

New York: Random House, 1947.

First edition with the 250/250 price on the front flap as well as the $2.50 price added to the rear flap (state ‘c’) of the first Dr. Seuss title to feature full-color art on every other p...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-87546

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Tuchman, Barbara W

August 1914. [The Guns of August].

London: Constable and Co. Ltd, 1962.

First British edition of Tuchman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic of the opening episodes of World War I. Octavo, original black cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. Boldly signed by Barb...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150301

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Edison, Thomas Alva

Thomas A. Edison Signed Photograph.

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Large photograph of Thomas Edison, signed by him. Matted and framed. The entire piece measures 16 inches by 20 inches.

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-15050

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Stein, Gertrude

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.

New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1933.

First edition of Gertrude Stein’s most famous work; one of the richest biographies ever written. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated from photographs. Inscribed by Gertrude Stein on the front fr...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-98248

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Auden, W.H

Epistle To A Godson & Other Poems.

London: Faber and Faber, 1972.

First edition of this classic collection of poems. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by W.H. Auden on the front free endpaper with the first three stanzas of “Doggerel by a Senior Citizen...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147647

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Mandela, Nelson

Long Walk To Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela.

Boston: Little Brown, 1994.

First American edition of the autobiography of one of the greatest moral leaders of the twentieth century. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with photographs. Signed by the...

$4,500.00 Item Number: RRB-55043

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