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Pen Pictures of Pioneers of Wilberforce.

Xenia, OH: The Aldine Publishing Company, 1937.

First edition of this snapshot of early life at Wilberforce, Ohio by the legendary African-American educator and activist. Small octavo, original green pictorial cloth, illustrated with black and whit...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-146641

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Downs, Laura Lee [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

Writing Gender History.

New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2010.

First edition of the second edition of this scholarly work about the historical theories of women and gender. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-147660

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Carson, Rachel

The Edge of the Sea.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1955.

First edition of Carson’s classic work, which explores marine life that takes us into “a truly extraordinary world” (The Atlantic Monthly). Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-150510

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Deighton, Len

The Ipcress File.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1963.

First American edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, original black cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Harry Tomb Len Deighton.”...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-96914

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Rosen, Michael; Illustrated by Helen Oxenbury

We’re Going On A Bear Hunt.

London: Walker Books, 1989.

First edition of this modern children’s classic. Oblong quarto, original cloth, illustrated endpapers. Lengthily signed by the author opposite the title page, “Michael Rosen We’re NO...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-147379

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Matzner, Richard A. and L.C. Sheply (editors), [Stephen Hawking]

Spacetime and Geometry: The Alfred Schild Lectures.

Austin: University of Texas Press, 1982.

First edition of this work on space. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of Stephen Hawking with his name written on the front free endpaper. Stephen Hawking was a theoretical physicist, cosmolog...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-119377

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le Carre, John

Call For The Dead.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1961.

First edition of the author’s first book, which introduced the world to the recurring protagonist, George Smiley. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and rulin...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151968

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King, Stephen

The Green Mile.

New York: Scribner, 2000.

First edition of this classic work, which tells the story of death row supervisor Paul Edgecombe’s encounter with John Coffey, an unusual inmate who displays inexplicable healing and empathetic...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-147814

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Armstrong, Neil

Neil Armstrong Signed Delaware Evening Journal.

Wilmington: Delaware Evening Journal, July 21, 1969.

Rare original Delaware Evening Journal featuring the headline “Eagle Jets Safely Off Moon; In Orbit for Rendezvous”, a front page article on the Apollo 11 moon landing, and large photograp...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-100158

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Greene, Graham

A Burnt-Out Case.

London: Heinemann, 1961.

First edition of this Greene novel set in a leproserie on the upper reaches of a tributary of the Congo River in Africa. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-102563

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Hazlitt, Henry

Economics In One Lesson.

New York: Laissez Faire Books, 1986.

Signed limited edition, one of only 200 numbered copies of the author’s seminal work. Octavo, original leather, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt tooling to the front and rear panels, all edg...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149556

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Obama, Barack

Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance.

New York: Times Books/ Random House, 1995.

First edition of this memoir by the 44th President of the United States. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Barack Obama on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket d...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149164

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Rowling, J.K

The Ickabog.

London: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2020.

First edition of this work by Rowling. Octavo, original decorated boards, with illustrations by the winners of The Ickabog Illustration Competition. Signed by J.K. Rowling on the half-title page. With...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-132148

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Elizabeth, Queen and Prince Philip

Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip Signed Royal 1964 Christmas Card.

:, 1964.

Royal 1964 Christmas and New Year Card featuring a black-and-white photograph of the Royal family. Signed by Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, “Elizabeth R 1964″ and “Philip.” In ne...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-137583

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Greene, Graham

The Comedians.

London: The Bodley Head, 1966.

First edition of this novel set in Haiti under the rule of “Papa Doc” Duvalier, which explores the political suppression and terrorism through the figure of an English hotel owner, Brown....

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149206

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Baltimore, David; Renato Dulbecco; James D. Watson

Nobel Lectures in Molecular Biology 1933-1975.

New York: Elsevier, 1977.

First edition of this collection of lectures related to molecular biology delivered by Nobel Laureates between 1933 and 1975. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed on the half-title page by David Baltimor...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-116314

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Baker, Charles H. [Duncan Hines]

The Gentleman’s Companion: Volume I Being An Exotic Cookery Book. Volume II Being an Exotic Drinking Book.

New York: Crown Publishers, 1946.

First Crown Publishers edition of celebrated food and drink critic’s classic work, widely considered his masterpiece, each inscribed to Duncan Hines. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth and...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149591

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Grisham, John [Francis Ford Coppola and Matt Damon]

The Rainmaker.

New York: Doubleday, 1995.

First edition of Grisham’s sixth novel, basis for the film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Matt Damon, Danny DeVito, Claire Danes, Jon Voight, and Danny Glover. Octavo, original half...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150804

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Harlan, Malvina Shanklin; Foreword by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Some Memories of a Long Life, 1854-1911.

New York: The Modern Library, 2002.

First edition of this memoir rediscovered by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Justice Ginsburg on the title page, “Best wishes to Bonnie Brewe...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-133534

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Elizabeth, Queen and Prince Philip

Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip Signed Royal 1963 Christmas Card.

:, 1963.

Royal 1963 Christmas and New Year Card featuring an engraved plate of Camillo Procaccini’s The Adoration of the Shepherds from the Royal Collection. Signed by Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip,...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-137652

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Pierce, Michael; John Golley; Roy Asser; Bill Gunston; Brian Masterton; AVM Freddie Hurrell

…So Few. A Folio Dedicated to All Who Fought and Won the Battle of Britain 10th July – 31st October 1940.

London: The Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund, 1990.

First edition, deluxe signed limited issue of this lavishly illustrated folio commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain and the distinguished RAF pilots who fought in it, the most cr...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-139010

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Crichton, Michael

Sphere.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.

First edition of Crichton’s sixth book, a sci-fi psychological thriller about a team of scientists who discover a massive, ancient spacecraft resting on the Pacific Ocean floor, basis for the fi...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-152251

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Neruda, Pablo and Martin Chambi

Alturas de Macchu Picchu.

Chile: Nascimento, 1954.

Signed limited edition of Neruda’s masterpiece. Quarto, original illustrated wrappers as issued, photographs by Martin Chambi. Signed by Pablo Neruda at the colophon as issued. In near fine cond...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-77014

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Travers, P.L

Mary Poppins. [AND] Mary Poppins Comes Back.

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1936.

Later printings of this children’s classic and its sequel. Octavo, two volumes, original cloth, top stain navy blue, illustrated with 27 line cuts and chapter tailpieces by Mary Shepard in Mary...

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147246

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