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Grierson, John. Introduction by Wolfgang von Gronau

High Failure: Solo Along the Arctic Air Route.

London: William Hodge & Company, Limited, 1936.

First edition of English Aviator John Grierson’s account of his solo trip along the Arctic Air Route. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. Associtation copy, inscribed by...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-111250

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Haise, Fred

Fred Haise Signed Apollo 13 Photograph.

:, 1970.

Rare photograph of the Apollo 13 service module. Small quarto, color satin-finish photograph of the crippled Apollo 13 service module floating in space. Boldly signed by Fred Haise, “Our view of...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-147067

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Wolfe, Tom

The Right Stuff.

New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1979.

First edition of Wolfe’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth with titles to the spine in silver. Presentation copy, lengthily and warmly inscribed by the author in the year of publication on t...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-151079

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Stanley, Henry M

Magdala: The Story of the Abyssinian Campaign of 1866-7.

London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1896.

First edition of the second part of the ‘Coomassie and Magdala’ volume. Octavo, original leather binding, illustrated with a map of the British expedition and numerous drawings by Melton P...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-145193

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Norgay, Tenzing with James Ramsey Ullman

Man of Everest. The Autobiography of Tenzing.

London: George Harrap & Co, 1955.

First edition, early printing of Norgay’s autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with photographic frontispiece and 18 pages of photographs. Boldly signed by Tenzing Norgay on the fr...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-139663

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Seabrook, William B

Jungle Ways.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1931.

Signed limited first edition of occultist and cannibal William Buehler Seabrook’s account of his travels along the Ivory Coast and through West Africa where he witnessed witchcraft, cannibalism...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-124947

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Cooke, Arthur O

The World at Work: A Day in a Shipyard.

New York: Hodder & Stoughton, c. 1912.

First edition of Arthur O. Cooke’s The World at Work: A Day in a Shipyard. Small octavo, original illustrated boards with pictorial pastedown, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with engravings fr...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-104861

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Newby, Eric

A Short Walk In the Hindu Kush.

London: Secker & Warburg, 1958.

Rare uncorrected proof of the first edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original wrappers, illustrated. In good condition.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-146280

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Carpenter, M. Scott; Cooper, L. Gordon, Jr., Glenn, John H., Jr., Grissom, Virgil I., Schirra, Walter M., Jr., Shepard, Alan B., Jr., Slayton, Donald K.

We Seven. By the Astronauts Themselves.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962.

First edition, early printing of this first-hand account of the genesis of America’s manned space program. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by Mer...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-144379

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Davis, John K

With the “Aurora” in the Antarctic 1911-1914.

London: Andrew Melrose, 1919.

First edition of Captain John Davis’ expedition to Antarctica. Octavo, original blue cloth, gilt titles and gilt illustration of the titular steamship, illustrated throughout, tipped-in rear map...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-111886

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Lear, Moya Olsen

Bill and Moya Lear: An Unforgettable Flight.

Reno, Nevada: Jack Bacon & Company, 1996.

First edition of this autobiography of Bill and Moya Lear. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author to Bob and Deloros Hope on the half-title page in the year of...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-117371

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Roosevelt, Eleanor

India and the Awakening East.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1953.

First edition, early printing of Eleanor Roosevelt’s account of her travels through the Middle East and India. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with 32 pages of p...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-148146

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Cernan, Gene; Ron Evans; John Young

Apollo Astronauts Signed Note.

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Rare note signed by Apollo astronauts John Young (Gemini 3, Gemini 10, Apollo 10, Apollo 16, STS-1, STS-9), Ronald Evans (Apollo 17), and Gene Cernan (Gemini 9A, Apollo 10, Apollo 17). One page, signe...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-120894

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Norgay, Tenzing with Malcolm Barnes

After Everest: An Autobiography by Tenzing Norgay Sherpa.

New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House, 1977.

First edition of Tenzing’s second autobiography, the sequel to his best-selling Tiger of the Snows. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the half-title page beneath an inscription in...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-123218

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[Steinbeck, John]

Two Russian Books From the Library of John Steinbeck.

Moscow: Various, c. 1960.

Two volumes in Russian from the library of American literary master John Steinbeck. Quarto, two volumes including a book of early Russian Orthodox paintings with many in color and a folio of loose pla...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-117588

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Fletcher, Colin

The Thousand-Mile Summer in Desert and High Sierra.

Berkeley, CA: Howell-North Books, 1964.

First edition of Fletcher’s classic first book. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with photographs from the author. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on half t...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-132615

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West, Rebecca

The Vassall Affair.

London: Sunday Telegraph, 1963.

First edition of this work by the author of Black Lamb and Grey Falcon. Octavo, original wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, “M...

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-145882

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Fermor, Patrick Leigh

The Traveller’s Tree: A Journey Through the Caribbean Islands.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1950.

First edition of Leigh Fermor’s first book. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by A. Costa. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. An exceptional example.

$950.00 Item Number: RRB-150727

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James, William

A Full and Correct Account of the Chief Naval Occurrences of the Late War Between Great Britain and The United States of America; Preceded by a Cursory Examination of the American Accounts of Their Naval Actions Fought Previous to That Period.

London: Printed for T. Egerton, 1817.

First edition of James’ naval history of the War of 1812, which inspired Theodore Roosevelt’s account from the American perspective: The Naval War of 1812. Octavo, bound in full contempora...

$900.00 Item Number: RRB-132919

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1910 Unique Study of the Engineering and Design of Coal Mines, 19 pp. Blue Prints, Five Original Photographs.

:, 1910.

On 13 x 8.5 inch blueprint sheets, riveted together at top, 19 blue print sheets and 5 mounted and captioned photos. The sheets are surveys of different collieries and mines, with examples from existi...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-100759

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Hall, Captain Basil

Travels in North America, In the Years 1827 and 1828.

Edinburgh: Printed for Robert Cadell, Edinburgh; and Simpkin and Marshall, London, 1830.

Third and enlarged edition of Hall’s important work. Octavo, original publisher’s paper-covered boards and paper spine labels, volume one with the hand-colored folding map of the United St...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-134265

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Durrell, Gerald [John Drinkall]

The Overloaded Ark.

London: Faber and Faber & The Book Society, 1953.

First edition of the Book Society edition of Durrell’s first book. Octavo, original green cloth, top stain blue. Boldly signed by Gerald Durrell on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near f...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-150367

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Salgado, Sebastiao

The Scent of a Dream: Travels in the World of Coffee.

New York: Abrams, 2015.

First edition of this wonderfully illustrated work by the legendary photographer. Quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Sebastiao Salgado on the half-title page...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-151709

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Wolfe, Tom

The Right Stuff.

New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1979.

First edition of Wolfe’s classic work. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with titles to the spine in silver. Boldly signed by Tom Wolfe on the second front free endpaper. Very good in a v...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-152105

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