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Roosevelt, Franklin D.; George VI.

Franklin D. Roosevelt and King George VI Signed Photograph.

Washington, D.C.: 1939.

Original black and white photograph signed by both President Franklin D. Roosevelt and King George VI, taken during the King’s historic 1939 state visit to the United States, the first ever made by a reigning British monarch. The photograph shows the King in full dress uniform in conversation with the President, who stands supported byContinue reading "Franklin D. Roosevelt and King George VI Signed Photograph."

$3,800.00

Item Number: RRB-153484

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Einstein, Albert. [John LeRoy Johnston].

Albert Einstein Signed Photograph.

Universal City, California: 1931.

Rare original large black and white photograph of Albert Einstein, inscribed and signed by him, said to be the largest photograph ever inscribed by Einstein. The photograph captures Einstein deep in conversation with John LeRoy Johnston, a publicity agent for Universal Pictures, and is inscribed by Einstein in white ink at the upper right, “FürContinue reading "Albert Einstein Signed Photograph."

$82,000.00

Item Number: RRB-153481

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Graves, Robert.

The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth.

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1948.

First edition of Graves’ classic work. Octavo, original cloth, top stain red. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

$475.00

Item Number: RRB-153478

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Zagdanski, Henry. {Elie Wiesel}.

It Must Never Happen Again: The Memoirs of Henry Zagdanski.

Toronto: Colombo & Company, 1998.

First edition of the memoirs of Henry Zagdanski, a survivor’s firsthand account of his family, his vanished world, and the Holocaust. Octavo, original black leatherette, frontispiece of the author. One of only seven hundred copies, privately published for the author’s family and friends. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “ToContinue reading "It Must Never Happen Again: The Memoirs of Henry Zagdanski."

$1,250.00

Item Number: RRB-153464

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Roosevelt, Franklin D.; Eleanor Roosevelt.

Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Signed Photograph: Christmas 1941.

Washington, D.C.: 1941.

Original black and white photograph of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, signed by both. The image shows the couple seated together at a round table, the President with an open book before him and Mrs. Roosevelt knitting, printed with the caption “Christmas 1941.” Signed beneath their respective images, “Franklin D. Roosevelt”Continue reading "Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Signed Photograph: Christmas 1941."

$8,800.00

Item Number: RRB-153496

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Baldwin, James.

If Beale Street Could Talk.

New York: The Dial Press, 1974.

First edition of Baldwin’s fifth novel, a love story set in Harlem in the early 1970s. Octavo, original cloth, top stain yellow. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lynn Braswell. Author photograph by Jill Krementz.

$350.00

Item Number: RRB-153495

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Gray, Henry.

Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical [Gray’s Anatomy].

Philadelphia: Henry C. Lea, 1881.

New American edition of Gray’s celebrated textbook of human anatomy, often considered “the doctor’s bible,” this edition printed from the eighth and enlarged English edition. Thick royal octavo, publisher’s dark charcoal-brown pebbled cloth with gilt titles to the spine, illustrated with wood engravings after the drawings of H. V. Carter. The additions of William W.Continue reading "Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical [Gray’s Anatomy]."

$975.00

Item Number: RRB-153455

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Baldwin, James.

Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son.

New York: The Dial Press, 1961.

First edition of Baldwin’s second major book of essays, featuring his powerful analyses of the politics of race and his controversial three-part essay on Richard Wright. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Jonas. Photograph by Roy Hyrkin.

$475.00

Item Number: RRB-153494

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Vishniac, Roman; Edith Vishniac. [Elie Wiesel].

A Vanished World.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983.

First edition of Roman Vishniac’s haunting photographic record of Jewish life in Eastern Europe on the eve of the Holocaust, from the library of Elie and Marion Wiesel. Quarto, original brown cloth, illustrated throughout with Vishniac’s black-and-white photographs. Boldly signed by Roman Vishniac and Edith Vishniac on the front free endpaper. With a foreword byContinue reading "A Vanished World."

$1,250.00

Item Number: RRB-153454

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Penn, William.

William Penn Signed Land Indenture.

London: January 18, 1681/82.

Original land indenture signed by William Penn. Dated the eighteenth day of January 1681/82, in the thirty-third year of the reign of King Charles the Second, between William Penn of Worminghurst in the county of Sussex and Francis Dove of Westminster, chandler, an early settler in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, conveying five hundred acres of landContinue reading "William Penn Signed Land Indenture."

$12,500.00

Item Number: RRB-153493

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Lobel, Arnold.

Original Frog and Toad Drawing.

c. 1981.

Rare original pen-and-ink drawing by Arnold Lobel of his beloved Frog and Toad, drawn for The Frog and Toad Coloring Book. Frog leaps into the air for joy in the checked jacket Toad has given him, while Toad looks on with his arms folded behind him. The drawing illustrates a page of the coloring bookContinue reading "Original Frog and Toad Drawing."

$5,500.00

Item Number: RRB-153492

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Baldwin, James.

The Evidence of Things Not Seen.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1985.

First edition of Baldwin’s searing book-length essay on the Atlanta child murders. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.

$300.00

Item Number: RRB-153491

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Kennedy, John F..

The Burden and the Glory: The Hopes and Purposes of President Kennedy’s Second and Third Years in Office as Revealed in His Public Statements and Addresses.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1964.

First edition of this collection of speeches of President Kennedy. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Riki Levinson. Edited by Allan Nevins. Foreword by President Lyndon B. Johnson.

$300.00

Item Number: RRB-153490

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Baldwin, James.

Going to Meet the Man.

New York: The Dial Press, 1965.

First edition of Baldwin’s singular collection of short stories. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Author photograph by Martha Holmes. A very sharp example.

$375.00

Item Number: RRB-153488

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Fowles, John.

The Collector.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1963.

First edition of Fowles’ classic debut novel. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed and dated by John Fowles on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, name to the half-title page. Jacket design by Tom Adams.

$975.00

Item Number: RRB-139294

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Shakespeare, William.

The Shakespeare Gallery.

London: The Royal Shakespearean Society, 1908.

A sumptuously bound presentation set of The Shakespeare Gallery, the Royal Academy Series, bound expressly for Elizabeth Stauffer Moore for the worldwide celebration of the tercentenary of Shakespeare’s death. Folio, eight volumes, bound in full crimson levant morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, the coversContinue reading "The Shakespeare Gallery."

$12,000.00

Item Number: RRB-153453

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Stoker, Bram.

Dracula.

New York: Pocket Books, Inc., 1947.

First paperback edition of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the most famous horror novel ever written. Duodecimo, original pictorial wrappers, all edges stained red, Pocket Book number 452, complete and unabridged. In near fine condition with just a touch of wear. A nice, bright example.

$400.00

Item Number: RRB-153473

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Morrell, David. [Sylvester Stallone].

First Blood.

London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1972.

First edition of this novel, basis for the film starring Sylvester Stallone as John Rambo. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Sylvester Stallone on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Michael Codd. Rare and desirable signed.

$2,500.00

Item Number: RRB-153813

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Truman, Bess W. [Robert Redmond].

Bess W. Truman Signed Photograph.

Washington, D.C.: [c. 1945-1953].

Original black and white photograph of Bess W. Truman, First Lady of the United States, signed by her and inscribed to Robert Redmond, head gardener of the White House. The portrait shows Mrs. Truman wearing a pearl necklace, and is inscribed in the lower margin, “With all good wishes to Robert Redmond, from Bess W.Continue reading "Bess W. Truman Signed Photograph."

$250.00

Item Number: RRB-153480

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Schumpeter, Joseph A.

Business Cycles: A Theoretical, Historical, And Statistical Analysis of the Capitalist Process.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, 1939.

First edition of the economist’s ground-breaking work. Octavo, 2 volumes, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper of volume one, “To Seymour Harris with kind regards Joseph Schumpeter.” The recipient, Harvard economics professor Seymour Harris, was an editor of the book, Schumpeter as Social Scientist and editor of TheContinue reading "Business Cycles: A Theoretical, Historical, And Statistical Analysis of the Capitalist Process."

$50,000.00

Item Number: RRB-4496

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Baldwin, James.

Another Country.

New York: The Dial Press, 1962.

First edition of this classic work, which was nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. Photograph by Roy Hyrkin.

$650.00

Item Number: RRB-153489

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Heikes, Victor C.; George F. Kunz.

Mines and Mining Men of Colorado.

Denver, Colorado: John G. Canfield, 1893.

First edition of this exceedingly rare pictorial record of gold and silver mining in Colorado and the Rocky Mountain region, issued at Denver during the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. Oblong quarto, later cloth-backed marbled boards, the upper cover hand-titled, illustrated throughout with views from photographs of the principal mines, camps, and mining men of theContinue reading "Mines and Mining Men of Colorado."

$6,500.00

Item Number: RRB-153460

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Watson, James D.

The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA.

New York: Atheneum, 1969.

First edition of Watson’s groundbreaking work regarding the discovery of DNA for which the author, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1962. Octavo, original blue cloth, with numerous diagrams and photographic illustrations. Boldly signed by James Watson on the title page in person at Harvard College. Near fineContinue reading "The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA."

$4,000.00

Item Number: RRB-153803

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Wiesel, Elie.

La Nuit.

Paris: Les Editions De Minuit, 1958.

First French edition, later edition, preceding the first English edition, of Wiesel’s classic first work. Octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed by Elie Wiesel on the title page. In near fine condition. Preface by Francois Mauriac.

$2,000.00

Item Number: RRB-153468

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