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Dickens, Charles

Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi. Edited by “Boz.”

London : Richard Bentley, 1838.

First edition of Dickens’ popular retelling of the memoirs of celebrated English clown Joseph Grimaldi. Octavo, two volumes bound in full polished calf by Root with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt titles and tooling to the spin in six compartments within raised gilt bands, double gilt rulings to the panels, gilt turn-ins andContinue reading "Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi. Edited by “Boz.”"

$2,500.00

Item Number: RRB-148217

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Gorbachev, Mikhail [Lech Walesa]

Memoirs.

New York : Doubleday, 1996.

First edition of Gorbachev’s autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Mikhail Gorbachev and additionally signed by Lech Walesa on the title page. Lech Wałęsa is a Polish labor leader and statesman who co-founded Solidarity, the first independent trade union in the Soviet bloc, which became a driving force in the struggle againstContinue reading "Memoirs."

$2,800.00

Item Number: RRB-150442

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Herzl, Theodor. Translated by Lotta Levensohn. Preface by Stephen S. Wise [David Ben-Gurion]

Old-New Land [“Altneuland”].

New York : Bloch Publishing Co, 1941.

First edition in English of Herzl’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. A gifted copy accompanied by a slip from the first prime minister of the State of Israel, David Ben-Gurion, laid in, “With Compliments from D. Ben-Gurion.” David Ben-Gurion (1886–1973) and Theodor Herzl (1860–1904) were two of the most significant figures in the history ofContinue reading "Old-New Land [“Altneuland”]."

$4,000.00

Item Number: RRB-149223

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Wozniak, Steve

iWoz.

New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2006.

First edition, early printing of this work which “traces the life and times of a brilliant, gifted…individual whose contributions to the scientific, business and cultural realms are extensive” (Bookpage). Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by Steve Wozniak on the title page, “To Cindy Woz.” Fine in aContinue reading "iWoz."

$450.00

Item Number: RRB-149297

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Clark, Jim [Stirling Moss]

Jim Clark At The Wheel: The World Motor Racing Champion’s Own Story.

London : Arthur Barker Limited, 1964.

First edition of the racing legend’s autobiography. Octavo, original publisher’s green cloth, top stain blue, illustrated with black and white photographs. Signed by Stirling Moss on the front free endpaper. Sir Stirling Moss was a British former Formula One racing driver. An inductee into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame, he won 212 of theContinue reading "Jim Clark At The Wheel: The World Motor Racing Champion’s Own Story."

$475.00

Item Number: RRB-149315

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Roosevelt, Theodore

Through the Brazilian Wilderness.

New York : Charles Scribners Sons, 1914.

First edition of this classic adventure taken by Theodore Roosevelt. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, top edge gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece. Illustrated from photographs taken by Kermit Roosevelt and other members of the expedition, and with 3 maps, including 1 folding in the rear. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the authorContinue reading "Through the Brazilian Wilderness."

$6,000.00

Item Number: RRB-149263

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Benson, Arthur Christopher [John Maynard Keynes] [J.M.]

The Leaves of the Tree: Studies in Biography.

London : Smith, Elder, & Co, 1911.

First edition of this work on the challenges of writing biography. Octavo, bound in full synthetic leather with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands. Association copy, inscribed twice by John Maynard Keynes to his mother Florence Ada Keynes, once on the title page without the date and once onContinue reading "The Leaves of the Tree: Studies in Biography."

$4,800.00

Item Number: RRB-149266

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Churchill, Winston S

My Early Life; Thoughts and Adventures; Great Contemporaries; Step by Step.

London : Odhams Press Limited, 1936-1939.

First Odhams press edition of four of Churchill’s best-known works. Octavo, 4 volumes, original cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page in My Early Life, “To E.T. Vassallo from Winston S. Churchill, 1948. ” With a typed letter signed by Nina Edith Sturdee, Churchill‘s privateContinue reading "My Early Life; Thoughts and Adventures; Great Contemporaries; Step by Step."

$15,000.00

Item Number: RRB-150502

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Smith, James Edward; Edited by Lady Smith

Memoir and Correspondence of the Late Sir James Edward Smith, M.D.

London : Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1832.

First edition of this comprehensive biographical portrait of one of Britain’s most influential botanists and founders of the Linnean Society, compiled by his widow Pleasance Smith. Octavo, two volumes, bound in half-cloth with paper titles to the spine. In near fine condition. Edited by Lady Smith.

$375.00

Item Number: RRB-149484

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Maris, Roger; Jim Ogle

Roger Maris At Bat.

New York : Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1962.

First edition of this baseball legend’s autobiography. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, signed by Roger Maris and inscribed by co-author Jim Ogle on the front free endpaper. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed.

$1,800.00

Item Number: RRB-150487

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Acheson, Dean

Present At The Creation: My Years In The State Department.

New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 1969.

First edition of Acheson’s Pulitzer-Prize-winning classic. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “For Vera and Reed Rolfo with the best wishes of Dean Acheson October 1969.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. Jacket design by Miriam Woods. PhotographContinue reading "Present At The Creation: My Years In The State Department."

$1,250.00

Item Number: RRB-150469

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[Napoleon Bonaparte]. Emil Ludwig. Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul

Napoleon. [Cosway Binding].

London : George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1927.

Elaborately bound Cosway style first edition in English of Emil Ludwig’s biography of Napoleon Bonaparte. Octavo, bound by Bayntun-Riviere in full Cosway style scarlet morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, inset ivorene hand-painted portrait of Napoleon depicting him with medals to the front panel, giltContinue reading "Napoleon. [Cosway Binding]."

$7,500.00

Item Number: RRB-150488

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Auchincloss, Louis; Gary Hart; Michael F. Holt; George McGovern; Garry Wills; Et. Al

The American Presidents.

New York : Times Books, 2004-2015.

Collection of biographies of the presidents of the United States. Octavo, forty-one volumes, frontispiece portrait to each volume, original boards. Each are near fine to fine in near fine to fine dust jackets.

$950.00

Item Number: RRB-146356

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Davis, Angela Y

Angela Davis: An Autobiography.

New York : Random House, 1974.

First edition of this classic autobiography by “activist. An author. A scholar. An abolitionist. A legend” (Ibram X. Kendi). Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the title page, “To Brandy, In Struggle, Angela Y. Davis 11/18/74.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket designContinue reading "Angela Davis: An Autobiography."

$1,400.00

Item Number: RRB-150492

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Joy, Charles R. & Arnold, Melvin [Albert Schweitzer]

The Africa of Albert Schweitzer.

New York and Boston : Harper & Brothers/The Beacon Press, 1948.

First edition of this work by the legendary Nobel laureate. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. Boldly signed by Albert Schweitzer and his wife Helene on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase. An exceptional example, uncommon signed by both Albert and Helene Schweitzer.

$1,250.00

Item Number: RRB-147643

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Isaacson, Walter; Evan Thomas

The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made.

New York : Simon and Schuster, 1986.

First edition of this biography on how six influential American statesmen shaped U.S. foreign policy and the global order during the Cold War. Octavo, original publisher’s half-cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Boldly signed by Walter Isaacson on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, inscriptions to the front andContinue reading "The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made."

$650.00

Item Number: RRB-149197

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Churchill, Winston S

My Early Life; Thoughts and Adventures; Great Contemporaries; Step by Step.

London : Odhams Press Limited, 1936-1939.

First Odhams press edition of four of Churchill’s best-known works. Octavo, 4 volumes, original cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, illustrated. Presentation set, inscribed by Churchill to his financial adviser on the front free endpaper of My Early Life, “To T.E.R. Harris from Winston S. Churchill Christmas 1947” and initialed by ChurchillContinue reading "My Early Life; Thoughts and Adventures; Great Contemporaries; Step by Step."

$17,500.00

Item Number: RRB-131601

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Greenlaw, Olga S

The Lady and the Tigers.

New York : E. P. Dutton, 1943.

First edition, early printing of this memoir from the official war diarist for the “Flying Tigers”. Octavo, original publisher’s orange cloth, cartographic endpapers, frontispiece of the author, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the verso of the front free endpaper, “To Mrs. Philippe Coombes, who has contributedContinue reading "The Lady and the Tigers."

$975.00

Item Number: RRB-149143

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Goldsmith, Warren [steve McQueen; Julie Andrews; Dick Van Dyke; Lucille Ball; Natalie Wood; Warren Beatty; Joan Crawford; et al.]

Film Fame.

Beverly Hills, California : Fame Publishing, 1966.

First edition of this collection of one hundred actors and actresses that transformed cinema into a defining form of twentieth-century mass entertainment. Imperial octavo, custom bound half-cloth with green boards, illustrated with black and white photographs throughout. Boldly signed or inscribed “To Tony” in felt tip on the actors and actresses respective entry pages, includingContinue reading "Film Fame."

$3,500.00

Item Number: RRB-149124

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Chennault, Claire Lee; Robert Hotz [Editor]

Way of a Fighter: The Memoirs of Claire Lee Chennault.

Tucson, Arizona : James Thorvardson & Sons, 1991.

Limited edition of this autobiographical account of Chennault’s military career. Octavo, original green cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with black and white photographs. Boldly signed on the colophon page in black felt tip by sixteen members of the Flying Tigers, including: Tex Hill, Ken Jernstedt, Charles Mott, Paul J. Greene, Dick Rossi, Joe Rosbert, Bob Layher,Continue reading "Way of a Fighter: The Memoirs of Claire Lee Chennault."

$2,250.00

Item Number: RRB-149141

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Glaser, Milton

Milton Glaser: Graphic Design.

Woodstock, NY : The Overlook Press, 1973.

First edition of this seminal collection that showcases Glaser’s influential works and design philosophy. Square quarto, original publisher’s cloth, pictorial endpapers, profusely illustrated throughout, with publisher’s colophon label placed over original colophon text. Boldly signed and dated in the year of publication by the author on the second free endpaper, “Milton Glaser 1973.” Near fineContinue reading "Milton Glaser: Graphic Design."

$475.00

Item Number: RRB-149144

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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 design by Robin Schiff. Jacket art by Steven Dana. Author photograph by Warren Browne. Accompanied by a business card from “PresidentContinue reading "Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance."

$4,000.00

Item Number: RRB-149164

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Blumberg, Stanley A.; Gwinn Owens; Edward Teller

Energy and Conflict: The Life and Times of Edward Teller.

New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1976.

First edition of this biography on legendary theoretical physicist Edward Teller. Octavo, original publisher’s orange cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Ruby M. Ness with thanks Edward Teller.” Fine in a very good dust jacket with wear to the extremities, signature toContinue reading "Energy and Conflict: The Life and Times of Edward Teller."

$950.00

Item Number: RRB-149165

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Knopf, Alfred A

The Borzoi 1925: Being a Sort of Record of Ten Years of Publishing.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1925.

First trade edition of this commemorative volume that showcases the publishing house’s first decade. Octavo, publisher’s original half-cloth over marbled boards, top stain black, Borzoi Books logo with Russian Wolfhound endpapers, title page vignette, illustrated with portraits of Alfred A. Knopf, Blanche W. Knopf, and of the contributing authors. In very good condition.

$40.00

Item Number: RRB-149170

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