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McElroy, Robert [Grover Cleveland]

Grover Cleveland The Man and The Statesman: An Authorized Biography.

New York and London : Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1923.

First edition of this informative view of Grover Cleveland’s two terms in office. Octavo, two volumes, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, top edge gilt, tissue-guarded frontispieces. Very good in very good dust jackets, some toning to the spines of the dust jackets with multiple small losses and closed tears. Rare and desirable.

$850.00

Item Number: RRB-147737

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Waters, R.J

Early Twentieth Century R.J. Waters Ship Photograph Collection.

[1856-1937].

Collection of approximately 393 photographic prints of ships in the San Francisco Harbor, taken at the turn of the twentieth century. Photographs of full rigged sailing ships, clipper ships, whaling barks, tramp steamers, steam trawlers, and a torpedo boat are in the collection, many stamped Waters Company or R.J. Waters & Co., San Francisco. ShipsContinue reading "Early Twentieth Century R.J. Waters Ship Photograph Collection."

$2,800.00

Item Number: RRB-147681

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Baring-Gould, Sabine

Onward, Christian Soldiers.

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Rare original autograph manuscript of the famous hymn. Quarto, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling and detailing to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. Tipped onto a leaf along left margin of a largerContinue reading "Onward, Christian Soldiers."

$6,000.00

Item Number: RRB-147736

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Bloch, Robert

Twilight Zone: The Movie.

New York : Warner Books, Inc, 1983.

First edition of the novelization of the classic film. 12mo, original pictorial wrappers, illustrated with a 16-page insert of black and white photographs from the film. Boldly signed by Robert Bloch on the title page. In near fine condition. Small hole punch in the upper right corner of the front wrapper.

$475.00

Item Number: RRB-148054

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Neutra, Richard

Survival Through Design.

New York : Oxford University Press, 1954.

First edition of this work by one of the great modernist architects of the twentieth century. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by Richard Neutra on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

$975.00

Item Number: RRB-147720

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Dickens, Charles

Oliver Twist.

London : Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars, 1846.

Early edition of Dickens’s classic second novel. Octavo, bound in full calf, full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, frontispiece, with twenty-four illustrations on steel by George Cruikshank. InContinue reading "Oliver Twist."

$975.00

Item Number: RRB-147626

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Eliot, George

Felix Holt: The Radical.

Edinburgh and London : William Blackwood and Sons, 1866.

First edition of this classic political work. Sextodecimo, three volumes, half-calf bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. In very good condition with rubbing to the hinges and extremities, light toning.

$800.00

Item Number: RRB-147727

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First Edition of Charles Dickens' Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty

Dickens, Charles

Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty.

London : Chapman and Hall, 1841.

First edition of Charles Dickens’ fifth novel. Royal octavo, bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and elaborate tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, all edges sprayed reddish-brown, with black and white illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot K. Browne.In very good condition.

$700.00

Item Number: RRB-147726

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Schwimmer, Rosika [Eleanor Roosevelt]

Tisza Tales.

Garden City, NY : Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc, 1928.

First edition of this enchanting work of Hungarian folklore. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles and detailing to the spine and front panel, pictorial endpapers, frontispiece with an additional illustrated title page, illustrated with color plates and black and white plates by Willy Pogány. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page,Continue reading "Tisza Tales."

$600.00

Item Number: RRB-147722

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Langello, Charles J. [Harry S. Truman]

Log of the President’s Vacation Cruise: August 16, 1946 to September 2, 1946.

1946.

Rare keepsake book of President Truman’s 18-day vacation cruise, known as “A Journey into Nowhere.” The log records activities including games, fishing, and reports of members, featuring visits to Quonset Point, Rhode Island; Hamilton, Bermuda; and Hampton Roads, Virginia. Octavo, pictorial front cover, blue plastic comb binding, illustrated with black and white photographs. Unlike someContinue reading "Log of the President’s Vacation Cruise: August 16, 1946 to September 2, 1946."

$500.00

Item Number: RRB-147718

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Foer, Jonathan Safran [Barbra Streisand] [Madeleine K. Albright]

We Are The Weather: Saving The Planet Begins At Breakfast.

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.

First edition of this urgent work on global warming. Octavo, original publisher’s boards, bookplate to the front pastedown from “The Private Collection of Secretary Madeleine K. Albright.” Accompanied by a manuscript note laid in, “Secretary Madeleine Albright, From Barbra Streisand.” Singer, Songwriter, and environmental activist, Streisand and Albright were close friends since they met in 1993Continue reading "We Are The Weather: Saving The Planet Begins At Breakfast."

$500.00

Item Number: RRB-147595

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[MacLean, Lyell]

Manuscript Diary of an Ocean Voyage to the Far East in 1927.

1927.

Rare manuscript diary kept during an ocean voyage aboard the steamer ship Korean Maru from California to Hawaii and the Far East, as far as Ceylon, where the account ends. Octavo, bound in red morocco with clasp, illustrated with sketches in the margins, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Accompanied by a postcard of the S.S.Continue reading "Manuscript Diary of an Ocean Voyage to the Far East in 1927."

$1,500.00

Item Number: RRB-147717

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O'Hanlon, Michael; Mike Mochizuki [Madeleine K. Albright]

Crisis On the Korean Peninsula: How To Deal With a Nuclear North Korea.

New York : McGraw-Hill, 2003.

First edition of Michael O’Hanlon and Mike Mochizuki’s broad and ambitious program for the United States and its allies to defuse North Korea’s military threat. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth, illustrated with black and white maps, bookplate to the front pastedown from “The Private Collection of Secretary Madeleine K. Albright.” Association copy, inscribed by theContinue reading "Crisis On the Korean Peninsula: How To Deal With a Nuclear North Korea."

$475.00

Item Number: RRB-147590

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Widney, J.P. [Eleanor Roosevelt]

The Lure and The Land: An Idyl of the Pacific.

Los Angeles, CA : Pacific Publishing Company, 1932.

Limited first edition, one of one thousand copies of this collection of poems about the Pacific Coast. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, frontispiece, illustrated with black and white photographs. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front pastedown, “To Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt from the author, J.P. Widney.”Continue reading "The Lure and The Land: An Idyl of the Pacific."

$750.00

Item Number: RRB-147697

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Peixotto, Ernest

Romantic California.

New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912.

Finely bound edition of this classic in travel and tourism for the state of California. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised bands with a design of a California mission and bell on the front panel, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt,Continue reading "Romantic California."

$750.00

Item Number: RRB-147696

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Underwood, John J

Alaska: An Empire in the Making.

New York : Dodd, Mead and Company, 1913.

First edition of this comprehensive history of Alaska. Octavo, original cloth with white and blue pictorial detailing, frontispiece, folding map, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper. In near fine condition.

$750.00

Item Number: RRB-147680

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Schirra, Captain Walter M. Jr [Wally]; Richard N. Billings; Jack Lousma; Mario Runco; Bill Shepherd; Bill Readdy; Alan Shepard

Schirra’s Space.

Boston : Quinlan Press, 1988.

First edition of this revealing autobiography of Captain Walter M. Schirra, Jr. Octavo, original blue boards, gilt titles to the spine, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by Wally Schirra and Jack Lousma on the front free endpaper and also signed by astronauts Mario Runco, Bill Shepherd, Bill Readdy, and Alan Shepard.Continue reading "Schirra’s Space."

$750.00

Item Number: RRB-147678

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First Edition of Lori D. Ginzberg's Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life; from the library of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg; Inscribed by Bill Bader

Ginzberg, Lori D. [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life.

New York : Hill and Wang, A Division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.

First edition of this biography about one of the founding philosophers of the American movement for women’s rights. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, illustrated with black and white photographs. Association copy, inscribed by Bill Bader on the half-title page, “For Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, With respect and best wishes on her birthday, Bill Bader, 8 March 2011.” American lawyerContinue reading "Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life."

$3,800.00

Item Number: RRB-147665

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Dickens, Charles

The Pic Nic Papers.

London : Henry Colburn, 1841.

First edition, first issue of this anthology edited by Charles Dickens. Small octavo, three volumes, bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, frontispiece to each volume, all edges red, with illustrations by George Cruikshank. In very good condition, bookplatesContinue reading "The Pic Nic Papers."

$650.00

Item Number: RRB-147636

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Benjamin, Daniel; Steven Simon [Madeleine K. Albright]

The Next Attack: The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting It Right.

New York : Times Books, 2005.

First edition about the war against radical Islam and what we need to do to combat the real threat. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “11/1/05 To Madeleine- With great respect and gratitude for all your doing to get us going. The right election again.Continue reading "The Next Attack: The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting It Right."

$650.00

Item Number: RRB-147587

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