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The Story of My Boyhood and Youth

Muir, John

The Story of My Boyhood and Youth.

Boston and New York : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913.

First edition, first issue with the biting criticism of his neighbor’s treatment of his son on p. 217: “…none was bold enough or kind enough to break the blacksmith’s jaw” (Kimes 315) of Muir’s autobiography of his youth. Octavo, original publisher’s illustrated cloth with gilt titles and black stamping to the spine and front panel,Continue reading "The Story of My Boyhood and Youth."

$475.00

Item Number: RRB-149353

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Spartacus.

Fast, Howard

Spartacus.

New York : Published by the Author, 1951.

First edition of this work, basis for the classic 1960 film starring Kirk Douglas. Boldly signed by Howard Fast on a page bound-in. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panel,Continue reading "Spartacus."

$1,200.00

Item Number: RRB-150338

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Bows and Arrows

Pope, Saxton T

A Study of Bows and Arrows.

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, n.d.

First edition of Pope’s classic work on bowhunting. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with 20 halftone photo plates. From the collection of Douglas Mauldin, although not marked. Douglas Mauldin acquired and became of the publisher of the Derrydale Press in the late 1980s, and reprinted this book in the “Legends of the Longbow Series.” Near fineContinue reading "A Study of Bows and Arrows."

$600.00

Item Number: RRB-133052

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History of Europe

Alison, Sir Archibald [Millard Fillmore]

History of Europe: From the Fall of Napoleon in MDCCCXV to the Accession of Louis Napoleon in MDCCCLII Vol IV.

Edinburgh and London : William Blackwood and Sons, 1855.

Early edition of this influential work chronicling European events from the French Revolution to the mid-19th century. Sir Archibald Alison was a Scottish historian, writer, and advocate whose most notable contributions were in the realm of historical and philosophical writing. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, floral border details stamped in blind.Continue reading "History of Europe: From the Fall of Napoleon in MDCCCXV to the Accession of Louis Napoleon in MDCCCLII Vol IV."

$2,800.00

Item Number: RRB-148824

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Il Decameron

Boccaccio, Giovanni

Il Decameron Di Messer Giovanni Boccacci, Tratto dall’ ottimo Testo scritto Da Francesco D’Amaretto Mannelli Sull’Originale Dell’Autor.

1813 : Vitarelli, Venezia.

Finely bound 19th century Venetian printing of Boccaccio’s masterpiece. 12mo, five volumes bound in full straight grain morocco with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges gilt, ribbons bound in,Continue reading "Il Decameron Di Messer Giovanni Boccacci, Tratto dall’ ottimo Testo scritto Da Francesco D’Amaretto Mannelli Sull’Originale Dell’Autor."

$2,200.00

Item Number: RRB-149651

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Good Shabbos Everybody

Garvey, Robert. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak

Good Shabbos, Everybody.

: United Synagogue of America, 1951.

First edition of this charming picture book celebrating the Shabbat, with early illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Quarto, original pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers. Boldly signed by Maurice Sendak on the title page. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Leonard Weisgard, Art Consultant. In very good condition. Exceptionally rare and desirable signed.

$2,500.00

Item Number: RRB-150171

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Sun Tzu on the Art of War

Sun Tzu. Translated by Lionel Giles

Sun Tzu on the Art of War: The Oldest Military Treatise in the World, Translated from the Chinese with Introduction and Critical Notes.

London : Luzac & Co, 1910.

First complete English translation of arguably the best twentieth-century translation of Sun Tzu’s seminal work on military strategy, preceded only by the first translation into French of 1772 by French Jesuit Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, and partial translation into English by British officer Everard Ferguson Calthrop of 1905. Royal octavo, original printed yellow wrappers boundContinue reading "Sun Tzu on the Art of War: The Oldest Military Treatise in the World, Translated from the Chinese with Introduction and Critical Notes."

$20,000.00

Item Number: RRB-149882

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PickWick Papers

Dickens, Charles

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.

London : Chapman and Hall, 1837.

First edition in book form of Dickens’ first novel and one of his greatest works. Octavo, bound in full twentieth-century olive morocco with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands, elaborate gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. Forty-three engraved platesContinue reading "The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club."

$4,000.00

Item Number: RRB-148735

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Arms and the Covenant

Churchill, Winston S

Arms and the Covenant. Speeches by The Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill. Compiled by Randolph S. Churchill.

London : George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1938.

First edition of this important collection of Churchill’s speeches. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

$2,250.00

Item Number: RRB-149282

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Framed handwritten historical letter displayed

Hancock, John

John Hancock Autograph Document Signed.

June 22, 1767.

Rare autograph document signed by John Hancock requesting payment for provisions issued to Troops in Nova Scotia. One page, the manuscript document reads, “Boston June 22d 1767 Sir, At Thirty Days sight of this my Third Bill/First & Second of same tenor and date not paid/please to pay to Messrs. Harrison Barnard & Spragg Merchts. inContinue reading "John Hancock Autograph Document Signed."

$12,500.00

Item Number: RRB-149510

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U.S Air Force

Carpenter, Scott; Gordon Cooper; John Glenn Jr.; Gus Grissom; Alan Shepard; Wally Schirra; D.K. Slayton

Project Mercury Astronauts Signed Photograph.

Langley Air Force Base 1961.

Large color semi-glossy photograph of the Project Mercury astronauts, signed by six of the Mercury Seven. This group shot was taken in front of a Convair F106-B aircraft at Langley Air Force Base on January 20, 1961. Inscribed or signed next to their respective images in black felt tip: “We are seven privileged men, ScottContinue reading "Project Mercury Astronauts Signed Photograph."

$3,800.00

Item Number: RRB-148754

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Framed display featuring a portrait of Winston Churchill

Churchill, Winston S

Winston Churchill Typed Letter Signed.

July 30, 1958.

Typed letter signed by Winston Churchill to Edward J. LaVallin, president of the Philadelphia Business Club. One page, typescript on Churchill’s Hyde Park Gate letterhead, the letter is dated July 30, 1958, addressed to Mr. Edward J. Vallin, President, Philadelphia Business Club and reads in full: “Thank you so much for your most agreeable letter tellingContinue reading "Winston Churchill Typed Letter Signed."

$3,200.00

Item Number: RRB-149125

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Patrick, Stewart [Madeleine K. Albright]

The Sovereignty Wars: Reconciling America with the World.

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2018.

First edition of this thought provoking work about the United States and its interactions with other countries around the globe. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth, bookplate to the front pastedown from “The Private Collection of Secretary Madeleine K. Albright.” Accompanied by a typed autograph letter from Richard N. Haass of the Council on Foreign RelationsContinue reading "The Sovereignty Wars: Reconciling America with the World."

$375.00

Item Number: RRB-147596

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Where the Boys are

Rabin, Yitzhak

The Rabin Memoirs.

Boston : Little, Brown & Company and G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1979 & 1997.

First edition in English of the memoirs of Yitzhak Rabin. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Norme And Murty Lee With friendship Y. Rabin 8.25.80.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by John Renfer. PhotographContinue reading "The Rabin Memoirs."

$1,050.00

Item Number: RRB-150007

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1974 Christmas card

Kelly, Grace Patricia. [Princess Grace of Monaco]

Princess Grace of Monaco Signed Royal Christmas Card.

1974.

Royal 1974 Christmas and New Year Card with a mounted color photograph of Prince Rainier and Princess Grace with their three children Princess Caroline, Prince Albert II, Princess Stéphanie. Octavo, folding card with mounted color photograph, gilt royal seal and red ruling to the front panel. Signed and inscribed by Princess Grace, “Dear Lucile MerryContinue reading "Princess Grace of Monaco Signed Royal Christmas Card."

$1,250.00

Item Number: RRB-149540

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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

Dahl, Roald

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1972.

First edition of the sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, continuing the story of young Charlie Bucket and eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka as they travel in the Great Glass Elevator. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated by Joseph Schindelman. Boldly signed by Roald Dahl on the front free endpaper and the illustrator on the titleContinue reading "Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator."

$6,500.00

Item Number: RRB-150100

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The End of the Game

Beard, Peter Hill

The End of the Game.

New York : The Viking Press, 1965.

First edition of the photographer’s first book with over 75 black-and-white and color photographic plates. Tall quarto, original ivory cloth. Boldly signed by Peter Beard on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Uncommon signed.

$4,800.00

Item Number: RRB-150093

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My Life in New Orleans

Armstrong, Louis [Barney Bigard]

Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans.

New York : Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1954.

First edition of the autobiography of one of the most influential figures in the history of jazz, Louis “Pops” Armstrong. Octavo, original half cloth, top stain red, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with black and white photographs. Boldly signed by the musician and his bandmate, jazz clarinetist Barney Bigard, on the half-title page. Barney Bigard (1906–1980) wasContinue reading "Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans."

$2,500.00

Item Number: RRB-148635

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Hand-colored antique world map

Albrizzi, Giambattista; Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

Mappamondo o sia Descrizione Generale Del Globo Terrestre Ed Acquatico.

Venice : Giambattista Albrizzi, c. 1750.

Fine hand-colored example of Albrizzi’s double hemisphere map of the World, one of the most elaborately decorated world maps to appear in mid-18th century Italy and a beautiful example of the Italian school of commercial cartography. One page, the map includes a finely executed armillary sphere, explorer’s routes, unknown NW Coast of America, incomplete projectionsContinue reading "Mappamondo o sia Descrizione Generale Del Globo Terrestre Ed Acquatico."

$5,000.00

Item Number: RRB-149274

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Auden, W.H

Epistle To A Godson & Other Poems.

London : Faber and Faber, 1972.

First edition of this classic collection of poems. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by W.H. Auden on the front free endpaper with the first three stanzas of “Doggerel by a Senior Citizen” which reads in full: “Our earth in 1969 / Is not the planet I call mine, / The words, I mean, that givesContinue reading "Epistle To A Godson & Other Poems."

$4,500.00

Item Number: RRB-147647

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The Legion Book

Churchill, Winston S.; Aldous Huxley; Hilaire Belloc; Jacob Epstein; Eric Gill; Mark Gertler; David Low; John Lavery; Rudyard Kipling; Laura Knight; William Nicholson; Paul Nash; Charles Ricketts; Edith Sitwell; Vita Sackville‑West; Stanley Spencer; W. Heath Robinson; W. H. Davies; Rebecca West; P. G. Wodehouse et al. Edited by Captain James Humphrey Cotton Minchin

The Legion Book.

London : Privately printed by The Curwen Press for H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, 1929.

First and limited deluxe edition of the monumental Legion Book; one of only one hundred numbered copies printed for private distribution by the Prince of Wales and signed by a remarkable array of British writers and artists, as well as four prime ministers. Quarto, original publisher’s full deluxe pigskin over boards elaborately decorated in blindContinue reading "The Legion Book."

$16,500.00

Item Number: RRB-149534

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Peking: The Beautiful

White, Herbert C. [Art Director]. Introduction by Hu Shih, Ph.D

Peking The Beautiful.

Shanghai, China : The Commercial Press, Limited, 1927.

First edition of White’s fine photographic study of the monuments of Shanghai. Folio, original royal blue embroidered silk pictorial boards, illustrated with seventy mounted color and monochrome photographic plates of the celebrated monuments of China’s Northern Capital and its environs complete with descriptive and historical notes by Herbert C. White, Art Director of Signed ofContinue reading "Peking The Beautiful."

$9,800.00

Item Number: RRB-149511

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Treasure Island

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Treasure Island.

London : Cassell & Company, Limted, 1883.

First edition, first issue of Stevenson’s timeless tale of adventure which set the gold standard for the pirate genre, following all first issue points, except the ads, which correspond to Beinecke 242. With the following first issue points: “dead man’s chest” not capitalized on pp. 2 or 7; broken type of “vain” in the lastContinue reading "Treasure Island."

$7,500.00

Item Number: RRB-149155

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How to Play Winning Tennis

Laver, Rod; As Told to Jack Pollard

How To Play Winning Tennis.

London : Pelham Books, 1964.

First edition of the tennis legends first book. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Inscribed by the author on the title page, “To James Best Wishes Rod Laver.” Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.

$600.00

Item Number: RRB-150021

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