Program signed [Spingarn Medal award ceremony]

SIGNED BY JACKIE ROBINSON

(ROBINSON, Jackie) NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE. Program signed [Spingarn Medal award ceremony]. New York, 1956.

Original 1956 program from the awarding of the NAACP's prestigious Spingarn Medal, "awarded annually for the highest achievement of an American Negro," signed on the front cover by that year's recipient Jackie Robinson in blue ink. Also signed by television personality and presenter of the award Ed Sullivan, boxer Floyd Patterson, activist and NAACP Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins, and two other attendees. $8500.

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Collection of pirated editions of Tarantula

"THE LUMBERJACKS ARE COMING!"

DYLAN, Bob. Collection of pirated editions of Tarantula. Various places, 1966-70.

Scarce collection of 10 pirated editions of Dylan's first book, an experimental fusion of poetry and prose—"wacky, serio-comic improvisations which both satirize and excoriate the American scene." $5800.

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Alaska. Narrative, Glaciers, Natives.

“THE PANORAMA OF SNOW CLOUD MOUNTAINS IS BEYOND DESCRIPTION”

(CURTIS, Edward) HARRIMAN ALASKA EXPEDITION. Alaska. Narrative, Glaciers, Natives. New York, 1901. Two volumes.

First edition account of the 1899 Harriman Expedition to Alaska, with 39 color plates (including 16 heliotype plates of coastal birds by Louis Agassiz Fuertes), 85 full-page photogravures (45 by Edward S. Curtis), five maps and numerous in-text illustrations. $5000.

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Iraq in War Time

'IRAQ IN WAR TIME, CIRCA 1918, WITH DOZENS OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS OF IRAQ AND SAUDI ARABIA DURING WORLD WAR I

PHILBY, Harry St. John Bridger. Iraq in War Time. Basrah, Iraq, circa 1918.

Second edition of the first Western book to be published on Iraq and Najd (a region encompassing the center of Saudi Arabia), lavishly photo-illustrated with a section of Saudi Arabian photographs taken by Harry Philby. $4200.

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Boxiana

“THE MANLY ART OF BOXING”:1823 BOXIANA, WITH FINE ENGRAVED PLATES

EGAN, Pierce. Boxiana. London, 1823. Five volumes.

Early edition of this boxing classic, with 50 engraved plates, including an engraved vignette title page in Volume I, 45 portraits, and four folding plates of boxing matches, handsomely bound by Bayntun. $3000.

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Stanley Cup Playoffs Program signed

SIGNED BY NINE NEW YORK ISLANDERS AND THREE OTHER NEW YORKERS, INCLUDING THE POTVIN BROTHERS, RANGER ROD GILBERT, AND YANKEES BOOBY BONDS AND RUDY MAY

(HOCKEY). Stanley Cup Playoffs Program signed. New York, 1975.

Program for the 1975 first round Stanley Cup playoffs between the New York Rangers and the New York Islanders, signed on the front cover and inside by nine of the Islanders, Yankees Bobby Bonds and Rudy May, and inscribed by Ranger Rod Gilbert. $1600.

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