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Rare finely bound example of the Theirs Atlas, containing 66 maps and battle plans drawn by two of the best cartographers of Second Empire. Quarto, quarter cloth over marbled boards, illustrated with...

First edition of this work documenting Lyndon B. Johnson’s family tree, prepared for him by his mother as a Christmas present to her son. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Introduction b...

First edition, signed limited edition of Smith’s account of the relationship between the Migrant Ministry and National Farm Workers Association in the 1960s farmworkers’ movement. Octavo,...

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning economist’s work on closing the gender wage gap. Octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed by Claudia Goldin on the title page. In fine condition. Cover d...

First American edition of Kipling’s second collection of military poems and short stories. Octavo, original boards with paper spine label and large paper label to the front panel decorated with...

First edition of the history of The Commercial Bank of Scotland. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt, illustrated, frontispiece portrait of General Manager John M. Erskine. Signed by Erskine bene...

First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer’s work on Civil War Union Army General William Tecumseh Sherman; from W. T. Sherman’s library. Octavo, original publisher’s clo...

First edition of this memoir of prominent British politician Anthony Eden. Octavo, bound in full modern morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, top e...

First edition of this finely illustrated work by David Ben-Gurion. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Ben Shahn. Translated from the Hebrew by...

First edition of this collection of this collection of policy addresses. Octavo, original wrappers, illustrated with graphs and photographs. Boldly signed by President George W. Bush on the front cove...

First edition of this illustrated work of the American people in the early twentieth century. Quarto, original illustrated cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by both authors, “For...

First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original boards. Signed by the Amartya Sen on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

First edition of this memoir detailing the author’s life from the Russian Revolution to the Gorbachev era. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed in Russian by Nicholas...

First edition of these powerful testimonies gathered presented sweeping a personal history of SNCC. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed in the year of publication by Jean Smith Young...

First edition of the autobiography of LaSalle Corbell Pickett, wife of Confederate General George Pickett. Duodecimo, original cloth, top edge gilt, frontispiece portrait of the author dated January 1...

First edition of Gati’s examination on Hungary’s relationship with the Soviet Union. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by author on the front free endpaper,...

First edition of this acclaimed biography of the second president of the United States. Octavo, original half cloth, with black and white illustrations. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on t...

First edition. Octavo, three quarters leather over marbled boards. In very good condition.

First edition of this wonderful overview of Venice. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “Valerie from 1/2 brother Gore Vidal.”...

Second edition of Dewees’ inaugural dissertation for M.D. at the University of Pennsylvania. Octavo, original boards. In good condition.

Collection of seven of Bob Woodward’s famous works from President Richard Nixon to President Donald Trump. Octavo, seven volumes, original publisher’s cloth or half-cloth, six volumes illu...

First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Carl Van Doren on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. An exceptional exam...

First edition of this Bancroft Prize-winning global history arguing that cotton was the foundational engine of modern capitalism. Octavo, original publisher’s half-cloth, illustrated throughout....

First edition of historian Mills’ “moving account” of the 1964 Freedom Summer campaign for Black voting rights. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the autho...