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First edition of one of the most consequential works in the history of modern linguistics and one of the landmark intellectual publications of the twentieth century. Octavo, original wrappers. Lengthi...

Olga Roosevelt’s autograph book, lengthily inscribed and signed by Theodore Roosevelt as President of the United States, William Howard Taft as Vice President of the United States and several ot...

First edition of the famed suffragette’s sensational novel. Octavo, three volumes, original pictorial cloth, half-titles, vol. 1 with 20 pages of advertisements dated March 1894. In very good co...

First edition of this important work by the famed theologian. Octavo, bound in contemporary calf. In very good condition, contemporary names to the front free endpaper. First editions are rare.

Official NASA color photograph of the Apollo 11 liftoff. Color satin-finish photograph of the liftoff of the Apollo 11 mission from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A on July 16, 1969. Boldly s...

First edition of one of the most influential and popular expositions of classical liberalism ever published. Octavo, original black cloth. The British edition (which this example is) was published in...

First edition of “the only edition of Franklin’s writings (other than his scientific) printed during his lifetime” (Ford). Octavo, bound half diced calf over marbled boards with elab...

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...

First edition of this memoir from one of the most well regarded generals, “oft-consulted and much-quoted reminiscences … Sherman wrote as he fought; dynamically and bluntly” (Nevins II, 89). Oct...

First edition in English of this important work on government by Aristotle. Quarto, bound in contemporary half calf over marbled boards, full, morocco spine label, raised bands. In very good condition...

First edition of this work by Cary, a pioneer in the field of economics. Small octavo, bound in full contemporary calf, raised bands, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, marbled endpapers. In very g...

First edition of one of the very first law books printed in colonial America, contains the first American printing of Magna Carta and other fundamental documents of individual liberty in Anglo-America...

First American editions of Winston Churchill’s masterpiece, preceding the British editions. Octavo, six volumes, original cloth, illustrated. Triumph and Tragedy is inscribed by the author on th...

Rare first edition of “the most important general history of early South Seas discoveries, containing practically everything of importance on the subject; collected from all sources, with the mo...

First edition of one of the greatest contributions to twentieth-century American Conservatism. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Russell Kirk on the title page. Fine in a very good dust jacket....

First editions of the author’s authoritative text on The Civil War. Octavo, three volumes, original publisher’s cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with 141 maps especially designed...

First edition in English of Aristotle’s’ enormously influential work on government, the only edition in the English language published during the 18th century. Quarto, bound in full contem...

Exceedingly rare first appearance in print of Washington’s Funeral Oration, featured on the front page of the Wednesday, January 15 1800 issue of the Pennsylvania Gazette. Folio, four pages, the...

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning economist’s groundbreaking work. Octavo, original blue cloth with titles and frontispiece in gilt. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the fron...

Early printing of the central text of the Christian Science which continues to rank as a best-seller to this day. Octavo, bound in contemporary three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles...

Limited edition de luxe, numbered 85 of 280 copies signed on the recto of the limitation leaf by E.H. Shackleton, James Murray and George Marston. Octavo, original blue cloth, gilt titles to the spine...

First edition of Dr. King’s second book, of which Coretta Scott King noted, “If there is one book Martin Luther King, Jr. has written that people consistently tell me has changed their lives, it is St...

First edition of President Clinton’s autobiography. Large octavo, original blue boards, illustrated with 32 pages of photographs. Boldly signed on the title page by Bill and Hillary Clinton and...

Rare original color photograph of Jacqueline Kennedy with her children Caroline and John, Jr., inscribed by her on the mount, “For Billie Jean – with much love from us all Jacqueline Kenne...