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First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian’s first book and co-author of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation co...

First edition of the second book in John Lewis and Andrew Aydin’s March trilogy. Octavo, original illustrated boards, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by John Lewis on the half-title pa...

First edition of this work by the famed economist. Octavo, original cloth. Economist Robert K. Arnold’s copy with his signature to the front free endpaper. Translated by Heinz Norden. Edited wit...

First edition of this work on the history of gold. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For William good as gold- Peter Bernstein....

Rare early typed letter signed by George H.W. Bush while he served as the U.S. Representative for Texas’s 7th congressional district from 1967 to 1971. One page, on Congress of the United States...

Rare original broadside printing of this anti-Franklin D. Roosevelt and anti-New Deal poem. Duodecimo, original paper. In good condition with some toning.

Rare first edition of this weekly illustrated magazine on Palm Beach social life. Quarto, original pictorial wrappers, black-and-white illustrations, issue February 15, 1976. In very good condition.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of this compilation of every book The Limited Editions Club had published from 1929 – 1985. Folio, bound in quarter morocco over marbled boards w...

First edition of this personal account of the Second World War from a soldier’s perspective. Quarto, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with news prints, political cartoons, charco...

Rare original card celebrating President Richard Nixon’s 80th birthday. A card depicting him with his four grandchildren at Woodcliff Lake in New Jersey: Melanie Eisenhower, Christopher Cox, Jen...

First edition of this collection of essays on monetary policy. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by both the editor Gregory Mankiw and contributor Alan Blinder to the same recipient. Near fine in a fi...

First edition of the acclaimed journalist’s work on the fourth period of the Civil War. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt, illustrated. In very good condition.

Two volumes, original leather, gilt tooling to the spine. In good condition. Text in French.

First edition of Robeson’s powerful first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket

First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian’s pivotal volume of  essays, including the title work that expresses his alarm at “the arena of uncommonly angry minds” that dom...

Signed limited first edition of the historian’s first book, which was reviewed by James Salter as “enormously rich in detail and written with a novelist’s brilliance, the pages liter...

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

First Edition of Paul Krugman’s work on economic geography. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Ken Paul Krugman.” Near fine in...

First editions of the autobiography of the first president of Israel. Octavo, 2 volumes, frontispiece of Weizmann in volume one. Near fine in very good dust jackets, inscription to the front free endp...

First edition. Folio, 5 volumes. Three quarters leather with gilt titles and tooling to the spine. Top edge gilt. In very good condition.

First edition of this work by the award-winning novelist. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Stephen Chinua Achebe.” Fine i...

First edition of this unforgettable autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the co-author on the title page, “To Bob, With Best Wishes! Mark Kell...

First edition of this illustrated work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian. Quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by James M. McPherson on the title page. Fine...