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First edition of this classic work, “perhaps the most perceptive inquiry into American minorities ever made” (Richard Rovere). Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers. Inscribed and dat...

First edition of this early work by the award-winning historian. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “November 24, 1981 For David and M...

First edition of Bigelow’s classic work on military strategy, including analyses of the American Revolution and the Battles of Vicksburg at Gettysburg. Folio, original cloth with gilt titles to...

First edition of this work on how the clashing constitutional visions of Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson have created a 250-year “tug-of-war” that continues to define and divide Am...

First edition of this work by the 42nd President of the United States and First Lady. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by Hillary Rodham Clinton on the front free endpaper,...

First edition of the sensational journalist’s report on the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by William Bradford Huie on the half-title page. Fine in a...

First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original boards, illustrated endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For John Rogers An...

First edition of this collection of biographical and historical essays. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Walter Isaacson on the title page, “To Ed,...

First edition of this “informative and creatively multilayered Google guidebook from the businessman’s perspective” (Kirkus). Octavo, original boards. Signed by both Eric Schmidt and...

Finely bound volume of this early Theodore Roosevelt article. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco over printed boards with gilt titles to the spine, raised bands. Contents include: Theodore Rooseve...

First edition of this work which explains the modern fractional-reserve banking system and its origins. Octavo, original boards. Fine in a very good dust jacket with some light wear.

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 first book that attempts to give them a substantial and realistic Oppenheimer biography” (The New York Times). Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by...

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 classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “I hope you enjoy this, Barbara Fryrear, Sincerely, Jane Jacobs Dal...

First edition of this stimulating reflection on American foreign policy during the Bush administration. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed on a “A World Transformed”...

Publisher J.M. Dent & Sons’s own retained first edition of Pigou’s treatise on the economic problems connected with World War I. Octavo, original cloth. With the publisher’s stam...

First edition of this classic account. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Gerald Durrell on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Janet Halverson.

First edition of the English Poet Laureate’s speech delivered in the Queens Hall, February 14th, 1910. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition.

Signed limited edition of the author’s magnum opus. Octavo, bound in full leather, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, front and rear panels, all edges gilt. Signed David Halberstam. In fine c...

First English edition of the third volume in Andrews’ intimate biography of Mahatma Gandhi, as was related to him by Gandhi himself. Octavo, original blue cloth, frontispiece portrait of Gandhi, illus...

First edition of this history of General Motors and the motor car. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, top stain navy blue, pictorial endpapers, frontispiece, with black and white illustrations...

First edition of the extraordinary autobiography of astronaut Fred Haise, one of only 24 men to fly to the moon. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper on a Apoll...