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Bears in the Streets: Three Journey’s Across A Changing Russia.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2017.

First edition of this fascinating journey to change Russia. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the ti...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-149085

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Hurd, Douglas

Choose Your Weapons: The British Foreign Secretary 200 Years of Argument, Success and Failure.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2010.

First edition of Douglas Hurd’s authoritative study of two centuries of British foreign policy leadership and diplomatic debate. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustra...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-151185

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Newcomb, Raymond Lee

Our Lost Explorers: The Narrative of the Jeannette Arctic Expedition as Related by the Survivors, and in the Records and Last Journals of Lieutenant De Long.

Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, 1882.

First edition of Newcomb’s account of the Jeannette Arctic Exploration. Octavo, original illustrated cloth, tissue-guarded frontispiece, illustrated with maps, portraits, and numerous engraving...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-126900

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Harrod, R.F. and E.A.G. Robinson, Editors. [R.G. Hawtrey; F.J. DeJong; John Maynard Keynes]

The Economic Journal: The Quarterly Journal of The Royal Economic Society. December 1954. [Keynes and Supply Functions: A Rejoinder].

London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1954.

Rare offprint of the December 1954 issue of the The Economic Journal, containing F.J. DeJong’s article “Keynes and Supply Functions: A Rejoinder,” cut out and pasted over R.G. Hawtre...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-150685

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Buchan, John

Men and Deeds.

London: Peter Davies, 1935.

First edition of this collection of historical essays and biographical sketches highlighting influential figures and pivotal events. Octavo, bound in three-quarters morocco with gilt titles to the spi...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-150847

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Tapp, Major H. A. [Rudyard Kipling]

United Services College 1874-1911. A Short Account of Rudyard Kipling’s Old School at Westward Ho!

Aldershot: Gale & Polden, Ltd., [1933].

First edition of Tapp’s history of Westward Ho! College with Kipling’s The Song of the Exiles. Quarto, original boards with gilt titles to the front panel, marbled endpapers. Preface by Ma...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-151264

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Ferguson, Niall

The Pity of War: Explaining World War I.

New York: Basic Books, 1999.

First edition, early printing of this “rich and provocative book, evocative and heartbreaking. Ferguson is a talented writer and a versatile scholar” (Atlantic). Octavo, original boards, i...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-151748

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Friedman, David

Law’s Order: What Economics Has to Do with Law and Why It Matters.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.

First edition of this creative, and provocative addition to the law and economics literature. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by David Friedman on the title page. Near fine in a fine dust jacke...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-105322

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Solow, Robert M

The Labor Market as a Social Institution.

New York: Blackwell Publishers, 1990.

First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Robert Solow on the title page. Near fine in a fine dust jacket, small name to the front free endpape...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-46016

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Keynes, John Maynard [J.M.]

How To Pay For the War.

London: Macmillan and Company, 1940.

Rare first edition of this wartime work by Keynes. Octavo, original boards. In very good condition. Uncommon in this condition.

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-150281

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Kennedy, John F

Why England Slept.

New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc, 1940.

First edition, second printing that was published one month after the first printing of John F. Kennedy’s first book. Octavo, original red cloth, top stain blue. Foreword by Henry R. Luce. Near...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-150410

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Harrod, R.F. and E.A.G. Robinson, Editors. [R.G. Hawtrey; John Maynard Keynes]

The Economic Journal: The Quarterly Journal of The Royal Economic Society. December 1954. [Keynes and Supply Functions].

London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1954.

An offprint of the December 1954 issue of the The Economic Journal, containing R.G. Hawtrey’s article “Keynes and Supply Functions.” A response to F.J. DeJong’s article “...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-150686

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Kennedy, Caroline

Profiles in Courage for Our Time.

New York: Hyperion, 2002.

First edition of this inspirational continuation of John F. Kennedy’s ‘Profiles in Courage.’ Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Boldly signed by Caroline Kennedy on the title page....

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-148687

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Dertouzos, Robert; Lester, Richard K. Lester; Robert M. Solow

Made In America: Regaining the Productive Edge.

Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1989.

First edition of the best-selling book in MIT Press’ history. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Robert M. Solow on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-46017

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Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands.

London: Sampson Low, Son, & Co, 1854.

First British author’s edition of this travel narrative that records Stowe’s observations during a tour of Europe in the wake of her international fame from Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Duodecimo, b...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-149129

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Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, at the Second Session Thirty-Eighth Congress.

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1865.

First edition of Vol. III the Official Congressional Report on the American Civil War. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition.

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-132562

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Ketchum, Richard M

The Borrowed Years 1938-1941: America on the Way to War.

New York: Random House, 1989.

First edition of this historical account that explores the political, cultural, and ideological tensions in the United States during the precarious prelude to its entry into World War II. Octavo, orig...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-148607

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Phelps, Edmund

Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013.

First edition of this work which won the 2014 Gold Medal in Economics. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Edmund Phelps on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by David Drum...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-151958

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Kelly, Scott with Margaret Lazarus Dean. [Chip Kidd]

Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.

First edition of the famed astronaut’s stunning memoir. Octavo, original cloth, with 24 pages of full-color photographs. Boldly signed by Scott Kelly on the title page. Additionally signed three...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-149530

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Cordier, Henri

Ser Marco Polo: Notes and Addenda to Sir Henry Yule’s Edition, Containing the Results of Recent Research and Discovery.

London: John Murray, 1920.

First edition of French historian Henri Cordier’s supplement to Yule’s important work which correlated Polo’s travels with their present-day locations. Octavo, original green cloth with el...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-148733

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Kingsley, Charles

Westward Ho!

Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1855.

First edition of Kingsley’s historical novel based on the Preston Somers Expedition of 1595. Small octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards by Tout & Sons with gilt titles...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-151107

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Morgaine, Daniel. [William Safire]

Un Tour Du Siecle en 80 Jours. [A Turn of the Century in 80 Days].

Paris: Editions Denoel, 1998.

First edition of Morgaine’s work documenting the major events of the 20th century. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Preface by Yves Courriere. Association copy, inscribed by the author on th...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-128112

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[Meir, Golda]

Golda Meir Bust.

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Bust of Prime Minister Golda Meir. In fine condition. Mounted on a brass base, the entire piece measures 6.75 inches in height. In fine condition.

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-145477

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Cem, Ismail; [Madeleine K. Albright]

Turkey in the 21st Century: Speeches and Texts Presented at International Fora (1995-2000).

Mersin, Turkey: Rustem, 2000.

First edition of this collection of the author’s articles, letters, and speeches. Octavo, original publisher’s boards, bookplate to the front pastedown from “The Private Collection of Secr...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-147358

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