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Nippur or Explorations and Adventures on the Euphrates: The Narrative of the University of Pennsylvania Expedition to Babylonia in the Years 1888-1890.

New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1897.

First edition of this detailed account of the University of Pennsylvania’s 1888–1890 expedition to Babylonia. Octavo, two volumes, original publisher’s red cloth with gilt titles to the spine, f...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-149174

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Thomas, Keith

Religion and the Decline of Magic.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Diane Large.

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-144493

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Sterling, Bruce

The Hacker Crackdown: Law And Disorder On The Electronic Frontier.

New York: Bantam Books, 1992.

First edition of this classic work that explores the early 1990s digital underground, the clash between law enforcement and hackers, and the birth of digital civil liberties. Octavo, original half clo...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-151635

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Gordon, George H

A War Diary of Events in the War of the Great Rebellion. 1863-1865.

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1882.

First edition of the historian and Union General’s American Civil War Memoir. Octavo, original cloth. In good condition.

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-131769

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Bossut, John

A General History of Mathematics From the Earliest Times, to the Middle of the Eighteenth Century.

London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1803.

First edition in English of Bossut’s fundamental history of mathematics. Octavo, bound in full contemporary polished diced calf with gilt tooling to the spine, black morocco spine label lettered...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-137152

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Franklin, Benjamin; Notes by George Simpson Eddy

Account Books Kept by Benjamin Franklin.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1928.

Benjamin Franklin’s ledger and journal from 1728-1939 from The American Philosophical Society’s ‘Papers of Benjamin Franklin’; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Sm...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-145950

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de Beauvoir, Simone

La Force Des Choses.

Paris: Gallimard, 1963.

First edition of Simone de Beauvoir’s autobiographical memoir covering the years after World War II. Octavo, original publisher’s wrappers. In near fine condition, signature to the front free en...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-150080

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Kotter, John P

Power in Management: How to Understand, Acquire, and Use It.

New York: Amacom, 1979.

First edition of this early work by Kotter. Octavo, original boards. Signed by John Kotter on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-106742

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Dickey, Lisa [Madeleine K. Albright]

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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