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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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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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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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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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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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Cannon, Richard

Historical Record of the Twenty-First Regiment, or the Royal North British Fusiliers. Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1678, and of its Subsequent Services to 1849.

London: Parker, Furnivall, & Parker, 1849.

First edition of this official chronicle of the twenty-first regiment’s origins, campaigns, and traditions. Octavo, original publisher’s red cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front penal,...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-149132

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Voltaire

La Henriade avec des Variantes et des Notes. Et l’Effai sur le Poëme Epique.

London : Jacob Tonsen, 1734.

Finely bound example of Voltaire’s epic poem La Henriade. Small octavo, original leather, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, marbled endpapers. In good condition. Text in French.

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-81165

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Symonds, John Addington

Sketches in Italy.

Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1883.

First edition of John Addington Symonds’ Italian sketches. Small octavo, bound in full vellum with gilt tooling to the spine, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-111022

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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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Macintyre, Ben

Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle.

United Kingdom: Viking an Imprint of Penguin Books, 2022.

First edition of this military history of the prisoners in Colditz Castle during World War II. Octavo, original publisher’s black cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with photographs. Boldly...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-150535

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Sitkoff, Harvard

A New Deal For Blacks: The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.

First edition of Sitkoff’s comprehensive account of the emergence of civil rights as a national issue. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page,...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-143846

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Galbraith, John Kenneth

A Life In Our Times.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1981.

First edition of Galbraith’s autobiography. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed and dated by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper. Near fin...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-146272

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Baumol, William J.; Robert E. Litan; Carl J. Schramm

Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.

First edition. Octavo, original boards. Warmly inscribed by Baumol on the front free endpaper, “To ___ ____ from a grateful author Will Baumol.” Fine in a fine dust jacket.

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-45006

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Treynor, Jack L., Patrick J. Regan and William W. Priest, Jr

The Financial Reality of Pension Funding Under ERISA.

Homewood, IL: Dow Jones-Irwin, 1976.

First edition of this work on pension funding. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Jack L. Treynor on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-109849

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New York Monuments Commission [William Tecumseh Sherman]

In Memoriam: Henry Warner Slocum 1826-1894.

Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1904.

First edition of this work dedicated to the memory of an esteemed Union general; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Quarto, original cloth, botanical endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-145997

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Work, Henry C. [William Tecumseh Sherman]

Marching Through Georgia: Written in Honor of Sherman’s Famous March From “Atlanta to the Sea”.

Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1889.

First Ticknor and Co. edition of Henry Clay Work’s greatest hit, “Marching Through Georgia”, inspired by Sherman’s march to the sea at the end of 1864. Octavo, original cloth,...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-132439

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Washington, Booker T

My Larger Education: Being Chapters From My Experience.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1911.

First edition of this uncommon collection of the author’s speeches and essays concerning education. Octavo, original cloth lettered in gilt, illustrated, tissue-guarded frontispiece. In good con...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-137463

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Chernow, Ron

Grant.

New York: Penguin Press, 2017.

First edition of this award-winning biography of Ulysses S. Grant. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Ned and Andrea- Ron Ch...

$300.00 Item Number: RRB-145665

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