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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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Fagles, Robert

The Iliad, Book III: Helen Reviews the Champions. [With] The Iliad, Book XVIII: The Shield of Achilles.

: Grand Street Publications, Inc, .

Two rare Grand Street Publications separate printings of Books III and XVIII of Robert Fagles’ renowned translation of Homer’s Iliad. Octavo, two volumes. Association copy, inscribed by au...

$275.00 Item Number: RRB-137120

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Keynes, Florence Ada

High Stewards of the Borough of Cambridge: An Enquiry.

Privately Printed at the University Press: Cambridge, 1944.

First edition of this concise local history on the stewards of Cambridge. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition with light chipping and losses to the spine. Written by the mother of famed...

$275.00 Item Number: RRB-150693

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Campbell, Gordon [Clement Atlee]

My Mystery Ships.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1937.

Early printing of Vice-Admiral Gordon Campbell’s My Mystery Ships; from the library of United Kingdom Prime Minster Clement Attlee with his bookplate to the pastedown. Octavo, original cloth. In...

$275.00 Item Number: RRB-134587

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Buchan, John

Sir Walter Scott.

London: Cassell and Company Ltd, 1932.

First edition of this comprehensive and sympathetic biography of the renowned Scottish novelist, poet, and historian Sir Walter Scott. Octavo, bound in three quarters leather over marbled boards with...

$275.00 Item Number: RRB-151059

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Trever, Albert A.

History of Ancient Civilization: Volume I The Ancient Near East and Greece, Volume II The Roman World.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1936 and 1939.

First edition of this comprehensive academic work on the cultural, social, and economic evolution of the ancient Near East, Greece, and Rome. Octavo, two volumes, cartographic and pictorial endpapers,...

$275.00 Item Number: RRB-151829

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Stiglitz, Joseph; Olivier Blanchard; David Romer and Michael Spence

In the Wake of the Crisis: Leading Economists Reassess Economic Policy.

Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2012.

Early printing of this work in which prominent economists reconsider the fundamentals of economic policy for a post-crisis world. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph...

$275.00 Item Number: RRB-10900

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Szego, George Philip and Shell, Karl

Mathematical Methods in Investment and Finance.

New York : North-Holland Publishing Company, 1972.

First edition of this work edited by the award-winning economists. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Karl Shell on the front free endpaper, “Karl Shell March 14, 2014 Ithaca, NY.” Near fin...

$275.00 Item Number: RRB-114473

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Atkinson, Rick

In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat.

New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2004.

First edition of this work by master story-teller, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Rick Atkinson on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket desig...

$275.00 Item Number: RRB-151035

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Friedman, Milton; Anna J. Schwarz

Monetary Statistics of the United States Estimates, Sources, Methods.

New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1970.

First edition of this monumental work on history of monetary statistics in the United States. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

$275.00 Item Number: RRB-110121

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Holcombe, R.I. and Thomas W. Adams

An Account of the Battle of Wilson’s Creek, or Oak Hills, Fought Between the Union Troops, Commanded by Gen. N. Lyon. and the Southern, or Confederate Troops, Under Command of Gens. McCulloch and Price, on Saturday, August 10, 1861, in Green County, Missouri.

Springfield, Missouri: Dow & Adams, Publishers, 1883.

First edition of Holcombe and Adams’ account of the Battle of Wilson’s Creek. Octavo, original publisher’s binding decorated in gilt, illustrated. In very good condition.

$275.00 Item Number: RRB-133053

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[Churchill, Winston]

Winston Churchill Burleigh Glassware.

Burslem: Burgess & Leigh Ltd, .

A piece of glassware modeled after Prime Minister Winston Churchill and a bulldog. Engraved on the foot with a quote from Churchill’s famous 1940 ‘War of the Unknown Warriors’ speech...

$275.00 Item Number: RRB-151669

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Krakauer, Jon

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith.

New York: Doubleday, 2003.

First edition of this work “right up there with In Cold Blood and The Executioner’s Song” (San Francisco Chronicle). Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers. Signed by Jon Krak...

$275.00 Item Number: RRB-133280

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Sitkoff, Harvard [Martin Luther King, Jr.]

King: Pilgrimage to the Mountaintop.

New York: Hill and Wang, 2008.

First edition of this stunning reappraisal of King and his increased relevance. Octavo, original boards, illustrated endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on...

$275.00 Item Number: RRB-143903

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Mortensen, Dale T. and Christopher A. Pissarides

Job Matching, Wage Dispersion, and Unemployment.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economists. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by Christopher Pissarides on the front free endpaper, “To John Rogers with...

$275.00 Item Number: RRB-110971

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Godwin, Peter [Peter Matthiessen]

The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe.

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2010.

First edition of this “important book detailing the violent realities, the grotesque injustices, the hunger, the sadness, and a portrait of Mugabe” (Paul Theroux). Octavo, original boards....

$275.00 Item Number: RRB-139495

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Hallam, Henry

View of The State of Europe During the Middle Ages.

London: John Murray, 1880.

Finely bound volume of Hallam’s history of the United States. Bound in three quarters morocco with gilt tooling to the spine and red morocco spine label lettered in gilt in five compartments wit...

$275.00 Item Number: RRB-90436

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Sartre, Jean-Paul

Existentialism.

New York: The Philosophical Library, 1947.

First edition of the philosopher’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Translated by Bernard Frechtman. An exceptional example.

$275.00 Item Number: RRB-144092

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Church, Albert Cook

Whale Ships and Whaling.

New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1938.

First edition of Church’s work on the history of whaling. Octavo, bound in full gilt-decorated morocco, illustrated with numerous photographs of whaling operations at sea and whaleship plans, pi...

$275.00 Item Number: RRB-130850

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Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Men of Our Times or Leading Patriots of the Day. Being Narratives of the Lives and Deeds of Statesmen, Generals, and Orators. Including Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of Lincoln, Grant, Garrison, Sumner, Chase, Wilson, Greeley, Farragut, Andrew, Colfax, Stanoton, Douglass, Buckingham, Sherman, Sheridan, Howard, Phillips and Beecher.

Hartford, Conn.: Hartford Publishing Co, 1868.

First edition of this work by the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the spine, gilt facsimile signature of Harriet Beecher Stowe to the fr...

$275.00 Item Number: RRB-146452

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Waugh, Evelyn

Wine in Peace and War.

London: Saccone & Speed Limited, [1947].

First edition of this history of the winery Saccone & Speed. Octavo, original pictorial boards with original tissue paper dust wrapper, with decorations by Rex Whistler. In near fine condition.

$275.00 Item Number: RRB-147868

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