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First edition of Freer’s appreciation of Jeanne Baptiste d’Albert de Luynes. Octavo, bound in three quarters emerald green crushed levant morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in s...

Early printing of this early American abolitionist novel set in Louisiana and attributed to Samuel Smucker. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, recased, illustrated. In very good condition. Rein...

First edition of this work by the best-selling author. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by John P. Kotter on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Calvin Chu.

Early edition of Vol. V of the history of the United States from 1864 to 1866; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo, original marooon cloth, top edge gilt, illustrated with folding ma...

The 1979 supplement to Tribe’s American Constitutional Law. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Best wishes, Laurence Tribe 2/09.” In near fi...

First edition of this riveting work by the Supreme Court Justice. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Neil Gorsuch on a Supreme Court Historical Society bookplate. Fine in a fine dust jacket...

First edition of this compilation of the works of Daniel Boorstin. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Ray Grinold...

First edition in English of this report on the Second Congress of the Communist International. Octavo, original wrappers, from Petrograd and Moscow July 19 – August 7, 1920. Containing Vladimir...

First edition of this compilation of the works of Daniel Boorstin. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Boldly signed by Daniel J. Bernstein on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket....

Second edition of Charles Cooper Nott Sr.’s Civil War memoir. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt, top edge gilt. In very good condition.

First edition of Norwegian Antarctic explorer Lars Christensen’s account of his Antarctic voyages between 1930 and 1934. Quarto, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, frontispiece portrait of...

First edition of this glorious love story. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by Simon Wiesenthal on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Honi...

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket, small name.

First edition of this autobiography by Major-General Dunsterville. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

First edition of this early work by the foremost wine expert in the world. Quarto, original cloth, top stain red, with line drawings by Owen Wood, seven color maps. Near fine in a very good dust jacke...

Early printing of Landau’s biography of his time in the British Secret Service. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Captain Henry Landau.” Near...

First edition of this collection of this collection of policy addresses. Octavo, original wrappers, illustrated with graphs and photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by First Lady Laura Bush on th...

First edition of this glorious love story. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, “To Joseph Lichten most cord...

First edition of this memoir by the eminent philosopher. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the title page, “Les Best wishes Charles...

First edition of this pamphlet regarding the history of operations in Europe during the Second World War. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition.

First edition of Henry Hudson’s account of his imprisonment after publishing his hostile criticism of Butler’s military policy in the New York Evening Post. Octavo, modern cloth. Hudson se...

First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Robert Solow on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

First edition of this exploration of the world of modern banking. Octavo, original cloth. Warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Charlie Malloy with regards and thanks-...

First English edition of Tolstoy’s work on peasant welfare in Russia. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition.