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First edition of this collection of policy addresses. Octavo, original wrappers, illustrated with graphs and photographs. Boldly inscribed by First Ladies Laura Bush and Barbara Bush on the cover,...

First edition of this work by the famed economist. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Boldly signed by George P. Shultz on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Forewords by Henry A....

New American edition of Churchill’s acclaimed autobiography, recounting the first 25 years of his life. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated with plates and maps. Introduction by Dorothy Th...

Early edition of this seminal work of the Hasidic movement. Octavo, publisher’s original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, front panel vignette of whales stamped in gilt. Very good in a...

First edition of this glorious love story. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Honi Werner. Translated by...

First edition of the author’s collection of vignettes relaying the stories of ten personal friends involved in the communist movement. Octavo, original half cloth, top edge red. Presentation cop...

First edition, first issue of the historian’s detailed account of the African slave trade. First issue with with page 191 misprinted as 19. Octavo, recased with the original publisher’s cl...

First edition of this work on how the internet is transforming global politics and diplomacy. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, bookplate to the front pastedown from “The Private Collection of Secr...

First edition of this work by the “American Keynes.” Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a good price-clipped dust jacket with chipping and wear. Uncommon in the original dust jacket.

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

Prints of Beethoven‘s belles. Three reproduction prints of Beethoven‘s belles, two in color, framed together as one. Matted and framed with gilt to the cut edges of the mat. In near fine c...

Early printing of one of the most important pieces of literature on the region and a book that placed Freya Stark in the pantheon of great writers and explorers of the Arab World. Octavo, original clo...

New and revised edition of this collection of Civil War memoirs. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt, patterned endpapers, illustrated. From the library of Michael Ellsworth Shoemaker, son of Wil...

First edition of this collection of essays by renowned writer and literary critic Thomas De Quincey. Octavo, two volumes, original publisher’s cloth elaborately stamped in blind with gilt titles...

First edition, second printing of this work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Gordon Wood on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

First edition of Tchertkoff’s work on the persecution of the Doukhobors. Octavo, original wrappers. In good condition.

First edition of Hall’s description of a tour through South Wales which originally appeared in the Art Journal. Octavo, bound in full polished calf with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in si...

The Folio Society reissued edition of each volume in the Sword of Honour Trilogy. Octavo, three volumes, pictorial boards, illustrated throughout. Each volume is in fine condition. Illustrations by Jo...

First edition of this collection of selected works in their original form. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth elaborately stamped in blind with gilt titles to the spine, elaborate blind stamping...

Early printing of this landmark work. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition, bookplate to the front pastedown.

First edition of this glimpse of the Supreme Court Justice’s journey to the Court and an account of her approach to the Constitution. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Amy Coney Barrett...