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Tolstoy, Leo. Vladimir Tchertkoff

Christian Martyrdom in Russia: Persecution of the Spirit-Wrestlers (or Doukhobortsi) in the Caucus.

London: The Brotherhood Publishing Co, 1897.

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

$175.00 Item Number: RRB-135138

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Hall, Mr. and Mrs. S. C

The Book of South Wales, the Wye, and the Coast.

London: Arthur Hall, 1861.

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...

$175.00 Item Number: RRB-138426

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Wood, Gordon S

Power and Liberty: Constitutionalism in the American Revolution.

New York : Oxford University Press, 2021.

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.

$175.00 Item Number: RRB-150819

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Johnson, Paul

Making the Market: Victorian Origins of Corporate Capitalism.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

First edition of this innovative study which reveals how and why capitalist institutions were created and the moral, economic and legal assumptions behind them. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation co...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-141813

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Aptheker, Herbert

Afro American History: The Modern Era. A Pioneering Chronicle of the Black People in Twentieth-Century America.

New York: The Citadel Press, 1971.

First edition of the prolific American Marxist historian’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Jan 1972 For Mrs. J...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-134261

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Clark, Alan

The Tories: Conservatives and The Nation State 1922-1997.

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1998.

First edition of this personal account of modern Conservatives in government. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with black and white photographs. Signed and dated by the author...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-147117

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Shannon, Claude & Warren Weaver

The Mathematical Theory of Communication.

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998.

Later printing of the “the magna carta of the information age” (Scientific American), Shannon’s work provided “a mathematical guide for the system’s engineers [at Bell La...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-151874

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Studies in History, Economics and Public Law. Volume LXIV.

New York: Columbia University, 1915.

First edition of the sixty-fourth volume in Columbia University’s long-running academic series. Thick octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles and ruling to the spine, triple ru...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-151338

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Millard, Candice

Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, A Daring Escape and The Making of Winston Churchill.

New York: Doubleday, 2016.

First edition of this New York Times bestselling narrative history recounting the twenty-four-year-old Winston Churchill’s capture by Boer forces during the South African War of 1899. Octavo, or...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-152133

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Boorstin, David

The Americans: The Colonial Experience.

New York: Random House, 1973.

Later printing of the final volume in Boorstin’s The Americans series. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Lydia A. Bogdoyan...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-96031

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O'Neill, Eugene

Eugene O’Neill and the Senator From Texas.

New Haven: Yale University Library Gazette, 1961.

Signed limited first edition, number 79 of 100 examples, signed by Earle B. Mayfield. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition. Edited by John S. Mayfield. With an original signed letter from...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-112069

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Sarnoff, David

Looking Ahead: The Papers of David Sarnoff.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1968.

First edition, early printing of the papers of this business pioneer. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Dr. George Rich With apprecia...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-130197

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Tiger, Lionel

Men in Groups.

New York: Random House, 1969.

First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Inscribed by Lionel Tiger on the front free endpaper.

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-2709

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Salisbury, Harrison E

American in Russia.

New York: Harper, 1955.

First edition of this work by the legendary journalist. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Harrison Salisbury on the half-title page. Very good in a very good price-clipped dus...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-150608

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Wiesenthal, Simon

The Sunflower.

New York: Schocken Books, 1976.

First American edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Randall Richmond.

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-146793

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National Bank Organization 1812-1904.

New York: The National City Bank of New York, 1904.

First edition of this detailed work on the organization of the National City Bank. Octavo, original cloth. In fine condition.

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-124768

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Ginzberg, Eli and Robert M. Solow

The Great Society: Lessons for the Future.

New York: Basic Books, 1974.

First edition of this collection of essays regarding The Great Society. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Robert M. Solow on the title page. Review copy with the slip laid in. Fine in a near fine dust...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-43098

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Kipling, Rudyard; Sir Walter Besant; Max Pemberton; Morley Roberts; H.G. Wells; Percy White; et al

For Britain’s Soldiers: A Contribution to the Needs of our Fighting Men and Their Families.

London: Methuen & Co, 1900.

First edition of this anthology published and sold to benefit the officers and men of the British Army in South Africa during the Boer Wars. Octavo, original publisher’s decorated cloth. In very...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-122456

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Mayer, Brantz

Captain Canot; or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver. Being an Account of the Career and Adventures on the Coast, in the Interior, on Shipboard, and in the West Indies.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1854.

First edition, early issue of the historian’s detailed account of the African slave trade without the misprint on page 191. Octavo, bound in contemporary calf, rebacked, additional vignette titl...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-142153

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Reagan, Nancy

My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan.

New York: Random House, 1989.

First edition of Nancy Reagan’s memoirs. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly inscribed by Nancy Reagan on the half-title page. Laid in is a note from her office thanking the recipie...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-64571

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Brown, Monty. Foreword by Vivian Fuchs

Where Giants Trod: The Saga of Kenya’s Desert Lake.

London: Quiller Press, 1989.

Special limited edition of Brown’s elaborately illustrated history of Kenya’s northern desert region and the 13 expeditions to Lake Rudolf. Quarto, original publisher’s three quarter...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-110678

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Stewart, Rory

Politics on the Edge: A Memoir from Within.

London: Jonathan Cape, 2023.

First edition, early printing of this “instant classic” (Marina Hyde). Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Rory Stewart on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design b...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-144165

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Grosvenor, Charles

An Iconography of the Portraits of T. E. Lawrence.

Pasadena: The Otterden Press, 1988.

Signed limited edition of Grosvenor’s catalogue of the portraits of T. E. Lawrence. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece, illustrated. One of 1000 numbered copies signed by the author, this is n...

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-126800

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Bush, Jeb and Brian Yablonski

Profiles in Character.

Miami: Foundation For Miami's Future, 1995.

First edition of Jeb Bush’s first book. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers as issued. Inscribed by both authors on the front free endpaper. In fine condition. Foreword by William J. Bennett.

$150.00 Item Number: RRB-85632

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