History, Law, and Politics Archives

Memories of The Great & The Good.

London: Pavilion Books Limited, 1999.

First edition of Cooke’s moving memoir. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Bill S. His services to the Language (not to men...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-135615

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Parks, Rosa

Rosa Parks: My Story.

New York: Dial Books, 1992.

First edition of Parks’ powerful autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, frontispiece, illustrated. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing, toning, and a slice to the front...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-152119

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Ayer, I. Winslow

The Great Treason Plot in the North During the War. Most Dangerous, Perfidious, Extensive and Startling Plot Ever Devised! Imminent Hidden Perils of the Republic. Astounding Developments Never Before Published.

Chicago: U.S. Publishing Co, n.d..

Early printing of Ayer’s Civil War account. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. In good condition.

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-132537

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Morris, James [Jan]

Sultan in Oman: Venture Into The Middle East.

New York: Pantheon, 1957.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-144487

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Meir, Golda

My Life.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1975.

First American edition of Meir’s autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Cheryl Asherman.

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-152149

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Boorstin, David

The Americans: The Colonial Experience.

New York: Random House, 1973.

Early printing of the final volume in Boorstin’s The Americans series. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Jim Wooley – fellow Oklahoman...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-36598

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Santoli, Al

To Bear Any Burden: The Vietnam War and Its Aftermath in the Words of Americans and Southeast Asians.

New York: E.P. Dutton, Inc, 1985.

First edition of this oral history of the Vietnam War from the author of ‘Everything We Had.’ Medium octavo, original red half cloth, illustrated with black and white plates. Signed by Al...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-146833

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Grant, Gerald; David Riesman

The Perpetual Dream: Reform and Experiment in the American College.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.

First edition of this work by famed sociologist. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the half-title page in the year of publication, “For the Institute of Advanced Study with appreci...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-62018

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Viola, Henry J. Introduction by David McCullough

The National Archives of The United States.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1984.

First edition of this guide to the “nation’s attic.” Quarto, original cloth, illustrated with original photographs by Jonathan Wallen. Foreword by Robert M. Warner. Introduction by D...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-132623

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

O'Rourke, P.J

Eat The Rich: A Treatise on Economics.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1998.

First edition, early printing of the best-selling author’s economic treatise. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Lucie Bon...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-133080

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

The Establishment in Palestine of the Jewish National Home: Memorandum on the Development of the Jewish National Home, 1924-1925 Submitted to by the Zionist Organisation to the Secretary-General of the League of Nations for the Information of the Permanent Mandates Commission, October 1925.

London and Tonbridge: The Whitefriars Press, Ltd, [1925].

Scarce printing of this memorandum with dual text in English and French. Thin super octavo, original wrappers. In good condition with rubbing and some losses to the extremities of the wrappers, number...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-146809

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Manikas, Peter M., Laura L. Thornton [Madeleine Albright]

Political Parties in Asia: Promoting Reform and Combating Corruption in Eight Countries.

United States of America: Library of Congress, 2003.

First edition of this comparative analysis of anti-corruption strategies employed by political parties across eight Asian nations. Octavo, original publisher’s wrappers. The recipient, Madeleine...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-149068

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Fergusson, Alexander

The Laird of Lag: A Life-Sketch.

Edinburgh: Printed for David Douglas, 1886.

First edition of this biographical study of Sir Robert Grierson of Lag. Octavo, original publisher’s navy blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, horseshoe stamped in gilt to the front panel,...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-149108

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

von Mises, Ludwig

Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War.

New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House Publishers, 1969.

First edition of the re-issue of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, bookplate.

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-120643

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Gilbert, Martin

Winston S. Churchill [The Official Biography]. Volume IV: The Stricken World: 1916-1922.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1975.

First American edition of the fourth volume in the official biography of Winston S. Churchill. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with photographs and maps, photographic frontispiece of Churchill at...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-144772

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Yourcenar, Marguerite

The Abyss.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1976.

First English edition of the author’s evocative Prix Femina award-winning novel. Octavo, original cloth. Translated from the French by Grace Frick in collaboration with the author. Near fine in...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-126394

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

McCullough, David

John Adams.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.

Later printing of the author’s second Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Boldly signed by the David McCullough on the title page. Fine in...

$125.00 Item Number: RRB-147017

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

[Friedrich von Auguste Hayek] [F.A]

Roads To Freedom: Essays in Honour of Friedrich A. von Hayek.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1969.

First edition of this collection of essays on the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of Hayek. Edited by Erich Steissler, Gottfried Haberler, Friedrich A. Lutz and Fri...

$100.00 Item Number: RRB-146448

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Wells, H.G

War and The Future: Italy, France and Britain at War.

London: Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1917.

First edition of Wells’ wartime reflections drawn from his observations of the First World War, combining frontline reportage with broader commentary on the political, technological, and social transf...

$100.00 Item Number: RRB-151310

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Morris, Jan

Hong Kong.

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1988.

Signed limited first edition of this incredibly vibrant history of Hong Kong, privately printed exclusively for members of The Signed First Edition Society. Octavo, Smyth-sewn and bound in full top-gr...

$100.00 Item Number: RRB-147058

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Galbraith, John Kenneth

The Affluent Society.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998.

First edition of the 40th anniversary of the economist’s landmark work. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Boldly signed by John Kenneth Galbraith on the half-title page. In near fine condit...

$100.00 Item Number: RRB-118388

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Krugman, Paul

End This Depression Now!

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012.

First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Paul Krugman on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jon Gray.

$100.00 Item Number: RRB-128646

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

National Democratic Institute for International Affairs [Madeleine Albright]

Democracies In Regions Of Crisis: Botswana, Costa Rica, Israel.

Washington, D.C: National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, 1990.

First edition of this study of democratic systems in regions that are prone to political instability and conflict. Octavo, original publisher’s wrapper, bookplate to the front pastedown from, “T...

$100.00 Item Number: RRB-149262

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Pogrebin, Abigail

My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew.

Bedford, New York: Fig Tree Books, 2017.

First edition of this memoir and cultural reportage of the Jewish liturgical calendar. Octavo, original publisher’s half-cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publicat...

$100.00 Item Number: RRB-148948

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Rare History, Law & Political Books for Sale Online