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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

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Victor, Orville J

Incidents and Anecdotes of the War: Together with Life Sketches of Eminent Leaders, and Narratives of the Most Memorable Battles for the Union.

New York: James D. Torrey, Publisher, 1862.

First edition of Victor’s anecdotal history of the Civil War. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition.

$100.00 Item Number: RRB-133076

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Smeaton, Oliphant. Illustrated by Herbert Railton & J. Ayton Symington

Edinburgh and its Story.

London: J. M. Dent & Co, 1904.

First edition of Smeaton’s history of Edinburgh. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over green cloth, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, top edge gilt with others uncut, marbled endpap...

$100.00 Item Number: RRB-96044

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Gardner, John W. Edited by Helen Rowan

No Easy Victories.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1968.

First edition of “the father of campaign finance reform”, John W. Gardner’s fourth book. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free end...

$100.00 Item Number: RRB-110909

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Wells, H.G

Mr. Britling Sees Through.

London: Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1916.

First British edition of Wells’ influential First World War novel depicting the moral and emotional upheaval of wartime Britain. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the spine,...

$100.00 Item Number: RRB-151148

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Jay, William

A Review of the Causes and Consequences of the Mexican War.

Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey & Co, 1849.

Second edition of American abolitionist and jurist William Jay’s classic antiwar treatise. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, gilt titles to the spine. In good condition with some wear to...

$100.00 Item Number: RRB-82412

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Ropes, John Codman

The Story of the Civil War: A Concise Account of the War in the United States of America Between 1861 and 1865: The Campaigns of 1862.

New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1898.

First edition of Ropes’ account of the American Civil War. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with maps and plans, with 13 folding maps for Vol II in a pocket affixed to the front pastedown. I...

$100.00 Item Number: RRB-133077

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Harper, William Hudson and Charles H. Ravell

Fifty Years of Banking in Chicago 1857-1907.

np: The Merchants' Loan and Trust Company, nd.

First edition of one of the earliest works on the history of banking in Chicago. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. In fine condition.

$100.00 Item Number: RRB-124773

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Motwani, Kewal

India: A Conflict of Cultures.

Bombay: Thacker & Co., 1947.

First edition. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Inscribed by the author, “Mr. William Bullitt with best compliments from the author Kewal Motwani”.

$100.00 Item Number: RRB-2462

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Kurtzer, Daniel C.; Scott B. Lasensky; William B. Quandt; Steven L. Spiegel; Shibley Z. Telhami [Madeleine Albright]

The Peace Puzzle: America’s Quest For Arab-Israeli Peace, 1989-2011.

Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2013.

First edition of this informative account of the United States’ role in attempting to achieve Arab-Israeli peace. Octavo, original publisher’s black boards, illustrated with a map of The S...

$100.00 Item Number: RRB-147354

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Bickham, William Dennison

Rosecrans’ Campaign with the Fourteenth Army Corps, of the Army of the Cumberland: A Narrative of Personal Observations, with a Appendix, Consisting of Official Reports of the Battle of Stone River.

Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co, Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co..

First edition of William Dennison Bickham’s Civil War memoir. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. In good condition. Ex-library.

$100.00 Item Number: RRB-132443

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Wells, H.G

A Year of Prophesying.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1925.

First American edition of this collection of Wells’ syndicated newspaper column from 1923-24. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the spine. From the collection of Briti...

$100.00 Item Number: RRB-151018

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Burns, Ric; James Sanders; Lisa Ades

New York: An Illustrated History.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.

First edition of this landmark illustrated history of the city that never sleeps. Quarto, original half cloth, heavily illustrated with 500 images in color and black and white. Fine in a near fine dus...

$95.00 Item Number: RRB-147936

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McCullough, David

The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972.

First edition of this definitive account of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge, an acclaimed historical work named by The Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest non-fiction books of the twentieth...

$95.00 Item Number: RRB-151710

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Irwin, Wallace

Nautical Lays of a Landsman.

New York: Dodd, Mead, & Company, 1904.

First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a good dust jacket with some chips and tears. Illustrated with plates by Peter Newell.

$95.00 Item Number: RRB-657

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Stark, Freya

The Southern Gates of Arabia: A Journey in the Hadhramaut.

London: John Murray, 1936.

First edition, early printing of this landmark travel narrative through southern Arabia. Octavo, publisher’s original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine, facsimile signature of the author...

$95.00 Item Number: RRB-149172

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Shoup, Carl S

The Fiscal System of Venezuela: A Report.

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1959.

First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by Carl Shoup on the front free endpaper, “To A.R. Ilersic with regards- C.S. Shoup.” Also laid in a signed letter from Shoup to the same r...

$95.00 Item Number: RRB-75023

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Kaplan, Mordecai M

A New Zionism.

New York: Herzyl Press, 1959.

Second enlarged edition. Octavo, original cloth. Lengthily Inscribed by Mordecai Kaplan to a noted Zionist on the half-title page. In near fine condition.

$95.00 Item Number: RRB-679

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Reports of the Experts Submitted to the Joint Palestine Survey Commission.

Boston: Daniels Printing Co, 1928.

Scarce printing of this collection of reports on agricultural colonization, labor, and public health. Octavo, original wrappers, rebacked, illustrated with black and white photographs, in-line and fol...

$95.00 Item Number: RRB-146828

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Jacobs, Jane

The Death And Life of Great American Cities.

New York: Random House, 1961.

First edition of the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original half cloth. In very good condition, name to the front free endpaper.

$95.00 Item Number: RRB-145586

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Mandela, Nelson

Long Walk To Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela.

South Africa: MacDonald Purnell, 1995.

First South African edition, early printing of this classic autobiography, which has went on to sell over six million copies worldwide. Octavo, original black cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrate...

$95.00 Item Number: RRB-148788

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Baxter, John E

Locker Room Ballads.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1923.

First edition of this collection of verses. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, “To C.D. Stimson with the complime...

$85.00 Item Number: RRB-65472

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Kipling, Rudyard

Independence: Rectorial Address Delivered at St. Andrews, October 10, 1923.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1923.

First edition of Kipling’s October 1953 address delivered to the students of St. Andrews discussing the challenges and necessity of individuality and independence. Octavo, bound in full cloth wi...

$80.00 Item Number: RRB-135674

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Nasar, Sylvia

Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011.

First edition of this sweeping narrative. Octavo, original boards. Signed and dated by Sylvia Nasar on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

$75.00 Item Number: RRB-47016

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