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New York : M. M. Pomeroy, 1868.
First edition of Pomeroy’s scathing satirical biography of Union Army General Benjamin Butler. 12mo, engraved illustrated title page. Lacking the front wrapper. In very good condition. Very rare.
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New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2002.
First edition of this “clear, concise, informative, and witty and work” (Chicago Tribune). Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by legendary investor Burt Malkiel on the title page, who contributed the foreword. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Powell. Jacket illustration by Neil Powell.
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c. 1949.
Rare glossy black and white photograph of Winston Churchill in profile with a cigar in his mouth, standing next to his wife, Clementine, and noted financier Bernard Baruch, signed by Churchill, “W. Churchill.” In very good condition. Triple matted and framed. The photograph measures 8 inches by 9.75 inches.
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London : Jonathan Cape, 1950.
First edition of Leigh Fermor’s first book. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by A. Costa. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. An exceptional example.
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New York : Twelve/ Hatchette Book Group, 2007.
First edition of this classic polemic by Hitchens. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Linda Heheman Christopher Hitchens.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Anne Twomey.
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London : Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1931.
Rare first edition of this analysis of the structural origins of unemployment. Duodecimo, original wrappers, Day to Day Pamphlets No. 2. Foreword by famed British economist John Maynard Keynes, whose ideas fundamentally changed the theory of macroeconomics and the economic policies of governments. In very good condition. In very good condition.
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London : Jonathan Cape, 1935.
First English deluxe edition of the author’s classic work. Quarto, original publisher’s pigskin-backed buckram with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, marbled endpapers, illustrated with photogravures and folding maps. One of 750 numbered copies, this is number 93. In very good condition. A sharp example.
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New York : Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, 1975.
First edition of this personal account of the Second World War from a soldier’s perspective. Quarto, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with news prints, political cartoons, charcoal drawings, and paintings compiled by Art Weithas, award-winning art director of Yank magazine, the weekly magazine for the American G.I. during WWII. Presentation copy, inscribed by the authorContinue reading "WWII."
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London : Jonathan Cape, 1927.
First edition, first impression with the publisher’s device to the rear board of T. E. Lawrence’s own abridgment of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, which achieved immediate popular success. Quarto, original publisher’s brown cloth with gilt titles to the spine, illustrated with portrait frontispiece and 15 additional plates from portraits, folding map at rear. In nearContinue reading "Revolt in the Desert."
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New York : Charles Scribners Sons, 1938.
First edition of this spirited defense of the airship that calls for America to secure and maintain airship superiority. Octavo, original publisher’s blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, top stain red, illustrated with 16 black and white photographic plates. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “WithContinue reading "What About the Airship? The Challenge to the United States."
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New York : Random House, 1995.
First edition of this landmark work on Warren Buffett. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by legendary investors Warren Buffett and Burton Malkiel on the front free endpaper. Warren Buffett (born 1930) and Burton Malkiel (born 1932) emerged as influential figures in finance during the second half of the twentieth century, particularly from theContinue reading "Buffett: The Making of An American Capitalist."
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Norwalk, Connecticut : The Easton Press, 1988.
First Easton Press edition of this classic work. Octavo, bound in full leather, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, front and rear panels, raised bands, all edges gilt, ribbon bound in. Boldly signed by John Kenneth Galbraith. In fine condition.
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New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
First illustrated edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Signed by James McPherson on a laid in bookplate. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Kathleen M. Lynch.
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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, titles and floral tooling stamped in blind to the front panel. From the collection of British science fiction author Christopher Priest with his ownership signature toContinue reading "Mr. Britling Sees Through."
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Garden City, NY : Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1976.
First edition of Haley’s classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “10/20/76 Anne Knutson – my very best wishes! Alex Haley.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Al Nagy.
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London : Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1954.
Rare offprint of the December 1954 issue of the The Economic Journal, containing F.J. DeJong’s article “Keynes and Supply Functions: A Rejoinder,” cut out and pasted over R.G. Hawtrey’s original offprint article “Keynes and Supply Functions.” Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition. Ink notation to the front panel. Accompanied by an unsigned copy ofContinue reading "The Economic Journal: The Quarterly Journal of The Royal Economic Society. December 1954. [Keynes and Supply Functions: A Rejoinder]."
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Washington : Government Printing Office, 1920.
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 Lenin’s speech responding to John Maynard Keynes’ article “The Economic Consequences of the Peace” on pages 19 -23. John Maynard Keynes was a British economist,Continue reading "The 2nd Congress of the Communist International: As Reported and Interpreted by the Official Newspapers of Soviet Russia."
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Privately Printed at the University Press : Cambridge, 1944.
First edition of this concise local history on the stewards of Cambridge. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition with light chipping and losses to the spine. Written by the mother of famed British economist John Maynard Keynes, whose ideas fundamentally changed the theory of macroeconomics and the economic policies of governments. Ownership signature toContinue reading "High Stewards of the Borough of Cambridge: An Enquiry."
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London : Cassell and Company Ltd, 1923.
First edition of Wells’ speculative work exploring the political and social direction of the modern world. Octavo, original cloth with titles and floral ruling stamped in blind to the spine and front panel. From the collection of British science fiction author Christopher Priest. Priest’s most famous works include The Inverted World (1974), the interconnected “DreamContinue reading "Men Like Gods."
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Edinburgh and London : William Blackwood and Sons, 1852.
Early edition of this influential work chronicling European events from the French Revolution to the mid-19th century. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, floral border details stamped in blind. From the library of President Millard Fillmore with his ownership signature to the pastedown of the front panel and dated by him, “MillardContinue reading "History of Europe: From the Fall of Napoleon in MDCCCXV to the Accession of Louis Napoleon in MDCCCLII Vol I."
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c. 1919.
Rare original autograph album containing nearly 200 signed letters, notes, and responses addressed to Thomas D. Neelands, longtime President of the Canadian Club of New York. Quarto, bound in full linen with titles stamped in black to the front panel, “Canadian Club of New York Thos. D. Neelands.” The interior features tipped-in letters-typed and handwrittenContinue reading "Autograph Album Containing Letters Signed by Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, John D. Rockefeller Jr., and Others."
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London : The Folio Society, 2001.
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 John Lawrence.
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London : Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1954.
An offprint of the December 1954 issue of the The Economic Journal, containing R.G. Hawtrey’s article “Keynes and Supply Functions.” A response to F.J. DeJong’s article “Supply Functions in Keynesian Economics” from the March 1954 issue. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition.
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1957.
First edition of Kissinger’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Henry A. Kissinger on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Signed first editions are rare.
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Fermor, Patrick Leigh
Trouton, Rupert; John Maynard Keynes [J.M.]
Rosendahl, Commander C.E
Lowenstein, Roger. [Warren E. Buffett; Burton Malkiel]
Harrod, R.F. and E.A.G. Robinson, Editors. [R.G. Hawtrey; F.J. DeJong; John Maynard Keynes]
[Lenin, Vladimir; John Maynard Keynes] [J.M.]
Alison, Sir Archibald [Millard Fillmore]
Roosevelt, Theodore; William H. Taft; John D. Rockefeller Jr.; Elihu Root; Henry Cabot Lodge; George Dewey; et al. [Thomas D. Neelands]
Waugh, Evelyn
Harrod, R.F. and E.A.G. Robinson, Editors. [R.G. Hawtrey; John Maynard Keynes]
Kissinger, Henry A
