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Mr. Lincoln’s Army; Glory Road; A Stillness At Appomattox.

New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1951-53.

First editions of each volume in the author’s acclaimed Army of the Potomac trilogy. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Mr. Lincoln’s Army and Glory Road are presentation copi...

$9,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148976

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Popper, Karl R

The Open Society And Its Enemies.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul LTD, 1952.

Second editions of Popper’s magnum opus, one of the most important books of the twentieth century. Octavo, 2 volumes, original black cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front...

$9,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149138

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Kidder, Tracy. [Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis]

The Soul of a New Machine.

Boston: Atlantic, Little, Brown and Company, 1981.

First edition of Kidder’s second book. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis on the title page, “For Jacqueline With Best Wis...

$9,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151509

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von Mises, Ludwig

The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality.

Princeton, NJ: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc, 1956.

First edition of this powerful work by the famed economist. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Ludwig von Mises on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Uncommon signed.

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-140667

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Kennedy, John F

John F. Kennedy Signed Inaugural Address.

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Rare Souvenir Edition of Life Magazine’s Inaugural Spectacle commemorating the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy. Quarto, original wrappers, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by...

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-117063

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Illuminated Astrological Sign Symbol Painting Collection.

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Rare collection of illuminated paintings depicting the twelve signs of the Zodiac. Quarto, bound in full calf with gilt tooling to the spine, elaborate gilt ruling to the front and rear panels with fl...

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-199552

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Baldwin, James

The Fire Next Time.

New York: The Dial Press, 1963.

First edition of one of the most influential works on race relations published in the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the title page, “Peace! James Baldwin....

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-129331

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[Shaw, Robert Gould; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Harriet Beecher Stowe; James Russell Lowell; et al]

Memorial.

Cambridge: University Press, 1864.

First edition of this scarce volume dedicated to the commander of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, Robert Gould Shaw, with contributions by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Willia...

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-126433

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Monroe, James

Message from the President of the United States, to Both Houses of Congress, at the Commencement of the First Session of the Eighteenth Congress. December 2, 1823.

Washington, D.C: Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1823.

First edition in book form of the Monroe Doctrine. Octavo, bound in contemporary calf, numerous folding charts and tables. In very good condition. Rare.

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-131707

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Edwards, Jonathan

A History of the Work of Redemption.

Edinburgh:, 1774.

Rare first edition of this work by the famed philosopher and theologian. Octavo, bound in contemporary calf. In very good condition, contemporary name to the front free endpaper. Rare with only one ap...

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-141701

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Du Bois, W.E.B

Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920.

First edition of the first of Du Bois’ three autobiographies. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with some wear to the extremities. Exceptionally rare, with only...

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-136790

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Knight, Frank H

Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit.

Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1920.

First edition of Knight’s classic treatise, published the same year as the first but without the publication year to the title page. Octavo, original cloth, printer’s device to the title p...

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-140654

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Bolivar, Simon

Simón Bolívar Signed Order of the Liberators Appointment.

:, 1819.

Rare autograph letter signed by ‘El Libertador’, Simón Bolívar as President of Venezuela. One page, partially printed on Bolívar’s presidential letterhead bearing his title, ‘Supreme Head...

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-127430

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The Torah: Pentateuch, Five Megillot, and Haftorot.

Amsterdam: Caspar Steen, 1702.

Rare 18th century Danish printing of the Hebrew Bible printed in Hebrew with Yiddish paraphrase. Quarto, two volumes bound in one in contemporary full brown calf, remnants of the original clasps, reba...

$9,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146336

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Bligh, Lieutenant William

A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His Majesty’s Ship Bounty; and the Subsequent Voyage of Part of the Crew, In the Ships Boat from Tofua, one of the Friendly Islands, To Timor, Dutch Settlement in the East Indies.

London: Printed for George Nicol, 1790.

First edition of Bligh’s firsthand account of “one of the most remarkable incidents in the whole of maritime history [which ultimately absolved him] from any blame that might be levelled a...

$9,200.00 Item Number: RRB-109832

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Popper, Karl R

Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge.

New York: Basic Books, 1962.

First edition of this major work by Popper. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Rudi greatest of pianists and for me the only one wi...

$9,200.00 Item Number: RRB-77942

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Solzhenitsyn, Alexander. [Solzhentizyn]

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1963.

First edition in English, preceding the first British edition, of the Nobel Prize-winner’s first published work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title pa...

$9,200.00 Item Number: RRB-140674

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Machiavelli, Niccolò

The Florentine History in VIII Books.

London: Printed for Charles Harper, and John Amery, 1674.

Rare second edition in English of Machiavelli’s Florentine History, the first edition to appear after Thomas Bedingfield’s version in 1595. Octavo, bound in full contemporary calf, morocco...

$9,200.00 Item Number: RRB-148998

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Hayek, Friedrich August von [F.A.]

The Constitution of Liberty.

Chicago: The University of Chicago, 1960.

First edition, third printing of Hayek’s classic statement on the ideals of freedom and liberty. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Hayek on the title page beneath his name. Near fine in a very...

$9,200.00 Item Number: RRB-152043

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Mandela, Nelson

Long Walk To Freedom.

London: Little, Brown and Company, 1994.

Signed limited first edition, one of only 250 numbered copies of this classic autobiography, this is number 121. Octavo, bound in full green morocco, gilt titles to the spine, gilt ruled to the front...

$9,200.00 Item Number: RRB-134532

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Gibbon, Edward

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1782-1788.

Rare early editions of the historian’s masterpiece. Quarto, 6 volumes, bound in full paper boards, 3 folding engraved maps. The frontispiece portrait of Gibbon is after Sir Joshua Reynolds, the...

$9,200.00 Item Number: RRB-140394

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Knight, Frank H

Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit.

Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1921.

First edition of Knight’s classic treatise. Octavo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-106575

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Monroe, James

Message from the President of the United States, to Both Houses of Congress, at the Commencement of the First Session of the Eighteenth Congress. December 2, 1823.

Washington, D.C: Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1823.

First edition in book form of the Monroe Doctrine. Octavo, bound with a number of other congressional reports in contemporary sheep, numerous folding charts and tables. In very good condition with rub...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-146543

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The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature, for the Year 1776.

London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1777.

Rare first edition, first issue of the The Annual Register for the Year 1776, a long-established reference work, written and published each year beginning in 1758 under the editorship of Edmund Burke....

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151072

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