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America’s Great Depression.

New York: MacMillan Company, 1973.

First edition of Rothbard’s classic treatise on the 1930s Great Depression and its root causes. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Murray N. Rothbard on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust j...

$6,800.00 Item Number: RRB-23068

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Hayek, Friedrich August von [F.A.]

Individualismus und Wirtschaftliche Ordnung [Individualism and Economic Order].

Erlenbach-Zurich: Eugen Rentsch Verlag, 1952.

First German edition of this collection of economic essays rejecting socialism in favor of true individualism. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by F.A. Hayek on the front free endpaper. Near fine...

$6,800.00 Item Number: RRB-3468

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Roosevelt, Eleanor [Mrs. Franklin D, Roosevelt]

A Trip to Washington with Bobby and Betty.

New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1935.

First edition of this early work by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Sara with love fr...

$6,800.00 Item Number: RRB-139001

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Smith, Samuel Francis

Autograph Transcription Signed of My Country ‘Tis of Thee.

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Autograph transcription of the first four stanzas of the American patriotic song My Country ‘Tis of Thee, which served as one of the de facto national anthems of the United States before the off...

$6,800.00 Item Number: RRB-82414

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Abbott, Berenice

Changing New York.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1939.

First edition stated on copyright page; first issue with blue topstain of Abbott’s landmark work on New York. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated with 97 halftone plates that display “the...

$6,800.00 Item Number: RRB-57048

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King George IV

The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments.

Oxford: Bensley, Cooke, and Collingwood, 1816.

Royal Coronation edition of The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments used at the Coronation of King George IV on July 19th, 1821. Quarto, bound in full dark blue velvet, gilt arm...

$6,800.00 Item Number: RRB-79456

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Carret, Philip L

The Art of Speculation.

New York: Barron's, 1927.

First edition of the Wall Street legend’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to his mother in the year of publication,...

$6,800.00 Item Number: RRB-90564

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Katzmann, Robert A. [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

New York University Law Review. Madison Lecture: Statutes.

New York: New York University Law Review, 2012.

Original June 2012 offprint of the New York University Law Review containing Robert A. Katzmann’s Madison Lecture: Statutes. Octavo, original publisher’s wrappers, volume 87, number 3. Pre...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151268

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Kennedy, John F

The Honey Fitz Presidential Yacht Copy of Profiles in Courage.

New York: Pocket Books, Inc, 1957.

Cardinal edition of Kennedy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work; the Honey Fitz Presidential Yacht Copy; signed by John F. Kennedy. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Boldly signed by John F. Kennedy on t...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-134268

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Kahneman, Daniel

Attention and Effort.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1973.

First edition of the Nobel laureate’s influential first book, which claimed that attention can be identified with effort, cemented the association as a research paradigm in the cognitive science...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148161

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Laws of the United States of America: Containing, The Federal Constitution; The Acts of the Sessions of the First and Second Congress; The Treaties Existing Between the United States and Foreign Nations, and the Several Indian Tribes. Also, Sundry Resolves of the First and Second Congress.

Boston: Adams and Larkin, 1795.

Rare first edition of the collected laws of the United States, containing the treaties and acts from the three sessions of the first Congress and the first two sessions of the second Congress. Stated...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148285

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Catton, Bruce

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...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151778

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Elizabeth II, Queen and Prince Philip

Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip Signed Photograph.

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Black and white photograph of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip with young Prince Charles and Princess Anne waving from the balcony of Buckingham Palace, signed by Queen Elizabeth II, “Elizab...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145203

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Mandela, Nelson

I Am Prepared to Die.

Kent: A.G. Bishop & Sons, Ltd, c. 1965.

Rare first edition of Mandela’s Rivonia Speech. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Boldly signed and dated on the front panel, “Mandela 15.3.06.” In near fine condition. Uncommon...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147121

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Cook, Captain James; Captain James King

A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken, By The Command of His Majesty For Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. [Cook’s Third Voyage].

London: Printed by H. Hughs, for G. Nicol, Bookseller to His Majesty, in the Strand; and T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1785.

Finely bound example of Cook’s Third Voyage, “one of the most important English books published in the last quarter of the eighteenth century… considered typographically superior to...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151486

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Mandela, Nelson] Photograph by Jurgen Schadeberg

Nelson Mandela Silver Gelatin Print.

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Silver Gelatin Print of Nelson Mandela, Dr. Moroka, and Yusuf Dadoo during the Defiance Campaign Trial of 1952. Signed by both Mandela on the image and the photographer, Jurgen Schadeberg (signed and...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-4054

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Shapiro, David L. [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

Wrong Turns: The Eleventh Amendment and the Pennhurst Case.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Harvard Law Review Association, 1984.

Original November 1984 offprint Harvard Law Review containing David L. Shapiro’s “Wrong Turns: The Eleventh Amendment and the Pennhurst Case.” Octavo, original publisher’s wrappers, Volume...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151277

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Franklin, Benjamin

Mémoires de la Vie Privée de Benjamin Franklin, Écrits Par Lui-Même, et Adressés à Son Fils, Suivis d’un Précis Historique de Sa Vie Politique, et de Plusieurs Pièces, Relatives à Ce Père de la Liberté. [Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin].

A Paris: Chez Buisson, Libraire, 1791.

True first edition of Franklin’s famed autobiography, which preceded the first English edition by two years, in the scarce original wrappers. Octavo, original wrappers, with the original publisher...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-124077

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Stowe, Harriet Beecher

The Chimney-Corner.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1888.

Later printing of this classic collection of essays which deals primarily with women’s issues, such as property rights, voting and education in post-Civil War America. Octavo, original publisher...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149908

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Allais, Maurice (Kenneth J. Arrow)

Economie & Interet.

Paris: Imprimerie National, 1947.

First edition of Allais’ groundbreaking work. Octavo, 2 volumes, original wrappers as issued. Inscribed by Maurice Allais on the title page of volume one. From the library of fellow Nobel Prize-...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-16078

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Galbraith, John Kenneth

The Great Crash 1929.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1955.

First edition, first printing with the date of 1955 on the title page of this classic work. Octavo, original red cloth. Boldly signed by John Kenneth Galbraith on the front free endpaper. Near fine in...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151346

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Wiener, Norbert

The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1950.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Larta Blanca Norbert Wiener.” Near fine in a very goo...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-142006

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Irving, Washington

The Life of George Washington.

New York: G. P. Putnam & Co., 1855-59.

First edition of Irving’s monumental biography of George Washington. Quarto, bound in half crushed red levant with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt ban...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-129307

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[Chapman, John Gadsby; George Washington]

View of the Birthplace of George Washington.

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Rare nineteenth century oil painting after John Gadsby Chapman (New York/Italy, 1808-1889) depicting the birthplace of President George Washington in Westmoreland County, Virginia. Oil on canvas, the...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145244

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