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Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Or, Life Among the Lowly.

Boston and Cleveland: John P. Jewett; Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, 1852.

First edition of Stowe’s classic and vastly influential novel, “the social impact was greater than any book before or since.” Octavo, two volumes bound in mid-20th century three quar...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151975

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Winik, Jay. [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800.

New York: HarperCollins, 2007.

First edition of Winik’s “cinematic reconstruction of the birth of the modern world” (Robert Dallek). Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Presentation copy, ins...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146983

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Chng, Huang Hoon [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

Separate and Unequal: Judicial Rhetoric and Women’s Rights.

Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2002.

First edition of this examination of the language of judges with respect to the issues of gender discrimination. Octavo, original pictorial boards. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the tit...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-148300

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Merton, Robert C.; Foreword by Paul A. Samuelson

Continuous-Time Finance.

Oxford and Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell, 1990.

First edition of Merton’s landmark work, which introduced the concepts of continuous-time optimization. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page,...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146444

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Franklin, Captain John

Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of The Polar Sea, In the Years 1819, 20, 21, and 22. [with] Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1825, 1826, and 1827.

London: John Murray, Albemarle-Street, 1823.

First editions of the official narratives of Franklin‘s first and second voyages to the Polar Sea. Quarto, two volumes uniformly bound in full period-style speckled calf with morocco gilt-letter...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147522

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Leake, William Martin

Travels in Northern Greece.

London: J.Rodwell, 1835.

First edition of Leakes work on Northern Greece. Octavo, 4 volumes, original cloth, 10 engraved maps and plans, some folding, and 44 plates, wood-engraved illustrations in text. In near fine condition...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-63015

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Isaacson, Walter [Vint Cerf; Leonard Kleinrock; Robert Kahn; Tim Berners-Lee; Linus Torvalds]

The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014.

First edition of this sweeping history of the computer and the Internet, signed by Isaacson and several legendary internet pioneers. Octavo, original publisher’s half-cloth, circuit board endpap...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-152132

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Mann, William d'Alton

Fads and Fancies of Representative Americans at the Beginning of the 20th Century: Being a Portrayal of their Tastes, Diversions and Achievements.

New York: Town Topics Publishing Company, 1905.

First edition of this lavishly published work regarding New York’s wealthy society at the time, including names such as John Jacob Astor, J. Pierpont Morgan and Henry Huntington. Folio, original...

$6,500.00 Item Number: RRB-129391

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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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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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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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Elizabeth II, Queen and Prince Philip

Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip Signed Photograph.

:, 1954.

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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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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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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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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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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[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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