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Unbending Gender: Why Family And Work Conflict And What To Do About It.

New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

First Oxford University printing of this insightful analysis about gender inequalities. Octavo, original publisher’s wrappers, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149109

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[Lincoln, Abraham]

[Emancipation Proclamation]. General Orders, No. 1. War Department Adjutant General’s Office, Washington, January 2, 1863.

Washington: Government Printing Office, January 2, 1863.

Rare first War Department and fifth overall printing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Twelvemo, General Orders No. 1 extracted from the larger volume of orders for 1863, 4 pages, disbound. President...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149486

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von Mises, Ludwig

The Free and Prosperous Commonwealth: An Exposition of the Ideas of Classical Liberalism.

Princeton, NJ: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc, 1962.

First edition of this classic work by von Mises. Octavo, original cloth. Signed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper, “Ludwig Mises March 2nd 1970.” Near fine in very good du...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-106574

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By a Young Lady

Intellectual Sentiments, Explained by the Study of Sensations.

London: Printed For Joseph Booker, 1809.

Rare Royal binding of this very uncommon title. Octavo, bound in full contemporary straight grain morocco by Charles Meyer of London for the Royal Family, gilt titles and Greek key ruling to they spin...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-139576

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Kennedy, John F. [Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter]

Profiles in Courage.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers , 1956.

First edition of Kennedy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work with the publisher’s code M-E to the copyright page. Octavo, bound in full crushed levant navy morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt ti...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145067

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Friedman, Milton with the Assistance of Rose D. Friedman

Capitalism and Freedom.

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 1995.

Special anniversary edition of Friedman’s magnum opus. Octavo, bound in full leather, gilt titles to the spine, front and rear panels, all edges gilt, silk bookmark bound in. Boldly signed by Mi...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147392

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Mandela, Nelson

Long Walk To Freedom.

London: Little Brown and Company, 1994.

First British edition of the first autobiography of one of the greatest moral leaders of the twentieth century which has went on to sell over six million copies worldwide. Octavo, original black board...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-4426

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Bacon, Sir Francis

The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh.

London: Printed by Stansby for Matthew Lownes and William Barret, 1622.

Scarce first edition, first issue of Sir Francis Bacon’s influential history of the reign of King Henry VII with “Highnesse” at the conclusion of the dedication and “souldiers” (3, l...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-114526

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Churchill, Winston S

The Story of the Malakand Field Force, An Episode of Frontier War.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1898.

First edition, first issue, of Winston Churchill’s first book, an account of his service with the Malakand Field Force in India, with frontispiece portrait of Sir Binden Blood and six maps, two of the...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-133224

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Douglass, Frederick

Frederick Douglass Signed Property Deed.

Washington, D.C:, March 23, 1885.

Rare real estate document signed by famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass as Recorder of Deeds for Washington, D.C. One page, partially printed, the property deed agreement is signed by Douglass, “Fre...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-141500

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Kammen, Michael [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

A Machine That Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American Culture.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.

Early printing of this analysis of the United States’ relationship with its constitution. Octavo, original half cloth, frontispiece of ‘Washington Giving the Laws to America’ by J. P...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-147157

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Taft, William Howard; Theodore Marburg; Horace E. Flack

Taft Papers on League of Nations.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1920.

First edition of this collection of speeches and articles by President William Howard Taft from May 1915 to the adoption of the revised Paris Covenant on April 28, 1919. Octavo, original publisher...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-146671

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Hoon, Chng Huang [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

Not Among Peers: The Judicial Construction of Rights and Gender Roles.

Singapore: Centre for Advanced Studies, 1991.

Original scholarly work from the Centre for Advanced Studies Research Paper Series examines how U.S. Supreme Court judges use language to construct and reinforce gender roles in their legal opinions....

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-150836

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Herr, Michael

Dispatches.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977.

First edition of “the best book to have been written about the Vietnam War” (The New York Times Book Review). Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-5609

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Gazette of the United States. No. XXXI. Wednesday, July 29, 1789.

New York: John Fenno, July 29, 1789.

Rare original printing of the Gazette of the United States, issued during the presidency of George Washington on July 29, 1789. Folio, one page, folded, this issue includes a the following articles, m...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-116728

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Waldo, S. Putnam. [James Monroe; John Adams; Thomas Jefferson]

Biographical Sketches of Distinguished American Naval Heroes and the War of the Revolution, Between the American Republic and the Kingdom of Great Britain; Comprising Sketches of Com. Nicholas Biddle, Com. John Paul Jones, Com. Edward Preble and Com. Alexander Murray. With Incidental Allusions to other Distinguished Characters.

Hartford: Published by Silas Andrus, 1823.

Rare first edition of Putnam’s work dedicated to American naval heroes of the Revolutionary War including James Monroe, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-120635

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Mitchell, William

Skyways: A Book on Modern Aeronautics.

Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1930.

First edition of this classic work on aeronautics by “the father of the United States Air Force” Billy Mitchell. Octavo, original cloth, with seventy-six illustrations from photographs and...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-137238

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Clinton, President William Jefferson [Bill] [Madeleine Albright]

Selected Remarks.

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Collection of speeches and addresses from the 47th president of the United States, all first edition; from the library of Secretary Madeleine Albright. Octavo, seven volumes, original cloth and wrappe...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-145736

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Parkman, Francis

The California and Oregon Trail.

New York: George P. Putnam, 1849.

First edition, first printing of Parkman’s classic account of his journey along the Oregon Trail. Octavo, original cloth, tinted lithographic frontispiece and vignette half title by Felix Octavius Car...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-2720

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Paine, Thomas

The Life and Works of Thomas Paine.

New Rochelle, New York: Thomas Paine National Historical Association, 1925.

The Patriot’s edition of the Life and Works of Thomas Paine. Octavo, ten volumes bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-138611

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Wells, H.G.; Julian S. Huxley and G.P. Wells

The Science of Life.

London: Cassell and Company Limited, 1931.

First edition of “the first modern textbook of biology.” Quarto, original cloth, top stain black, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by Wells in the year of publication on the secon...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149156

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Mills, C. Wright

The Sociological Imagination.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1959.

First edition of one the the most influential sociological works of the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by C. Wright Mills on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good price-...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-4096

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[Russia]

A New and Exact Description of Moscovy.

London: R. Baldwin, 1698.

First edition of this work. Octavo, bound in modern wrappers, 28 pages. In very good condition with some browning and toning to the text. Rare, with no other examples appearing at auction in the last...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-112625

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Gazette of the United States. No.XXXVII. Wednesday, August 19, 1789.

New York: John Fenno, Wednesday, August 19, 1789.

Rare original printing of the Gazette of the United States, issued during the presidency of George Washington on August 19, 1789. Folio, one page, folded, this issue includes a the following articles,...

$5,500.00 Item Number: RRB-116518

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