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Degrand, Peter Paul Francis [John Quincy Adams]

An Address by P.P.F. Degrand, on the Advantages of Low Fares, and Low Rates of Freight, Practically Illustrated by the Deep Researches of the British, French and Belgian Governments; Unanimously Approved and Adopted, and Ordered to be Published, by a Meeting of Gentlemen Friendly to Internal Improvements, Held in Boston, Dec. 3, 1840.

Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, Printers, 1840.

First edition of this rare work by one of the earliest promoters of a transcontinental railroad. Octavo, original publisher’s salmon wrappers, ownership stamp to the verso of the title page,...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-147598

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Bell, Daniel [Irving Kristol]

The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas In the Fifties.

Glencoe, Ill: The Free Press, 1960.

First edition of this landmark in American social thought. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, “For Irvi...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-117637

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Wilkins, William

The Antiquities of Magna Graecia.

Cambridge: Printed at the University Press by Richard Watts for Longman, Hurst, Orme and Rees, 1807.

First edition of this ambitious and influential work on the classical architecture of the Magna Graecia by one of the leading figures of the English Greek Revival movement of the early 19th century. F...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-116938

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Schelling, Thomas C

The Strategy of Conflict.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1960.

First edition of this work that pioneered the study of bargaining and strategic behavior. Octavo, original yellow cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Willia...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-150025

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Hazlitt, Henry

Economics In One Lesson.

New York: Laissez Faire Books, 1986.

Signed limited edition, one of only 200 numbered copies of the author’s seminal work. Octavo, original leather, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt tooling to the front and rear panels, all edg...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149556

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Hunter, Alexander

Johnny Reb and Billy Yank.

New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1905.

First edition of this epic Civil War novel. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the dust jacket with some chips and inner strengthening. First editions are rare, examples with the original dust jacke...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-5588

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Anderson, Erica; Eugene Exman. [Albert Schweitzer]

Le Monde D’Albert Schweitzer.

Paris: A. Michel, 1955.

First edition of this work on the Nobel laureate. Quarto, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by Schweitzer on the front free endpaper, “To Mr. Jean Marie Dubernard upon leaving Lamb...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-120738

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Downs, Laura Lee [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]

Writing Gender History.

New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2010.

First edition of the second edition of this scholarly work about the historical theories of women and gender. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-147660

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The Massachusetts Centinel. Wednesday, October 21, 1789.

Boston: Russell, Benjamin, October 21, 1789.

Number II, of Vol. XII of “the most influential and enterprising paper in Massachusetts after the Revolution”, Benjamin Russell’s Massachusetts Centinel, issued on Wednesday, October...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-116337

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Hooker, Richard

Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Politie. [Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity].

London: Printed by William Standbye, [1622].

Early printing of this important work by the influential English theologian. Quarto, quarter morocco with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in seven compartments within raised bands, red morocco spi...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-130372

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Du Bois, W.E. Burghardt [W.E.B. DuBois]

The Negro Church.

Atlanta: The Atlanta University Press, 1903.

First edition. Octavo, original wrappers. In good condition, lacking the front panel. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Exceptionally rare, without any record of this title appearing at auction in the...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-133316

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von Braun, Wernher

Wernher von Braun Signed Time Magazine Cover.

Havana: Time Magazine Latin American Edition, 1958.

Rare Time Magazine Latin American Edition cover signed by legendary German-American aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun. Quarto, the cover is from the February 17, 1958 issue and features a reproduct...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-138504

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Webster, Pelatiah

Political Essays on the Nature and Operation of Money, Public Finances, and Other Subjects: Published During the American War, and Continued Up to the Present Year, 1791.

Philadelphia : Joseph Crukshank, 1791.

First edition of these influential essays concerning the finances and government of the fledgling United States by Webster, who took a strongly-laissez-faire position economically, and was a proponent...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-133510

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Callender, James Thomson

The American Annual Register, or, Historical Memoirs of the United States, for the Year 1796.

Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by Bioren & Madan, January 19, 1797.

First edition, first issue in book form of Callender’s searing exposé. Octavo, bound in three quarter contemporary calf over marbled boards, morocco spine label lettered in gilt. In very good co...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-125974

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Hughes, Langston

Three Autograph Poems Signed By Langston Hughes.

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Three original autograph poems by Langston Hughes. Quarto, three pages, one typed and two handwritten in green ink for Marshall Bean. Each boldly signed by Langston Hughes. The first, “Personal...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-148255

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Mill, John Stuart

The Subjection of Women.

London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869.

First edition of Mill’s classic work defending the rights of women, publisher’s presentation copy, with a blind stamp to title, “Presented by the Publishers.” Octavo, original...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-144100

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Herzl, Theodor. Translated by Lotta Levensohn. Preface by Stephen S. Wise [David Ben-Gurion]

Old-New Land [“Altneuland”].

New York: Bloch Publishing Co, 1941.

First edition in English of Herzl’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. A gifted copy accompanied by a slip from the first prime minister of the State of Israel, David Ben-Gurion, laid in, “Wi...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149223

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Holmes, Jr., Oliver Wendell

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Signed Photograph.

:, 1928.

Autographed photograph of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, signed and dated February 2, 1932. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 14.5 inches by 13 inches.

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-94958

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Brown, William J

The Life of William J. Brown, of Providence, R. I. With Personal Recollections of Incidents in Rhode Island.

Providence: Agnell, 1883.

Very rare first edition of the narrative of William J. Brown, born in 1814 the son of a free Black man and Native American woman in Providence, Rhode Island. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condi...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-130502

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Hine, Lewis W

Men at Work: Photographic Studies of Men and Machines.

New York: The Macmillan Co, 1932.

First edition of Hine’s only book published in his lifetime, a landmark photobook in its celebration of “the dignity of labour and… the American skyscraper” (Parr & Badger). Small quarto, original...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-96378

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Olmsted, Frederick Law. Edited by Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. and Theodora Kimball

Frederick Law Olmsted: Landscape Architect 1822-1903: Central Park as a Work of Art and as a Great Municipal Enterprise 1853-1895.

New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1928.

First edition of the second volume of the autobiography of one of the foremost figures in American landscape architecture, Frederick Law Olmsted. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated, tissue-guarded fr...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-129463

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Barton, Clara

The Story of My Childhood.

New York: The Baker & Taylor Co., 1907.

First edition of the founder of the American Red Cross, American Civil War nurse Clara Barton’s childhood memoirs. 12mo, original publisher’s full red sheep with gilt titles to the spine a...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-122994

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Thomas, Isaiah

The History of Printing in America.

Worcester: Isaiah Thomas, 1810.

First edition of this work by the famed printer. Octavo, bound in contemporary sheep, morocco spine labels, illustrated with five engraved plates (four folding). Gift inscription of Thomas’s gra...

$4,000.00 Item Number: RRB-133261

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Schelling, Thomas C

Arms and Influence.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966.

First edition of this “exemplary text on the interplay of national purpose and military force” (Book Week). Octavo, original red cloth. Boldly signed by Thomas Schelling on the title page....

$3,800.00 Item Number: RRB-2912

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