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Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Burke’s Attack on the French Revolution.

London: Printed for the Booksellers, 1792.

Scarce early collected edition of Paine’s classic work. Duodecimo, two parts bound in one volume, contemporary three-quarter calf over marbled boards. In very good condition with rubbing to the...

$2,750.00 Item Number: RRB-146441

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Rothbard, Murray N

The Review of Austrian Economics: Volume 1.

Washington, D.C: Lexington Books, 1987.

First edition of this overview of the Austrian School of Economics. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated in the year of publication by the author on the front free endpaper,...

$2,750.00 Item Number: RRB-4437

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[de Carrara, Cajetau-Louis-Antoine]

18th Century French Nobility Patent.

:, November 13, 1710.

Rare 18th century French Patent of Nobility for Cajetau-Louis-Antoine de Carrara. Folio, bound in full velvet, the patent is comprised of five vellum leaves, the first with calligraphy within an elabo...

$2,750.00 Item Number: RRB-133430

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Jackson, Rev. William

The Constitutions of the Several Independent States of America; The Declaration of Independence; and The Articles of Confederation Between the Said States.

London: Printed for J. Stockdale, in Piccadilly, 1783.

Rare second English edition, “the best English edition” (Howes), of the Constitutions of the thirteen newly independent American states, published only one year after the first English edi...

$2,750.00 Item Number: RRB-151249

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Roosevelt, Franklin

The Democratic Book 1936.

:, 1936.

Signed Limited edition, number 1858, with illustrated title and limitation pages, 19 full-page portraits, dozens of in-text half-tones and illustrations, and a facsimile of the Constitution. Large fol...

$2,750.00 Item Number: RRB-38075

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Friedman, Milton

A Theory of the Consumption Function.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1957.

First edition of Friedman’s magnum opus. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. A superior example.

$2,750.00 Item Number: RRB-100964

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Holmes, Jr., Oliver Wendell

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Signed Photograph.

:, 1932.

Large photograph of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in his judicial robes, boldly signed by him, “Oliver Wendell Holmes, April 9, 1932.” The photograph measures 13.25 inches by...

$2,750.00 Item Number: RRB-132468

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Washington, Booker T

Up From Slavery. An Autobiography.

New York: A.L. Burt Company Publishers, 1901.

First edition of the A.L. Burt Publishers edition of Booker T. Washington’s landmark biography. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Exceptionally rare in...

$2,750.00 Item Number: RRB-132410

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Meadowcroft, William H. [Thomas A. Edison]

The Boy’s Life of Edison.

New York and London: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1911.

First edition of Meadowcroft’s biography of Thomas Edison, written for children. Octavo, original cloth with paper label portrait of Edison to the front panel, illustrated with eight photographi...

$2,750.00 Item Number: RRB-110225

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Roosevelt, Franklin D

Franklin D. Roosevelt Signed Commemorative WWI Lake Torpedo Boat Company Photographs.

Bridgeport, CT: Lake Torpedo Boat Co, c. May 20, 1918.

Rare vintage photographs of Franklin D. Roosevelt as Assistant Secretary of the U. S. Navy, signed by him. Two gelatin silver photographs showing FDR on his May 20, 1918 visit to Lake Torpedo Boat Com...

$2,750.00 Item Number: RRB-147241

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Newton, Huey P. and Erik H. Erikson

In Search of Common Ground: Conversations with Erik H. Erikson and Huey P. Newton.

New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1973.

First edition of this record of two conversations which took place between Newton and Erickson. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by both authors on the front free endpaper, “From Huey with love...

$2,750.00 Item Number: RRB-127535

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Friedman, Milton

There’s No Such Thing As a Free Lunch: Essays On Public Policy.

Chicago, Illinois: Open Court Publishing Company, 1975.

First edition of a collection of key writings by Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, “one of the 20th century’s leading economic scholars, on a par with giants like John Maynard Keynes and...

$2,750.00 Item Number: RRB-133798

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[Hill, Tex; Ken Jernstedt; Paul J. Greene; Robert T. Smith; Dick Rossi; Erik Shilling; Bob Layher; Ed Rector; Charlie Bond; Robert M. Smith; Edward F. Gallagher; Frank Losonsky; Rolland Richardson; Carl Quick; Al Kaelin; John Richard Rossi]

Chennault’s Flying Tigers: A Commemorative History of the American Volunteer Group.

Minnesota: Flying Tigers 14th Air Force Association, Inc, 1982.

First edition of this detailed and richly illustrated tribute to American Volunteer Group’s pivotal role in early World War II air combat. Quarto, original blue boards with an inlay of a flying...

$2,750.00 Item Number: RRB-149404

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Wood, Gordon S

The Creation of the American Republic 1776-1787.

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1969.

First edition of this classic examination on how the Founders of America invented popular sovereignty, separation of powers, and judicial review. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth. Boldly...

$2,750.00 Item Number: RRB-152274

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Dreyfus, Alfred; Colonel De Galle; Theodore Roosevelt; Emile Zola; [Eleanor Roosevelt]; [Ilya Trotzky]

Visiting Card Collection.

:, .

Rare collection of seven printed visiting cards. The collection includes: Alfred Dreyfus, inscribed by him in ink, “avec tous les remerciements,” n.d., 2.25 inches by 3.8 inches; Colonel D...

$2,600.00 Item Number: RRB-146844

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Merton, Thomas

The Sign of Jonas.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1953.

First edition of the daily journal of American Trappist monk Thomas Merton. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Signed by Thomas Merton on the title page. Near fine in a near fine price-clipp...

$2,600.00 Item Number: RRB-96038

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Hoover, Herbert & Harry S. Truman

Signed Photograph of Presidents Herbert Hoover & Harry S. Truman.

:, 1946.

Photograph of Presidents Herbert Hoover & Harry S. Truman, signed by both Presidents. Double matted and framed, the entire piece measures 11.25 inches by 9.5 inches. Rare and desirable signed by b...

$2,600.00 Item Number: RRB-102878

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Wells, H.G.; Julian S. Huxley and G.P. Wells [James D. Watson]

The Science of Life.

London: Cassell and Company Limited, 1931.

First edition of “the first modern textbook of biology.” Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. From the library of James D. Watson with his ownership signature to the front free endpaper. J...

$2,600.00 Item Number: RRB-150293

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[Rudolph, Donald; Robert E. Simanek; John F. Baker; Ray Davis; Francis S. Currey; Charles A. MacGillivary; et al]

The Congressional Medal of Honor: The Names, The Deeds.

Forest Ranch, California: Sharp & Dunnigan Publications, 1984.

First edition of the complete record of recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor, from the Civil War through Vietnam. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, signed by 30 recipients of the Me...

$2,600.00 Item Number: RRB-142565

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Levi-Strauss, Claude

Tristes Tropiques.

New York: Criterion Books, 1961.

First edition in English of Levi-Strauss’ landmark work. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece, illustrated with 48 pages of photographs and 48 line drawings. Boldly signed by Claude Levi-Strauss...

$2,600.00 Item Number: RRB-150084

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Crantz, David

The History of Greenland: Containing a Description of the Country, and Its Inhabitants.

London: Printed for the Brethren's Society, 1767.

First edition in English of Crantz’s elaborate account of the history of Greenland. first published in German in 1765. Octavo, two volumes bound in full period-style full speckled calf with moro...

$2,600.00 Item Number: RRB-150760

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Toner, Joseph Meredith [George Washington]

George Washington as an Inventor and Promoter of the Useful Arts. An Address Delivered at Mount Vernon, April 10, 1891, by J.M. Toner, M.D.

Washington, D.C.: Press of Gedney & Roberts Co, 1891.

First separate edition of Turner’s address delivered at Mount Vernon on the occasion of the visit of the officers and members of the Patent Centennial Celebration. Octavo, bound in three quarter...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-133402

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Hersey, John

Hiroshima.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946.

First edition of Hersey’s classic work, which has sold over three million copies. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in compartments with...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-151265

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Calligraphic Manuscript on Vellum with a Color Miniature of the Painting by Leonardo Da Vinci.

:, c.1900.

Rare illuminated manuscript regarding Da Vinci’s master drawing The Head of Christ (c. 1495), the basis for Da Vinci’s depiction of Jesus in The Last Supper. Da Vinci himself considered the drawing so...

$2,500.00 Item Number: RRB-119865

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