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My African Journey.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1908.

First edition of this early Churchill travelogue. Octavo, original bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, illustrated, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gi...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-150176

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Putnam, Hilary [Daniel Bell]

Meaning and the Moral Sciences.

London:, 1978.

First edition of this work by Hilary Putnam. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Hilary Putnam on the front free endpaper. From the library of Harvard colleague Daniel Bell, with his signature above Put...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-19096

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Jackson, Andrew

Andrew Jackson Signed Land Grant for Vigo County, Indiana, for Charles B. Modesitt.

City of Washington: General Land Office, 1830.

Rare Presidential Land Grant signed by Andrew Jackson as President. Quarto, one page partially printed and accomplished in manuscript, the document is dated January 4, 1830 and grants a quarter of lan...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-146758

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Barnes, David M

The Draft Riots in New York July, 1863.

New York: Baker & Godwin Publishers, 1863.

First edition of the best contemporary account of the New York City Draft Week Riots, the largest civil urban disturbance in American history. Octavo, full cloth, all edges gilt, gilt ruling to the fr...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-4148

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Cropper, James

Cobbett’s Weekly Political Register (January – May 1821) with Letters Addressed to William Wilberforce, M. P. Recommending the Encouragement of the Cultivation of Sugar in Our Dominions in the East Indies, as the Natural and Certain Means of Effecting the General and Total Abolition of the Slave-Trade.

Liverpool: James Smith, 1822.

First edition of this compilation of issues of Cobbett’s Register collected in 1821 bound together with Cropper’s letters to Wilberforce. Octavo, bound in three quarters calf over marbled...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-75022

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Shaara, Michael

The Killer Angels.

New York: David Mckay, 1974.

First edition of Shaara’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth, maps by Don Pitcher. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. Rare and desirable in thi...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-146142

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Clews, Henry

Twenty-Eight Years In Wall Street.

New York: Irving Publishing Company, 1888.

First edition of Clews’ classic work. Thick octavo, original green cloth, with titles to the spine in gilt and engraved frontispiece and nearly 50 portrait plates. Presentation copy, inscribed b...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-46042

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Friedman, Milton; With the Assistance of Rose Friedman

Capitalism And Freedom.

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1962.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning economist’s magnum opus. Octavo, original blue cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-152104

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Roosevelt, Eleanor

This Is My Story.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1937.

First edition of Eleanor Roosevelt’s first autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by Eleanor Roosevelt on the half-title page. Small bookplate to the front pastedown, near fi...

$2,200.00 Item Number: RRB-21057

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Keller, Helen

Helen Keller Signed Photograph.

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Original photograph of Helen Keller with her Great Dane, Sieglinde, and beloved teacher Anne Sullivan’s Scottish Terrier. Inscribed by Helen Keller, “To Perry Finkelstein, with cordial gre...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-89153

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Aldous, H. Graham

The Beer Duty.

London: Privately Printed, c. 1901.

First edition of this collection of discussions and charts analyzing the effects of taxation on the beer trade in early 20th century England, in the midst of the Temperance Movement. Octavo, original...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-100125

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Karlin, Samuel and Lloyd Stowell Shapley [L.S.]

Geometry of Moment Spaces.

Santa Monica: The Rand Corporation, 1951.

Rare first appearance of mathematician Samuel Karlin and Nobel Prize-winning economist Lloyd Stowell Shapley’s early work on the geometry of the moment space, a precursor to Shapley’s deve...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-112974

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Cohn, Roy

McCarthy.

New York : The New American Library, 1968.

First edition of this work by Cohn, who came to prominence for his role as Senator Joseph McCarthy’s chief counsel during the Army–McCarthy hearings in 1954. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated....

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-128627

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Keynes, John Maynard [J.M.]

The Economic Consequences of the Peace.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920.

First edition of the best-selling book that established Keynes’ reputation as a leading economist. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket, which is in very good condi...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149766

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Nixon, Richard. [Henry A. Kissinger]

Real Peace: A Strategy for the West.

New York: Privately Printed for Richard Nixon, 1983.

The privately printed limited first edition of Nixon’s fifth book. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the spine. One of 1,000 copies. Boldly signed by Richard Nixon and...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-152983

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Roosevelt, Theodore and Edmund Heller

Life-Histories of African Game Animals.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914.

First edition of Roosevelt’s final work on big-game hunting. Octavo, 2 volumes, original buckram cloth with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, tissue-guarded engraved frontispieces, with ill...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-125598

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Nixon, Richard. [Henry A. Kissinger]

Leaders: Profiles and Reminisces of Men Who Have Shaped the Modern World.

New York: Warner Books, 1982.

First edition of this work which recollects Nixon’s memories of leaders such as Churchill, de Gaulle and Khrushchev. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with 32 photographs. Boldly signed b...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151742

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Japanese Spy Manual.

Wuhan:, c.1940s-1950s.

Rare Japanese spy manual. Octavo, original wrappers printed in black and red, illustrated with photos of spy gadgets and techniques to hide them on one’s person or search for them on a suspected...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-145396

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Mendez, Antonio J. and Matt Baglio [Ben Affleck and Alan Arkin]

Argo: How The CIA And Hollywood Pulled Off The Most Audacious Rescue in History.

New York: Viking, 2012.

First edition, early printing of the gripping true story of the 1979 rescue of six American hostages from Iran, basis for the Academy Award-winning film directed by Ben Affleck and starring him, Alan...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-150297

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Armorial Binding.

[France]:, c. 1690.

Rare original armorial binding in gold and silver thread bearing a coat of arms reminiscent of the Durazzo family of Venice. Small octavo, empty, white silk with pink silk pastedowns, the outer border...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149153

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Brownmiller, Susan

Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1975.

First edition of this bestselling feminist classic that revolutionized the way we think about rape, as a historical phenomenon and as an urgent crisis, named by the New York Public Library’s 100 Books...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-150942

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Reagan, Ronald [Patti Davis]

Ronald Reagan Inscribed Christmas Card to His Daughter Patti Davis.

:, 1990.

Original Christmas card inscribed by President Ronald Reagan to his daughter Patti Davis. Christmas card from 1990 featuring a festive pinecone on the front. Inscribed by Reagan in black felt tip,...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-151330

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Putnam, Hilary

Renewing Philosophy.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992.

First edition. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of famed sociologist Daniel Bell, with his signature on the front free endpaper and notes throughout. Also signed on the front free endpaper by...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-57006

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Anderson, Ronald Lee. [Jean-Antoine Houdon; George Washington]

George Washington Houdon Bust Sculpture.

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Life-size sculpture of the head of George Washington, after the famed Houdon bust of George Washington of 1785. Plaster, the piece measures 11.5 inches by 9 inches and is attributed to American portra...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-121908

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