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My Days.

New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1938.

First edition of this firsthand look of everyday life in the White House by Eleanor Roosevelt. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of Roosevelt. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-92438

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Hughes, Langston and Milton Meltzer

A Pictorial History of the Negro in America.

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1956.

First edition of this important compilation on the history of African Americans. Quarto, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Langston Hughes and Milton Meltzer on the front free endpape...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-147261

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By a Loyal Subject

A Letter to the Right Honorable the Earl of Warwick, Upon the Subject of Opposition, in Consequence of the Speeches of His Lordship in the House of Peers, on the 23d and 27th of March, 1797, in Opposition to the Motions of the Earls of Oxford and Suffolk, to Address His Majesty for Peace, and for the Dismissal of the Right Honorable William Pitt.

[London]: Printed for the Author, 1798.

First edition of this appeal to the King of Great Britain and Ireland, King George III, during the French Revolutionary Wars. Duodecimo, bound in full contemporary straight-grain red morocco with elab...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149128

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Edsel, Robert M. and Bret Witter [George Clooney; Matt Damon and Bob Balaban]

The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History.

New York: Center Street, 2009.

First edition of this work, basis for the 2014 war film directed by George Clooney, and written and produced by Clooney and Grant Heslov. The film stars an ensemble cast including Clooney, Matt Damon,...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-150474

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Roosevelt, Eleanor

This Troubled World.

New York: H.C. Kinsey & Company, 1938.

First edition of this work by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Small octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Eleanor Roosevelt on the half-title page. With a letter on White House stationary from 1941,...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-35098

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Schein, Edgar H

The Art of Managing Human Resources.

: Oxford University Press, .

First edition of this work on management. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the editor opposite the title page, “In most organizational change efforts, it is much easi...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-87844

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Victoria, Queen

Queen Victoria Royal Military Appointment Signed.

:, 1842.

Rare Royal Military Appointment signed by Her Majesty Queen Victoria. One vellum leaf, partially printed. The document is dated 14th November 1842 and appoints John Aeneas Duncan to the position of Li...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-124061

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Friedman, Milton & Rose

Free To Choose: A Personal Statement.

New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1980.

First edition, early printing of Friedmans’ persuasive argument for the free market, based on the PBS series Free to Choose. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Milton F...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-15043

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Porter, Horace. [Ulysses S. Grant]

Campaigning with Grant.

New York: The Century Co., 1897.

First edition of Horace Porter’s Civil War memoir. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with portraits and maps. In good condition. First editions are rare.

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-132638

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Arrow, Kenneth; Eric Maskin; Amartya Sen; Joseph Stiglitz and Partha Dasgupta

The Arrow Impossibility Theorem (Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture Series).

New York: Columbia University Press, 2014.

First edition of this work which explores Kenneth Arrow’s impossibility theorem. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by Sen on the front free endpaper, “To John, best wis...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-145886

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Grant, Ulysses S

Ulysses S. Grant Autograph Document Signed.

:, 1871.

Autograph document signed by Ulysses S. Grant as President of the United States of America. Quarto, one page, partially printed, the document reads, ‘I hereby authorize and direct the Secretary...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-146683

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[Reeves, James H.]; Ferdinand Foch

Brigadier General James H. Reeves WWI Awards and Appointment Collection.

:, 20th c..

Rare collection of WWI memorabilia with regard to Commander of the 353rd United States infantry regiment (89th division), Brigadier General James H. Reeves. The collection includes: From the Governmen...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-146776

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Chinese Buddhist Watercolor Scroll of Diyu.

China:, c. 1880-1900.

Rare original Chinese watercolor scroll of the realm of the dead. Watercolor on paper, wooden rollers at top and bottom. The scroll measures 62.5 inches by 30.25 inches. In very good condition.

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-147739

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Introduction by O. M. Green

Shanghai of To-day-A Souvenir Album of Thirty-Eight Vandyke Prints of “The Model Settlement.”

Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, Limited, 1927.

First edition of this famous photobook showing views of Shanghai, including the international settlement’s imposing architecture, expansive boulevards, and bustling streets. Quarto, original clo...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149089

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[Burnet, Gilbert]; Collected out of Mezeray, Thuanus, and other approved Authors

A Relation of the Barbarous and Bloody Massacre of About an Hundred Thousand Protestants, Begun at Paris, and Carried on Over All France by the Papists, in the Year 1572.

London: Printed for Richard Chiswel, 1678.

First edition of this seventeenth-century Protestant account of the 1572 St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre. Small octavo, bound in full red morocco by Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles and elaborate tooling to...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149374

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Burger, Warren E

The Supreme Court of the United States.

Washington, DC:, 1973.

First edition of this work on the Burger Court. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by eight justices beneath their portraits accompanying their biographies. They include: Warren E. Burger, William J. B...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-120344

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Seale, Bobby

Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton.

New York: Random House, 1970.

First edition of this classic work by the co-founder of the Black Panthers. Octavo, original illustrated cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “2-28-01 To Joe...

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-148354

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Dennett, Daniel C

Consciousness Explained.

New York: Little Brown and Company, 1991.

First edition of this landmark work. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Edward with best wishes! Daniel C. Dennett January 2023....

$2,000.00 Item Number: RRB-150035

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Alison, Sir Archibald [Millard Fillmore]

History of Europe: From the Fall of Napoleon in MDCCCXV to the Accession of Louis Napoleon in MDCCCLII Vol II.

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1853.

Early edition of this influential work chronicling European events from the French Revolution to the mid-19th century. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, floral border details stamp...

$1,950.00 Item Number: RRB-149855

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Stetson, Charlotte Perkins [Charlotte Perkins Gilman]

Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution.

Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1898.

First edition of this landmark work. Octavo, bound in full leather, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine conditio...

$1,950.00 Item Number: RRB-127602

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Mandela, Nelson

Prisoner In The Garden.

New York: The Viking Press, 2006.

First edition of this work dedicated to Mandela’s archive. Octavo, original boards, illustrated throughout. Signed and dated by Nelson Mandela on the title page in the year of publication. Fine...

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-851

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Sloan Jr., Alfred P

My Years With General Motors.

New York: Doubleday & Company, 1964.

First edition of Sloan’s influential work, which has since become a classic. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by the author on the page preceding the half-title page, “Al...

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-150012

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Borman, Frank

Frank Borman ‘Earthrise’ Photograph Signed.

:, .

Glossy color photograph of the iconic ‘Earthrise‘ image taken by Bill Anders during the Apollo 8 mission, signed by mission commander Frank Borman, “Apollo 8 Earthrise, Frank Borman,...

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-146733

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Rand, Ayn; Essays by Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, and Robert Hessen

Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal.

New York: New American Library, 1966.

First edition of this collection of essays—which Rand, in her introduction, characterizes as “a nonfiction footnote to Atlas Shrugged.” Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the...

$1,850.00 Item Number: RRB-133525

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