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L’Ecole des Peuples et des Rois; ou Essai philosophique sur La Liberté, le Pouvoir arbitraire, les Juifs et les Noirs. [The School of Peoples and Kings; or Philosophical Essay on Liberty, Arbitrary Power, the Jews and the Blacks].

Paris: Chez Letellier, Libraire, 1790.

Rare first edition of French abolitionist Jean-Baptiste Sanchamau’s passionate attack on slavery and calling for the emancipation of French Jews, published in Paris in the wake of the American R...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151983

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Seller, John

17th Century John Seller Map of New England and New York.

London: Seller, Price & Senex, 1703.

Rare 17th century John Seller map of New England and New York from Daniel Fenning’s A New System of Geography. One page, with intricate topographical details and hand-colored borders, the map di...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-123177

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de Beauvoir, Simone

L’Amerique Au Jour Le Jour.

Paris : Editions Paul Morihien, 1948.

First edition of this travel narrative and cultural critique of the United States. Octavo, written in French, original publisher’s pictorial wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed Simone de Beau...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150076

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Holmes, John Clellon

First edition of this notable assessment of the literature of the Beats and their contemporaries, with essays on Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gershon Legman and Jay Landesman. Octavo, original cloth....

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-103995

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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 I.

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1852.

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...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150448

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McPherson, James M. [Ken Burns]

Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

First edition, early printing of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original blue cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150300

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Rare 18th Century Heart-Shaped Christian Broadside.

Germany:, c. 1780.

Rare late 18th century liturgical broadside. Printed broadside mounted on a decorated heart-shaped hardwood frame with a hand-painted botanical border containing Protestant liturgical chants, daily pr...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-96227

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Churchill, Winston S

Ian Hamilton’s March.

London: Longman's, Green, and Co, 1900.

First edition of Churchill’s fifth book, a continuation of his coverage of the Boer War which he began in London to Ladysmith via Pretoria. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery,...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-144787

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Davis, Angela Y; John Abt; Franklin Alexander; Kendra Alexander; Bettina Aptheker; James Baldwin; Margaret Burnham; Robert Chrisman; John Clutchette; Fleeta Drumgo; Ericka Huggins; Robert Kaufman; George Jackson; Fania Davis Jordan; Ruchell Magee; Howard Moore Jr; Huey P. Newton; Eve Pell; Bobby Seale; The Soledad Brothers; Foreward by Julian Bond

If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance.

New York: The Third Press, 1971.

First edition of this bold collection of essays written by victims of political imprisonment. Octavo, original black cloth. Boldly signed by Angela Davis on the title page. Fine in a very good dust ja...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-150499

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Fisher, Irving

Stable Money.

New York: Adelphi Publishers, 1934.

First edition of Fisher’s classic treatise. Octavo, original blue cloth. Laid in is the original publisher’s slip which reads “In recognition of pioneer support of the movement for a...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-96551

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Pershing, John J. [President Herbert Hoover]

John J. Pershing Autograph Letter Signed to President Herbert Hoover.

:, 1931.

Autograph letter signed by the heroic Commander-in-Chief of the American Expeditionary Forces to President Herbert Hoover. Octavo, one page on John J. Pershing’s personal letterhead, handwritten...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149123

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Polanyi, Karl

The Great Transformation.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1944.

First edition, first printing of Polanyi’s landmark work, widely considered one of the twentieth century’s most incisive and prophetic works of scholarship. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the sc...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-124390

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Gandhi, Mohandas K. [Mahatma]

Young India Second Series 1924-1926.

New York: The Viking Press, 1927.

First edition of the second series of the writings of Gandhi. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. Gandhi founded and published the weekly periodical in English, Young...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-142054

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de Lamartine, Alphonse. [William Tecumseh Sherman]

Memoirs of Celebrated Characters.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1854.

First edition of Vol. I and II of this collection of biographical portraits; from the library of William Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo, bound in contemporary three quarter calf with gilt titles to the spin...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-145750

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Verney, Luis Antonio (el Barbadino)

Verdadero método de estudiar, para ser util a la Republica y la Iglesia, proporcionado al estilo, y necessidad de Portugal, expuesto en varias cartas, escrito en idioma Portugués.

Madrid: Joachin Ibarra, 1760.

Rare complete edition in Spanish published by the great Ibarra in Madrid. Octavo, original vellum, 4 volumes. Many of the OCLC citations are for single volumes. This set, the author’s most famou...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-81952

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Ben-Gurion, David

David Ben-Gurion Signed Document Honoring the Loss of an Israeli Soldier.

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Signed Document from the first Prime Minister of Israel David Ben Gurion. “State of Israel We sadly commemorate the memory of 566552 private Chaim Chobra, may his memory be blessed, who died in the li...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-67048

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Levi-Strauss, Claude

Tristes Tropiques.

New York: Atheneum , 1974.

First American edition of this translation, which is the first complete edition of Levi-Strauss’ landmark work. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-57044

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Lucas, Robert E

Collected Papers on Monetary Theory.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press , 2013.

First edition of this collection of papers by “the economist who has had the greatest influence on macroeconomic research since 1970″ (Nobel Committee). Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, ins...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-142698

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Woodward, Bob. [Alan Greenspan] [Bruce Wasserstein]

Maestro: Greenspan’s Fed and the American Boom.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.

First edition of the definitive biography of the former Federal Chairman by the author of All the President’s Men. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the a...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147004

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Dewey, John (Alfred H. Lloyd)

Studies in Logical Theory.

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1903.

First edition of this collection of studies by Dewey. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, “Alfred H. Lloyd Fr...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-77952

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Bayle, Pierre

Dictionaire Historique Et Critique, Par Mr. Pierre Bayle.

Amsterdam: Chez P. Brunel, P. Humbert, J. Wetstein & G. Smith, et al, 1740.

18th century printing of the author’s magnum opus. Folio, four volumes bound in full contemporary vellum with gilt titles to the spine, engraved vignette to each title page, text in two columns....

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-149737

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Keynes, John Maynard [J.M.] [John Neville Keynes]

The Economic Consequences of the Peace.

London: Macmillan & Company, 1919.

First British edition of the best-selling book that established John Maynard Keynes’ reputation as a leading economist. Octavo, original blue cloth with gilt titles and ruling to the spine. Insc...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-151337

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Howe, Julia Ward

Passion-Flowers.

Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1854.

First edition of Julia Ward Howe’s first book. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, publisher’s advertisements at rear dated 1853. Association copy, inscribed by the autho...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-109025

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Friedman, Milton & Anna Jacobson Schwartz

A Monetary History of the United States: 1867-1960.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1963.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original green cloth, illustrated throughout with graphs and charts. Near fine in near fine dust jacket, bookplate to the front free endpaper. A very sharp...

$1,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148082

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L’Ecole des Peuples et des Rois; ou Essai philosophique sur La Liberté, le Pouvoir arbitraire, les Juifs et les Noirs. [The School of Peoples and Kings; or Philosophical Essay on Liberty, Arbitrary Power, the Jews and the Blacks].

17th Century John Seller Map of New England and New York.

L’Amerique Au Jour Le Jour.

Nothing More To Declare.

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

Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era.

Rare 18th Century Heart-Shaped Christian Broadside.

Ian Hamilton’s March.

If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance.

Stable Money.

John J. Pershing Autograph Letter Signed to President Herbert Hoover.

The Great Transformation.

Young India Second Series 1924-1926.

Memoirs of Celebrated Characters.

Verdadero método de estudiar, para ser util a la Republica y la Iglesia, proporcionado al estilo, y necessidad de Portugal, expuesto en varias cartas, escrito en idioma Portugués.

David Ben-Gurion Signed Document Honoring the Loss of an Israeli Soldier.

Tristes Tropiques.

Collected Papers on Monetary Theory.

Maestro: Greenspan’s Fed and the American Boom.

Studies in Logical Theory.

Dictionaire Historique Et Critique, Par Mr. Pierre Bayle.

The Economic Consequences of the Peace.

Passion-Flowers.

A Monetary History of the United States: 1867-1960.