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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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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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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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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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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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Leigh Fermor, Patrick

The Traveller’s Tree: A Journey Through the Caribbean Islands.

London: John Murray, 1950.

First edition of Leigh Fermor’s first book. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Patrick Leigh Fermor on the title page. Near fine in a good dust jacket with wear and tear. Illu...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-151714

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Burrough, Bryan and John Helyar

Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1990.

First edition of this business classic. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Lengthily signed by both authors on the half-title page as follows, “What did all this have to do with doing bus...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-119559

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Burrough, Bryan and John Helyar

Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1990.

First edition of this business classic. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Signed by both authors on the half-title page, “Recognize that ultimate success comes from opportunistic, bold m...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-151721

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Roosevelt, Theodore

Theodore Roosevelt Signed Presidential Appointment.

:, 1906.

Rare original Presidential appointment signed by Theodore Roosevelt as twenty-sixth President of the United States. One page, partially printed, the document is dated 18 January, 1906 and appoints Fre...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-147219

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Yeager, Chuck

Chuck Yeager Signed Bell X-5 Experimental Research Plane.

:, .

Display model of the Bell X-5 experimental research plane, boldly signed by pilot Chuck Yeager. The piece measures 8.5 inches in height, 13 inches in height and 8.5 inches in width. In fine condition.

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-103598

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Tarbell, Ida M

The Life of Abraham Lincoln.

New York: Lincoln History Society, 1909.

Bound set of Tarbell’s classic biography of President Lincoln. Octavo, 4 volumes, bound in full morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt facsimile signature of Lincoln to the front pa...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-129092

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[Hamilton, Alexander]

The Speeches at Full Length of Mr. Van Ness, Mr. Caines, The Attorney-General, Mr. Harrison, and General Hamilton, in the Great Cause of the People, Against Harry Croswell, on an Indictment of Libel on Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States.

New York: Printed by G. & R. Waite, No. 64 Maiden-Lane, 1804.

First edition of this landmark case in the history of the First Amendment. Octavo, disbound. In very good condition. Rare with only a handful appearing in auction records.

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-142963

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Stewart, Rory

The Places In Between.

London: Picador, 2004.

First edition of the author’s first book. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Signed by the author on the title page with the following inscription, “I recited and followed this s...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-91569

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Lee, Robert E

Robert E. Lee Farewell Address.

Boston: A. Hoen & Co, 1866.

Rare engraved broadside of General Robert E. Lee’s Farewell Address. A single leaf with a headpiece of General Lee, flanked by Confederate flags. In this speech, General Lee recounted his Farewell Add...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-139247

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Merton, Robert K

Social Theory and Social Structure.

Glencoe, IL: The Free Press, 1949.

First edition of this landmark work in sociology. Octavo, original blue cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Fred, your friend for quite some time, Bob....

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-126746

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Kirk, Russell

The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot.

Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1953.

First edition of one of the greatest contributions to twentieth-century American Conservatism. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a good dust jacket with chips to the spine. First editions are scarc...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-132477

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Churchill, Winston S

An Address by The Rt. Hon Winston S. Churchill Prime Minister of Great Britain December 26th 1941.

Stamford Connecticut: The Overbrook Press, 1942.

Rare first edition of Churchill’s historic address delivered before Congress on December 26th 1941. Octavo, original boards. One of on thousand copies printed. In very good condition.

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-133199

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Douglass, Frederick

Frederick Douglass Document Signed.

:, July 6, 1881.

Rare Trustee’s Deed signed by famed American abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Manuscript document signed, “Fred’k Douglass, Recorder,” three pages, 8 x 12.5 inches, July 6, 188...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-146954

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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 and Walsh, 1927.

First edition of this scarce pictorial album of the views of Shanghai. Quarto, original cloth-backed flexible boards, with 38 tipped-in photographs, front stamped and lettered in red on a gilt backgro...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-49089

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Fossati, George

Raccolta di varie Favole Delineate, ed incise in Rame (Volume 4).

Venezia: Pecora, 1744.

First edition. Large Quarto. Tome Quatrieme (Volume 4), contemporary vellum. Thirty-six finely engraved plates printed in sepia. Text in parallel columns of Italian and French. Some shelfwear and soil...

$1,750.00 Item Number: RRB-1830

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