History, Law, and Politics Archives

Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction in Black America, 1945-1990.

University of Mississippi Press: Jackson and London, 1990.

Revised second edition from the library of Nobel Prize-winning author J.M. Coetzee with his ownership signature to the title page. J.M. Coetzee is an essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of th...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-144545

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

[William Tecumseh Sherman]

Military Order of The Loyal Legion of the United States: Roster of the Commandery of the State of New York from January 17th, 1866, to June 1st, 1911.

:, .

First edition of this roster of military personnel from the state of New York, including Philemon Tecumseh Sherman; from the library of General William Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo, original wrappers. In...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-145744

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Duke, Charlie

Charlie Duke Signed Crescent Earth Photograph.

:, .

Large satin-finish black and white photograph of a crescent earth rising over the lunar surface, signed by the 10th and youngest person to walk on the Moon, Charlie Duke, in silver pen, “Life Is...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-145933

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Friedman, Milton & Rose

Tyranny of the Status Quo.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984.

First edition of this work which analyzes the Reagan Administration’s attempts to greatly reduce taxes, regulations, and government spending and suggests practical changes. Octavo, original half cloth...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-4646

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Hammarskjold, Dag

Dag Hammarskjold Autograph.

:, 1960.

Rare autograph of diplomat, economist, and author who served as secretary general of the United Nations from 1953 until his death in a plane crash. Boldly signed “Dag Hammarskjold, 1 Februari 19...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-117232

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Meir, Golda

Golda Meir Signed Certificate.

:, 1956.

Signed by the future Prime Minister of Israel, Golda Meir, then Labor Minister Golda Myerson on an official Ministry of of Labor Certificate of Excellence in Studies granted to ORT school girl in the...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-133284

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Motley, John Lothrop

The Selected Works of John Lothrop Motley: The Rise of the Dutch Republic; Life and Death of John Barneveld; The United Netherlands.

London: John Murray, 1903-1904.

Finely bound set of the selected works of John Lothrop Motley. Octavo, 9 volumes bound in three quarters morocco with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, top e...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-143815

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Tribe, Laurence H

American Constitutional Law.

New York: The Foundation Press, 1978.

First edition of the legal scholar’s classic treatise on constitutional law. Quarto, original red boards. In near fine condition, issued without a dust jacket. Presentation copy, lengthily inscr...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-143896

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Baer, Robert [George Clooney and Matt Damon]

See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA’s War on Terrorism.

New York: Crown Publishers, 2002.

First edition of this memoir of one foot soldier’s career in the other cold war, the one against terrorist networks, basis for the 2005 film Syriana starring George Clooney and Matt Damon. Octavo, ori...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-144086

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Atherton, Gertrude Franklin

The Conqueror: Being the True and Romantic Story of Alexander Hamilton.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1902.

First edition of this historical novel that blends biographical narrative with romanticized fiction to construct a dramatic portrait of one of America’s founding figures. Octavo, original publisher...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-149217

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Mendell, David [Barack Obama]

Obama: From Promise to Power.

New York : Armistad, 2007.

First edition of this early Obama biography. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Barack Obama in person in Keene, New Hampshire in full on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fin...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-150812

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Cleveland, Grover

Grover Cleveland Proclamation Authorization Signed.

Washington, D.C:, 1894.

Rare authorization of Proclamation 364: Prohibiting the Hunting of Fur Seals, an act designed to drastically limit the hunting of fur seals by both the United States and Great Britain in and around th...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-146748

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Gandhi, Mahatma [Mohandas K.]

Mahatma Gandhi: His Own Story.

London: George Allen& Unwin, 1930.

First edition of Gandhi’s revealing autobiography. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, marbled...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-133894

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

[Grant, Ulysses S.]

Hymns of the Ages: Second Series. Being Selections From Wither, Crashaw, Southwell, Harington, and Other Sources.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865.

First edition of the second series of Hymns of the Ages, from the library of Ulysses S. Grant. Octavo, bound in full pebbled morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments withi...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-138284

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Freud, Sigmund

The Interpretation of Dreams.

New York: The Basic Books, 1955.

First edition of this translation English of this cornerstone of psychoanalysis. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments with...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-151453

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Chomsky, Noam

Problems of Knowledge and Freedom: The Russell Lectures.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1971.

First edition of Chomsky’s Russell lectures in honor of Bertrand Russell. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For John Best wishes Noam C...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-148674

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Moody, Dwight Lyman

Dwight L. Moody Autograph Letter Signed.

:, September 12, 1890.

Autograph letter signed by American evangelist and publisher Dwight L. Moody. One page, the letter reads in full, “Northfield Sep 12/46 Dear Mrs Hall Will you tell the good people of Troy I will...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-148765

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Roosevelt, Eleanor

You Learn By Living.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1960.

First edition of Eleanor Roosevelt’s classic work on how to discover life’s lessons. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Eleanor Roosevelt in the year of publicati...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-150596

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Lincoln, Abraham

Political Debates Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen Douglas, In the Celebrated Campaign of 1858, in Illinois.

Columbus: Follett, Foster and Company, 1860.

First edition, early issue of the most famous debates in American history which cemented Lincoln as a national presidential candidate. Octavo, original cloth stamped in blind, with rule above the publ...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-147733

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Shirer, William L

Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent, 1934-1941.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1941.

First edition,, early printing of this classic work, “the most complete news report yet to come out of war time Germany” (Time). Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-148651

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

[Reagan, Ronald; Nancy Reagan]

A Great New Beginning: The 1981 Inaugural Story.

Washington, D.C: Created by the 1981 Inaugural Book Committee, 1981.

First limited edition of this commemorative publication documenting the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan. Quarto, original red leather with gilt titles to the spine, gilt stamped vignette of th...

$1,600.00 Item Number: RRB-150115

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Atherton, Gertrude Franklin

The Conqueror: Being the True and Romantic Story of Alexander Hamilton.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1902.

First edition of this historical novel that blends biographical narrative with romanticized fiction to construct a dramatic portrait of one of America’s founding figures. Octavo, original publisher...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-149273

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Göransson, Göran Fredrik

The Sandvik Steel Works.

Gothenburg: John Antonsons Boktryckeri, 1931.

First Edition. Quarto. Bound in full blue morocco, gilt crowned monogram, “EP” to the front panel, gilt illustrated curtain frame to front and rear panel. Gilt tooling to the spine. Fronti...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-35019

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Act of Parliament for Erecting the Bank in Scotland.

Edinburgh: [Royal Bank of Scotland] , 1695-1719.

Rare 17th century printing of the Act of the Scottish Parliament erecting the Bank of Scotland. Octavo, original wrappers, the act is dated July 17, 1695 and approved a joint stock amounting to the su...

$1,500.00 Item Number: RRB-124034

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Rare History, Law & Political Books for Sale Online