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Sexual Politics: A Surprising Examination of Society’s Most Arbitrary Folly.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1970.

First edition of the author’s landmark work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “Kate Millett for Prof Roger Simpson.” Fine in...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-100034

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Bernstein, Peter L

Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street.

New York: The Free Press, 1992.

First edition of the author’s most well-known work. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Peter Bernstein on the front free endpaper. With a signed postcard to the author from Bernstein...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-115654

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Kipling, Rudyard

A Fleet In Being.

London: The Morning Post, 1898.

First appearance of of this collection of 5 articles written by Kipling when he joined the fleet of the Royal Navy at sea in 1898. Royal octavo, bound in blue boards, consisting of the original 5 Morn...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-121680

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Catlin, George W

North American Indians: Being Letters and Notes on Their Manners, Customs, and Conditions, Written During Eight Years’ Travel Amongst the Wildest Tribes of Indians in North America, 1832-1839.

Edinburgh: John Grant, 1926.

First Grant edition of this detailed anthropological history. Royal octavo, two volumes, original publisher’s cloth elaborately stamped in gilt, illustrated with 180 color lithograph plates (inc...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-149810

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Kennedy, John F

Profiles in Courage.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956.

First edition of Kennedy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth, with eight pages of black-and-white photogravures. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jack design by Phil...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-150909

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Rossiter, Clinton

The American Presidency.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1956.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Aunt Lille with much love Clint July 7, 1956.” In nea...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-138089

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Kennedy, Eugene and Sara C. Charles. [Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne]

Authority: The Most Misunderstood Idea in America.

New York: The Free Press, 1997.

First edition of authors’ work on power, authority, and influence. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the authors on the front free endpaper, “For John and Joan w...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-141084

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Harris, Ralph Scott

Practical Banking With a Survey of the Federal Reserve Act.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915.

Rare first edition of this early work on the Federal Reserve Act. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition.

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-143979

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Reagan, Ronald; Richard Nixon; Gerald Ford; Jimmy Carter

Ronald Reagan Signed Photograph of Presidents Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Richard Nixon.

:, 1981.

Rare photograph of American Presidents Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Richard Nixon gathered at the White House before departing for Anwar Sadat’s funeral in 1981. Anwar Sadat (19...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-148495

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Freeman, Douglas Southall

George Washington: A Biography.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948-54.

First edition of the author’s monumental Pulitzer Prize-winning work, widely considered the definitive biography of Washington. Octavo, six volumes, original black cloth, spines lettered in gilt, cart...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-149571

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McCullough, David [Tom Hanks]

John Adams.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.

First edition of the author’s second Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Boldly signed by David McCullough and by Academy-Award winning ac...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-150573

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Whymper, Edward

Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator.

London: John Murray, 1891-92.

First edition of this work by the mountaineer and explorer. Octavo, 2 volumes, original publisher’s cloth, with 34 engraved plates and 4 maps (one folding, one large folding route map in rear co...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-111798

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[Aldrin, Buzz]

Buzz Aldrin Signed Two Dollar Bill.

Washington, D.C: United States Treasury, 1976.

Rare two dollar bill signed by American astronaut and the second man to land on the moon, Buzz Aldrin on the 200th anniversary of the signing of the American Declaration of Independence. Matted and fr...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-117394

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Weizmann, Chaim

Trial and Error.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1949.

First edition of the first president of Israel’s classic autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of Weizmann. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-134391

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Woodward, Bob [Gerald R. Ford]

Plan of Attack.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004.

First edition of this definitive account of how and why President George W. Bush, his war council, and allies occupied Iraq. Octavo, original half-cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs....

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-148407

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Makos, Adam with Larry Alexander

A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II.

New York: The Berkley Publishing Group, 2013.

First edition, early printing of “the most incredible encounter between enemies in World War II.” Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation co...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-151342

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Pashayan Khan, Garabed

Occupational Medicine in Schools for Pupils and Teachers.

Alexandria, Egypt: Published by the author, 1906.

Rare work on occupational medicine self-published by Armenian physician and scholar Garabed Pashayan Khan. Octavo, original half cloth over paper-covered boards, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait o...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-141034

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Sorley, Captain L.S. [Philemon Tecumseh Sherman]

History of the Fourteenth United States Infantry From January, 1890 to December, 1908.

Chicago: Privately Printed, 1909.

First edition of this military history of the Fourteenth Infantry; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo, original blue wrappers, illustrated with seven maps of battles, operations, an...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-145966

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Smith, John Thomas

The Cries of London: Exhibited Several of the Iternerant Traders of Antient and Modern Times.

London: John Bowyer Nichols and Son, 1839.

First edition of this collection of this work on the street cries of London. Quarto, bound in three quarters calf over marbled boards, gilt titles to the spine, marbled endpapers, illustrated with 30...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-71850

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Amishah Umshei Torah, Im Haft Arot Le-Khol Ha-Shanah. [Hebrew Chumash/The Pentateuch].

Tel Aviv: Hotsa at Sinai, c. 1950.

Rare Hebrew Chumash containing the Five Books of Moses, blessings before and after the Haftarah, and accents according to the Ashkenazic, Sephardic, and Italian rites. 32mo, five volumes, original clo...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-138452

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Johnson, Alvin Jewett

Johnson’s Map of Florida.

New York: A.J. Johnson, 1863.

Rare 19th century example of Johnson’s famed Civil War era map of the state of Florida. One page, the hand-colored lithographic map depicts the state in full with color coding according to count...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-138227

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Boswell, James. Edited by Frank Brady and Frederick A. Pottle

The Private Papers of James Boswell: Boswell’s London Journal 1762-1763; Boswell in Holland 1763-1764; Boswell on the Grand Tour: Germany and Switzerland 1764; Boswell on the Grand Tour: Italy, Corsica, and France 1765-1766; Boswell In Search of a Wife 1766-1769; Boswell For The Defence 1769-1774.

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1951-1960.

The De Luxe Yale edition of the private papers of James Boswell. Tall octavo, 6 volumes, original publisher’s half vellum with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt coat of arms to each fr...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-149552

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Caesar, Gaius Julius; Aulus Hirtius

Gai Iuli Caesaris Commentarii Rerum in Gallia Gestarum VII Accedita a Uli Hirti Commentarivs. [Seven Commentaries on the Gallic War by Gaius Julius Caesar, with an Additional Commentary by Aulus Hirtius].

London: Philip Lee Warner Publisher to The Medici Society, 1914.

The Medici Society limited edition of this seminal firsthand account of Rome’s conquest of Gaul. Octavo, bound in full vellum with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, green silk ribbon ties, ful...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-148857

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Greene, Robert

The 33 Strategies of War.

New York: Viking, 2006.

First edition of this brilliant distillation of the strategies of war—and the subtle social game of everyday life—by the bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power and The Laws of Human Nature. T Octa...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-150371

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