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Why Women Desire The Franchise.

London: Spottiswoode & Co., Printers, 1869.

First edition of prolific Anglo-Irish suffragette Frances Power Cobbe’s feminist treatise. Octavo, bound in half morocco over marbled boards with gilt ruling to the spine, burgundy morocco spine...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-135210

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Gandhi, Mohandas K. [Mahatma]

Mahatma Gandhi Photograph.

:, 1942.

Large format gelatin silver print photograph of Mahatma Gandhi spinning at Birla House in 1942. In the early 1920s, Gandhi expanded his nonviolent non-co-operation platform to include the swadeshi pol...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-139253

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Tobin, James [Robert M. Solow]

Essays in Economics: Volume 1 Macroeconomics.

Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1971.

First edition of this collection of essays. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert M. Solow, who contributed an article in this volume. Name to the front free endpaper,...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-5556

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Thaler, Richard

The Winner’s Curse: Paradoxes and Anomalies of Economic Life.

New York: Free Press, 1989.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning economist’s groundbreaking book. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Richard Thaler on the title page. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-60041

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Lewis, John

Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America.

New York: Hyperion Books , 2012.

First edition of this award-winning work by the Civil Rights icon. Octavo, original boards. “To Dan, Thank you for all of your good work. Keep the faith. John Lewis, 8-2-12.” Near fine in...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-146391

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Roosevelt, Eleanor

Eleanor Roosevelt Signed Israel Bond Committee Invitation.

B'Nai Israel Social Hall (Kenwood Blvd.): The Toledo Israel Bond Committee, November 11, 1957.

Rare invitation from the Toledo Israel Bond Committee, addressed to “The Outstanding Woman of Our Time” First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. One page, invitation administered on behalf of State o...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-146600

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Ford, Gerald R. and John R. Stiles

Portrait of an Assassin.

New York : Simon and Schuster, 1965.

First edition of the first book about the Kennedy assassination and Lee Harvey Oswald to be authored by a member of the Warren Commission. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by both authors on the front f...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-148153

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Wells, H.G

The Peace of the World.

London: The Daily Chronicle, 1915.

First edition of Wells’ early First World War political tract examining the causes of modern conflict and arguing for new forms of international cooperation and organization as the foundation for last...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-151328

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Keynes, J.M

The Economic Consequences of the Peace.

London: Macmillan & Company, 1919.

First edition of the best-selling book that established Keynes’ reputation as a leading economist. Octavo, original blue cloth with gilt titles and ruling to the spine. In near fine condition.

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-108596

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Bernstein, Peter

Economist on Wall Street: Notes on the Sanctity of Gold, the Value of Money, the Security of Investments, and Other Delusions.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1970.

First edition of this classic collection of early Bernstein writings. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to the author’s sister, “...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-115722

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[Seeley, Emma Louise]

Belt and Spur: Stories of the Knights of the Middle Ages from the Old Chronicles. [Fore-Edge Painting].

London: Seeley, Jackson, & Halliday, 1883.

Finely bound example of this classic on Knights and the Middle Ages. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, inner dentell...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-131780

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Gleig, G. R. [Arthur James Balfour]

The Life of Arthur Duke of Wellington.

London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864.

The People’s Edition of Gleig’s biography of Arthur Duke of Wellington; gifted by his godson, Arthur James Balfour to his colleague at Eton. Octavo, bound in full contemporary calf with re...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-117318

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Winston Churchill; Clement Atlee

Britain’s Memorial to Franklin Roosevelt Souvenir Book.

London:, 1947.

First edition of this tribute to President Roosevelt with contributions by Eleanor Roosevelt, Winston S. Churchill and Clement Atlee, a selection of excerpts from the speeches of Franklin Delano Roose...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-123823

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Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Enquiry Regarding the Problems of European Jewry and Palestine, Lausanne, 20th April, 1946.

London: His Majesty's Stationary Office, 1946.

Scarce printing of this governmental report. Thin octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition with light toning to the edges of the wrappers, institutional stamps to the front panel, title page,...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-146800

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Princess Chumbhot of Nagara Svarga [John Steinbeck]

The Lacquer Pavilion at Suan Pakkad Palace.

:, .

First edition of this work, inscribed by Chumbhot to Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck. Quarto, original boards, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed opposite the title page, “To Mr...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-111531

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Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiastical, Treated Upon by the Bishop of London, President of the Convocation For the Province of Canterbury, and the Rest of the Bishops and Clergie of the said Province: And Agreed upon with the Kings Majesties License in their Synod begun at London, Anno Domini 1603.

London: Printed by the Assigns of John Bill Deceas'd: And by Henry Hills, and Thomas Newcomb, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, 1683.

Rare 17th century printing of the Ecclesiastical Constitutions of the Province of Canterbury. Quarto, bound in full contemporary mottled calf with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartmen...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-140232

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[Weizmann, Chaim]; Sir Oswald Birley

Chaim Weizmann Signed Photograph of his 60th Birthday Portrait.

: n.p., n.d..

Rare signed photograph portrait of the future first President of Israel, Chaim Weizmann on his 60th birthday. Silver gelatin photograph of an original oil on canvas portrait of Weizmann done by Britis...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-146614

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Churchill, Winston S

The World Crisis 1916-1918.

London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1927.

First edition, second printing of the first two volumes of Churchill’s The World Crisis. Octavo, two volumes, bound in full modern morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compar...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-148597

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Aldrin, Buzz

Buzz Aldrin Signed Photograph.

:, 1969.

Original color photograph of Buzz Aldrin, boldly inscribed by him. The photograph measures 10 inches by 8 inches. In fine condition.

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-119329

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Seller, John

Moscovia and Russia. [17th Century John Seller Map of Moscow and Russia].

London:, c. 1685.

Rare hand-colored 17th century John Seller Map of Moscow and Russia, from Daniel Fenning’s A New System of Geography. One page, with intricate topographical details and hand-colored borders. In...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-123641

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Hazlitt, William

Political Essays, with Sketches of Public Characters.

London: Printed for William Hone, 1819.

First edition of one of Hazlitt’s most interesting collections, including his estimates and reviews of Southey as Laureate, of Coleridge, Burke, and Malthus (at length). Octavo, bound in three q...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-127349

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Reisman, George

Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics.

: TJS Books, 1996.

First edition of this classic work. Quarto, original half cloth. Boldly signed by George Reisman on a bookplate attached to the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-146302

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Smith, Adam

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, In the Strand, 1979.

Bicentenary edition of Adam Smith’s magnum opus and cornerstone of economic thought. Quarto, 2 volumes, bound in full brown morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-147731

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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.

London: David Bogue, 1844.

Finely bound fourth edition of this detailed anthropological history. Octavo, two volumes, bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gi...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-147797

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