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Getting To Know The General: The Story of Involvement.

London: William Bodley, 1984.

First edition of this work by the author of The Heart of the Matter. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Tucker with love from Gra...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-137597

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Galbraith, John Kenneth

The Great Crash 1929.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1988.

First Easton Press edition of this classic work. Octavo, bound in full leather, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, front and rear panels, raised bands, all edges gilt, ribbon bound in. Boldly signe...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-151078

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Coe, Edwin Delos

The Black Hawk Tragedy: Read before the Loyal Legion at Milwaukee, May 6, 1896.

Milwaukee:, 1896.

First edition of this work on the Black Hawk Tragedy. Octavo, original publisher’s printed wrappers; 16pp. In very good condition with a few chips to corners of wraps, gift inscription to front...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-142116

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Tingay, Lance. [Carlos Alcaraz]

100 Years of Wimbledon.

London: Guinness Superlatives Limited, 1977.

First edition of this wonderfully illustrated work on Wimbledon. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Barry Newcombe, t...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-146249

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Lawrence, T.E

Seven Pillars of Wisdom.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1935.

First trade edition of the author’s classic work. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated with photogravures and folding maps. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with sunning to the spine,...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-150700

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Friedman, Milton; Kenneth A. Arrow; Paul A. Samuelson

Nobel Lectures: Economic Sciences 1969-1980.

Singapore: World Scientific, 1992.

First edition of this work which contains the Nobel lectures in economics from 1969-1980. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by both Milton Friedman and Kenneth Arrow (twice), once on the half-title page...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-146250

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Karsten, Karl G

Charts and Graphs: An Introduction to Graphic Methods In the Control and Analysis of statistics.

New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1923.

First edition of this seminal work on charts and graphs. Octavo, original leatherette boards, illustrated throughout. Introduction by Carl Snyder. In very good condition. First editions are rare.

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-132351

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Reisman, David (James M. Buchanan)

The Demand and Supply of Public Goods.

Chicago: Rand McNally, 1968.

First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication (with a two page inscription) on the front free endpaper and onto the verso, “Betty, This will have to s...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-44012

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Einstein, Albert. Edited by Paul Arthur Schilpp

Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist.

Evanston: The Library of Living Philosophers, Inc., 1949.

First edition of Einstein’s singular autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of Einstein by Yousuf Karsh. Presentation copy, inscribed by editor Paul Arthur Schilpp on the front free...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-145894

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Miles, General Nelson A

Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles: Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War or From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development and Progress of Our Great Western Empire.

Chicago: The Werner Company, 1896.

Publisher’s deluxe first edition of this autobiography of a great military general; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Quarto, bound in full crushed morocco with gilt titles to the f...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-145738

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Campbell, John Lord

The Lives of the Lord Chancellors, The Lives of the Chief Justices of England

London: John Murray, 1845-69.

Finely bound set of Campbell’s works. Octavo, 13 volumes, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands. In near fine condition.

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-130459

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Keynes, John Maynard [J.M.]

A Treatise on Probability.

London: MacMillan & Company, 1921.

First edition of “undoubtedly the most important work on probability that has appeared for a very long time” (Bertrand Russell). Octavo, original brown cloth with titles to the spine in gi...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-150284

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Junger, Sebastian [George Clooney]

The Perfect Storm.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1997.

First edition of this work, basis for the 2000 film starring Wolfgang Petersen starring George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Diane Lane, William Fichtner, Karen Allen, Bob Gunton, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantoni...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-150103

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Thomas, Helen [President Gerald R. Ford]

Dateline: White House.

New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc, 1975.

First edition of this firsthand account of America’s Presidents and their families from the perspective of a pioneering journalist. Octavo, original publisher’s half-cloth, illustrated wit...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-148463

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Leaves From A Trooper’s Diary.

Philadelphia: Published by the Author, 1869.

First edition of an Anderson Cavalry officer’s Civil War memoir. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt. In good condition. Rare.

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-132681

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Nineteenth Century Carte de Visite Album.

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Rare late nineteenth century carte de visite album containing dozens of original portraits of prominent members of the Griffith family of New York and several contemporary celebrities including Henry...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-136095

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[Schweitzer, Albert]. Photographs by Erica Anderson. Text and Captions by Eugene Exman

The World of Albert Schweitzer: A Book of Photographs by Erica Anderson. [With] Albert Schweitzer Autograph Note and Signed Photograph.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1955.

First edition of this magnificent volume of 169 photographs recording Albert Schweitzer’s life and work; with a rare black and white photograph of Albert Schweitzer on a bank of the Ogooué River...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-142709

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Burger, Warren E.; William J. Brennan Jr.; Byron R. White; Harry A. Blackmun; Lewis F. Powell; William H. Rehnquist; John Pail Stevens; Sandra Day O'Connor

Supreme Court Justices Signed Engraving.

: Bureau of Engraving and Printing, .

Rare original engraving of the Supreme Court signed by eight Supreme Court justices. Boldly signed by Warren E. Burger, William J. Brennan, Jr., Byron R. White, Harry A. Blackmun, Lewis F. Powell, Wil...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-150168

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Sanger, Margaret

Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1938.

First edition of Sanger’s autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of Sanger. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Hubert Michelman Margar...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-5034

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King, Jr., Martin Luther

Why We Can’t Wait.

New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1964.

First edition of Dr. King’s third book, including his reflections on his 1963 Birmingham campaign. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, illustrated with eight pages of black-an...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-146312

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Owen, Hon. Robert L

The Federal Reserve Act.

New York: The Century Co, 1919.

Rare first edition of this work on the Federal Reserve. Small octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable.

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-145611

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Putnam, Samuel [Otto N. Frankfurter]

Marvelous Journey: A Survey of Four Centuries of Brazilian Writing.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948.

First edition of this history of Brazilian literature. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, top stain black. Association copy, lengthily inscribed by Otto Frankfurter on the front free endpaper,...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-148586

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Myers, William Starr; Walter H. Newton [Herbert Hoover]

The Hoover Administration: A Documented Narrative.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936.

First edition of this complete, fully documented, and authoritative story of Herbert Hoover’s four years as President. Octavo, original navy cloth, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Hoover...

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-146699

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Cothren, William [William Tecumseh Sherman]

History of Ancient Woodbury, Connecticut, from the First Indian Deed in 1659 to 1854: Including the Present Towns of Washington, Southbury, Bethlem, Roxbury, and a Part of Oxford and Middlebury.

Waterbury, Connecticut: Bronson Brothers, 1854.

Second volume of the first edition of this history of Ancient Woodbury, the location of the Sherman family’s initial establishment in early 1673; from the library of General William Tecumseh Sherman....

$1,200.00 Item Number: RRB-145760

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