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Savrola: A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania.

New York: Longmans, Green and Co, 1900.

First American edition (which precedes the British first) of Churchill’s singular attempt at full-length fiction. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. In near fi...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-129733

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Frankfurter, Felix

Felix Frankfurter Reminisces: Recorded in Talks With Dr. Harlan B. Phillips.

New York: Reynal & Company, 1960.

First edition of this collection of thoughts from Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-59088

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Uris, Leon

Exodus: A Novel of Israel.

New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1958.

First edition, early printing of the author’s magnum opus. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page to historian Arnold Kra...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-115423

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Hitchens, Christopher

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything.

New York: Twelve/ Hatchette Book Group, 2007.

First edition of this classic polemic by Hitchens. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Linda Heheman Christopher Hitchens.” Fine in...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-151091

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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 Franklin M. Watts Marga...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-60034

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Lindbergh, Charles A

Of Flight and Life.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons , 1948.

First edition of this prophetic discourse on weapons of mass destruction. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, “To Elizabeth Bartky with m...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-144539

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Tolstoy, Leo

The Cossacks: A Tale of the Caucasus in 1852.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1878.

First edition in English of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Translated by Eugene Schuyler. In very good condition.

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-123937

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Keynes, John Maynard [J.M.] [ Benjamin Cardozo]

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...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-151255

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Tibbets, Paul; Theodore Van Kirk

Paul Tibbets and Theodore “Dutch” Van Kirk Signed Photographic Print.

:, 1945.

Distinctive photograph of the Hiroshima mushroom cloud signed by two crew members of the Enola Gay. Black and white photographic print of the Hiroshima mushroom cloud captured just after the release o...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-147781

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Lanning, George; Samuel Couling

The History of Shanghai.

Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh/ Printed and Published for the Shanghai Municipal Council, 1921.

First edition of this early comprehensive English-language account of Shanghai’s transformation from a regional port into a major international city. Royal octavo, original publisher’s black clo...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-150329

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Reagan, Ronald

The March of Freedom: The Westminster Speech.

Washington, D.C: The Heritage Foundation, 1996.

First edition of this lecture by President Reagan. Octavo, original wrappers. In fine condition. Foreword by Edwin J. Fuelner, Jr. Although not marked, this if from the library of William Safire. Safi...

$1,100.00 Item Number: RRB-141529

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[Beaton, Cecil; Winston S. Churchill]

War In Pictures.

London: L. T. A. Robinson, 1940-1941.

Rare collection of five issues of War in Pictures featuring several rare Cecil Beaton wartime photographs. Folio, the collection includes the August 1940, September 1940, January 1941, June 1941, and...

$1,050.00 Item Number: RRB-125681

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Parfit, Derek

Reasons and Persons.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984.

First edition of one of the most important philosophical texts of the second half the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Small name to the front free endpaper.

$1,050.00 Item Number: RRB-138268

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Clinton, Bill. (William Rehnquist and Byron White)

President Bill Clinton Inauguration Ceremonies Program.

Washington, D.C: Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, 1993.

Original program for the ceremonies held at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore on January 20th 1993. Octavo, original wrappers with the gold Presidential seal to the...

$1,000.00 Item Number: RRB-100004

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Sharpe, William F. and Cathryn M. Cootner[Robert S. Solow]

Financial Economics: Essays in Honor of Paul Cootner.

New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1982.

First edition of this collection of essays in honor of the famed economist. Quarto, original boards. Boldly signed by Nobel Prize-winning economists William Sharpe and Robert Solow on the title page....

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-143055

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Thurber, James and E.B. White [Charlotte Perkins Gilman]

Is Sex Necessary? Or Why You Feel the Way You Do.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1929.

Early edition of this collection of satirical essays in theme with the many Freudian sexual theories published in the 1920s; from the library of writer and social reformer Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Oc...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-145591

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Eichenwald, Kurt [Matt Damon]

The Informant.

New York: Broadway Books, 2000.

First edition of this work, basis for the film directed by Steven Soderbergh, starring Matt Damon, Scott Bakula and Joel McHale. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-150375

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Millett, Kate

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. Warmly inscribed by Kate Millett on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. Jacket typograph...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-46008

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[Eisenhower, Dwight D.; Richard Nixon]

Inauguration Invitation for President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon.

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Rare original inauguration invitation for President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon. Octavo, finely printed inauguration invitation on cardstock with tissue-guarded black and whi...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-151893

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Pershing, General John J

General John J. Pershing Signed United States Army Citation.

:, 1919.

Early 20th century United States Army Citation signed by General John J. Pershing. One page, partially printed, the citation awards Lieut. Colonel Arthur A. Tasker for “exceptionally meritorious...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-120411

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Klein, Gerda Weissman

All But My Life.

New York: Hill & Wang, 1957.

First edition of the author’s “moving personal testament to courage” memoir. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Signed by Gerda Weissman Klein on the front free endpaper. Near fin...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-124539

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Report From The Secretary of War, Transmitting, In Compliance with a Resolution of the Senate, the Report of the Commissioner to Investigate Claims Against the Miami Indians, with a Statement of Expense of Said Commission, &c. March 2, 1839.

:, 1839-1886.

Rare sammelband collection of three Congressional Reports regarding the Miami Indian Treaties. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt to the...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-135438

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Mason, Robert

Chickenhawk.

New York: The Viking Press, 1983.

First edition, early printing of Mason’s classic first book, one of the finest about the Vietnam War. Octavo, original cloth, map by David Lindroth. Lengthily inscribed by the author on the half...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-146077

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