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Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1958.

First British edition of Dr. Martin Luther King’s first book. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Foreword by Trevor Huddleston.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-127636

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Plato; Hans Erni [Illustrator] Giovanni Mardersteig [Printer]

The Trial and Death of Socrates.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1962.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of this collection of four dialogues written by Plato recounting the death of Socrates. Octavo, bound in full modern morocco by Sangorski & Sutclif...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-148539

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Lawrence, T. E.

Revolt in the Desert.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1927.

First edition, first impression with the publisher’s device to the rear board of T. E. Lawrence’s own abridgment of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, which achieved immediate popular success. Quarto, ori...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-150793

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Simon, Herbert A.; Donald W. Smithburg; Victor A. Thompson

Public Administration.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950.

First edition of this classic study of administrative theory and governmental organization. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Fine in a very good dust jacket, nam...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-151195

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Hoover, J. Edgar [Introduction]

The Story of the FBI.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, 1947.

First edition of the official picture book of the FBI. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by J. Edgar Hoover in the year of publication on the front free endpaper,...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-133207

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Hillary, Edmund

Edmund Hillary Signed 2003 National Geographic Magazine Cover.

Washington, D.C: National Geographic Society, 2003.

Original May 2003 edition of The National Geographic Magazine cover signed by the first man to reach the summit of Mount Everest, Sir Edmund Hillary. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers featuring a...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-146008

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Rhodes, Richard

The Making of the Atomic Bomb.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986.

First edition of the author’s classic work which won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with black...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-149251

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[Newhall, Frederic Cushman]. [Philip Sheridan]

With General Sheridan in Lee’s Last Campaign.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1866.

First edition of Frederic Cushman Newhall’s Civil War memoir. Octavo, original cloth, tissue-guarded frontispiece, folding map. In good condition. Ownership name. Rare.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-132434

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Hoover, Herbert and Hugh Gibson

The Problems of Lasting Peace.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1942.

First edition of this analysis for peace post-World War II. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed and signed by both authors on the front free endpaper, “To Harvey P. Keller With...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-140460

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Lawrence, T.E

Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1965.

Finely bound edition of Lawrence’s classic account of his role in the Arab rebellion against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Brentano’s, frontispi...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-144546

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Wiesenthal, Simon; Joseph Wechsberg

Murderers Among Us: The Wiesenthal Memoirs.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1967.

First edition of Simon Wiesenthal’s classic autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Simon Wiesenthal on the title page. Ticket to a Wiesenthal lecture attached...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-150857

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Tobias, Andrew

The Only Investment Guide You’ll Ever Need.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, signed by the author on the front free endpaper, “The only ever! Best wishes 37 years (and six updated editions) l...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-106588

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Carter, Jimmy

Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President.

New York: Bantam Books, 1982.

First edition of the 39th President of the United States’ memoirs. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by Jimmy Carter and Secretary of Defense Harold Brown on the title page. Brown was...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-132220

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Journal of the Eighteenth Annual Session, of the National Encampment, Grand Army of the Republic.

Philadelphia: Town Book and Job Printing House, 1884.

First edition of this record of post-war social meetings by members of the army; from the library of General William Tecumseh Sherman. Royal octavo, original morocco with gilt titles and tooling to th...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-145743

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Doriot, Georges F

The Management of Racial Integration in Business [Special Report to Management].

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1964.

First edition of this work by the father of venture capitalism. Quarto, original half cloth. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-112869

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Scholes, Myron S. and Mark A. Wolfson

Taxes and Business Strategy. A Planning Approach.

Englewood, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1992.

First edition of this classic work, now in it’s sixth edition. Quarto, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “_____ Good luck in all of yo...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-117632

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Keynes, John Maynard. [J.M.]

Indian Currency and Finance.

London: Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1913.

First edition of Keynes’ first major work on economics. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition. Neat ownership inscription to the front free endpaper.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-136408

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Graham, Benjamin; Foreword by Alvin Johnson

Storage and Stability: A Modern Ever-Normal Energy.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, 1937.

First edition of the author’s classic third book. Octavo, original red cloth. Foreword by Alvin Jonson. In very good condition.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-143023

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Friedman, Thomas L. [Madeleine Albright]

The Lexus And The Olive Tree.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999.

First edition of this groundbreaking work about globalization. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth, bookplate to the front pastedown from “The Private Collection of Secretary Madeleine K. Al...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-147597

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Putnam, Hilary

Ethics Without Ontology.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004.

First edition of this work on ontology by one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper,...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-68341

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Sikorsky, Igor

The Story of the Winged-S: Late Developments and Recent Photographs of the Helicopter.

New York: Dodd, Meade & Company, 1958.

First edition, early printing of the autobiography of the Russian-American aviation pioneer and designer of the first viable American helicopter. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece, illustrated with...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-148067

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Strode, Hudson [Jefferson Davis]

Jefferson Davis: American Patriot 1808-1861; Confederate President; Tragic Hero 1864-1889; Private Letters 1823-1889.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1955-1966.

First editions of the complete set of the biography of the only president of the Confederate States. Octavo, four volumes, publisher’s original half-cloth, top stains, frontispiece, with cartogr...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-148547

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Freeman, Frederick

The History of Cape Cod: The Annals of Barnstable County and of Its Several Towns. Including the District of Mashpee.

Boston: Printed For the Author, 1858-1863.

First edition of the classic history of Cape Cod. Octavo, ten parts as issued bound into four volumes in half morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles to the spine, illustrated with tissue-guarded...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-130559

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Campbell, George

Log-Letters From “The Challenger.” [Fore-edge Painting].

London: Macmillan and Co, 1881.

Finely bound example of Campbell’s account of the cruise of The Challenger. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands,...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-138428

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