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The Makers of Venice: Doges, Conquerors, Painters and Men of Letters. [Fore-edge Painting].

London: Macmillan and Co, 1893.

Finely bound example of the Scottish historian’s classic work on the foundation of Venice. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles to the spine, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-138708

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Mansfield, J. Carroll [William T. Sherman]

Kit Carson.

Cleveland, Ohio: The World Syndicate Publishing Co, 1933.

First edition of this biographical history of a frontier legend in pictures; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Oblong 48mo, original pictorial boards, illustrated with depictions of the l...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-145972

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Greenlaw, Olga S

The Lady and the Tigers.

New York: E. P. Dutton, 1943.

First edition, early printing of this memoir from the official war diarist for the “Flying Tigers”. Octavo, original publisher’s orange cloth, cartographic endpapers, frontispiece of...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-149143

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Zeppelin, Ferdinand von

Ferdinand von Zeppelin Autograph Postcard Signed.

Friedrichshafen:, November 2, 1908.

Autograph postcard signed, in German, by Ferdinand von Zeppelin to Stuttgart publishers Levy & Müller thanking them for sending 6 copies of his book, ‘Zeppelins Kampf und Sieg,’ first...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-145305

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Acheson, Dean

Present At The Creation: My Years In The State Department.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1969.

First edition of Acheson’s Pulitzer-Prize-winning classic. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper,...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-150943

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Kazantzakis, Nikos

The Last Days of Pompeii.

Athens:, 1933.

First edition of this work translated by the Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis. Octavo, original boards, illustrated endpapers, illustrated. Signed by Nikos Kazantzakis on the copyright page. In near fin...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-78932

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Murray, Albert

Omni-Americans: New Perspectives on Black Experience and American Culture.

New York: Outerbridge & Dienstfrey, 1970.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For my good friend Oliver Who will keep the faith Albert Murray.”...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-133165

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Lytton, Constance

Prisons & Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences by Constance Lytton and Jane Walton, Spinster.

London: William Heinemann, 1914.

First edition of the remarkable autobiography of the aristocratic suffragette Constance Lytton, recounting her remarkable masquerade and imprisonment as the working-class seamstress “Jane Warton...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-135207

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Halberstam, David

The Best and the Brightest.

New York: Random House, 1972.

First edition, early printing of the author’s magnum opus. Octavo, original blue cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Rik and Margaret with esteem and...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-144036

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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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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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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. Boldly signed by the author,...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-151609

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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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Fargo, William

William Fargo Signed Stock Certificate for American Merchants Union Express Company.

New York: American Merchants Union Express Company, 1869.

Rare American Merchants Union Express Company stock certificate signed by American businessman William Fargo. In November 1868, the American Express Company and the Merchants Union Express Company mer...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-148072

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Pickard, Samuel T. [John Greenleaf Whittier]

The Writings of John Greenleaf Whittier.

Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1895.

Riverside edition of the collected writings of abolition advocate John Greenleaf Whittier. Octavos, nine volumes bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-109568

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Plato [Socrates]

Plato and Socrates.

London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1907.

Finely bound edition of this collection of Plato’s Socratic dialogues, including “Euthyphro,” “Apology,” “Crito,” and “Phaedo”. Octavo, bound in half morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-151306

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Kirzner, Israel M

Competition and Entrepreneurship.

Indianapolis : Liberty Fund, 2013.

First edition of the Liberty Fund edition of Kirzner’s classic Austrian School text. Octavo, original cloth, patterned endpapers. Signed by Israel M. Kirzner on the title page. Fine in a fine du...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-86784

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Glazer, Nathan and Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians, and Irish of New York City.

Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press and Harvard University Press, 1963.

First edition of this classic work, “perhaps the most perceptive inquiry into American minorities ever made” (Richard Rovere). Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers. Association copy,...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-118618

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