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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,...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

First edition of this compelling biography of an army captain’s wife who becomes First Lady. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presenta...

First edition of this wonderfully illustrated work on The White House. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Inscribed by Lady Bird Johnson on the title page, “To Bill Walton...

First edition of Howitt’s collected essays analyzing Keynesian and Walrasian economics. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Joh...

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...

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,...

First edition of Cleaver’s autobiography. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Towards Freedom for all God’s Children Eldridge Cleaver 2/...

First edition of Hertz’s compilation of tributes delivered upon the occasion of the death of President Lincoln. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece portrait of Lincoln, illustrated. In very good cond...

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...

First edition of this collection of essays on behavioral finance. Octavo, original boards. Inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Richard Thaler on the title page, “For John with admiration...

First edition of Arthur O. Cooke’s The World at Work: A Day in a Shipyard. Small octavo, original illustrated boards with pictorial pastedown, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with engravings fr...

First edition of this work by Meher Baba. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. With an introduction by C.B. Purdom.

First edition, early printing of Parks’ autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Signed by the author on the title page, “11/21/94 Rosa Parks.” Fine in a fine dust ja...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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.”...