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Have Faith in Massachusetts: A Collection of Speeches and Messages.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1919.

Second enlarged edition of this collection of speeches. Octavo, original cloth, tissue-guarded frontispiece of Coolidge. Presentation copy, boldly inscribed by the author on the half-title page,...

$900.00 Item Number: RRB-151229

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James, William

A Full and Correct Account of the Chief Naval Occurrences of the Late War Between Great Britain and The United States of America; Preceded by a Cursory Examination of the American Accounts of Their Naval Actions Fought Previous to That Period.

London: Printed for T. Egerton, 1817.

First edition of James’ naval history of the War of 1812, which inspired Theodore Roosevelt’s account from the American perspective: The Naval War of 1812. Octavo, bound in full contempora...

$900.00 Item Number: RRB-132919

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Ali, Muhammad

Prayer and Al-Islam.

Chicago: Muhammad Islamic Foundation, 1982.

First edition of this prayer book. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Muhammad Ali on the front free endpaper, “To Marc from Muhammad Ali 9-25-86.” In fine condition.

$900.00 Item Number: RRB-123489

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Churchill, Winston S

Shall We Commit Suicide?

New York: Eilert Printing Co, 1924.

First separate edition of Churchill’s ominously prophetic article. 12mo, original wrappers. In near fine condition. Rare, especially in this condition.

$900.00 Item Number: RRB-135844

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Roosevelt, Eleanor

On My Own: The Years Since The White House.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1958.

First edition of Roosevelt’s last book of autobiography. Octavo, original blue cloth, illustrated with 16 pages of photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page,...

$875.00 Item Number: RRB-92117

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Pantaleoni, Maffeo

Pure Economics.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1898.

First edition in English of the economist’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Translated by T. Boston Bruce. In very good condition with some rubbing to the cloth, name to the front pastedow...

$875.00 Item Number: RRB-49088

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Historical Memoranda. I. The Number and Density of the Population of Ancient Palestine. II. The Jewish Population in Palestine from the Fall of the Jewish State to the Beginning of Zionist Pioneering. III. The Waves of Jewish Migration into Palestine (640-1882).

Jerusalem: [General Council (Vaad Leumi) of the Jewish Community of Palestine], 1947.

Scarce printing of this historical record. Octavo, original wrappers, rebacked, illustrated with five folding lithographed maps. In good condition with toning to the front and rear panels, first and l...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-146805

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Ali, Muhammad

Muhammad Ali: A Thirty-Year Journey.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.

First edition of this photographic record of Muhammad Ali’s career. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated with numerous photographs by Howard L. Bingham of or concerning Muhammad Ali. Presentation...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-148277

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Einstein, Albert. Edited by Paul Arthur Schilpp

Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist.

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

Finely bound edition of Einstein’s singular autobiography. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, top edge gilt, frontispiece of Einstein by Yousuf Karsh. Edited by Paul Arthur Sc...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-148432

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Nansen, Fridtjof

“Farthest North” Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram 1893-96 and of a Fifteen Months’ Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen with an Appendix by Otto Sverdrup Captain of the Fram.

Westminster: Archibald Constable and Company, 1897.

First English editions of this “remarkable achievement in Polar exploration” (PMM). Octavo, two volumes, original publisher’s pictorial green cloth over boards, front panels blocked...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-148923

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Bernstein, Carl & Bob Woodward

All The President’s Men.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1974.

First edition, early printing of this groundbreaking work in American journalism. Octavo, original blue cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by Woodward on the front free endpaper in a con...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-139366

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[Livingstone, David]

David Livingstone: The Great Missionary Explorer.

New York: The Walter Scott Publishing Co., Ltd, n.d. c. 1908.

Finely bound example of this anonymous work on the life of David Livingstone. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-124055

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Hill, Ralph Nading. [Ronald Reagan]

Robert Fulton and the Steamboat.

New York: Random House, 1954.

First edition of the author’s compelling work on the inventor of the world’s first commercially successful steamboat. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated by Lee Ames....

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-137258

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Keynes, John Maynard [J.M.]

A Revision of the Treaty. Being A Sequel To The Economic Consequences of the Peace.

London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1922.

First edition of Keynes’ classic work. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised bands, gilt ruling to th...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-146084

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Johnson, Lyndon B. [John Connally]

Lyndon B. Johnson Typed Letter Signed to Governor John B. Connally.

Washington, D.C:, 1964.

Rare typed letter signed by the 36th President of the United States to the Governor of Texas. Quarto, one page on The White House letterhead, dated July 29 1964, the letter reads, ‘Dear Governor...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-146945

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Fogel, Robert William and Stanley L. Engerman

Time On The Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery & Time On the Cross Evidence and Methods. Two Volumes.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1974.

First edition of this work which attracted widespread attention in the media and generated heated controversy and criticism for its methodology and conclusions. Octavo, original brown cloth, 2 volumes...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-2415

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Besant, Walter Sir

The Survey of London. Complete in 10 volumes: Mediaeval London; Historical & Social; Ecclesiastical; London in the Time of the Tudors; London in the Time of the Stuarts; London in the Eighteenth Century; London in the Nineteenth Century.

London: Adam & Charles Black, 1903-1912..

First editions of this work on the great city of London. Quarto, original red cloth, 10 volumes, with titles the spine in gilt and front panel, gilt topstain, illustrated throughout. Each volume is in...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-2847

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Buckley, William F

Up From Liberalism.

New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1959.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Howard Klein Admiringly William F. Buckley.” Fine in...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-132458

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Chomsky, Noam

American Power And The New Mandarins: Historical and Political Essays.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1969.

First edition of Chomsky’s first political book. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Noam Chomsky on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Ronald Clyne.

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-145957

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Dayan, Moshe

Breakthrough: A Personal Account of the Egypt-Israel Peace Negotiations.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.

First edition of this work by Dayan. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Moshe Dayan on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Anthony. From the librar...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-133918

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Davidoff, Zino; Bernard Dary

L’Histoire de Havane.

Toulouse: Daniel Briand, 1981.

First edition of this history of Havana, Cuba, and its role in the cigar industry by the legendary Zino Davidoff. Quarto, original boards, with color illustrations and photographs throughout. Presenta...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-148600

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McElroy, Robert [Grover Cleveland]

Grover Cleveland The Man and The Statesman: An Authorized Biography.

New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1923.

First edition of this informative view of Grover Cleveland’s two terms in office. Octavo, two volumes, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, top edge gilt, tissue-guarded frontispieces....

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-147737

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Bush, George H.W. & Scowcroft, Brent

A World Transformed.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.

First edition of this stimulating reflection on American foreign policy during the Bush administration. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by President George H.W. Bush o...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-152999

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Russell, William Howard

My Diary: North and South.

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1863.

First edition of this work by Russell. Octavo, two volumes, original blue cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, folding map in volume one. In very good condition.

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-137554

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