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1910 Unique Study of the Engineering and Design of Coal Mines, 19 pp. Blue Prints, Five Original Photographs.

:, 1910.

On 13 x 8.5 inch blueprint sheets, riveted together at top, 19 blue print sheets and 5 mounted and captioned photos. The sheets are surveys of different collieries and mines, with examples from existi...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-100759

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Rogers, Will

Rogers-isms: The Cowboy Philosopher on The Peace Conference.

New York: Harper & Brothers: Publishers, 1919.

First edition of Will Rogers’ first book. Octavo, original pictorial cloth, frontispiece. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Yours, Will Rogers.” In very good conditio...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-137393

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Scalia, Antonin and Bryan A. Garner

Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges.

Saint Paul: Thomson/West, 2008.

First edition, early printing of Scalia’s work on effective legal persuasion. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Antonin Scalia and inscribed by co-author. “To Sander Shapiro, Bryan...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-149883

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Fanon, Frantz

Studies in a Dying Colonialism.

New York: Monthly REview Press, 1965.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Ernest Socolov. Translated from the French by Haakon Chevalier. Introduction by Adolp...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-129464

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Ambrose, Stephen; Douglas Brinkley

Witness to America: An Illustrated Documentary History of the United States from the Revolution to Today.

New York: Harper Collins Publishers , 1999.

First edition of this collection of eyewitness accounts and illustrations chronicling the American experience. Thick quarto, original publisher’s half-cloth, black and white illustrations throug...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-149236

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Buckley, William F

Up From Liberalism.

New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1959.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by William F. Buckley on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Foreword by John Dos Passos. Uncommon, signed.

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-130002

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Elizabeth [Tonna], Charlotte

The Works of Charlotte Elizabeth. With an Introduction by H. B. Stowe.

New York: Published by M. W. Dodd, 1849.

Seventh edition of the complete works of English Victorian writer and suffragette Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna. Royal octavo, two volumes, original publisher’s full deluxe morocco with gilt titles...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-142626

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Keyes, E.D [William Tecumseh Sherman]

Fifty Years’ Observation of Men and Events Civil and Military.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1884.

First edition of this memoir of a Union soldier and civilian; from the library of General William Tecumseh Sherman. Small octavo, original cloth. General William Tecumseh Sherman and his son P.T. Sher...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-145752

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McCullough, David

Truman.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.

Early printing of the historian’s first Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page to fellow writer Robert...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-117749

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McClellan, George B

McClellan’s Own Story. The War for the Union.

New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1887.

First edition of the Civil War memoir of Lincoln’s controversial commander of the Army of the Potomac. Octavo, original publisher’s green cloth decorated in gilt, patterned endpapers, steel-engraved f...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-150709

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Hall, Captain Basil

Travels in North America, In the Years 1827 and 1828.

Edinburgh: Printed for Robert Cadell, Edinburgh; and Simpkin and Marshall, London, 1830.

Third and enlarged edition of Hall’s important work. Octavo, original publisher’s paper-covered boards and paper spine labels, volume one with the hand-colored folding map of the United St...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-134265

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Hoover, Herbert

The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover: Years of Adventure 1874-1920; The Cabinet and the Presidency 1920-1933; The Great Depression 1929-1941.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1951-1952.

First editions of each volume in Hoover’s memoirs. Octavo, three volumes, illustrated with black and white photographs. Boldly signed by Herbert Hoover on the front free endpaper of The Cabinet and th...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-151230

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Kissinger, Henry A

On China.

New York: Penguin Press, 2011.

First edition of Kissinger’s 13th book, in which he draws on historical records and 40 years of direct interaction with four generations of Chinese leaders to analyze the link between China’s an...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-151692

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Gandhi, Mahatma K

Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth.

London: Phoenix Press, 1949.

First edition of Gandhi’s autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Fine in the rare original dust jacket, which is in very good condition. Translated by Mahadev Desai.

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-134231

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Rehnquist, William H.; Byron White; Bill Clinton and Al Gore

Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justice Byron White Signed 1993 Inaugural Program.

:, 1993.

Program for the inauguration ceremony of Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Signed by both Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justice Byron White. Rehnquist had administered the oath of office to Bill Clinton...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-48065

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Dimock, Anthony W

Wall Street and the Wilds.

New York: Outing Company, 1915.

First edition of Dimock’s autobiography, including his great success in cornering the gold market, also hunting grizzly bear, buffalo, deer, waterfowl, early wildlife photography, and some menti...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-46768

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Porter, Henry

Lies, Damned Lies and Some Exclusives.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1984.

First edition of Porter’s revealing exposé of the Fleet Street Press. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to Sally Soames who contributed...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-120450

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Balfour, Arthur James

Speech In The House of Commons on Women’s Suffrage.

London: Published by The Central Society For Women's Suffrage, [c.1892].

Rare printing of Lord Balfour’s speech supporting the Women’s Franchise Bill, which proposed extending the parliamentary vote to women. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition.

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-135551

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Sienkiewicz, Henryk; Salvatore Fiume [Illustrator]; Giovanni Mardersteig [Printer]

Quo Vadis?

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1959.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of Sienkiewicz’s international best-selling historical novel. Octavo, bound in full modern morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe/Zaehnsdorf with g...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-148528

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Hitchens, Christopher

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything.

New York: Twelve/ Hatchette Book Group, 2007.

First edition, early printing of this polemic by Hitchens. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Christopher Hitchens on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Anne...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-147326

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Kirkwood, James

American Grotesque: An Account of the Clay Shaw-Jim Garrison Affair in the City of New Orleans.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970.

First edition of this detailed journalistic account of the investigation and trial conducted by New Orleans DA Jim Garrison against businessman Clay Shaw. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-150872

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Burger, Warren E.; Irving Kaufman

Warren E. Burger Signed Photograph.

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Signed black and white photograph of Chief Justice Warren E. Burger. It is inscribed, “For the Honorable Irving R. Kaufman colleague and stalwart ally in the judicial vineyard With best wishes W...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-38011

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Finn, David [William Safire]

Corporate Oligarch.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1969.

First edition of this classic work by the famed advertising executive. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Bill Safire with warm re...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-146176

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Bacallar y Sanna, Vicente

Comentarios de la guerra de España, e historia de su Rey Phelipe V el Animoso: Volumes I & II.

Genoa: Matheo Garvizza, 1725.

First edition of this commentary, which covers the reign of King Philip V of Spain and The War of the Spanish Succession. Octavo, 2 volumes, contemporary tree calf, morocco spine labels, marbled endpa...

$850.00 Item Number: RRB-51019

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