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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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Baldwin, James

The Fire Next Time.

New York: The Dial Press, 1963.

First edition of one of the most influential works on race relations published in the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing to the extremit...

$800.00 Item Number: RRB-124915

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Heeren, Arnold Hermann Ludwig. [Translated by George Bancroft]

Reflections on the Politics of Ancient Greece.

Boston: Cummings, Hilliard & Co, 1824.

First American edition of Bancroft’s translation of Heeren’s monumental work on politics in Ancient Greece. Octavo, bound in full contemporary calf with gilt ruling to the spine and a red...

$800.00 Item Number: RRB-128205

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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...

$800.00 Item Number: RRB-114451

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McCullough, David

The Johnstown Flood.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1968.

First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian’s first book. Octavo, original brown cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title pag...

$800.00 Item Number: RRB-146412

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Bush, C. Fred. Edited Slightly by Barbara Bush (George Bush)

C. Fred’s Story: A Dog’s Life.

New York: Doubleday, 1984.

First edition of First Lady Barbara Bush’s children’s book about the adventures of White House dog C. Fred Bush. Large octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with photogr...

$800.00 Item Number: RRB-82391

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Guichardin, Francois

Histoire Des Guerres D’Italie.

London: Paul & Isaac Vaillant, 1738.

Quarto, 3 volume complete set. Attractive contemporary calf, gilt tooling to the spine, raised bands. Marbled endpapers. In good condition with some rubbing to the boards.

$800.00 Item Number: RRB-3150

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Macmillan, Harold

The Complete Harold MacMillan Memoirs. [The Winds of Change 1914-1939, Blast of War 1939-1945, Tides of Fortune 1945-1955, Riding the Storm 1956-1959, Pointing the Way 1959-1961, At the End of the Day 1961-1963, The Past Masters: Politics and Politicians 1906-1939].

New York : Harper & Row, Publishers, 1966-75.

First editions of each volume in Harold Macmillan’s memoirs. Octavo, seven volumes, original cloth, illustrated with photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page of...

$800.00 Item Number: RRB-147300

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McCarthy, Justin

A History of Our Own Times: From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the Berlin Congress.

London: Chatto & Windus, Piccadilly, 1879.

Finely bound edition of this classic historical work. Octavo, four volumes, bound in three quarter red calf over marbled boards with gilt titles and elaborate tooling to the spine in six compartments...

$800.00 Item Number: RRB-150765

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Chamich, Father Michael; Johannes Avdall [Translator]

History of Armenia.

Calcutta: Printed at Bishop's College Press, 1827.

First edition of the English translation of the history of Armenia from B.C. 2247 to A.D. 1780. Octavo, volume one only out of two, bound in full tree calf with gilt titles and elaborate tooling to th...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-151169

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Thaler, Richard H. Edited by

Advances in Behavioral Finance.

New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1993.

First edition of this collection of essays on behavioral finance. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Richard Thaler on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket....

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-133580

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Opinions of Women on Women’s Suffrage.

London: Central Committee of the National Society For Women's Suffrage, 1879.

First edition of this collection of Opinions on Women’s Suffrage, compiled by the Central Committee of the National Society For Women’s Suffrage and containing the opinions of English wome...

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-135724

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