History, Law, and Politics Archives

Pumphrey, Stanley. Introduction by John D. Whittier

Indian Civilization: A Lecture by Stanley Pumphrey of England. With Introduction by John G. Whittier.

Philadelphia: The Bible and Tract Distributing Society, 1877.

Rare first edition of Pumphrey’s report on the condition of the Indian tribes removed to the Indian Territory and Kansas. Octavo, original wrappers, hand-colored folding map of the Indian Territ...

$700.00 Item Number: RRB-135185

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Wilbur, Homer. [James Russell Lowell]

Meliboeus-Hipponax: The Biglow Papers. [With] The Biglow Papers Second Series.

Cambridge: Published by George Nichols: 1848/Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867.

First edition, first issue of James Russell Lowell’s first book, a bitter criticism of the Mexican-American War and opposition to the expansion of slavery; named by the Grolier Club as the most...

$700.00 Item Number: RRB-139428

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Kennedy, John F

President John F. Kennedy Inaugural Event Invitations.

:, 1961.

Group of rare invitations to events surrounding the Kennedy inauguration; from the collection of Helen Keyes, longtime personal assistant for the Kennedy family. The collection includes: An invitation...

$700.00 Item Number: RRB-145456

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Heschel, Abraham Joshua

Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion.

Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1951.

First edition of this modern classic of Jewish theology. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with some chips and rubbing. Jacket designed by Marshall Lee.

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-78342

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Uris, Leon; Photographs by Dimitrios Harissiadis

Exodus Revisited.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1960.

First edition of this monograph of photographs of Uris’ visit to Israel. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Shalom Leon Uris....

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-112569

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Keynes, J.M. [John Maynard]

Laissez-Faire and Communism.

New York: New Republic, 1926.

First edition of this work by one of the greatest economists of the twentieth century. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition.

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-134110

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Ghattas, Kim [Madeleine K. Albright]

The Secretary: A Journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the Heart of American Power.

New York: Henry Holt Company, 2013.

First edition of the compelling account of Hillary Clinton’s tenure as U.S. Secretary of State. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Associatio...

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-149056

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Robinson, Jackie; Carl T. Rowan

Wait Till Next Year.

New York: Random House, 1960.

First edition of this biography of the first African-American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era. Octavo, original half cloth, top stain red. Boldly signed by Carl T. Rowan on the titl...

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-148343

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Wright, Lawrence

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.

First edition of this Pulitzer Prize-winning work, which was named one of the New York Times’ 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Lawrence Wright on...

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-150509

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

[Clinton, Bill]

Bill Clinton 1966 Georgetown University Yearbook.

Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University, 1966.

1966 Georgetown University Yearbook containing a photograph of Bill Clinton as a college sophomore. Quarto, original boards, illustrated with photographs. Clinton’s photograph is on page 278. In...

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-139242

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Benjamin, Daniel; Steven Simon [Madeleine K. Albright]

The Next Attack: The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting It Right.

New York: Times Books , 2005.

First edition about the war against radical Islam and what we need to do to combat the real threat. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endp...

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-147587

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

von Mises, Ludwig

Epistemological Problems of Economics.

Princeton, New Jersey: D. Van Nostrand Co, 1960.

First edition in English of a “milestone” in Mises’ groundbreaking theory of human action, containing “his seminal philosophical and methodological” argument for the scope of economic science. Octavo,...

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-139902

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Walesa, Lech

A Way of Hope: An Autobiography.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1987.

First edition of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning leader’s autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Lech Walesa on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-152092

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Bernanke, Ben S.; Thomas Laubach; Frederic S. Mishkin; Adam S. Posen

Inflation Targeting: Lessons from the International Experience.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999.

First edition of this ground-breaking study. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Matthew Best wishes Ben Bernanke.” Fine in a...

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-149188

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Griswold, Rufus Wilmot

The Republican Court of American Society in the Days of Washington.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1854.

First edition of Griswold’s account of the American Republican Court during the presidency of George Washington. Quarto, original publisher’s full morocco with gilt titles to the spine, el...

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-138600

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Nader, Ralph

Unsafe At Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile.

New York: Grossman Publishers, 1965.

First edition, early printing of this early work by Nader. Octavo, original red cloth, top stain red. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For continuing advan...

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-148353

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Johnson, Simon and James Kwak

13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown.

New York: Pantheon Books, 2010.

First edition of this authoritative history of America’s financial oligarchy by one of the most prominent and frequently cited economists in the nation. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy...

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-149728

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Blaeu, Joan

Fionia vulgo Funen. [Seventeenth Century Joan Blaeu Map of Funen].

[Amsterdam]:, c. 1645.

Large seventeenth century hand-colored map of the Danish island of Funen by renowned Dutch cartographer Joan Blaeu. One page, hand-colored with two decorative cartouches. In near fine condition. Matte...

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-137508

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Foote, Shelby

Follow Me Down.

New York: Dial Press, 1950.

First edition of this Faulknerian novel by the author of the acclaimed trilogy The Civil War. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Doro...

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-42010

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Ahtisaari, Martti

The Impact of War on Iraq: Report to the Secretary-General on Humanitarian Needs in Iraq in the Immediate Post-Crisis Environment by a Mission to the Area Led by Mr. Martti Ahtisaari, Under-Secretary-General for Administration and Management, Dated 20 March 1991.

Westfield, New Jersey: Open Magazine Pamphlet Series, 1991.

First edition of Pamphlet #7 of the Open Magazine Pamphlet Series; inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning Finnish leader Martti Ahtisaari. Tall octavo, original wrapper, inscribed by Ahtisaari on the title...

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-117046

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Bernanke, Ben S., Thomas Laubach, Frederic S. Mishkin, Adam S. Posen

Inflation Targeting: Lessons from the International Experience.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999.

First edition of this ground-breaking study. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Ben Bernanke on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Marek Antoniak.

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-109451

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Rickenbacker, Captain Edward V. Introduction by W.L. White

Seven Came Through: Rickenbacker’s Full Story Including His Message to America.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc, 1943.

First edition of Rickenbacker’s account of 24 days adrift in a life raft. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “With...

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-143617

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Chetlain, Augustus L

Recollections of Seventy Years.

Galena: The Gazette Publishing Company, 1899.

First edition of Major General Chetlain’s Civil War memoir. Octavo, original cloth, patterned endpapers, frontispiece portrait. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page,...

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-132334

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Palestine. Department of Migration. Annual Report 1936.

Jerusalem: Printing and Stationary Office, 1937.

Scarce printing of the Palestine Department of Migration Annual Report for 1936. Thin quarto, original wrappers, illustrated with tables, errata slip tipped in. In good condition with toning, some rub...

$650.00 Item Number: RRB-146823

Add to cart Ask a Question Details

Rare History, Law & Political Books for Sale Online