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Masters and Johnson's Human Sexual Inadequacy; Signed by Both
MASTERS, William H. and Virginia E. Johnson.
Human Sexual Inadequacy.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1970.
First edition, early printing of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by both Masters and Johnson on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Emery based on a design by George Price. We have never encountered another signed example.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 117478
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First Edition of H.G. Wells' The Outline of History Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind, Partial Set in Parts
WELLS, H.G.
The Outline of History Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind, Partial Set in Parts.
London: George Newnes Ltd, 1919-20.
First edition of the original parts of Wells' classic work. Quarto, original wrappers, 12 volumes, with full-color covers and many illustrations in color throughout. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom case.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 120473
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"One bloody, painfully honest, and courageous book" (Martin Cruz Smith): Chickenhawk; Lengthily Signed by Robert Mason
MASON, Robert.
Chickenhawk.
New York: The Viking Press, 1983.
First edition, early printing of Mason's classic first book, one of the finest about the Vietnam War. Octavo, original cloth, map by David Lindroth. Lengthily inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "'No one is more shocked than I.' Keep 'em flying! Robert Mason." Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Peter Cox.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 146077
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Rare Photograph of the 46th President of the United States Joe Biden; Signed by Him
BIDEN, Joe.
Joe Biden Signed Photograph.
Rare photograph of the 46th President of the United States Joe Biden. One page on Canon paper, glossy color photograph of Joe Biden, boldly signed by him. In fine condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 146557
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First Edition of Gore Vidal's The Judgment of Paris; Inscribed by Him to His Sister
VIDAL, Gore.
The Judgment of Paris.
New York : E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc, 1952.
First edition of this classic coming of age story. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Valerie, from Gore Vidal, June 1954." The recipient Valerie Gore was the author's sister. Vidal's father remarried in 1939 and had two children with his second wife; Valerie was born in 1946. Near fine in the original dust jacket, which has been laminated by Vidal. Jacket design by George Salter. An exceptional association.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 124488
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First edition of Robert M. Solow's Price Expectations and the Behavior of the Price Level
SOLOW, Robert Merton.
Price Expectations and the Behavior of the Price Level: Lectures Given in the University of Manchester.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1969.
First edition of this collection of lectures delivered by Solow in the University of Manchester. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by Robert Solow on the title page. In near fine condition. Small name.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 126488
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The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer; finely bound by Riviere & Son
CHAUCER, Geoffrey. Edited by Rev. Walter W. Skeat.
The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1920.
Finely bound example of Chaucer's complete works. Octavo, bound in full tree calf by Riviere & Son with gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gilt ruling to the front and rear panel, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, supplied tissue-guarded frontispiece. In very good condition. A nice binding.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 130504
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First edition of Hilary Putnam's Ethics Without Ontology; Inscribed by Him
PUTNAM, Hilary.
Ethics Without Ontology.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004.
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, "For John Hilary Putnam April 4, '15." Name to the front free endpaper, fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Gwen Nefsky Frankfeldt.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 68341
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First Edition of The Magic Barrel; Inscribed by Bernard Malamud
MALAMUD, Bernard.
The Magic Barrel.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1958.
First edition of Malamud's first collection of short stories, which went on to win the National Book Award. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Marshall and Min Everything good- Bernie." Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Milton Glaser. Housed in a custom clamshell box.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 111744
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Signed Limited Edition of James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time
BALDWIN, James; Schapiro.
The Fire Next Time.
Koln: Taschen, 2019.
Signed limited edition of one of the most influential works on race relations published in the twentieth century. Quarto, original boards, illustrated by Steve Schapiro. In fine condition. Introduction by John Lewis. Boldly signed by Steve Schapiro.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 137029
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First Edition of Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay; Signed by Larry McMurtry, Annie Proulx and Diana Ossana
PROULX, Annie; Larry McMurtry; Diana Ossana.
Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay.
New York: Scribner, 2005.
First Scribner trade edition of this collection of essays on the process of adapting the critically acclaimed story for film, signed by all three contributors. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Larry McMurtry, Annie Proulx, and warmly inscribed by Diana Ossana. Story by Annie Proulx. Screenplay by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Cover photograph by Universal Studios Licensing LLLP. Uncommon signed by all three contributors.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 139493
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First Edition of Gerda Weissman Klein's All But My Life; Signed by Her
KLEIN, Gerda Weissman.
All But My Life.
New York: Hill & Wang, 1957.
First edition of the author's "moving personal testament to courage" memoir. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Signed by Gerda Weissman Klein on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a good dust jacket with some wear and rubbing. Jacket design by Leo Manso.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 124539
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First Edition of Story Lines; Inscribed by Photographer Robert Frank
FRANK, Robert.
Storylines.
Germany: Steidl Publishers, 2004.
First edition of this volume, which commemorates the first major exhibit of Frank’s work in Britain. Oblong quarto, original flexible photographic wrappers Inscribed and dated in 2007 by Robert Frank on the title page. In fine condition, issued without a dust jacket.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 7357
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"Culture and Leadership as so central to understanding organizations and making them effective that we cannot afford to be complacent about either one": First edition of Edgar Schein's Organizational Culture and Leadership; Lengthily Inscribed by him
SCHEIN, Edgar H.
Organizational Culture and Leadership: A Dynamic View.
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1985.
First edition, second printing of Schein's classic text on organizational culture. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the title page with the following transcription from the text as follows, "Dear James Culture continues to be my main interest and our most important topic Enjoy Ed Schein 10/10/22." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Willi Baum.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 145929
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Confessions of An Advertising Man; Warmly Inscribed by David Ogilvy
OGILVY, David.
Confessions of an Advertising Man.
New York: Atheneum, 1963.
First edition, early printing of this seminal work on advertising. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Irving Lichter from your new partner David Ogilvy, January 1964." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. On the verso of the dust jacket there are "samples of David Ogilvy's wizardry," and it unfolds to reveal six advertisements he created.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 140858
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First Edition of A Primer of Population Biology; Signed by Edward O. Wilson with a drawing of an ant
WILSON, Edward O. and William H. Bossert.
A Primer of Population Biology.
Stamford, CT: Sinauer Associates, Inc. Publishers, 1971.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed by Edward O. Wilson on the title page with a drawing of an ant. In very good condition, name to the front free endpaper. Uncommon, especially signed.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 140992
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"What crimes? Were it not better to record facts, so that the contemplator might approve, or at least learn whence the crimes arose?" First edition of Lord Byron's Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice
BYRON, Lord George Gordon.
Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice. An Historical Tragedy. In Five Acts. With Notes. The Prophecy of Dante, a Poem.
London: John Murray, 1821.
First edition, first issue of Byron's posthumously published tragedy with the Doge's speech on p. 151 that begins "What crimes ?" Octavo, bound in full contemporary calf with a black morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gilt ruling to the spine and panels, marbled endpapers. In very good condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 120688
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"Do assure me that the pain of separation does not outweigh the joy of confidence and belief in this abiding:" Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Autograph Letter Signed to his "Beloved friend" Lady Clare Castletown
HOLMES JR., Oliver Wendell.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Autograph Letter Signed.
Boston: September 8, 1898.
Autograph letter signed by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. to his "beloved friend" Lady Clare Castletown, flirtatiously discussing the difficulty of putting her out of his mind, complaining of the work that awaited him after their time together, and expressing bitterness at having to respond to continuous queries concerning his father, the physician, poet, and polymath, four years after his passing. Two pages on Supreme Judicial Court stationary, quarto, original envelope, the letter reads in part, "... I wrote to you a short diary ... which I hope you will receive this week and another later ... I hate to have…
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 145310
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Inscribed by Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Harry Markowitz
MARKOWITZ, Harry; Bernard Hauser; Herbert W. Karr.
Simscript: A Simulation Programming Language.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1963.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Small quarto, original wrappers. Inscribed by Harry Markowitz on the title page. In very good condition. Uncommon, especially signed and inscribed.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 5379
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"For your affectionate support over so many years, my deep gratitude": First Edition of DNA Synthesis; Warmly Inscribed by Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist Arthur Kornberg to the co-discoverer of DNA polymerase
KORNBERG, Arthur.
DNA Synthesis.
San Francisco: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1974.
First edition of this important work by the Nobel Prize-winning scientist. Octavo, original boards. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "To Bob: For your affectionate support over so many years, my deep gratitude Arthur August 8, 1974." The recipient, Robert Lehman was a colleague of Kornberg's at Stanford and was a co-discoverer of DNA polymerase. In near fine condition. With the original publicity card laid in.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 130734
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First Edition of The Last Days of Pompeii; Signed by Nikos Kazantzakis
KAZANTZAKIS, Nikos.
The Last Days of Pompeii.
Athens: 1933.
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 fine condition. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 78932
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Alfred J. Ayer's Philosophical Essays; Signed by Him
AYER, Alfred J. [A.J.].
Philosophical Essays.
London: Macmillan & Co, 1963.
Later printing of this classic work. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by the author on the half-title page, "with best wishes A.J. Ayer September 15, 1963 Mexico City." In very good condition. From the library of Sergio Munoz, who was a friend of the author. Books signed by Ayer are scarce.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 133105
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First edition of Charles Dickens' The Mystery of Edwin Drood
DICKENS, Charles.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1870.
First edition from the original parts Dickens' final novel, with them bound in the rear. Octavo, bound in three quarters calf over marbled boards, frontispiece portrait of dickens, 12 wood-engraved plates, original wrappers bound in rear. In near fine condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 133997
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First Edition of Joseph Heller's Something Happened; Signed by Him
HELLER, Joseph.
Something Happened.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974.
First edition of this classic work by the author of Catch-22. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Stacy Hunt, With good wishes, to an admirer, from an admirer. Joseph Heller 5/28/75 WKIN, L.A." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. An exceptional example.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 142094
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Signed Limited First Edition of William Styron's Classic The Confessions of Nat Turner
STYRON, William.
The Confessions of Nat Turner.
New York: Random House, 1967.
Signed limited first edition of Styron’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, one of only 500 signed examples. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine slipcase. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 142690
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First Edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon
FITZGERALD, F. Scott.
The Last Tycoon. An Unfinished Novel. Together with The Great Gatsby and Selected Stories.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1941.
First edition with the Scribner's A and the publisher’s seal on the copyright page. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in very good dust jacket. Foreword by Edmund Wilson. A nice example.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 144171
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First Edition of Hawthorne's The Marble Faun
HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel .
The Marble Faun: or, the Romance of Monte Beni.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860.
First edition, first issue, with 16-page catalog dated March, 1860 inserted at rear of Volume one of Hawthorne’s last major work of fiction. Octavo, original cloth, 2 volumes. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom clamshell box. BAL 7621.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 119422
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"MEN IN PAJAMAS SITTING ABAFT THE FUNNEL AND SWAPPING LIES OF THE PURPLE SEAS": First authorized edition of Rudyard Kipling's Abaft the Funnel
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Abaft the Funnel.
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1909.
First authorized edition of Kipling’s 1909 short story collection with the author's note noting Dodge's previously unauthorized edition "issued without my knowledge or sanction". Octavo, original publisher's decorated dark green cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. In near fine condition with the scarce publisher's wrap around band present.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 121058
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Rare 2003 National Geographic Magazine Cover Signed by the first man to reach the summit of Mount Everest, Sir Edmund Hillary
HILLARY, Edmund.
Edmund Hillary Signed 2003 National Geographic Magazine Cover.
Washington, D.C: National Geographic Society, 2003.
Original May 2003 edition of The National Geographic Magazine cover signed by the first man to reach the summit of Mount Everest, Sir Edmund Hillary. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers featuring a portrait of Hillary wearing a winter jacket. Signed by Hillary in black felt tip on the front panel, "Ed Hillary." In near fine condition. Uncommon signed.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 146008
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Anthony Burgess Signed Vinyl Of Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange
BURGESS, Anthony; Stanley Kubrick.
Stanley Kubrick’s Clockwork Orange.
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1972.
Original LP of Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange. Signed by Anthony Burgess on the front cover. In near fine condition. This is the first record we have seen signed by the creator of the classic novel.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 5645
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First edition of Switch Bitch; inscribed by Roald Dahl
DAHL, Roald.
Switch Bitch.
London: Michael Joseph, 1974.
First British edition of this collection of Dahl's short stories. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Ann Love Roald Dahl." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Charles Nickelaides.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 129604
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Rare First Edition of Pierre Viala and Louis Ravaz's American Vines
VIALA, Pierre and Louis Ravaz; Raymond Dubois and Edmund Twight.
American Vines (Resistant Stock): Their Adaptation, Culture, Grafting and Propagation.
San Francisco: Press of Freygand-Leary Co, 1903.
Rare first American edition of Pierre Viala and Louis Ravaz's of 'Les Vignes Americaines,' translated in its entirety from the original French by Raymond Dubois and Edmund H. Twight. Octavo, original pictorial cloth, botanical endpapers, illustrated with diagrams. In near fine condition, Santa Cruz Department of Agriculture stamps to the front pastedown.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 147239
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FIRST EDITION OF LIFETIMES UNDER APARTHEID; SIGNED BY PHOTOGRAPHER DAVID GOLDBLATT AND NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR NADINE GORDIMER
GOLDBLATT, David & Nadine Gordimer.
Lifetimes Under Apartheid.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986.
First edition of the photographer's second collaboration with novelist Nadine Gordimer. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by both Nadine Gordimer and David Goldblatt on the title page. Very good in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 131749
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“There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this": First English Edition of Rudyard Kipling's Kim
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Kim.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1901.
First English edition of what many consider Kipling’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Illustrated with photographs of clay reliefs by John Lockwood Kipling including tissue-guarded frontispiece, two pages of advertisements at rear. In near fine condition. An exceptional example.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 134755
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First Edition of The Music of Life; Inscribed by Denis Noble; Inscribed by Him in the year of publication
NOBLE, Denis.
The Music of Life.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
First edition of this work by the award-winning physiologist. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Colin Hall with the compliments of the author, and in celebration of OE friendship June 2006 Denis Noble." Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Brill. Jacket illustration by Hideharu Naito.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 142042
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"Our system has at all times had to contend with internal encroachments upon liberty": Herbert Hoover's The Challenge to Liberty; Signed by Him and 13 others
HOOVER, Herbert.
The Challenge to Liberty.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934.
First edition, early printing of Herbert Hoover's challenge to Roosevelt's New Deal arguing it abandoned "the heritage of liberty." Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed on the front free endpaper by Herbert Hoover, along with thirteen others including Nebraska Governor Samuel Roy McKelvie, Judge Harry A. Spencer, Near fine in a good dust jacket.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 117626
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Rare Uncorrected Proof of the First Edition of Eric Newby's A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
NEWBY, Eric.
A Short Walk In the Hindu Kush.
London: Secker & Warburg, 1958.
Rare uncorrected proof of the first edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original wrappers, illustrated. In good condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 146280
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"The Only Lies For Which We Are Truly Punished Are Those We Tell Ourselves": First Edition Of In a Free State; Signed by V.S. Naipaul
NAIPAUL, V.S.
In A Free State.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1971.
First edition of the author's Booker Prize-winning novel. Octavo. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with just a touch of wear. Jacket design by Sam Houston.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 3701
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"They killed my girl," Rheinhardt said, walking down the street. "I'm gonna to bust up the bar": First Edition of A Hall of Mirrors; Lengthily Inscribed by Robert Stone
STONE, Robert.
A Hall of Mirrors.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967.
First edition of the author's first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Stone who has additionally added the line from this title as follows, "They killed my girl," Rheinhardt said, walking down the street. "I'm gonna to bust up the bar. Robert Stone." Laid in a program from a literary festival signed by Stone as well. Light rubbing to the bottom cloth, near fine in a near fine dust jacket. A unique example.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 1108
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Thomas Day's Reflections Upon the Present Sate of England, and the Independence of America
DAY, Thomas.
Reflections Upon the Present State of England, and the Independence of America.
London: Printed for J. Stockdale, 1783.
Third edition of Day's important treatise on American Independence. Octavo, bound in paper wrappers. In very good condition. Uncommon in this condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 127208