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George Bell's Waterloo: The Downfall of the First Napoleon: A History of the Campaign of 1815
HOOPER, George.
Waterloo: The Downfall of the First Napoleon: A History of the Campaign of 1815.
London: George Bell and Sons, 1904.
First edition, new impression of Hooper's account of the decisive engagement of the Waterloo campaign and Napoleon’s last. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. In very good condition. Ownership inscription.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 137102
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First Edition of Roads To Freedom: Essays in Honour of Friedrich A. von Hayek
[FRIEDRICH VON AUGUSTE HAYEK] [F.A],.
Roads To Freedom: Essays in Honour of Friedrich A. von Hayek.
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1969.
First edition of this collection of essays on the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of Hayek. Edited by Erich Steissler, Gottfried Haberler, Friedrich A. Lutz and Fritz Machlup. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, ownership name.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 146448
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"The calmest voice and coolest mind in American public life": First Edition of John W. Gardner's No Easy Victories; inscribed by him
GARDNER, John W. Edited by Helen Rowan.
No Easy Victories.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1968.
First edition of "the father of campaign finance reform", John W. Gardner's fourth book. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Mariam and Andrew - affectionately, from their friend John W. Gardner." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Herb Weitman.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 110909
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First edition of J. M. Reid's The History of The Clydesdale Bank 1838-1938
REID, J. M.
The History of The Clydesdale Bank 1838-1938.
London: Blackie and Son Limited, 1938.
First edition of Reid's authoritative history of the Clydesdale Bank. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated, engraved frontispiece portrait of James Lumsden, the first chairman of the bank. Very good in the scarce original dust jacket which is in very good condition. With the Clydesdale Bank's complimentary slip laid in.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 124093
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First Edition of Paul Krugman's End This Depression Now!; Signed by Him
KRUGMAN, Paul.
End This Depression Now!
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Paul Krugman on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jon Gray.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 128646
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First edition of William Dennison Bickham's Rosecrans' Campaign with the Fourteenth Army Corps
BICKHAM, William Dennison.
Rosecrans’ Campaign with the Fourteenth Army Corps, of the Army of the Cumberland: A Narrative of Personal Observations, with a Appendix, Consisting of Official Reports of the Battle of Stone River.
Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co, Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co..
First edition of William Dennison Bickham's Civil War memoir. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. In good condition. Ex-library.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 132443
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"I HAVE AN IRREPRESSIBLE DESIRE TO LIVE TILL I CAN BE ASSURED THAT THE WORLD IS A LITTLE BETTER FOR MY HAVING LIVED IN IT": FIRST EDITION OF TONY KUSHNER'S SCREENPLAY FOR LINCOLN
KUSHNER, Tony.
Lincoln: Screenplay by Tony Kushner.
Dreamworks II Distribution Co., LLC and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, 2012.
First hardbound edition of Tony Kushner's screenplay for the monumental 2012 historical drama Lincoln, loosely based on Doris Kearns Goodwin’s 2005 biography Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. Quarto, original pictorial boards. From the collection of Bill Zwecker. A member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association, Zwecker was a longtime entertainment and celebrity journalist. A Chicago native and second-generation newspaper star (his late mother, Peg Zwecker, was the fashion editor of the Sun-Times and Chicago Daily News), Zwecker began his journalism career in the 1980s and has since interviewed some of the most renowned celebrities across a…
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 139539
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First Edition of Thomas Piketty's Monumental Work Capital In the Twenty-First Century
PIKETTY, Thomas.
Capital In the Twenty-First Century.
Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2014.
First edition of Piketty's magnum opus. Octavo, original boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design Graciela Galup. Translated from the French by Arthur Goldhammer.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 144345
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The Affluent Society; Signed by John Kenneth Galbraith
GALBRAITH, John Kenneth.
The Affluent Society.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998.
First edition of the 40th anniversary of the economist's landmark work. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Boldly signed by John Kenneth Galbraith on the half-title page. In near fine condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 118388
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First Edition of Oliphant Smeaton's Edinburgh and its Story
SMEATON, Oliphant. Illustrated by Herbert Railton & J. Ayton Symington.
Edinburgh and its Story.
London: J. M. Dent & Co, 1904.
First edition of Smeaton's history of Edinburgh. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over green cloth, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, top edge gilt with others uncut, marbled endpapers, colored frontispiece with tissue guard, copiously illustrated with colored tissue-guarded engravings. In very good condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 96044
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First edition of The Theory of Interest Rates: Proceedings of a Conference Held by the International Economic Association
EDITED BY F.H. HAHN AND F.P.R. BRECHLING,.
The Theory of Interest Rates: Proceedings of a Conference Held by the International Economic Association.
New York: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1965.
First edition of this collection of talks delivered at the 1962 International Economic Association Conference held in Royaumont, France. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Ownership signatures. Jacket design by Sarah Shervington.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 101480
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In the Wake of the Crisis; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz
STIGLITZ, Joseph; Olivier Blanchard; David Romer and Michael Spence.
In the Wake of the Crisis: Leading Economists Reassess Economic Policy.
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2012.
Early printing of this work in which prominent economists reconsider the fundamentals of economic policy for a post-crisis world. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 10900
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"Patriotism, honor, glory, and national prosperity are terms to which the Christian and the mere politician attach different ideas": Second edition of American abolitionist William Jay's A Review of the Causes and Consequences of the Mexican War
JAY, William.
A Review of the Causes and Consequences of the Mexican War.
Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey & Co, 1849.
Second edition of American abolitionist and jurist William Jay's classic antiwar treatise. Octavo, original publisher's cloth, gilt titles to the spine. In good condition with some wear to the crown and foot of the spine.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 82412
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Taylor Branch's Pillar of Fire; Inscribed by Him
BRANCH, Taylor. [Martin Luther King Jr.].
Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.
First edition, early printing of the second book of the author's epic trilogy on Martin Luther King, Jr. and the American Civil Rights Movement. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed on a bookplate, "For Gail Mitchum Taylor Branch 2002." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jack Seow.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 140029
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Frist Edition of Orville Victor's Incidents and Anecdotes of the War
VICTOR, Orville J.
Incidents and Anecdotes of the War: Together with Life Sketches of Eminent Leaders, and Narratives of the Most Memorable Battles for the Union.
New York: James D. Torrey, Publisher, 1862.
First edition of Victor's anecdotal history of the Civil War. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 133076
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First Edition of Patrick Leigh Fermor's The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos; Signed by Artemis Cooper
FERMOR, Patrick Leigh.
The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos.
New York: John Murray, 2013.
First edition. Octavo, original boards, illustrated endpapers. Signed by Artemis Cooper on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Ed Kluz.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 140032
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First edition of John Codman Ropes' The Story of the Civil War
ROPES, John Codman.
The Story of the Civil War: A Concise Account of the War in the United States of America Between 1861 and 1865: The Campaigns of 1862.
New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1898.
First edition of Ropes' account of the American Civil War. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with maps and plans, with 13 folding maps for Vol II in a pocket affixed to the front pastedown. In good condition. Ex-library.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 133077
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Rare first edition of Fifty Years of Banking in Chicago 1857-1907
HARPER, William Hudson and Charles H. Ravell.
Fifty Years of Banking in Chicago 1857-1907.
np: The Merchants' Loan and Trust Company, nd.
First edition of one of the earliest works on the history of banking in Chicago. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. In fine condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 124773
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First Edition of James Tobin's Full Employment and Growth
TOBIN, James.
Full Employment and Growth: Further Keynesian Essays On Policy.
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1996.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 131476
