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“THE DEBUT OF AN EXCITING NEW TALENT”: CHURCHILL’S FIRST BOOK, THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
The Story of the Malakand Field Force, An Episode of Frontier War.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1898.
First edition, first issue, of Winston Churchill’s first book, an account of his service with the Malakand Field Force in India, with frontispiece portrait of Sir Binden Blood and six maps, two of them folding and in color. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition, bookplate to the front pastedown, owner name. House in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $4,800.00 Item Number: 144078
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FROM THE LIBRARY OF JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG: FIRST EDITION OF Greed and Glory on Wall Street; SIGNED BY KEN AULETTA
AULETTA, Ken. [Ruth Bader Ginsburg].
Greed and Glory on Wall Street: The Fall of the House of Lehman.
New York: Random House, 1986.
First edition of this account of the Lehman Brother takeover, from the library of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg with her bookplate to the pastedown. Octavo, original publisher's half cloth. Signed by Ken Auletta on the front free endpaper. From the library of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. American lawyer and jurist Ruth Bader Ginsburg served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020 and was responsible for some of the most eventful legal decisions of the past half-century. Nominated by President Bill Clinton in 1993 to replace retiring justice Byron White,…
Price: $4,800.00 Item Number: 146519
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“He who only wishes and hopes does not interfere actively with the course of events and with the shaping of his own destiny": Human Action: A Treatise On Economics; Signed by Ludwig Von Mises
VON MISES, Ludwig.
Human Action: A Treatise on Economics.
Chicago: Contemporary Books Inc, 1963.
First printing of the third edition of the economist's magnum opus. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Ludwig Mises on the half-title page. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $4,800.00 Item Number: 140799
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Rare First Edition of Mathematics and the Imagination; From the library of Madeleine L'Engle
KASNER, Edward and James Newman [Madeleine L'Engle].
Mathematics and the Imagination.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940.
First edition of this classic work which famously contains the first appearance of the term googol, which the search engine name, Google, is a play on. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of Newbery award-winning novelist Madeleine L'Engle with her married name and husband [in her handwriting], "Hugh and Madeleine Franklin." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. With drawings and diagrams by Rufus Isaacs. An exceptional example with noted provenance.
Price: $4,800.00 Item Number: 133177
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First edition of Jawaharlal Nehru's The Discovery of India; Signed by Him
NEHRU, Jawaharlal.
The Discovery of India.
Calcutta: The Signet Press, 1947.
First Indian edition of one of the finest modern works on Indian history. Octavo, original cloth. Signed and dated by the author on the title page, "Jawaharlal Nehru June 1948." In good condition. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $4,800.00 Item Number: 132748
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Signed Limited Edition of Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom; One of 1000 Numbered Copies
MANDELA, Nelson.
Long Walk To Freedom.
London: Little, Brown and Company, 1994.
Signed limited first edition, one of 1000 numbered copies of this classic autobiography. Octavo, bound in half morocco, gilt titles to the spine, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. In fine condition.
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 135598
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“There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves": First Edition of Richard Rorty's Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature; Signed by Him
RORTY, Richard.
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979.
First edition of this classic work of twentieth century philosophy. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Richard Rorty on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. This is the first signed example we have seen or handled of this landmark work.
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 84533
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First Edition of An Essay on Civil Government: In Two Parts
An Essay on Civil Government In Two Parts: Part I: An Enquiry into the Ends of Government, and the Means of Attaining Them. Part II: On the Government and Commerce of England; with Reflections on Liberty, and the Method of Preserving the present Constitution.
London: Printed for R. Willock, At Sir Isaac Newton's Head, 1743.
First edition of this bold attack on the Whig administration of Robert Walpole. Octavo, bound in full contemporary calf with gilt tooling to the spine, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, all edges speckled red, rebacked. In very good condition. Armorial and contemporary bookplates to the pastedown. Exceedingly rare.
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 90461
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First Edition of As We Remember Joe; Inscribed by Robert Kennedy to Bill Walton
KENNEDY, John F.; Robert Kennedy.
As We Remember Joe.
Cambridge, MA: University Press, 1945.
First edition, second issue (of only 250 copies), of this tribute to the eldest of the Kennedy brothers. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece, illustrated throughout. Inscribed by Robert Kennedy on the front free endpaper, "For Bill Walton Bob Kennedy Christmas 1945." American journalist William Walton was a confidant of President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy and played critical roles in managing the funeral and burial services of John F. Kennedy. In near fine condition.
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 69057
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Rare Autograph Letter Signed by Ulysses S. Grant to Attorney General Edwards Pierrepont
GRANT, Ulysses S.
Ulysses S. Grant Autograph Letter Signed.
1876.
Autograph letter signed by and entirely in the hand of Ulysses S. Grant as President. Addressed to the Attorney General of the United States Edwards Pierrepont the letter reads, "Elizabeth, N.J. Sept. 2nd 1876 Dear Judge, While in Utica Judge Hunt spoke to me of the importance of appointing a member to Judge Woodruff at as early as a day as practicable on account of the great amount of business before the court. I do not know of any lawyer in the circuit to whom to tender the position when it should be Senator Edmunds and he I should dislike…
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 101208
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First Editions of Agnew's The Principles and Practice of Surgery
AGNEW, D. Hayes.
The Principles and Practice of Surgery.
Philadelphia: Lip, 1878-83.
Rare first edition of this landmark work on surgery. Quarto, 3 volumes, bound in original full leather, morocco spine labels, gilt titles to the spine. In near fine condition. First editions are scarce.
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 125785
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First edition of Don Seitz's Artemus Ward; inscribed by him to Harry Houdini and with Houdini's ownership signature
SEITZ, Don. [Harry Houdini].
Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne): A Biography and Bibliography.
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1919.
First edition of Seitz's biography of America's first stand-up comedian, Charles Farrar Browne, from Harry Houdini's famed library of magic. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Ward, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Harry Houdini with the very best wishes of the author Don C. Seitz." Additionally signed by Houdini, "Harry Houdini." Born in Waterford, Maine, Charles Farrar Browne began to attract large audiences as a lecturer and soon took on the stage name, Artemus Ward, who was historically a favorite author of…
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 127633
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"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work": Large Signed Photograph of Thomas Edison
EDISON, Thomas Alva.
Thomas A. Edison Signed Photograph.
Large photograph of Thomas Edison, signed by him. Matted and framed. The entire piece measures 16 inches by 20 inches.
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 15050
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The 1994 Dwight D. Eisenhower Leadership Award Presented to Lloyd Millard Bentsen; with a collection of programs from the Prize Presentation Ceremony held at Gettysburg College on June 15, 1994
[EISENHOWER, Dwight D.
Dwight D. Eisenhower Leadership Award Presented to Lloyd Millard Bentsen.
The Eisenhower Leadership Prize presented to the 69th United States Secretary of the Treasury, Lloyd Millard Bentsen on June 15, 1994 with an archive of speeches and dinner programs from the Eisenhower Leadership Prize Presentation Ceremony and the Fall 1994 issue of Dateline produced by The Eisenhower World Affairs Institute featuring a photograph of Bentsen receiving the award on the front page. Presented by Gettysburg College and The Eisenhower World Affairs Institute, the prize features a bronze bust of Eisenhower by renowned sculptor Nison A. Tregor with a bronze presentation plaque. From the collection of Lloyd Millard Bentsen. In fine…
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 122916
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Signed Limited Edition of Charles Lindbergh's We; in the original blue box with matching number
LINDBERGH, Charles A.
We.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1927.
Signed limited edition of Lindbergh's autobiography, which provides the account of the life of one of the century's greatest adventurers, the first man to complete a solo non-stop transatlantic flight. One of 1000 numbered copies, this is number 97, signed by both Charles Lindbergh and the publisher on the limitation page. Octavo, half bound salmon paper covered boards, frontispiece with tissue-guard, 51 black and white plates, with the publisher's note laid in. Fine in the original glassine and in the original blue box with matching number. Introduction by Myron T. Herrick. One of the finest most preserved example possible.
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 133274
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First Edition of Drives and Puts in the original dust jacket; Inscribed by Walter Camp in the year of Publication
CAMP, Walter and Lilian Brooks.
Drives and Puts.
Boston: L.C. Page, 1899.
First edition of this collection of golf short stories by the father of American football. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of a woman golfer by H.C. Ireland, vignette on title page, top edge gilt. Inscribed by Walter Camp in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "Louis, with my best wishes, Walter Camp. Xmas 99." Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with light wear and restoration to the extremities. Inscribed first editions in the original dust jacket are exceptionally rare.
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 82458
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Rare First Edition of Travels and Researches in Crete
SPRATT, Capt. Thomas Abel Bremage.
Travels and Researches in Crete.
London: John van Voorst, 1865.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, 2 volumes, original cloth, hand colored folding engraved maps, 14 tinted lithographed plates, 3 further plates (of inscriptions and coins), lithographed plans on india paper in the text, illustrations,
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 135308
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First Edition of Edward Thorp's Beat the Dealer; Inscribed by Him
THORP, Edward O.
Beat the Dealer: A Winning Strategy for the Game of Twenty One.
New York: Random House, 1962.
First edition of Thorp's classic first book. Octavo, original cloth, with charts and illustrations. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Alfred Best Wishes Ed Thorp." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 146421
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First Edition of Carl Rogers' landmark work On Becoming a Person; Signed by Him
ROGERS, Carl R.
On Becoming a Person: A Therapist’s View of Psychotherapy.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1961.
First edition of this classic work by the most influential psychotherapist in history. Octavo, original cloth. Signed and dated by the author on the title page, "Carl Rogers May 7, 1964." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 133791
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Rare First Edition of the Collected Works of Isaac Newton's Opuscula Mathematica
NEWTON, Isaac.
Opuscula Mathematica, Philosophica et Philologica.
Lausanne and Geneva: Aoud Marcum-Michaelem Bousquet & Socios, 1744.
First edition of the first collected edition of Newton's writings, which has been hailed as "a fine piece of bookmaking" (Babson). Quarto, bound in contemporary velum, contains 64 folding engraved plates; 2 folding letterpress tables. In very good condition, wide margins. Rare in contemporary binding.
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 92332
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"I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb": First Edition of Long Walk To Freedom; Signed and dated by Nelson Mandela
MANDELA, Nelson.
Long Walk To Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela.
Boston: Little Brown, 1994.
First American edition of the autobiography of one of the greatest moral leaders of the twentieth century. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with photographs. Signed by the author on the title page, "NMandela 12.5.05." It was signed in New York City by Mandela during a visit upon receipt of an honorary doctorate from Amherst College. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 55043
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Finely Bound Extra Illustrated edition of de Bourrienne's Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte; bound by Riviere and Son
FAUVELET DE BOURRIENNE, Louis Antoine [Napoleon].
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte. By M. de Bourrienne, his Private Secretary.
London: Richard Bentley, 1836.
Finely bound extra-illustrated edition set of de Bourrienne's Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte. Octavos, eight volumes, bound in full 19th century crimson morocco by Riviere and Son with gilt titles and tooling to the spines in six compartments within raised gilt bands, central gilt Napoleonic coats of arms and double gilt ruling to the front panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges gilt, illustrated with engravings including frontispieces to each volume. In near fine condition.
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 109608
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First Edition of Murray Rothbard's Masterpiece The Ethics of Liberty; Signed by Him
ROTHBARD, Murray N.
The Ethics of Liberty.
Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1982.
First edition of Rothbard's greatest contribution to the politics of freedom. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Murray N. Rothbard on the front free endpaper. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 120588
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"Some day, perhaps in ten or twelve years, you are going to vote": First edition of Eleanor Roosevelt's When You Grow Up to Vote; signed by her
ROOSEVELT, Eleanor.
When You Grow Up to Vote.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1932.
First edition of Eleanor Roosevelt's first book, published the same year Franklin Delano Roosevelt won his first presidential election. Octavo, original cloth, with illustrations by Manning de V. Lee. Signed by Eleanor Roosevelt on the front free endpaper. In good condition with some spotting to the cloth. First editions are rare, signed copies exceptionally so, this is the first example we have seen.
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 124558