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First edition of Albin Lesky's Greek Tragic Poetry; from the library of English classicist Bernard Knox with his ownership signature
LESKY, Albin. Translated by Matthew Dillon. [Bernard Knox].
Greek Tragic Poetry.
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1972.
First edition in English of Lesky's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of Bernard Knox with his ownership signature to the front free endpaper. English classicist, author, and critic Bernard MacGregor Walker Knox was the first director of the Center for Hellenic Studies. In 1992 the National Endowment for the Humanities selected Knox for the Jefferson Lecture, the United States federal government's highest honor for achievement in the humanities. In near fine condition.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 134264
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First Edition of Paul Krugman's Geography and Trade; inscribed by him
KRUGMAN, Paul.
Geography and Trade.
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1991.
First Edition of Paul Krugman's work on economic geography. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Ken Paul Krugman." Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 112951
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Finely Bound Example of Scribner's Magazine, Volume 18 XVIII, July-December 1895; With an Early Theodore Roosevelt Article
[THEODORE ROOSEVELT],.
Scribner’s Magazine, Volume 18 XVIII, July-December 1895 [Theodore Roosevelt].
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1895.
Finely bound volume of this early Theodore Roosevelt article. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco over printed boards with gilt titles to the spine, raised bands. Contents include: Theodore Roosevelt article "Six Years of Civil Service Reform"; article on American posters with many examples; "Landmarks of Manhattan" with six full-page illustrations. In near fine condition.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 146034
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SARPI, Fra-Paolo; Courayer.
Histoire Du Concile De Trente, écrite en italienne par Fra-Paolo Sarpi, de l’Ordre des Servites; et trauit de nouveau en français, avces des notes critiques, historiques et theologiques, par Pierre-François Le Courayer.
Amsterdam: J. Wetstein et G. Smith, 1751.
Two volumes, original leather, gilt tooling to the spine. In good condition. Text in French.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 2055
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First Edition of Days of Destiny: Crossroads In American History; Signed by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James M. McPherson
MCPHERSON, James M. and Alan Brinkley.
Days of Destiny: Crossroads In American History.
New York: DK Publishing, 2001.
First edition of this illustrated work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian. Quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by James M. McPherson on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 125144
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First Edition of A Critical Essay on Modern Macroeconomic Theory; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Robert Solow
HAHN, Frank and Robert Solow.
A Critical Essay on Modern Macroeconomic Theory.
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1995.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Solow on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 45079
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First edition of Charles Dalton's The Waterloo Roll Call; finely bound
DALTON, Charles.
The Waterloo Roll Call.
London: William Clowes & Sons, Limited, 1890.
First edition of Dalton's account of the decisive engagement of the Waterloo campaign and Napoleon's last. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, illustrated, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece. In good condition. Bookplate. Ownership name. Rare.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 137101
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First Edition of Murray Rothbard's Classic Work The Mystery of Banking
ROTHBARD, Murray N.
The Mystery of Banking.
New York: Richardson and Snyder, 1983.
First edition of this work which explains the modern fractional-reserve banking system and its origins. Octavo, original boards. Fine in a very good dust jacket with some light wear.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 139900
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First Edition of Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope; Inscribed by Mark Kelly
GIFFORDS, Gabrielle and Kelly.
Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope.
New York : Scribner, 2011.
First edition of this unforgettable autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the co-author on the title page, "To Bob, With Best Wishes! Mark Kelly." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 146479
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"It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world": Finely Bound set of William Cobbett's Paper Against Gold and Collective Commentaries
COBBETT, William.
Cobbett’s Paper Against Gold and Collective Commentaries.
London: John M. Cobbett, 1821-1822.
Finely bound example of the political commentaries of late sixteenth century English political figure and pamphleteer William Cobbett. Octavo, two volumes, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, black morocco spine labels, gilt titles and tooling to the spine. In very good condition.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 81168
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First edition of March: Book Two; inscribed by John Lewis and signed by Andrew Aydin
LEWIS, John; Andrew Aydin.
March: Book Two.
Marietta: Top Shelf Productions, 2015.
First edition of the second book in John Lewis and Andrew Aydin's March trilogy. Octavo, original illustrated boards, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by John Lewis on the half-title page, "To Thom Thank you. John Lewis" and signed by Andrew Aydin. In fine condition.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 118963
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First Edition of Stanley Vestal's Kit Carson: The Happy Warrior of the Old West; From the Library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman
VESTAL, Stanley.
Kit Carson: The Happy Warrior of the Old West.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928.
First edition of this biography of a frontier legend; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo, original maroon cloth, cartographic endpapers, top stain brown, frontispiece portrait of Kit Carson. P. T. Sherman's bookplate to the front flyleaf beneath his ownership signature. In very good condition with light bumping to the crown and foot of the spine. General William Tecumseh Sherman’s son P. T. Sherman was a lawyer in New York, specializing in labor and insurance, and was elected a member of the New York Board of Alderman in the late 1880s. In the early 1900s, he was appointed the…
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 145968
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DUBOIS, Marcel; Guy.
Album Géographique. Tome I : Aspects Généraux de la Nature. Album Historique Tome II : Les Régions Tropicales. Tome III : Les Colonies Françaises. Tome IV : La France. Tome V: Aspects Generaux De La Nature.
Paris, Armand Colin & Cie, 1896-1906..
First edition. Folio, 5 volumes. Three quarters leather with gilt titles and tooling to the spine. Top edge gilt. In very good condition.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 2549
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First Edition of Economist Joseph A. Schumpeter's Imperialism and Social Classes
SCHUMPETER, Joseph A.
Imperialism and Social Classes.
New York: Augustus M. Kelley, Inc, 1951.
First edition of this work by the famed economist. Octavo, original cloth. Economist Robert K. Arnold's copy with his signature to the front free endpaper. Translated by Heinz Norden. Edited with an introduction by Paul M Sweezy. Fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 5508
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First Edition of Henry Ford's Moving Forward; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
FORD, Henry.
Moving Forward.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1930.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition. Written with Samuel Crowther.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 133594
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First Edition of The Story of J. Robert Oppenheimer; Lengthily Inscribed by Denise Royal
ROYAL, Denise.
The Story of J. Robert Oppenheimer.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1969.
First edition of "the first book that attempts to give them a substantial and realistic Oppenheimer biography" (The New York Times). Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "June 10, 1970 To Bob Walls- Who understands that the only knowledge is to know ourselves; and who, in so knowing how learned 'to harmonize simplicity and truth.' Sincerely, Denise Royal." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Susan Jeffers.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 143502
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First edition of the first volume of Randolph S. Churchill's official biography of Winston S. Churchill: Youth: 1874-1900; complete with the Companion Volume in two parts
CHURCHILL, Randolph S.
Winston S. Churchill [The Official Biography]. Volume I: Youth: 1874-1900 [with] Volume I Companion: Part 1 1874-1896 [and] Volume I Companion: Part 2 1896-1900.
London: Heinemann, 1966-1967.
First edition of the first installment in Randolph S. Churchill's official biography of his father, Winston S. Churchill; complete with first editions of both parts of its companion volume. Octavo, 3 volumes, original publisher's cloth, top edges red, illustrated with photographs, frontispiece portrait of Winston S. Churchill as second lieutenant, 4th Hussars, 1895. Each volume is near fine in a fine dust jacket. Tape remnants to the front and rear endpapers. Jacket design by Tom Simmonds.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 144945
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A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical, of Commerce and Commercial Navigation
MCCULLOCH, J.R.
A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical, of Commerce and Commercial Navigation.
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, Longman, 1834.
Early edition of this important work on international trade, it contains a plethora of contemporary commercial and maritime laws, international business practices, financial institutions, currencies, ports and the imports and exports of different nations. Octavo, bound in full contemporary calf, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, double gilt ruled, marbled endpapers, marbled edges. In near fine condition.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 74059
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First Edition of Health Security: The President's Report to the American People; Inscribed by Hillary Clinton
CLINTON, Bill and Hillary.
Health Security: The President’s Report to the American People.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993.
First edition of this work by the 42nd President of the United States and First Lady. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by Hillary Rodham Clinton on the front free endpaper, "To Ann Marie and Hank Dullea with best wishes Hillary Rodham Clinton." In near fine condition.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 41032
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First Edition of Peter Drucker's Landmark Work Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices
DRUCKER, Peter F.
Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1974.
First edition of this management classic. Octavo, original red cloth. Name to the front free endpaper, near fine in a near fine dust jacket with touch of rubbing. Jacket design by Roy La Grone.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 100299
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First Edition of Monetary Policy; Inscribed by Both Gregory Mankiw and Alan Blinder
MANKIW, N. Gregory; Alan Blinder.
Monetary Policy.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
First edition of this collection of essays on monetary policy. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by both the editor Gregory Mankiw and contributor Alan Blinder to the same recipient. Near fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 81229
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"Who exerted an important influence at a crucial puncture in the author's life With warm regards and admiration": First Edition of Michael Beschloss' Kennedy and Roosevelt: An Uneasy Alliance; Lengthily Inscribed by the author to Educators Ted and Nancy Glazer
BESCHLOSS, Michael R.
Kennedy and Roosevelt: An Uneasy Alliance.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1980.
First edition of the historian's first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Ted and Nancy Sizer- who exerted an important influence at a crucial puncture in the author's life With warm regards and admiration. Michael Beschloss April 2, 1980." The recipient Theodore Sizer was a leader of educational reform in the United States, the founder (and eventually President Emeritus) of the Essential school movement and was known for challenging longstanding practices and assumptions about the functioning of American secondary schools. Beginning in the late 1970s, he had worked with…
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 111411
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First Edition of Chinua Achebe's Home and Exile; Inscribed by Him
ACHEBE, Chinua.
Home and Exile.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
First edition of this work by the award-winning novelist. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Stephen Chinua Achebe." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Kathleen M. Lynch.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 131982
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First Edition of Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics; Inscribed by Jane Jacobs in the Year of Publication
JACOBS, Jane.
Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics.
New York: Random House, 1993.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "I hope you enjoy this, Barbara Fryrear, Sincerely, Jane Jacobs Dallas May 1993." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Book design by Carole Lowenstein.
Price: $325.00 Item Number: 145777
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Rare First Edition of Willmoore Kendall's The Conservative Affirmation
KENDALL, Willmoore.
The Conservative Affirmation.
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1963.
First edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. First editions are uncommon.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 34061
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First Edition of Made In America; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert M. Solow
DERTOUZOS, Robert; Lester.
Made In America: Regaining the Productive Edge.
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1989.
First edition of the best-selling book in MIT Press' history. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Robert M. Solow on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 46017
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First Edition of David Friedman's Law's Orders; Signed by Him
FRIEDMAN, David.
Law’s Order: What Economics Has to Do with Law and Why It Matters.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.
First edition of this creative, and provocative addition to the law and economics literature. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by David Friedman on the title page. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by C. Alvarez.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 105322
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Henry Clay Work's Marching Through Georgia
WORK, Henry C. [William Tecumseh Sherman].
Marching Through Georgia: Written in Honor of Sherman’s Famous March From “Atlanta to the Sea”.
Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1889.
First Ticknor and Co. edition of Henry Clay Work's greatest hit, "Marching Through Georgia", inspired by Sherman's march to the sea at the end of 1864. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. In good condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 132439
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"We hope it may while some hours away & that you are not tired with the subject": First Edition of Wilfrid Noyce's South Col: One Man's Adventure on the Ascent of Everest 1953; signed by mountaineer George Band and from the library of George Sale
NOYCE, Wilfrid; Foreword by Sir John Hunt.
South Col: One Man’s Adventure on the Ascent of Everest, 1953.
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1954.
First edition of Noyce's firsthand account of the ascent of South Col. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with photogravures and maps including frontispiece. Foreword by Sir John Hunt. Signed by 1953 Mount Everest British expedition member George Band on the title page. George Christopher Band George was the youngest climber on the 1953 British expedition to Mount Everest. From the library of mountaineer and author Richard Sale with his signed bookplate opposite the title page. Very good in a good dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 141037
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First Edition of Mahatma Gandhi at Work
GANDHI, Mahatma; Edited by C. F. Andrews.
Mahatma Gandhi at Work: His Own Story Continued.
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1931.
First English edition of the third volume in Andrews’ intimate biography of Mahatma Gandhi, as was related to him by Gandhi himself. Octavo, original blue cloth, frontispiece portrait of Gandhi, illustrated with photographs. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with some loss, ownership signature to the front free endpaper.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 145249
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First edition of Symonds' Sketches in Italy; bound in full vellum
SYMONDS, John Addington.
Sketches in Italy.
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1883.
First edition of John Addington Symonds' Italian sketches. Small octavo, bound in full vellum with gilt tooling to the spine, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges red, ribbon bound in. In near fine condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 111022
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First edition of Years of Renewal; Signed by Henry Kissinger
KISSINGER, Henry.
Henry Kissinger: Years of Renewal: The Concluding Volume of His Memoirs.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.
First edition of the concluding volume of Kissinger's memoirs. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Henry A. Kissinger on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jackie Seow. Jacket photographs by Mao Zedong and Darleen Rubin.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 146432
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First Edition of Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism; Inscribed by Economist William Baumol
BAUMOL, William J.; Robert E. Litan; Carl J. Schramm.
Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.
First edition. Octavo, original boards. Warmly inscribed by Baumol on the front free endpaper, "To ___ ____ from a grateful author Will Baumol." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 45006
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First Edition of The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family; Signed by Ron Chernow
CHERNOW, Ron.
The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family.
New York: Random House, 1993.
First edition of Ron Chernow’s ambitious saga of the Warburg dynasty. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Boldly signed by Ron Chernow on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Andy Carpenter.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 146062
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GERMAN PRINTING. SECKENDORFF, Veit Ludwig von / Artopoeus.
Compendium Historiae Ecclesiastecae, decreto Serenissimi Principis Saxon. Jul. Cliviae et Mont. Ducis, &c. In usum gymnasii Gothani. Ex sacris literis & optimis, qui extant, autoribus, Libris duobus compositum & ab orbe condito ad nostra usque tempor
GothaL Reyheri, 1723.
Octavo, vellum-backed marbled boards. Two page engraved frontispiece. (14), 430, (2), 913, (10), 311, (11) pages. Three parts bound in one volume. Internally clean. Moderate wear.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 1834
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First edition of George H. Gordon's A War Diary of Events in the War of the Great Rebellion
GORDON, George H.
A War Diary of Events in the War of the Great Rebellion. 1863-1865.
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1882.
First edition of the historian and Union General's American Civil War Memoir. Octavo, original cloth. In good condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 131769
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First Edition of The New York Monuments Commission's In Memoriam Henry Warner Slocum; From the Library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman
NEW YORK MONUMENTS COMMISSION [WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN],.
In Memoriam: Henry Warner Slocum 1826-1894.
Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1904.
First edition of this work dedicated to the memory of an esteemed Union general; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Quarto, original cloth, botanical endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Henry Warner Slocum, illustrated with twenty-six additional photographic plates and four folding maps. P. T. Sherman's bookplate to the front pastedown beneath his ownership signature. In very good condition. General William Tecumseh Sherman’s son P. T. Sherman was a lawyer in New York, specializing in labor and insurance, and was elected a member of the New York Board of Alderman in the late 1880s. In the early 1900s, he was…
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 145997
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First edition of Daniel Morgaine's Un Tour Du Siecle en 80 Jours; inscribed by him to american journalist William Safire
MORGAINE, Daniel. [William Safire].
Un Tour Du Siecle en 80 Jours. [A Turn of the Century in 80 Days].
Paris: Editions Denoel, 1998.
First edition of Morgaine's work documenting the major events of the 20th century. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Preface by Yves Courriere. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page to Helene and William Safire. The recipient, William Safire was an important American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixon’s campaign for the 1960 Presidential race, and supported him again in 1968. After Nixon’s 1968 victory, Safire served as a speechwriter for him and Spiro Agnew. He authored several political columns in addition to his weekly column “On Language” in The New York Times Magazine from 1979…
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 128112
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First Edition of the Author’s Classic Work on Benjamin Franklin; Signed by Carl Van Doren
VAN DOREN, Carl.
Benjamin Franklin.
New York: The Viking Press, 1938.
First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Carl Van Doren on the front free endpaper. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Bookplate to the pastedown. An exceptional example.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 117881
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Rare first edition of Raymond Lee Newcomb's Narrative of the Jeannette Arctic Exploration
NEWCOMB, Raymond Lee.
Our Lost Explorers: The Narrative of the Jeannette Arctic Expedition as Related by the Survivors, and in the Records and Last Journals of Lieutenant De Long.
Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, 1882.
First edition of Newcomb's account of the Jeannette Arctic Exploration. Octavo, original illustrated cloth, tissue-guarded frontispiece, illustrated with maps, portraits, and numerous engravings. Introduction by Rev. W. L. Gage. In good condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 126900
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First edition of Booker T. Washington's My Larger Education
WASHINGTON, Booker T.
My Larger Education: Being Chapters From My Experience.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1911.
First edition of this uncommon collection of the author's speeches and essays concerning education. Octavo, original cloth lettered in gilt, illustrated, tissue-guarded frontispiece. In good condition with rubbing to the extremities. Bookplate.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 137463
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Lincoln: The Literary Genius
BARZUN, Jacques.
Lincoln: The Literary Genius.
Evanston, IL: Evanston Publishing Company, 1960.
Signed limited edition, one of only 120 numbered copies. Octavo, original full calf, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, marbled endpapers, frontispiece. In fine condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 144299
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First Edition of A Life In Our Times; Inscribed by John Kenneth Galbraith
GALBRAITH, John Kenneth.
A Life In Our Times.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1981.
First edition of Galbraith's autobiography. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed and dated by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing to the crown and foot of the spine, autographed sticker to the front panel.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 146272
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Finely bound example of Voltaire's epic poem La Henriade
VOLTAIRE,.
La Henriade avec des Variantes et des Notes. Et l’Effai sur le Poëme Epique.
London : Jacob Tonsen, 1734.
Finely bound example of Voltaire's epic poem La Henriade. Small octavo, original leather, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, marbled endpapers. In good condition. Text in French.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 81165
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"You will have the vote. Truth is great and will prevail": Rare First edition of John Masefield's My Faith in Woman Suffrage
MASEFIELD, John.
My Faith in Woman Suffrage.
The Woman's Press, [1910].
First edition of the English Poet Laureate's speech delivered in the Queens Hall, February 14th, 1910. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 135641
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First edition of A New Deal For Blacks: The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue; inscribed by Harvard Sitkoff
SITKOFF, Harvard.
A New Deal For Blacks: The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.
First edition of Sitkoff's comprehensive account of the emergence of civil rights as a national issue. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "Dear Adrienne 'Harvest time would come in the next generation.' my best, Harvard Sitkoff." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Egon Lauterberg.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 143846
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FIRST EDITION OF THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING ECONOMIST’S CLASSIC WORK INPUT-OUTPUT ECONOMICS
LEONTIEF, Wassily.
Input-Output Economics.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1966.
First edition of the economist's groundbreaking work. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing. Jacket design by the Duquesnes. The jacket unfolds into three charts.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 73478
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First Edition of David Lloyd George's Where Are We Going?, in the scarce original dust jacket
GEORGE, David Lloyd.
Where Are We Going?
Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton , 1923.
First edition of this work by the former prime minister of the United Kingdom. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Uncommon in the original dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 131326
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First edition of Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, at the Second Session Thirty-Eighth Congress
Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, at the Second Session Thirty-Eighth Congress.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1865.
First edition of Vol. III the Official Congressional Report on the American Civil War. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 132562
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“I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb is anything that signifies to be; to do; or to suffer. I signify all three": First Edition of Grant; Inscribed by Ron Chernow
CHERNOW, Ron.
Grant.
New York: Penguin Press, 2017.
First edition of this award-winning biography of Ulysses S. Grant. Octavo, original boards, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Ned and Andrea- Ron Chernow." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Evan Gaffney. Author photograph by Beowulf Sheehan.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 145665
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Account Books Kept by Benjamin Franklin with Notes by George Simpson Eddy; From the Library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman
FRANKLIN, Benjamin; Notes by George Simpson Eddy.
Account Books Kept by Benjamin Franklin.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1928.
Benjamin Franklin's ledger and journal from 1728-1939 from The American Philosophical Society's 'Papers of Benjamin Franklin'; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Small quarto, original wrappers. P. T. Sherman's bookplate to the front free endpaper. In very good condition with light rubbing and closed tears to the extremities. General William Tecumseh Sherman’s son P. T. Sherman was a lawyer in New York, specializing in labor and insurance, and was elected a member of the New York Board of Alderman in the late 1880s. In the early 1900s, he was appointed the New York Commissioner of Labor. He transferred his…
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 145950
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First Edition of Gerald Durrell's Golden Bats and Pink Pigeons; Signed by Him
DURRELL, Gerald.
Golden Bats and Pink Pigeons.
New York : Simon & Schuster, 1977.
First edition of this classic account. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Gerald Durrell on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Janet Halverson.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 127563
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"You've nothing to lose. You could make the experimental land for humanity. Over yonder, where we were, you could create a new commonwealth. On that ancient soil, Old-New Land!": Theodor Herzl's Altneuland
HERZL, Theodor.
Old-New Land [Altneuland].
Haifa: Haifa Publishing Company, 1961.
Second edition in English of Herzl's classic work, by the founder of political Zionism. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Translated by Paula Arnold. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some rubbing and wear.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 68046
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First edition and the publisher's retained copy of Arthur Cecil Pigou's The Economy and Finance of the War
PIGOU, Arthur Cecil.
The Economy and Finance of the War: Being a Discussion of the Real Costs of the War and the Way in Which They Should be Met.
London, Paris and Toronto: J.M. Dent & Sons Limited, 1916.
Publisher J.M. Dent & Sons's own retained first edition of Pigou's treatise on the economic problems connected with World War I. Octavo, original cloth. With the publisher's stamp to the front panel and front free endpaper reading "File Copy". In near fine condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 106235
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First edition in English of Charles Bossut's A General History of Mathematics; finely bound in full contemporary calf
BOSSUT, John.
A General History of Mathematics From the Earliest Times, to the Middle of the Eighteenth Century.
London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1803.
First edition in English of Bossut's fundamental history of mathematics. Octavo, bound in full contemporary polished diced calf with gilt tooling to the spine, black morocco spine label lettered in gilt, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panel, marbled endpapers and all edges marbled, ribbon bound in. Translated from the French by John Bossut. In near fine condition. Contemporary ownership inscription. A very attractive 19th century binding.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 137152
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First Edition of William Bradford Huie's In the Hours of Night; Warmly inscribed by Him
HUIE, William Bradford.
In the Hours of Night.
New York: Delacorte Press, 1975.
First edition of this documentary novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "July 27, 1980 For My Good Friend, Dan Montemarano With best wishes Bill Huie William Bradford Huie." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 121328
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"I don't think there is such a thing as a good war. There are sometimes necessary wars. And I think one might say, "just" wars. I never questioned the necessity of that war. And I still do not question it. It was something that had to be done": First edition of The War: Inscribed by Ken Burns
WARD, Geoffrey C. & Ken Burns.
The War: An Intimate History 1941-1945.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
First edition of this companion volume to the documentary by Ken Burns. Folio, original half cloth, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by Ken Burns, "To Robert Sargent Fay with thanks and best wishes Ken Burns." The recipient was a consulting photographer for the PBS documentary of the life of Mark Twain, directed by Ken Burns. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 144242
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First Edition of The Financial Reality of Pension Funding Under ERISA; Signed by Jack Treynor
TREYNOR, Jack L..
The Financial Reality of Pension Funding Under ERISA.
Homewood, IL: Dow Jones-Irwin, 1976.
First edition of this work on pension funding. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Jack L. Treynor on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 109849
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First Edition of Gathered Leaves: From the Prose of Mary E. Coleridge; from the library of militant English Suffragette Emily Duval
SICHEL, Edith. [Mary E. Coleridge; Emily Duval].
Gathered Leaves: From the Prose of Mary E. Coleridge. With a Memoir by Edith Sichel.
London: Constable and Company, 1910.
First edition of this collection of the prose of Mary Elizabeth Coleridge from the library of militant English suffragette Emily Duval. Octavo, original cloth, engraved frontispiece portrait of Coleridge. From the library of Emily Duval, although not marked. English suffragette Emily Duval was a militant petitioner in the fight for women’s voting rights and was imprisoned on six occasions. Her daughter, Elsie Duval, was also arrested many times throughout her life and in 1913 became the first woman to be released from Holloway Prison under the so-called 'Cat and Mouse Act'. In very good condition.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 134052