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First Edition of Bertrand Russell's The Scientific Outlook; Signed by Him
RUSSELL, Bertrand.
The Scientific Outlook.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1931.
First edition of this classic work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Bertrand Russell on the front pastedown. With a note from the recipient that it was signed in 1931. An exceptional example with noted provenance.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 119625
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Rare forty-five star American Flag; commemorating the statehood of OKLAHOMA
Forty-Five Star American Flag.
[c. 1896].
Rare forty-five star American Flag. The forty-five star American Flag was in use between July 4, 1896 when the state of Utah was admitted into the Union and July 3, 1908 when Oklahoma was admitted as the 46th state. In near fine condition. The flag measures 58 inches by 114 inches.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 133095
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First Edition of Well-Being: Foundations of Hedonic Psychology; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman
KAHNEMAN, Daniel; Ed Diener; Norbert Schwarz .
Well-Being: Foundations of Hedonic Psychology.
New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1999.
First edition of this collection of essays. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed and dated by Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Gene Crofts.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 44758
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First Edition of Economic Analysis of Law; Signed by Richard Posner
POSNER, Richard.
Economic Analysis of Law.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1973.
First edition of the author's groundbreaking work. Octavo, original cloth. Issued without a dust jacket. Signed by Richard Posner on the title page. In near fine condition, the text has some light underlining in it.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 3866
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First Edition of Booker T. Washington's Up From Slavery. An Autobiography; In the rare original dust jacket
WASHINGTON, Booker T.
Up From Slavery. An Autobiography.
New York: A.L. Burt Company Publishers, 1901.
First edition of the A.L. Burt Publishers edition of Booker T. Washington's landmark biography. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Exceptionally rare in the original dust jacket.
Price: $2,750.00 Item Number: 132410
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The Democratic Book 1936; SIGNED BY FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
ROOSEVELT, Franklin.
The Democratic Book 1936.
1936.
Signed Limited edition, number 1858, with illustrated title and limitation pages, 19 full-page portraits, dozens of in-text half-tones and illustrations, and a facsimile of the Constitution. Large folio, original full brown morocco gilt, watered silk endpapers, top edge gilt. Signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt. Comes with the additional booklet from the 1936 Democratic convention. In near fine condition.
Price: $2,750.00 Item Number: 38075
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“this is the story of a great inventor, the most conspicuous figure of the age of electricity”: First edition of the Boy's Life of Edison; Signed by Thomas A. Edison
MEADOWCROFT, William H. [Thomas A. Edison].
The Boy’s Life of Edison.
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1911.
First edition of Meadowcroft's biography of Thomas Edison, written for children. Octavo, original cloth with paper label portrait of Edison to the front panel, illustrated with eight photographic portraits of Edison including tissue-guarded frontispiece. With Edison's autobiographical notes. Boldly signed on the second free endpaper, "Thomas A. Edison." In very good condition. First printings are uncommon signed.
Price: $2,750.00 Item Number: 110225
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First Edition of There’s No Such Thing As A Free Lunch; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Milton Friedman in the year of publication
FRIEDMAN, Milton.
There’s No Such Thing As a Free Lunch: Essays On Public Policy.
Chicago, Illinois: Open Court Publishing Company, 1975.
First edition of a collection of key writings by Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, “one of the 20th century’s leading economic scholars, on a par with giants like John Maynard Keynes and Paul Samuelson… [and] spiritual heir to Adam Smith" (New York Times). Octavo, original half cloth. Signed and dated by the author in the year of publication on the title page, "Milton Friedman Nov. 9, 1975." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Bud Edmondson.
Price: $2,750.00 Item Number: 133798
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Commemorative WWI Photographs of future 32nd President Franklin D. Roosevelt at Lake Torpedo Boat Company; Signed by Him While He Could Still Walk
ROOSEVELT, Franklin D.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Signed Commemorative WWI Lake Torpedo Boat Company Photographs.
Bridgeport, CT: Lake Torpedo Boat Co, c. May 20, 1918.
Rare vintage photographs of Franklin D. Roosevelt as Assistant Secretary of the U. S. Navy, signed by him. Two gelatin silver photographs showing FDR on his May 20, 1918 visit to Lake Torpedo Boat Company in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the first of Roosevelt seated next to various officials on the speaker's stand, and the second of Roosevelt and the same group of men walking past a building on the plant site. Signed by him on the lower right of the mat of each photograph, "Franklin D Roosevelt." Matted and framed with a manuscript caption, "Lake Torpedo Boat Co Bridgeport, Conn, May…
Price: $2,750.00 Item Number: 147241
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Signed Photograph of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
HOLMES, Jr..
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Signed Photograph.
1932.
Large photograph of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in his judicial robes, boldly signed by him, "Oliver Wendell Holmes, April 9, 1932." The photograph measures 13.25 inches by 9.5 x 13.25. In fine condition.
Price: $2,750.00 Item Number: 132468
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Rare 18th Century French Nobility Patent
[DE CARRARA, Cajetau-Louis-Antoine].
18th Century French Nobility Patent.
November 13, 1710.
Rare 18th century French Patent of Nobility for Cajetau-Louis-Antoine de Carrara. Folio, bound in full velvet, the patent is comprised of five vellum leaves, the first with calligraphy within an elaborate engraved border; the third leaf with a gilt-painted armorial miniature, all edges gilt, rope bound in. Dated November 13, 1710, the patent is signed by Marie Therese, J. G. Van de Veld, F. L. Gilbert, and J. DeWitte. In very good condition.
Price: $2,750.00 Item Number: 133430
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FIRST EDITION OF MILTON FRIEDMAN’S MASTERPIECE: A THEORY OF THE CONSUMPTION FUNCTION
FRIEDMAN, Milton.
A Theory of the Consumption Function.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1957.
First edition of Friedman's magnum opus. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. A superior example.
Price: $2,750.00 Item Number: 100964
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Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species
DARWIN, Charles.
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
London: John Murray, 1892.
Sixth edition, one of 2,000 copies of "certainly the most important biological book ever written" (Freeman). Octavo, bound in original cloth, gilt titles to the spine. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom full morocco clamshell box. A nice presentation.
Price: $2,750.00 Item Number: 119959
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First Edition of In Search of Common Ground; Signed by Huey P. Newton and Erik H. Erikson
NEWTON, Huey P. and Erik H. Erikson.
In Search of Common Ground: Conversations with Erik H. Erikson and Huey P. Newton.
New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1973.
First edition of this record of two conversations which took place between Newton and Erickson. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by both authors on the front free endpaper, "From Huey with love" and below signed "Eric. H. Erickson. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Introduction by Kai T. Erikson. Jacket design by Robert Antler. Jacket photograph by Reginal A. Krasney. Books signed by Newton are scarce.
Price: $2,750.00 Item Number: 127535
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First Edition of The Review of Austrian Economics; Inscribed By Murray Rothbard
ROTHBARD, Murray N.
The Review of Austrian Economics: Volume 1.
Washington, D.C: Lexington Books, 1987.
First edition of this overview of the Austrian School of Economics. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated in the year of publication by the author on the front free endpaper, "For D.A. Lambeck- For sound economics and free markets- Cordially Murray Rothbard March 1987." In near fine condition, no dust jacket was issued for this work.
Price: $2,750.00 Item Number: 4437
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Signed Photograph of Presidents Herbert Hoover and Harry S. Truman
HOOVER, Herbert & Harry S. Truman.
Signed Photograph of Presidents Herbert Hoover & Harry S. Truman.
1946.
Photograph of Presidents Herbert Hoover & Harry S. Truman, signed by both Presidents. Double matted and framed, the entire piece measures 11.25 inches by 9.5 inches. Rare and desirable signed by both Hoover and Truman.
Price: $2,600.00 Item Number: 102878
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First Edition of Thomas Merton's The Sign of Jonas; signed by him
MERTON, Thomas.
The Sign of Jonas.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1953.
First edition of the daily journal of American Trappist monk Thomas Merton. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Signed by Thomas Merton on the title page. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $2,600.00 Item Number: 96038
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First edition of The Congressional Medal of Honor: The Names, The Deeds; signed by 30 recipients of the Medal of Honor and with 10 additional signed postcards
[RUDOLPH, Donald; Robert E. Simanek; John F. Baker; Ray Davis; Francis S. Currey; Charles A. MacGillivary; et al].
The Congressional Medal of Honor: The Names, The Deeds.
Forest Ranch, California: Sharp & Dunnigan Publications, 1984.
First edition of the complete record of recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor, from the Civil War through Vietnam. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, signed by 30 recipients of the Medal of Honor on the half-title page and opposite the half-title including Joe Foss, Donald Rudolph, Robert E. Simanek, John F. Baker, Jr., Ray Davis, Francis S. Currey, Charles A. MacGillivary, James R. Hendrix, William Charette, Rodolfo P. Hernández, Joseph C. Rodriguez, Harvey C. Barnum, Jr., and Roger Donlon. Accompanied by 10 additional postcards signed by honorees including Lee Mize, William Westmoreland, Roy Benavidez, and others, as well as…
Price: $2,600.00 Item Number: 142565
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Rare Visiting Card Collection; Inscribed by Alfred Dreyfus, Emile Zola, Colonel De Gaulle and Theodore Roosevelt
DREYFUS, Alfred; Colonel De Galle; Theodore Roosevelt; Emile Zola; [Eleanor Roosevelt]; [Ilya Trotzky].
Visiting Card Collection.
Rare collection of seven printed visiting cards. The collection includes: Alfred Dreyfus, inscribed by him in ink, "avec tous les remerciements," n.d., 2.25 inches by 3.8 inches; Colonel De Gaulle as Commandant le 507e Regiment de Chars, inscribed by him in ink, "Merci, mon cher ami..." n.d. but after December 1937 when he was promoted to Colonel, 2.5 inches by 3.5 inches; Theodore Roosevelt at Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, L.I., inscribed by him in ink, "Mr Roosevelt greatly regrets that he can not accede to your courteous request," n.d., 1.5 inches by 3 inches; Emile Zola at Rue de Bruxelles, Paris,…
Price: $2,600.00 Item Number: 146844
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Calligraphic manuscript on vellum with a color miniature of the painting of Jesus by Leonardo Da Vinci
Calligraphic Manuscript on Vellum with a Color Miniature of the Painting by Leonardo Da Vinci.
c.1900.
Rare illuminated manuscript regarding Da Vinci’s master drawing The Head of Christ (c. 1495), the basis for Da Vinci’s depiction of Jesus in The Last Supper. Da Vinci himself considered the drawing so important, he reworked it several times over the course of his life. The text is headed "Art" at the center in liquid gold, flanked by "Revealing the Emotions and the Soul - The Head of Christ by Leonardo Da Vinci". The body of the text flanking the painting describes the image and its meaning. Framed. The entire piece measures 8.75 inches by 10.75 inches.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 119865