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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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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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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 William J. Casey's Where and How the War was Fought: An Armchair Tour of the American Revolution; inscribed by him to American journalist William Safire
CASEY, William J. [William Safire].
Where and How the War was Fought: An Armchair Tour of the American Revolution.
New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1976.
First edition of Casey's contemporary analysis of the American Revolution. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with maps by Noel Langan Glenn. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Helen and Bill in esteem and friendship Bill Casey." The recipient, William Safire was an important American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter and a close friend of the then Librarian of Congress Daniel Boorstin. Safire joined Nixon’s campaign for the 1960 Presidential race, and again in 1968. After Nixon’s 1968 victory, Safire served as a speechwriter for him and Spiro Agnew. He authored several political columns…
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 133042
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Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton; Finely Bound
NIMROD (CHARLES JAMES APPERLEY); ILLUSTRATED BY HENRY ALKEN,.
Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton, Esq.
London: Downey & Company, 1899.
Quarto, bound in full read leather, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels. Twenty colour illustrations with tissue guard, by Henry Alken, all present. In excellent condition.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 3922
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Rare first edition of John Bigelow Jr.'s The Principles of Strategy Illustrated Mainly From American Campaigns
BIGELOW JR., John.
The Principles of Strategy Illustrated Mainly From American Campaigns.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1891.
First edition of Bigelow's classic work on military strategy, including analyses of the American Revolution and the Battles of Vicksburg at Gettysburg. Folio, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, illustrated with charts, diagrams and maps, many folding. In good condition. Bookplate. Uncommon.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 138918
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"And they said one to another, behold, this dreamer cometh": First edition of William Bradford Huie's He Slew the Dreamer; Signed by Him
HUIE, William Bradford. [Martin Luther King.
He Slew the Dreamer: My Search, With James Earl Ray, For the Truth About the Murder of Martin Luther King.
New York: Delacorte Press, 1970.
First edition of the sensational journalist's report on the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by William Bradford Huie on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Wenk/Schwartz.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 121041
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First Edition of Beyond the Melting Pot; Inscribed by Nathan Glazer
GLAZER, Nathan and Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians, and Irish of New York City.
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press and Harvard University Press, 1963.
First edition of this classic work, "perhaps the most perceptive inquiry into American minorities ever made” (Richard Rovere). Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers. Inscribed and dated by Nathan Glazer on the title page. Near fine in a good dust jacket with some edge wear and chips.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 49014
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First Edition of Richard N. Haass' Intervention: The Use of American Military Force in the Post-Cold War World; inscribed by him to American journalist William Safire
HAAS, Richard N.
Intervention: The Use of American Military Force in the Post-Cold War World.
Washington, DC: The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1994.
First edition of Haass' survey of the use of military intervention in the post-Cold War world. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "Oct 1994 To Bill & Helene Consider chapter 3 dedicated to you both Richard." 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…
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 135119
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"Here we see the men who shaped the American experience and were shaped by it": First edition of Daniel J. Boorstin's The Americans: The National Experience; lengthily inscribed by him
BOORSTIN, Daniel J.
The Americans: The National Experience.
New York: Random House, 1965.
First edition of Boorstin's Francis Parkman Prize-winning book. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Dr. Frank Rufords with the admiration and warm regards of Daniel J. Boorstin April 9, 1966." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Anita Karl.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 95372
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First edition of P.J. O'Rourke's Parliament of Whores; inscribed by him
O'ROURKE, P.J.
Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government.
New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1991.
First edition of O'Rourke's international best-seller. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page in the year of publication, "To Paul P.J. O'Rourke 6/5/92." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robbin Schiff.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 141051
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"FREEDOM CAN BE OURS, HERE AND NOW": FIRST EDITION OF PAUL ROBESON'S FIRST BOOK, HERE I STAND
ROBESON, Paul.
Here I Stand.
London: Dennis Dobson, 1958.
First edition of Robeson's powerful first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 133146
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First edition of Structural Slumps: The Modern Equilibrium Theory of Unemployment, Interest, and Money; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Edmund S. Phelps
PHELPS, Edmund S. In collaboration with Hiam Teck Hoon.
Structural Slumps: The Modern Equilibrium Theory of Unemployment, Interest, and Money.
Harvard University Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1994.
First edition of Phelps' important contribution to understanding the business cycle. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Edmund Phelps on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Gwen Frankfeldt.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 95092
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First Edition of David Fromkin's The Independence of Nations; Inscribed by Him
FROMKIN, David.
The Independence of Nations.
New York: Praeger, 1981.
First edition of this early work by the award-winning historian. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "November 24, 1981 For David and Margaret Levin With affectionate regards- David Fromkin." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Deborah England.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 138409
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First Edition of the authors "tour de force" The Power of Gold: The History of an Obsession; Inscribed by Peter Bernstein
BERNSTEIN, Peter.
The Power of Gold: The History of an Obsession.
New York: Wiley, 2000.
First edition of this work on the history of gold. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For William good as gold- Peter Bernstein." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 322
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First Edition of How Google Works; Signed by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg
SCHMIDT, Eric and Jonathan Rosenberg.
How Google Works.
New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2014.
First edition of this "informative and creatively multilayered Google guidebook from the businessman's perspective" (Kirkus). Octavo, original boards. Signed by both Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jonathan Jarvis. Written with Alan Eagle. Foreword by Larry Page.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 117377
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"We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more": First Edition of Giving; Signed By Bill Clinton
CLINTON, Bill [William Jefferson].
Giving: How Each Of Us Can Change The World.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
First edition of this inspiring look at how each of us can change the world. Octavo, blue boards. Boldly signed by Bill Clinton on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 132496
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First Edition of Ken Fisher's The Wall Street Waltz; Inscribed by Him
FISHER, Kenneth L.
The Wall Street Waltz: 90 Visual Perspectives Illustrated Lessons from Financial Cycles and Trends.
Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1987.
First edition of this work which provides a look at Wall Street and the stock market's history through dramatic charts and visuals. Oblong quarto, original boards, illustrated. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed on by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "Lee, When I told by 16 year old about your Dad and the flat tire he acknowledged that he wouldn't be able to top that. It was fun seeing you last week. Hope you like this. Ken Fisher 6/20/87." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Georgene Sainati.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 57645
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"It was a different game now. Clearly the machine no longer belonged to its makers": First Edition of The Soul of a New Machine; Signed by Tracy Kidder
KIDDER, Tracy.
The Soul of a New Machine.
Boston: Atlantic, Little, Brown and Company, 1981.
First edition of Kidder's second book. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Tracy Kidder on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a few small closed tears. Jacket design by Peter deAngeli. A nice example.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 78911
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First Edition of Charles Carleton Coffin's Freedom Triumphant
COFFIN, Charles Carleton.
Freedom Triumphant: The Fourth Period of the War of the Rebellion From September 1864, To Its Close.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1891.
First edition of the acclaimed journalist's work on the fourth period of the Civil War. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt, illustrated. In very good condition.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 132827
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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 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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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 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