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First edition of The Living White House; signed by Lyndon B. Johnson and warmly inscribed by Lady Bird Johnson
AIKMAN, Lionelle. Foreword by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson. Introduction by Bruce Catton.
The Living White House.
Washington, D.C: White House Historical Association with the cooperation of the National Geographic Society Special Publications Division, 1966.
First edition of this beautiful pictorial history of the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States. Octavo, bound in full pebbled dark green morocco, gilt titles to the spine, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, patterned endpapers, all edges gilt, illustrated with numerous full page color photographs. One of 100 copies. Inscribed by Lady Bird Johnson on the limitation page, "January 31, 1970 For Sarah and Lawrence Clay Maliek with the warm good wishes for all your days ahead Lady Bird" and signed by Lyndon B. Johnson, "Lyndon B. Johnson." In near fine condition…
Price: $1,400.00 Item Number: 139238
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“The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny": Milton and Rose Friedman's Free to Choose; Signed by the Nobel Prize-winning Economist
FRIEDMAN, Milton & Rose.
Free To Choose: A Personal Statement.
New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1980.
First edition, early printing of Friedmans' persuasive argument for the free market, based on the PBS series Free to Choose. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Mary Strong, Milton Friedman." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Gamarello.
Price: $1,400.00 Item Number: 133804
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Rare autograph note signed by American abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe
STOWE, Harriet Beecher.
Harriet Beecher Stowe Autograph Note.
Rare autograph note signed by American abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe. The note reads, "Yours Truly Harriet Beecher Stowe April 19 1892." In fine condition. Double matted and framed with a portrait of the author. The entire piece measures 18 inches by 12 inches.
Price: $1,350.00 Item Number: 95228
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"Undoubtedly the most important work on probability" First Edition of Keynes’ Treatise on Probability
KEYNES, John Maynard. [J.M.].
A Treatise on Probability.
London: MacMillan & Company, 1921.
First edition of what Bertrand Russell called, "undoubtedly the most important work on probability that has appeared for a very long time," and a "book as a whole is one which it is impossible to praise too highly." Octavo, original brown cloth with titles to the spine in gilt. In near fine condition with the spine gilt very bright. A very sharp example.
Price: $1,350.00 Item Number: 3669
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"Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do": First Edition of Walter Bagehot’s Classic work Lombard Street
BAGEHOT, Walter.
Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market.
New York: Scribner, Armstrong and Co, 1873.
First edition of this "undying classic" (J.M. Keynes). Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition. First editions are scarce.
Price: $1,350.00 Item Number: 58995
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"Mary Wollstonecraft started the demand of women for political liberty in England, Condorcet in France, and the heroic group of anti-slavery agitators in the United States": First edition of Millicent Garrett Fawcett's Women's Suffrage: A Short History of a Great Movement
GARRETT FAWCETT, Millicent.
Women’s Suffrage: A Short History of a Great Movement.
London: T. C. & E. C. Jack, [1912].
First edition of Millicent Garrett Fawcett's history of the women's suffrage movement. Octavo, original cloth, publisher's advertisements at rear. English politician, writer and feminist Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett led Britain's largest women's rights association, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) from 1897 to 1919. In 2018, a century after the Representation of the People Act, she was the first woman honored with a statue in Parliament Square. In very good condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 134219
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"one of the seminal publications in the history of exploration": Richard Hakluyt's The Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation
HAKLUYT, Richard.
The Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation.
Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons Publishers to the University, 1903-1904.
The Hakluyt Society Extra Series limited edition of Hakluyt's famed record of English voyages; one of the seminal publications in the history of exploration. Octavo, 12 volumes, original publisher's cloth, illustrated with numerous plates, folding maps, and facsimiles. One of one thousand copies printed on hand-made paper. In good condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 138424
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"Don't be so sure, Kevin, my boy, don't be so sure": First Edition of Six Days of the Condor; Lengthily Inscribed by James Grady
GRADY, James.
Six Days of the Condor.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1974.
First edition of the author's first thriller, basis for the classic film film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, and Max von Sydow. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the title page with a quote from the novel, "For John, 'Don't be so sure, Kevin, my boy, don't be so sure.' Thank you! James Grady Feb. 2023." Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Bob Antler. Author photograph by S. Hodgson.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 145182
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First Edition of Berenice Abbott's Changing New York; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
ABBOTT, Berenice.
Changing New York.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1939.
First edition stated on copyright page of this classic work. Quarto, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt ruled inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. illustrated with 97 halftone plates that display "the historical importance of the documentary mode… its power as a medium of personal expression" (Parr & Badger). Text by Elizabeth McCausland. In near fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 145815
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Scarce Printing of Arthur Lourie's Britain and Palestine
LOURIE, Arthur.
Britain and Palestine: An Examination of Present British Policy in the Light of the Mandate for Palestine.
New York: The American Zionist Emergency Council, c. 1940.
Scarce printing of this study of the relationship between the Mandate for Palestine and British Policy, based on a detailed treatment by Dr. Jacob Robinson. Thin imperial octavo, original wrappers stapled as issued, tipped in to later boards. In very good condition with toning to the wrappers and boards, paperclip evidence, institutional stamps to the first and final leaves.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 146810
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“THE UNBELIEVABLE COINCIDENCES… JUST COULDN’T HAPPEN—AND YET THEY DID”: PORTRAIT OF THE ASSASSIN, warmly inscribed BY PRESIDENT FORD To Close Personal Friend and Mayor of Pittsburgh Bob O'Connor
FORD, Gerald R. and John R. Stiles.
Portrait of an Assassin.
New York : Simon and Schuster, 1965.
First edition of the first book about the Kennedy assassination and Lee Harvey Oswald to be authored by a member of the Warren Commission, boldly signed by Ford. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Bob O'Connor with warmest personal regards and very best wishes. Gerald R. Ford." The recipient, Bob O'Connor was the mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and a close personal friend of Ford. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carl Smith. Photograph on the front of jacket by James Murray. Housed in a custom half morocco…
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 125682
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First edition of Sir Almroth E. Wright's The Unexpurgated Case Against Woman Suffrage
WRIGHT, Almroth E.
The Unexpurgated Case Against Woman Suffrage.
London: Constable and Company Ltd., 1913.
First edition of Almroth Wright's anti-feminist treatise. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition with rubbing to the extremities.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 135621
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First Edition of Capital Ideas; Signed by Peter L. Bernstein
BERNSTEIN, Peter L.
Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street.
New York: The Free Press, 1992.
First edition of the author's most well-known work. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Peter Bernstein on the front free endpaper. With a signed postcard to the author from Bernstein's editor laid in. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Michael Langenstein.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 115654
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"Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience": first edition of north to the orient; signed by both anne and Charles lindbergh
LINDBERGH, Anne Morrow.
North to the Orient.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1935.
First edition of Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s account of her journey to Alaska and along the Arctic Circle to Russia, China and Japan. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Signed by both Anne Morrow Lindbergh in the year of publication and Charles Lindbergh on the half-title page. Fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with some wear and tear to the extremities. With maps by Charles A. Lindbergh.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 4652
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First Edition of Kenneth J. Arrow's Essays In the Theory of Risk-Bearing; Signed by Him
ARROW, Kenneth J.
Essays In the Theory of Risk-Bearing.
Amsterdam-London: North -Holland Publishing Company, 1971.
First edition of this collection of essays by Nobel Prize-winning economist Kenneth Arrow. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Kenneth J. Arrow on the title page. Small name to the front free endpaper, in near fine condition. No jacket was issued for this title. Books signed by Arrow are uncommon.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 29023
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“In no department can a leader spend time more profitably than in the selection of the men who are to accomplish the work”: First Editions of Sir Douglas Mawson's The Home Of The Blizzard; From the Library of Adventurer and Explorer Steve Fossett
MAWSON, Sir Douglas.
The Home Of The Blizzard: Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911–1914.
Philadelphia and London: J.B. Lippincott and William Heinemann, 1915.
First edition of this classic account of Antarctic exploration. Thick octavo, 2 volumes, original dark blue cloth, profusely illustrated with 18 color plates, hundreds of black-and-white plates, numerous in-text illustrations and three color folding maps in rear pocket of Volume II. From the library of James Stephen “Steve” Fossett with his bookplate to the pastedown of each volume. American businessman and record-setting aviator Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in 2002 in his 10-story high balloon Spirit of Freedom. He completed the 2002 trip in 13 days, 8 hours, and 33 minutes and set records…
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 111828
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Exceptionally rare self-published printing of Garabed Pashayan Khan's Occupational Medicine in Schools for Pupils and Teachers
PASHAYAN KHAN, Garabed.
Occupational Medicine in Schools for Pupils and Teachers.
Alexandria, Egypt: Published by the author, 1906.
Rare work on occupational medicine self-published by Armenian physician and scholar Garabed Pashayan Khan. Octavo, original half cloth over paper-covered boards, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of the author, illustrated, text in Armenian. This rare self-published text is primarily concerned with the health and wellbeing of students and teachers in academic buildings, addressing hygiene, posture, study habits, transmissible and contagious diseases, remedies and cures. In very good condition. Extremely uncommon with no holdings located by OCLC.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 141034
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"Along with most of my fellow fliers, I believed that aviation had a brilliant future. Now we live, today, in our dreams of yesterday; and, living in those dreams, we dream again": The Spirit of St. Louis; Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
LINDBERGH, Charles A.
The Spirit of St. Louis.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953.
First edition, early printing of Lindbergh's autobiographical account about the events leading up to and including his 1927 solo trans-Atlantic flight. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 146307
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Rare First Edition of Britain's Memorial to Franklin Roosevelt Souvenir Book
WINSTON CHURCHILL; CLEMENT ATLEE,.
Britain’s Memorial to Franklin Roosevelt Souvenir Book.
London: 1947.
First edition of this tribute to President Roosevelt with contributions by Eleanor Roosevelt, Winston S. Churchill and Clement Atlee, a selection of excerpts from the speeches of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and a biographical note illustrated with photographs. Octavo, original wrappers, illustrated. In near fine condition. Rare.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 123823
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First Edition of Bob Woodward's Maestro: Greenspan's Fed and the American Boom; Signed by Him and Alan Greenspan
WOODWARD, Bob [Alan Greenspan].
Maestro: Greenspan’s Fed and the American Boom.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.
First edition of the definitive biography on the former chairman of The Federal Chairman by the author of All the President's Men. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed "Bob Woodward 3/31/2012 on the title page. Additionally signed by Alan Greenspan on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Michael Accordino. We have never seen another example signed by both Woodward and Greenspan.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 133825