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"One of the most important documents of World War II": Rare First Edition of Mary Berg's The Warsaw Ghetto
BERG, Mary.
Warsaw Ghetto.
New York: L.B. Fischer Publishing Company, 1945.
First edition of this powerful collection of diary entries begun by Berg at the age of fifteen, one of the most important documents in the age of Hitler. Octavo, original red cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 141428
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FIRST EDITION OF OUR TIME IS NOW; SIGNED BY STACEY ABRAMS
ABRAMS, Stacy.
Our Time Is Now. Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2020.
First edition of this "striking manifesto, a stirring indictment and a straightforward road map to victory" (New York Times). Octavo, original boards. Signed by Stacy Abrams on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design Christopher Sergio.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 134697
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Rare Antique Print of President Ulysses S. Grant with His Family
GRANT, Ulysses S.
Ulysses S. Grant Antique Print.
Rare antique print of the eighteenth president of the United States of America. Black and white print of Ulysses S. Grant with his wife Julia Grant and four children. Framed. In fine condition. This piece measures 13.25 inches by 16.25 inches.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 146568
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Rare George H. W. Bush Vice Presidential Fountain Pen
BUSH, George H. W.
George H. W. Bush Vice Presidential Fountain Pen.
Rare George H. W. Bush Vice Presidential Fountain Pen bearing Bush's signature in facsimile. Housed in the original pen box bearing the seal of the Vice President of the United States. In fine condition requiring the nib insert.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 114942
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"Freedom is the oxygen of the soul": First Edition of Moshe Dayan's Autobiography; Signed by Him
DAYAN, Moshe.
Moshe Dayan: Story of My Life.
Jerusalem: Steimatzky's Agency LTD, 1976.
First edition of the legendary military leader and politician's autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Moshe Dayan on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Bethram Kapadia.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 134303
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Rare finely bound example of the Theirs Atlas
THIERS, Adolphe.
Atlas de L’Histoire du Consulat et de L’Empire Dresse et Dessine Sous La Direction de M. Thiers Par MM. A. Dufour et Duvotenay. [The Thiers Atlas].
Paris: Librairie Furne, n.d..
Rare finely bound example of the Theirs Atlas, containing 66 maps and battle plans drawn by two of the best cartographers of Second Empire. Quarto, quarter cloth over marbled boards, illustrated with 66 plates by Dufour and Duvotenay printed by Dyonnet. In very good condition. A very nice example.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 131402
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"the widest and the best description the empire of China has had worldwide": Rare 18th century hand-colored map of the Chinese Islands of Kanton, Shang Chwen Shan and Ma-kau from Jean- Baptiste Du Halde's celebrated Description Geographique
DU HALDE, Jean-Baptiste [China].
Jean-Baptiste Du Halde Map of China: Kanton, Shang Chwen Shan and Ma-kau. [Description Geographique].
J. Wood, c. 1736.
Rare eighteenth century hand-colored map providing plans of Kanton, Shang Chwen Shan and Ma-kau, being a plate extracted from Du Halde's celebrated Description Geographique, the most important cartographic record of the region of the eighteenth century. In near fine condition. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 14 inches by 11.5 inches.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 137249
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Rare early 20th century Albarel Map
[ALBAREL],.
Carte Canada et de la Louisiane. [The Albarel Map].
Beautifully illustrated facsimile map attributed to Sieur Albarel in 1695. One page, the map shows regions of North America attributed as La Louisane, Florida, Nova Anglia, Noveau Mexique, and Canada with views of Quebec, New York and Niagara Falls, and a scene of whale hunting. 'The Albarel Map' was likely produced in the early 20th century [c. 1930] and may have been sold as a copy of an authentic map produced in 1695. In near fine condition. An attractive piece.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 138509
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First Edition of Alfred Winslow Jones' Life, Liberty, and Property
JONES, Alfred Winslow.
Life, Liberty, and Property: A Story of Conflict and a Measurement of Conflicting Rights.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1941.
First edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with light wear. Laid in is an advertisement to purchase war bonds. Rare in the original dust jacket.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 45087
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First Edition of John Bates Clark's Essentials of Economic Theory
CLARK, John Bates.
Essentials of Economic Theory: As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1909.
First edition of this early work by John Bates Clark. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine. In very good condition with light marginala.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 67031
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First edition of Garry Wills' Explaining America: The Federalist; signed by him
WILLS, Garry.
Explaining America: The Federalist.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1981.
First edition of Wills' analysis of The Federalist. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Garry Wills on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lewis Friedman.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 132144
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First Edition of My Life; Inscribed by President Bill Clinton
CLINTON, Bill.
My Life.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
First edition of President Clinton's autobiography. Large octavo, original blue boards, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To ____ Best wishes- Bill Clinton. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 146893
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First Edition of Reflections and Observations: Essays of Denton A. Cooley; signed by Denton A. Cooley
COOLEY, Denton A.
Reflections and Observations: Essays of Denton A. Cooley.
Austin, TX: Eakin Press, 1984.
First edition of this collection of essays which illuminates, with brilliant insight, our contemporary world of medicine. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Denton A. Cooley on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Collected by Marianne Kneipp. Foreword by Arthur Hailey.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 146290
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First Edition of Political Power in Ecuador; Inscribed President Osvaldo Hurtado to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger
HURTADO, Osvaldo [Henry A. Kissinger].
Political Power in Ecuador.
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 1980.
First edition of this political history of Ecuador. Association copy, inscribed by the author to former Secretary of State and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Henry Kissinger, "A Henry Kissinger, con admiracion, Osvaldo Hurtado 9.4.83." Osvaldo Hurtado, was the President of Ecuador from 1981-1984 and inscribed this book to Kissinger while in office to the chief architect of the United States foreign policy in the 1970s. In fine condition.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 5742
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First Edition of The Return to Increasing Returns; Inscribed by James M. Buchanan to his Secretary
BUCHANAN, James M. and Yong J. Yoon.
The Return to Increasing Returns.
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by James Buchanan on the title page, "To Betty, another to add to your list on the shelves. J. Fairfax April 94." The recipient, Betty H. Tillman, was his assistant for 46 years and was the second person Buchanan phoned on October 16, 1986 (after his wife, Ann) when he learned he had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics (see Buchanan, ‘Notes on Nobelity,’ in Better than Plowing: And Other Personal Essays, University of Chicago Press 1992). Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 33048
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FIRST EDITION OF MY LIFE WITH MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.; Inscribed by Coretta Scott King
KING, Coretta Scott.
My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969.
First edition of Coretta Scott King's autobiography, which recounts the history of the Civil Rights Movement and offers an inside look at Dr. King, his sermons and speeches. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Frank Washington Pepsi Cola With Warmest Appreciation for your support Coretta Scott King 1-15-84." The recipient, Frank Washington was an American basketball player. In 1945, he played for the Washington Bears. Washington was part of the first Harlem Globetrotters team to travel around the world. Washington was a member of the Harlem Globetrotters from 1946 to 1960. After his basketball career,…
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 104655
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First Edition of New York Close-Up; from the library of American journalist William Safire
MCCRARY, Tex and Jinx Falkenberg. [William Safire].
New York Close-Up.
New York: New York Herald Tribune, 1949-1951.
Bound collection of New York Close Up columns, from the library of American Journalist William Safire. Folio, original boards with gilt titles to the spine and front panel. From the library of American journalist William Safire with his bookplate to the pastedown. William Safire was an important American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He 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 in addition to his weekly column “On Language” in The New York Times Magazine…
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 132199
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FIRST EDITION OF THE SECOND VOLUME OF RANDOLPH S. CHURCHILL'S OFFICIAL BIOGRAPHY OF WINSTON S. CHURCHILL: Young Statesman; complete with all three parts of its companion volume
CHURCHILL, Randolph S.
Winston S. Churchill. [The Official Biography]. Volume II: Young Statesman 1901-1914 [with] Volume II Companion Parts I, II, and III.
London: Heinemann, 1967-1969.
First edition of the second volume in Randolph S. Churchill’s official biography of his father, Winston S. Churchill; complete with first editions of all three parts of its companion volume. Octavo, 4 volumes, original publisher's cloth, top edges red, illustrated, photographic frontispiece portrait of Winston S. Churchill in 1904. Each volume is near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Tom Simmonds.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 144722
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"Griefs upon griefs! Disappointments upon disappoints. What then? This is a gay, merry world notwithstanding": John Adams; Warmly Inscribed by David McCullough
MCCULLOUGH, David.
John Adams.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.
First edition of the author's second Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the title page, "For Edward Ash-Milby with greetings from David McCullough 2001." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Wendell Minor. Jacket painting by Gilbert Stuart.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 146414
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First Edition of Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Amartya Sen
SEN, Amartya.
Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2006.
First edition of this "indispensable book" (Anwar Ibrahim). Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by Amartya Sen on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 33051
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Signed limited edition of Sydney D. Smith's Grapes of Conflict; signed by Caesar Chavez, Chris Hartmire and Sydney Smith
SMITH, Sydney D. Foreword by Cesar Chavez.
Grapes of Conflict.
Pasadena: Hope Publishing House, 1987.
First edition, signed limited edition of Smith's account of the relationship between the Migrant Ministry and National Farm Workers Association in the 1960s farmworkers' movement. Octavo, original publisher's red velvet with gilt titles and tooling to the front panel. Singed by Caesar Chavez, Chris Hartmire and Sydney Smith on the signature page. In fine condition.
Price: $425.00 Item Number: 122036
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First American Edition of David's Sling: The Arming of Israel; Inscribed by Shimon Peres
PERES, Shimon.
David’s Sling.
New York: Random House, 1970.
First American edition of the story of the creation of Israel's armed strength. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed and dated in 1971 in Hebrew by Shimon Peres on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jay J. Smith Studio. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $425.00 Item Number: 64048
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"I always proudly said 'I am a Baptist and a Democrat' ": First Edition of Rebekah Baines Johnson's A Family Album; inscribed by Lyndon B. Johnson to white house correspondent jack horner
JOHNSON, Rebekah Baines. Introduction by Lyndon B. Johnson.
A Family Album.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1965.
First edition of this work documenting Lyndon B. Johnson's family tree, prepared for him by his mother as a Christmas present to her son. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Introduction by Lyndon Baines Johnson. Association copy, inscribed by Lyndon B. Johnson on the dedication page, "To Jack and Leota Horner from your friend and admirer Lyndon B. Johnson." The recipient, White House Correspondent Garnett D. Jack Horner, served as President of the White House Correspondents Association and covered Presidents from FDR to Gerald Ford. President Johnson often invited favored reporters to the LBJ Ranch, including Horner on multiple occasions throughout…
Price: $425.00 Item Number: 110560
