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Rare First Edition of Frederick Macaulay's The Movement of Interest Rates, Bond Yields And Stock Prices in the United States Since 1856; In the Original Dust Jacket
MACAULAY, Frederick R.
The Movement of Interest Rates, Bond Yields And Stock Prices in the United States Since 1856.
New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1938.
First edition of the work known for introducing the concept of bond duration. Octavo, original blue cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with some wear and tear. With a preface by Wesley C. Mitchell.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 10012
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"The eighteenth century proclaimed the rights of man, the nineteenth shall proclaim the rights of woman": First edition of Ray Strachey's "The Cause"
STRACHEY, Ray.
“The Cause” A Short History of The Women’s Movement in Great Britain.
London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd, 1928.
First edition of Strachey's history of women's suffrage in Great Britain. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece portrait of Millicent Fawcett. In good condition. Ownership name.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 135463
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Rare 18th Century Map of Canada by French cartographer Robert de Vaugondy
DE VAUGONDY, Robert.
A New Map of Canada, Also the North Parts of new England and New York: with Nova Scotia and Newfound Land. [18th Century Map of Canada].
London: c. 1766.
Rare 18th century printing of Robert de Vaugondy's map of 1755 updated to indicate changes resulting from the Treaty of Utrecht. The hand-colored map includes a large inset map of the Great Lakes and is embellished with a large title cartouche. In near fine condition. Matted and framed. The entire piece measures 15.5 inches by 12.5 inches.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 138933
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First Edition of Oliver Williamson's Markets and Hierarchies: A Study in the Internal Organizations
WILLIAMSON, Oliver E.
Markets and Hierarchies: A Study in the Internal Organizations.
New York: The Free Press, 1075.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning economist's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. First editions are rare.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 140934
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First Edition of Harriet Martineau's Eastern Life, Present and Past
MARTINEAU, Harriet.
Eastern Life, Present and Past.
London: Edward Moxon, 1848.
First English edition of this sociological travelogue. Octavo, three volumes, original publisher's cloth with gilt titles to the spine, blindstamping to the front panel. In good condition with rubbing and toning to the spine of each volume, splitting to the hinges of each volume, ownership signature to the half title page of Vol. I and III.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 146067
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Travels from St. Petersburgh in Russia, to Various Parts of Asia
BELL, John.
Travels from St. Petersburgh in Russia, to Various Parts of Asia.
Edinburgh: Printed for William Creech, 1806.
First published in Glasgow in 1763. The two maps, well engraved and printed on thick paper, are: "A Map of Mr. Bell's Journeys from Petersburg to Ispahan and from Petersburg to Constantinople" (39.5x31 cm) and "A Map of Mr. Bell's Journey from Moscow to Pekin."
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 76019
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RAEMAEKERS, Louis.
The Great War: A Neutral’s Indictment.
London: The Fine Art Society, Ltd.:, 1916.
First edition. Folio, original cloth backed marbled boards. Leather spine labels, top edge gilt. 100 tipped in plates. Limited to 1,050 copies, of which 1,000 were for sale. Signed by the author, Louis Raemaekers. In near fine condition with some light rubbing.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 2650
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Signed Photograph of President Harry S. Truman
TRUMAN, Harry S.
Harry Truman Signed Photograph.
Photograph of President Harry S. Truman. Warmly inscribed by Harry S. Truman. In fine condition. Double matted and framed; the entire piece measures 11.5 inches 15 inches.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 81069
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Rare first edition of John Malcolm Ludlow's President Lincoln Self-Pourtrayed
LUDLOW, John Malcolm.
President Lincoln Self-Pourtrayed.
London: Alexander Strahan, 1866.
First edition of President Lincoln Self-Pourtrayed, the scarce variant imprint, which was printed in London as indicated on p. 240 and the priority of which is unknown (M 864). Octavo, original publishers cloth with gilt titles to the spine, engraved tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Lincoln, with "The proceeds of this volume are intended to be devoted for the relief of the Freedmen of the United States exclusively" to the verso of the title page. In very good condition. Rare.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 105063
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“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman": Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex; Signed by Her
DE BEAUVOIR, Simone.
The Second Sex.
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1979.
First Franklin Library edition of the author's masterpiece. Octavo, original full leather, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt tooling to the front and rear panel, all edges gilt, raised bands, silk ribbon bookmark bound in. Signed by Simone de Beauvoir. Translated by H.M. Parshley. Illustrated by Eugene Karlin. In fine condition.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 105112
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First Edition of the author's Monumental Work Capital In the Twenty-First Century; Signed by Thomas Piketty
PIKETTY, Thomas.
Capital In the Twenty-First Century.
Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2014.
First edition of Piketty's magnum opus. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Thomas Piketty on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Graciela Golup. Translated from the French by Arthur Goldhammer.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 144401
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"There can be nothing in the world more beautiful than the Yosemite, the groves of giant sequoias and redwoods, the Canyon of the Colorado, the Canyon of the Yellowstone, the Three Tetons": First Edition of Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter
ROOSEVELT, Theodore.
Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1905.
First edition of Roosevelt's important collection of first-hand hunting accounts, including a lengthy description of newly created wilderness reserves. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine and front panel, frontispiece portrait of Roosevelt with tissue guard present, illustrated with photographs. In very good condition.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 146123
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“AS A MATTER OF SELECTIVE NECESSITY, MAN IS AN AGENT. …HE IS POSSESSED OF A TASTE FOR EFFECTIVE WORK, AND A DISTASTE FOR FUTILE EFFORT”: FIRST EDITION OF THORSTEIN VEBLEN'S THE THEORY OF BUSINESS ENTERPRISE
VEBLEN, Thorstein.
The Theory of Business Enterprise.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904.
First edition of Veblen's second book, a seminal work in economics. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition. Uncommon in this condition.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 103489
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"Our system has at all times had to contend with internal encroachments upon liberty": First edition of Herbert Hoover's The Challenge to Liberty; Inscribed by Him
HOOVER, Herbert.
The Challenge to Liberty.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934.
First edition of Herbert Hoover's challenge to Roosevelt's New Deal arguing it abandoned "the heritage of liberty." Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To my good friend and consultant- from Herbert Hoover Samuel Blythe." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. A nice association.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 125711
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Mathilde Blind's Madame Roland; from the library of English suffragette Emily Duval
BLIND, Mathilde. [Emily Duval].
Madame Roland.
London: W. H. Allen & Co, 1886.
The Eminent Women Series edition of Blind's biography of French revolutionary Marie-Jeanne 'Manon' Roland de la Platière. Octavo, original publisher's decorated cloth, patterned endpapers. From the library of English suffragette Emily H. Duval with her ownership signature to the half-title page. English suffragette Emily Duval was a militant petitioner in the fight for women’s voting rights and was imprisoned several times. In good condition.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 135220
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First Edition of Aldous Huxley's The Perennial Philosophy
HUXLEY, Aldous.
The Perennial Philosophy.
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1945.
First British edition of this classic work by Huxley. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 142467
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First Edition of F.A. Hayek’s Classic Treatise The Constitution of Liberty
HAYEK, Friedrich August von [F.A.].
The Constitution of Liberty.
Chicago: The University of Chicago, 1960.
First edition of Hayek’s classic statement on the ideals of freedom and liberty. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, pencil marginalia.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 143609
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First Edition of Gotham; Signed by Mike Wallace
BURROWS, Edwin G. and Mike Wallace.
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
First edition of this vast and varied epic of New York's past. Super octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with black-and-white images. Boldly signed by Mike Wallace on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Kathleen M. Lynch. Jacket illustration hand-coloring by Cathy Saksa. Authors photograph by Bruce Davidson.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 145822
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First Edition of Leonard Bolles Ellis' History of New Bedford and its Vicinity 1602-1892
ELLIS, Leonard Bolles.
History of New Bedford and its Vicinity 1602-1892.
Syracuse: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1892.
First edition of Ellis' profusely illustrated history of New Bedford. Large octavo, 2 volumes bound in three quarters morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, illustrated with a profusion of fine tissue-guarded steel-engraved portraits. In near fine condition.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 131249
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Rare large paper edition of Reverend Edwards Forster's translation of The Arabian Nights
FORSTER, Reverend Edward.
The Arabian Nights, in Five Volumes, Translated by The Reverend Edward Forster.
London: Printed for William Miller, 1802.
Large paper edition of this early translation by Edward Forster (1769-1828), based on the French version of Antoine Galland which first appeared between 1704 and 1717. Royal octavo, bound in full period calf with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, illustrated with engravings from pictures by Robert Smirke. In very good condition. Small bookplate to the pastedown of each volume.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 145199