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Shoup, Carl S

The Fiscal System of Venezuela: A Report.

Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins Press, 1959.

First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by Carl Shoup on the front free endpaper, “To A.R. Ilersic with regards- C.S. Shoup.” Also laid in a signed letter from Shoup to the same recipient. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Edited by Carl S. Shoup. Contributors include John F. Due, Lyle C. Fitch, SirContinue reading "The Fiscal System of Venezuela: A Report."

$95.00

Item Number: RRB-75023

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Nehru, Jawaharlal

Jawaharlal Nehru Signed.

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Signed note by Jawaharlal Nehru in both Sanskrit and English dated Nov. 1961. Matted and framed with a black and white photograph of Nehru. The entire piece measures 13.5 inches by 17.5 inches.

$1,250.00

Item Number: RRB-74072

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Siren, Osvald

The Walls and Gates of Peking.

New York : Orientalia, 1924.

First edition of this work limited to 800 copies. Quarto, original half cloth, over papered boards. brown morocco label to the spine. Title page printed in red and black, folding map, 128 photogravures on 109 plates, 53 plans and elevations. In excellent condition with some rubbing to the bottom cloth. and light rubbing to theContinue reading "The Walls and Gates of Peking."

$8,800.00

Item Number: RRB-27086

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Kennedy, Jacqueline

Jacqueline Kennedy Signed White House Print.

1961.

White House photographic print taken in 1961 by White House photographer Cecil Stoughton. Boldly signed by Jacqueline Kennedy at the lower left. Stoughton took multiple photos in front of the White House fountains on the South Lawn when developing the 1961 Christmas Print. The final Christmas print, which showed more ducks positioned closer to the photographer,Continue reading "Jacqueline Kennedy Signed White House Print."

$2,800.00

Item Number: RRB-28045

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Fyvie, John [Cosway]

Comedy Queens of the Georgian Era. [Cosway].

London : Archibald Constable, 1916.

Octavo, bound in full dark blue morocco Cosway-style binding by Bayntun. Both the front and rear panels with a double gilt fillet border around an inner border incorporating ornamental cornerpieces, upper cover set with an oval portrait miniature of an actress under glass, within an ornamental gilt border, lower cover with panel border; raised bands,Continue reading "Comedy Queens of the Georgian Era. [Cosway]."

$6,500.00

Item Number: RRB-27030

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Carroll, Lewis (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)

The Game of Logic.

London : MacMillan and Co, 1887.

First trade edition of Lewis Carroll’s game, with scarce original card and several original markers. Octavo, original publisher’s red cloth. Association copy, inscribed by Lewis Carroll to his nephew, on the half-title in purple ink in the year of publication, “Bertram J. Collingwood with the Author’s love Mar. 87.” The volume contains the original envelope containingContinue reading "The Game of Logic."

$7,200.00

Item Number: RRB-26048

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Buchanan, James M

The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan.

Indianapolis : Liberty Fund, 1999-2002.

First editions of each of volume that comprise the collected works of Nobel Prize-winning economist James M. Buchanan’s papers. Octavo, original half cloth, 20 volumes. Eighteen of the twenty volumes are association copies warmly inscribed in the year of publication by James Buchanan to his assistant of 46 years, Betty H. Tillman, the second personContinue reading "The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan."

$6,000.00

Item Number: RRB-26023

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Drucker, Peter F

Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Practice and Principles.

New York : Harper & Row, Publishers, 1985.

First edition of this work on innovation by the most influential management thinker ever. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Keith Stephens from Peter F. Drucker.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by William Graef.

$1,250.00

Item Number: RRB-26011

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Care, Henry

English Liberties: Or, The Free-Born Subject’s Inheritance.

London : Printed by G. Larkin, for Benjamin Harris at the Stationers Arms and Anchoy in the Piazza under the Royal Exchange, 1680.

First edition of one of the very first law books printed in colonial America, contains the first American printing of Magna Carta and other fundamental documents of individual liberty in Anglo-American law. Small octavo, contemporary calf. In excellent condition, with light wear to the crown of the spine. Auction records show that there has not beenContinue reading "English Liberties: Or, The Free-Born Subject’s Inheritance."

$15,000.00

Item Number: RRB-24087

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Kendall, Willmoore

The Conservative Affirmation.

Chicago : Henry Regnery Company, 1963.

First edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. First editions are uncommon.

$300.00

Item Number: RRB-34061

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Greene, Asa

The Perils Of Pearl Street, Including A Taste Of The Dangers Of Wall Street.

New York : Betts and Anstice, and Peter Hill,, 1834.

First edition of a very early Wall Street work. Octavo, original cloth, leather label. In very good condition, rebacked, with some rubbing and wear to the extremities. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.

$5,500.00

Item Number: RRB-24014

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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.

$1,250.00

Item Number: RRB-29023

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Rothbard, Murray N

America’s Great Depression.

New York : MacMillan Company, 1973.

First edition of Rothbard’s classic treatise on the 1930s Great Depression and its root causes. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Murray N. Rothbard on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.

$6,800.00

Item Number: RRB-23068

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Malthus, Thomas Robert [T.R.]

Principles of Political Economy Considered with a View to Their Practical Application.

Boston : Wells and Lilly, 1821.

First American edition of this landmark work in political economy. Octavo, bound in three quarters leather over marbled boards, black leather morocco spine label. In near fine condition.

$1,100.00

Item Number: RRB-23029

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Wortman, Tunis

A Treatise Concerning Political Enquiry, and the Liberty of the Press.

New York : Printed by George Forman, 1800.

First edition of a classic work of libertarian political philosophy. Octavo, contemporary calf. In very good condition with some marginal dampstaining and wear to the extremities. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. First editions are extremely rare.

$15,000.00

Item Number: RRB-23046

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Friedman, Milton; With the Assistance of Rose Friedman

Capitalism And Freedom.

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1962.

First edition of Friedman’s magnum opus. Octavo, original blue cloth. Signed by Milton Friedman on the front free endpaper in a contemporary hand. Fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Rare signed.

$20,000.00

Item Number: RRB-23005

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The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society.

Trilling, Lionel

The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society.

New York : The Viking Press, 1950.

First edition of one of the influential works of criticism published in the twentieth century. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication, “To Sue and George in friendship and regard Lionel March 1950.” Fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Hallock.

$550.00

Item Number: RRB-22071

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UN: Today and Tomorrow.

Roosevelt, Eleanor and William DeWitt

UN: Today and Tomorrow.

New York : Harper and Brothers, Publishers, 1953.

First edition of this work on the United Nations by the former First Lady. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by Eleanor Roosevelt on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with very light rubbing to the extremities. Rare signed.

$2,200.00

Item Number: RRB-22053

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Hayek, Friedrich August von [F.A.]

Law, Legislation and Liberty. A New Statement of the Liberal Principles of Justice and Political Economy.

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1973-1979.

First editions of the economist’s magnum opus. Octavo, 3 volumes, original black cloth. Volume one is inscribed on the front free endpaper by F.A. Hayek to his colleague and legal scholar, Theo Mayer-Maly with his bookplate below. Mayer-Maly’s work Rechtsgeschichte der Freiheitsidee in Antike und Mittelalter is cited in volume one of Law, Legislation andContinue reading "Law, Legislation and Liberty. A New Statement of the Liberal Principles of Justice and Political Economy."

$22,000.00

Item Number: RRB-22040

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Herbert Hoover and Andrew Mellon

World War Foreign Debts Commission Act Signed Photograph.

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Signed photograph of the members of The World War Foreign Debt Commission and the Belgian Commission. Signed below by each member, including Herbert Hoover (Secretary of Commerce and future President of the United States), Andrew W. Mellon (Secretary of the Treasury), Frank B. Kellogg (Secretary of State and 1929 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize),Continue reading "World War Foreign Debts Commission Act Signed Photograph."

$2,800.00

Item Number: RRB-21058

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Bloom, Allan; Foreword by Saul Bellow

The Closing of the American Mind.

New York : Simon and Schuster, 1987.

First edition, early printing of Bloom’s landmark work. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Richard A. Ware, One of the most admirable men I have met during my career and my special benefactor. Gratefully, Allan Bloom September, 1987.” The recipient Richard A. Ware served under PresidentContinue reading "The Closing of the American Mind."

$1,250.00

Item Number: RRB-22016

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Roosevelt, Eleanor

This Is My Story.

New York : Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1937.

First edition of Eleanor Roosevelt’s first autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Signed by Eleanor Roosevelt on the half-title page. Small bookplate to the front pastedown, near fine in a bright near fine with a few small closed tears. Uncommon in this condition and signed.

$2,200.00

Item Number: RRB-21057

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Eden, Sir Frederic Morton

The State of the Poor: Or an History of the Labouring Classes in England, from the Conquest to the Present Period; in Which are Particularly Considered Their Domestic Economy with Respect to Diet, Dress, Fuel and Habitation.

London : J. Davis, for B. & J. White, G. & G. Robinson, T. Payne, 1797.

First edition of this classic work. Quarto, 3 volumes, bound mottled full calf, raised bands, gilt titles to the spine, gilt lined, black morocco spine labels. In excellent condition with the folding table facing p. viii of the appendix in Volume III.

$7,800.00

Item Number: RRB-20029

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Putnam, Hilary [Daniel Bell]

Meaning and the Moral Sciences.

London 1978.

First edition of this work by Hilary Putnam. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Hilary Putnam on the front free endpaper. From the library of Harvard colleague Daniel Bell, with his signature above Putnam’s. A nice association linking these two giants of their respective fields.

$2,200.00

Item Number: RRB-19096

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