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White Nights: The Story of a Prisoner

Begin, Menachem

White Nights: The Story of a Prisoner in Russia.

London : Macdonald, 1957.

First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the title page, “To Esther Meyer this book is dedicated with thanks for her good work in the service of our cause and with my best wishes- M Begin Nov 1957.” Near fineContinue reading "White Nights: The Story of a Prisoner in Russia."

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$850.00
Item Number: RRB-150078
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Lost Victories

Manstein, Erich Von

Lost Victories.

Chicago : Henry Regnery Company, 1958.

First edition in English of this memoir of a German field marshal during World War II. Octavo, bound in full modern morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, ruling to the front and rear panels stamped in blind, top edge gilt, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with black andContinue reading "Lost Victories."

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$475.00
Item Number: RRB-148595
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The Strategy of Conflict

Schelling, Thomas C

The Strategy of Conflict.

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1960.

First edition of this work that pioneered the study of bargaining and strategic behavior. Octavo, original yellow cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For William Tom Schelling. June ’10.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Uncommon in this condition and signed.

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$4,000.00
Item Number: RRB-150025
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Elements of Architecture

Koolhaas, Rem

Elements of Architecture.

: Taschen, 2018.

First edition of this destined to be classic by the award-winning architect. Quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Rem Koolhaas on the title page. In fine condition. With essays by Rem Koolhaas, Stephan Trueby, James Westcott and Stephan Petermann; interviews with Werner Sobek and Tony Fadell (of Nest); and an exclusive photoContinue reading "Elements of Architecture."

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$1,500.00
Item Number: RRB-150068
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Fargo, William

William Fargo Signed Stock Certificate for American Merchants Union Express Company.

New York : American Merchants Union Express Company, 1869.

Rare American Merchants Union Express Company stock certificate signed by American businessman William Fargo. In November 1868, the American Express Company and the Merchants Union Express Company merged, and Fargo became the president of the American Merchants Union Express Company, a position he held until his death. The company then became the American Express CompanyContinue reading "William Fargo Signed Stock Certificate for American Merchants Union Express Company."

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$950.00
Item Number: RRB-148491
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Bibliography

The Limited Editions Club

Bibliography: Of The Fine Books Published By The Limited Editions Club 1929 – 1985.

New York City : The Limited Editions Club, 1985.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of this compilation of every book The Limited Editions Club had published from 1929 – 1985. Folio, bound in quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles to the spine. One of 800 numbered copies, this is number 688. In near fine condition with light rubbing and aContinue reading "Bibliography: Of The Fine Books Published By The Limited Editions Club 1929 – 1985."

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$350.00
Item Number: RRB-148594
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Booker T. Washington on Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute

Washington, Booker T

Booker T. Washington Typed Letter Signed.

Alabama January 6, 1896.

Typed letter signed by Booker T. Washington to American mining engineer John Birkinbine. One page on Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute stationary, square octavo, the letter reads in full, “I shall be willing to abide by your decision in the matter of the souvenir and will be willing to pay whatever extra tax necessary.” JohnContinue reading "Booker T. Washington Typed Letter Signed."

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$1,250.00
Item Number: RRB-148640
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The Legion Book

Churchill, Winston S.; Aldous Huxley; Hilaire Belloc; Jacob Epstein; Eric Gill; Mark Gertler; David Low; John Lavery; Rudyard Kipling; Laura Knight; William Nicholson; Paul Nash; Charles Ricketts; Edith Sitwell; Vita Sackville‑West; Stanley Spencer; W. Heath Robinson; W. H. Davies; Rebecca West; P. G. Wodehouse et al. Edited by Captain James Humphrey Cotton Minchin

The Legion Book.

London : Privately printed by The Curwen Press for H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, 1929.

First and limited deluxe edition of the monumental Legion Book; one of only one hundred numbered copies printed for private distribution by the Prince of Wales and signed by a remarkable array of British writers and artists, as well as four prime ministers. Quarto, original publisher’s full deluxe pigskin over boards elaborately decorated in blindContinue reading "The Legion Book."

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$16,500.00
Item Number: RRB-149534
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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding

Locke, John

An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding: In Four Books.

London : Printed for Awnsham and John Churchil, at the Black-Swan in Pater-Noster Row, and Samuel Manship, at the Ship in Cornhill, near the Royal-Exchange, 1694.

Rare second edition of this fundamental work in the history of Western thought, the first to name Locke as the author and to include the frontispiece portrait of him. Folio, bound in three quarter calf over marbled boards with gilt ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, rebacked retaining original morocco spineContinue reading "An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding: In Four Books."

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$4,200.00
Item Number: RRB-149652
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Attention and Effort

Kahneman, Daniel

Attention and Effort.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice-Hall, 1973.

First edition of the Nobel laureate’s influential first book, which claimed that attention can be identified with effort, cemented the association as a research paradigm in the cognitive sciences. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a good dust jacket with a sticker to the side panel and chip to the rear panel.

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$250.00
Item Number: RRB-150064
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Two-volume set of Pindar’s “Odes of Victory”

Pindar

Odes of Victory: Volume I – The Nemean and Isthmian Odes; Volume II – The Olympian and Pythian Odes.

Oxford : Shakespeare Head Press, 1928-1930.

The Shakespeare Head Press limited edition of Pindar’s victory odes. Quarto, two volumes, bound in full red crushed morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe / Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers,Continue reading "Odes of Victory: Volume I – The Nemean and Isthmian Odes; Volume II – The Olympian and Pythian Odes."

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$1,250.00
Item Number: RRB-148564
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The Idea of America

Wood, Gordon S

The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States.

New York : The Penguin Press, 2011.

First edition of this history of the American Revolution. Octavo, original publisher’s half-cloth. Boldy signed by Gordon Wood on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Accompanied by a note with an ownership inscription of Wood signing the book dated August 26, 2011 laid in. Jacket design by Stephanie Kloss.

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$200.00
Item Number: RRB-148625
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Arms and Influence

Schelling, Thomas C

Arms and Influence.

New Haven : Yale University Press, 1966.

First edition of this “exemplary text on the interplay of national purpose and military force” (Book Week). Octavo, original red cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “I’m pleased that John Rogers wants my signature on this book Tom Schelling.” Also laid in is an autographed letter signed by Schelling, whichContinue reading "Arms and Influence."

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$4,800.00
Item Number: RRB-150026
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Peking: The Beautiful

White, Herbert C. [Art Director]. Introduction by Hu Shih, Ph.D

Peking The Beautiful.

Shanghai, China : The Commercial Press, Limited, 1927.

First edition of White’s fine photographic study of the monuments of Shanghai. Folio, original royal blue embroidered silk pictorial boards, illustrated with seventy mounted color and monochrome photographic plates of the celebrated monuments of China’s Northern Capital and its environs complete with descriptive and historical notes by Herbert C. White, Art Director of Signed ofContinue reading "Peking The Beautiful."

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$9,800.00
Item Number: RRB-149511
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The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro

Virgil. Translated by John Ogilby

The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro. [Virgil].

London : Printed by Thomas Warren, 1654.

First illustrated edition of Ogilby’s English translation of the works of Virgil, lavishly illustrated with 101 full-page copperplate engravings by famed engravers Pierre Lombart and Wenceslaus Hollar. Folio, bound in full contemporary paneled mottled calf with gilt ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, rebacked to style preserving original morocco spine labelContinue reading "The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro. [Virgil]."

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$8,800.00
Item Number: RRB-149738
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Another World 1897-1917

Eden, Anthony

Another World: 1897-1917.

New York : Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1977.

First edition of this memoir of prominent British politician Anthony Eden. Octavo, bound in full modern morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, with black and white illustrations and photographs. In near fine condition with slight bowing to the rear panel.

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$400.00
Item Number: RRB-148617
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Socialism

von Mises, Ludwig

Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis.

New Haven : Yale University Press, 1951.

First edition of the new edition of this “work on political economy in the tradition of the great moral philosophers, a Montesquieu or Adam Smith, containing both acute knowledge and profound wisdom by von Mises” (F.A. Hayek). Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine inContinue reading "Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis."

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$4,200.00
Item Number: RRB-150051
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