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New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 1980.
First edition of the historian’s first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy inscribed by Michael Beschloss on the front free endpaper. Also laid in is an autographed letter to the recipient, signed by Beschloss. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Edward P. Diehl. Foreword by James MacGregor Burns.
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Surrey : Colour Library International, 1981.
First edition of this work regarding Mother Teresa. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Lengthily inscribed by Mother Teresa in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “My dear Sisters, Let us love Jesus with undivided love and others as He loves each one of us. God bless you, M. Teresa mc, 6/7/81.” Near fineContinue reading "For the Brotherhood of Man, Under the Fatherhood of God: Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Her Missionaries of Charity & Her Co-Workers."
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Chicago : University of Chicago, 1944.
First edition of one of the most influential and popular expositions of classical liberalism. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by F.A. Hayek on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a chip to the spine and to the rare panel. Foreword by John Chamberlain. Housed in a custom halfContinue reading "The Road to Serfdom."
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New York : Harper & Brothers, 1956.
First edition of Kennedy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth, with eight pages of black-and-white photogravures. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jack design by Phil Grushkin. Jacket photograph by Hank Walker.
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New York : Crown Publishers, 2006.
First edition of Obama’s second book. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To John and Rosemary- All the best! Barack Obama.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Deborah Feingold.
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New York : William Morrow and Company, 1982.
First edition of this glorious love story. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Honi Werner. Translated by Catherine Hutter.
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: Post Hill Press, 2016.
First edition of this treatise by the founder of Turning Point. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Boldly signed by Charlie Kirk on the front free endpaper. In fine condition.
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Rare Apollo XI quarantine image signed by President Richard Nixon and Apollo XI astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins. The image shows Apollo XI crew members in quarantine being congratulated by President Nixon through a microphone. The oversized color photograph appears to be a blow-up of a contemporary magazine page, complete with printedContinue reading "Richard Nixon, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins Signed Quarantine Image.."
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Chicago : The University of Chicago, 1960.
First edition of Hayek’s classic statement on the ideals of freedom and liberty. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by F.A. Hayek on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed.
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London : Cassell and Company Limited, 1931.
First edition of “the first modern textbook of biology.” Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. From the library of James D. Watson with his ownership signature to the front free endpaper. James D. Watson was a molecular biologist, geneticist, and biophysicist, best known for co-discovering the structure of DNA in 1953 alongside Francis Crick and Rosalind Franklin.Continue reading "The Science of Life."
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1953-1960.
Rare collection of five Royal Christmas cards signed by Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip. The cards include the Royal Coronation Christmas and New Year’s card of 1953, the 1955 Christmas and New Year’s Card with a photograph of the Royal family at Balmoral, the 1956 Christmas and New Year’s Card with a photograph ofContinue reading "Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip Signed Royal Family Christmas Card Collection."
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Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1963.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original green cloth, illustrated throughout with graphs and charts. Near fine in near fine dust jacket, bookplate to the front free endpaper. A very sharp example.
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Rare ostrich egg engraved with a portrait of George Washington, the Washington Coat of Arms, the Great Seal of the United States, and the Masonic compass and trowel. Mounted on a decorative brass stand. From the collection of former four-term United States Senator Lloyd Millard Bentsen who ran as the Democratic Party nominee for viceContinue reading "George Washington and Great Seal of the United States Engraved Ostrich Egg."
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Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Special anniversary edition of Friedman’s magnum opus. Octavo, bound in full leather, gilt titles to the spine, front and rear panels, all edges gilt, silk bookmark bound in. Boldly signed by Milton Friedman on the title page. In fine condition.
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Washington, D.C. : Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, March 2005.
First edition of this work on preventing nuclear proliferation. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. From the library of Madeleine K. Albright with her bookplate to the front pastedown. Albright was the first woman to serve as the U.S. Secretary of State. She acted under President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001, leading the United States throughContinue reading "Universal Compliance: A Strategy for Nuclear Security."
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Washington, D.C : Government Printing Office, 1935.
Rare first edition of this work on the Federal Reserve. Octavo, original wrappers bound in a pressboard multibinder by Gaylord Bros., Inc. In very good condition. Rare and desirable.
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London : Printed by C. Ackers for J. Wilcox, 1734.
First edition of George Sale’s important translation of the Koran, the first to translate the original text directly from the Arabic into English. Quarto, bound in full contemporary calf, rebacked, morocco spine label within five raised bands, folding engraved map with inset view of Mecca, engraved folding plate with plan and view of Mecca, 3Continue reading "The Koran, Commonly Called the Alcoran of Mohammed, Translated into English Immediately from the Original Arabic; with Explanatory Notes, Taken from the Most Approved Commentators."
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Fine signature of Princess Grace of Monaco, regally framed with Yousuf Karsh’s iconic portrait of her. Signed, “Grace de Monaco.” The signature page measures 4.5 inches by 2 inches. Double-matted and framed with a Yousuf Karsh portrait. The entire piece measures 16 inches by 22 inches. In very fine condition.
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Bust of Prime Minister Golda Meir. In fine condition. Mounted on a brass base, the entire piece measures 6.75 inches in height. In fine condition.
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London : Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830.
The second and best edition of this firsthand account of Native American traditions and folklore. Duodecimo, three volumes bound in contemporary three quarter green morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, beautifully etched frontispieces by W. H. Brooke in each volume, illustrated withContinue reading "Traditions of the North American Indians: Being a Second and Revised Edition of ‘Tales of an Indian Camp’."
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Boston : The Beacon Press, 1963.
First edition of this collection of interviews done by Kenneth B. Clark. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by James Baldwin on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a small closed tear to the front panel. With a talk with Kenneth B. Clark and with a note about the interviewsContinue reading "The Negro Protest."
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New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 1969.
First edition of Acheson’s Pulitzer-Prize-winning classic. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “For Adolfo Alessandrini fellow author and colleague in the field of foreign affairs, with the best wishes of Dean Acheson October 1969.” Very good in a very good dustContinue reading "Present At The Creation: My Years In The State Department."
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New York : D. Appleton and Company, 1913.
First edition of this historical romance, the first of three novels on Southern heroes; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with six images designed by J. N. Marchand including a frontispiece of a war scene from the book. Inscribed by the author to Philemon T. Sherman on an “Author’s AutographContinue reading "The Southerner: A Romance of the Real Lincoln."
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New York : Simon and Schuster, 1975.
First edition of this bestselling feminist classic that revolutionized the way we think about rape, as a historical phenomenon and as an urgent crisis, named by the New York Public Library’s 100 Books of the Century. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Dorothy In Sisterhood, SusanContinue reading "Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape."
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