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Bollier, David [Madeleine Albright]

The Rise of Netpolitik: How the Internet is Changing International Politics and Diplomacy.

Washington, D.C. : The Aspen Institute, 2003.

First edition of this work on how the internet is transforming global politics and diplomacy. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, bookplate to the front pastedown from “The Private Collection of Secretary Madeleine K. Albright.” The collector, Madeleine K. Albright, was the first woman to serve as the U.S. Secretary of State. She acted under President BillContinue reading "The Rise of Netpolitik: How the Internet is Changing International Politics and Diplomacy."

$175.00

Item Number: RRB-147968

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The Quest for Cosmic Justice

Sowell, Thomas

The Quest For Cosmic Justice.

New York : The Free Press, 1999.

First edition of this work by the award-winning economist. Octavo, original half-cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine unclipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Tom Stvan. Jacket calligraphy by Anita Karl. Uncommon signed.

$1,600.00

Item Number: RRB-148825

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Shanghai of To-Day

Introduction by O. M. Green

Shanghai of To-day-A Souvenir Album of Thirty-Eight Vandyke Prints of “The Model Settlement.”

Shanghai : Kelly & Walsh, Limited, 1927.

First edition of this famous photobook showing views of Shanghai, including the international settlement’s imposing architecture, expansive boulevards, and bustling streets. Quarto, original cloth-backed flexible boards, front panel stamped and lettered in red and gilt with mounted collotype panorama of Shanghai Municipal Council building within printed red border, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with 38 Van Dyke prints inContinue reading "Shanghai of To-day-A Souvenir Album of Thirty-Eight Vandyke Prints of “The Model Settlement.”"

$2,000.00

Item Number: RRB-149089

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New Light on Ser Marco Polo

Cordier, Henri

Ser Marco Polo: Notes and Addenda to Sir Henry Yule’s Edition, Containing the Results of Recent Research and Discovery.

London : John Murray, 1920.

First edition of French historian Henri Cordier’s supplement to Yule’s important work which correlated Polo’s travels with their present-day locations. Octavo, original green cloth with elaborate tooling to the spine stamped in blue, blue spine labels lettered in gilt, vignette of the giant elephant bird which Polo described in his original account, frontispiece. Fine inContinue reading "Ser Marco Polo: Notes and Addenda to Sir Henry Yule’s Edition, Containing the Results of Recent Research and Discovery."

$300.00

Item Number: RRB-148733

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African Game Trails

Roosevelt, Theodore

African Game Trails. An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist.

New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910.

Publisher’s deluxe first edition of Theodore Roosevelt’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth, gilt top edge, photogravure frontispiece, illustrated, 48 plates, map of Roosevelt’s route and hunting trips in Africa. In near fine condition with light rubbing to the extremities. An exceptional example.

$1,250.00

Item Number: RRB-150228

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The Audacity of Hope

Obama, Barack

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream.

New York : Crown Publishers, 2006.

First edition of President Obama’s second book. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Barack Obama in a full signature on the title page. It was signed in Keene, New Hampshire. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Deborah Feingold. Rare and desirable signed using his full name.

$2,500.00

Item Number: RRB-150222

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Political Liberalism

Rawls, John

Political Liberalism.

New York : Columbia University Press, 1993.

First edition of this work which continues and revises the idea of justice as fairness as presented in A Theory of Justice. Octavo, original boards. Signed by John Rawls on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carin Goldberg. Rare and desirable signed.

$7,500.00

Item Number: RRB-150218

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The History of Marine Corps Aviation

Sherrod, Robert

History of Marine Corps Aviation in World War II.

Washington : Combat Forces Press, 1952.

First edition of this authoritative account of U.S. Marine aviation in the Pacific Theater. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with titles and the marine corps emblem stamped in blue on the spine, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with 64 pages of black and white photographs, drawings, and maps. Presentation copy, inscribed “To Larry” and signed on the titleContinue reading "History of Marine Corps Aviation in World War II."

$1,250.00

Item Number: RRB-148753

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Malay Archipelago

Wallace, Alfred Russel

The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan, and the Bird of Paradise. A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature.

London : Macmillan and Co, 1869.

First edition of one of the greatest travel narratives of the nineteenth century and one of the most important early contributions to the theory of evolution. Octavo, 2 volumes, original publisher’s gilt-decorated green cloth with gilt central vignette of an orangutan to each front panel, tissue-guarded wood-engraved frontispiece to each volume, pictorial vignette to eachContinue reading "The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan, and the Bird of Paradise. A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature."

$12,500.00

Item Number: RRB-149865

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Edwards, Jonathan

The Great Christian Doctrine of Original Sin Defended.

London : G. Keith and J. Johnson, 1766.

Rare British edition of this important work by the famed theologian. Octavo, bound in full contemporary calf. In good condition with rubbing and wear to the extremities, toning throughout, and losses to the hinges. Ownership plate to the front pastedown and ownership inscription to the front free endpaper.

$2,800.00

Item Number: RRB-148020

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Winton's Churchill: War Speeches

Churchill, Winston S

Winston Churchill’s War Speeches: Into Battle, The Unrelenting Struggle, The End of the Beginning, Onwards to Victory, The Dawn of Liberation, Victory, Secret Session Speeches.

London : Cassell and Company Ltd, 1941-1946.

First editions of each volume of Churchill’s collected War Speeches, with Into Battle in the first state lacking page numbers on pp. 78 and 294. Octavo, 7 volumes, original publisher’s cloth with spines lettered in gilt, illustrated with 50 half-tone photographic plates, including frontispiece to each volume. Woods A66(a), A89, A114. Each volume is near fineContinue reading "Winston Churchill’s War Speeches: Into Battle, The Unrelenting Struggle, The End of the Beginning, Onwards to Victory, The Dawn of Liberation, Victory, Secret Session Speeches."

$3,600.00

Item Number: RRB-149421

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Wall Street Ventures and Adventures

Wyckoff, Richard D

Wall Street Ventures and Adventures: Through Forty Years.

New York : Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1930.

First edition of this classic work by Wyckoff who implemented his methods of technical analysis of the financial markets (the study of charts showing movements of stock-prices and other data). Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands, giltContinue reading "Wall Street Ventures and Adventures: Through Forty Years."

$1,250.00

Item Number: RRB-150212

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Sun Tzu on the Art of War

Sun Tzu. Translated by Lionel Giles

Sun Tzu on the Art of War: The Oldest Military Treatise in the World, Translated from the Chinese with Introduction and Critical Notes.

London : Luzac & Co, 1910.

First complete English translation of arguably the best twentieth-century translation of Sun Tzu’s seminal work on military strategy, preceded only by the first translation into French of 1772 by French Jesuit Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, and partial translation into English by British officer Everard Ferguson Calthrop of 1905. Royal octavo, original printed yellow wrappers boundContinue reading "Sun Tzu on the Art of War: The Oldest Military Treatise in the World, Translated from the Chinese with Introduction and Critical Notes."

$20,000.00

Item Number: RRB-149882

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The Black Swan

Taleb, Nassim Nicholas

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable.

New York : Random House, 2007.

First edition, later printing of this work concentrating on outlier events. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed signed by Nassim Nicholas Taleb on the front free endpaper, “To Lyle – for the Black Swan affect your life. Best, Nassim.” Fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing and creasing. Jacket design by ThomasContinue reading "The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable."

$600.00

Item Number: RRB-148719

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Cloud rising above the horizon

Bacher, Robert F. [Berlyn Brixner]

Robert Bacher Signed Trinity Nuclear Test Mushroom Cloud Photograph.

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Rare original vintage Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory photograph of the first mushroom cloud from the Trinity nuclear test, the first detonation of a nuclear weapon. Semi-glossy, black and white photographic print of the first mushroom cloud taken at 100 meters and 2.0 seconds after detonation as the mushroom cloud began to form. Boldly signed byContinue reading "Robert Bacher Signed Trinity Nuclear Test Mushroom Cloud Photograph."

$1,100.00

Item Number: RRB-148772

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The Perfect Storm

Junger, Sebastian [George Clooney]

The Perfect Storm.

New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 1997.

First edition of this work, basis for the 2000 film starring Wolfgang Petersen starring George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Diane Lane, William Fichtner, Karen Allen, Bob Gunton, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and John C. Reilly. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Bob- Best, Sebastian Junger” and additionally signedContinue reading "The Perfect Storm."

$1,200.00

Item Number: RRB-150103

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Muhammad Ali: A Third-Year Journey

Ali, Muhammad

Muhammad Ali: A Thirty-Year Journey.

New York : Simon & Schuster, 1993.

First edition, first printing of this photographic record of Muhammad Ali’s career. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated with numerous photographs by Howard L. Bingham of or concerning Muhammad Ali. Boldly signed by Muhammad Ali on the title page and additionally signed and dated by the photographer in the year of publication, “Howard L. Bingham 10-19-93.” IntroductionsContinue reading "Muhammad Ali: A Thirty-Year Journey."

$850.00

Item Number: RRB-148761

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Plan of Attack

Woodward, Bob [Gerald R. Ford]

Plan of Attack.

New York : Simon & Schuster, 2004.

First edition of this definitive account of how and why President George W. Bush, his war council, and allies occupied Iraq. Octavo, original half-cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To President Ford With greatest respect and admiration. Bob Woodward.” Additionally signed by PresidentContinue reading "Plan of Attack."

$1,250.00

Item Number: RRB-148407

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Long Walk to Freedom

Mandela, Nelson

Long Walk To Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela.

South Africa : MacDonald Purnell, 1995.

First South African edition, early printing of this classic autobiography, which has went on to sell over six million copies worldwide. Octavo, original black cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with photographs. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

$95.00

Item Number: RRB-148788

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Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

Russell, Bertrand

Philosophy.

W.W. Norton & Company : London, 1927.

First edition of this classic work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Bertrand Russell on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine third printing dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed.

$5,800.00

Item Number: RRB-150159

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Bob Woodward

Woodward, Bob; Carl Bernstein

Bob Woodward Collection: The Final Days; Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate; Plan of Attack; State of Denial; The Price of Politics; The Last of the President’s Men; Fear: Trump in the White House.

New York : Simon & Schuster, 1976 - 2018.

Collection of seven of Bob Woodward’s famous works from President Richard Nixon to President Donald Trump. Octavo, seven volumes, original publisher’s cloth or half-cloth, six volumes illustrated with photographs. The Final Days (1976) early printing, with signed bookplate by the author and signed by Carl Bernstein on the title page. Shadow (1991) early printing, signedContinue reading "Bob Woodward Collection: The Final Days; Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate; Plan of Attack; State of Denial; The Price of Politics; The Last of the President’s Men; Fear: Trump in the White House."

$400.00

Item Number: RRB-148787

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Arms and the Covenant

Churchill, Winston S

Arms and the Covenant. Speeches by The Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill. Compiled by Randolph S. Churchill.

London : George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1938.

First edition of this important collection of Churchill’s speeches. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

$2,250.00

Item Number: RRB-149282

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Problems of Knowledge and Freedom

Chomsky, Noam

Problems of Knowledge and Freedom: The Russell Lectures.

New York : Pantheon Books, 1971.

First edition of Chomsky’s Russell lectures in honor of Bertrand Russell. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For John Best wishes Noam Chomsky.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Janet Halverson. Uncommon signed.

$1,600.00

Item Number: RRB-148674

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Autographs

[Cleveland, Grover; James A. Garfield; Ulysses S. Grant; Benjamin Harrison; Rutherford B. Hayes; William McKinley; Theodore Roosevelt]

19th-Century Presidents, Vice Presidents and other Dignitaries Signed Autograph Album.

Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott & Co, [1872].

Rare and remarkable autograph book compiled by West Virginia senator and industrialist Henry Gassaway Davis (1823-1916) containing 289 historic autographs, including seven presidents, seven vice presidents, and scores of members of the Senate, House of Representatives, and presidential cabinets, as well as a few other 19th-century notables. Octavo, bound in full crushed levant morocco byContinue reading "19th-Century Presidents, Vice Presidents and other Dignitaries Signed Autograph Album."

$22,500.00

Item Number: RRB-149519

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