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Macmillan, Harold

The Complete Harold MacMillan Memoirs. [The Winds of Change 1914-1939, Blast of War 1939-1945, Tides of Fortune 1945-1955, Riding the Storm 1956-1959, Pointing the Way 1959-1961, At the End of the Day 1961-1963, The Past Masters: Politics and Politicians 1906-1939].

New York : Harper & Row, Publishers, 1966-75.

First editions of each volume in Harold Macmillan’s memoirs. Octavo, seven volumes, original cloth, illustrated with photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page of ‘Winds of Change,’ “For Faye Bozin from Harold Macmillan.” Additionally signed by Macmillan on the title page of ‘Pointing the Way’ and ‘The Past Masters.’ Each areContinue reading "The Complete Harold MacMillan Memoirs. [The Winds of Change 1914-1939, Blast of War 1939-1945, Tides of Fortune 1945-1955, Riding the Storm 1956-1959, Pointing the Way 1959-1961, At the End of the Day 1961-1963, The Past Masters: Politics and Politicians 1906-1939]."

$800.00

Item Number: RRB-147300

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Tutu, Desmond and The Dalai Lama

Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu Signed Photograph.

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Rare photograph signed by the two Nobel Peace Prize winners. Color photograph of Archbishop of Cape Town Desmond Tutu and His Holiness the Dalai Lama holding hands in a joyous pose. Signed by each beneath their respective portraits. In fine condition. The piece measures 7.5 inches by 5.75 inches. Rare and desirable.

$1,600.00

Item Number: RRB-147286

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Jackson, Andrew

Andrew Jackson’s Inaugural Address Broadside.

Pennsylvania : Marietta, March 10, 1829.

Rare broadside of the seventh President of the United States’ first inaugural address, printed in the Marietta Pilot six days after his being sworn in on March 4, 1829. Quarto, broadside printing of Andrew Jackson’s inaugural address, the speech reads in part, ‘Fellow Citizens: About to undertake the arduous duties that I have been appointedContinue reading "Andrew Jackson’s Inaugural Address Broadside."

$1,500.00

Item Number: RRB-147278

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Bush, George W. [Laura and Barbara Bush]

Renewing America’s Purpose: Policy Addresses of George W. Bush July 1999-July 2000.

Austin, TX : Republican National Committee / Bush for President, Inc, 2000.

First edition of this collection of policy addresses. Octavo, original wrappers, illustrated with graphs and photographs. Boldly inscribed by First Ladies Laura Bush and Barbara Bush on the cover, “To Nick with best wishes: Laura Bush and Barbara Bush.” In near fine condition.

$175.00

Item Number: RRB-147231

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Kennedy, John F

John F. Kennedy Signed Peace Corps Act Page.

September 22, 1961.

Seventh page of an official printing of ‘An Act to provide for a Peace Corps to help the peoples of interested countries and areas in meeting their needs for skilled manpower.’ One page, boldly signed in the lower margin by President John F. Kennedy. In fine condition. Framed. The entire piece measures 14 inches byContinue reading "John F. Kennedy Signed Peace Corps Act Page."

$12,000.00

Item Number: RRB-145801

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Bush, George W

A Fresh Start for America: Policy Addresses of George W. Bush.

Austin, TX : Bush for President, Inc, 1999.

First edition of this collection of this collection of policy addresses. Octavo, original wrappers, illustrated with graphs and photographs. Boldly signed by President George W. Bush on the front cover. In near fine condition, note to the front pastedown, “signed 1-11-2000.”

$400.00

Item Number: RRB-147236

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Roosevelt, Franklin D

Franklin D. Roosevelt Signed Commemorative WWI Lake Torpedo Boat Company Photographs.

Bridgeport, CT : Lake Torpedo Boat Co, c. May 20, 1918.

Rare vintage photographs of Franklin D. Roosevelt as Assistant Secretary of the U. S. Navy, signed by him. Two gelatin silver photographs showing FDR on his May 20, 1918 visit to Lake Torpedo Boat Company in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the first of Roosevelt seated next to various officials on the speaker’s stand, and the second ofContinue reading "Franklin D. Roosevelt Signed Commemorative WWI Lake Torpedo Boat Company Photographs."

$2,750.00

Item Number: RRB-147241

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Bush, George W. [Laura Bush]

A Fresh Start for America: Policy Addresses of George W. Bush.

Austin, TX : Bush for President, Inc, 1999.

First edition of this collection of this collection of policy addresses. Octavo, original wrappers, illustrated with graphs and photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by First Lady Laura Bush on the front free endpaper, “To Perry & Karen, with very best wishes! Laura Bush.” In near fine condition.

$200.00

Item Number: RRB-147237

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McKinley, William

Speeches and Addresses of William McKinley.

New York : D. Appleton and Company, 1893, [1895].

First edition of this collection of speeches by the United State’s 25th president. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, pale yellow endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of McKinley, illustrated with four additional tissue-guarded plates. Presentation copy, boldly inscribed on the front flyleaf by William McKinley as Governor of Ohio,Continue reading "Speeches and Addresses of William McKinley."

$4,800.00

Item Number: RRB-147248

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Rehnquist, William H

Grand Inquests: The Historic Impeachments of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnson.

New York : William Morrow and Company, Inc, 1992.

First edition, review copy with the photograph of Rehnquist and review material laid in of this account of two of the most significant trials and “cases” in American legal and political history. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Dick Adelson.

$75.00

Item Number: RRB-147306

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Bush, George W

Renewing America’s Purpose: Policy Addresses of George W. Bush July 1999-July 2000.

Austin, TX : Republican National Committee / Bush for President, Inc, 2000.

First edition of this collection of policy addresses. Octavo, original wrappers, illustrated with graphs and photographs. Boldly signed by President George W. Bush in a contemporary signature on the cover. In near fine condition.

$225.00

Item Number: RRB-147230

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Churchill, Winston S

Marlborough: His Life and Times.

London : George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1933-38.

First editions of Churchill’s magisterial biography of his notable ancestor John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough. Octavo, 4 volumes, original cloth, top edge gilt, illustrated with hundreds of maps and plans (many folding), plates and document facsimiles. Boldly signed and dated by Winston Churchill in the year of publication on the front free endpaper ofContinue reading "Marlborough: His Life and Times."

$14,000.00

Item Number: RRB-144235

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Roosevelt, Theodore

Theodore Roosevelt Signed Presidential Appointment.

1906.

Rare original Presidential appointment signed by Theodore Roosevelt as twenty-sixth President of the United States. One page, partially printed, the document is dated 18 January, 1906 and appoints Fred H. Soleel as “an Ensign in the Navy.” Signed by President Theodore Roosevelt and countersigned by Acting Secretary of the Navy Truman H. Newberry. Handsomely cloth-matted andContinue reading "Theodore Roosevelt Signed Presidential Appointment."

$1,750.00

Item Number: RRB-147219

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Roosevelt, Jr, Theodore

Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. Silverplate Presentation Tray.

1924.

Rare engraved silverplate presentation tray. Oval silverplate tray with wire loop sides interrupted on each long side with a vacant panel, raised on flattened bun feet. Engraved in the center, “With best wishes from his old C.G. To one of the most gallant of his officers on the happiest and most important event in hisContinue reading "Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. Silverplate Presentation Tray."

$1,500.00

Item Number: RRB-147200

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Grant, Ulysses S.; Hamilton Fish; Leonard Wood; Joseph Wheeler

Ulysses S. Grant, Hamilton Fish, Leonard Wood and Joseph Wheeler Autographs.

: N.p., [1874-1902].

Autographs of President Ulysses S. Grant, Secretary of State Hamilton Fish, and United States Army Generals Leonard Wood and Joseph Wheeler. Octavo, one page. Signed by Grant, “U. S. Grant.” Additionally signed and dated by Wheeler (“Joseph Wheeler Genl. USA. Apl. 11. 1902″), Wood (Leonard Wood Army Genl USA June 30th 1902”), and Fish (“HamiltonContinue reading "Ulysses S. Grant, Hamilton Fish, Leonard Wood and Joseph Wheeler Autographs."

$3,500.00

Item Number: RRB-146684

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Einstein, Albert

Albert Einstein Signed Photograph.

1952.

Rare original black and white silver gelatin photograph of Albert Einstein. Signed “A Einstein 52.” Full-length group portrait showing Albert Einstein standing with Hadassah National President Rebecca Beldner Shulman and others at his Princeton home in June of 1952 during a celebration marking the commencement of building of the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem.Continue reading "Albert Einstein Signed Photograph."

$12,000.00

Item Number: RRB-72091

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Kennedy, John F

The National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame Annual Award Dinner [John F. Kennedy Signed Program].

1961.

The National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame Annual Award Dinner held at The Waldorf-Astoria in New York City on December 5, 1961, boldly signed by President John F. Kennedy and college Hall of Famer Marshall Goldberg below. President John F. Kennedy gave the address at the annual awards dinner for the National Football FoundationContinue reading "The National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame Annual Award Dinner [John F. Kennedy Signed Program]."

$6,000.00

Item Number: RRB-124804

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[Roosevelt, Franklin D.]

Traitors Three.

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Rare original broadside printing of this anti-Franklin D. Roosevelt and anti-New Deal poem. Duodecimo, original paper. In good condition with some toning.

$350.00

Item Number: RRB-147125

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Hofstadter, Richard

The Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other Essays.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1965.

First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian’s pivotal volume of essays, including the title work that expresses his alarm at “the arena of uncommonly angry minds” that dominates the nation’s politics, manufacturing a “vast and sinister conspiracy… as the motive force in historical events… Time is forever just running out.” Octavo, original cloth. Near fineContinue reading "The Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other Essays."

$350.00

Item Number: RRB-147147

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La Guardia, Fiorello H

My Choice for President.

New York : N.p., c. 1940.

Rare printing of the Mayor of New York’s radio address in support of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal. Duodecimo, original pictorial wrappers. In near fine condition with an ownership signature to the front panel.

$850.00

Item Number: RRB-147122

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Mandela, Nelson

I Am Prepared to Die.

Kent : A.G. Bishop & Sons, Ltd, c. 1965.

Rare first edition of Mandela’s Rivonia Speech. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Boldly signed and dated on the front panel, “Mandela 15.3.06.” In near fine condition. Uncommon signed.

$6,500.00

Item Number: RRB-147121

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Grant, Ulysses S; James G. Blaine; P.H. Sheridan; George B. McClellan; Elizabeth B. Custer

The Great War Library “Shoulder Strap” Set of Civil War Memoirs Including: Memoirs of Gen. W. T. Sherman, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, McClellan’s Own Story, and Tenting on the Plains: or Gen. Custer in Kansas and Texas.

New York : Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885-1891.

Rare Shoulder Strap set of five Civil War histories printed by Twain’s publishing house in its short-lived but impressive decade of operation. Octavo, eight volumes bound in full tan sheep skin with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in five compartments within raised bands, red and black spine labels, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers,Continue reading "The Great War Library “Shoulder Strap” Set of Civil War Memoirs Including: Memoirs of Gen. W. T. Sherman, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, McClellan’s Own Story, and Tenting on the Plains: or Gen. Custer in Kansas and Texas."

$12,000.00

Item Number: RRB-147086

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Fager, Chuck

Eating Dr. King’s Dinner: A Memoir of the Movement 1963-1966.

Fayetteville, North Carolina : Kimo Press, 2005.

First edition of this personal memoir of Civil Rights activism. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the title page, “Durham NC, 2023 For James, The narrative here concludes in early 1966. Chuck Fager. But fifty-plus years later, the story & the courageous black struggle goes on, in some ways asContinue reading "Eating Dr. King’s Dinner: A Memoir of the Movement 1963-1966."

$475.00

Item Number: RRB-146361

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Kennedy, Robert F

The Enemy Within.

New York : Harper & Row, Publishers, 1960.

First edition, early printing of Robert Kennedy’s compelling account of one of the most famous, consummate, and effective Senate investigations in modern Congressional history. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Louise Jennings with Best Wishes Robert Kennedy.” Near fine in a very goodContinue reading "The Enemy Within."

$1,500.00

Item Number: RRB-147087

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