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"Two forces set me on the right path - the first was P.D. Ouspensky and his fourth-dimensional speculation. Then came Ransom and the eldila": First edition of Limbo Tower; inscribed by William Lindsay Gresham to C.S. Lewis
GRESHAM, William Lindsay. [C.S. Lewis].
Limbo Tower.
New York: Rhinehart & Company, Inc, 1949.
First edition of one of Gresham's most significant works. Octavo, original boards. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "For C.S. Lewis - This is a book of confusions but I think the general direction is right. Two forces set me on the right path - the first was P.D. Ouspensky and his fourth-dimensional speculation. Then came Ransom and the eldila. Gratefully, Bill Gresham July 7, 1949." The recipient, C.S. Lewis, remains best known for his timeless works of fiction, particularly The Chronicles of Narnia, as well as his influential Christian…
Price: $12,800.00 Item Number: 149537
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"the greatest British globe makers of the late Georgian period": Fine pair of rare early 19th century of Regency Terrestrial and Celestial Library Globes by famed British globe makers John and William Cary
CARY, George; John and William Cary.
Cary’s New Terrestrial and Celestial Library Globes.
London: J. & W. Cary: 1818; G. & J. Cary, 1833.
Fine pair of early 19th century celestial and terrestrial table globes published by John and William Cary, generally regarded as the greatest British globe makers of the late Georgian period. Comprised of Cary's New Terrestrial Globe, Drawn from the most recent Geographical works, shewing the whole of the New Discoveries with the Tracks of the Principal Navigators and every improvement in Geography to the present Time. London: G. & J. Cary, 1833. Together with, Cary's Celestial Globe, of which are carefully laid down the whole of the Stars and Nebulae contained in the Catalogues of Wollaston, Herschel, Bode, Piazzi, Zach,…
Price: $30,000.00 Item Number: 149735
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Rare carte-de-visite portrait of Abraham Lincoln presented with a "Late Lamented President Lincoln" Memorial Ribbon
[LINCOLN, Abraham].
Abraham Lincoln Carte-de-visite and “Late Lamented President Lincoln” Memorial Ribbon.
Rare carte-de-visite portrait of Abraham Lincoln after the famous "$5 bill" photograph of Lincoln, matted and framed with a rare silk "The Late Lamented President Lincoln" Memorial Ribbon. The famous "$5 bill" photograph of Lincoln (known as O-92) was taken by Anthony Berger in Brady's Washington studio on February 9th, 1864, and of it Lincoln's son Tad later wrote: "I have always thought the Brady photograph of my father to be the most satisfactory likeness of him."The carte-de-visite measures 3.75 inches by 2.5 inches. The silk memorial ribbon measures 10 inches by 2.5 inches. Matted and framed. The entire piece measures…
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 149381
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First Edition of Churchill's Ian Hamilton's March in the original cloth
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Ian Hamilton’s March.
London: Longman's, Green, and Co, 1900.
First edition of Churchill's classic fifth book, a continuation of his coverage of the Boer War which he began in London to Ladysmith via Pretoria. Octavo, original red cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, engraved frontispiece portrait of Ian Hamilton, nine in-text battle plans and diagrams, folding map in color and 4 pages of advertisements for Churchill's works at rear. In very good condition. Housed in a custom slipcase. A sharp example.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 148450
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"One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them": J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings Trilogy; finely bound by Bayntun-Riviere
TOLKIEN, J.R.R.
The Lord of The Rings Trilogy: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King.
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1974.
Finely bound complete set of Tolkien's epic fantasy trilogy which, since its release, has sold over 150 million copies, making it the third best-selling novel of all time. Octavo, bound in three quarter crushed levant morocco by Bayntun-Riviere with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, folding map printed in red and black at rear of each volume. All three volumes are second editions. In near fine condition. A very handsome set
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 149573
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"Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball": Signed limited edition of Mickey Mantle's The Mick; signed by Him
MANTLE, Mickey.
The Mick.
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1985.
Signed limited first edition of the Yankee legend's autobiography, number 152 in a limited edition to commemorate Mantle's 152nd home run, hit in Yankee Stadium on July 1956. Octavo, original boards, gilt titles to the spine and front panel, illustrated endpapers, illustrated. In fine condition. Written with Herb Gluck. Rare.
Price: $1,200.00 Item Number: 149791
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"But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated": First illustrated edition of Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.
The Old Man and the Sea.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1955.
First illustrated edition of Hemingway's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and one of his most famous works. Octavo, bound in three quarter modern morocco by Morrell with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, marbled endpapers, frontispiece, vignette title, illustrated by C.F. Tunnicliffe and Raymond Sheppard. In fine condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 148392
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Handsomely framed Presidential document signed by Ulysses S. Grant as President; appointing James Shaw Jr. as Collector of Customs for the District of Providence in the State of Rhode Island
GRANT, Ulysses S.
Ulysses S. Grant Signed Presidential Appointment.
July 14, 1870.
Presidential document signed by Ulysses S. Grant as President. One page, partially printed and accomplished in manuscript, the document is dated July 14, 1870 and appoints James Shaw Jr. as Collector of Customs for the District of Providence in the State of Rhode Island. Signed at the conclusion "U.S. Grant" as President, countersigned by Secretary of the Treasury, "Geo. S. Boutwell." Handsomely matted and framed with a portrait of Grant and two plaques. The signed document measures 11.25 inches by 16 inches. The entire piece measures 27 inches by 25 inches. In very good condition, folds, scattered toning. A very…
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 149380
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“People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore": 25th anniversary edition of Slaughterhouse-Five; Signed by Kurt Vonnegut
VONNEGUT, Kurt.
Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade, A Duty-Dance With Death.
New York: Delacorte Press, 1994.
First edition, early printing of the 25th anniversary edition of Vonnegut's masterpiece. Octavo, original black half-cloth, pictorial endpapers. Boldly signed by Kurt Vonnegut on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket, name to the half-title page. Local newspaper clipping with a mini-interview of Vonnegut when he went to Pittsburgh to give a book reading laid in. Author photograph by Jill Krementz.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 148433
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"The most important foundation stone of British scientific romance and the science fiction genre in general": First edition, first issue of The Time Machine; inscribed by H.G. Wells
WELLS, H.G.
The Time Machine: An Invention.
London: William Heinemann, 1895.
First English edition, first issue, author's presentation copy of Wells’ groundbreaking “scientific romance” generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel. Octavo, original publisher's oatmeal cloth with titles and sphinx device to the front panel in purple, half-title with advertisements on verso, 16-page publisher's catalogue (headed "Manxman") at rear. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "With the author's compliments." In very good condition. A very rare presentation copy.
Price: $25,000.00 Item Number: 149515
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"We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it'": First Editions of Winston Churchill’s Masterpiece The Second World War; Bound in Full Morocco
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
The Second World War: The Gathering Storm; Their Finest Hour; The Grand Alliance; The Hinge of Fate; Closing the Ring; Triumph and Tragedy.
New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1948-54.
First editions of Winston Churchill's masterpiece. Octavo, six volumes, bound in full morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $4,200.00 Item Number: 148663
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George Rawlinson's popular translation of the History of Herodotus; finely bound in full richly decorated calf by root
HERODOTUS; RAWLINSON, George.
History of Herodotus.
London: John Murray, 1875.
Finely bound example of this foundational work of Western historiography. Octavo, four volumes bound in full contemporary polished calf by Root with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, triple gilt ruling and fleuron cornerpieces to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, illustrated with charts, plans, and folding maps. In fine condition. A beautiful set.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 149248
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"But since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved": First collected edition in English of the works of Niccolo Machiavelli including The History of Florence and The Prince
MACHIAVEL, Nicolas. [Niccolo Machiavelli].
The Works of the Famous Nicolas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence: The History of Florence; The Prince; The Discourses of Nicholas Machiavel; The Art of War In Seven Books.
London: John Starkey at the Miter in Fleetstreet, near Temple-Bar, 1675.
First edition in English of the most important writings of Niccolo Machiavelli, widely considered the foundation of the modern study of politics. Includes The History of Florence, The Prince, Discourses on Livy, and The Art of War. Folio bound in three quarter modern calf over marbled boards with gilt-lettered morocco spine label, modern endpapers but retaining early binder's flyleaves, engraved ornamental initials, headpieces. Without the general title, frontispiece or ads sometimes encountered. Included is “Nicholas Machiavel’s Letter to Zanobius Buondelmontius in Vindication of Himself and His Writings,” which was in fact authored by Henry Neville, the translator of this edition.…
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 148533
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First edition of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii; finely bound in full polished calf by Bayntun Riviere
BULWER-LYTTON, Edward George.
The Last Days of Pompeii.
London: Richard Bentley, 1834.
First edition of Bulwer-Lytton's most celebrated work, a classic of historical fiction and the basis for the 1935 Hollywood film of the same name directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack and Merian C. Cooper. Octavo, three volumes bound in full polished calf by Bayntun Riviere with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Half-titles to vols. II and III, vol. I issued without a half-title. In near fine condition.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 149376
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“These are the times that try men's souls": First complete edition of the collected writings of Thomas Paine; including Common Sense, The Crisis, and Rights of Man
PAINE, Thomas.
The Works of Thomas Paine, Secretary for Foreign Affairs, to the Congress of the United States, in the Late War.
Philadelphia: Printed by James Carey, 1797.
First complete edition of the collected writings of Thomas Paine, including Common Sense, The Crisis, and Rights of Man. Octavo, two volumes bound in full contemporary mottled tree calf with red morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt titles and ruling to the spine, all edges speckled blue. Half-title in each volume, advertisements, sectional title-pages. Includes Common Sense; 16 installments of The Crisis (previous to this edition, only 11 of these had been published); Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal; Dissertations on Government, the Affairs of the Bank, and Paper-Money; Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Verse; Rights of Man Parts I and II, and others. Three issues of this collected…
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 149209
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“May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out": rare complete SET OF J.R.R. TOLKIEN'S THE LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY; In exceptional Condition
TOLKIEN, J.R.R.
The Lord of The Rings Trilogy: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King.
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1956-1957.
Complete set of each title of the The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Octavo, 3 volumes, original publisher's red cloth, top edge stained red, folding map at rear of each volume. The Fellowship of the Ring is a fifth impression, 1956 (first published in 1954), near fine in a very good unclipped sixth impression dust jacket; The Two Towers is a fourth impression, 1956, near fine in a very good third impression dust jacket; The Return of the King is a third impression, 1957, near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Ownership signature and date to the front free…
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 148385
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FIRST EDITION OF F. SCOTT FITZGERALD'S THE GREAT GATSBY
FITZGERALD, F. Scott.
The Great Gatsby.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925.
First edition, first state with "chatter" p.60, "northern" p.119, "sick in tired" p.205, and "Union Street station" p.211. Octavo, original dark green cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Fitzgerald's editor, Maxwell Perkins, and his friend and author Ring Lardner, both considered The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald's most perfectly realized work of art. In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery.
Price: $7,800.00 Item Number: 149987
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"One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them": First Single Volume Edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
TOLKIEN, J.R.R.
The Lord of The Rings Trilogy: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King.
London: Book Club Associates, 1971.
First complete one volume edition of this epic fantasy trilogy which, since its release, has sold over 150 million copies, making it the third best-selling novel of all time. Octavo, original cloth, with several in-text illustrations and maps. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket illustrations of The Shire, Minas Tirith, and Mount Doom are based on Pauline Baynes's jacket design.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 149601
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"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well": The Edinburgh Edition of The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson; Finely bound by Zaehnsdorf
STEVENSON, Robert Louis.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson.
London: Printed by T. and A. Constable For Longmans Green and Co: Cassell and Co. Seeley and Co: Chas. Scribner's Sons and Sold by Chatto and Windus, 1894.
The Edinburgh edition of the works of Robert Louis Stevenson. Octavo, 33 volumes bound in three quarter crushed levant morocco over marbled boards by Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbons bound in, tissue-guarded frontispiece to select volumes, original paper spine labels tipped in at rear of each volume. Appendix volume with tipped-in chapbooks, as issued. One of one thousand and thirty-five numbered copies. this is number 399. Uniformly bound with five additional biographical volumes: Balfour, Life of Robert Louis Stevenson [two volumes, London: Methuen, 1901]; The…
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 149208
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"Their frail human nature was subjected to a strain greater than it was made for; the fires of greed had been lighted in their hearts, and fanned to a white heat that melted every principle and every law": Oil! A Novel; Inscribed by Upton Sinclair
SINCLAIR, Upton.
Oil! A Novel.
Long Beach, CA: Published by the Author, 1927.
Early printing of Upton Sinclair's self-published social and political satire and the basis for the film 'There Will be Blood' starring Daniel Day Lewis. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To William McDougall with kindest regards Upton Sinclair." The recipient, Professor William MacDougall who was a renowned 20th century psychologist, wrote the introduction to another of Sinclair's work on telepathy: 'Mental Radio: Does it Work, and How,' which documents Sinclair's test of the psychic abilities of his second wife while she was in a state of profound depression. Octavo, original cloth. In good condition with rubbing to…
Price: $1,400.00 Item Number: 146702
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First Edition of James Jones's From Here to Eternity; Signed by him and Finely bound by the Harcourt Bindery
JONES, James.
From Here to Eternity.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1951.
First edition of the author's first book, one of the great novels of World War II. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panel, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Boldly signed by James Jones on a page bound-in. In fine condition.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 148705
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"one of the most important works ever published on the American Indians": First Volaire Limited edition of McKenney and Hall's History of the Indian Tribes of North America
MCKENNEY, Thomas Loraine and James Hall.
History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs.
Kent, Ohio: Published by Volair Limited, 1978.
First Volair Limited edition of "one of the most important works ever published on the American Indians" (Field) including some of the greatest American hand-coloured lithographs of the 19th century. Octavo, original publisher's full leather with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, silk moire endleaves, all edges gilt, ribbon bound in, illustrated with 120 color portraits after Karl Bodmer, Charles Bird King, James Otto Lewis and R.M. Sully colored by J.T. Bowen and others, maps at rear of Vol. II. In fine condition. Housed in…
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 148537
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"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do": Limited Edition of The Discourses of Epictetus; Finely Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe
EPICTETUS,.
The Discourses of Epictetus.
London: George Bell and Sons, 1902.
Limited edition of this collection of teachings from the famous Stoic philosopher. Octavo, two volumes, bound in full orange morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe/ Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles to the spine, top edge gilt, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. One of 250 copies printed on handmade paper. In fine condition. Translated by George Long. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 148361
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Rare First edition of Joseph Moxon's A Tutor to Astronomie and Geographie
MOXON, Joseph.
A Tutor to Astronomie and Geographie: Or an Easie and Speedy way to know the Use of both the Globies: Celestial and Terrestrial. [Astronomy and Geography].
London: Printed by Joseph Moxon, 1659.
First edition of this important work concerning geography and astronomy. Octavo, bound in full early calf with gilt titles to the spine, additional engraved allegorical title in Latin, engraved illustrations and woodcut diagrams in the text. First edition with the following issue points: a variant of the title page without "of" before spherical triangles; Numbers "2...6." are enclosed within braces on title page; the words "astronomical...triangles" are gathered by a left brace; With added engraved title (A1v); Caption title on 2C4v: "Ancient stories of the several stars...collected from Dr. Hood." Crone Library 221; ESTC R23159; Wing M3021. In very good condition, period…
Price: $2,750.00 Item Number: 149261
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“SERVE ON HOT BUTTERED TOAST… WITH PINK CHAMPAGNE”: FIRST EDITION OF THRILLING CITIES; inscribed by Ian Fleming
FLEMING, Ian.
Thrilling Cities.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1963.
First edition of Fleming's classic compelling travelogue. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Jonathan from Ian." Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $14,000.00 Item Number: 149998
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"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast": First Bantam Books edition of Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast; from the library of Madeleine K. Albright with her bookplate
HEMINGWAY, Ernest. [Madeleine K. Albright].
A Moveable Feast.
New York: Bantam Books, 1965.
First Bantam edition of Hemingway's international bestseller, a rich and introspective memoir capturing the expatriate experience in 1920s Paris. Small octavo, original pictorial wrappers. From the library of Madeleine K. Albright with her bookplate to the front pastedown which reads from “The Private Collection of Secretary Madeleine K. Albright.” Madeleine K. 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 through foreign policy in the Middle East with the endorsement of military action in Iraq. At the 1998 NATO summit, Albright coined…
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 149161
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“Your self…is other people, all the people you're tied to, and it's only a thread”: Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities; From the Library of Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
WOLFE, Tom [Madeleine K. Albright].
The Bonfire of the Vanities.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1987.
Second printing of the author's first novel. Octavo, original publisher's half cloth, 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 Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001, leading the United States through foreign policy in the Middle East with the endorsement of military action in Iraq. At the 1998 NATO summit, Albright coined the “3 Ds” of NATO, “which is no diminution of NATO, no discrimination and no duplication – because I think that…
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 147422
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"If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet": First Edition of Life; Signed by Keith Richards in the year of publication
RICHARDS, Keith.
Life: Keith Richards.
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2010.
First edition, second printing of Richards' autobiography. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with photographs. Signed and dated by the author year of publication on the half-title page, "Keith Richards '10." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mario J. Pulice. Front jacket photograph by David LaChapelle. Rear jacket photograph by Deborah Feingold.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 148338
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"Considering the fortune you might have lost, you're rich already": First Edition of John Rothchild's A Fool and His Money; Lengthily Inscribed by Him
ROTHCHILD, John.
A Fool and His Money: The Odyssey of an Average Investor.
New York: Viking, 1988.
First edition of "the funniest book about investing ever written" (New York Post). Octavo, original half cloth. Lengthily and humorously signed by the author on the title page, "Considering the fortune you might have lost, you're rich already John Rothchild." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Neil Stuart. Jacket illustration by Rafal Olbinski.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 148329
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First American Edition of Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn's The Oak and The Calf: Sketches of Literary Life in the Soviet Union; From the library of Secretary Madeleine K. Albright
SOLZHENITSYN, Aleksandr I. [Madeleine K. Albright].
The Oak and The Calf: Sketches of Literary Life in the Soviet Union.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1980.
First American edition of master novelist and historian Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn's personal narrative to publish his work in his own country. Octavo, original publisher's cloth, bookplate to the front pastedown from “The Private Collection of Secretary Madeleine K. Albright.” Madeleine K. 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 through foreign policy in the Middle East with the endorsement of military action in Iraq. At the 1998 NATO summit, Albright coined the “3 Ds” of NATO, “which is no diminution of…
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 147594
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"One of the greatest books printed in England in the early 17th century... a cornerstone work in historiography": Rare 1677 printing of Sir Walter Raleigh's The History of the World In Five Books; uniformly bound with its second part by Alexander Ross
RALEIGH, Sir Walter. [Alexander Ross].
The History of the World, In Five Books. [with] The History of the World: The Second Part, In Six Books: Being a Continuation of the famous History of Sir Walter Raleigh, Knight.
London: Printed for Robert White, T. Basset, J. Wright, R. Chiswell, G. Dawes and T. Sawbridge, 1677; London: Printed for John Saywell, 1652.
Rare 1677 printing of Sir Walter Raleigh's renowned unfinished world history, written while he was imprisoned in the Tower of London and first published in 1614; uniformly bound with a rare first edition of its second part, being a continuation by Alexander Ross. Folio, two volumes bound in full diced calf with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling and blind-stamping to the spine in five compartments within double raised gilt bands, rebacked retaining original spine, double gilt ruling and stamped scrolling to the front and rear panels, marbled endpapers, all edges speckled red. The History of the World, In Five Books with engraved frontispiece…
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 149130
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First Edition of Fire in the Belly; Inscribed by Sam Keen
KEEN, Sam.
Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man.
New York: Bantam Books, 1991.
First edition of this seminal work that challenges traditional conceptions of masculinity. Octavo, original half-cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Ron Loan Sam Keen." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Kuso Sano.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 148302
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Rare First Edition of Dorothy Parker's Enough Rope: Poems
PARKER, Dorothy.
Enough Rope: Poems.
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926.
Rare first edition of Parker’s poignant collection of poetry exploring the complexities of human nature. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth over marbled paper covered boards. In very good condition, name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 147800
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"Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever": First edition of Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia
JEFFERSON, Thomas.
Notes on the State of Virginia.
Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by Prichard and Hall, 1788.
Rare first American edition of the most important book published in America before 1800 and the only full-length book published by Jefferson during his lifetime. Octavo, bound in full contemporary sheep, rebacked retaining the original spine with gilt ruling and morocco spine label lettered in gilt, full-page "Eye-Draught of Madison's Cave" woodcut, folding letterpress table of the Indian tribes of Virginia, letterpress tables in text, 4 pages of advertisements. In very good condition with rubbing and wear, early ownership name to title page. Bookplate of William Fletcher Boogher to the pastedown.
Price: $8,200.00 Item Number: 149308
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Rare First Latin Edition of Galileo Galilei's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems; the summation of his astronomical thought and the work which directly precipitated his 1663 trial
GALILEI, Galileo. Translated by Matthias Berneger.
Systema Cosmicum, Authore Galilaeo Galilaei… in quo Quatuor Dialogis, de Duobus Maximus Mundi Systematibus, Ptolemaico & Copernicano. [Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems].
Strassburg: Impensis Elzeviriorum, Typis Davidis Hautti, 1635.
First Latin edition of the Dialogo, the summation of Galileo's astronomical thought and the work which directly precipitated his 1663 trial and judgement for heresy. Preceded only by the first Italian edition, published in Florence in 1632. Quarto, bound in full red Jansenist morocco by Marius Michel with gilt titles and five raised bands to the spine, double gilt ruled turn-ins and elaborately gilt ruled and scrolled inner dentelles stamp-signed by Michel, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Additional engraved title page depicting a dialogue between Aristotle, Ptolemy and Copernicus, engraved portrait of Galileo by Jacob van der Heyden, errata leaf.…
Price: $22,500.00 Item Number: 149168
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"To President William H. Taft with the highest appreciation of Booker T. Washington": First edition, association copy of The Story of the Negro; inscribed by Booker T. Washington to William Howard Taft as his advisor in the first year of Taft's presidency
WASHINGTON, Booker T. [William Howard Taft].
The Story of the Negro: The Rise of the Race from Slavery and The Negro as a Freeman.
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1909.
First edition, association copy of Booker T. Washington's significant history of Americans of African descent, inscribed by him to William Howard Taft as his advisor in the first year of Taft's presidency. Octavo, two volumes, original publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to the spine, top edge gilt, tissue-guarded photographic frontispiece portrait of Booker T. Washington by George G. Rockwood. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper of in the year of publication and first year of Taft's presidency in volume 1, "To President William H. Taft with the highest appreciation of Booker T. Washington Tuskegee,…
Price: $28,000.00 Item Number: 149850
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First Edition of A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House; Signed by Arthur Schlesinger
SCHLESINGER, Arthur M.
A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy In the White House.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965.
First edition, first printing of the historian's classic work on the Kennedy administration's first thousand days. Octavo, original blue and red cloth, top stain yellow, illustrated. Boldly signed Arthur Schlesinger on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 148267
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"From Apollo 8, good night, Merry Christmas and God bless all on Earth": Souvenir Apollo 8 Mission Report; Signed with a quote by Frank Borman
BORMAN, Frank.
Frank Borman Signed Apollo 8 Mission Report.
Houston, TX: National Aeronautics and Space Administration / Manned Spacecraft Center, 1969.
Apollo 8 Mission Report describing the observations and objectives, trajectory, biomedical evaluations, and anomalies of the mission flight. Quarto, original wrappers, unbound. Signed on the front panel with a quote by Apollo astronaut Frank Borman from their famous Christmas broadcast from space, "From Apollo 8, good night, Merry Christmas and God bless all on Earth. Frank Borman Apollo 8 CDR." In fine condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 147240
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First edition of Dickens' Oliver Twist
DICKENS, Charles.
Oliver Twist.
London: Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars, 1846.
First single volume edition of “the most perfect of all the Dickens novels” (Virginia Woolf). Octavo, bound in full polished calf by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. With black and white illustrations done by George Cruikshank. In near fine condition, bookplate to the front pastedown. Housed in a custom marbled slipcase.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 149159
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Rare sketch signed by internet pioneer Vint Cerf
CERF, Vint.
Vint Cerf Sketch Signed.
1977.
Rare autograph sketch signed by internet pioneer Vint Cerf. One page, the sketch draws a set of connections between Packet Radio Network (PRNET), Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), and Atlantic Packet Satellite Network (SATNET). Boldly signed in black felt tip. In fine condition. A fine and rare example of the inventive process behind this modern marvel.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 147510
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"Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please": First Edition of Joseph Conrad's The Rover
CONRAD, Joseph.
The Rover.
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923.
First American edition of the last complete novel by Joseph Conrad. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket, bookplate to the front pastedown.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 147454
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First Edition of Young's Rommel; From the Library of Legendary Writer Raymond Chandler
YOUNG, Desmond [Raymond Chandler].
Rommel.
London: Collins, 1950.
First edition of this seminal biography that examines the life and military career of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, from the library of Raymond Chandler with his ownership stamp to the front free endpaper. Octavo, original publisher's full cloth. Raymond Chandler was a novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression. His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in 1933 in Black Mask, a popular pulp magazine. His first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939. In addition to his short stories, Chandler…
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 149311
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"All good things-trout as well as eternal salvation-come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy": First Edition of A River Runs Through It
MACLEAN, Norman.
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories.
Chicago: The University of Chicago, 1976.
First edition, first printing one of only 1,577 copies of Maclean's first book. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, name, bookplate. Jacket photograph by Joel Snyder. A sharp example.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 149963
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"one of the most decorative maps of the Holy Land of the 17th century": Rare engraved hand-colored map of the Holy Land
[HONDIUS, Jodocus].
Terra Sancta quae in Sacris Terra Promissionis olim Palestina [Holy Land Map].
Amsterdam: Blaeu, Willem, 1629.
Copper engraved, hand-colored map of one of the most decorative maps of the Holy Land of the 17th century. One page with hand-colored borders, the map depicts the tribes of Israel and the route the Israelites took from Egypt through Sinai into Canaan. In the sea there are three sea monsters, one of which has targeted a fishing vessel. The title cartouche is guarded by two dogs, draped with fruit, and flanked by Moses inscribing the ten commandments and a Jewish high priest. German text on the verso. In near fine condition with damp staining to the lower edge.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 147519
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“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road": First Edition of Jack Kerouac's On The Road; inscribed by his only child Jan Kerouac
KEROUAC, Jack.
On The Road.
New York: The Viking Press, 1957.
First edition of Kerouac's classic novel. Octavo, original black cloth, top stain red. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author's daughter, "For Allen MacGuire Best wishes, Jan Kerouac." Jan Kerouac was a writer and the only child of Jack Kerouac and Joan Haverty Kerouac. She published three semi-autobiographical novels, Baby Driver: A Story About Myself in 1981, Trainsong in 1988 and posthumously published Parrot Fever in 2005. Near fine in a very good original price-clipped dust jacket with expert restoration to the extremities. Jacket design by Bill English. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 148125
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“A powerful novel of exploration and consequence, where the most alien landscape is the human mind": First Edition of Gateway; Signed twice by Frederik Pohl
POHL, Frederik.
Gateway.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1977.
First edition of the master of science fiction's suspenseful mystery adventure. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Susan- Frederik Pohl 196." Additionally signed by Frederik Pohl on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. An exceptional example, rare and desirable signed twice by Pohl.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 148090
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“ECONOMIC FREEDOM IS AN INDISPENSABLE MEANS TOWARD THE ACHIEVEMENT OF POLITICAL FREEDOM”: Rare First Edition of Milton Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom; With An Autographed Notecard Laid In
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. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light wear with a laid in signature of Milton Friedman. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. An exceptional example.
Price: $6,800.00 Item Number: 148398
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Rare Photographic Print of the Hiroshima mushroom cloud; signed by Enola Gay crew members Paul Tibbets and Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk
TIBBETS, Paul; Theodore Van Kirk.
Paul Tibbets and Theodore “Dutch” Van Kirk Signed Photographic Print.
1945.
Distinctive photograph of the Hiroshima mushroom cloud signed by two crew members of the Enola Gay. Black and white photographic print of the Hiroshima mushroom cloud captured just after the release of the "Little Boy" atomic bomb. Boldly signed in silver felt tip by, "Paul W. Tibbets Pilot B29 Enola Gay 6 Aug. 1945," and black ball point by, "Dutch Van Kirk Navigator - Enola Gay Hiroshima - 6 Aug. 1945." In fine condition. The photographic print measures 8.5 inches by 11 inches.
Price: $1,100.00 Item Number: 147781
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Allan Eckert's Classic The Frontiersmen: A Narrative; Inscribed by Him
ECKERT, Allan W.
The Frontiersmen: A Narrative.
Ashland, Kentucky: Jesse Stuart Foundation, 2001.
First edition of the re-issue of Eckert's classic work. Octavo, original cloth, Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Ed- With warmest good wishes! Allan Eckert." With photograph of the author laid in. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Art by John Alan Maxwell. Jacket design by Brett Nance. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 149902
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“MONEY CAN CONSISTENTLY BY MADE THROUGH INTELLIGENT, LONG-TERM INVESTING”: First Edition of Philip A. Fisher's Conservative Investors Sleep Well
FISHER, Philip A.
Conservative Investors Sleep Well.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1975.
First edition of Philip Fisher's third book. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Ronald Clyne. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 148127
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"one of the greatest investment books of the 20th Century"; Philip Fisher's Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits
FISHER, Philip A.
Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits.
New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1958.
First edition, early printing of Fisher's classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Foreword by Jeremy C. Jenks. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 148126
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Rare photograph signed by THE PILOT OF THE ENOLA GAY, PAUL TIBBETS
TIBBETS, Paul W.
Paul Tibbets Signed Photograph.
Rare black and white photograph of the pilot of the Enola Gay, Paul Tibbets. Signed and dated by Tibbets, "Paul Tibbets, Pilot 6 AUG 1945." The entire piece measures 10 inches by 8 inches. In fine condition.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 147884
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"We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it": First Editions of Winston Churchill’s Masterpiece The Second World War
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
The Second World War: The Gathering Storm; Their Finest Hour; The Grand Alliance; The Hinge of Fate; Closing the Ring; Triumph and Tragedy.
London: Cassell & Company, 1948-54.
First editions of each volume in Churchill’s World War II masterpiece. Octavo, six volumes, finely bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within gilt raised bands, ruled borders to the front and rear panels, marbled endpapers, original red silk ribbon, top stain red, illustrated with in-line and folding maps and documents. Each are in very good to near fine condition with some rubbing to the extremities.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 147347
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First Edition of Doder's Shadows and Whispers: Power Politics Inside the Kermlin from Brezhnev to Gorbachev; From the library of Madeleine K. Albright
DODER, Dusko [Madeleine Albright].
Shadows and Whispers: Power Politics Inside the Kermlin from Brezhnev to Gorbachev.
New York: Random House, 1986.
First edition of the Soviet Union's leadership during the final decades. Octavo, original publisher's half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. From the library of Madeleine K. Albright with her bookplate. 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 through foreign policy in the Middle East with the endorsement of military action in Iraq. At the 1998 NATO summit, Albright coined the “3 Ds” of NATO, “which is no diminution of NATO, no discrimination and no duplication – because I…
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 149084
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First Edition of The Peace Puzzle: America's Quest For Arab-Israeli Peace, 1989-2011; From the Library of Secretary Madeleine K. Albright
KURTZER, Daniel C.; Scott B. Lasensky; William B. Quandt; Steven L. Spiegel; Shibley Z. Telhami [Madeleine Albright].
The Peace Puzzle: America’s Quest For Arab-Israeli Peace, 1989-2011.
Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2013.
First edition of this informative account of the United States' role in attempting to achieve Arab-Israeli peace. Octavo, original publisher's black boards, illustrated with a map of The Syrian-Israeli Frontier, bookplate to the front pastedown from ‘The Private Collection of Secretary Madeleine K. Albright’. The recipient, Madeleine K. 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 through foreign policy in the Middle East with the endorsement of military action in Iraq. At the 1998 NATO summit, Albright coined the “3 Ds”…
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 147354
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Rare Stock Certificate for American Express; Signed by American Bussinessman William Fargo
FARGO, William.
William Fargo Signed Stock Certificate for American Express Company.
New York: American Express Company, 1873.
Rare American Express Company stock certificate signed by American businessman William Fargo. Imperial octavo, one page with the "Safety & Dispatch" vignette of the dog (mascot of American Express) at the center, number 10855. The certificate is dated February 3, 1873 and issues five shares at $100 each of Capital Stock to S. Kahn & Bro. Partially printed document signed by "Wm G. Fargo" as President, "Alex Holland" as Treasurer, and "J. N. Knapp" as Secretary. In very good condition with cancellation stamp and cancel on the front, light toning. Transfer information present on verso. The piece measures 11.5 inches…
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 148073
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Rare large format broadside containing Andrew Jackson's Proclamation to the people of the United States regarding the Nullification Crisis of 1832
JACKSON, Andrew.
Proclamation by Andrew Jackson, President of the United States.
10 December 1832.
Rare broadside containing the entirety of President Andrew Jackson's Proclamation to the people of the United States in the wake of the Nullification Crisis of 1832. Dated December 10, 1832, one page, typescript. The Nullification Crisis of 1832-1833 was a confrontation between South Carolina and the federal government over tariffs, where South Carolina declared federal tariffs null and void within its borders, leading to a near-civil war that was resolved by a compromise tariff and the Force Bill. Here, Jackson declares South Carolina's actions "incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle…
Price: $4,800.00 Item Number: 148260
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The Story of the Winged-S; inscribed by Igor Sikorsky
SIKORSKY, Igor.
The Story of the Winged-S: Late Developments and Recent Photographs of the Helicopter.
New York: Dodd, Meade & Company, 1958.
First edition, early printing of the autobiography of the Russian-American aviation pioneer and designer of the first viable American helicopter. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Jack Sloane with kindest personal regards of I. Sikorsky Jan 25 1963." Very good in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 148067
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First edition of Schwartzberg's Transforming the United Nations System: Designs for a Workable World; inscribed by him and from the library of Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
SCHWARTZBERG, Joseph E. [Madeleine Albright].
Transforming the United Nations System: Designs for a Workable Workable World.
New York: United Nations University Press, 2013.
First edition of Schwartzberg's examination of the structural limitations of the United Nations. Octavo, original publisher's wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by author on the front free endpaper, "June 2016 To Madeleine Albright, With hope for a more workable and better world. Joe Schwartzberg." The recipient, Madeleine K. 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 through foreign policy in the Middle East with the endorsement of military action in Iraq. At the 1998 NATO summit, Albright coined the “3 Ds” of…
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 149061
