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First Edition of William Rehnquist's Grand Inquests
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.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 147306
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“Lord, grant that I may always be right, for Thou knowest I am hard to turn": First Edition of Truman
MCCULLOUGH, David.
Truman.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.
First edition of the historian's first Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket and illustration design by Wendell Minor.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 145614
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First Edition of Henry A. Wallace's Democracy Reborn
WALLACE, Henry A; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Russell Lord.
Democracy Reborn.
London: Hammond, Hammond & Co. Ltd, 1945.
First English edition of this work on democratic politics. Octavo, original tan cloth, frontispiece portrait of the author, illustrated with black and white plates. In very good condition with toning to the spine, front and rear panels.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 146243
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First Edition of Richard Nixon's Six Crises
NIXON, Richard.
Six Crises.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1962.
First edition of Nixon's first book, a summary of how he was tested in his public life up to the time of losing the 1960 Presidential election. Octavo, original cloth. Facsimile signature of Nixon to the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Sydney Butchkes. Photograph by Philippe Halsman. A sharp example.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 147255
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First Edition of Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties; Signed by Michael Lesy
LESY, Michael.
Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties.
New York: Norton, 2007.
First Edition. Octavo, black cloth with gilted titles to the spine. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Michael Lesy on the half title page.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 799
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First Edition of Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius; Signed by Sylvia Nasar
NASAR, Sylvia.
Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011.
First edition of this sweeping narrative. Octavo, original boards. Signed and dated by Sylvia Nasar on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 47016
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"The sole revenge that maturity can take upon youth for the sin of being young is to preach to it": First edition of Rudyard Kipling's Independence: Rectorial Address Delivered at St. Andrews, October 10, 1923
KIPLING, Rudyard.
Independence: Rectorial Address Delivered at St. Andrews, October 10, 1923.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1923.
First English edition of Kipling's October 1923 address delivered to the students of St. Andrews discussing the challenges and necessity of individuality and independence. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition.
Price: $75.00 Item Number: 123116
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"People have been making war for thousands of years, but each time it is as if it is the first war ever waged, as if everyone has started from scratch": First Edition of Ryszard KAPUŚCIŃSKI's The Soccer War
KAPUSCINSKI, Ryszard.
The Soccer War.
London: Granta Books, 1990.
First edition of this remarkable eye-witness account of "the emergence of the Third World," translated from the original Polish by William Brand. Octavo, original boards. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, small name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $65.00 Item Number: 146973
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First edition of George Edgar Turner's Victory Rode the Rails: The Strategic Place of Railroads in the Civil War
TURNER, George Edgar.
Victory Rode the Rails: The Strategic Place of Railroads in the Civil War.
Indianapolis and New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc, 1953.
First edition of Turner's work on the role of the American railroad system in the military campaigns of the Civil War. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with photographs and maps by George Richard Turner. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Ownership inscription.
Price: $60.00 Item Number: 133073
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First Edition of Shades of Difference; Padraig O’Malley
MAHARAJ, Mac] O'Malley.
Shades of Difference: Mac Maharaj and the Struggle For South Africa.
New York: Viking, 2007.
First edition of this work on apartheid activist Mac Maharaj. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Padraig O’Malley. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $55.00 Item Number: 3557
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"Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody": First Modern Library Edition of the death and life of great american cities
JACOBS, Jane.
The Death And Life of Great American Cities.
New York: The Modern Library , 1993.
First Modern Library edition of the author's masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 145661
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First Edition of Golda Meir's A Land of Our Own: An Oral Autobiography
MEIR, Golda; Edited by Marie Syrkin.
A Land of Our Own: An Oral Autobiography.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1973.
First edition of this oral autobiography by the former prime minister of Israel. Octavo, original black cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Honi Werner.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 146605
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First Edition of Charles Madison's American Labor Leaders; Inscribed by Him
MADISON, Charles A.
American Labor Leaders: Personalities and Forces in the Labor Movement.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1950.
First edition of this work on American labor leaders. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "To Hod and Helen In friendship Charles A. Madison 5-11-50." Near fine in a good dust jacket with some small chips and tears.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 47071
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First Edition of David McCullough's The Pioneers
MCCULLOUGH, David.
The Pioneers.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2019.
First edition of this work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian. Octavo, original boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jackie Seow.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 147398
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First Edition Collection of Bruce Catton's American Heritage: The Magazine of History
CATTON, Bruce.
American Heritage: The Magazine of History.
New York: American Heritage Publishing Co, 1954-1958.
First edition collection of this historical magazine. Quarto, 6 volumes, original pictorial boards, illustrated throughout with photographs and drawings, the collection consists of: Volume. VI No. 1 (December 1954); Volume. VII No. 6 (October 1956); Volume VIII No. 6 (October 1957); Volume IX No. 3 (April 1958); Volume IX No. 6 (October 1958); Volume X No. 1 (December 1958). In very good condition.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 146066
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"If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today": First Edition Of Mikhail Gorbachev’s Memoirs
GORBACHEV, Mikhail.
Memoirs.
New York: Doubleday, 1996.
First edition of Gorbachev's autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with photographs, Foreward by Martin McCauley. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mario J. Pulice. Jacket photograph by Eddie Adams.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 145194
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First Edition of Graham Greene's Lord Rochester's Monkey Being The Life Of John Wilmot, Second Earl Of Rochester
GREENE, Graham .
Lord Rochester’s Monkey Being The Life Of John Wilmot, Second Earl Of Rochester.
London: Bodley Head, 1974.
First British edition of this work on John Wilmot. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 48748
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First Edition of Thomas Flanagan's The End of the Hunt; Inscribed by Him in the year of publication
FLANAGAN, Thomas.
The End of the Hunt.
New York: Dutton, 1994.
First edition of the final novel in the author's acclaimed trilogy. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page in the year of publication, "For Karl- with the very good wishes of Rob's friend, Tom Flanagan June 1994." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $50.00 Item Number: 104779
