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First edition King Albert's Book; containing the first appearance of Rudyard Kipling's The Outlaws
[KIPLING, Rudyard; Winston S. Churchill; John Galsworthy; Sir Henry Haggard; Edith Wharton; et al].
King Albert’s Book: A Tribute to the Belgian King and People from Representative Men and Women Throughout the World.
New York: Hearst's International Library Co, 1914.
First edition of King Albert's Book, produced to profit the Belgian Fund. Quarto, original cloth, frontispiece portrait of King Albert, with numerous tipped-in color plates illustrated by Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac, Kay Nielsen, and Maxfield Parrish. Contains the first appearance of Rudyard Kipling's The Outlaws. Very good in the rare original dust jacket which is lacking the spine.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 126384
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First edition of Ethics in Service; Signed by William Howard Taft
TAFT, William H.
Ethics in Service.
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1915.
First edition of this collection of addresses delivered by the 27th president of the United States in the 1914 Page Lecture Series. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Taft on the front free endpaper, "Sincerely yours William H. Taft." In very good condition.
Price: $4,400.00 Item Number: 114863
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Cosway Style Binding by Bayntun of John Fyvie's Comedy Queens of the Georgian Era
FYVIE, John [Cosway].
Comedy Queens of the Georgian Era. [Cosway].
London: Archibald Constable, 1916.
Octavo, bound in full dark blue morocco Cosway-style binding by Bayntun. Both the front and rear panels with a double gilt fillet border around an inner border incorporating ornamental cornerpieces, upper cover set with an oval portrait miniature of an actress under glass, within an ornamental gilt border, lower cover with panel border; raised bands, gilt lettered in two compartments, a repeated ornamental panel in the rest; board edges gilt dotted, turn-ins gilt, doublures and both endpapers of dark blue watered silk, all edges gilt. Extra-illustrated with 10 additional plates. In fine condition. Housed in a felt-lined modern cloth box.
Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 27030
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First Edition of Theodore Roosevelt's Fear God and Take Your Own Part; Inscribed by Him to his Sister
ROOSEVELT, Theodore.
Fear God and Take Your Own Part.
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1916.
First edition of this collection of essays by the twenty-sixth President of the United States. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to his younger sister on the half-title page, "Darling Corinne, read the first chapter and the conclusion, T.R. To Mrs. Douglas Robinson 9 E 63rd St New York." In very good condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An exceptional association.
Price: $12,500.00 Item Number: 132337
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Rare First edition, association copy of Theodore Roosevelt's The Foes of Our Own Household; inscribed by him to his younger sister Corinne Roosevelt
ROOSEVELT, Theodore.
The Foes of Our Own Household.
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1917.
First edition, third issue of Roosevelt's call to arms rallying the United States to engage in World War I. Octavo, original publisher's cloth. Association copy, inscribed by Theodore Roosevelt on the front free endpaper to his younger sister in the year of publication, "To darling Corinne from her brother Sept 19th 1917." Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was the second of four children born to socialite Martha Stewart Bulloch and businessman and philanthropist Theodore Roosevelt Sr. He had an older sister (Anna), a younger brother (Elliott) and a younger sister (Corinne). Corinne began writing at an early age, through the encouragement of…
Price: $12,500.00 Item Number: 140355
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The Documentary Edition of Woodrow Wilson's The History of the American People; Finely Bound
WILSON, Woodrow.
A History of the American People.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1918.
The Documentary edition of this classic work. Octavo, 10 volumes, three quarters morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, top edge gilt, marble endpapers, contains numerous plates and illustrations. In very good condition.
Price: $1,850.00 Item Number: 140457
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Rare First Edition of Lenin's Noviya Danniya o Zeronakh' Razivitya Kapitalizma v' Zemledlti, Vuypusk I: Kaptalizm i zemledbli v Soyed
LENIN, Vladimir.
Noviya Danniya o Zeronakh’ Razivitya Kapitalizma v’ Zemledlti, Vuypusk I: Kaptalizm i zemledbli v Soyed. Shtatat Ameriki. [New information on the Development of Agricultural Capitalism. Part I: Capitalism and Agriculture in the United States].
Petrograd: Zhizn i Znaniye, 1918.
First edition of this work by Lenin. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition. Rare with only one library holding for this, at the State Library of Germany.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 133222
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First edition pamphlet of Charles M. Schwab's Address delivered at the Memorial Service of Andrew Carnegie; inscribed by him
SCHWAB, Charles M.
Address Delivered at the Memorial Service Held in Honor of Andrew Carnegie Tuesday, November 25 1919.
Pittsburgh: Carnegie Music Hall, 1919.
First edition of Charles M. Schwab's Address at the Memorial Service of his mentor Andrew Carnegie. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by Charles M. Schwab on the front free endpaper, "To my friend George Steelman, with sincere regards, C. M. Schwab." In near fine condition. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 117152
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First Edition of Eddie Rickenbacker's Fighting the Circus; Signed by Him
RICKENBACKER, Capt. Edward V. [Eddie].
Fighting the Flying Circus.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company Publisher, 1919.
First edition of this work by the famed fighter pilot in World War I and a Medal of Honor recipient, who with 26 aerial victories, he was the most successful and most decorated United States flying ace of the war. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Signed by the author on the verso of the half-title page, "In appreciation of your confidence Capt. E.V. Rickenbacker." Foreword by Laurence La Tourette Driggs. In very good condition, bookplate to the front free endpaper.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 143022
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Rare 1919 United States Military Citation signed by General John J. Pershing
PERSHING, General John J.
General John J. Pershing Signed United States Army Citation.
1919.
Early 20th century United States Army Citation signed by General John J. Pershing. One page, partially printed, the citation awards Lieut. Colonel Arthur A. Tasker for "exceptionally meritorious and conspicuous services as Colonel Officer of the Base Hospital A09 France". Dated April 19, 1919 and signed by General John J. Pershing.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 120411
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RARE PORTRAIT OF THE FATHER OF SOVIET RUSSIA: VLADIMIR LENIN; SIGNED BY HIM
LENIN. [ULYANOV, Vladimir Ilyich].
Vladimir Lenin Signed Portrait.
1922.
Rare printed portrait signed by the father of Soviet Russia, Vladimir Lenin. One page, printed with a horizontal crease, inscribed by Lenin in the lower portion of the portrait, "VI Ulyanov (Lenin) 28.IV.1922." In very good condition. Matted and framed. The entire piece measures 17 inches by 31.75 inches.
Price: $75,000.00 Item Number: 132168
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Autograph Letter signed by Greek Statesman Eleftherios Venizelos to American mining engineer and diplomat John Hays Hammond
VENIZELOS, Eleftherios.
Eleftherios Venizelos Autograph Letter Signed.
1922.
Autograph letter signed by "the maker of modern Greece," Eleftherios Venizelos. One page, typescript on Delegation Hellenique letterhead, the letter reads, "Lausanne, 7th December 1922 My dear Mr. Hammond, I thank you most cordially for your letter and wish to express to you the deep gratitude that I feel for the promptness with which you have do kindly undertaken to help us in this hour of trial and misfortune. I am indeed very sorry to hear that your daughter has been ill and hope that she has by this time completely recovered. My wife joins me in cordial greetings to…
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 82459
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First edition of James Ford Rhodes' The McKinley and Roosevelt Administrations 1897-1909; finely bound in full morocco by Zaehnsdorf
RHODES, James Ford [William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt].
The McKinley and Roosevelt Administrations 1897-1909.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1922.
First edition of Rhodes' authoritative work on the McKinley and Roosevelt Administrations. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Zaehnsdorf, gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, illustrated. In fine condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 139557
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“ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANT TREATISES ON WAR THAT HAS EVER BEEN WRITTEN”: THE WORLD CRISIS, FULL FIRST EDITION SET IN ORIGINAL CLOTH, SIGNED BY CHURCHILL IN VOLUME I
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
The World Crisis 1911-1914; The World Crisis 1915; The World Crisis 1916-1918 Part One and Part Two; The World Crisis. The Aftermath; The World Crisis. The Eastern Front.
London: Thornton Butterfield, 1923-31.
First British editions of Churchill's important history of World War I. Octavo, six volumes, original blue cloth. Illustrated throughout with maps and charts. Errata slips to volumes I and IV present. Volume I is signed by the author on the half-title page, "Inscribed by Winston Churchill 1948." In near fine condition. Housed in a custom box. An exceptional set, uncommon in this condition and signed.
Price: $14,500.00 Item Number: 130310
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First Edition of David Lloyd George's Where Are We Going?, in the scarce original dust jacket
GEORGE, David Lloyd.
Where Are We Going?
Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton , 1923.
First edition of this work by the former prime minister of the United Kingdom. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Uncommon in the original dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 131326
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“FOR A SIMPLE PENNY PAY THOU BACK WITH GOLD; IF THY LIFE BE RESCUED, LIFE DO NOT WITHHOLD”: First Edition of Gandhi's Sermon on the Sea; in the scarce original dust jacket
GANDHI, Mahatma [Mohandas].
Sermon on the Sea.
Chicago: Universal Publishing Company, 1924.
First edition of this modern corollary to the Sermon on the Mount. Octavo, original cloth. Introduction by John Haynes Holmes. Edited by Haridas T. Muzumdar. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Rare in the original jacket.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 134291
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"Might not a bomb no bigger than an orange be found to possess secret power to destroy a whole block of buildings nay, to blast a township at a stroke?": Winston S. Churchill's Shall We Commit Suicide?
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Shall We Commit Suicide?
New York: Eilert Printing Co, 1924.
First separate edition of Churchill's ominously prophetic article. 12mo, original wrappers. In near fine condition. Rare, especially in this condition.
Price: $900.00 Item Number: 135844
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Address of President Coolidge before the Annual Convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation; Signed by Him
COOLIDGE, Calvin.
Address of President Coolidge before the Annual Convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation.
Chicago: Government Printing Office, 1925.
First edition of this address by President Coolidge. Octavo, original wrappers. Boldly signed by Calvin Coolidge. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom folding case.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 119470
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"Theodore Roosevelt was intensely human. He was dynamic but not sacrosanct": First edition of J. Hampton Moore's Roosevelt and the Old Guard; in the rare original dust jacket
MOORE, J. Hampton.
Roosevelt and the Old Guard.
Philadelphia: Macrae Smith Company Publishers, 1925.
First edition of J. Hampton Moore's intimate biographical portrait of President Theodore Roosevelt. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, illustrated with engravings and line drawings by C.K. Berryman including tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Roosevelt. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Uncommon in the original dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 103580
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First edition of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first book Whither Bound?; signed and inscribed by him to his son
ROOSEVELT, Franklin Delano.
Whither Bound? A Lecture at Milton Academy on the Alumni War Memorial Foundation May 18, 1926.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926.
First edition of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first book, being the text of a lecture delivered by him at Milton Academy on the Alumni War Memorial Foundation on May 18, 1926. Octavo, original cloth. One of one thousand copies printed. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page on the occasion of publication (and within a month of the delivery of the lecture) to his son, "For my son Elliott Roosevelt This copy of his Dad's first book Franklin D. Roosevelt June 1926." Additionally signed by Roosevelt on the title page, "Franklin Roosevelt." Elliott was the fourth of Roosevelt's…
Price: $15,000.00 Item Number: 125163