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First edition of Ralph Nading Hill's Robert Fulton and the Steamboat; signed by the 40th president of the United States Ronald Reagan
HILL, Ralph Nading. [Ronald Reagan].
Robert Fulton and the Steamboat.
New York: Random House, 1954.
First edition of the author's compelling work on the inventor of the world's first commercially successful steamboat. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated by Lee Ames. Signed by Ronald Reagan on the half-title page. Ronald Wilson Reagan served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989 and became a highly influential voice of modern conservatism. Prior to his presidency, he was a Hollywood actor and union leader before serving as the 33rd governor of California from 1967 to 1975. When Reagan left office in 1989, he held an approval rating of 68%, matching those of Franklin…
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 137258
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First edition of William Gladstone's Speeches and Addresses Delivered at the Election of 1865; signed by him
GLADSTONE, William.
Speeches and Addresses Delivered at the Election of 1865. By the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., Chancellor of the Exchequer.
London: John Murray, 1865.
First edition of the Gladstone's collected speeches delivered at the Election of 1865. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by Gladstone on the front panel, "From the Author." In near fine condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 134982
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First Edition of Gandhi's Autobiography; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
GANDHI, Mahatma K.
Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth.
London: Phoenix Press, 1949.
First edition of Gandhi's autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Fine in the rare original dust jacket, which is in very good condition. Translated by Mahadev Desai.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 134231
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"To Robertson Davies with warm regards from one of your devoted fans": Truman; Inscribed by David McCullough to fellow writer Robertson Davies
MCCULLOUGH, David.
Truman.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.
Early printing of the historian's first Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page to fellow writer Robertson Davies, "To Robertson Davies with warm regards from one of your devoted fans David McCullough (by way of David Ken, who started me on the path with Fifth Business Martha's Vineyard 1993." Robertson Davies was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best known and most popular authors and one of its most distinguished "men of letters." Fine in a fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket and…
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 117749
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"Statesman, Warrior, Writer, and Painter, his genius had few parallels ever": First Edition of Elizabeth Longford's Winston Churchill; FINELY BOUND BY SANGORSKI AND SUTCLIFFE
LONGFORD, Elizabeth. [Winston Churchill].
Winston Churchill: Authorized by the Winston Churchill Foundation.
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1974.
First edition of Elizabeth Longford's photographic retrospective of the life of Sir Winston Churchill, authorized by the Winston Churchill Foundation. Quarto, bound in three quarters morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe , gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated with numerous photographs. Foreword by Anthony Eden. Afterword by Winston S. Churchill, M.P. In fine condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 139533
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First editions of Henry A. Kissinger's White House Years and Years of Upheaval; from the library of Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
KISSINGER, Henry. [Madeleine K. Albright].
White House Years and Years of Upheaval.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1979-1982.
First editions Kissinger’s monumental New York Times best-selling work and its sequel. Octavo, two volumes, original cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. From the library of fellow Secretary of State 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 NATO, no discrimination and no…
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 148202
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First edition, advance review copy of Llyod Lewis's Captain Sam Grant; from the library of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Herbert Donald
LEWIS, Lloyd. [David Herbert Donald].
Captain Sam Grant.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1950.
First edition, advance review copy of Lewis' great biography of American Civil War hero Ulysses S. Grant, with the publisher's review slip laid in. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer David Herbert Donald with three drafts of a review of the book by Donald's mentor and the director of his dissertation at the University of Illinois, John Randall, laid in.; one with hand-written annotations. American historian David Herbert Donald is best known for his 1995 biography of Abraham Lincoln. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography two times for his biographies of Charles Sumner and Thomas…
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 136237
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Rare Typed Letter Signed by the 36th President of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson to Governor of Texas John B. Connally
JOHNSON, Lyndon B. [John Connally].
Lyndon B. Johnson Typed Letter Signed to Governor John B. Connally.
Washington, D.C: 1964.
Rare typed letter signed by the 36th President of the United States to the Governor of Texas. Quarto, one page on The White House letterhead, dated July 29 1964, the letter reads, 'Dear Governor Connally: Today I have wired the Presidents of leading state universities of the nation as follows: 'A number of state universities are engaged in important studies of the development of their states and regions over the next twenty years or so. I am deeply interested in these studies and to further them in any way I can, I am inviting the Presidents of leading state universities…
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 146945
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First Edition of The China Diary; Signed by George H.W. Bush and Jeffrey Engel
BUSH, George H.W.; Edited by Jeffrey Engel.
The China Diary of George H. W. Bush: The Making of a Global President.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008.
First edition of Bush's diary, which he dictated while being de facto U.S. ambassador to the People’s Republic of China in 1974–75. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Signed by President George H.W. Bush and inscribed by the editor, Jeffrey Engel on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 144397
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"Roosevelt has made America the hope of the world": Fiorello H. La Guardia's My Choice for President
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.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 147122
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First edition of The Soldier in Our Civil War: A Pictorial History of the Conflict, 1861-1865
MOTTELAY, Paul F. and T. Campbell-Copeland.
The Soldier in Our Civil War: A Pictorial History of the Conflict, 1861-1865. Illustrating the Valor of the Soldier as Displayed on the Battle-Field.
Richmond and New York: Stanley Bradely Publishing Company, 1890.
First edition of both volumes in this profusely illustrated set, containing large engraved portraits of Lincoln, Grant, McClellan and numerous battle scenes. Folio, 2 volumes, original cloth decorated in gilt, illustrated from sketches drawn by Forbes, Waud, Taylor, Hillen, Becker, Lovie, and Schell among others. In good condition. A rare complete set.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 134950
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Large format lithograph of the Lincoln family by American engraver George Stinson
STINSON, George. [Abraham Lincoln].
The Lincoln Family George Stinson Original Lithograph.
Portland, ME: George Stinson and Co., Publishers, 1871.
Large format lithograph of the Lincoln family by American engraver George Stinson. Framed. The entire piece measures 27.5 inches by 20.5 inches.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 135435
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First Edition of Robert McElroy's Grover Cleveland The Man and The Statesman
MCELROY, Robert [Grover Cleveland].
Grover Cleveland The Man and The Statesman: An Authorized Biography.
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1923.
First edition of this informative view of Grover Cleveland's two terms in office. Octavo, two volumes, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, top edge gilt, tissue-guarded frontispieces. Very good in very good dust jackets, some toning to the spines of the dust jackets with multiple small losses and closed tears. Rare and desirable.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 147737
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First Edition of The Third Reich in History and Memory; signed by Richard J. Evans
EVANS, Richard J.
The Third Reich in History and Memory.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
First edition of this critical examination of how Nazi Germany has been interpreted by historians and remembered in public discourse. Octavo, original publisher's boards. Boldly signed by Richard Evans on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Philip Pascuzzo.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 148428
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"For Teddy Kollek who inspired this book and without whom 'A Will to Survive' would never have been written": First edition of A Will to Survive; warmly inscribed by John Philips to the mayor of Jerusalem Teddy Kolleck who contributed the book's afterword
PHILLIPS, John. Foreword by Golda Meir. Afterword by Teddy Kollek.
A Will To Survive. Israel: The Faces of Terror 1948 The Faces of Hope Today.
New York: The Dial Press/James Wade, 1977.
First edition of the renowned photojournalist's remarkable portrait of the people of Israel. Quarto, original wrappers, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. Foreword by Golda Meir. Afterword by Teddy Kollek. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page to Teddy Kollek, who contributed the afterword, in the year of publication, "For Teddy Kollek who inspired this book and without whom 'A Will to Survive' would never have been written. With sincere best wishes John Phillips Jerusalem April.21.77." The recipient, Teddy Kollek, was an Israeli politician who served as the mayor of Jerusalem from 1965 to 1993 and founded the Jerusalem Foundation…
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 119901
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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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"I called this book Out of Order because it reflects my goal, which is to share a different side of the Supreme Court": First Edition of Out Of Order; Inscribed by Justice Sandra Day O’Connor
O'CONNOR, Sandra Day.
Out of Order: Stories from the History of the Supreme Court.
New York: Random House, 2013.
First edition of this collection of stories from the history of the Supreme Court by the first female justice. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Katharine Johnson with good wishes- Sandra Day O'Connor." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Anna Bauer.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 145918
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"If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies": First Edition of Moshe Dayan's Breakthrough: A Personal Account of the Egypt-Israel Peace Negotiations; Signed by Him
DAYAN, Moshe.
Breakthrough: A Personal Account of the Egypt-Israel Peace Negotiations.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
First edition of this work by Dayan. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Moshe Dayan on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Anthony. From the library of Herbert A. Friedman with his bookplate to the front free endpaper. Friedman was a Reform rabbi who served as the CEO of the United Jewish Appeal and was the founding president of the Wexner Heritage Foundation. He inspired the Wexner Heritage Program seminars, which have now been educating Jewish community leaders for over two decades. He co-founded the foundation in 1985 with Leslie Wexner,…
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 133918
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Signed Photograph of His Holiness the Dalai Lama
THE DALAI LAMA,.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama Signed Photograph.
Color photograph of His Holiness The Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, boldly signed by him. The photograph measures 5 inches by 3.5 inches. In fine condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 140093
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J.M. Thompson's The French Revolution; Finely Bound by Sangoski & Sutcliffe
THOMPSON, J.M.
The French Revolution.
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1951.
Finely bound example of this comprehensive history of the French Revolution. Octavo, bound in full modern morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece, illustrated throughout, with appendices and an index, fourth edition. In fine condition.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 148388