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London: John Murray, 1878. Life on Ascension Island with her husband Scottish Astronomer David Gill to measure the solar parallax-the distance between the Earth and the Sun-by observing Mars, which was then the closest to Earth than it had been for a century. Read More Item Details for Six Months in Ascension. A Unscientific Account of a Scientific Expedition Add to Wish List
Item #317555
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New York: Charles Scribner & Company, 1867. First edition. Mrs. Badger was an illustrator with an intuitive feeling for the decorative, as she amply demonstrates in this book, a companion to her Wild Flowers published in 1859, although here focused on the greenhouse and garden. "Contains 16 very beautiful full..... Read More Item Details for Floral Belles from the Green-House and Garden. Painted from Nature Add to Wish List
Item #366850
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Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press, 1765-1766-1768-1769. First edition. Without the 8-page supplement of addenda and corrigenda, often lacking. Attractive set of this classic, one of the cornerstones of the Anglo-American legal system, and still regarded as the best general history of English law. In these lectures which he gave..... Read More Item Details for Commentaries on the Laws of England Add to Wish List
Item #257187
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London & Toronto: J.M. Dent & Co, 1938. Later printing. Handsome set of the novels of the Brontë sisters. Read More Item Details for [Works] The Novels of Charlotte, Emily, & Anne Brontë. Jane Eyre; Villette; Wuthering Heights; The Professor; Shirley; The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Agnes Grey Add to Wish List
Item #365016
Price: $750
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co, 1905. First edition, first issue with McClure Phillips & co at bottom of spine. Read More Item Details for The Troll Garden Add to Wish List
Item #322402
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[London: 1872]. Published at p. 213 of Mark Twain's Sketches, New and Old (Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1875). An outstanding manuscript leaf of a humorous talk by Mark Twain on women, his “Speech at a Scottish Banquet in London”, delivered in 1872 in response to the toast of “The Ladies”..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Manuscript Leaf from a Speech in Praise of Women Add to Wish List
Item #322027
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Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1891. First edition, first printing. One of the foundation stones of American literature. The second volume of the posthumous poems of Emily Dickinson, which followed quickly the demand that sent the first series through many unexpected printings. This series went through three printings in the first yearoff..... Read More Item Details for Poems … Second Series Add to Wish List
Item #374137
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New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1950. Second Edition, Second Impression. Few published works of the 20th century have exerted the influence or had as devoted a following as Security Analysis. Prior to its publication, investors often relied on intuition or the character of a business owner to make their decisions..... Read More Item Details for Security Analysis. Principles and Technique Add to Wish List
Item #353244
Price: $25,000
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, [1949]. First edition, early printing (code of F-Y, i.e. June 1949, on copyright page, the earliest being April 1949). The Intelligent Investor, first published in 1949, was based on a speculating philosophy developed by Benjamin Graham (1894–1976) and David Dodd while they were teaching..... Read More Item Details for The Intelligent Investor. A Book of Practical Counsel Add to Wish List
Item #354122
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np: [Feburary 1964]. Inscribed on the photo "For Dr. Tavell-with deepest appreciation for everything/ With affection/ Jacqueline Kennedy." Dr. Janet G. Travell (1901-1997) was a New York physician was and medical researcher. She was appointed the personal physician to President John F. Kennedy in 1961. She graduated from Wellesley College..... Read More Item Details for Photograph of JFK and Jackie, Signed Add to Wish List
Item #247810
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920. First American Edition. A book whose prophetic insight into the terms imposed on the Central Powers at the end of World War I is now legendary.“[It]…Has the claim to be regarded as Keynes's best book. In none of the others did he succeed..... Read More Item Details for The Economic Consequences of the Peace Add to Wish List
Item #323171
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London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd, 1936. First Edition. First edition of Keynes’ last major work, the most influential economic treatise of the 20th century, in scarce original dust jacket. The General Theory ranks with the Wealth of Nations as an intellectual event, and, with Malthus’ Essay on Population, as a...... Read More Item Details for The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money Add to Wish List
Item #321337
Price: $16,000
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1841. First edition. First edition of this perennial favorite, on a wide variety of frauds and follies including alchemy, the South Sea bubble, the Mississippi scheme, and Tulipomania. The Financial Times rated it as the second among the top ten greatest books on investment..... Read More Item Details for Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions Add to Wish List
Item #365025
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London: Printed for J. Johnson in St. Paul's Church-Yard, by T. Bensley, 1807. Fourth edition. Malthus is as controversial as he is influential. "The central idea of the essay ... was a simple one. The population of a community ... increases geometrically, while food supplies increase only arithmetically. If the..... Read More Item Details for An Essay on the Principle of Population; or, a view of its past and present effects on human happiness; with an inquiry into our prospects respecting the future removal or mitigation of the evils which it might occasion Add to Wish List
Item #314917
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[Randburg, South Africa]: Macdonald Purnell, 1994. First edition. Signed and dated on the half-title "Mandela 14.6.97" Read More Item Details for Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela Add to Wish List
Item #376917
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New York: n. p, 1971. First edition, stamped "Copyright 1972 / By Yoko Ono" (Most cataloguers note this erroneously and unironically as being published in 1971, and by MoMa, who had nothing to do with this publication). In 1971, "Yoko Ono staged an 'intervention' at MoMA without the museum’s permission..... Read More Item Details for Museum of Modern [F]art. Yoko Ono – one woman show. Dec. 1st – Dec. 15th. For Information Call 675-8138 Add to Wish List
Item #325120
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Cleveland: December 17, 1878. A very rare example of a triple-signed Standard Oil Company stock certificate, for shares issued to Rockefeller himself at an early date, i.e. prior to the company's reorganization in 1882. Read More Item Details for Standard Oil Company stock certificate issued to and signed by John D. Rockefeller, for 505 shares Add to Wish List
Item #374932
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New York: B.C. Forbes Publishing Company, (1934). First edition. First edition in scarce dust-jacket of the follow-up to the author's Stock Market Theory and Practice. "One of the early interpreters of the Dow Theory, editor of Forbes Magazine, Schabacker is the only author credited in the chartist's bible, Technical Analysis..... Read More Item Details for Stock Market Profits Add to Wish List
Item #316818
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1933. First edition. Photographer George Platt Lynes' copy, in the original scarce dust jacket, with his personal embossed ownership stamp on the title page. The American fashion and commercial photographer George Platt Lynes (1907–1955) first met Gertrude Stein when his family sent him to..... Read More Item Details for The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Add to Wish List
Item #369376
Price: $7,000
New York: J.B. Gibson Company, 1893. Centennial publication comprising a list of officers and committee members, a 9-page list of members, an anonymous 30-page illustrated “History of the New York Stock Exchange” from its origins in 1792 (with list of past presidents), with the balance of the volume being illustrated..... Read More Item Details for Souvenir of the New York Stock Exchange Add to Wish List
Item #244131
Price: $3,000
New York: Horace Liveright, [1930]. First edition. Inscribed on the ffep "To Edwin Lefevre with the sincere regards of Arthur Train March 24 1930." A better association copy of this title is hard to imagine. Lefévre was the preiminant documentarian of Wall Street and its personalities in the thirty years..... Read More Item Details for Paper Profits. A Novel of Wall Street Add to Wish List
Item #307818
Price: $4,500
Battle Creek: Review and Herald Office, 1881. First Battle Creek edition. Sojourner Truth's Narrative is a landmark in African-American and women's history. Born into slavery as Isabella Baumfree in Ulster County, New York in the late eighteenth century, she won her emancipation under New York state law in 1827 and..... Read More Item Details for Narrative of Sojourner Truth; a Bondswoman of Olden Time, Emancipated by the New York Legislature in the Early Part of the Present Century; With a History of her Labors and Correspondence, Drawn from her "Book OF Life." Also, A Memorial Chapter, Giving the Particulars of Her Last Sickness and Death Add to Wish List
Item #372277
Price: $300
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1954]. First Edition. Read More Item Details for The Ponder Heart Add to Wish List
Item #214645
Price: $400
London: The Hogarth Press, 1938. First edition. Virginia Woolf's "novel-essay" was written in response to three enquiries she received: 1. How should war be prevented? 2. Why does the government not support education for women? And 3. Why are women not allowed to engage in professional work? Woolf being Woolf..... Read More Item Details for Three Guineas Add to Wish List
Item #376819