Works of John Locke

“THE MOST WORTHY… OF THE GREAT PHILOSOPHERS”

LOCKE, John. Works of John Locke. London, 1777. Four volumes.

Eighth edition—"generally considered the best" edition (Christophersen, 89)—of the collected works of Locke, edited by Bishop Law, with copper-engraved frontispiece portrait and large folding outline of the Essay, handsomely bound. $9500.

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Confessions of J.J. Rousseau

“I HAVE RESOLVED ON AN ENTERPRISE WHICH HAS NO PRECEDENT, AND WHICH, ONCE COMPLETE, WILL HAVE NO IMITATION”

ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques. Confessions of J.J. Rousseau. London, 1783.

Rare first edition in English of Rousseau’s magnificent Confessions and Reveries (its sequel and complement), considered among Rousseau’s finest works. $8800.

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Effective Executive

INSCRIBED BY PETER DRUCKER

DRUCKER, Peter F. Effective Executive. New York, 1966.

First edition of this analysis of "the practices the executive must master in order to be truly effective," inscribed by Drucker on the front free endpaper, "To S— M. S—- in old friendship. Peter F. Drucker. With an autograph note from Drucker, on his printed stationery, that reads in part "effective executives have more urgent things to do than to read this book—and whether it'll help the others, I very much doubt… PD." $7500.

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People's History of the United States

"A DIFFERENT WAY OF THINKING ABOUT THE WORLD, ABOUT WAR, ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS, ABOUT EQUALITY"

ZINN, Howard. People's History of the United States. New York, 1980.

First edition of Zinn's controversial work that challenged "a generation to rethink America’s past," signed and dated by him across the expanse of the title page, in very scarce dust jacket. $5200.

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Conquest of Everest

SIGNED BY SIR EDMUND HILLARY AND THE AUTHOR, WITH ADDED FULL-PAGE ORIGINAL ARTWORK BY "DICK TRACY" CARTOONIST RICHARD LOCHER

(HILLARY, Edmund) HUNT, John. Conquest of Everest. New York, 1954.

First American edition of the official account of the first summit of Mount Everest, signed on the front free endpaper by Edmund Hillary and author Sir John Hunt, leader of the 1953 British expedition to Mount Everest; on the same page is a charming full-page color drawing of a smiling mountaineer in climbing gear near a summit, done by cartoonist Dick Locher. $4200.

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One Special Summer

“GOD—YOU’RE MORE TROUBLE THAN ANYONE WE’VE HAD ON THIS SHIP!!”

BOUVIER, Jacqueline and BOUVIER, Lee. One Special Summer. New York, 1974.

Signed limited first edition of this delightful memoir written by the Bouvier sisters about their summer in Europe, one of only 500 copies, signed by Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis and Lee Bouvier Radziwill. $3200.

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Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist

“HERE I SIT IN ORDER TO WRITE, AT THE AGE OF 67, SOMETHING LIKE MY OWN OBITUARY”

(EINSTEIN, Albert). Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist. Evanston, 1949.

First trade edition of this collection, including the only autobiography written by Einstein, "the greatest physicist of the 20th century" (PMM). $2400.

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Speech by The Prime Minister

"NEVER IN THE FIELD OF HUMAN CONFLICT WAS SO MUCH OWED BY SO MANY TO SO FEW"

CHURCHILL, Winston. Speech by The Prime Minister. London, 1940.

First edition of Churchill's famous 1940 address to the House of Commons at the height of the Second World War, one of history's most stirring and influential speeches. $1750.

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We Shall Overcome

"THE CENTRAL IMPORTANCE OF SONG TO THE MOVEMENT"

(LYON, Danny) (LEWIS, John) CARAWAN, Guy and CARAWAN, Candie. We Shall Overcome. New York, 1963.

First edition, first printing, of one of the first and most influential works issued by the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), with over 40 songs & over 50 photographic illustrations, many by Danny Lyon, whose powerful images of young black activists and ordinary men and women affirm that "every person in the ranks of the movement had already achieved a revolution." $1050.

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