Freedom & Achievement from Pen Ultimate Rare Books

First Edition/First Printing of Hazlitt's great novel, originally published as "The Great Idea" by Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1951 (New York, NY). In Time Will Run Back, Hazlitt envisions a future in which the communists won and have been in power for more than 100 years. All traces and artifacts of the ancient capitalist world have been wiped out. Hazlitt himself acknowledged his… Read more about this item

SIGNED by DeLong on front free endpaper. An evidently unread copy in a very good jacket with some bumping, toning, and a closed tear on the back panel. Scarce signed in this condition. Book #v5a3233. $78. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history and science.

SIGNED by DeLong on front free endpaper. An evidently unread copy in a very good jacket with some bumping, toning, and a closed tear on the back panel. Scarce signed in this condition. Book #v5a3233. $78. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history and science.

SIGNED by Beck and opened only by him for his signature. Unread, As New in As New Jacket, First Edition of Beck's novel of political manipulation and corruption. "Change the debate and you change the country." Eerily contemporary. Book #vP5b234. $29. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

SIGNED by von Mises on front flyleaf. Original publisher's green cloth lettered in black; original unclipped dust jacket (light toning overall, with small spot of skinning to spine panel, else fine). FIRST EDITION, of the economist's planned epilogue to his work Socialism (1922). The central point of Planned Chaos is its devastating analysis and refutation of the disastrously "mixed economy,"… Read more about this item

"Beware of the encroachments of the State! The mammoth growth of centralized power has always robbed people of their liberty in the long run." Boldly Signed without personalization by author, this is a fine First Edition of Prosperity through Freedom with No other writings of any kind save the author's greeting and signature on the front flyleaf. One of the… Read more about this item

SIGNED on cover by Gene Simmons, presented here is his story of personal achievement and his support for freedom and capitalism. An unread First Edition copy. You'll never see a finer one! Book #Pv5b109. $88. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

SIGNED by Helen Keller, a framed one-page typed lyrical letter describing her radiant joy riding in an automobile for the first time. This most unusual letter introduces us to the lighter side of Helen Keller, describing an adventure with the confident, benevolent, joyous self-flaunting of a child. "Thanks to your wonderful machine, which brought me home so swiftly on a… Read more about this item

SIGNED Autobiographical Letter by Milton Friedman, explaining his own affiliation with the Boy Scouts, in the Rahway, NJ. chapter, which he helped start when he "was about eleven or twelve." Written in 1981 on Hoover Institution stationery. Friedman was st the time a Senior Fellow at Hoover. Here he writes an autobiographical letter detailing a not easily documented part of… Read more about this item

Rare First Edition of Friedman's canonical defense of classical, 19 Century liberalism. Here Milton Friedman provides his first and definitive statement of his immensely influential economic philosophy, "one in which competitive capitalism serves as both a device for achieving economic freedom and a necessary condition for political freedom." This copy, in the ORIGINAL publisher's blue cloth, has some neat underlinings… Read more about this item

SIGNED by Mike Piazza, perfect condition! "Think," muses Hall of Famer Mike Piazza in his epilogue to Long Shot, "how much simpler things would be if, instead of complicated laws and ordinances, we all followed the Ten Commandments." Unopened, unread Signed First Edition copy of Mike's bestseller. "As he played angry, so he writes angry. He peevishly logs grudges, typically… Read more about this item

SIGNED second printing of Whitehead's memoirs from Goldman Sachs to chairman of Lower Manhattan Development Corporation after 9 11. A very near fine signed copy with no other wwritings or markings save for Whitehead's inscription to "a great leader in his own right." Book #P5b110. $58. We specialize in rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

SIGNED, INSCRIBED AND DATED by author Carl Snyder, whose "thesis is that there is one way, and only one way, that any people in all history have ever risen from barbarism and poverty to affluence and culture, and that is by that concentrated and highly organized system of production and exchange which we call Capitalistic." Seventh printing in extremely good… Read more about this item

All books are sanitized and cleaned for your protection before mailing. Fox and Wilkes First Edition printing of this classic of liberty, a collection of essays on liberty by diverse thinkers as Thomas Paine, Oscar Wilde, Thoreau, Shaw and others, originally published in 1913. A fine copy in a bright jacket with a few tiny stains. Book #P3105. $48. We… Read more about this item

The last edition to be edited by Johnson himself, presented is Sixth Edition of Samuel Johnson's "most amazing, enduring and endearing one-man feat in the field of lexicography… The preface ranks among Johnson's finest writings… It is the dictionary itself which justifies Noah Webster's statement that 'Johnson's writings had, in philology, the effect which Newton's discoveries had in mathematics" (PMM… Read more about this item

"We all want to know why. Man is the asking animal." Coveted, highly collectible First Edition, First Printing copy of Boorstin's bestseller. Signed without inscription on the title page by the author. A lovely, unread copy, opened only by Boorstin for his signature. Book #P5a127. $48. We specialize in rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

SIGNED (sans personalization) on front flyleaf, this is a first edition of The Pete Rose Story in lovely condition. The book is square and tight with no writings or markings of any kind save author's signature. The UNclipped dust jacket is bright and complete, remarkably with no edgewear, with finger-handling evidence on back panel. Book #P5150. $125. We specialize in… Read more about this item

Does Communist China lie? Inscribed to Ronald Reagan by the author. A fine First Edition copy of Ta Ta, Tan Tan [Fight fight, talk talk] in a gently chipped jacket. The inscription to President Reagan reads "To Ronald Reagan--who is wise enough to fight for freedom lest he loses it! With best wishes" Accompanying the book is a copy of… Read more about this item

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIGHTERS FOR FREEDOM. First Edition, Inscribed by Read on the front flyleaf. Read is best known for his two earlier books, Read's Salesmanship and The Abolition of Inheritance. In these brief stories, written in first person to readers, he recounts the battles for liberty--"The inspiring story of Men and Women… Read more about this item