Category: Politics & Government

AMERICAN CITY MAGAZINE Volume 43 Jul-Dec 1930

Price: $125.00

Publisher: NY, AMERICAN CITY MAGAZINE CORP : 1930

Seller ID: k200128c

Condition: Good

Six issues of approx. 200 pages each. 1st ed.,8vo, black cloth. Approx. 1200 pp. Articles, photographs, diagrams, and advertisements for city planners and municipal managers and buyers. Hundreds of b/w photos depiciting architecture, roads, and vehicles. Condition: Good; text block is very good, clean and tight. Covers with moderate surface wear and soiling but no significant damage. Ex-libris Los Angelis Public Library with its bookplate affixed inside; penciled price of $8, apparently when withdrawn and sold.
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AMERICAN CITY MAGAZINE Volume 8 January-June 1913

By: AMERICAN CITY MAGAZINE

Price: $125.00

Publisher: NY, AMERICAN CITY MAGAZINE : 1913

Seller ID: k200128d

Binding: Black cloth

Condition: Good

1st ed.,8vo, black cloth. 684 pp. Articles, photographs, diagrams, and advertisements for city planners and municipal managers and buyers. Hundreds of b/w photos depiciting architecture, roads, and vehicles. Ex-libris Warner Brothers Studios research library with its paper seal affixed inside front panel; also ex libris Alfred F. Rosenheim, with his bookplate, -- one of the leading architects in Los Angeles in the early part of the 20th century. His major works include the Hellman Building and Second Church of Christ Scientist. Condition: Good; moderate wear to covers, two large chips at top ...
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Cotton Is King And Pro-Slavery Arguments

By: E. N. Elliott

Price: $375.00

Publisher: Augusta, GA, Pritchard, Abbott, & Loomis : 1860

Seller ID: k200408a

Condition: Fair

Subtitled: "Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartwright, on this Important Subject, by E. N. Elliott, L.L.D., President of Planters' College Mississippi.With an Essay on Slavery in the Light of International Law". ##### 1st ed., (8vo) 908, [4] ad pp. Engraved portraits. Publisher’s brown calf, black/red spine labels. Includes "Liberty and Slavery: Or, Slavery in the Light of Moral and Political Philosophy" by A.T. Bledsoe; "The Bible Argument: Or, Slavery in the Light of Divine Revelation" by Thornton Stringfellow; "Slavery In the Light ...
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Gov. Earl Warren – unique photo signed as 'Pop'

By: Earl Warren

Price: $200.00

Seller ID: s2220722a

Condition: Fine

Signed photograph of Gov. Earl Warren [1891-1974; California] correcting a document or speech at his desk. April 10, 1953, six months before his appointment as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. 10x8", b/w. /////A more personal signature than we are accustomed to seeing, inscribed "from Pop" to his secretary Stella Pauw. The unusual signature suggests a warm familial relationship between the two. We are aware of no other documents signed with this moniker and have seen no other copies of this particular photo. Provenance: A family photo obtained from Pauw's granddaughter....
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Czechoslovak Press Bulletins, 1944, 102 issues

By: Jan Masaryk, Edvard Benes, et al.

Price: $950.00

Publisher: NY, Czechoslovak Government Press Bureau, NY : 1944

Seller ID: k210408e

Condition: Near Fine

War communiques, German atrocities, Holocaust, Soviet Annexation#####Published by the Czechoslovak Government Press Bureau, NY. Vol 4 nos. 1-103 [less issue 46] 102 issues in all; a near complete run of the final year of publication. 11x8.5", 4-8 leaves each. Offset printed from typed originals. Most, but not all, stapled in upper left corner. Each issue contains news about the progress of the war and the occupation, reports of the Holocaust and other German war crimes, reprints of important documents, and speeches by Jan Masaryk, Edvard Benes and others.#####Among significant topics:-Apparen...
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Reflections of a California Governor.

By: Low, Governor Frederick F.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Sacramento, Sacramento Book Collectors Club, : 1959

Seller ID: 000254

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Fine

The texts of a "Memoir" (1877-1878) and an interview (1883) between Low and H.H. Bancroft, in which the ninth governor of California (1863-1867) reflected on his business and political life, with particular emphasis on the Gold Rush, the railroads, and the question of Chinese immigration. Club publication number 7. Limited to 310 copies, printed by the Grabhorn Press. 78 pp. Edited, with Preface and Notes by Robert H. Becker. Quarto. Pp. xiii, [1], 78. Frontis portrait in color. Initials printed in red, yellow and black. Notes, index. Half tan linen over red patterned boards, leather spine la...
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Secret Proceedings and Debates of the Convention Assembled at Philadelphia in the Year 1787, for the Purpose of Forming the Constitution on the United States of America

By: Martin, Luther

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Cincinnati, Alston Mygatt : 1838

Seller ID: 1067

"From The Notes Taken By The Late Robert Yates, Esq. Chief Justice Of New York, And Copied By John Lansing, Jun. Esq. Late Chancellor Of That State, Members Of That Convention Including The Genuine Information Laid Before The Legislature Of Maryland By Luther Martin, Esq. Then Attorney General Of That State, And A Member Of The Same Convention Also, Other Historical Documents Relative To The Federal Compact Of The North American Union." This is a later printing; first published in 1821. Fair condition: Interior is very sound and clean with no loose signatures but some light foxing. Front and ...
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NELSON A. ROCKEFELLER - TYPED LETTER SIGNED

By: NELSON A. ROCKEFELLER

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Washington DC, : 1955

Seller ID: k210414c

Condition: Near Fine

TLS to art gallery owner Earl Stendahl, 1955"Dear Earl://Thank you very much for your thoughtful note of the seventh. I understand the material has arrived and I look forward to seeing it this coming weekend when I am in New York. // With Very best wishes, // Sincerely//Nelson"The exhibition is not identified, but likely the works of Paul Klee. Until its recent closure, the Stendahl Gallery was one of America's oldest continuously operating private art galleries. Art from the Stendahl collections found a home in The Louvre and many other major institutions throughout the world, as well as the ...
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TLS: RICHARD NIXON [Checkers Speech] Thanking the Man Who Helped Save His Political Career

By: Richard Nixon

Price: $1,250.00

Publisher: : 1952

Seller ID: k200224x

Condition: Very Good

Typed letter, signed Dick Nixon . 5 x7 on U.S. Senate stationery, dated October 9 1952. ##### Responding to a burgeoning scandal about his personal finances, 1952 vice-presidential candidate Richard Nixon went on national television to deliver his Checkers speech, one of the most famous speeches in American political history. Nixon s innovative use of television to make an emotional defense of his personal integrity, complete with maudlin references to his wife s respectable Republican cloth coat and his childrens cocker spaniel Checkers literally saved his career overnight. ##### Wit...
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Sacramento City and County Directory, 1869

By: Robert E. Draper

Price: $525.00

Publisher: Sacramento, H.S. Crocker & Co, Steam Printers and Stationers : 1869

Seller ID: k181231h

Condition: Fair

Sacramento: H.S. Crocker & Co, Steam Printers and Stationers. 1869. 1st ed.. 8vo, cardboard covers with advtg, 275 pp. . list of Post Offices on the Pacific Coast, Money Order Offices, General Directory, City Business Directory, State Offices, Sacramento City Government, County Directory, local history and statistics, hundreds of advts. Ex Libris William Neely Johnson, with his signature on p 13. Johnson was Secretary of Californiaâs Board of Land Commissioners, was the Stateâ's second appointed State Librarian [an interim appointment for 4 months in 1870], and brother of Gov. John Neely Johns...
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The BRASS CHECK / A Study of American Journalism -- in scarce 1st state d/w.

By: Upton Sinclair

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Pasadena, Published by the Author : 1919

Seller ID: s200901a

Condition: Hardcover

1st hardcover edition. 8vo, tan cloth. 445, [3 advts.] pp. Sinclair makes "a systematic and incriminating critique of the severe limitations of the 'free press' in the United States. Sinclair called The Brass Check 'the most important and most dangerous book I have ever written.' Among those critiqued was William Randolph Hearst, who made routine use of yellow journalism in his widespread newspaper and magazine business. The text is freely available on the Internet, since Sinclair chose not to copyright the work in an effort to maximize its readership. It went through ten printings in its f...
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Editorials for a Free World

By: Welles, Orson

Price: $575.00

Publisher: Free World Magazine : 1944

Seller ID: k180315e

Free World Magazine, 1944. 1st ed., 8vo, brown cloth. 28 pp. Several of Welles' political writings first published in FREE WORLD magazine between April-December 1994. Welles was an avid supporter of President Roosevelt and his views were often well in advance of political thinking of the time. Very rare: no others online, none in OCLC, no auction records. One copy, with a gift inscription to Welles, is in his papers at the University of Michigan.
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Thought control in USA; Complete proceedings of the Conference on Thought Control, Hollywood ASP-PCA in the US

By: [ASP-PCA] Salemson, Harold J., ed

Price: $175.00

Publisher: The Council, Beverly Hills : 1947

Seller ID: k200128a

Binding: Black cloth

Condition: Fine

1st ed., limited to 250 numbered copies. 8vo, black cloth/gilt titles. 432pp. In 1947, as anti-Hollywood sentiment ran high, ASP-PCA—Progressive Citizens of America—sponsored a massive public meeting protesting HUAC and the increasing use of loyalty oaths. They provided important public and financial support to the Hollywood Ten, a subset of the nineteen originally subpoenaed who were held in contempt and subsequently blacklisted by the Hollywood film industry. ASP-PCA also worked on intellectual freedom issues beyond the confines of Hollywood. In 1947, it organized “Thought Control in the...
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Freiheit der Freimadchen [Freedom of the Free Girls]

By: [Broadside]

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Vienna, J. N. Fridrich : 1848

Seller ID: k210331b

Condition: Very good

Broadside - Freiheit der Freimadchen [Freedom of the Free Girls]Vienna, J. N. Fridrich, July 1848. Folio 9"x15"], 1 leaf printed both sides.#####Rare broadside published during the March Revolution in Vienna, Austria, protesting against the public behavior of girls of easy virtue. And, as the author complains, even the good working girls of Vienna are acting too freely in public. The text is signed L.S., but the author's identity has not been established. #####Scarce; not in Flugschriften im Netz or Sammlung Friedlander. One copy in National Library of Austria https://digital.onb.ac.at/Rep...
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Eulogium, on the Character of General Washington, Late President of the United States; Pronounced at the Request of the Pennsylvania Society of the Cincinnati, Before the President of the United States, and the Members of Both Houses of Congress

By: [George Washington] William Jackson

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Philadelphia: John Ormrod : 1800

Seller ID: k200225g

Eulogium, on the Character of General Washington, Late President of the United States; Pronounced at the Request of the Pennsylvania Society of the Cincinnati, Before the President of the United States, and the Members of Both Houses of Congress Philadelphia, Pa. John Ormrod, 1800. 12mo, original wrappers. 44 pp. Title page continues: "on the twenty-second day of February, eighteen hundred, in the German Reformed Church, Philadelphia." "New Edition." Woodcut head piece and tailpiece. George Washington’s sudden sudden death inspired mourning throughout the US and this is one of numerous eu...
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Paris Sous La Commune / Par Un Temoin Fidele : La Photographie [Paris under the Commune by a faithful witness: photography.]

By: [Photography}

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Paris: Imprimerie Charaire at Sceaux. : 1890

Seller ID: k200312m

5 original issues of the serial format -- published in fifteen parts. ##### 1st ed. stapled wrappers, 10-1/2”x14-1/2”. Five original issues of this serial publication, depicting the events and destruction of the Paris Commune -- photographs of barricades, destroyed buildings, battle scenes. Each issue has eight or nine photographs. Accurate bibliographic information is scarce, but we believe there were fifteen issues published -- subsequently bound in book form. The bound volume was published in1890 and these serial parts were probably published shortly before. While the bound volume is ...
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An Epistle and Testimony from the Yearly Meeting of Friends, held in New-York, by adjournments, from the twenty-sixth of the fifth month, to the second of the sixth month, inclusive, 1828.

By: [Quakers; Society of Friends]

Price: $175.00

Publisher: NY, Mahlon Day : 1828

Seller ID: k200225f

Condition: Good

12mo, original wrappers. 24 pp. Author(s) not identified but with printed signatures at the end of Samuel Parsons and Anne Mott, clerks. The narration begins with a description of the "spirit of unbelief and libertinism, which has long been secretly insinuating itself amongst us." Followed by an account of how "separatists" disrupted the Society's daily business in New York. [In an 1824 epistle, preacher Elias Hicks argued that the most important principle of worship was obedience to the Inner Light, which he considered more authoritative than the Bible. By 1827, Philadelphia Quakers had spl...
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The Ruling Clawss / Cartoons by A. Redfield

By: [Syd Hoff] A. Redfield

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Daily Worker : 1935

Seller ID: k200120h

Condition: Near Fine

1st ed., 8vo, illustrated boards. 184 pp. 160 full-page single-panel cartoons satirizing the capitalist upper class from a socialist perspective, reprinted from the Daily Worker where they ran as a feature from 1933-1935. Illustrated end papers satirizing K-Q cards in red and blue and title-page in red & black. Afterword, "Social Satire" by the cartoonist. "Subscription Edition" published in December, 1935; also published in a numbered edition of 500 copies. Very good-near fine; a clean tight copy with only very minor edgewear, small scuff on front board. Lacking the scarce d/w as usual.
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Engraved Invitation: President McKinley at the Home Market Club, Boston, Mass

By: [William McKinley]

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Boston, : 1899

Seller ID: k210408d

Condition: Very Good

Feb 16, 1899] 8.5x13" folded to 8.5x6.5". Embossed in gold, black engraving. "This invitation entitles you to purchase a ticket; there is no free list." Laid in is a typed-printed errata "Since the invitations were printed, the time for answering has been extended from Jan. 16 to Jan. 21. 3x5" on onionskin. ln which McKInley, in a major address, announceed that the U.S. would hold on to the Philippines until they were capable of self-government "No imperial designs lurk in the American mind." Mckinley's visit to Boston for this address was an important event in his early administration. C...
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Charter, By-Laws, &C. Of The Fire Department, In Worcester (Mass.)

By: [Worcester Mass]

Price: $325.00

Publisher: Worcester: Mirick and Bartlett Printers : 1838

Seller ID: s210825b

Condition: Near Fine

Charter, By-Laws, &C. Of The Fire Department, In Worcester (Mass.)Worcester: Mirick and Bartlett Printers, 1838. [2] 3-20 [4] pp. 3-5/8x5-3/4", original stitched blue wrappers. This booklet contains the Act of Incorporation, Statutory extract, by-laws, amendments of 1837, a list of the Board of Engineers, list of apparatus, and blank certification of membership. [Apparently, new firefighters would receive this little booklet upon membership.] #####CONDITION: A bright, near fine copy with just a hint of light foxing/toning to extremities, very light wear to covers. Tiny nicks at spine ends, b...
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Category: Politics & Government