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Ny , NY: Stein & Day. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. We fit archival quality clear acrylic covers for additional protection whenever possible. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 225 pages; Some inked commentaries by a budding diplomat, Greig Crichton. Signed and dedicated on title page. DJ rubbed. International diplomacy. ; Signed by Author .

Lancaster, PA: Printed By the Reporter. Good with no dust jacket. 1805. First Edition. Hardcover. Law; Impeachment; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 491, 86 pages; REPORT OF THE TRIAL AND ACQUITTAL OF EDWARD SHIPPEN, ESQUIRE, CHIEF JUSTICE, AND JASPER YEATES AND THOMAS SMITH, ESQUIRES, ASSISTANT JUSTICES, OF THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA, ON AN IMPEACHMENT, BEFORE THE SENATE OF THE COMMONWEALTH, JANUARY, 1805, by William Hamilton. Printed by the reporter, Lancaster, PA, 1805, Edward Shippen, 1729-1806; Jasper Yeates, 1745-1817; Thomas Smith, 1745-1809, defendants. Sabin 30039; Shaw & Shoemaker 9353. Edward Shippen, IV 1729-1806 was lawyer, judge, government official and prominent figure in colonial and post-revolutionary Philadelphia. In 1791, he was appointed to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, serving with Jasper Yeates and Edward Burd, both kinsmen and former students. Shippen became chief justice in 1799, but in 1804 was impeached on flimsey, political grounds. The next year the… Read More

N Y, N Y: Social SCIENCE PUBLISHERS. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1926. Presumed 1st. Paperback. SHORT 8 VO; 32 pages; British Labor bids for Power: The Historic Scarboro Conference of the Trades Union Congress . Discusses world events in labor. .

New York: A Call To Service. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 x 12.75"; xvii/202 pages; Flat signed on half title. Owners name in small black marker on first blank. Author: John Kerry - John Forbes Kerry is an American politician who is the 68th and current United States Secretary of State. He served as a United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1985 to 2013, and was chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Kerry was the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party in the 2004 Presidential Election, who lost to incumbent President George W. Bush. The son of an Army Air Corps veteran, Kerry was born in Aurora, Colorado. He attended boarding school in Massachusetts and New Hampshire and went on to graduate from Yale University class of 1966, where he majored in political science and became a member of the influential Skull and Bones secret society. He enlisted in the Naval Reserve in 1966, and during 1968-1969 served an abbreviated four-month… Read More

Printed for Edward Valentine. Fair with no dust jacket. 1721. Second Edition. Paperback. RELIGION; FRANCE; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; xxvi, [6] 148, [6] pages; Franco-Gallia : or, An account of the ancient free state of France, and most other parts of Europe, before the loss of their liberties / written originally in Latin by the famous civilian Francis Hotoman, in the year 1574 . . Initially published in 1574. This is the English translation which was first published in 1711. Lacking covers, scattered modest toning and foxing. Contents complete. A historically significant work dealing with the conflicts of Church and state among other issues. ESTCT115191 The second edition, with additions, and a new preface by the translator. With a half-title. The last three leaves contain advertisements for Edward Valentine and J. Osborn. Translated by Robert, Viscount Molesworth. .

New Haven: Yale University Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2003. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0300101716) . 198 pages; Gore Vidal (born Eugene Louis Vidal) was an American writer (novels, essays, screenplays, stage plays) and a public intellectual, who was known for his patrician manner, wit, and aphorisms. Vidal was born to a political family; his grandfather was Thomas Gore, U. S. Senator for Oklahoma (1907-21, 1931-37). As a member of the Democratic Party, Vidal twice ran for political office. As as political commentator, Vidal's subject was the United States, especially the imperialistic foreign policy, which reduced the U. S. To a decaying empire. His essays were published in The Nation, the New Statesman, the New York Review of Books and Esquire. As a public intellectual, Gore Vidal was known for his continual quarrels with other public intellectuals and writers, such as William F. Buckley, Jr. , Norman Mailer, and Truman Capote. Of his fiction, "Myra… Read More

Paris: Rossange Frères. Good with no dust jacket. 1822. 1st French language edition. Leather. 27-(4)-361 e XX-396 pages; . .. Ouvrage extrait des manuscrits de M. Jérémie Bentham, tome premier, seconde édition revue et augmentée " Bound in full sheep leather with Vol 2 lacking bottom spine panel repaired. .

Chicago: Normandie House. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Marxism; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 63 pages; Dedicated to Comrade Mrs Berger with appreciation for fighting Fascism, signed by author on first blank. One of 400 copies. Only a few were signed. Graphic of signature also available. ; Signed by Author .

Boston: Little, Brown and Company,. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1860. 1st Illustrated 12th. Cloth. 8vo; Original imprinted brown cloth . Leaves are tight and solid. Spine has lightened a bit. Largely consists of political works. Hinges solid. An American lawyer and statesman who represented New Hampshire and Massachusetts in the U. S. Congress and served as the 14th and 19th U. S. Secretary of State under Presidents William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, and Millard Fillmore. Webster eloquently defended the powers of the federal government as opposed to the alleged rights of the states. Today, he's best remembered as the greatest public speaker of his time, a founder of the Whig Party, and for his controversial role in the 1850 compromise that led to fugitive slave laws – and the Whig Party's death. .