Search Results: Politics from Charles Agvent

New York: G. P. Putnam's & Sons, 1900. Hardcover. Mild edgewear; some rubbing to spine. Very Good or better. Half polished calf with calf corners and a gilt-decorated spine with gilt-lettered contrasting morocco spine labels. Originally published in 1897, this is an early edition that was part of a set of Roosevelt's works. SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper without inscription or date. From the notable collection of Frederick W. Skiff with his armorial bookplate on the front pastedown.

[Kensington]: [The Favil Press], [1927]. First Edition. wraps. Some soiling, minor wear. Very Good. Printed white wraps; 44 pages. Laurence A184b. Contains three letters by Shaw as well as letters and articles by various anti-Fascists.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper.

Washington, DC, 1890. Document. Crease marks from folding. Very Good. A deed SIGNED by Bruce as Recorder of Deeds, a position appointed to him by President Benjamin Harrison replacing Frederick Douglass. Bruce is best known as the first African-American to serve a full term in the United States Senate.

Philadelphia: R. G. Berford, 1844. Cheap Edition. Wraps. Browning along edges of text, wraps bright and clean. Very Good. Green printed wraps with 15 double-column text pages.

London: Constable & Company Ltd., 1919. First Edition. wraps. Typical browning to cheap paper; the half-title page is detached but present. Very Good. Original green printed wraps over stiff paper; 108 pages; followed by 2 pages of ads. Laurence A148.

Wichita, Kansas: Jane Simpson, (1908). First Edition. Hardcover. A 1912 owner inscription on the front blank. Fine, bright copy. Gilt-lettered dark green cloth. The story of flamboyant "Sockless" Jerry Simpson, three-term member of Congress from Kansas, and his political career in Kansas and in Congress, the Farmers Alliance and the Peoples Party, and more. Laid in a small piece of campaign ephemera from 1896 depicting "Our Jerry."

Washington DC, 18 May 1983. Letter. Near Fine. Two-page letter SIGNED as "Joe" on his personal stationery to journalist Richard Tobin. In part: "It did me good to hear from you again, and I am delighted you liked the FDR book. (An odd thing: the only really successful book I have ever written but turned out in a couple of months, in fact in an interval of the last lap of very much harder work on my big scholarly book on the history of art collecting [THE RARE ART TRADITIONS: THE HISTORY OF ART COLLECTING AND ITS LINKED PHENOMENA WHEREVER THESE HAVE APPEARED], which took eighteen years to complete!)." Alsop discusses the loss of both living and dead friends. "All my contemporary men friends in Washington are dead, and the biggest blow of all was the loss of my brother Stewart eight years ago." A revealing letter by an influential journalist and top insider in Washington from 1945 to the late 1960s, often in conjunction with his brother Stewart Alsop.