Politics from Lippincott Books

New York: Oceana Publications, 1957. Pictorial Card Wrappers. GVG. xii, 227 pp. Prepared under the auspices of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Includes index.The UN created a United Nations Emergency Force to secure and supervise the cease-fire during the 1956 Suez Canal crisis. Based on this experience and the Soviet invasion of Hungary… Read more

Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs- Merrill, 1970. First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/GVG. liv, 554 pp. Contributors include Garry Wills, John Courtney Murrar, Brent Bozell, Frank Meyer, Michael Oakeshott, Albert Jay Nock, Henry Hazlett, Max Eastman, Milton Friedman, Harry Jaffa, Willmoore Kendall, James Burnham, Ernest van den Haag, Mortimer Smith, Jane Jacobs, Russell Kirk, Hugh Kenner,… Read more

New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co, 1958. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. xii, 492 pp. With bibliographical note and index. Red cloth. Leaves toned. Price-clipped dustjacket has lightly sunned spine, edge wear. "[W]hat the machinery of government was and how it operated, what the governmental policies of the British officials were and what… Read more

New York: Modern Age Books, 1940. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/GVG. xviii, 300, [2] pp, including index. Orange cloth. Signed by the author on ffep. Seldes was a fearless investigative reporter in his day, taking on Mussolini and fascism, corporate exploitation in Mexico, and the global arms industry, in the 1920s and 1930s.… Read more

New York: Columbia University Press, 1955. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. xiii, 338 pp. Includes notes and index. Columbia Studies in the Social Sciences. Previous owner's bookplate on ffep. Spine edges and corner tips slightly rubbed, else near fine.

Indianapolis, Indiana: Liberty Fund Inc, 2005. Reprint . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. pp 1185-1988, [2]. Includes the Prolegomena to the first edition. From the 1738 edition in English with commentary by Jean Barbeyrac. With bibliography of works referred to by Grotius, bibliography of works referred to by Barbeyrac, and index to this edition. Book III… Read more

Phoenix, Arizona: Heritage Publishers, 1989. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 206 pp. With list of patrons and index. Biographies of Arizona's first eighteen governors are Illustrated with portraits, photographs and caricatures. This copy signed by Jane Dee Hull, Arizona's 20th governor, and the only republican among the four women who have governed the state. A… Read more

New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1943. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. vi, 448, pp. Includes index. Written between July 1942 and Easter, 1943. The Western allies were just beginning to turn the tide of the war, and Borgese was exploring the shape of a post war world. An anti-Fascist, Borgese had… Read more

Hackson, Mississippi: A. S. Coody, 1922. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 232 pp. Blue cloth, title gilt. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Vardaman, (1861-1930) was publisher of the Greenwood Commonwealth newspaper in Greenwood, Mississippi from 1896-1903 and the Issue from 1908-1912. He served as a Democratic United States Senator… Read more

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1909. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. xv, 334 pp. Illustrated from photographs; with index. From Steffens introduction, explaining why both parties needed reform candidates: "Republics are ungrateful, that's why they are republics.... The people are not constant and the forces of corruption are." He went on… Read more

Phoenix, Arizona: Heritage Publishers, 1989. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good+. 206 pp. With list of patrons and index. Biographies of Arizona's first eighteen governors are Illustrated with portraits, photographs and caricatures. A cautionary tale. We sometimes use a listing program that fills in book details from ISBN numbers, it saves time, unless, as… Read more