First Edition. A work on law and politics by one of the most important Venezuelan legal scholars of the 19th century. Sanojo helped codify the country's civil law in the 1870s and wrote several important legal references. In this book he provides a view of the interaction between the law.....
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First Edition. Langston’s autobiography is a sweeping personal and political memoir that traces his singular life through one of the most turbulent chapters of American history. His guiding philosophy appears on the title page: “Self-reliance the secret of success”—a distillation of Langston’s deeply held belief in perseverance, education, and personal.....
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![Item No: #364735 The Great Betrayal (La Trahison les [sic, des] Clercs) [Treason...](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/364735.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1733085861)
First Edition. The very scarce first English edition, in a dust jacket, of this classic of intellectual history. "The great twentieth-century defense of intellectual integrity"—David Bromwich, Sterling Professor at Yale. Printing and the Mind of Man (PMM) 419, "one of the major events in political thought between the two wars.".....
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A very good, price-clipped signed first edition of the first book of one of the most acclaimed biographies of our time. This volume of Caro's life of LBJ, a projected five volumes that has taken Caro almost as long to write as it took the former president to live, traces.....
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A 2-1/2 page manuscript letter from an Antiguan slave owner and planter to an unnamed recipient, probably an M.P. or government minister, about personnel issues on the Council of Antigua, of which McKinnen was a member. The letter was written while McKinnen was visiting Wales. The first matter related to.....
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First Edition. A signed first edition of the first book of one of the most acclaimed biographies of our time. This volume of Caro's life of LBJ, a projected five volumes that has taken Caro almost as long to write as it took the former president to live, traces Johnson's.....
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First Edition. One of the better-known British suffrage cookbooks, assembled by the Birmingham chapter of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) as a fundraiser. Suffragists from around the United Kingdom submitted recipes. The final section includes "Menus for Meals for Suffrage Workers" offered as "an attempt to cope.....
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A French election poster from ca. 1951 with a connection to the Surrealists from three printed emblems reading "Bulletin NOIR Les Surealistes." Your cataloger's knowledge of French and French politics after the Second World War is not sufficient to offer an analysis of the poster. One suspects it (mostly) means.....
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First Edition. A picture-book biography of the first US president by a husband-and-wife writing team. 40 pages. Illustrated on most pages, about half in color. First edition (first printing, with no indication of later printings). An attractive copy, with minor wear at the spine ends of the book and the.....
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First Edition. Bound with (as usual) The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women...To Which Is Added, The Contents of the Second Blast and a Letter...to the People of Edinburgh, Anno 1571 by John Knox. The Oxford Dictionary of National (UK) Biography describes this book as.....
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First Edition. A four-part defense of the Freedmen's Bureau and its head, Major General Oliver O. Howard, spurred by a proposed amendment to cut the $5,000 budget for the hospital in Washington, D.C. and a speech accusing the agency of "plundering the public treasuring." The Freedmen's Bureau was a Reconstruction-era.....
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First Edition. Two short texts by Booker T. Washington advocating for equality in voting between while and black men (women's suffrage is not addressed). The first text is a letter written to the constitutional convention in Louisiana supporting a test for voting so long as "no one clothed with State.....
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A small card promoting the candidacy of one of the first women to successfully run for elected office in Oregon. This piece includes a half-tone photograph of Susanne W. Homes, a candidate for Jackson County school superintendent. Her slogan, printed along the top of the card, was "Equal Opportunities for.....
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A collection of tracts, including Wilkie's scarce report on the Iowa First in the opening months of the Civil War (a classic of war journalism written by an embedded newspaper reporter); two Copperhead (pro-slavery Democrats) pieces—the speeches of Clement Vallandingham and a pamphlet supporting the Dred Scott decision; Gen. Justus.....
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![Item No: #306198 Canto a Fidel [Song for Fidel]. Ernesto "Che" Guevara](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/306198.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1614579531)
Pergamino structure in a folder. Unfolds to 6-1/2 by 10-1/4 inches. Colección del San Juan. Edition size not noted. A classic Cuban revolutionary text, a heroic poem to Fidel Castro by the most famous of the comandantes of the revolution. The cover design incorporates Castro's face in a tree. The.....
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First Edition. A printed record of the testimony before the House Committee on Indian Affairs, charging Colorado's Territorial Governor, the ex officio Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the territory, of corruption. The charges were politically motivated—Alexander Cummings (1810–1879) opposed statehood and faced strong opposition from Colorado residents clamoring to join.....
Price: $300
