NY: American Arbitration Assoc., 1952. Revised Edition. Original Wraps. Fine. (12)pp. Accompanying the pamphlet is a typewritten letter signed, on AAA letterhead, to Mrs. Clarice Brows Thorp, wife of the assistant secretary of state. The letter, dated June 5, 1963, appoints Mrs. Thorp to the AAA's board of directors, &c. 9" x 4". (more information)

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Washington: HUAC, 1959. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. pp: 24, ii. States that the Soviet Union's cultural exhibits in free countries are "designed to cover up the brutal realities (including the destruction of culture) which exist behind the Iron Curtain." Bahriany, a Ukrainian writer and artist, escaped the regime. 9" x 5.75". (more information)

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Washington: Republican National Committee, 1928. First Edition. Self-wraps. Very Good. 12 leaves. Comprises a series of 10 articles from "The Philadelphia Inquirer" re Herbert Hoover's campaign for President of U.S. The title sheet states, in part: "The attached series of articles. graphically describe America's reliance upon the Republican protective tariff for future prosperity. They show the need for the election of Herbert Hoover, if we are to keep our leadership in foreign trade, which with his help as Secretary of Commerce has been built to the point where it means the livelihood of 3,000,000 families on the farms and in the cities." 11" x 7.75". (more information)

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Washington: House of Representatives, 1888. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. Name, date and title written at top; in very good condition. 24pp. "I believe in American industries, American capital, and American labor against the whole world.". 9" x 5.5". (more information)

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Havana, Cuba: Editora Politica, 1981. First Thus. Original Wraps. Very Good. pp: 25, (1). This is the first edition in English of this speech against US imperialism, given on the 20th anniversary of Playa Giron. 7.5" x 5.5". (more information)

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NY Chandler (1920)., 1920. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Small chip from edge of cover, else in good condition. 7" x 4.5" 29pp Summarizes American political history in very concise form. First Edition. Binding is original wraps. (more information)

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Washington: US Department of the Interior, 1858. First Edition. Self-wraps. Very Good. Spine-tied signatures, unopened, untrimmed. 99pp. A paper label on the front is signed in ink: "John C. Ten Eyck, USS." John Conover Ten Eyck, senator, was born at Freehold, New Jersey in 1814. "Mr. Ten Eyck was a wig till 1856, when he joined the Republican party, and he was afterward chosen to the US Senate." (Appleton's Cyclopedia). This report on cotton consumption on the eve of civil war in America has sections on France, Switzerland, Bremen and Hamburg, Russia, Prussia, England, Austrian Empire, Sardinia, England, &c. 9.75" x 6". (more information)

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N-Y: Greeley & McElrath, 1844. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Some light, spotting foxing. 12pp. The Delaware-born Clayton served in the US Senate and as a member of Zachary Taylor's cabinet. In this earlier speech, made just before the 1844 presidential election, Clayton asserts that "the great question to be decided by that Election is a question of BREAD--a question whether we shall abandon the whole principle of Protection extended to the Laboring Classes of this Country by the Tariff Act of 1842 [and return] to that state of colonial vassalage which existed in this country while England held us in subjection.," &c. American Imprints 44-1475 locates only three copies. 8.75" x 5.5". (more information)

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Washington: National Republican Assn, 1859. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8pp. Clephane was the delegate from the District of Columbia to the Republican National Convention of 1856. 9.5" x 6". (more information)

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NY: Published by the author, 1945. First Edition. Original wraps. Very Good. 32pp. This is an offprint of the author's article in "The Commercial and Financial Chronicle," February 8 & 15, 1945. Laid into this copy is the author's "compliments" card. 8" x 5.5". (more information)

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NY: Wm. H. Wise, 1919. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. pp: 48 + (8). Supports organized democracy, the League of Nations, the dignity of labor, the right to strike, &c. 8.5" x 6.25". (more information)

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Philadelphia: William Bradford, 1801. Early Edition. Self-wraps. Very Good. Removed from bound volume of pamphlets, and laid into archival boards. 152pp. Howes, US-iana D329: "The Farmer's Letters in this collection are published from the Virginia edition of them in 1769, the only copy the editors have been able to procure. The preface to that edition is believed to have been written by Richard Henry Lee, afterwards president of Congress." Howes notes that this work was the "earliest serious study into colonial legal rights." 8" x 4.75". (more information)

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Philadelphia: William Bradford, 1801. Revised & Enlarged Edition. Self-wraps. Very Good. Removed from bound volume of pamphlets, and laid into archival boards. 52pp. Appended to this 1801 edition of LATE REGULATIONS. is: THE ROUGH DRAFT OF THE RESOLVES OF THE FIRST CONGRESS, HELD AT NEW-YORK, IN THE YEAR 1765, stating 15 points of the colonial government proposed by the colonies. Howes, US-iana D328; Evans, American Imprints 9950. 8" x 4.75". (more information)

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Philadelphia: William Bradford, 1801. Early Edition. Self-wraps. Very Good. Removed from bound volume of pamphlets, and laid into archival boards. 35pp. Howes, US-iana D331; Evans, American Imprints 10283. 8" x 4.75". (more information)

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Philadelphia: William Bradford, 1801. Revised & Enlarged Edition. Self-wraps. Good. Removed from bound volume of pamphlets and laid into archival boards. 43pp. This 1801 edition contains a useful foreword to Dickinson's speech in the Pennsylvania House of Assembly: "On the 4th of March, 1764, George Grenville, then Minister, and the House of Commons on his Motion, began their hostile Operations against the British Colonies on this Continent. This Speech . describes the Sentiments of Administration concerning Colonial Government, takes Notice of the then meditated Innovations, and was followed by a regular Course of such Measures as were apprehended and alluded to. The Change attempted did not take place." 8" x 4.75". (more information)

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Washington: US House of Representatives, 1841. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Unopened, fore-edge ruffled. 7pp. Whig report on extra session of Congress and "other matters as may exhibit truly the condition of the Whig party & prospects." 9.5" x 6". (more information)

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NY: Robert Schalkenbach Fdn, 1970. Reprint. Self-wraps. Very Good. (24)pp. This address by the author of PROGRESS AND POVERTY was delivered at Metropolitan Hall, San Francisco, February 4, 1890. 7.5" x 5". (more information)

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NY: Robert Schalkenbach Fdn, 1970. Reprint. Self-wraps. Very Good. (34)pp. This address by the author of PROGRESS AND POVERTY was delivered in the Opera House, Burlington, Iowa, in 1885. 7.5" x 5". (more information)

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NY: Robert Schalkenbach Fdn, 1970. Reprint. Self-wraps. Very Good. (20)pp. This lecture by the author of PROGRESS AND POVERTY was first delivered at the University of California, March 9, 1877. 7.5" x 5". (more information)

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Los Angeles: Jewish Hope Publishing House, 1953. First Edition. Original Wraps. Fine. 32pp. The author asserts that Eisenhower, as a nonpartisan, is in a position to be a great president of the U.S. 8.25" x 5.25". (more information)

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N-Y: Greeley & McElrath, Tribune, 1844. First Edition. Self-wraps. Very Good. Scattered, light foxing. 16pp, double columns. Maintains that " . the great mass of the American People are agreed in the conviction that it is easier, more beneficent, less burdensome, more economical, to raise the Revenue needed for the support of the Federal Government by Duties on Imports than by Direct Taxes ." Greeley outlines the positions of presidential candidates Polk and Clay, etc., concluding: "Whichever is elected will doubtless carry with him in his triumph a Congress prepared to second and give effect to his opinions. Freemen of America! Friends of National Industry and Prosperity! choose ye between them!" 9" x 5.75". (more information)

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N-Y: Greeley & McElrath, Tribune, 1844. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Some scattered foxing. 16pp, double columns. Greeley rails against changes in the tariff law as proposed by General McKay of North Carolina. He calls McKay's bill "full of absurdities and inconsistencies . fraught with deadly hostility to your [the American people's] interests and welfare." 9" x 5.75". (more information)

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Williamsburg, VA Colonial Williamsburg 1956., 1956. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Printed paper covers and contents in very good condition. 9.5" x 6.25" 13pp Marks the 180th anniversary of the Virginia Declaration of Rights, precursor to the Bill of Rights, which text is appended. First Edition. Binding is original wraps. (more information)

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Washington: U.S. Congress, 1860. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Little wear at bottom of spine. 46pp. Examines our finanacial dealings with Canada. The author claims to expose "great evils.under this system of miscalled reciprocity," where the "substance and spirit of this treaty have been more than disregarded." The "proper, radical and sufficient remedy," he concludes, "is the speedy abrogation of the treaty itself." 9" x 5.75". (more information)

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Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. First Edition. Disbound. Good. Neatly removed from bound volume and in sound condition. 48pp. 8.5" x 5.25". (more information)

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Various publishers, 1928. not bound. Very Good. Broadsides, 14x8" to 17x10". A group of four: (1) Editorial Suggestions Prepared by the New York State Republican Editorial Committee.What He Can't Do He Learns to Do.What Hoover Thinks Worst Failure.Gangway for "Individual Initiative".Modern Style of War Hero; (2) Editorial Digest Hoover-Curtis Campaign Committee.Mr. Hoover's Qualifications.Typifies Americanism.How Hoover Does Things.Why Mr. Hoover Fishes.Nine Reasons; (3) Interview on Herbert Hoover's Newark Speech [mimeographed]; (4) The Minneapolis Tribune.Hoover and the Farmer.The Topeka Daily Capital.A Persistent Falsehood.(midwestern articles on Hoover's views). various sizes. (more information)

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Washington: Clifton Aires, 1929. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Pictorial paper covers bit worn at lower corner. 64pp; illus throughout from photographs. Comprises highlights of the Hoover-Curtis inaugural. Includes Charles A. Lindberg, along with an article on "Inaugural Aviation.for the First Time in History." Also has pieces on the Inaugural Ball, the parade, shows at various theatres, traffic regulations in DC, movie bills, where to dine and dance, etc. 9" x 6". (more information)

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Studio City, CA: World Literature Crusade, 1969. First Edition. Pictorial wraps. Very Good. 64pp; portrait. First delivered as "radio messages," Lee describes Communist activities against Christians in Korea during the 1950s. 7" x 5". (more information)

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Glendale, CA: Comm'nty Churches of America, 1982. First Edition. Original wraps. Very Good. 48pp; illus from photographs. Calls for America to maintain a position of strength, to be ready for USSR attempts to control the world's oil supply, etc. 7" x 4.5". (more information)

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not published, 1921. Original. not bound. Fine. Broadside, illus from photograph. "Peace be unto you, Gentlemen." "If that be tyranny, make the most of it." "Down with the Trusts and Graft; Up with the Workingman's Candidate, and Nick Melano." Campus humor. 9" x 6". (more information)

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