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CONTRACTION OR EXPANSION? REPUDIATION OR RESUMPTION? Letters to the Hon. Hugh M'Culloch, Secretary of the Treasury

Carey, Henry C

Philadelphia Henry Carey Baird 1866., 1866. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Neatly stapled into manila covers and in very good condition. 8.5" x 5.25" 47pp Carey challenges McCulloch re any "plethora of paper money" of which McCulloch speaks. Includes Carey postscript of 2/17/66. H.C. Carey, son of Philadelphia publisher Matthew Carey, was the head partner in Carey & Lea, and later a political economist who wrote many works on the subject (see Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography). First Edition. Binding is later wraps. (more information)

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TATTLINGS OF A RETIRED POLITICIAN [signed]

Crissey, Forrest

Chicago: Thompson & Thomas, 1904. Limited. Pictorial cloth. Very Good. John T. McCutcheon. 487pp; 58 illustrations. Crissey, a journalist with the Saturday Evening Post, based these 58 fictional letters on his knowledge of politicians. 8.25" x 5.5". (more information)

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SEYMOUR AND BLAIR: THEIR LIVES AND SERVICES. With an Appendix Containing a History of Reconstruction

Croly, David G

NY: Richardson, 1868. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Some spotty foxing here and there. 275pp; two portraits. This presidential campaign biography also has a number of chapters relating to the Civil War. Nevins, Civil War Books, II-49. Miles, The Image Makers, #538. 7.5" x 4.75". (more information)

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SPEECH.ON OCCASION OF A PETITION.OF THE HOUSE, PRAYING THE KING FOR A CHANGE OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PROVINCE

Dickinson, John

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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THE FARMER'S LETTERS TO THE INHABITANTS OF THE BRITISH COLONIES

Dickinson, John

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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THE LATE REGULATIONS RESPECTING THE BRITISH COLONIES ON THE CONTINENT OF AMERICA, CONSIDERED.A GENTLEMAN IN PHILADELPHIA

Dickinson, John

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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AN ADDRESS TO THE COMMITTEE OF CORRESPONDENCE IN BARBADOES, OCCASIONED BY A LATE LETTER FROM THEM TO THEIR AGENT IN LONDON

Dickinson, John

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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A DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN SOCIAL REFORM

Filler, Louis

NY Greenwood Press (1969)., 1969. Hardcover. Binding and contents near fine condition. 8.75" x 5.75" 854pp Contains hundreds of scholarly entries in alphabetical order. 2nd printing edition. Binding is original cloth. (more information)

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BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF THE LEFT [4 volumes]

Gannon, Francis X

Boston Western Islands (1969)., 1969. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Binding and contents in very good condition; jackets bit rubbed. 8.25" x 5.5" 4 dust jackets 2,500+ pages Has index. Chronicles organizations of The Left as well as individuals. Piece torn from shelfback of one dust jacket. First Edition. Binding is original cloth. (more information)

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THE DIMENSIONS OF LIBERTY

Handlin, Oscar and Mary

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1961. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. pp: (x), 204. Here is a scholarly look at the evolution and characteristics of liberty in America--government's role, secret lodges, churches, &c. 8.5" x 5.5". (more information)

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THE LIMITS OF POWER: America's Role in the World [signed]

McCarthy, Eugene J

NY Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1967)., 1967. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Book and dust jacket in very good condition. 8.25" x 5.5" pictorial dj pp: (ix), 246 Index. Bound in the publisher's tan pictorial cloth, with a wrap-around spread eagle drawing stamped in blue. Signed boldly on the half-title by Eugene J. McCarthy. First Edition. Binding is original cloth. (more information)

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THE IMAGE MAKERS: A bibliography of American presidential campaign biographies

Miles, William

Metuchen, NJ Scarecrow Press 1979., 1979. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Binding and contents in fine condition. 8.75" x 5.5" pp: xvii, 254 Has author, candidate and title indices. Contains 1,281 entries re biographies of American presidential candidates. First Edition. Binding is original cloth. (more information)

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THE NEW JAPANESE PERIL

Osborne, Sidney

NY: Macmillan, 1921. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. pp: (ix), 184. The author fears that "the future supremacy of the white race is shown to be endangered" by the proposed Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Alliance. 7.75" x 5". (more information)

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AN ACT FOR THE PREVENTION OF BRIBERY AT ELECTIONS [with] AN ACT TO AMEND THE LAW FOR THE TRIAL OF CONTROVERTED ELECTIONS