Search Results: Politics and political theory from Focloir

Americana nwat Nelson, William H. The American Tory. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961, 194p, index. Blind stamp on title page and exchange stamp on front free endpaper, tear in margin (about an inch) on one leaf, other than these defects a good, clean, tight copy in a decent dust jacket. $8.50 Box 2424

Ancient world 3790a (Aristophanes)Croiset, Maurice. Aristophanes and the Political Parties at Athens. Translated by James Loeb. London: Macmillan, 1909, 192 pages, index. There is a preface by the author as well as an introduction to the English translation by John Williams White of Harvard University. Nicely produced in blue cloth and gilt lettering on the spine. Very attractive book, has some German pencilling in margins of some pages, in small hand. They are obviously notes on what the English words mean. The signature of a well-known classical scholar on front free endpaper. He taught in Germany for a while and maybe bought the book there. $21.50

Ancient world 354 Aristotle.
Athenaion politeia [In Greek characters]. Aristotle on the constitution of Athens. Second edition. Edited by Frederic G Kenyon. [London]: Printed by Oxford University Press for the British Museum and by Longmans and Company, 1891, li, [l]. 190p., index, corrigenda slip. Greek text, technical apparatus is in English. On the title page is a stamp: "Presented by the Trustees of the British Museum". On the flyleaf is the stamp of a previous owner (from Egypt) and the signature of another, a classics professor. The book has a black leather and corners and unusual raspberry-like boards. The spine and the tips are heavily worn and scraped in parts but still a very tight, clean copy. The lining papers have a geometric motif suggesting that perhaps the volume was bound in Egypt. $65.00

Irish in America 007 Gibson, Florence Elizabeth. The Attitudes of the New York Irish toward State and National Affairs, 1848-1892. (Series: Columbia University. Faculty of Political Science. Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, Number 563); New York:Columbia University Press,1951, 480 pages, notes, bib, index. A fine, bright copy in green cloth and gilt lettering on spine. Signature of previous owner from 1965 on front free endpaper. Would be difficult to find a better copy. $35.00

JA 1000 Ozaki, Yukio, 1858-1954. The Autobiography of Ozaki Yukio: The Struggle for Constitutional Government in Japan. Translated by Fukijo Hara. With a Foreword by Marius B. Jansen. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2001, xviii, 455p, photos, index. Very good in dust jacket. $22.50
Ozaki Yukio, who was returned to his seat in the Japanese Diet twenty-five times, served in that body from its inception in 1890 to 1953. He was several times a cabinet member and, for ten years, mayor of Tokyo. A strong advocate of representative government, he both witnessed and propelled Japan's transformation from a late feudal society to a modern state. His autobiography, available in English for the first time, gives an insider's account of key episodes and leaders over seven decades of Japanese history. Ozaki's political life spanned the Meiji rise to power and Japan's defeat in World War II, and he played a significant role in each phase of that epic. As a young reporter, he gained preeminence with… Read More

Americana 112bae Bestor, Arthur Eugene, Jr. Backwoods Utopias. The Sectarian and Owenite Phases of Communitarian Socialism in America, 1663 – 1829. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1950, xi, 288 pages, bib, index. A good copy of the hardcover, some of the signatures (gathering of pages) seem to have toned a little differently from the other signatures, at least on the edges. $6.50 Box A 112

Middle Ages 19t59c Tellenbach, Gerd.
Church, state, and Christian society at the time of the investiture contest. Oxford: Blackwell, 1959, xxiv, 196p, index. Some minor fraying to head of spine, else good, clean tight copy. No jacket. First impression was 1940. $8.50 Box A 93

Ancient world 397 Beloch, Karl Julius, 1854-1929. Die attische Politik seit Perikles. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1967, iv, 372p, pub ads. Photo reprint of the Leipzig 1884 edition. Lettering on the spine label pretty much worn off, signature of respected professor on front free endpaper, good to very good copy. $25.00

Ireland 105gbs Shaw, George Bernard et al. Fabian Essays in Socialism. London: Walter Scott, 1900, vii, 233p, index, pub ads. Cover darkened, with shelfwear and some fraying to edges, good copy else. Other contributors include Sidney Webb, Annie Besant, William Clarke et alii.
$8.50 Box A 105

Ancient world 650 Further studies in the ancient Greek polis.
Edited by Pernille Flensted-Jensen. (Papers from the Copenhagen Polis Centre; 5;Historia (Wiesbaden, Germany). Einzelschriften ; Heft 138.) Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2000, 262p, bib, index, maps, paperback. Good copy. $37.50

India rlsr Rudolph, Lloyd I. and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph. In pursuit of Lakshmi: the political economy of the Indian state. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987, xvii, 529 pages, notes, indexes. Paperbound, which has been bound in red library buckram with gilt lettering on spine. From the library of a librarian/bibliophile who had all his paperbacks bound in cloth. Wrappers bound in. Like new copy. $14.50 Box B50

Ancient world 1092Ranulf, Sven. The Jealousy of the Gods and Criminal Law at Athens: A Contribution to the Sociology of Moral Indignation Two volumes. London/Copenhagen: Williams & Norgate/Levin & Munksgaard, 1933-34, 161p; 301p. Small quartos uniformly rebound in lime green buckram with gilt lettering on the spines. Lightly soiled covers. Minor edge wear. Interior pages are clean in every way throughout. Bindings are solid. Tomes are ex-library with usual ex-library treatments and artifacts present. The two volumes: $65.00

Irish Americans jlos Sampson, Robert, 1949- John L. O'Sullivan and his times. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2003, xiii, 304 pages, notes, bib, index. Fine to new in like dust jacket. $21.50 Box 1916
The first full-length biography of John Lewis O'Sullivan, 1813-1895, the important 19th century writer and political figure. Not to be confused with John L. Sullivan, the famous prize fighter of a later period.

Middle Ages lempi Lewis, Ewart. Medieval political ideas. In two volumes in slipcase box. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954, xii, 661 pages
Contents: Volume I. The idea of law; Property and lordship; The origin and purpose of political authority; The individual and the community; The structure of government in the state
Volume II. The structure of authority in the church; The problem of the empire; Regnum and sacerdotim
Very good copies in dust jacket, which have tears in places. In very good slipcase. Translations into English of pertinent contemporary texts.
The Two volumes in box. $67.50 Box 132

Ireland 19o80n O' Dowd, Liam, Bill Rolston, Mike Tomlinson. Northern Ireland: Between Civil Rights and Civil War. London: CSE Books, 1980, 224 pages, notes, bib, index. Fine copy in like dust jacket, which is in turn protected by a mylar dust jacket. $14.50 Box 834

Middle Ages 077 Gierke, Otto.
Political theories of the Middle Ages. Translated with an introduction by Frederic William Maitland. Cambridge University Press, 1927, lxxx,197 pages, notes. Good plus to very good copy, minor fraying to heel of spine, no other problems noted. A famous work introduced by England's greatest legal scholar. $35.00

Ancient world 823Larsen, J. A. O. (Jakob Aall Ottesen). Representative government in Greek and Roman history. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1955, 249p, notes, index. (Sather classical lectures, v. 28). Good to good plus copy in OK dust jacket.
Inscribed by Larsen to a friend, signs it "Jake Larsen". Signature of another classics scholar on front free endpaper. $22.50

Ireland 8281 Jenkins, Richard et al. The Sectarian Divide in Northern Ireland Today. London: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1986, vii, 38p, paperbound. $6.50 Like new.

Ireland 77m43 Mansergh, Nicholas. The Unresolved Question - The Anglo-Irish Settlement and Its Undoing 1912 - 1972. New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 1991, x, 386 pages, notes, index. Has some faint damp spotting to top paper edge, very good in very good dust jacket. $35.00 Box A 92

England
108pse
(Wright, Thomas, 1810-1877). The political songs of England, from the reign of John to that of Edward II. Edited and translated by Thomas Wright. London: Printed for the Camden Society, by J.B. Nichols and Son, 1839, xviii, 408p, notes, index. (Works of the Camden Society, Volume 6). Texts in Latin, Anglo-Norman, Middle English, Provençal, and Old French, with English translations. Rebound in green buckram, solid, clean binding. The page block is in very good condition except that the top front corners of the first dozen pages or so have light bends with some dustiness. The cover has a few dings in the spine but I would say overall the book is at least good and maybe very good. $13.50 Box 108