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[New Orleans]:: Michon & Schweitzer, ,.. Not illustrated; 21 pp., uncut. Large 8vo, ochre printed wrappers; a trimming error has resulted in the top of the advertisements on the back outer cover lacking some letters; text block side-stitched, but the wrappers never were sewn to the text, which is simply laid into them. OCLC lists four New Orleans… Read more about this item

Waco, Texas: Price Daniel, Jr., 1963. . Tall 8vo, brown cloth No. 67 of 100 copies printed at the Clarendon Press, Clarendon, Texas.

Waco, Texas: Price Daniel, Jr., 1963. . Tall 8vo, terra cotta cloth. No. 100 of 210 copies printed by Carl Hertzog.

London: William Heinemann Ltd.; New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1929. . 8vo, stiff gray wrappers, paper label on front (some chipping to wallet edges). "Capital Punishment is a mode of brute reaction, degrading in its effects upon the spirit of organised society. Savages retaliate in kind"--closing remarks

Providence, R.I: Thomas Doyle, . . Single sheet, printed on one side only, 6 15/16 x 5 15/15 inches, on a sheet measuring 8 3/8 x 6 3/4 inches (unequal margins), minor soiling. A most appealing little piece: within a Greek key border, with corner pieces of a stylized flower within a circle, within a square; at… Read more about this item

Rutgers: Published by the University, 1939. . 8vo, stiff terracotta printed wrappers, 8 pp. unopened and printed on one side of each leaf only--French fold

London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1924. . 8vo, blue paper-covered boards, gray cloth spine; dust jacket with slight chipping at head and tail of spine

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927. . 8vo, stiff cream wrappers (slightly soiled), paper label on front. "Ever to me...the one acid test of one's genuine spirit of Democracy is freedom from prejudice" --p. 5

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1928. . 8vo, stiff brown wrappers (some chipping to wallet edge), paper label on front. "The attitude of the Powers toward the establishment of Peace may be summed up in this homely fashion: They want to eat their cake and keep it, too. they want peace, but refuse to give… Read more about this item

Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc; London: Henry Southern, Ltd., 1933. . 8vo, stiff slate-blue wrappers, paper label on front. WITH a 4-page article "If I were Dictator"--transcript of a radio talk on the Columbia Broadcasting System Feb. 1, 1933. "Human Nature..." is an elucidation of the thesis in"If I were Dictator" i.e. "The root trouble of… Read more about this item

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927. . 8vo, stiff pink wrappers (slightly soiled), paper label on front. "

London: Elkin Mathews, Ltd., 1925. . 8vo, stiff slate-blue wrappers, paper label on front. "Unquestionably, the most pressing problem which confronts England to-day is the matter of unemployment. Well it may give grave concern. Employment is the foundation of society"

Garden City, N.Y.: Country Life Press, 1925. . 8vo, stiff blue wrappers, paper label on front. "This paper, in abbreviated form, was prepared for, but not presented at, the conference held on March 29th, 1925, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Astor, for the purpose of discussing Arbitration." An essay on the role of the League of… Read more about this item

Cincinatti: The Company, 1869. . 8vo, pale green printed wrappers No record of this company in OCLC except one publication where it is listed as the publisher. Not recorded in Sutton's "Western Book Trade" or in Henry Stevens' biography.The books are of interest and there are some mouth-watering prices, although many of the eighteenth century books are… Read more about this item

Garden City, N.Y.: Country Life Press, 1924. . 8vo, stiff brown wrappers, paper label on front. "The most urgent need of Europe is the creation of larger political and economic units. Europe, in other words, has to be de-Balkanized by the setting up of systems of federation. In that way only can the elementary causes of friction and hate… Read more about this item