Search Results: Politics & Government from Armadillo & Dicker Books & Ephemera

NY: AMERICAN CITY MAGAZINE . Good. Black cloth. 1913. 1st edition. 1st ed.,8vo, black cloth. 684 pp. Articles, photographs, diagrams , and advertisements for city planners and municipal managers and buyers. Hundreds of b/w photos depiciting architecture, roads, a nd vehicles. . with its paper seal affixed inside front panel; also ex libris Al fred F. Rosenheim, with his bookplate, -- one of the leading arch itects in Los Angeles in the early part of the 20th century. His major works include the Hellman Building and Second Church of Chr ist Scientist. Condition: Good; moderate wear to covers, two larg e chips at top of spine. Text block is tight, clean and bright. .

NY: AMERICAN CITY MAGAZINE CORP. Good. Black cloth. 1930. 1st edition. Six issues of approx. 200 pages each. . h. Approx. 1200 pp. Articles, photographs, diagrams, and advertis ements for city planners and municipal managers and buyers. Hundr eds of b/w photos depiciting architecture, roads, and vehicles. . Condition: Good; text block is very good, clean and tight. Covers with moderate surface wear and soiling but no significant damage . Ex-libris Los Angelis Public Library with its bookplate affixed inside; penciled price of $8, apparently when withdrawn and sold . .

Pasadena: Published by the Author. Hardcover. 1919. 1st ed.. 1st hardcover edition. 8vo, tan cloth. 445, [3 advts.] pp. . clair makes "a systematic and incriminating critique of the sever e limitations of the 'free press' in the United States. Sinclair called The Brass Check 'the most important and most dangerous boo k I have ever written.' Among those critiqued was William Randolp h Hearst, who made routine use of yellow journalism in his widesp read newspaper and magazine business. The text is freely availabl e on the Internet, since Sinclair chose not to copyright the work in an effort to maximize its readership. It went through ten pri ntings in its first decade, selling more than 150,000 copies. Fi rst state d/w with the printed single copy price of 50c overprint ed with inked stamp reflecting the price change to 60c. . . d spine ends; light pencil erasure on fep. Half dozen small close d tears on top edge of d/w; smaller nicks on bottom edge. .

Augusta, GA: Pritchard, Abbott, & Loomis. Fair. 1860. 1st edition. Subtitled: "Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartwright, on this Important S ubject, by E. N. Elliott, L.L.D., President of Planters' College Mississippi.With an Essay on Slavery in the Light of Internationa l Law". . s. Publisher’s brown calf, black/red spine labels. Includes "Li berty and Slavery: Or, Slavery in the Light of Moral and Politica l Philosophy" by A.T. Bledsoe; "The Bible Argument: Or, Slavery i n the Light of Divine Revelation" by Thornton Stringfellow; "Slav ery In the Light of Social Ethics: by Chancellor Harper; "Slavery in the Light of Political Science" by J.H. Hammond; "Slavery in the Light of Ethnology" by S.A. Cartwright; and "Slavery in the L ight of International Law" by E.N. Elliott. Reprinted in 2017-18, this first edition is quite scarce with only four copies… Read More

Free World Magazine. 1944. 1st. Free World Magazine, 1944. 1st ed., 8vo, brown cloth. 28 pp. Sev eral of Welles' political writings first published in FREE WORLD magazine between April-December 1994. Welles was an avid support er of President Roosevelt and his views were often well in advanc e of political thinking of the time. Very rare: no others online , none in OCLC, no auction records. One copy, with a gift inscrip tion to Welles, is in his papers at the University of Michigan. .

Philadelphia: John Ormrod. 1800. 1st edition. Eulogium, on the Character of General Washington, Late President of the United States; Pronounced at the Request of the Pennsylvan ia Society of the Cincinnati, Before the President of the United States, and the Members of Both Houses of Congress . Pa. John Ormrod, 1800. . page continues: "on the twenty-second day of February, eighteen hundred, in the German Reformed Church, Philadelphia." "New Editi on." Woodcut head piece and tailpiece. George Washington’s sudd en sudden death inspired mourning throughout the US and this is o ne of numerous eulogies published that year. William Jackson foug ht in the American Revolution and was assigned to Washington's st aff for a period of time. In 1796 Washington appointed him Collec tor of the Port of Philadelphia. Condition: Good; probably disbou nd from another volume; lightly foxed throughout; spotting to tit le page; pages are otherwise clean and solid. .

Paris: Imprimerie Charaire at Sceaux.. 1890. 1st edition. 5 original issues of the serial format -- published in fifteen pa rts. . original issues of this serial publication, depicting the events and destruction of the Paris Commune -- photographs of barricade s, destroyed buildings, battle scenes. Each issue has eight or ni ne photographs. Accurate bibliographic information is scarce, bu t we believe there were fifteen issues published -- subsequently bound in book form. The bound volume was published in1890 and the se serial parts were probably published shortly before. While t he bound volume is reasonably common, and has recently been repri nted, these original parts are scarce. From the introduction: †œMany volumes have been written about the Commune: some to defend it, others to attack it. We wanted to bring simply and without c omments the photographic reproduction of the men and things of th e Commune, the only documents incontestable. We collected from al l sides,… Read More

Sacramento: Sacramento Book Collectors Club,. Fine. Decorative Cloth. 1959. First Thus. The texts of a "Memoir" (1877-1878) and an interview (1883) betwe en Low and H.H. Bancroft, in which the ninth governor of Californ ia (1863-1867) reflected on his business and political life, with particular emphasis on the Gold Rush, the railroads, and the que stion of Chinese immigration. Club publication number 7. Limited to 310 copies, printed by the Grabhorn Press. 78 pp. Edited, wit h Preface and Notes by Robert H. Becker. Quarto. Pp. xiii, [1], 7 8. Frontis portrait in color. Initials printed in red, yellow and black. Notes, index. Half tan linen over red patterned boards, l eather spine label, gilt. [Grabhorn: 605; Rocq: 6771]. .

Daily Worker. Near Fine. 1935. 1st edition. 1st ed., 8vo, illustrated boards. 184 pp. 160 full-page single-pa nel cartoons satirizing the capitalist upper class from a sociali st perspective, reprinted from the Daily Worker where they ran as a feature from 1933-1935. Illustrated end papers satirizing K-Q cards in red and blue and title-page in red & black. Afterword, " Social Satire" by the cartoonist. "Subscription Edition" publishe d in December, 1935; also published in a numbered edition of 500 copies. Very good-near fine; a clean tight copy with only very m inor edgewear, small scuff on front board. Lacking the scarce d/w as usual. .

Sacramento: H.S. Crocker & Co, Steam Printers and Stationers. 1869. 1st ed.. 8vo, cardboard covers with advtg, 275 pp. Lists of Post Offices on the Pacific Coast, Money Order Offices, General Directory, City Business Directory, State Offices, Sacramento City Government, County Directory, local history and statistics, hundreds of advts. Ex Libris William Neely Johnson, with his signature on p 13. Johnson was Secretary of California's Board of Land Commissioners, was the State's second appointed State Librarian [an interim appointment for 4 months in 1870], and brother of Gov. John Neely Johnson [1856-1858]. Condition: Fair. Covers heavily worn; damp-stained at lower right front; rear board was very heavily damaged but was professionally restored. Spine is modernly rebacked in black morocco to match the original leather, gilt titles. 6 pages of advertisements in the front are on thinner paper and somewhat worn, but still in good shape and fully intact. Three leaves in the back with marginal… Read More

The Council, Beverly Hills. Fine. Black cloth. 1947. 1st edition. 1st ed., limited to 250 numbered copies. 8vo, black cloth/gilt ti tles. 432pp. . SP-PCA—Progressive Citizens of America—sponsored a massive pu blic meeting protesting HUAC and the increasing use of loyalty oa ths. They provided important public and financial support to the Hollywood Ten, a subset of the nineteen originally subpoenaed who were held in contempt and subsequently blacklisted by the Hollyw ood film industry. ASP-PCA also worked on intellectual freedom is sues beyond the confines of Hollywood. In 1947, it organized “T hought Control in the U.S.A.,” a small professional conference that protested the encroachment of control and censure into acade mia and everyday life -- this book is the record of those proceed ings. . als] specially printed for Frank Partos". Frank Partos was an Ame rican screenwriter and a founding member of the Screen Actors… Read More