Search Results: Politics from Lippincott Books

Phoenix, Arizona: Heritage Publishers, 1989. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 206 pp. With list of patrons and index. Biographies of Arizona's first eighteen governors are Illustrated with portraits, photographs and caricatures. This copy signed by Jane Dee Hull, Arizona's 20th governor, and the only republican among the four women who have governed the state. A cautionary tale. We sometimes use a listing program that fills in book details from ISBN numbers, it saves time, unless, as in this case it is dead wrong...as the date of printing it gave was 1911. Pretty spooky if you ask me, how those editors knew, in 1911, that BRUCE BABBITT was going to be elected governor in 1978.

Phoenix, Arizona: Heritage Publishers, 1989. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good+. 206 pp. With list of patrons and index. Biographies of Arizona's first eighteen governors are Illustrated with portraits, photographs and caricatures. A cautionary tale. We sometimes use a listing program that fills in book details from ISBN numbers, it saves time, unless, as in this case it is dead wrong...as the date of printing it gave was 1911. Pretty spooky if you ask me, how those editors knew, in 1911, that BRUCE BABBITT was going to be elected governor in 1978. Dustjacket has closed tear on back panel.

New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1943. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. vi, 448, pp. Includes index. Written between July 1942 and Easter, 1943. The Western allies were just beginning to turn the tide of the war, and Borgese was exploring the shape of a post war world. An anti-Fascist, Borgese had emigrated from Italy to the United States in 1931. After the war, he taught at the University of Chicago, where he continued to work on the problem of world governance. As Secretary of the Committee to Frame a World Constitution, he was the chief author of its Chicago draft in 1947.

Indianapolis & New York: Bobbs- Merrill, 1970. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/GVG. liv, 554 pp. Inscribed by Buckley: " Newbold Noyes, from his sub-accompianist, My best, Bill", written in red ink on a label pasted to the ffep: From the library of Newbold Noyes, editor of the Washington Evening Star. Noyes was an ambulance driver during World War II and then foreign correspondent for the Star, covering American troops in Italy and reporting on the invasion of southern France and the Allied advance into Germany. The Washington Evening Star was a liberal Republican newspaper, now extinct, once rival to the Washington Post. Contributors include Garry Wills, John Courtney Murrar, Brent Bozell, Frank Meyer, Michael Oakeshott, Albert Jay Nock, Henry Hazlett, Max Eastman, Milton Friedman, Harry Jaffa, Willmoore Kendall, James Burnham, Ernest van den Haag, Mortimer Smith, Jane Jacobs, Russell Kirk, Hugh Kenner, Leo Struss, Christopher Dawson, Eric Voegelin, Jeffrey… Read More

New York: Columbia University Press, 1955. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. xiii, 338 pp. Includes notes and index. Columbia Studies in the Social Sciences. Previous owner's bookplate on ffep. Spine edges and corner tips slightly rubbed, else near fine.

Indianapolis, Indiana: Liberty Fund Inc, 2005. Reprint . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. pp 1185-1988, [2]. Includes the Prolegomena to the first edition. From the 1738 edition in English with commentary by Jean Barbeyrac. With bibliography of works referred to by Grotius, bibliography of works referred to by Barbeyrac, and index to this edition. Book III discusses what is lawful in war, treatment and ransoming of prisoners. Upper back corner of book and dustjacket bumped, else a fine, unread copy.

New York: Oceana Publications, 1957. Pictorial Card Wrappers. GVG. xii, 227 pp. Prepared under the auspices of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Includes index.The UN created a United Nations Emergency Force to secure and supervise the cease-fire during the 1956 Suez Canal crisis. Based on this experience and the Soviet invasion of Hungary in November of 1956, Frye argued the case for a standing UN peace-keeping force. Cream and blue printed paper wrappers yellowed with some foxing, else very good. Printed on good quality paper, which is still flexible.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1909. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. xv, 334 pp. Illustrated from photographs; with index. From Steffens introduction, explaining why both parties needed reform candidates: "Republics are ungrateful, that's why they are republics.... The people are not constant and the forces of corruption are." He went on to say that, threatened with reform, the "interests" threw in a moral issue, prohibition, as a distraction. From the library of Francis O' Brien, dean of Maine's antiquarian booksellers with his stamp on front pastedown. Gift inscription to previous owner on ffep.

New York: Modern Age Books, 1940. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/GVG. xviii, 300, [2] pp, including index. Orange cloth. Signed by the author on ffep. Seldes was a fearless investigative reporter in his day, taking on Mussolini and fascism, corporate exploitation in Mexico, and the global arms industry, in the 1920s and 1930s. He covered the Spanish Civil War and published a political newsletter, In Fact, in the 1940s; one of the first articles concerned the link between cigarettes and cancer. He was accused of being a communist during the McCarthy hearings in the 1950s and subsequently blacklisted. Seldes lived to be 104; he appears in the film 'Reds' as a commentator. Previous owner's name stamped on tail edges, a little wear to edges. Dustjacket has tears and chipping.