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Aaron Burr (2 volumes): The Years from Princeton to Vice President, 1756 - 1805, and The Conspiracy and Years of Exile, 1805 - 1836


Lomask, Milton

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 1st Volume: 443 pages. Black cloth cover with gilt lettering to spine, color illustrated dust jacket, 10 pages with b&w photographs. Light wear to dust jacket; overall a clean tight copy. 2nd Volume: 475 pages. Black cloth cover with gilt lettering to spine, color illustrated dust jacket, 12 pages with b&w photographs. Light wear to dust jacket - book in great condition.

Record # 804557


Price: $26.00 

 

Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. - The Political Biography of an American Dilemma


Hamilton, Charles V.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Lib stamp to front fly leaf, light residue to rear end paper otherwise not read

Record # 70687


Price: $15.00 

An Actress in the Theater of PoliticsAlexander, Jane
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An Actress in the Theater of Politics


Alexander, Jane

Hardcover. New York, PublicAffairs Perseus Book Group, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 335 pages. Gilt titles on spine, b/w photographs throughout. Clean inside. Witty retelling of actress Alexander's years at the NEA.

Record # 30096


Price: $31.00 

 

Antony Eden / A Biography


James, Robert Rhodes

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, black & white photos

Record # 108430


Price: $20.00 

 

Days of Anger, Days of Hope - A Memoir of the League of American Writers, 1937-1942


Folsom, Franklin

Hardcover. Niwot, Co, Univ. Press of Colorado, 1st , 1994, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Black & white photos.

Record # 57646


Price: $35.00 

Emma's War: An Aid Worker, A Warlord, Radical Islam, and the Politics of Oil - A True Story of Love and Death in SudanScroggins, Deborah
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Emma's War: An Aid Worker, A Warlord, Radical Islam, and the Politics of Oil - A True Story of Love and Death in Sudan


Scroggins, Deborah

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 389 pages. Bright and clean dust jacket. Binding structurally sound. Clean and tight copy.

Record # 809074


Price: $15.00 

 

First Hurrah, The - A Biography of Alfred E. Smith


O'Connor, Richard

NY, G.P. Putnams, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white photos. 318 pages. Dust jacket with edgewear, big chip on rear panel, price clipped.

Record # 66730


Price: $18.00 

 

Frankie - Mrs. R. D. Randolph and Texas Liberal Politics


Crawford, Ann Fears

Austin, TX, Eakin Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title-page. Black & white illust. 143 pages.

Record # 66328


Price: $25.00 

 

From the Top of the Stairs


Finletter, Gretchen

Boston, Little Brown , rep, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, The daughter of Walter Damrosch tells of her early encounters and conflicts with pianos, performers, politics and parties. 252 pgs. dust jacket worn, chipped.

Record # 300084


Price: $15.00 

 

George Kukacz / Life, Thought and Politics


Kadarkay, Arpad

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Blackwell, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos.

Record # 101376


Price: $30.00 

Huey Long's Louisiana: State Politics 1920-1952Sindler, Allan P.
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Huey Long's Louisiana: State Politics 1920-1952


Sindler, Allan P.

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 316 pages, b&w illustrations, in a chipped and soiled dust jacket.

Record # 412086


Price: $39.00 

 

Joseph P. Kennedy - A Life and Times


Koskoff, David E.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice Hall, 3rd, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 643 pages. Black & white photography. Dust jacket has edgewear.

Record # 207878


Price: $15.00 

 

Life and Speeches of Henry Clay - Vol. II


Clay, Henry

NY, Creeley & McElrath, Unknown, 1843, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Vol. II only. Black & white frontis. 597 pages. Light foxing.

Record # 62064


Price: $35.00 

 

Life of Henry Clay (2 Vols.)


Schurz, Carl

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, Reprint, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 382, 424 pages. American Statesmen Series, edited by John T., Morse, Jr. Top edge gilt. excellent condition

Record # 61571


Price: $13.00 

 

Life, Journalism and Politics - Volume II


Spender, J.A.

Hardcover. New York, Frederick Stokes, 1st US, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 226 pages, maroon cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Volume 2 only (of 2 volumes), but this copy SIGNED BY SPENDER on front fly leaf and dated (1928). Clean and tight copy.

Record # 402886


Price: $25.00 

 

Linus Pauling - A Life in Science and Politics


Goertzel, Ted and Ben

New York, Basic Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: Very Good, 300 pages, B&W photos.

Record # 304087


Price: $18.00 

 

Maxim Litvinoff


Pope, Arthur Upham

Hardcover. NY, L.B. Fischer, 1st, 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Front fly leaf gone. Slight slant to spine

Record # 57735


Price: $18.00 

 

Mayor Who Mastered New York, The - The Life and Opinions of William J. Gaynor


Thomas, Lately

Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 516 pages

Record # 56211


Price: $30.00 

 

Nancy Reagan / The Unauthorized Biography


Kelley, Kitty

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 4th print, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, black & white photos

Record # 108433


Price: $18.00 

 

Papers of Adlai E.Stevenson, The - Vol I: Beginnings of Education 1900-1941


Stevenson, Adlai E.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, proof, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Ed. by Walter Johnson and Carol Evans. Light wear. 588 pages + black & white illust.

Record # 57719


Price: $23.00 

 

Passions and Politics: A Biography of Versailles


Barry, Joseph

Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company Inc., Reprint, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 538 pages. Hardcover. Ivory canvas covered boards with black titles to spine. Deckled edge, illustrations in black & white, clean inside and out with maps to endpapers. Dust jacket with edgewear, light toning & price-clipped. A nice copy.

Record # 6670078


Price: $23.00 

 

Proceedings on the Death of Hon. Solomon Foot - Including Addresses Delievered in the Senate and House


N/A

Hardcover. Wash, D.C., GPO, 1st, 1866, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Foot was a Vermont Senator. Limp cloth covers

Record # 19949


Price: $40.00 

 

Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion


Somerset, Anne

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st US, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 621 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Biography of the first Queen of modern Britain. Light edgewear to top edge of dust jacket. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951145


Price: $19.00 

 

Rembrandt's Eyes


Schama, Simon

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 750 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Super clean inside and out. In great shape. From the front flap: "...this book moves far beyond the bounds of conventional biography or art history. With extraordinary imaginative sympathy, Schama conjures up the world in which Rembrandt moved--its sounds, smells, and tastes as well as its politics; the influences on him of the wars of the Protestant United Provinces against Spain, of the extreme Calvanism of his native Leiden, of the demands of patrons and the ambitions of contemporaries; the importance of his beloved Saskia and, after her death (Rembrandt was later forced to sell her grave, so complete was his ruin), of his mistress Hendrickje Stoffels...".

Record # 30479


Price: $31.00 


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