WOMAN'S CO-OPERATION ESSENTIAL TO PURE POLITICS
[1885]
Ephemeral prodution from the American Woman Suffrage Association, reprinting a vehement pro-suffrage speech by Senator George Frisbie Hoar of Massachussetts.
Politics
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HOLLYWOOD ON TRIAL: The Story of the Ten Who Were Indicted
1948
First edition of this insider account of the House Un-American Activities Committee regarding "alleged subversive influence in motion pictures" – this copy signed by Adrian Scott, one of the Ten.
THE PHILOSOPHY OF ALAIN LOCKE: Harlem Renaissance and Beyond
(1989)
First edition of this anthology of Locke's philosophical writings, some previously unpublished, each "directly arguing for, criticizing, or expressing a fundamental notion of race, culture, civilization, identity, or value."
AN APPEAL TO CONSCIENCE
1919
Early printing, scarce in any form, of this persuasive essay on the double standard in the application of American laws to Black people and white people, including chapters on lynching and segregation.
THE MEMOIRS OF RICHARD NIXON
(1978)
First edition of the memoirs of the 37th US president, with ephemera including matchbook from the Watergate Hotel.
AND THE BAND PLAYED ON: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic
(1987)
Inscribed first printing of the essential work of investigative journalism on the AIDS epidemic.
DISCOURSES CONCERNING GOVERNMENT
MDCXCVIII [1698]
First edition of this major influence on the US Founders, "probably the best elementary book of the principles of government [...] which has ever been published in any language," according to Thomas Jefferson (1804 letter to Mason Locke Weems).
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UNIT PLANS: Suggestions for the interior arrangement of low-rent dwellings [with] PLANNING THE SITE: Design of Low-Rent Housing Projects
1938, 1939
Two desperately sensible New Deal proposals for low-rent public housing, designed to facilitate "a better community life."
FRONT ROW AT THE WHITE HOUSE: My Life and Times
(1999)
Inscribed first printing of Thomas's fascinating memoir of a life in journalism.
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