THOMAS PAINE'S RIGHTS OF MAN: A Biography
(2006)
Signed first printing of Hitchens's history of the famous defense of the principles behind the French Revolution, by the English-born American Revolutionary and author of COMMON SENSE.
Philosophy
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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First edition of this anthology of Locke's philosophical writings, some previously unpublished, each "directly arguing for, criticizing, or expressing a fundamental notion of race, culture, civilization, identity, or value."
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).
ON PHOTOGRAPHY
(1977)
Signed first printing of Sontag's classic work, a remarkable association copy extensively annotated by photojournalist John Godfrey Morris.
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