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Two Letters Addressed to... Parliament by FRENCH REVOLUTION BURKE Edmund

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Title
Two Letters Addressed to... Parliament
Author
FRENCH REVOLUTION BURKE Edmund
Seller
Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description
1797. First Edition. (FRENCH REVOLUTION) BURKE, Edmund. Two Letters Addressed to a Member of the Present Parliament, On the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France. Philadelphia: Printed for William Cobbett, 1797. Octavo, period-style full speckled calf-gilt, red morocco spine label; pp. (1-3) 4-64, 1-22. $2800.First and only 18th-century American edition, preceded by the 1796 first English edition, of Burke's explosive demand for a ""religious war… a moral war"" against revolutionary France and its ""armed doctrine… aiming at universal empire,"" published the same decade as his Reflections on the Revolution in France. ""The fountainhead of anti-revolutionary political thought was undoubtedly Edmund Burke"" (Hartog, Trans-Atlantic Anti-Jacobinism, 135). Yet, for many, ""only at the end did he become the… scourge of Revolution. Indeed, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) is liberal compared to Letters… which demanded a war abroad and repression at home to extirpate revolutionary infection"" (Stanford Encyclopedia). In this first American edition of Burke's Two Letters, which are at the core of his four-part series known as Letters on a Regicide Peace, Burke warned that ""one kind of Europe where, as he had envisaged it, every one of its inhabitants would feel at home, was rapidly and violently displaced by another, consisting of mutually suspicious, nationalist, and increasingly racist nation-states"" (Pagden, Comment: Empire and Its Anxieties, 145). In late 1795, as ""France's internal politics showed the prospect of stabilizing,"" Burke's deep ""loss of hope at restraining the drive toward peace enabled him to overcome any remaining scruples"" about authoring the Letters, in which he stressed ""the impossibility of the English constitution co-existing with [revolutionary] Jacobinism"" (Hampsher-Monk, Edmund Burke's Changing Justification, 89). ""Burke was a Christian thinker whose conservatism has been traced to his theological presuppositions… he saw atheistic Jacobinism as a threat to Western cultural tradition"" (Stanford Encyclopedia). His series of Letters ""completely abandoned Vattel's natural law premises of nations as isolates in a state of nature,"" as he ""assembled a completely new justification for intervention, structurally unlike anything he had put forward before… Burke claimed not only that international relations with revolutionary France were impossible, but that the maintenance of an international European community of any kind required the extirpation of the revolutionary regime"" (Hampsher-Monk, 92-95).To Burke, the move toward introducing ""interests which claimed universal applicability, such as justification by faith or the rights of man, dissolved the necessary connection between a state's natural situation and the diplomatic interests it generated… he maintained that Britain and its allies were engaged against France"" in what he describes, in his First and Second Letter, as a ""'religious war… a moral war' against the 'armed doctrine' of a 'sect aiming at universal empire'"" (Armitage, Edmund Burke, 632). ""Reason and authority,"" he warns, ""do not move in the same parallel."" For some recent scholars, ""Burke's justification for intervention in French internal affairs in the name of the international community has formed a powerful strand of thought in both diplomacy and international relations theory"" (Hampsher-Monk, 65). Burke's Reflections had been earlier ""published in America by none other than the intemperate Anti-Jacobin William Cobbett,"" who notably issued this first American edition of Two Letters. ""The mercurial Cobbett proved… an important channel to warn Americans about French abuses while encouraging them into closer relations with Great Britain… Throughout the 1790s—reaching a height during the war fever of 1798,"" Cobbett's writings and publications, in which he charged the French Revolution with presenting ""nothing but a regular process in robbery and murder… [were] read by Abigail Adams, George Washington"" and many other leaders (Hartog, 136-38). First and only 18th-century American edition; preceded by the 1796 unauthorized and authorized first English editions of Two Letters. ESTC W36400. Evans 31895. Gaines, Cobbett, 102. Text fresh with light foxing mainly to preliminary and final leaves, tiny gutter-edge pinholes from original stitching, beautifully bound.
Epitaph for a Spy

Epitaph for a Spy by Ambler, Eric

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Epitaph for a Spy
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Ambler, Eric
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Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1938. First edition. First edition, first impression. 287, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's light blue cloth with black lettering. A Very Good+, solid copy, lacking the dust jacket. Light wear, small scuff near foot, slight lean to spine. A British pre-WWII spy novel, filmed as Hotel Reserve in 1944.
See-Saw" [from MOTHER GOOSE]

See-Saw" [from MOTHER GOOSE]

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See-Saw" [from MOTHER GOOSE]
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Type Punch Matrix (United States)
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Very good.
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n.p.: n.p., [19th century]. Very good.. Bright Victorian children's textile depicting a classic Mother Goose rhyme, "See-Saw, Margery Daw." This decorative textile illustrates a Mother Goose scene in action: "See saw, Margery Daw, / Jacky shall have a new master: / Jacky must have but a penny a day / Because he can work no faster." The central vignette shows little boys playing on an ad-hoc see-saw created out of logs. Smaller vignettes in each corner show other children's games in action: flying a kite, playing soccer, playing cricket, and shooting marbles. An attractive survival. 11'' x 12.25''. Single square printed in red and black. Faint central area of browning, overall a bit toned, else clean and unfrayed.
High Time - Vol. 1, No. 1

High Time - Vol. 1, No. 1

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Title
High Time - Vol. 1, No. 1
Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
North Hollywood, California: American Art Agency, 1960. Softcover. Near Fine. Magazine. Quarto. 56pp. Stapled photographic wrappers. Near fine with light edgewear. One of many magazine imitating the success of *Playboy* with articles, stories, or interviews. Rare. *OCLC* locates no copies.
Our Police Force: A Crownbird Special

Our Police Force: A Crownbird Special

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Our Police Force: A Crownbird Special
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Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
(Lagos, Nigeria: Public Relations Department, 1952. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 28, [2]pp. Illustrated from photographs. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Cover illustration by J. Hindle. Very light edgewear, near fine. Pamphlet on the Nigerian police force.
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The Mary Flagler Gary Music Collection;

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The Mary Flagler Gary Music Collection;
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J.B. Muns, Fine Arts Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
First public exhibition of the collection was held from Nov. 17, 1970 to Jan. 31, 1971.
SPANGLED BANNER: THE STORY OF FRANCIS SCOTT KEY

SPANGLED BANNER: THE STORY OF FRANCIS SCOTT KEY by WEYBRIGHT, Victor

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SPANGLED BANNER: THE STORY OF FRANCIS SCOTT KEY
Author
WEYBRIGHT, Victor
Seller
Antic Hay Books (United States)
Description
Farrar and Rinehart, 1935. WEYBRIGHT, Victor. SPANGLED BANNER: THE STORY OF FRANCIS SCOTT KEY. NY: Farrar and Rinehart, Inc., [1935]. 8vo, cloth in dust jacket. Reprint. Signed presentation from Weybright on front endpaper: "Spruille- From one patriot to another. The anthem will keep you in good voice- Victor 1976." The recipient is Spruille Braden, the heir to Anaconda Copper and a Latin American diplomat. Near Fine; slight wear & soil d/j. $45.00.
The New Heart to Heart: the newsletter of the AIDS Emergency Fund; Spring 1998; AEF's Annual Awards Dinner

The New Heart to Heart: the newsletter of the AIDS Emergency Fund; Spring 1998; AEF's Annual Awards Dinner

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The New Heart to Heart: the newsletter of the AIDS Emergency Fund; Spring 1998; AEF's Annual Awards Dinner
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Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
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San Francisco: AIDS Emergency Fund, 1998. Newsletter. 8p. includes covers, 8.5x11 inches, illustrations, event calendars, resources, very good newsletter in stapled pictorial wraps. A revamped version of the newsletter for the all volunteer organization providing direct emergency financial assistance to people living with AIDS that was formed in 1982.

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