New York: National Military Publishing Co., 1917. Hardcover. Twenty-fourmo size, 77 pp. Seemingly scarce in the trade, with no copies currently online that we can find; per an OCLC search conducted as of this writing this volume is held by eighteen institutions. Noted as the "Latest Edition" on the title..... More
Princeton, New Jersey: The Giovanni Agnelli Foundation Series in Italian History, Princeton University Press, (1995). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, large octavo size, 276 pp. From DJ flap: "Anyone intersted in the entire sweep of political thought over the last hundred years will find in Norberto Bobbio's 'Ideological Profile of..... More
![Item #CNJL2418 Pareto [Modern Sociologists]. Franz Borkenau](https://swansfinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/CNJL2418_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1695770949)
New York [Printed in Great Britain]: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [Western Printing Services], 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, duodecimo size, 219 pp. Per "The Encyclopedia Brittanica", Pareto, " …laid the foundation of modern welfare economics… [Then later] Believing that there were problems that economics could not solve, Pareto..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 185 pp. From the Clarendon Press, "This is an important work of original scholarship by two of the most distinguished East European economists, now working in the West. The authors, both of whom were involved in the Planning..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, (1987). First Edition. Hardcover. First edition by this publisher, small quarto size, 418 pp. From the jacket flap: per an article by Sunil Khilnani, "this is Castoriadis's 'most important work to date' providing a theoretical argument (made from the Left) for breaking with Marxism and..... More
![Item #CNJL2629 Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung [Works of Mae Zedong]. Central Committee of the...](https://swansfinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/CNJL2629_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1786494303)
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1967-1977. Hardcover. Five volumes (complete), small quarto size, approx. 2000 total pages, in cardboard slipcases. The founder of the People's Republic of China Mao Zedong (1893-1976), while transforming China into a world power, was the leader of a totalitarian regime which, through its policies and actions..... More
Boston: Walker, Wise, and Company, 1862. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Second printing (first printing was in 1861), duodecimo size, 131 pp. One of many voices calling for an end to slavery in the United States, Moncure Daniel Conway (1832-1907) writes an impassioned plea for the emancipation of slaves in "The Rejected..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Third printing, octavo size, 407 pp. From the dust jacket flap: "Using a combination of rational choice theory and historical analysis [Crouch] traces the development of industrial relations systems in...fifteen western European nations." This was done to attempt to explain the differing development..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 472 pp. From the summary on the dust jacket: "In these interconnected essays the late Geoffrey de Ste. Croix defends the institutions of the Athenian democracy, showing that they were much more practical, rational, and impartial than has..... More
Stanford University: James Ladd Delkin [Printed at the Grabhorn Press], 1941. Hardcover. One of 250 copies, quarto size, [73] pp. An essay by Albert Leon Guerard (1880-1959) on Vichy France, the nominal government of German-occupied France during WWII. He begins: "The France of to-morrow! What do we know of the..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, The Clarendon Press, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Three volumes (complete), all three volumes the first printings in English, octavo size, approx. 1500 pp. Leszek Ko akowski (1927-2009) is best known for this work, "Main Currents of Marxism". Per Wiki: "Owing to his criticism of Marxism and..... More
Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1867. Nast, Thomas. First Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo size, 299 pp. The popular work of ironic fiction written by journalist and political commentator David Ross Locke (1833-1888). Locke's greatest influence was through his satirical writings as "Petroleum Vesuvius Nasby". The Nasby letters harshly ridiculed the plight of..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 756 pp. "Short, cheap pamphlets with catchy titles and crude woodcuts lured readers in early modern England. The pamphlets described notorious murders and the sometimes providential means by which the culprit was captured and condemned to the..... More
San Francisco: Ransohoffs [Printed at the Grabhorn Press], 1938. Dean, Mallette. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Limited edition, one of 200 copies, folio size, unpaginated [28] pp. Edward VIII (1894-1972), Prince of Wales, then King Edward VIII, and then the Duke of Windsor, made history when he abdicated the British throne in..... More