Chicago: J. Fairbanks & Co., 1879. First edition. 526 pp. Illustrated. Publisher's purple cloth stamped in black and red, lettered in gilt, brown endpapers. Near Fine with worn and slightly frayed head, scuff to front board. An attractive copy, uncommon in such nice shape. One preacher's crusade against the wickedness..... More
Mills College, CA: The Eucalyptus Press, 1945. First edition, first printing. Signed by Howard Thurman on the title page. Bound in publisher's blue paper-covered boards lettered in gilt on the upper board. Near Fine with toning to spine, edges of boards and lightly so to pages, in a Very Good..... More
![De la Democratie en Amerique [Democracy in America]. Alexis de Tocqueville](/pictures/thumb/140939535.jpg?v=1580504860)
Paris: Charles Gosselin, 1835. 2 Volumes. First edition of the first part, text in French. Finely bound in contemporary quarter calf over mottled paper covered boards, with all edges marbled. Pp. (4) + xxiv + 367; (4) + 459, engraved, handcolored folding map. Near Fine, with contents toned, and faint..... More
New York: George Dearborn and Co., Adlard and Saunders; J. & H.G. Langley, 1838. 1838, 1840. First American edition of both volumes in publisher's original cloth; the first and second volumes were published separately. Two volumes, xxx, 464; xx, 355 pp. Very Good. Darkening to cloth at gutters. Volume I...... More
London: Saunders and Otley, 1835. Two volumes. First edition in English of Part I of this extremely important and influential analysis of American democracy, complete as issued; Part II of Democracy in America was not published until five years later in 1840. Bound in older three-quarter polished calf over marbled..... More
Berkeley: And/Or Press, 1979. First edition, cloth issue. Signed by Vallee on half-title in black ink. viii, 243 pp. Light tan cloth lettered in gilt on spine, issued sans jacket. A Fine copy. Front and back boards are slightly different lengths; spine not at all cocked as the different board..... More
New York: Bedminster Press, 1968. First edition. Complete in three volumes, each bound in publisher's black cloth with blue, red, and gilt stamping. Near Fine overall with slightly concave spines, but unmarked, bright contents. Lacking original slipcase. Uncommon. A posthumously-published magnum opus by the German polymath Max Weber, dubbed the..... More
London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1930. First British edition and first edition in English. Bound in in publisher's dark blue cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with pages toned, light soiling to textblock edge. In Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket with light edge wear, light soiling and..... More
London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1930. First British edition and first edition in English. Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with very light lean to spine. Spine ends lightly bruised, light bumping to corners and top edge of upper board, browning to..... More