Anonymous

Hand-Painted Escutcheon, in Honor of Italian Prime Minister Amintore Fanfani in 1963

S. l. (Washington, DC [?]), s. n. 1963. First Edition. Pressed cardboard (1/4") and paint, in the shape of a wedge-top escutcheon; the Emblem of the Italian Republic to recto (although also called Coat of Arms of the Italian Republic, it is indeed an emblem, because it is not designed to conform to the official heraldic rules); manuscript notes in pen and marker to verso; two miniscule punctures through the middle (for hanging); a bit of wear to corners; scattered spots of foxing; in about very good condition. Designed by an anonymous enthusiast and subtitled on verso: "Dinner (black tie) for His Excellency Amitore Fanfani, Prime Minister of the Italian Republic, January 18, 1963," the sign commemorated his official visit to the US, Washington, DC and Chicago, beetween January 15th and 18th of 1963. Amintore Fanfani (1908 - 1999) was one of Italy's best-known, post-WWII politicians, Prime Minister of the country for five separate terms, representative of the left-wing section of the Christian Democracy Party, and co-founder of the Italian Centre-left. Very good .

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Book number: 002581

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Keywords: Italy, Politics

Bryan, William Jennings

Speeches of Congressman Bryan, of Nebraska, in the House of Representatives, During the 52d and 53d Congress (Signed/Inscribed Presentation Copy)

Lincoln, Nebraska, (Privately Printed by F. Schwind), 1894. First Edition. First edition; 9 x 6; pp. 186 (each speech with a separate pagination); black morocco over boards with four raised bands to spine; title, year of publication, and presentee's name in gilt on front board and spine; illustrated with portrait frontis and tables; a few scratches to boards and small rubbed spots to tips of spine and corners; leather at head of spine a bit brittle; overall in very good condition. William Jennings Bryan (1860 - 1925) was a politician, an orator, US Secretary of State and three times Democratic Presidential nominee. He was a devoted advocate for the Prohibition, a staunch anti-Evolutionist, and a supporter of the wisdom of the common people, for which he would become known as "The Great Commoner." His current book contained his various congressional speeches, including those on duties, taxes, tariffs, and the Silver Question. The work was presented to J. D. Calhoun with the inscription: "With compliments of your friend / W. J. Bryan / August 1894." Calhoun was the editor of "The Lincoln Journal" and one, who allegedly played a role, albeit tangential, in the demise of legendary outlaw Jesse James. In early 1882, Calhoun had advertised the sale of 160 acres of prime land outside of Franklin, Nebraska. Jesse, who had family ties in Nebraska and who was, presumably, tired of life on the run and wanted to settle in the countryside and raise his children in peace, contacted the editor, told him he was interested in purchasing the land, and arranged to meet him (although not officially confirmed, the meeting did happen and Jesse committed to buying the property). Meanwhile, his resources had been depleted and he needed to pull one more heist in order to be able to acquire his dream farm. While discussing his plans for that final robbery of the Platte City Bank with brothers Bob and Charley Ford, the last two remaining members of the James-Younger gang, Jesse was shot in the back of the head by Robert Ford. Very good .

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Book number: 002292

Catalogue: Politics

Keywords: Presentation Copy, Politics

Bullitt, William C.

Address of William C. Bullitt at the Serbian National Defense Council Celebration of the 561st Anniversary of Kossovo, Chicago, Illinois, July 2, 1950

S. l. (Chicago), By the Author, 1950. First Edition. First edition; 11 x 8 1/2; pp. [8]; stapled, off-white stock, printed in two columns; no separate wraps, as published; illustrated with a small vignettes of the Statue of Liberty at the end of text; minor wear and creasing to edges; near fine condition. William Christian Bullitt (1891 - 1967) was an author, journalist, diplomat, the US Ambassador to France during the Second World War, and the first US Ambassador to the Soviet Union. Given on the anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo (an epic battle, fought in 1389 between the Ottoman Empire and the Serbian Army), the speech addressed the Serbian emigre community and touched on the subjects of Communism, the Soviet Union nuclear power, military strength, etc. Near fine .

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Book number: 002743

Catalogue: Politics

Keywords: Serbia, Politics

Burr, C. Chauncey

The History of the Union, and of the Constitution, Being the Substance of Three Lectures on the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Constitutional Periods of American History, with an Appendix Containing the Constitutions of the United States, and the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of '98

New York, Van Evrie, Horton & Co. 1863. Third Edition. Third edition (originally published in 1862); removed, tied with a decorative string; 8 x 5 1/4; pp. [1], iv, [1], 6-92, [3], 4; partially unopened; age-toning to first and last few leaves; mild staining to fore-edge, not affecting readability; good to very good condition. Charles CHauncey Burr (1817 - 1883) was an author, journalist, publisher, and one of Edgar Allan Poe's closest friends. He founded several periodicals throughout the US, including "The Old Guard" in New York, "The Democrat" in New Jersey, and "Nineteen Century" in Philadelphia. He also participated in the 1872 Democratic National Convention. .

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Book number: 002622

Catalogue: Politics

Keywords: Politics, Constitution, History

Conseil d'Etat

Arrest Du Conseil D'Estat Du Roy, Portant Defenses a Toutes Personnes, Autres Que Les Maitres Cartiers, de Debiter Aucunes Cartes a Jouer, Sans la Permission Par Ecrit de Jean-Baptiste Bocquillon, Prepose a la Regie Du Droit Etabli Sur Les Cartes. Du 19 Novembre 1748

Poitiers, J. Faulcon l'aine, 1748. First edition presumed (OCLC lists only an undated, 2-page variant); 9 x 7 1/2; single, folded folio sheet, pp. [4]; large woodcut to upper margin of pp. 1; a few tiny, barely-visible punctures along spine (sewn/filed at an earlier time); thin, 2" strip of paper clipped from top edge, affecting only the upper right corner of the border of the woodcut; light creasing; overall in very good condition. A royal decree, reaffirming the 1746 law that authorized only maitres cartiers (playing cards makers) to manufacture the cards. It forbade all other people to create, sell, peddle, and copy legitimate playing cards, whether in Paris, or in any other city, even if maitres cartiers had not been present. Considering that it was in France, in the 15th century, where the icons for the four suits used today were developed and those suits were divided into two red and two black, the French dominance in playing cards was undisputed. Though, by the beginning of the 18th century myriad factors, including wars and plain old extravagance, had been draining France's finances at an alarming rate and to offset that, in 1701 a new duty was imposed on playing cards. In contemplation of collecting the taxes, the country was divided into 9 manufacturing regions and each manufacturer needed to submit a formal design template to the recettes generales in order to register his production and to pay his dues. One of the reasons for the current decree was the fact that the taxes kept climbing every year and more and more people began producing counterfeit and/or illegal playing cards - on the one side, to cash in on the profits and on the other side, to avoid paying taxes. Very good .

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Book number: 002865

Catalogue: Law, Politics & Social Sciences

Keywords: California-Vbf, Playing Cards, France, Law

Dontsev, R.

Forpost Svobody. Problema Zapadnogo Berlina (Outpost of Freedom. The West Berlin Problem)

Miunkhen (Munich) , Izdatelstvo Tsentralnogo Obedinennia Politicheskikh Emigrantov iz SSSR, 1959. First Edition. First edition; 8 1/4 x 5 3/4; pp. [2], 5-31; textured blue wraps, printed in black; small creases to corners of wraps and a small spot to lower margin of front wrap; in very good condition. On the occupation zones in Germany in the aftermath of WWII, the division of Berlin in different sectors, etc. Very good .

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Book number: 003259

Catalogue: Politics

Keywords: Berlin, Politics

Fletcher, Thos.; Dollison, J. W.

An Address. The State Central Committee of the People's Party Meets and Issues an Address to the People of Arkansas

S. l. By the authors, 1894. First Edition. Small broadside, n. d. (ca 1894); 10 x 6; off-white paper, printed in black; a few old, fold lines; very good to near fine condition. A scarce, ephemeral circular, it was published by the People's Party, aka the "Populists" in Arkansas. A short-lived political party, it aligned itself with the Labor Movement and was critical of Capitalism, money-grabbing, railroads, banks, etc. The party was born as a direct consequence of economic depression and agricultural unrest in the South and the trans-Mississippi West in the late 1870s and 1880s. The third-party movement in Arkansas began in 1887, with the founding of the Union Labor Party. It would become the People's Party in 1891, in line with the formation of the national Populist Party. It never amounted to much, after the Election Reform Law of 1891 disfranchised citizens, who could not read, and after the Republican Party entered the state elections in 1892. The party never elected a congressman in Arkansas and ceised to exist after 1900. Very good .

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Book number: 003161

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Keywords: People's Party, Arkansas

Kovalyov, Eduard and Sedykh, Igor

Bulgarian Connection: " Cia & Co. On the Outcome of the Antonov Trial

Moscow, Novosti Press Agency Publishing House, 1986. First Edition. First edition in English; 6 1/2 x 4; pp. 3-80; textured, black, pictorial wraps; a bit of creasing along spine and light wear to edges and corners; several passages in the first half of the book underlined; in very good- condition. Sergei Antonov (1948 - 2007) was the Bulgarian, Balkan Airlines representative, arrested for his alleged involvement in the assassination attempt on the life of Pope John Paul II in 1981. Charged with complicity, Antonov was put on trial together with two other Bulgarians and three Turks, including Grey Wolves member Mehmet Ali Agca, who would name Sergei his co-conspirator. Lacking enough evidence against the Bulgarian Secret Service's claimed hiring of the men to carry on the assassination, Antonov was acquited in 1986. Pope John Paul himself rejected the alleged Bulgarian connection. Very good .

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Book number: 002745

Catalogue: Politics

Keywords: Pope, Bulgaria

Nownes, Anne; et al

2nd Annual Captive Nations Rally, Featuring John Stormer, Author of "None Dare Call It Treason

Los Angeles, By the AUthors, 1964. First Edition. First edition; 11 x 8 1/2; pp. [8]; glossy, pictorial, white wraps, printed in red; age-toning to margins and some creasing to edges; several illustrated advertisements; in about very good condition. Sponsored by the Los Angeles County Young Republicans, the rally was held in support of Barry Morris Goldwater's (1909 - 1998) bid for presidency at the 1964 elections and the featured guest was John A. Stormer (1928 - 2018) - educator, pastor, and anti-Communist author of "None Dare Call It Treason", who was immensely popular with the Far-Right constituency. The wraps of the program showcased a dramatic, stylized drawing of chained arms and a roll call list of captive nations from 1918 to 1960. Very good .

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Book number: 002744

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Keywords: Republicans

Pakstas, Prof. Kazys

The Baltoscandian Confederation

S. l. (Chicago), Lithuanian Cultural Institute, 1942. First Edition. First edition in book form (compiled from lectures, given by the author in 1934); 8 3/4 x 5 3/4; pp. [3], 6-27, [1]; stapled, off-white, pictorial wraps; illustrated with a map and tables; small, rubbed spot to upper right corner of front wrap (removed bookshop label [?]); small cuts around staples with wraps partially pulling; in good to very good condition. Kazys Pakstas (1893 - 1960) was a Lithuanian educator, pioneer of professional geography in Lithuania, and political theorist. In his later life, he immigrated to the US, taught at several universities, and worked at the Library of Congress. He would be best known for developing the idea of Baltoscandia, or the Baltoscandian Confederation - the subject of the current booklet - first put forward by Swedish Professor Sten de Geer in 1928. A geopolitical concept, it proposed a Baltic - Scandinavian union, comprised of 8 countries - Lithuania, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, and Sweden. For the purpose of withstanding the influence from the big countries, a geographical, cultural, economic, political, and military unit was to be formed and maintained by the small nations. Good .

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Book number: 003697

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Keywords: Scandinavia, Politics

Parlement

Arrert (Sic. ) de la Cour de Parlement de Dauphine, Contre Les Femmes Qui Ayans Concu Enfans Par Moyens Des-Honnetes, Cachent Leur Grossesse, & Tuent Leur Fruict, Du 12 Iuillet 1664

S.l. (Grenoble [?]), s. n. 1664. First edition thus (OCLC lists one copy at Yale with the same title, but different text and date - 1638; this edition not in OCLC); 8 3/4 x 6 1/4; single leaf, removed, text to recto only; illustrated with a woodcut border above the title; a small manuscript note to top margin; minor spotting to left margin; in very good condition. Reaffirming a royal edict, first issued in 1556, the document dealt with prostitutes, or women, who had conceived in a dishonest way, and concealed their pregnancy, and after giving birth killed their infants and burried them, or threw them away. The women were to be punished by death, the manner of which was to be determined depending on the gruesomeness of the particular case. The paper contained an extract of the original 1556 edict, as well, which also required all unmarried women to officially declare their pregnancy and ordered the death penalty for any such mother, whose infant died before receiving proper baptism, regardless if an infanticide had actually occured. In early modern Europe, pregnant unmarried women could face punishment for fornication and if they had a miscarriage or the newborn died, they could be accused of infanticide, but the courts rarely saw such cases, as the magistrates were aware of the physicians' limitations in diagnosing and distinguishing a stillbirth, a natural-cause death, and a murder. It all chaged throughout most of Europe in the 16th century, arguably beginning with the above-mentioned 1556 edict in France, which was followed by similar ones in England and Germany in the 1600s and the early-1700s. Very good .

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Book number: 002881

Catalogue: Law, Politics & Social Sciences

Keywords: California-Vbf, Infanticide, France, Early Europe, Prostitutes

Rei, August

Have the Baltic Countries Voluntarily Renounced Their Freedom? an Expose Based on Authentic Documentary Evidence

New York, World Association of Estonians, 1944. First American Edition. First American edition (originally published in Sweden in 1943); 7 1/2 x 5; pp. 3-47; off-white wraps, printed in black; light age-toning to margins; a bit of wear to edges and corners; small, penciled-in, manuscript note: "From Consulate General of Lithuania, Washn, May 1944" to front wrap verso; very good or better condition. August Rei (1886 - 1963) was an EstonianSocial Democratic politician and, at various times, Minister of Labor and Social Welfare, Minister of Education, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Head of State, etc. He spent the last 20 years of his life in exile, in Sweden. Very good .

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Book number: 002506

Catalogue: Baltic Politics

Keywords: Politics, Lithuania, Latvia

Various

Do Pytannia Ukrainsko-Polskykh Vzaemyn (on the Question of Ukrainian-Polish Relations)

S. l. Vydavnytstvo im. Khvylovoho, 1948. First Edition. First edition; 8 x 5 3/4; pp. [3], 6-37; salmon wraps, printed and ruled in black; previous owner's signature and a small number to front wrap, title page, and fore-edge; overall in very good condition. A series of articles by various Ukrainian intelectuals on Ukrainian-Polish Relations. Very good .

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Book number: 003300

Catalogue: Politics

Keywords: Ukraine, Poland, Politics

Zabarevskyi, M. (pseud. for Doroshenko, Dmytro)

Viacheslav Lypynskyi I Ioho Dumky Pro Ukrainsku Natsiiu I Derzhavu

Augsburg, Nakladom Ukr. Litopysu, 1946. Second edition (originally published in 1925 in Vienna); 8 1/4 x 5 3/4; pp. [2], 7-51; beige wraps, printed in brown and ruled with an intricate border; illustrated with portrait frontis; small gift stamp to ffep; light age-toning to margins of wraps; spine cover somewhat fragile, with a closed cut to head through first staple (text block still solidly attached); in about very good- condition. Dmytro Doroshenko (1882 - 1951) was a leading Ukrainian politician during the 1917 and 1918 revolution, a prominent emigre historian in the period between the wars, and a member of the Ukrainian Party of Socialist Federalists. He was also the first President of the Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences in Germany and the co-founder of a branch of the latter in Canada. Best known for his two-volume "Survey of Ukrainian History," he also authored numerous books on the Hetman state, church history, Ukraine in Western literature, etc. His current work discussed "the concept of territorial patriotism" of Viacheslav Lypynskyi (1882 - 1931) - historian, social activist, founder of the Ukrainian Democratic Agrarian Party, and Ukrainian ambassador to Austria. Good .

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Book number: 002973

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Keywords: Politics, Ukraine

[Zenzinov, Vladimir]

Le Travail Force Existe-T-IL En U.R. S.S. ? Recueil de Documents Officiels Du Gouvernment Sovietique (Does Labor Force Exists in the Ussr? a Collection of Official Documents of the Soviet Government) [an Association Copy]

Paris, Edite par le Comite de L'organisation parisienne du Parti socialiste-revolutionnaire russe, 1931. First Edition. First edition; 6 3/4 x 4 1/2; pp. 3-54; stapled, off-white wraps, printed in black; mild age-toning to margins; very good or better condition. Signed and inscribed by Zenzinov to renowned author, journalist, editor, music critic, and publisher Felix Stossinger (in German): "To Comrade Stossinger / best regards / from the Author / V. Zenzinov / Paris / July 18, 1931." Vladimir Mikhailovich Zenzinov (1880 - 1953) was a Socialist-Revolutionary, author, Co-director of the Provisional All-Russian Government and participant in all three of the Russian Revolutions. Between 1905 and 1918, he would be arrested a number of times and sent to various prison camps in Siberia, Yakutia, and China, and he would manage to escape from all but one of them and through circuitous routes over several continents would return to Russia every time. While in Yakutia, Zenzinov wrote several groundbreaking anthropological works on the area and its inhabitants. He emigrated for good in the 1920s, first to Berlin and Paris, where he wrote for some of the most influential emigre journals of the time (Goloss Rossii, Sovremennyia Zapiski, etc.), later to Finland, and finally - to the US. Felix Stossinger (1889 - 1954) was born in Prague and grew up in Vienna, where he was close to Franz Kafka, Otto Pick, and Albert Ehrenstein. He moved to Berlin in 1914 and joined the Social Democratic Party. He was a member of the League for Proletarian Culture, alongside poet Ludwig Rubiner, playwright Arthur Holitscher, and journalist Alfons Goldschmidt. Stossinger fled back to Prague in 1934, after the Nazis seized power, then to France, and finally to Switzerland, where his family spent time in an interment camp in 1942-1943. One copy at Hoover Institution; none in the trade (as of February 2020). Very good .

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Book number: 002606

Catalogue: Politics

Keywords: Labor Force, Politics