Beecher, John

Tomorrow Is a Day: A Story of the People in Politics

Chicago, Vanguard Books, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the wife, Barbara Beecher, of the author, John Beecher, signed for both of them in San Francisco on February 1, 1981. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. The author was born in 1904 in Alabama and became a notable literary and political scientific figure. The volume treats of three 19th-century figures and another three drawn from the 20th century, including Alexander Ramsey, Ignatius Donnelly, James J. Hill, and Floyd B. Olson. viii [2], 1-386 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . Signed by Other. . Fine/Good,

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Book number: 347099

Catalogue: Political Science

Keywords: John Beecher|Barbara Beecher|political science|Alexander Ramsey|Ignatius Donnelly|James J. Hill|Floyd B. Olson

Shaw, Bernard

The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism

New York, Brentano's, 1928. First American Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. The Irish playwright's unsurprisingly accessible and engaging treatise about socialist and marxian thinking and pitched at British and American women, going through them, he says, so as to get to American men. employing socialist and Marxist thought. Stated First Printing, June 1928, but of the First American Edition, and he adds here a Foreword especially for American readers. Nicely decorated green cloth over boards, sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, with a clean, if lightly toned interior, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bookplate from Theodore and Sue Lewis inside front flap. Bumping to spine head and foot. Rough-cut fore-edges, light dust soiling along top. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, heavily worn, chipped along top edge, front panel detached but present, behind a plastic coat. xlvi, 1-495 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good/Poor,

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Book number: 356034

Catalogue: Political Science

Keywords: George Bernard Shaw socialism capitalism Bernard Shaw