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First printing. 16mo, 43-62pp; buff beige wrappers printed in black and vermilion. A discussion of contemporary bookplate designs and their designers with illustrations. Among the designers highlighted: Jay Chambers, Homer W. Colby, William Edgar Fisher, Elizabeth Hollowell, Mrs. Annie B. Hooper, Theodore Hapgood et al. Fragile wrappers almost detached; 1/2" triangular piece lacking bottom tip rear panel. An interesting source on turn-of-the-century bookplates and their artists.
"Recent American Ex Libris" THE CORNHILL BOOKLET
[Bookplates] Stone, Wilbur Macey.
Boston: Alfred Bartlett, September, 1901.
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Important account of the Nat Turner Insurrection. 8vo, 245pp; printed tan wrappers. Blind owner's stamp front cover; covers edgeworn with spine lacking a 1/4" at foot and partially detached. About very good. This issue contains Part IV of Harriet Beecher Stowe's AGNES OF SORRENTO, as well as articles on Stephen Douglas, the impact of the Civil War, etc. Most interesting is T.W. Higginson's account of "Nat Turner's Insurrection" of 1831. Higginson, who would command the first all-black division in the Civil War, was the first serious writer to examine the Turner rebellion. A well-known abolitionist, Higginson's sympathies with the fiery preacher and slave are clear. A critical landmark in the literature of the Southampton Insurrection.
ATLANTIC MONTHLY, August, 1861, (Number 46)
[Nat Turner] Higginson, T.W.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1861.
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8vo, 410pp; dark blue wove cloth with printed black label lettered in gold front panel and smooth black cloth spine stamped in gold (without dust jacket, as issued). Frontispiece photograph of the playwright. The standard bibliography for Eugene O'Neill. Fine.
EUGENE O'NEILL A Descriptive Bibliography
[O'Neill, Eugene] McCabe, Jennifer.
[Pittsburgh]: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1974.
Price: $30.00
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Two variants of a large leaflet advertising a march and rally in support of women's rights. Leaflet: 14 x 8-1/2", 1pp; pale yellow stock printed in black (both sides). With photograph of Bella Abzug speaking at an outdoor rally with a sign interpreter on the dais with her. Leaflet folded once horizontally; minor crease to lower left corner. Very good. A second leaflet printed on white stock, lacking the photograph and with a slightly different listing of "Endorsements & Coalition Participants" at reverse. Also very good. The leaflet notes: "The Day in the Park for Women's Rights has become a Bay Area tradition. Occurring on or about International Women's Day eac hyear, it provides groups and individuals who support equal rights for women with an opportunity to come together in a visible show of strength, unity, and determination". A map of the march route is printed as are essentials details for the march and rally. The key note speakers - Bella Abzug, Ed Asner and Sonia Johnson - are announced in bold type at the front of the leaflet. Among the organizations endorsing or participating are: Options for Women Over Forty; Coalition for the Medical Rights of Women; Community United Against Violence; San Francisco Labor Council; National Task Force on Prostitution; Socialist Workers Party; Lesbian Rights Project, Equal Rights Advocates; Richmond Involved in Safe Energy; and, the Human Rights Foundation. The list eloquently reflects the wide range and disparate missions of grassroots organizations involved in the women's rights movement of the period. The leaflet also announces "1,000 Equal Rights Amendment bumper stickers will be given away to ERA supporters who consent to display them". Within the next three years, of course, the ERA amendment would fail.
Leaflet: "6th ANNUAL DAY IN THE PARK FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS"
[Feminism], S[an] F[rancisco] NOW.
[San Francisco, CA: S.F. NOW, c. 1981].
Price: $150.00
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First edition. State A - no priority established - of the cover sheet with the statement "Price, 25 cents net" set 1-3/4" and with the imprint of Boston and Cleveland publishers; and State B of page [1] - no priority established - with the word "author" spelled correctly and copyright notice at foot "...Court of the /District of...". Off-white printed sheets, 10-5/8" (wide) x 14-1/8" (long), with vignette of Little Eva and Uncle Tom signed Baker-Smith at the front cover. Discreet institutional stamp at rear (left lower corner) and number stamp in blue also at rear (right lower corner). Archival tape reinforces spine and neat page numbers (from prior bound volume) at upper right. Covers show mild age-toning and surface soiling. Generally an attractive copy. About very good. John Jewett had published UNCLE TOM’S CABIN with a ten percent royalty payable to Mrs. Stowe, Harriet and her sister Catherine having declined his offer to split cost and profit equally. The stunning success of the book convinced them they had made the wrong decision; Catherine, in fact, was furious, sure that the canny publisher had taken advantage of their naïveté. Jewett had pledged, however, to promote the book assiduously and "spare no pains nor expense nor effort to push the book into an unparalleled circulation". Joan Hedrick in her very fine biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe explains "the cultural elaborations of this publishing event are owing to his efforts". UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, as a contemporary observer, commented was into theaters, and "will enter largely into exhibitions of paintings and statuary. It will have its music". Jewett ensured the book would have its music by commissioning John Greenleaf Whittier for $50.00 to write a poem about Little Eva "and getting someone else to set the words to music". The poem first appeared in the newspaper THE INDEPENDENT and was circulated from hand to hand. One Beecher wrote of his verses, "They are beautiful but you should hear Charles [Beecher] sing them, in his clear, rich voice, to know their full power". The publication of UNCLE TOM’S CABIN, in many ways, was the critical event of 19th century America. For decades politicians had sought by compromise to defang the issue of slavery, while its poisons continued to seep through American society. The effect of UNCLE TOM'S CABIN was to take the issue of slavery away from the politicians and a small radical band of abolitionists into the popular culture. The novel inundated America, sweeping away whatever appearance of right or propriety had been claimed by proponents of slavery for a system which enchained and degraded an entire race. This sheet music, like the plays and prints and other items which arose in the wake of the novel, suggest the massive impact of UNCLE TOM'S CABIN and how it pushed the young nation to confront an issue it had sought to evade since its inception. It is one of the most resonant artifacts of America's political and literary past. BAL 21776, PICTURED. Blanck pictures page 1 of the sheet music on p. 130 (Volume VI).
LITTLE EVA; Uncle Tom's Guardian Angel Composed and Most Respectfully Dedicated to Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin", Poetry by John G. Whittier Music by Manuel Emilio
[Stowe, Harriet Beecher] Whittier, John G[reenleaf].
Boston: John P. Jewett & Company. New York: Newman & Ivison, 1852.
Price: $750.00
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Postcard: 4 x 5-13/16", printed dark green and light green stiff stock. At the verso is printed a divided back with room for an address at the right and "I support ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, and I will only support legislators who vote "YES". Slight fading. Near fine. The reverse calls for a 12 cent stamp for the postcard, a rate only in effect from March - November, 1981. The ERA amendment gains Senate approval in 1972, but attached is a seven-year time limit for ratification devised by Senator Sam Ervin and Representative Emanuel Celler. When the amendment fails to garner the necessary number of states by 1979, NOW and other ERA supporters urge an extension. The House and the Senate set a new deadline of June 30, 1982. If supporters hoped the extension would place fresh pressure on reluctant state legislators to ratify the amendment, such optimism proved unjustified. When Ronald Reagan took office in January of 1981, he became the first president to oppose an ERA amendment. The political climate for the amendment had chilled. This postcard reflects the growing urgency among ERA supporters to achieve state ratification within the brief window open to them.
Postcard: "EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT YES!"
[ERA],
[NP: , ca. 1981].
Price: $35.00
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First edition. 8vo, 313pp; (including Index); wove blue cloth stamped in gold at the front and spine. Institutional copy with stamps at the title page (lower right) and front pastedown, fittingly “Packard Commercial School” (Packard Junior College). Title page separated along gutter (1-1/2”). Some spotting and rubbing to spine. About very good. Helen Campbell (1839-1918), author and reformer, married a surgeon in 1860 and two years later divorced him. It suggests the remarkable self-possession which characterized her even at age 23. She wrote children’s stories and then novels and eventually began contributing weekly pieces to THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE. She appreciated the myriad difficulties which beset women in the work place and in 1887 collected the TRIBUNE essays in PRISONERS OF POVERTY. Professor Richard Ely introduces WOMEN WAGE-EARNERS by saying, “The importance of the subject with which the present work deals cannot well be over-estimated”. Campbell provides a salient look at women laborers in the United States from the Colonial period on, discussing factory labor, the rise and growth of trades, labor bureaus, etc. and contrasting working conditions in Europe with those in the United States. She concludes by reviewing the abuses women are subject to and offering ‘remedies and suggestions’. The inequality of wages between men and women, not surprisingly, is a key component of her discussion. The volume also prints three appendices, the third a “Bibliography of Woman’s Labor and of the Woman Question”. THE FEMINIST COMPANION, p. 175. Krichmar, 2297.
WOMEN WAGE-EARNERS: Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future
Campbell, Helen [Stuart].
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1893.
Price: $65.00
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Only edition. Trade catalog: 9-1/4 x 6-1/4", [12]pp; light brown wrappers (stapled) illustrated with three pieces of Paul Revere Ware’ the logo of the Paul Revere Pottery at the rear cover. Illustrated with photographs of the Nottingham Hill studio; an artist painting a large vase; and the studio's offerings. Touch of dampstaining to upper front cover and first leaf; pencil note at second page of price list. Generally very good. The catalog prints brief profile of the Paul Revere Pottery; photographs of its offerings; and, a complete price list. The Saturday Evening Girls and the Paul Revere Pottery (1908-1942) arose out of the confluence of the Arts and Crafts Movement with the women's movement and the progressive spirit of the early 1900s. Founders and artists Edith Brown and Edith Guerrier had the full support of Boston philanthropist Helen Storrow in this experiment to provide a vocation for talented young women and convey the aesthetics of the Arts and Crafts movement in pottery. The Saturday Evening Girls and the Paul Revere Pottery became especially known for their engaging children's ware painted with geese, baby chicks and bunnies and often individualized with children’s names or initials. The Pottery produced lamps, flower vases, bowls, candlesticks, tea caddies, trays, desk sets, pitchers, etc. The pottery invoked a simple elegance in the shape of its ware and often relied on its glazes solely for decoration. The catalog notes: "The motto chosen for the ware on the first little circular is still and always will be the message the potters hope each piece will be worthy to carry - We derive all the value in us from the fact that our makers wrought at us with zeal, with integrity, with fail to do nobly an honest thing". From its inception, the studio attracted an appreciative clientele and wide interest among contemporaries for its mission and its wares. While the studio ceased operation during World War II, its pottery has continue to rise in the collectible market and its influence continues to be assessed by scholars. OCLC records no holding, and only four locations of a 1915 catalog and two locations of a slightly smaller, undated, catalog. Not in McKinstry or Romaine. See: Gadsden, Nonie, ART & REFORM: Sara Galner, The Saturday Evening Girls, and The Paul Revere Pottery (2006, published in connection with the exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston); and Chalmer, Meg and Judy L. Young, THE SATURDAY EVENING GIRLS; PAUL REVERE POTTERY (2005).
Trade Catalog: PAUL REVERE POTTERY WARE
[Saturday Evening Girls],
Brighton, Massachusetts: Paul Revere, [ca. 1921].
Price: $750.00
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MOONLIGHT SCHOOLS
Stewart, Cora Wilson.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, (1922).
Price: $350.00
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Pamphlet: 5-11/16 x 4-5/16", 13pp; printed self-wrappers (sewn). Upper foretip at rear lacking; minor rumpling. Very good. Illustrated. The prospectus highlights featured writers and articles the magazine intends for publication in 1892, noting its readership likely will exceed one million: "To hold such a constituency compels the making of a good magazine second to none in appearance, literary merit and variety of topics". Noteworthy is the announcement of the publication of a 'new novelette' by Sarah Orne Jewett ("An Every-Day Girl", which appeared in the June/July/August issues) accompanied by a portrait of the writer. Constance C. Harrison (Mrs. Burton Harrison) will contribute "Social Life in New York". Mrs. Potter Palmer "will show exactly what part women will take in the great Columbia Exhibition of 1893-83". A series of articles on the care of babies by Mrs. William Gladstone will be printed. Eunice Beecher profiles her husband in "Mr. Beecher As I Knew Him". Julia Ward Howe, among others, discusses "How to Train a Daughter". The prospectus, in short, records how this long-lived periodical marketed itself to its readership, offering new fiction by popular writers, advise literature by well-known 19th century figures, biographical sketches of the famous, and articles on domestic arts, society, etc. A very attractive piece of publishing ephemera.
Prospectus: THE LADIES' HOME JOURNAL FOR 1892
[Jewett, Sarah Orne].
Philadelphia: Curtis Publishing Co., [1891].
Price: $150.00
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Leaflet: 8-1/2 x 7", 4pp; printed blue on off-white stock. Fine. The leaflet addresses commonly raised questions and issues regarding the Equal Rights Amendment: What is ERA?; What will ERA do?; How will the ERA become law?; Why do we need ERA?; What do national letters say about ERA?; ERA will equalize Social Security benefits; ERA will not interfere with an individual’s privacy; Will women be drafted under ERA?; ERA will remove discriminatory labor laws; ERA will not do away with laws against rape; How will ERA affect states' rights?; What happens to women's rights in marriage and divorce under ERA?; and Who supports ERA? The leaflet offers a succinct overview of the Amendment and addresses myths offered by its opponents. It points out, for instance, as far as women and the draft: "With a volunteer army about to go into effect, it's a dead issue for now". Likewise, it reassures those concerned about the impact of the ERA on states' rights that it "does not take away states' rights", and compares the language of the amendment with the 13th, 14th, 15th, 19th, 23rd, 24th, and 26th amendments. The leaflet lists numerous organizations which support the ERA, largely women's or labor organizations. The national leaders they cite as pro-ERA are surprisingly few, just five, two of whom are Senator Strom Thurmond and Governor George Wallace. Not in OCLC. ERA literature, in general, is surprisingly uncommon.
Leaflet: THE ERA What It Means to Men and Women
[ERA], [League of Women Voters].
(Washington, D.C.): League of Women Voters of the United States, (ca. 1973).
Price: $75.00
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Thick 8vo, 528pp; dark red cloth with gilded label at front and spine and elaborate embossing in blind at front and spine; floral endpapers. Title page printed in blue ink. Decorative initial caps, vignettes and full-page illustrations. Frontispiece portrait of the author. Front hinge a little strained; elaborate ownership signature at a front blank; some foxing to edges. Mild overall use to binding with tips and corners somewhat rubbed; rear panel shows staining and the small remnant of a label (?). About very good. The contents are organized into "Women in the Business World" and "Women in the Literary World", the latter includes popular poems and prose pieces such as Lucy Larcom's "Hannah Binding Shoes" and Elizabeth Allen's "Rock Me to Sleep". Brief biographical sketches accompany many of the selections. "Women in the Business World" offers chapters on "Woman's Work"; "Wages in New York and Elsewhere"; "The Profession of Literature"; "The Profession of Journalism"; "The Profession of Law"; "Government Clerks"; "Women of Enterprise"; "The Profession of Telegraphy"; "Lady Canvassers"; "Raising Poultry"; and "Keeping Boarders" among other topics. Mrs. Rayne writes in her prefatory note that some five decades earlier, Harriet Martineau reported while visiting Massachusetts that only seven professions were open to women. In WHAT CAN A WOMAN DO, Mrs. Rayne sets out to "illustrate the many employments given, by facts and curious incidents gathered from various sources and from personal observation".
WHAT CAN A WOMAN DO; Or, Her Position in the Business and Literary World
Rayne, Mrs. M[artha] L[ouise].
Detroit, Mich. Cincinnati, O. St. Louis, Mo.: F.B. Dickerson & Co., 1885.
Price: $100.00
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Broadside: 10-1/4 x 6", printed black on buff stock (at one side), with red title. Creased where folded twice (likely to fit an envelope); two short closed tears at folds (right margin, not affecting text); small nick at left edge; browning along creases at verso. About very good. The Republican National Committee prints a series of "Because" answers, emulating the style of various suffrage broadsides. Here, of course, the RNC provides reasons why women should vote Republican, starting first with Republican support for woman suffrage ("It gave WOMEN the right to vote"). It also credits the Republican Party for creation of the Women's Bureau, sponsorship of child labor legislation, advancing education, generous veteran benefits, the prosperity of American labor, reduced taxes which have enhanced the economy, and stable business conditions ("BUSINESS looks forward to a period of unprecedented prosperity"). The RNC's final claim is that Republicans "called, directed, and inspired the Disarmament Conference, the greatest victory of the ages in the cause of PEACE" (1931-1937), which suggests it issued the broadside during the 1932 election campaign. The Republicans played a key role in passage of the Nineteenth Amendment and sought the support of women voters on the strength of this throughout the 1920s and into the 1930s. The language of the broadside offers, in retrospect, a rather extraordinary example of campaign rhetoric. OCLC does not show an institutional holding.
Broadside: "EVERY WOMAN A VOTER"
[Women & Politics], Republican National Committee.
Washington, D.C.: Republican National Committee, [ND, but ca. 1932].
Price: $200.00
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WOMAN'S WORK IN MUNICIPALITIES National Municipal League Series
Beard, Mary Ritter.
New York and London: D. Appleton and Company, 1915.
Price: $125.00
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Only edition. Pamphlet: 5-1/4 x 3-7/8", [12]pp; black wrappers (stapled) with silver lettering and decorations; halftone photographic portrait of the writer at the last page, with facsimile signature. Very good. An account of an aged couple who lose their home, despite having worked all of their lives. At the story's end appears a letter from [Bishop] Frances McConnell as President of the American Association for Old Age Security. He writes the enactment of a state "Old Age Security Law" could prevent stories such as that of Martin and Bertha. Obviously written prior to the passage of the Social Security Act, LIGHTS OUT is a sentimental, but effective argument for enabling those earnings have provided them a meager living to grow old in the comfort and dignity of their home. Jane Addams, who served as a vice president of the Association and was a good friend of Zona Gale, wrote an endorsement of the piece. The writer's first stories featured two elderly lovers, suggesting her empathy for the elderly throughout her life. It was after she met Senator Robert M. La Follette in 1913, however, that she became an activist in a variety of causes: the American Civic Association, the Women's Trade Union League, the General Federation of Women's Clubs, the Wisconsin Peace Society and the Wisconsin Woman Suffrage Association. As Walter Rideout summarized in his profile of the writer in NOTABLE AMERICAN WOMEN, "A conscientious author, she was equally a conscientious citizen of her nation and her state, both in her devotion to idealistic causes and in her willingness to assume public responsibilities". LIGHTS OUT is an excellent and unusual example of these qualities.
Pamphlet: LIGHTS OUT A Tragedy
Gale, Zona [and American Association for Social Security].
[New York City: American Association for Old Age Security, ca. 1927-1933?].
Price: $450.00
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BEACON HILL: A Local Poem, Historic and Descriptive. Book I
M[orton], S[arah Wentworth].
Boston: Printed by Manning & Loring for the Author, 1797.
Price: $5,500.00
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THE BEHAVIOUR BOOK: A Manual for Ladies
Leslie, Miss [Eliza].
Philadelphia: Willis P. Hazard, 178 Chestnut Street, 1853.
Price: $275.00
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Sheet Music: A SONG OF LOVE (Chanson d'Amour)" (Words by Victor Hugo)
[Sheet Music] Beach, Mrs. H.H.A. [Amy Marcy Cheney Beach].
Boston: Arthur P. Schmidt, [ca. 1893].
Price: $250.00
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First edition. 16mo, v, 333pp; smooth dark green cloth stamped in gilt front and spine; beveled edges; light brown floral endpapers. T.e.g. Title page printed in red and black. Tips a trifle bumped and frayed. Near fine. Third in a series entitled "The Literary Life". In his Preface, the editor writes "These are not biographies..., but a series of sketches, anecdotes, and personal reminiscences relating to the more modern authors — that is authors who are now living, or who have died very recently and whose work belongs to the present half of the century". Represented are Thomas Carlyle, George Eliot, John Ruskin, John Henry Newman, Alfred Tennyson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Cullen Bryant, Longfellow and Whittier, Lowell and Holmes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Walt Whitman, Bayard Taylor, Swinburne and Oscar Wilde, the Brownings, Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeracy, and "Some Younger Writers" (William Morris, Matthew Arnold, Owen Meredith and Jean Ingelow). The editor drew upon a variety of magazine articles, his own interviews with various authors and reminiscences of others. Margaret Fuller, for instance, describes meeting Thomas Carlyle, a report originally printed by THE NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE and published in AT HOME AND ABROAD. Louisa May Alcott reports her introduction to Jean Ingelow, an account which THE QUEEN, an English periodical first published (this, the first book publication). The suggestion that Alcott a mushy sentimentalist evaporates when she writes of Ingelow: "[she] was plain, rather stout, hair touched with gray, [with] shy yet cordial manners, and a clear, straightforward glance, which I liked so much that I forgave her on the spot for writing those dull stories". A handsome copy. BAL 200. The publisher issued at least two subsequent printings of PEN PICTURES.
PEN PICTURES OF MODERN AUTHORS
(Alcott, Louisa May) [Walsh] Shepard, William (ed).
New York: G.P. Putnam, 1882.
Price: $250.00
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Only edition. 4to, vii, <200>pp; including endmatter; gray endpapers; red wove cloth with blue oval framing title in gold (front and spine). Printed in black with red highlights. Illustrated with halftone portraits of Republican political figures. Touch of wear to tips and ends. Near fine. The Preface states: "This cookbook is for Republicans. In it you will find recipes for an infinite variety of dishes...all reflecting the traditions and ancestry of the people of each state in our wonderful nation". Accompanying recipes are brief biographies of a number of Republican notables: "You will be gratified to perceive that Republican leaders are family-type people like you and me....who are today shaping the destiny of the United States". The cookbook begins with President Richard Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew and follows with a leading Republican, with photograph (very often with family), and recipes, representing each state and the District of Columbia. Dinner menus are offered as well. Regional recipes are emphasized: "Alabama quail"; "Baked Salmon" (Alaska); "Mint julep" with a Derby breakfast menu from Louie B. Nunn, governor of Kentucky; "Crab cakes" and "Carne adobada" (New Mexico). Casseroles make frequent appearances. Also printed are "Republican Members of the Ninety-first Congress" and additionally a brief list of other Republican cookbooks. A rare instance when culinary and political text are interwoven (and equally represented). OCLC records 14 locations.
THE REPUBLICAN COOKBOOK with Recipes for Political Success
[Political Cookbooks],
[Barrington, Ill]: The Brownstone Press, Inc., (1969).
Price: $95.00
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