RIGHTS OF MAN. Bound with RIGHTS OF MAN; PART THE SECOND. Combining Principle and Practice. Third and Fifth editions by PAINE. THOMAS - 1791

The Easton Press, Norwalk, CT: (1979)., 1979 pp. xvi, 269 + Plus color portrait frontis. Illustrated with striking color full page plates by Lynd Ward. Chapter heading illustrations in black and white. Pale purple silk moire endpapers. All edges gold. Original pale purple page ribbon. Original bookplate from the Easton Press, not filled in. 4to. Original full gray leather binding gold decorated in an over-all interlocking leaf design. Spine with same gold design and raised bands. Hardbound. Very beautiful, crisp copy. This Collector's Edition is published in advanced for the subscribers of the Easton Press collection of "The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written." **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PRESS/W75 Language: eng. Full Leather. Hardcover. Fine.

Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1979. 269 + Plus color portrait frontis. Illustrated with striking color full page plates by Lynd Ward. Chapter heading illustrations in black and white. Pale purple silk moire endpapers. All edges gold. Original pale purple page ribbon. Original bookplate from the Easton Press, not filled in. 4to. Original full gray leather binding gold decorated in an over-all interlocking leaf design. Spine with same gold design and raised bands. Like new. 1st Edition. Leather. Fine/No Jacket - Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Printed for H.D. Symonds, Paternoster-Row, 1792. Full Description: PAINE, Thomas. Rights of Man. Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution. [Bound with] Rights of Man; Part the Second. Combining Principle and Practice. [Bound with] Letter Addressed to the Addressers of the Late Proclamation. London: Printed for H.D. Symonds, Paternoster-Row, 1792. Very early reprints of the first two titles; first Symonds edition of the third title. Twelvemo (7 9/16 x 4 1/4 inches;192 x 109 mm). [2], 78; 91, [3, appendix]; 40 pp. First edition of the Symonds/Rickman 40-page edition of the Letter Addressed to the Addressers, title page with "Proclamation" measuring 5.4 cm. long. This title was issued the same year in London by Jordan in a 40-page edition and by Symonds in a 78-page edition, although no copies are known to exist of the Jordan edition. Bound without half titles for all works. Full contemporary sheep, rebacked. Newer red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Boards a bit… Read More

London: Printed for H. D. Symonds,, 1792. The revolutionary debate A pamphlet volume of radical and anti-radical works published in London around the French Revolution, including early editions of both parts of Paine's Rights of Man, the response of future US president John Quincy Adams to Paine, and an apparently unrecorded account of the execution of Louis XVI. The Rights of Man, Paine's great defence of the inalienable rights of the people, and their right to revolution when governments do not uphold these rights, went through many printings in quick succession and met a wide readership, despite the Pitt government's attempts at censorship. Written in response to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, Paine defends the French Revolution and proposes reforms to Britain's own system. John Quincy Adams's response to Paine was first published in an American newspaper in 1791. "Adams' articles did not directly condemn the French Revolution, but they argued against revolutionary change… Read More

London: [White: Edinburgh] Printed for J. S. Jordan, [Printed for Silvester Doig],, 1791 & 1792. Scarce early Paine, in contemporary tract volume Sixth London edition of Paine's Rights of Man (the year of first publication), bound with the first and only edition of White's Rational Freedom, a scarce and impassioned condemnation of Paine, in a volume of five political works. Paine's great defence of the inalienable rights of the people, and their right to revolution when governments do not uphold these rights, went through many printings in quick succession and met a wide readership, despite the Pitt government's attempts at censorship. Written in response to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, Paine defends the French Revolution and proposes reforms to Britain's own system. The publication, at a time when there were real fears that popular revolution would occur in England, caused a great stir. Various pamphlets opposing Paine were published, including White's particularly… Read More

1792. Leather bound. Fair, lots of foxing, minor staining to first title-page, minor loss to first two sheets of first tract at lower right corner, no text loss last leaf of tract 4 has missing corner but no text loss, the whole volume is tender. Full leather (worn). Pagination as follows: tract 1: 76 pp. Tract 2: vii, (1), pp. 9-91, (5) pp. Tract 3: half-title ("Paine's Rights of Man, Part The Third), tp, 38 pp. Tract 4: 40 pp. No ffep or half-title to first tract, which is erroneously dated 1742 in Roman numerals. It is listed as a London printing, but right under this is stated New York, Reprinted for Berry, Rogers, and Berry. It aligns with OCLC number 60530768. Second tract published London, 1792 for H.D. Symonds, and corresponds to OCLC number 5018567 most closely, though there is no ad on the verso of the last blank leaf. Tract 3 has half-title of "Paine's Rights of Man, Part The Third", New York 1793, printed by Thomas Greenleaf, and corresponds best to OCLC number 166592329. Tract 4 is… Read More

London: H. D. Symonds; J. Ridgway, 1792 - 1815. Hardcover. Octavo, iv, 78 pages, vii, [1], pp. [9]-90, [4], [4], pp. [5]-45. In Very Good condition. Bound in full unsigned straight-grained morocco, elaborate gilt dicing to boards, paneled spine with gilt titling and tooling. All edges gilt. Boards show some wear and rubbing, primarily to extremities and hinges, small bump to tail of spine, and minor rubbing and scraping to binding; Text block (all edges gilt) has archival backing to the title page of Rights of Man, and archival backing to title pages of Part the Second and Abbe Raynal, and generally more wear to title pages than the remaining text block. Abbe Raynal lacks the final advertisement leaf. Bound in at the rear is a large bound-in advertisement for Astley's Royal Amphitheatre, dated September 11, 1815. Approximately 20 in. x 6.5 in., printed on both sides. With numerous fonts and old folds. Trimmed, with small loss to text. EC Consignment. Shelved in Case 3. Contains three early… Read More

London: J.S. Jordan; James Ridgway; H. D. Symonds, 1791; 1792. Mixed Editions. Hardcover. Octavo, [4], [5], viii-x, [1], 8-171, [1], xv, [1], 178, [2], 36, [4], 78, [2] pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in 19th century three quarter calf, marbled paper boards. Mild wear and rubbing. Cracking to front hinge. Text block untrimmed. Four parts bound together, with paginations and registers restarting with new title pages. With a small slip of contemporary paper noting the parts bound in and noting that they are 'to be sewed in one volume'. Rights of Man, London: printed for J.S. Jordan, No. 166. fleet-street, 1791. In this 'third edition' Paine is described on the titlepage as "Author of the works intitled "Common Sense" and "A letter to the Abbe Raynal";. With half-title. [Bound with] Rights of Man Part the Second, London : Printed for J.S. Jordan, No. 166, Fleet-Street, 1792. Fourth Edition. With half-title.; [Bound with] Paine, Thomas. Two Letters to Lord Onslow, London : Printed for… Read More

London: Printed: New-York: Reprinted for Berry, Rogers, and Berry; Thomas Greenleaf, 1792-1793.. 76; 87,[1]; [2],38pp. Contemporary calf, rebacked with spine gilt, portion of original leather label preserved. Boards scuffed, outside edges dented. Text tanned and moderately foxed. Contemporary ownership signature on front pastedown and p.5, occasional pencil annotations throughout. Good overall. A sammelband of three early American editions of works by Thomas Paine, which includes the two parts of RIGHTS OF MAN, with LETTER ADDRESSED TO THE ADDRESSERS..., which is considered the third part of RIGHTS OF MAN. The first part of RIGHTS OF MAN was first printed in the United States in 1791, and several editions followed in that year and in 1792; the second part first appeared in America in 1792, with a number of editions in that and the following year. This New York edition of Paine's LETTER ADDRESSED TO THE ADDRESSERS is of only two American editions of 1793, the other printed in Philadelphia. After… Read More

1791. First Edition . PAINE, Thomas. Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution. Fourth Edition. BOUND WITH: Rights of Man. Part the Second. Combining Principle and Practice. The Second Edition. London: Printed for J.S. Jordan, 1791, 1792. Octavo, 19th-century three-quarter calf, marbled boards; pp. [iii-vii], viii-x, [7]-171, [2]; [i-v], vi, [vii], viii-xv, [xvi], [1], 2-174, [175], 176-178. $12,500.Rare fourth edition of Part I and second edition of Part II of Rights of Man, each published shortly after the first editions by J.S. Jordan, who published Part I after the original edition was suppressed and was arrested for publishing Part II. One of Paine’s most important, influential, and bestselling works, Rights of Man resulted in the prosecution in England of Paine, his publishers, and booksellers, forcing Paine to flee to France.Hoping Rights of Man ""would do for England what his Common Sense had done for America,"" Paine answered… Read More

Sinclair, Upton. Samuel, The Seeker Copyright 1910. Apparently published by author. No publisher stated. First Edition. States printed at Western Printing and Lithography, Racine, WI. Yellow Boards with black titling. Used. Very Good/ No Dj is Included. Rare/Scarce. A nice copy.

New York: New York Labor News Company, 1946. 12mo (7 1/4 x 5 inches; 183 x 127 mm), 48 pages, in stapled wrappers. The author, Eric Hass, maintains that the Soviet brand of socialism is not socialism at all. Instead, he says, the USSR is an imperialist power bent on domination of other countries. Hass was a Socialist Labor Party stalwart who went on to be the SLP's candidate for president in four elections. CONDITION: Some creasing, soiling and toning to wrappers but internally clean and bright. Very Good.

Beijing: Foreign Languages Press. 1988. Hardcover. First Edition (stated, actually First English-language Edition). Blue leatherette over boards with gold titles to spine and front board. Sewn binding. Sewn-in yellow silk place-marker. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and very tight. Light remainder mark to top edge. Very slight edge-wear to jacket. No tears. Not from a library. Not clipped. 502 pages.Garden of Repose (憩园, Qì Yuán, 1944) and Bitter Cold Nights (aka Cold Nights, 寒夜, Hán Yè, 1947) are both critiques of China's traditional Confucian family system focusing on emotionally fragile and weak men struggling and failing to deal with family demands and social pressure. Both are set in Sichuan during the Sino-Japanese War (World War II) and both have been adapted into movies at least twice. Garden of Repose is the story of two decadent and decaying families. It follows the live of two characters: a drug addict from a rich family forced to sell his family… Read More

Oscar-The-Grouch's Alphabet Of Trash (1977 Sesame Street Golden Shape 1st Ed. IMPRESSION "A", Western Publishing) RARE. Used. VG Paperback. Written by Moss, Jeffrey. Features Jim Henson's Sesame Street Muppets. Rare/Scarce.

Oscar Wilde. THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY. 1944 Books, Inc., NY First Printing, December, 1944 in its original dust jacket. RARE THUS. Victorian Horror/Fantasy novel. USED. VG Condition/ Good- dust jacket. Jacket is missing the bottom half of its spine. Front cover illustration of a beautiful young aristocratic man and a large green face of the hideous, debauched monster he was later to become in the background. Cover art by RA. Jacket states: "A life with great possibilities that ends in disaster and tragedy – a great classic." Back panel lists "Midnite Mysteries" series titles. 220 pages. 5 ¼ X 7 ¾. Source material for the 1945 Warner Bros. horror film.

London: Progress Publishing Co. Ltd. for Unity Theatre Society Ltd., n.d. [1945]. First Edition, First Printing. 12mo (7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches; 184 x 121 mm), 11, [1] pages, in pictorial stapled wrappers (soft cover).A short history of the Unity Theatre, a left-wing theatre group founded in London in 1936. With four pages of black-and-white photographs of some of the theatre's productions. The striking cover photograph is from Sean O'Casey's "A Star Turns Red."In 1938, Paul Robeson played the role of a labor organizer in Ben Bengal's strike play, "Plant in the Sun." Moreover, Unity staged the British premieres of plays by Maxim Gorky, Bertolt Brecht, and Jean-Paul Sartre. Branches of Unity Theatre were established around the U.K. OCLC shows only six institutional holdings of this pamphlet: Michigan, Wisconsin, Waterloo, Auckland, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and the National Library of Scotland. SCARCE. CONDITION: Mild external wear, some soiling to lower wrapper, staple rusted but internally… Read More

2 VOLUMES. Hughes, Rupert: Miss 318 AND Miss 318 And Mr. 37. Fleming H. Revell Company, 1911, 1912 1st Editions. Illustrated by Victor Semon Perard. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION. NO DUST JACKETS ARE INCLUDED. RARE Historical fiction based on actual events that occurred during the TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FIRE: "One of the worst industrial disasters in the history of New York City, causing 146 deaths and an unknown number of injuries, took place on Saturday, March 25, 1911, at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company.

Marbled boards with gift inscription on free endpaper, dated 1892. Hardcover measures 17 x12mm, octavo with intro by William Sharp. Minor edge wear to boards. Pages have minor age toning. 2 other stories included in the 275 pages, ROSICRUCIANS AND THE FREEMASONS as well as KANT ON NATIONAL CHARACTER IN RELATION TO....

Wing Lung Bank, n. 1976. Hardcover. Very Good. Wing Lung Bank, 1976. Very Good.

1970 Guardian first American editions. Credited to author Baik Bong, the books are thought to be collectively written by the Chinese and North Korean governments.
First published in the Korean language in 1968 and 1969. The English language translations were first published in 1969 and 1970, in Japan, under the Miraisha imprint.
The three books offered in this listing are first American editions, with US copyrights and Library of Congress catalog numbers. Kim's three volume biography was published and distributed worldwide under various imprints and languages, including French, Italian, Spanish, and Serbian. Presumably, this worldwide distribution was undertaken in support of "exporting revolution", a priority of the Chinese government in the 1960's and 1970's.
Condition of the three books and dust jackets is Very Good Plus. The books have sound bindings, complete and unmarked inside pages. The dust jackets show only light shelf wear, are not price clipped, and are protected in new mylar covers.
These… Read More