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London, Adam & Charles Black, 1960. First Printing of Second Edition. Part of the British Political Tradition Series. A fine copy in a little toned dust wrapper with some spotting to spine.

Rutgers University Press: New Brunswick (NJ) 1938. First printing of this scarce constitutional analysis, inscribed by the author and unusual thus. Also available in hardback, this was presumably a simultaneous issue in perfect bound wraps. Offsetting to outer edges of covers, otherwise a very good copy.

New York: Scribners, 1936. First Edition. Adams, a Pulitzer Prize winning historian and coiner of the term "American Dream", depicts the story of Jeffersonian ideas -- and their conflict with those of Hamilton -- over the centuries of American history right up to the New Deal era. An important perspective on one of America's founding theorists during a time of unprecedented government activity in the lives of its constituents. A very sharp and tight, square-cornered copy save for the imprint of the dust wrapper design on the spine; still, easily fine. Dust wrapper remains attractive, toned internally (slightly visible from the outside) with two or three very small chips at dust wrapper folds, mininimal rubbing and one barely perceptible crease.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1951. First UK Edition of this biography of Harry S. Truman written by Roosevelt's Press Secretary and member of Truman's '48 campaign. A nice copy with slight foxing to page edges and front & rear pastedowns and endpapers. Some overall dustiness to dust wrapper along with some toning to spine. Overall, a near fine is very near fine dust wrapper.

First edition of author's first book, warmly inscribed to Ellis' close associates:
"For Rik & Margot / Who have had / the dubious privilege to / watch young Ellis in / transition as he wrote / this book. Johnson was no / more indebted to that "School / of the Prophets" than I am / to you"
signed as "Joe Ellis" and dated in the year of publication. A fine copy in near fine dust wrapper with some slight fading to the spine, trifle rubbing to the spine tips, one tiny nick, and a little soiling.
Ellis won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for his work Founding Brothers, exploring how the interactions between the leading figures of the US Constitutional era profoundly influenced the early development of the Republic. Ellis is also credited with leading a revival of interest in John Adams, a President he viewed as under-appreciated for both his character and achievements.
The New England Mind grew out of Ellis' PhD dissertation at Yale (The Puritan Mind in Transition: The American Samuel Johnson (1696-1772)).… Read More