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Englewood, CO: Kenneth Goff, n.d.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Faded red softcover in stapled wraps. A tract by a former Communist whose message is how dangerous that system is. He defines "psychopolitics" on the cover as "the art and science o asserting and maintaining dominion over the thoughts and loyalties of [others]. Very good condition. No writing or tears, but the paper is tanned. Small 8vo. 64 pp.

New York: George W. and John A. Wood, 1860. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Hardcover in original brown boards with decorative elements stamped in corners and title in bright gilt on front. Disbound, with both boards present. Backstrip missing. Some tape remnants intended to hold front of book together with the back remain. Interior pages are bright, clean and free from foxing. Some water stains in gutter margins. An economic analysis by a noted American political economist, magazine editor, and economic commentator from the 1840s through the American Civil War. 8vo. 173 pp.

Chicago and elsewhere: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Paperback. Very Good +. One paperback book, two SIGNED pamphlets, and two handwritten LETTERS by political theorist and legal scholar Carl Schmitt. "The Concept of the Political," Schmitt's most influential work, presents a critique of modern liberalism and lays out his formulation of the state of exception, whereby the head of state can transcend the rule of law in the name of the public good. (George Schwab, trans; Includes Leo Strauss's notes on Schmitt's essay) "Nehmen/Teilen/Weiden" ("Appropriation/Distribution/Production: An Attempt to Determine from Nomos the Basic Questions of Every Social and Economic Order") is a small pamphlet in German with a dated inscription by Schmitt to Harry Neumann, a conservative political scholar who taught at Scripps College and the Claremont Graduate University in California. The third book, by political theorist Ion X. Contiades, is in Greek, and is inscribed in Greek by Schmitt to Harry Neumann.… Read More