Search Results: Government, Legislation from Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB

New York: New Yorkers for Abortion Law Repeal, no date [1970]. First edition. 4to (11" x 8.5"), single sheet folded to form 4 pages, printed on yellow paper.
Brief portion of page one redacted (upper right), otherwise a Fine uncirculated copy. In 1970 New York became the second state (after Hawaii) to pass broad legislation legalizing abortion. Prior, although several states permitted some exceptions, abortion was essentially illegal in the United States. Interestingly, the New York legislation did not include a residency requirement, as Hawaii did, and in the first two years, women from other states accounted for 60% of abortions in New York. As the author writes, presciently as it seems, "The recent change in New York state's abortion laws has met with widespread, but largely unwarranted, praise The enactment of "the nation's most liberal abortion law" is certainly a pleasing indication of the speed at which public and legislative opinion is progressing The fact that the New York abortion bill was… Read More

Washington, D.C.: Religious Liberty Association, 1911. "Revised & Enlarged Edition" edited by Willard Allen Colcord." Octavo (8.75" x 6"), 800 pages. Publisher's gilt-lettered dark maroon cloth.
Binding rubbed, spine gilt dull, modest wear at spine extremities & corners, front hinge started (still secure), previous owner's name & place at front pastedown, sporadic foxing & toning, a good or better copy.
Originally published in 1890. Provides a state by state review of compulsory piety rules, "Legislative, Executive, & Judicial."
"A perusal of the early Sunday laws of the American colonies will demonstrate how little acquainted were the first settlers of this country with the genuine principles of religious libert and separation of church and state." ~from the Introduction.

[Washington]: Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1848. Single sheet uncut (18.5" x 12") folded forming 8 pp. Tattered including losses & tears in the margins (text unaffected), creased, foxed, & stained, good or so & still quite useful. "Relates particularly to expenses as superintendent of Indian Affairs for Michigan and neighboring territory" (Abstract, OCLC).

Boston: Chipman Law Publishing Company, 1922. First edition. Octavo (8.25" x 5.5"), xii & [1] - 117 pages. Publisher's maroon cloth lettered in gilt on the spine.
Slight shelf wear, endpapers & pastedowns browned, occasional foxing, otherwise very good. Considers the "problems which faced the court during the first years of the new government, when, without even a rule of court or a single precedent to guide, those courageous pioneers who were first elevated to the Bench commenced to blaze the trail towards constitutional government and liberty..."

[Washington, DC]: [GPO?], February 16, 1869 4to, 6, [1, blank], [1] pp, docketed on the rear cover Original printed wraps.
Old folds, light edge wear, brief foxing, printing occasionally light, Very Good Names 222 individuals from various counties in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Virginia, South Carolina, Texas, Mississippi, Kentucky, & 1 from Washington, D.C. The act further stipulates that the named individuals "who have been or shall be elected or appointed to any office or place of trust" will "take and subscribe an oath to be taken by persons from whom legal disabilities have been removed." The act passed the House of Representatives on February 16, 1869 and was apparently awaiting action in the senate. OCLC does not record a separate printing.

New York: The Macmillan Co, (1968) First edition, this copy inscribed, signed & dated in ink in the year of publication to Cartha DeLoach. 8vo, xv, 238 pp. Publisher's gilt-lettered gray cloth, in pictorial dust jacket. Upper margins slightly sunned, otherwise fine in very good, spine faded dust jacket The author was an eight term congressman from Arkansas This copy was presented to Cartha "Deke" DeLoach who was then deputy associate director of the FBI, third in command behind J Edgar Hoover & Clyde Tolson. "Hilarious stories of American politics and politicians from the grassroots to Capitol Hill by the senior raconteur of the Kennedy-Johnson era."

New York: Trow's Printing and Bookbinding Company, 1883. First edition. 8vo, vi & 400 pp, frontis portrait w/ facsimile signature of the author. Original gilt-lettered green cloth, the upper cover with pictorial device in black depicting the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art of which the author was the founder. Modest fraying at spine extremities, corners bumped & rubbed, lightly soiled, hinges cracked, previous owner's name & date at ffep, otherwise good or better The Cooper Union, which offered free tuition until 2014, was the site of one of Abraham Lincoln's most important speeches in which he spoke against the expansion of slavery into the Western Territories & asserted that the Founding Fathers would agree.

Washington: Printed by William A. Davis, 1816. First edition. Folio (13" x 8.25"), letterpress on laid paper, 5 pages including 2 folding tables. Shaw & Shoemaker/ Early American Imprints series II, 39535. Disbound.
Removed from a bound volume, moderately toned, foxed, stained, edge wear, tears, separating at the spine, some creasing, otherwise Good.
"The estimate for arsenals, etc. appears large, but it is believed that the public interest requires it. The sums paid for store rent, etc. during the three last years, amount to nearly that sum; and twenty-five percent on that amount would be expended annually for the same object, if the necessary arsenals are not erected ..." 
~William H. Crawford, Secretary of War, excerpted from the text.

Washington: Printed by William A. Davis, 1816. First edition. Folio (13" x 8.25"), letterpress on laid paper, 2 leaves & 10 folding tables. Shaw & Shoemaker/ Early American Imprints series II 39500. Disbound.
Removed from a bound volume, moderately toned, foxed, stained, edge wear including small tears, otherwise Good.
"Having this day received the enclosed abstracts on the books of the Accountant of the War Department, which were unsettled on the 30th of September 1812, and which still remain unsettled., I do myself the honor to transmit the same to Congress." 
~Joseph Anderson, Comptroller of the Treasury, excerpted from the text.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co, 1965. First edition, this copy signed & inscribed on the second blank page. 8vo, [10] & 370 pages. Publisher's gray over gilt-lettered black cloth, in pictorial dust jacket. Spine slightly cocked, brief wear at spine extremities & corners, previous owner's name in ink at ffep, otherwise Very Good in moderately soiled dust jacket with edge wear (including tears & small losses), which is faded at the spine, still Good or better. Inscribed to Lawrence Laurent, "Larry," who was the first television critic at the Washington Post, with "best wishes" by Steve Allen. Senator Eugene McCarthy notes in a blurb on the back panel of the dust jacket that the book "could have been addressed to liberals and to all men of good will who are seeking to understand their fellow men."

Glasgow: Gowans & Gray, 1902 First edition thus, limited to 230 copies, this number 132. Small 4to, x, 587 pp, with frontis & 6 plates. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, with Glasgow's coat of arms on the upper cover. Top edge gilt.Spine lightly faded, small gouge along the upper joint, half-title page browned, foxing mostly at endpapers, pastedowns, & at or adjacent to plates, a good or better copy. "This volume is founded upon a similar book published by Mr John Tweed in 1883, and comprehending the years 1833 - 1883 The principal value of this reissue consists of the new material bringing this record up to date." ~Excerpted from the Introduction

Washington, D.C.: Issued by the American Bimetallic Union, printed by Hartman & Cadick, 1896. First edition. Brochure, single sheet measuring 6" x 17" folded 4 times vertically forming 10 pages providing 6 pages of text. Not found in OCLC as of 1/1/2022.Moderately toned, brief edge wear, partially split at one fold (text unaffected), otherwise very good.Adoniram J. Warner (1835 - 1910) served the Union in the Civil War as brigadier general, represented the 13th Ohio district for one term in the House of Representatives, and was president of the American Bimetallic Union.

Washington City: Published annually, by Davis & Force. Sold also by Cummins & Hilliard, Boston (& many others). 1823. First edition. Sextodecimo (6.75" x 4"), [9] & 14-296 pages plus 4 leaves of plates (2 folding) & 5 folding tables, with additional illustrations in text. Publisher's marbled paper over boards backed in gilt-lettered black roan.
Binding with edge wear & rubbing (including small losses), hinges started (still secure), two plates partially split at the folds (now reinforced with archival tissue on the verso), some tattering, toned & foxed, otherwise Good or better & still quite useful.
Published annually between 1820 & 1836, this the fourth volume of Peter Force's vast compendium of statistics providing one of the best snapshots of early American government.

[Providence, Rhode Island., General Assembly, Committee on Abolishment of Capital Punishments], 1838. Folio broadsheet (13 inches x 7.75 inches), 2 pp.
Couple of short tears in the upper margin, lightly stained, otherwise very good.
"To the Honorable the General Assembly: January session, AD 1838 The subscribers, two of the Committee appointed to revise the Penal Code, Respectfully Represent, That it will appear by the Report of said Committee, which accompanies the bill presented by them, that they were divided equally on the abolition of capital punishments, and that it was agreed to report a bill that should not provide for their infliction in any case, that the point might be brought directly before the Legislature Hence, the subscribers, in this separate report, propose to lay before the Assembly some of the reasons why they think such punishments ought to be abolished in this State. "Among the reason these dissenters offer for opposition is the reluctance of many persons who will not complain… Read More

[New York]: Press of the New York Board of Trade and Transportation, 1906. 8vo, 22 & [1] pp. Original printed wraps bound in blue cloth over boards with an applied hand-lettered spine label.
Slight wear at the front hinge, otherwise Very Good. An offprint from the "New York Commercial", International Weekly Section, April 20, 1906. Citing the many advantages of Santo Domingo & benefits of trade with the United States, the New York Board of Trade and Transportation firmly embraces the adoption of the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine in which the United States prohibited European powers from collecting by force debts owed by Latin American nations. Initially by Executive Order, later by treaty (1907), the United States assumed responsibility for Dominican customs house collections & disbursement of 55% of receipts to pay outstanding foreign debt obligations, with the balance for governmental purposes. In 1916, of course, the United States occupied the Domincan Republic & remained until 1924.… Read More

Florence, South Carolina: publisher not identified [Quality Education, Inc., John T. Harllee]. Lot of three issues: Volume XIII, Numbers 4, 7, & 10, August & November, 1985, February 1986. First editions. Quartos (11" x 8.5"), 8 pages each, illustrated. Original stapled newsletters.
Old folds, mailing labels on each, moderate edge wear, light soiling, Good or better.
Editor John T. Harllee was one of the founders of the South Carolina Libertarian Party. His newsletter was published from 1972 until his death in 1994. Articles & essays include: "Waste of Money," "Do We Need a License to Die?" "Decriminalize Pothibition Now," & more.

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1982 First edition, this copy inscribed, signed, & dated by Bell at the ffep. 8vo, 254 pp. Publisher's gray paper over boards backed in gilt-lettered gray cloth, in dust jacket. Small stain from label removal at first blank, top edge of the text block lightly foxed, otherwise near fine in very good dust jacket with modest edge wear including a short, closed tear at the top edge of the rear panel Bell was attorney general in the Carter administration, known among other things for the indictment of former Acting FBI Director L Patrick Gray, Mark Felt and former FBI Assistant Director Edward Miller for authorizing break-ins of New York City radical political activists.

No place, no publisher, no date (ca. 1946). Original camera-ready political cartoon by Bishop. Pencil, pen & ink on thick paper measuring 12 inches by 10 inches, verso blank, signed lower right.
Lightly toned, small tear in the top margin (not affecting illustration), slight edge wear, pinhole lower left margin, otherwise Very Good or better.
Quite possibly the work of Daniel Bishop, the art work is characteristic but the signature is not. Additionally, the text provides "Knudson's 20% Tax Reduction" but almost certainly refers to Congressman Harold Knutson (R. Minnesota) who introduced legislation to that effect in 1946.
Regardless, a really cool piece which depicts a grinning Uncle Sam slicing pie with the lion's share for "Money Man" while "Labor" requires a magnifying glass to see his portion.