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Garden City, N.Y.: Country Life Press, 1925. . 8vo, stiff blue wrappers, paper label on front. "This paper, in abbreviated form, was prepared for, but not presented at, the conference held on March 29th, 1925, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Astor, for the purpose of discussing Arbitration." An essay on the role of the League of Nations in the arbitration process. "Had there been a league of Nations in 1914, it might not have averted the outbreak of war...but who will contend that the war would have become so widespread and been fought with such utter virulence and protractedness? All the Powers engaged in that insane combat would fain have retraced theirs steps or withdrawn with honor unsullied, but there was no mediating center to call them to reason, bring them together, and set them right..."

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927. . 8vo, stiff cream wrappers (slightly soiled), paper label on front. "Ever to me...the one acid test of one's genuine spirit of Democracy is freedom from prejudice" --p. 5

Cincinatti: The Company, 1869. . 8vo, pale green printed wrappers No record of this company in OCLC except one publication where it is listed as the publisher. Not recorded in Sutton's "Western Book Trade" or in Henry Stevens' biography.The books are of interest and there are some mouth-watering prices, although many of the eighteenth century books are in Dublin editions. The engravings are mostly 8vo in size

Waco, Texas: Price Daniel, Jr., 1963. . Tall 8vo, brown cloth No. 67 of 100 copies printed at the Clarendon Press, Clarendon, Texas.

Rutgers: Published by the University, 1939. . 8vo, stiff terracotta printed wrappers, 8 pp. unopened and printed on one side of each leaf only--French fold

Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc; London: Henry Southern, Ltd., 1933. . 8vo, stiff slate-blue wrappers, paper label on front. WITH a 4-page article "If I were Dictator"--transcript of a radio talk on the Columbia Broadcasting System Feb. 1, 1933. "Human Nature..." is an elucidation of the thesis in"If I were Dictator" i.e. "The root trouble of the World is that Human Nature is held at a discount...The one distinctive human element is Aspiration. Upon it is based Man's longing for Liberty. The Animal lacks it. It is this characteristic, Aspiration, which gives the tone and sweep to human life; and is what may properly be spoken of as "Human Nature..."

Providence, R.I: Thomas Doyle, . . Single sheet, printed on one side only, 6 15/16 x 5 15/15 inches, on a sheet measuring 8 3/8 x 6 3/4 inches (unequal margins), minor soiling. A most appealing little piece: within a Greek key border, with corner pieces of a stylized flower within a circle, within a square; at top, vignette of two figures on either side of a coat of arms showing a beaver felling a tree with the motto "Assiduity" to the left, an American harvester with a scythe and sheaf of wheat and to the left, a Native American with a dog and holding a broken bow, all surmounted by a sailing vessel--strangely this appears to be a version of the arms of Albany, N.Y., this vignette is surrounded on three sides by button decorations. Below this, a house with on either side [the same cut], a seated woman beside a Corinthian column and wheel, with inset a blacksmith's arm and in the background Another row of button decorations and bellow that "SOLD WHOLESALE AND RETAIL BY… Read More

London: Elkin Mathews, Ltd., 1925. . 8vo, stiff slate-blue wrappers, paper label on front. "Unquestionably, the most pressing problem which confronts England to-day is the matter of unemployment. Well it may give grave concern. Employment is the foundation of society"

[New Orleans]:: Michon & Schweitzer, ,.. Not illustrated; 21 pp., uncut. Large 8vo, ochre printed wrappers; a trimming error has resulted in the top of the advertisements on the back outer cover lacking some letters; text block side-stitched, but the wrappers never were sewn to the text, which is simply laid into them. OCLC lists four New Orleans institutions and Harvard. The inside front wrapper and both sides of the back wrapper contain small advertisements of local firms. Dating is based on two of the advertisers who only appear in New Orleans City Directories in the 1870s.

Garden City, N.Y.: Country Life Press, 1924. . 8vo, stiff brown wrappers, paper label on front. "The most urgent need of Europe is the creation of larger political and economic units. Europe, in other words, has to be de-Balkanized by the setting up of systems of federation. In that way only can the elementary causes of friction and hate and unrest be removed. Its provincialism, its narrowly drawn tribal spirit, still hearkening back to the days of the Middle Ages, is the bane of Europe..."

London: William Heinemann Ltd.; New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1929. . 8vo, stiff gray wrappers, paper label on front (some chipping to wallet edges). "Capital Punishment is a mode of brute reaction, degrading in its effects upon the spirit of organised society. Savages retaliate in kind"--closing remarks

Waco, Texas: Price Daniel, Jr., 1963. . Tall 8vo, terra cotta cloth. No. 100 of 210 copies printed by Carl Hertzog.

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1928. . 8vo, stiff brown wrappers (some chipping to wallet edge), paper label on front. "The attitude of the Powers toward the establishment of Peace may be summed up in this homely fashion: They want to eat their cake and keep it, too. they want peace, but refuse to give up anything whatsoever for the enjoyment of it. In more direct words, they want to relish the benefits of Locarno, and retain withal the profits of Versailles

London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1924. . 8vo, blue paper-covered boards, gray cloth spine; dust jacket with slight chipping at head and tail of spine

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927. . 8vo, stiff pink wrappers (slightly soiled), paper label on front. "