Search Results: Titles starting with R from Respublica Books LLC

Ann Arbor, Michigan: The University of Michigan, Center for Research on Conflict Resolution, 1964. Preprint, first edition. Preprint, 218 mimeographed pages in metal-clipped folder binding. Title page has pulled free from the metal clips; chipping to paper title block on front folder panel. Near-fine.. The preprint of Thomas Hayden's (1939-2016) intellectual biography of C. Wright Mills, Radical Nomad: Essays on C. Wright Mills and His Times, published by Routledge in 2006. Hayden was an American social and political activist, author, and politician, perhaps best-known for his role in the radical social movements of the 1960s. After co-authoring the charter manifesto of new Left radicalism, the "Port Huron Statement," in 1962, Hayden would complete his biography of influential sociologist and elite theorist C. Wright Mills at the University of Michigan in 1964, exploring Mills's scholarship and activism and the ideas and thinkers that influenced him. Mills (1916-1962) was a professor of sociology at… Read More

London: Printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, 1790. First edition. Octavo. Period-style half calf and marbled boards, red morocco spine label. Offsetting to endpapers from leather tips, title page browned and spotting to certain leaves. Todd identifies three editions with a 1790 title page, comprising ten impressions. Todd's setting a of [A]2 with the ornamental flower on p. [iv] pointing to the right and the "M" in the imprint immediately below the first "D" of "Dodsley" and setting x of 2A2 with no press figure on p. 354. SC/2/6.. First edition of Edmund Burke's (1729-1797) enduring polemic against the French Revolution and defense of conservative principles. The publication of Burke's pamphlet in 1790 would prove a watershed moment in the birth and development of modern conservatism, as Reflections has been credited as among the first-and finest-transformative statements of traditionalism into a fully conceived political philosophy. Burke was an Irish statesman who served in the House of Commons… Read More

London: Printed for J. Debrett, opposite Burlington-House, Piccadilly, 1784. First English edition. Octavo. Three-quarter leather and marbled boards with gold tooling and gilt title to spine; cover beautifully refurbished by master bookbinder Scott K. Kellar, with new black endpapers; small bookseller notations in pencil to front flyleaf and minor spotting to front and rear leaves, else pages exceptionally bright. Near-fine in a handsomely restored binding.. First English edition of Abbé de Mably's (1709-1785) letters to John Adams on the American approach to government as found in the laws of the thirteen colonies. Mably, a popular French writer, historian, and philosopher, met Adams in Paris while Adams was visiting in late 1782 as chief of the American delegation to negotiate a peace treaty with England. Adams recorded that he and Mably discussed Mably's interest in composing a work on the constitutions found within America, and Mably would later maintain that he wrote his Remarks at Adams's… Read More

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1932. First American edition, review copy; 1932 book review article from "The Modern Quarterly" enclosed. Octavo. Original cloth with dust jacket (not price-clipped). Rare dust jacket in fair condition, internally and externally mended with tape, chipping (including one-inch chip to bottom spine), with splitting to spine and some staining. Publication date ("Aug 18 1932 / Publication Date") stamped to upper front cover. Very good in a fair and worn (though scarce) original dust jacket from an advance review copy.. A review copy of José Ortega y Gasset's (1883-1955) seminal analysis of the masses and the influence of "mass man" on modern society. Ortega was born in Madrid and was early influenced by his family's liberal leanings. His father was director of El Imparcial, an ideologically liberal newspaper owned by his mother, Dolores Gasset, which was one of the first newspapers in Spain to be published by a company rather than a political party. After earning… Read More

Los Angeles: Ruhl Samples, 1961. Flyer. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Fine.. A fine copy of this 1961 flyer advertising a "Symposium on Freedom" presented by Ruhl Samples on June 24, 1961 at Hollywood High School, and featuring the eminent Austrian economist, Dr. Ludwig von Mises, who planned to speak on "Planned Chaos," and all for the incredible general admission price of one dollar. Mises (1881-1973) fled Europe in 1940 as a result of the German advance, emigrating to the United States where his scholarship was supported by the Rockefeller Foundation and William Volker Fund. Mises would become a visiting professor at New York University from 1945 until his retirement in 1969, and was among the founding members of the Mont Pelerin Society. Mises was a leading scholar within the Austrian School of economics and a leading light for generations of libertarian scholars. The flyer notes that future speakers would include James Burnham (conservative scholar and former Trotskyist), Dan Smoot (former FBI agent and… Read More