"PUBLIC AFFAIRS ARE OFTEN FOUL AND FULL OF ORDURE, WHEREBY WITH THE LEAST TOUCH A MAN CONTAMINATES HIMSELF"
BALZAC, Jean-Louis Guez de. Aristippus… Being a Discourse Concerning the Court. London, 1659.
First edition in English of Aristippe, a treatise on wisdom in political administration, a collection of "sound, if somewhat pessimistic opinions (some of them commonplaces from ancient authors) on ethics, politics, and literature" (Harvey & Heseltine). $2600.
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“AN INDISPENSABLE AUTHORITY”
STANHOPE, Earl (Philip Henry). Life of the Right Honorable William Pitt. London, 1861-62. Four volumes. First edition of Stanhope’s life of Pitt, with two engraved frontispieces, handsomely bound by Atelier. $1450.
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"COURTS FEEL IT IS NOT THEIR BUSINESS TO CONCERN THEMSELVES WITH THE CAUSES OF SOCIAL PROBLEMS. BUT IT IS THE BUSINESS OF AMERICANS"
MURRAY, Pauli and KEMPTON, Murray. Rights of Man Are Worth Defending. New York, 1942.
Second edition of this civil rights pamphlet, published the same year as the first, including an early printing (preceding the first separate publication) of Pauli Murray and Murray Kempton's important article on the improper conviction of Odell Walker for murder by an all-white jury selected from poll-tax payers. $350.
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