1. Chernow, Ron.

The House of Morgan – An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance. A Touchstone Book.

New York / London / Toronto / a.o., Simon & Shuster Inc., 1991. 15.5 cm x 23.5 cm. XVII, 812 pages. Original Softcover. Several black and white photographs throughout. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear.

2. [Fletcher, Calvin / William Baldwin Fletcher (Indiana)] Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de.

The Spirit of Laws. [Personal copy of Senator and physician, William Baldwin Fletcher and his father Calvin Fletcher]. Translated from the French of M. De Secondat Baron de Montesquieu. By Thomas Nugent, L.L.D. The Sixth Edition, carefully revised and improved with considerable Additions by the Author.

Two Volumes in One (complete set). Dublin, Printed for W. McKenzie, 1792. Octavo (14 cm x 20 cm). Volume I: [8], 325 pages / Volume II: [7], 371, [21] pages. Hardcover / Professionally restored and decoratively rebound in full leather with new endpapers and spinelabels. This important publication comes from the eminent libraries of Indiana State Senator Calvin Fletcher and subsequently his son, educationalist, senator and Civil War Surgeon, William Baldwin Fletcher. With some annotations in the Index, highlighting for example the chapter referring to Montesquieu’s view on “Corruption” [″Of the corruption of the principles of the three governments”]. William Baldwin Fletcher, who inherited the book from his father, subsequently gifted it to a close friend of his: “Presented to Chas M O’Brien by his friend W.B.Fletcher”. Some professional paper-restoration and otherwise a very good condition with some minor signs of wear only.

3. [Hoover, J. Edgar] Gentry, Curt.

J. Edgar Hoover, The Man and His Secrets.

New York, Plume, 1992. 15 cm x 23 cm. 846 Pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

4. Keenan, George F. / Lukacs, John.

George F. Kennan and the Origins of Containment, 1944-1946 – The Keenan-Lukacs Correspondence. Introduction by John Lukacs.

Columbia, University of Missouri Press, 1997. 12.5 cm x 20 cm. 85 pages. Original Softcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear.

5. Kennan, George F.

At a Century’s Ending: Reflections, 1982-1995.

New York / London, W.W. Norton & Company, 1997. 15.5 cm x 23.5 cm. 351 pages. Original Softcover. Fine / As New.

6. Mead, Robert Douglas.

Journeys Down the Line – Building the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.

First Edition. New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1978. 15 cm x 22 cm. 609 pages with a Map to the pastedown and endpaper, totled “Alaska and the Trans-Alaska Pipeline”, showing the Route of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline between Prudhoe Bay and Valdez in the Gulf of Alaska. Original Hardcover andl illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Deckled fore edge. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rare.

7. Mills, C. Wright.

The New Men in Power – America’s Labor Leaders. With the assistance of Helen Schneider.

First Edition. New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948. 14 cm x 20.5 cm. 323 pages. Several tables throughout. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with obvious signs of external wear to the dust jacket and minor wear to the cover. Pages only slighty discoloured. Name in ink pen on endpaper. Annotations in pencil throughout.

8. Nixon, Richard.

1999 – Victory Without War. [Signed]

One of a signed and limited edition of only 600. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1988. 24cm x 16.2cm. 336 pages. Original Hardcover with original slipcase. Slipcase with some minro signs of wear. Otherwise in very good condition. Signed by Richard Nixon.

9. Riesman, David.

Faces in the Crowd: Individual Studies in Character and Politics.

First Edition. New Haven, Yale U.P., 1952. 24cm x 16.2cm. xii, 751 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Fine in near fine dust jacket showing some darkening to spine. From the library of Martin S. Dworkin, with his discrete ownership-embossing to front free end paper. (Studies in national policy series).

10. Serrano, Andres.

America and other work.

Köln, Taschen, 2004. 37,5 cm x 28,5 cm. 352 pages. With over 100 photographic images, full page and with some double pages Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. With full red cloth hardboards & spine and title embossed into cloth. The price for this heavy book includes international shipping per Courier ! The price for this heavy book includes international shipping per Courier !