From World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 06 April 2009
1931. Second Printing. 170 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages are mildly tanned, but text remains clear. Binding is firm. Ex-libris sticker to front pastedown. Deckled edges. Boards have light shelf-wear, with minor corner bumping and minimal scuffing to edges. Spine and edges are moderately sunned, with noticeable crushing and splitting to ends. Faint water stain to front board, with slight scuffing to rear. Seller Inventory # 1668434732MHP
Title: The Public and Its Government
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication Date: 1931
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Seller: Ted Kottler, Bookseller, Redondo Beach, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Original cloth. Small nick in front cover near front joint, else Very Good, without dust jacket. Signature of former owner (Forrest Allen -- 'Phog' Allen?) on front flyleaf. Seller Inventory # 19538
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Novel Ideas Books & Gifts, Decatur, IL, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. Gift note. Jacket shows light general soiling and bit of minor edgewear. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 170 pages. Seller Inventory # 770060
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: AVON HILL BOOKS, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Light soiling to edges. Slight sunning to spine, but all gilt lettering is bright and clear. A few minor scuffs to boards. ; Beautifully inscribed to philosopher Alfred North Whitehead and his wife. Dated 1930, the inscription (in fountain pen) reads: "To the very dear Whiteheads, Afffectionately, Felix Frankfurter". Book is clean and tight. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 170 pp. Seller Inventory # 47894
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Ted Kottler, Bookseller, Redondo Beach, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition, second printing. Original cloth. Gift inscription on pastedown, else Very Good+, in very good dust jacket (unclipped). Signed by Frankfurter. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 18968
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., ABAA ILAB, Clark, NJ, U.S.A.
Signed by Frankfurter Frankfurter, Felix [1882-1965]. The Public and Its Government. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1931. [viii], 170 pp. Cloth in lightly rubbed and moderately edgeworn dust jacket, bookplate of John Forrest Floberg to front pastedown. Moderate toning to interior, faint dampstaining to head of text block near gutter, large signature of Felix Frankfurter to front free endpaper. $750. * First edition, second printing. Based on his 1930 "Yale Lectures on the Responsibilities of Citizenship," this classic book offers an interpretation of democracy as a theory of political organization. "Charles Beard remarked not long ago to this reviewer that no first class political thinking had appeared in the United States in the twentieth century. The quality of this little book of Frankfurter's.should lighten Beard's discouragement" (C.P. Howland). Floberg [1915-1911] was the Assistant Secretary of the Navy from 1949 to 1953. C.P. Howland, Yale Law Journal 40: 672-673 cited in Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University (1953) 938. Seller Inventory # 72483
Quantity: 1 available