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Condition: Good
Description: Disbound, no covers. Pages have varying amounts of browning. ; With three page appendix. ; 59 + 3 pages
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
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Description: 8vo, 59, (1), iii, (1) pp. Minor marking to foot of title page. Recent quarter calf, marbled boards, paper label to upper cover. "A Letter to Abbé Raynal" first appeared in 1782 and remains one of Paine's most important works, disputing an earlier account of the American revolution, and indeed the definition of "revolution" itself. Gimbel p72. Sabin 58222.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
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Description: Disbound, spine strengthened. 34pp. First published in 1803.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
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Description: Disbound. 36, viipp. First published in 1797. An accusation of conspiracy severely damaged Paine's public reputation in America, and in this open letter to the President he refutes the charges made against him. The main text is followed by a 7pp appendix, Memorial of Thomas Paine to Mr. Monroe, alluded to in the foregoing letter.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
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Description: Disbound. 59, iiipp. First published in 1782, Paine's letter to Raynal was written in response to the French author's Révolution de l'Amérique, 1781. Paine does not equivocate, but accuses the Abbe of being 'wrong even in the foundation of his work:. he has misconceived and mis-stated the causes which produced the rupture. and which led on. to a Revolution, which has engaged the attention, and affected the interest of Europe'.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
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Condition: Very Good
Description: London 1817 W. T. Sherwin. Believed to be the first London edition. Octavo, 59pp., iii, removed and rebound in later wraps. VG. Original printing, not modern reprint.
Seller: Xerxes Fine and Rare Books and Documents, Glen Head, NY, U.S.A.
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Description: 8vo. Pp. 46. Sewn wraps, but once bound with other material, with evidence of the remnant of that binding. Slight foxing and edgewear. An early reprint, done so by W. T. Sherwin test the government's prosecutorial powers, which had been weakened. According to James Epstein, in Radical Expression (Oxford, 1994), "conditions had changed: the government could no longer be certain of winning convictions in cases of seditious libel. Indeed, in the wake of Wooler's and Hone's legal victories, the prosecution of London's radical publishers temporarily ceased. Carlile, who had been arrested and charged with blasphemy for having reprinted Hone's parodies, was released from King's Bench prison following Hone's acquittals." An important milestone in the nascent free press. Now housed in an clear, removable archival sleeve with acid-free backing. .
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
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Description: Second English edition. 34pp. 8vo. Paine Comes to Jefferson's Defense. "Paine finally became disgusted with the stamping out of freedom by Napoleon and the strong measures taken by England against his principles and decided to return to America, where he hoped to find freedom. Thomas Jefferson, Paine's most steadfast admirer, was now President. He offered Paine a frigate (today's version, a battleship) to bring him safely through any British blockade, but Paine returned on an ordinary vessel. For this gesture the President was violently attacked by the Federalist party, who accused him of using public money to bring back the world's greatest infidel. Immediately upon landing in Baltimore on November i, 1802, Paine started writing a series of letters addressed to the American people, supporting the principles of the Democratic party of Thomas Jefferson. These letters, which were published in most American newspapers, created new tension. Defended by the Jeffersonians and attacked by the Federalists, they were reprinted in pamphlet form in England as well as in America" (Gimbel). Following the newspaper publications, Paine's Letters to the Citizens were first published in pamphlet form in New York in 1802. An English edition, with additions, followed in 1804. The present edition published in 1817 includes all eight of the Paine's anti-Federalist letters that raised tensions between Jefferson and Adams. Letters V-VII contain Paine's correspondence with Samuel Adams concerning the religious stance of Age of Reason. Sabin 58231; Gimbel, Thomas Paine Fights for Freedom in Three Worlds 133 Modern calf-backed boards. A few inked library stamps within the text
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
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Description: London, Printed by W.T. Sherwin, 1817 and 1819 [mainly first editions thus]. Octavo, [vi] pages (an engraved frontispiece after Romney's famous portrait, dated 1819; the cumulative title leaf, dated 1817; and the contents leaf), plus seven separately paginated (and separately published) pamphlets bound together as issued: 'Case of the Officers of Excise' (16 pages); 'Common Sense' (56 pages); 'American Crisis ([ii], 196, [2] (integral blank) pages); 'Public Good' (36 pages (last blank) with 2 diagrams); 'Letter to the Abbe Raynal' (60 (last blank), iv (appendix, last blank) pages); 'Dissertations on Government' (54 pages); and 'Prospects of the Rubicon' (34 pages). Original plain papered boards with the original paper title-label on the spine, all edges uncut; minor loss to the head and foot of the spine; front joint neatly reinforced; offsetting to the endpapers, frontispiece and title page, with a tear to the front flyleaf expertly sealed; minimal signs of use and age; overall, in excellent condition, with the individual pamphlets basically in fine condition. Seven scarce separately-published pamphlets by Thomas Paine, including some of his most influential titles, bound in one volume, as issued. The titles, with the date of publication followed by the place and date of the original publication, are: (1) 'The Case of the Officers of Excise .' (1817/ Lewis, 1772); (2) 'Common Sense, addressed to the Inhabitants of America .' (1817/ Philadelphia, 1776); (3) 'The American Crisis' (R. Carlile, 1819/ 1775-1783); (4) 'Public Good, being an Examination into the Claim of Virginia to the Vacant Western Territory .' (1817/ Philadelphia, 1780); (5) 'A Letter to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America .' (1817/ Philadelphia, 1782); (6) 'Dissertations on Government, the Affairs of the Bank and Paper Money' (1817/ Philadelphia, 1786); and (7) 'Prospects of the Rubicon' (1817/ London, 1787). See 'Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society', October 1960: 177 ('Each of the articles in this edition has its own title page, and could be purchased separately both on fine and on common or bluish paper. Many had previously appeared in Sherwin's "Political Register" [weekly]').
Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia