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Price: US$192.41 + shipping
Description: hardback, 8vo, viii,68pp, pages browning and scattered foxing, otherwise clean and tight, no markings or inscriptions, rebound with new endpapers in plain pale blue paper-covered boards, Very Good condition
Seller: BRIMSTONES, Lewes, United Kingdom
PAINE, THOMAS. Prospects on the War and Paper Currency. , 1793.
Price: US$287.50 + shipping
Description: PAINE, THOMAS. Prospects on the War and Paper Currency. London: James Ridgway, 1793. viii, 68 p. Removed. Dampstaining throughout, but predominantly in the margins. Withal, a good copy, with the half-title. "Second edition, corrected." First published in 1787 as an attempt by Paine to mobilize popular support in England against entering into a war with Holland. It was reprinted here, in the aftermath of that war, to prove, once again, that Paine was right.
Seller: Joseph J. Felcone Inc., ABAA, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$320.69 + shipping
Description: Second edition under this title, following the first of the same year; originally published in 1787 under the title Prospects on the Rubicon. The pamphlet was published "as an attempt to discourage an English war with France, with its inevitable result of additional taxes falling heavily on the poor and bringing ruin to both countries. The pamphlet had not been anti-monarchial; it had, in fact, supported the view of the state as an alliance of the French king and the people against the nobility" (Williamson, Thomas Paine, p. 116). Reference is also made to the use of continental paper money in America. The copy of the Manchester merchant William Johnson Edenson, with his ownership signature to half-title. ESTC T5861; Goldsmiths 15553; Kress B.2587. Octavo (211 x 131 mm). Disbound, earlier sew holes in gutter. Staining in gutter throughout, minor soiling to first and final page. A good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom