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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by The Folio Society Ltd. , 44 Eagle Street, London, UK. 2002. Xcix, 722 pgs. Illustrated with 27 black and white plates. Issued in slipcase. Slipcase lightly scuffed and worn. Bound in pebbled red leather with titles present to the spine and decoration present to the front board. Boards lightly rubbed and worn. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) came to America in 1831 to see what a great republic was like. What struck him most was the country's equality of conditions, its democracy. The book he wrote on his return to France, Democracy in America, is both the best ever written on democracy and the best ever written on America. It remains the most often quoted book about the United States, not only because it has something to interest and please everyone, but also because it has something to teach everyone. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. pp. 224. Square 4to., measuring 31 x 31 cm. Bright-blue cloth over boards, bold silver lettering to the spine and front board. Handsomely bound, and replete with dozens of full-page tipped-in colour illustrations. Exceptionally well-preserved showing no detectable flaws to the cloth extremities, contents equally without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages and firm, sound binding; fine and housed in fine, original, unclipped dustjacket (now housed in protective mylar cover). A most handsome production. Text in French. Also published in English under the title: "Adventure in Art". Rare in commerce in this edition, and state.

First Edition. First Edition. Very Good plus in side stapled card wrappers. Light toning to edges to text block and small 1/4 inch tear to the bottom margin of page 7. Wrappers with light rubbing and fading to spine.