Twenty Five Edition (3 results)

Condition: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.

Illustrated Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. Signed by President Jimmy Carter, the first edition of One Family at a Time: Twenty-Five Years of Building Houses and Hope. (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 128pp. Blue illustrated covers. Includes hundreds of color illustrations and photographs from Habitat projects around the world. Illustrated endpapers. In the publisher's dust jacket, $25.00 on the front flap, a bright, near fine example. The preface for this work was written by former President Jimmy Carter, with his signature on the title page. Signed.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very good. First edition of A Public Meeting Composed Of Twenty-Five Clergymen of Chicago, a letter by Senator Stephen A. Douglas. (illustrator). First Edition. Octavo, 14pp. Toning to wrappers, some separation at spine. Occasional foxing and toning, with little impact on the text. Stephen A. Douglas (1813-1861) was a democratic senator from Illinois, who ran against Lincoln in 1858 for the Senate seat from Illinois. Their eloquent debates, which would be published in 1860 as the Lincoln-Douglas Debates would help launch the presidential candidacy of Lincoln against Douglas in 1860. During his time in the Senate, Douglas advocated for the principle of popular sovereignty, which allowed new western territories to decide for themselves if slavery would be permitted within their borders. In 1850, he advocated for the Compromise of 1850, which aimed to keep an equal number of slave and non-slave holding states. In 1854, he passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, created the new territories of Kansas and Nebraska, and followed his principle of popular sovereignty, which allowed the new territories to decide for themselves if they wished to hold slaves. It had the opposite effect on the nation, stoking tensions in the north and solidifying the Republican party as the antislavery party. In the election of 1860, the democratic party split between his candidacy and John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky. As the Civil War broke out, Douglas rallied support for the Union, but he died in 1861.