The Idea of a Party System: The Rise of Legitimate Opposition in the United States, 1780-1840

Hofstadter, Richard

Published by The University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1969

About this Item

First edition. Signed by Richard Hofstadter on front free endpaper and dated March 9, 1970. Additional lines written above and beneath inscription in a different hand with a later regifting to another person, former owner's stamp also on front free endpaper. xiii, [5], 280 pp. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good with underlining and marginal bracketing to first chapter in light, easily erasable pencil. In price-clipped dust jacket, else Near Fine. A political history by the two-time Pulitzer-winning historian and public intellectual, signed about seven months before his death of leukemia.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Idea of a Party System: The Rise of Legitimate Opposition in the United States, 1780-1840
• Publisher: The University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles
• Publication Date: 1969
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
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