ISBN10: 0679431349, ISBN13: 9780679431343, [publisher: NY & Toronto. 1993. A.A. Knopf / Everyman's Library #79.] Hardcover red, black & gilt decorative cloth hardbound 8vo. 8º (octavo) with red satin place marker ribbon. no dustwrapper. fine cond. looks new. like new. binding square & tight. dark spot on rear cover at bottom from old sticker, otherwise covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. nice clean copy. no library markings or store stamps, no stickers or bookplates, no names, no inking , no underlining, no remainder markings etc ~. 2 volumes in one single volume edition. 3rd printing. decorative endpapers, frontis. & title pg. lxxii+434+xi+394p. notes. select bibliography. chronology. a note on the text. The Francis Bowen translation ("In preparing this edition it was decided to use the Bowen Text"). ~american history. travel & exploration politics. political philosophy. france. french literature. ~"Alexis de Tocqueville's great book is as relevant now as when first published in the mid~nineteenth century. It remains the most penetrating and astute picture of American life, politics, and morals ever written~whether by an American or, as in this case, by a foreign visitor. Democracy in America is endlessly quoted from and referred to, and countless foreign statesmen and scholars ~D. W Brogan and Lord Bryce, among many others ~have paid homage to Tocqueville with their own portraits of America. This ...
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ISBN10: 0679431349, ISBN13: 9780679431343, [publisher: Everyman s Library] Hardcover
[Olney, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1994]