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A US SENATOR'S COPY?

[Cover title: Evolution]. Man and the State. Studies in applied sociology. Popular lectures and discussions before the Brooklyn Ethical Association.

[N.p., n.d., n.d.].

8vo, pp. xiii, [1 (blank)], 558, [4 (advertisements)]; a very good copy in original brown cloth, upper board and spine lettered direct, gilt; contemporary Washington, D.C. bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown, traces of glue to front free endpaper, causing small hole, pencil smudges; calligraphic inkstamp of ‘Geo. C. Perkins’ to front flyleaf and title-page (see below).

£150

Approximately:
US $201  €171

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First edition of this broadly political collection of essays on economics, race relations, the Democratic and Republican parties, and suffrage, inter alia, likely from the library of a Californian senator.

Provenance:
This copy likely belonged to Republican politican George Clement Perkins (1839–1923), Governor of California from 1880–3, and United States Senator from California from 1893–1915, which is probably where and when he acquired this book.

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