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

by Richard Hofstadter

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First edition · Signed

Berkeley and Los Angeles: The University of California Press, 1969. 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

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