first edition Paperback
1962 · New York
by Schattschneider, E. E., and Victor Jones
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962. Paperback. 233p., illustrated with a plethora of facsimiles, many bearing authors' facsimile handwritten comments. An oversize softbound in 11x8 inch plain printed orange wraps. Cover and titlepage bear a faint and inoffensive ownership stamp, top edge is mildly foxed, clean and sound within, a very good copy. The authors describe this as a book for non-specialists, a "learner's research project...designed to bring about a confrontation between the theory and practice of local politics" (p.1), and elsewhere, that "No rational person would ever want to try to do everything suggested in this volume. We have suggested a great variety of things to do, because the raw materials of the subject are wonderfully rich and diverse and because data available in one town may be nonexistent in the next (Inventory #: 230172)