PAINE, Thomas. A COLLECTION OF PAMPHLETS THAT MADE PAINE HATED ON TWO CONTINENTS. PAINE. Letter to George Washington, President of the United States of America on Affairs Public and Private. Philadelphia: Benjamin Franklin Bache, 1796. 8o, original wrappers, lacking half-title, hole on C1, chipping along edges. Provenance: Ebenezer Shearman (signature on title page). FIRST EDITION. A classic of political abuse, Paine atacks Washington for failing to help free him from a French prison: "And as to you, Sir, treacherous in private friendship (for so you have been to me, and that in the day of danger) and a hypocrite in public life, the world will be puzzled to decide whether you are an apostate or an impostor; whether you have abandoned good principles, or whether you ever had any." Evans 30951; Howes P24; Sabin 58224. -- PAINE. Public Good, Being an Examination Into the Claim of Virginia to the Vacant Territory... Philadelphia: John Dunlap, 1780. 8o, original wrappers, chipping along edges. FIRST EDITION. Evans 16920; Howes P30; Sabin 58237. -- PAINE. Dissertation on First-Principles of Government. Paris: The English Press, [1795]. 8o, original wrappers, some foxing. FIRST EDITION. Howes P19. -- PAINE. Rights of Man; Part the Second. Combining Principle and Practice. London: H.D. Symonds, 1792. 8o, disbound. A later edition. This expurgated version omits passages from the original edition that would likely have subjected Symonds to prosecution for seditious libel. [With:] PAINE. Prospects on the Rubicon... London: W. T. Sherwin, 1817. -- PAINE. Dissertation on First Principles of Government. London: W. T. Sherwin, 1817. Together 6 items. (6)