Category: Politics

Now, Where Are We ? 1967 - 2017

Price: £4.00

Publisher: London, Androtechnie : 2017

Seller ID: 013216

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, small square 12mo, (measures 148mm x 148mm), pp (36), paperback, a very good copy. [Complete with illustrated price list, quarto, five pages, stapled]. An exhibition in response to the fiftieth anniversary of the decriminilisation of sex between men. {Postage will be reduced}
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Balochistan in Turmoil : Pakistan at Crossroads

By: Bansal, Alok

Price: £15.00

Publisher: New Delhi, Manas Publications : 2010

Seller ID: 018353

ISBN: 97870493075

Binding: Boards

Condition: Good

Octavo, pp 296, a slight mark to one page otherwise very clean internally, pictorial boards slightly worn and marked, in a slightly rubbed dustwrapper, SCARCE.
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The Art of Satire - London in Caricature

By: Bills, Mark

Price: £32.50

Publisher: London, Museum of London & Philip Wilson Publishers : 2006

Seller ID: 017136

ISBN-13: 9780904818543

Binding: Paperback

Condition: As New

Well illustrated, small quarto, pp 228, paperback, a very brught clean copy throughout, virtually as new. [Includes illustrations from the collection of satirical and caricature images in the Museum of London, it encompasses research and uses historical and literary sources to place the satire of London in the context of English satire as a whole. Catalogue of an exhibition, Satirical London, held at the Museum of London, April-September 2006.]
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Image for A New Discourse of Trade: wherein are recommended several weighty points, relating to Companies of Merchants; the Act of Navigation, Naturalization of Strangers, and our Woollen Manufactures. The Balance of Trade and Nature of Plantations are discussed.

A New Discourse of Trade: wherein are recommended several weighty points, relating to Companies of Merchants; the Act of Navigation, Naturalization of Strangers, and our Woollen Manufactures. The Balance of Trade and Nature of Plantations are discussed.

By: Child, Sir Josiah

Price: £225.00

Publisher: London Bridge, J. Hodges (et al) : 1745

Seller ID: 016628

Binding: Full Leather

Condition: Good

Fourth edition, [1754]. Small 12mo, pp (4), xlvi, 232, a little age-toning and a few blemishes, the endpapers and the first and last few pages have some browning around the margins, overall however the contents are sound and tight, contenporary full calf a little worn, rubbed at the corners, the spine dull, some cracking at the joints but all firm. [Child {c. 1630/31 - 1699) was an English merchant and politician. He was an economist proponent of mercantilism and governor of the East India Company. He purchased Wanstead Manor in Essex in 1673 from the executors of Sir Robert Brooke and spent m...
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Familiar Territory - Observations on American Life

By: Epstein, Joseph

Price: £7.50

Publisher: New York & Oxford, Oxford University Press : 1979

Seller ID: 016940

ISBN-13: 9780195026047

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Octavo, pp xii, 204, extremely clean internally, dark blue cloth, a bit faded but otherwise good, no dustwrapper.
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Image for English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they illustrated and Interpreted their Times. A Contribution to the History of Caricature from the Time of the First Napoleon Down to the Death of John Leech, in 1864

English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they illustrated and Interpreted their Times. A Contribution to the History of Caricature from the Time of the First Napoleon Down to the Death of John Leech, in 1864

By: Everitt, Graham

Price: £40.00

Publisher: London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co. : 1893

Seller ID: 014781

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Well illustrated, large thick octavo, pp xx, 427, some foxing throughout, bookplate of Walter William Brodie, front and rear hinges cracking very slightly but still very sound, blue cloth, gilt decorations, slightly worn and rubbed, the spine spotted, slightly bruised at the base, slightly torn at the head.
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Image for The Civil and Executive Officers' Assistant; Containing the Forms of Bonds, Wills, Deeds, Letters of Attorney, Policies of Insurance, Releases, Wills, Writs, Pleas, as Contained in the Laws of the State of Connecticut

The Civil and Executive Officers' Assistant; Containing the Forms of Bonds, Wills, Deeds, Letters of Attorney, Policies of Insurance, Releases, Wills, Writs, Pleas, as Contained in the Laws of the State of Connecticut

By: Goodrich, John

Price: £60.00

Publisher: Hartford, Hudson & Goodwin : 1798

Seller ID: 000110

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Good

Small 8vo, pp xii,239, rather browned and foxed, head of first few pages slightly stained, a few creases, original full leather, rather scuffed and worn.
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L'homme en société, ou nouvelles vues politiques et économiques pour porter la population au plus haut degré en France. Tome I-II.

By: Goyon de la Plombanie, Henri de

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Paris, Editions d'Histoire Sociale

Seller ID: 013756

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

[Originally published 1753]. Facsimile edition, two volumes bound in one, 12mo, pp xii, 262; 279, marbled endpapers, exceptionally clean internally, full calf, gilt decorated spine, very slightly worn and marked. {Number 93 of a limited edition of 250 copies}. [Published anonymously, as was often the case with this author. Foreshadows the effects of increased production on society, the results of industrialisation, urban migration and overcrowding, he proposed the use of cartography to record natural borders and indicate ownership of land, and the improvement of road transport with the use of...
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The Kenyatta Succession

By: Karimi, Joseph & Ochieng, Philip

Price: £7.00

Publisher: Nairobi, Transafrica Book Distributors : 1980

Seller ID: 018378

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, small octavo, pp xii, 191, very clean internally, paperback, a slight crease to the front cover and the lower cover a little rubbed, otherwise in good condition.
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China

By: Macnair, Harley Farnsworth (editor)

Price: £12.50

Publisher: Berkeley & Los Angeles, University of California Press : 1946

Seller ID: 014566

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

A few illustrations, octavo, pp xxxvi, 573, vignette title page printed in blue and red, a little age-toned but otherwise very good internally, red cloth, the spine darkened and a little wrinkled. [A detailed account of American knowledge of China.]
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Image for The Fable of the Bees, or Private Vices Public Benefits With an Essay on Charity and Charity Schools, and a Search Into the Nature of Society.To which is added A Vindication of the book from the aspersion contain'd in a presentment of the Grand Jury......

The Fable of the Bees, or Private Vices Public Benefits With an Essay on Charity and Charity Schools, and a Search Into the Nature of Society.To which is added A Vindication of the book from the aspersion contain'd in a presentment of the Grand Jury......

By: Mandeville, Bernard de

Price: £300.00

Publisher: Shakespear's-Head over-against Katherine Street, J. Tonson : 1724

Seller ID: 019383

Binding: Quarter leather

Condition: Good

[title continues...."and an abusive letter to Lord C.]. Third addition. Octavo, title page, pp [xiv], 428, [12], [2], 443-477, (pages 74/75 are mispaginated 82/83, but all is correct), some pencil underlining and marginal lining (see illustration) but nowhere too offensove, otherwise the pages are remarkably clean, rebound in marbled boards and leather spine with paper title label, slightly dull and rubbed but good and sound. [Bernard Mandeville, or Bernard de Mandeville (1670 -1733), was an Anglo-Dutch philosopher, political economist and satirist. Born in Rotterdam, Netherlands, he lived mos...
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General Amin [Jan Gillett's copy]

By: Martin, David

Price: £6.00

Publisher: London, Faber & Faber : 1974

Seller ID: 017680

ISBN-13: 9780571105854

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

First edition. A Few illustrattions, octavo, pp 254, a little used internally, red cloth very slightly used and marked, the dustwrapper is a bit tired, worn and frayed. From the library of the Kew botanist Jan Gillett, with his signature on the front endpaper. ["The news that Dr. Milton Obote, President of Uganda, had been deposed by General Idi Amin on 25th January 1971 was greeted optimistically by many countries in the West. Since then Amin's fame has spread like wildfire as the incredulous world receives his increasingly outrageous pronouncements. But the smiling, childish image which the...
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John Bright

By: Mills, Joseph Travis

Price: £5.00

Publisher: London, Edward Hicks, Jr. : 1893

Seller ID: 018230

Binding: Disbound

Condition: Poor

Portrait frontispiece, 12mo, pp 202, dog-eared, disbound and becoming loose, though nothing is detached. A working copy only. [John Bright {1811 - 1889} was a British Radical and Liberal statesman, one of the greatest orators of his generation and a promoter of free trade policies. A Quaker, Bright is most famous for battling the Corn Laws. In partnership with Richard Cobden, he founded the Anti-Corn Law League, aimed at abolishing the Corn Laws, which raised food prices and protected landowners' interests by levying taxes on imported wheat. The Corn Laws were repealed in 1846. Bright also wo...
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The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. New and Revised Edition in two volumes

By: Monypenny, William Flavelle & Buckle, George Earle

Price: £13.50

Publisher: London, John Murray : 1929

Seller ID: 018410

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fair

Two volumes, new and revised edition. 17 illustrations, large thick octavo, pp xii, 1668; [x], 1622, a bit used throughout, with a little paper wrinkling, the half-titles and final pages weak foxed and marked, otherwise reasonably sound internally, red cloth a bit worn, the spine heads pulled, slightly marked, very faded on the spines. Still a good serviceable set at a reasonable price. [Very heavy - extra postage may be required, and certainly for overseas.]
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Political Pamphlets.

By: Pollard, A.F.

Price: £6.00

Publisher: London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co : 1897

Seller ID: 006816

Edited by Arthur Waugh, pp 345, uncut and partly unopened, a little dusty at the margins throughout, blue decorated cloth very slightly worn, spine slightly dull, endpapers discoloured. [Edward Sexby's 'Killing No Murder', George Saville's 'A Rough Draft of a New Model at Sea' and 'Some Cautions for Choice Members of Parliament', John Arbuthnot's 'The Art of Political Lying', Richard Steele's 'The Crisis', Swift's 'Some Free Thoughts About the Present State of Affairs' and 'The Drapier's Letter', Henry St John Viscount Bolingbroke's 'The State of Parties at the Accession of George I', Sir Phil...
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Arjuna's Atlas of Sri Lanka

By: Somasekaram, t.; Perera, M.P. & Godellawatta, H.

Price: £37.50

Publisher: Dehiwala, Arjuna Consulting Co Ltd : 1997

Seller ID: 019194

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Very well illustrated with maps, quarto, pp viii, 220, with the tiny signature of Brian O'Shea on the title page, otherwise very clean internally, paperback, a very good copy with just the slightest signs of use. VERY SCARCE. [Includes extensive sections on agriculture, the people and the physical environment.]
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Area Handbook for the Indian Ocean Territories

By: Stoddard, Theodore L.; Carr, William K. (et al)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Washington, Institute of Cross-Cultural Research, for The American University : 1971

Seller ID: 019151

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated with a few maps only, octavo, pp xvi, 160, very clean internally, green cloth in good condition. [The Maldives, Mauritius, Seychelles and Reunion.]
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Kidnapped in London (Fred Whitsey's copy]

By: Sun Yat Sen

Price: £50.00

Publisher: London, The China Society : 1969

Seller ID: 009005

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Originally published in 1897. Facsimile reprint, 12mo, pp xii, 134, a very good copy in slightly worn dustwrapper. VERY SCARCE. [[Fred Whitsey's copy with his bookplate. He was the gardening correspondent of the Sunday and Daily Telegraph for a total of 45 years. A quiet unassuming man, a pacifist, a notable amateur violin player and a great gardener.]
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Best Wishes for Asia : a chronicle of hope from womb to tomb. Puey Ungphakorn speaks out on peace, freedom and democracy

By: Ungphakorn, Dr. Puey (compiled by Sulak Sivaraska)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Thailand.economic.conditions.social., Thammasat University : 2016

Seller ID: 018711

ISBN-13: 9789744669308

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

A few illustrations. small octavo, pp 176, the fore-edge very slightly marked, an inscription on the half-title, otherwise very clean internally, paperback, the covers have very slight signs of use. [English text, with Afterwords in Thai.]
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Sonya's Report

By: Werner, Ruth (translated by Renate Simpson)

Price: £100.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus : 1991

Seller ID: 019315

ISBN-13: 9780701138011

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Illustrated, large octavo, pp 318, a little age-toned throughout, black cloth just very slightly worn, the dustwrapper is not price-clipped but just a little worn and scuffed, it's rear cover lightly scored, but now nicely protected in a removable clear cover. A good copy of a very scarce book.[Ursula Kuczynski (15 May 1907 - 7 July 2000), also known as Ruth Werner, Ursula Beurton and Ursula Hamburger, was a German Communist activist who spied for the Soviet Union in the 1930s and 1940s, most famously as the handler of nuclear scientist Klaus Fuchs. She moved to East Germany in 1950 when Fuch...
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