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By: N/A
Price: £400.00
Publisher: London,
Seller ID: 005801
Condition: Good
1933 - 1966. (Lacking only three issues - 415, 466, 471). An amazing, highly unusual long run of this diverse publication. Volumes 1 - 18 are clothbound, slightly marked and faded but very sound; the rest are in original parts, a few minor imperfections, but overall very good. A quick sample glance through the 495 issues offerd here immediately shows the range of articles : The Use of Statistics (1934). The Fuel problem (1935). The State of the Highlands (1936). The Health Services (1937). The Control of Rivers (1938). London Under Bombing (1941). Refugees in Britain (1944). The Unmarried Moth... View more info
By: Adoratsky, V
Price: £3.00
Publisher: London, Martin Lawrence:
Seller ID: 010807
Condition: Fair
[Not dated - c. 1934 ?]. Small 8vo, pp 96, age-toning and use internally, three pages with turned corners, soft cloth marked and a bit worn. A good working copy. [Vladimir Viktorovich Adoratsky was a Soviet communist historian and political theorist. In 1920, he became assistant manager of the Central Archives Board, and in 1932 a member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. He wrote a number of works on the Marxist theory of the state and law, and on the philosophy and history of Marxism.] Postage will be reduced. View more info
By: Armour, Jonathan (introduction)
Price: £4.00
Publisher: London, Androtechnie: 2017
Edition: First Edition
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} View more info
By: Brockway, Fenner
Price: £35.00
Publisher: London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd: 1951
Seller ID: 010916
Condition: Very Good
Second impression. A few plates, pp xii, 246, endpapers a little browned otherwise very clean internally, red cloth with only slight suggestions of fading or wear; the dustwrapper is price-clipped, it is a little age-toned, slightly worn and frayed at the margins, lacking a few small pieces at the head and tail of the spine and at the corners. Now nicely protected in a removable film cover. SCARCE. View more info
By: Burke, Edmund (Arthur D. Innes - editor)
Price: £3.00
Publisher: Cambridge at the University Press: 1916
Seller ID: 011496
Condition: Good
12mo, pp xxxiv, 200, a few creased pages, some neat inked manuscript notes, a signature and date on the front endpaper, cloth very slightly worn, upper cover a bit bleached. View more info
By: Everitt, Graham
Price: £40.00
Publisher: London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co.: 1893
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 014781
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. View more info
By: Gierke, Otto (translated, with an introduction by Frederic William Maitland)
Price: £7.50
Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 1938
Seller ID: 009940
Condition: Good
Large 8vo, pp lxxx, 197, lightly foxed, personal bookplate on front endpaper, blue cloth very slightly worn, spine dull. [Otto Friedrich von Gierke was a German lawyer and historian. In his four volume magnum opus entitled, Das deutsche Genossenschaftsrecht (or The German law of Associations), he pioneered the study of social groups, and the importance of associations in German life, which stood between the divide of private and public law. During his career at the Berlin University's law department, Gierke was a leading critic of the newly drafted German Civil Code, arguing that it had been m... View more info
By: Goebel, Julius
Price: £4.00
Publisher: New Haven, Yale University Press: 1982
Seller ID: 013254
ISBN: 0300029446
Condition: Very Good
Originally published in 1927. New edition with a preface and introduction by J.C.J. Metford. Thick octavo, pp xxx, 482, paperback, tiny name and date on the front endpaper, otherwise a very good copy. [The covers are laminated, probably by the previous owner, but this has been done so well it can only be viewed as a bonus.] View more info
By: Goodrich, John
Price: £60.00
Publisher: Hartford, Hudson & Goodwin: 1798
Edition: Second Edition.
Seller ID: 000110
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. View more info
By: Goyon de la Plombanie, Henri de
Price: £25.00
Publisher: Paris, Editions d'Histoire Sociale:
Seller ID: 013756
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... View more info
By: Gretton, R.H.
Price: £50.00
Publisher: Oxford, at the Clarendon Press: 1920
Seller ID: 006287
Illus, large thick 8vo, pp xx, 736, uncut, the front hinge is very weak and the rear hinge is becoming so, cloth rubbed and slightly worn, joints very rubbed, the spine is dull with a one and a half inch tear to the spine head but no loss. Very scarce - the subscribers' list accounts for about 232 copies. [From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter]. View more info
By: Hughes, Richard
Price: £6.50
Publisher: London, Andre Deutsch: 1975
Seller ID: 013590
ISBN: 0233963529
Condition: Very Good
Second impression, octavo, pp 320, fore-edge a little foxed, other edges very slightly so, otherwise very clean internally, a very good copy in very good dustwrapper. View more info
By: Joll, James
Price: £3.75
Publisher: London, Eyre & Spottiswoode: 1964
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 013245
Condition: Good
Illustrated, octavo, pp 383, foxing on page edges, cloth slightly worn, in a rather poor shabby dustwrapper. View more info
By: Macnair, Harley Farnsworth (editor)
Price: £12.50
Publisher: Berkeley & Los Angeles, University of California Press: 1946
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 014566
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.] View more info
By: Melly, George
Price: £15.00
Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co Ltd: 1962
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 014543
Condition: Very Good
Well illustrated with cartoons, large 12mo, pp (6), 85, very clean internally, paperback, covers slightly age-toned. A remarkably good copy. [Flook was a British comic strip which ran from 1949 to 1984 in the Daily Mail newspaper. It was drawn by Wally Fawkes (of the jazz group Wally Fawkes and the Troglodytes), who signed the strips as "Trog". The central characters were a young boy called Rufus and his magical animal friend, Flook. According to the strip 'The Coming of Flook', which forms part of the cartoon book Rufus and Flook v. Moses Maggot, we learn that Flook, who vaguely rese... View more info
By: Pigou, A.C.
Price: £17.50
Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co Ltd: 1941
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 013847
Condition: Good
Octavo, pp xii, 283, pages slightly age-toned, a couple of small marks to the fore-edge which also slightly affect the page margins, blue cloth very slightly rubbed and worn, the spine head and tail slightly pulled. SCARCE. [Arthur Cecil Pigou, 1877 - 1959, was an English economist. As a teacher and builder of the School of Economics at the University of Cambridge, he trained and influenced many Cambridge economists who went on to take chairs of economics around the world. His work covered various fields of economics, particularly welfare economics, but also included Business cycle theory, ... View more info
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... View more info
By: Postgate, Raymond (editor).
Price: £45.00
Publisher: London, 1937
Seller ID: 010160
Condition: Fair
[1937 - 1938]. An early run of this interesting little journal, paperbacks, a bit worn, spines frayed and some lacking parts of the spine. From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter, with his stamp in each volume. Comprises MARGARET COLE - The New Economic Revolution. PRIVATE XYZ - I Joined the Army. LEONARD BARNES - Skeleton of the Empire. ARTHUR CALDER-MARSHALL (et al) - Writing in Revolt. RAYMOND POSTGATE - Pocket History of the British Workers. GEORGE LANSBURY - Why Pacifists Should be Socialists. PHILIP MASSEY - Portrait of a Mining Town. A. MORGAN YOUNG - Japan... View more info
By: Rambali, Paul
Price: £5.00
Publisher: New York, Henry Holt & Company: 1994
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 012260
ISBN: 0805030794
Condition: As New
Octavo, pp (4), 266, cloth-backed boards, an extremely good copy in dustwrapper, like new. [In the 1940s, Orson Welles set out to make a film about Brazil, entitled "It's All True". The footage, however, was lost. Such events have littered the progress of this nation built of dreams and misadventures. In a contemporary journey through space and time in Brazil, this book describes the tensions between colonial power structures and modern democracy, between Catholic saints and African spirits and between teeming cities and virgin rain forests. Swept along by the carnival fervour, the aut... View more info
By: Rogers, J.A.
Price: £10.00
Publisher: St Petersburg, Helga M. Rogers: 1996
Seller ID: 011394
ISBN: 0960229442
Condition: Very Good
Small 8vo, pp 131, exceptionally clean internally, blue cloth showing the slightest signs of rubbing, in a slightly worn and creased dustwrapper. [Joel Augustus Rogers (1880 or 1883 - 1966) was a Jamaican-American author, journalist, and historian who contributed to the history of Africa and the African diaspora, especially the history of African Americans in the United States. His research spanned the academic fields of history, sociology and anthropology. He challenged prevailing ideas about race, demonstrated the connections between civilizations, and traced African achievements. He was one... View more info
