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Planning - a Broadsheet Issued by PEP (Political and Economic Planning) Volume 1 - Vol 32 (i.e. Issues 1 - 498)

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...
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Now, Where Are We ? 1967 - 2017

By: Armour, Jonathan (introduction)

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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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: 0195026047

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

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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Political Theories of the Middle Age

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...
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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

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

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 Burford Records - a study in minor town government

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].
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The Blunders of our Governments

By: King, Anthony & Crewe, Ivor

Price: £4.00

Publisher: London, Oneworld Publications: 2013

Seller ID: 016394

ISBN: 1780742665

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

First reprint. Octavo, pp xvi, 470, the faintest of marks to the fore-edge, otherwise extremely clean internally, black cloth, very lightly marked on the lower cover, in an unclipped dustwrapper which is similarly slightly scuffed on its lower cover.
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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

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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I, Flook: an autobiography with drawings by Trog

By: Melly, George

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co Ltd: 1962

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...
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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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From "Superman" to Man

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...
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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

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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Chaim Weizmann - First President of Israel

By: Zagoren, Ruby

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Champaign, Illinois, Garrard Publishing Company: 1972

Seller ID: 011316

ISBN: 0811647552

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, small 8vo, pp 176, extremely clean internally, yellow pictorial cloth in excellent condition, in a slighly worn and rubbed dustwrapper.
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