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A finely drawn and hand-coloured original caricature - 'The Electors after the Close of the Poll, May 13th 1807'
Condition: Some marking to the edges. Lower lettering has at some time had a paper slip pasted over it, now detached but with some paste marks. A touch of marking / handling. Overall in very good condition.
Book ID: 1772More details Price: £220.00 -
A View of the Art of Colonization with Present Reference to the British Empire in Letters Between a Statesman and a Colonist
London: John W. Parker, 1849. A very nice rebound copy of this work. First edition. Bound in half brown leather with marbled boards. Clean and tidy with very slight rubbing only. The text block is clean, if fractionally darkened. Errata slip present. 230 by 150mm (9 by 6 inches). xxiv, 1-514, 6 (ads). pp. A classic work in the theory of colonization. Wakefield proposes among other things the creation of a colony in New Zealand to be administered by the Church of England, thus disarming missionary opposition. In fact, the first emigrant ships left for the Canterbury settlement in 1850, and Wakefield himself left for New Zealand in 1853, eventually settling in Wellington.
Book ID: 2448More details Price: £180.00 -
Aanwysing der heilsame politike gronden en maximen van de Republike van Holland en West-Vriesland.
Book ID: 3380More details Price: £600.00 -
Alastair Campbell New Labour and the Rise of the Media Class
Edition: First Edition
London: Aurum Press Ltd, 1999. Pictorial dust wrapper, over red boards. First edition, signed dedication by author to a political correspondent. Several b/w photos. 240 by 160mm (9½ by 6¼ inches).x, 230 pp.
Condition: Very good. Both the book and the wrapper are in a very good condition. It has signs of previous use but overall is in tight condition. Although hidden, there is a small damp stain to the inside of the wrapper and corner of front board.
Book ID: 2028More details Price: £28.00 -
An Honourable Deception? New Labour, Iraq, and the Misuse of Power
London: Free Press, 2004. Nice copy of this first edition. Clean and tidy dust wrapper. No significant flaws. Very slight lean to the book. An account of the Iraq war from Short, who resigned from Blair's cabinet over his Iraq war policy.
294 pages
245 by 170mm (9¾ by 6¾ inches).Book ID: 2304More details Price: £8.00 -
An Oration, Pronounced July 4 1808, at the Request of the Selectmen of the Town of Boston In Commemoration of the Anniversary of American Independence.
Edition: First Edition
Condition: There is an owner's inscription on the title leaf. (Isaac Porter from Wm. Porter). There is some browning and foxing throughout (heavier towards the end); the first and last leaf are detached, the rest of the pamphlet loosely bound together.
Book ID: 1402More details Price: £40.00 -
Autopsy on the A.M.A An Analysis of Health-Care Delivery Systems in America
Berkeley: Student Research Facility, Circa 1970. First Edition. First Printing. Stapled pictorial wraps. 63 pp. 270 x 210mm (10¾ x 8¼ inches). The contents include: professional incomes and the cost of medical care, the insanity of Mental Health Care, the history of the A.M.A.'s Social Attitude, Justice is sick, and the future of health care.
Condition: Very good condition. Slight darkening to edges.
Book ID: 2287More details Price: £12.00 -
Church Wealth in Mexico; A Study of the 'Juzgado de Capellanías' in the Archbishopric of Mexico 1800-1856
Cambridge University Press, 1967. First edition. Hardback in red cloth with gilt and burgundy title to spine. Inside original unclipped dust jacket. 139 pages. 220 x 140 mm (8¾ x 5½ inches).
Condition: In a near fine condition.
Book ID: 2893More details Price: £20.00 -
Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review
London: Longman, Green, Reader & Dyer, 1868. Full leather binding decorated in gilt, spine panelled with raised bands. Endpapers and all page edges marbled. There is light rubbing to boards, but the spine is in excellent condition. This is two volumes bound as one: 412 pp. + 434 pp. 190 x 130 mm (7½ x 5 inches).
Book ID: 3054More details Price: £40.00 -
Desiderata Curiosa Hibernica: Or, A Select Collection of State Papers; [Two Volumes]
Book ID: 3028More details Price: £500.00 -
Eoin O'Duffy: A Self-Made Hero
Oxford: University Press, 2005. The story of probably one of the most controversial Irishmen of all time, who was a friend and ally of Michael Collins. First edition in original dust jacket. Twelve pages of fascinating photographs. xvi, 442 pp. 240 x 165 mm (9½ x 6½ inches). O'Duffy was an Irish nationalist military leader and popular conservative head of Fine Gael ("Irish Race"), who played a significant role in the development of the Irish armed forces and police. His support of fascism during the 1930s, however, cost him much of his popular support.
The author Fearghal Mcgarry is an Historian of Modern Ireland, based at Queen's University Belfast.
Condition: Fine in fine, unclipped dust jacket. Now in removable clear protective wrapping.
Book ID: 2346More details Price: £60.00 -
Fishing in Troubled Waters. Or how to hold out a bait.
Book ID: 3026More details Price: £75.00 -
Gordon Brown
London: Harper Collins, 2004. 1st edition. Black cloth with pictorial dust wrapper. Now in clear protective wrap. Overall an excellent example. xx, 492 pp. 240 x 155 mm (9½ x 6 inches).
Condition: Slight handling to the wrapper.
Book ID: 2327More details Price: £9.00 -
Grievances in Ireland
Dublin: James Duffy & Co. A propaganda pamphlet issued against the Home Rule bill in 1913. Fifth Edition. Contains 6 Articles. 1. Dublin Bigotry; 2. The Scourge of Proselytism; 3. The Northern Babylon; 4. All Ireland v. North East Ulster; 5. Orange Justices and Juries. 6. Protestant Ascendancy. The rear cover has "some facts about Proselytism". 32 pp.
Condition: A clean and tidy booklet. A touch of darkening to the wrappers only.
Book ID: 1836More details Price: £360.00 -
Karikatury 1919-1945
Praha [Prague]: S.V.U. Mànes - Melantrich, 1948. Dust wrapper over red cloth with signature to front board. Over 100 political (Anti-Fascist) cartoons covering the Second World War. 122 pages. 350 by 255mm (13¾ by 10 inches). During the war, Pelc escaped to the USA via Morocco. He drew Anti Fascist cartoons for newspapers here. He returned to Prague after the war and joined the party. His work became mainly Cubist art, expressing Socialist doctrine. He died in 1967
Condition: The wrapper is in very clean, but slightly rubbed condition. Very Good. Now protected by clear laminate. The book is in excellent condition.
Book ID: 2472More details Price: £100.00 -
Le Nain Jaune Réfugié - IVme volume, ou Journal des Arts, des Sciences et de la Littérature
Book ID: 3138More details Price: £180.00 -
Madero Vida del Hombre Y Del Politico
Ediciones Botas, 1938. Second Edition. Part of the Hombres de Mexico series. Original soft cove. Clean and tidy with just a little marking to the covers. Cheap paper with a little darkening, but overall in very nice condtion. Many pages uncut. xvi, 604, viii. pp. 190 by 125mm (7½ by 5 inches).
Book ID: 2247More details Price: £45.00 -
Opstellen over vakbeweging. Jeugd Biblioteek - Deel 2. Omslag Jugendstil van Fré Cohen
Amsterdam: Centrale van Arbeidersjeugdverenigingen, 1923. Softback, with cover design and header by Fré Cohen. Cohen was a Dutch graphic artist and illustrator who famously illustrated all the works for the Centrale van Arbeidersjeugdverenigingen - later known as the AJC. Covers and contents are delicate and age toned. There is a neat previous owner's name to the front, but overall this is a good example. 83 pages. 195 x 135 mm (7¾ x 5¼ inches).
Book ID: 3074More details Price: £8.00 -
Short sketches of eminent men of the North of England
Newcastle Upon Tyne: Andrew Reid, 1885. Scarce. First Edition. Previously published as articles in the 'Consett Guardian'. Copac lists only two holdings - Newcastle and Oxford. Disbound, but the text block is complete and holding well (Has more the appearance of a tract). Has some age toning, and spots of foxing. Concise biographies of characters such as the "Father of Railways" George Stephenson, former Prime Minister Earl Grey, engineer and industrialist William George Armstrong (1st Baron Armstrong), Victorian ironmaster Sir Isaac Lowthian Bell, and others. 160 pages. 185 x 125 mm (7¼ x 5 inches).
Book ID: 3029More details Price: £80.00 -
Stat Nominis Umbra
Book ID: 1598More details Price: £80.00