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Christian Politics. In Four Parts
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 1409More details Price: £80.00 -
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. In a near fine condition. 139 pages. 220 x 140 mm (8¾ x 5½ inches).
Book ID: 2893More details Price: £20.00 -
Communism: Why Prolong its Death-Throes? Occasional Paper 46. Institute for European Defence and Strategic Studies.
London: Alliance Publishers, 1990. Booklet with glossy soft covers. This work's preface states: "Charting the course of Soviet imperial expansion, from 1945 to its high point at the end of the 1970s, he [Crozier] dissents from President Gorbachev's view that the Brezhnev years were an 'age of stagnation', affirming that, on the contrary, they saw a rapid increase in Soviet naval and military power, at a time of demoralisation and uncertainty in the West". In excellent clean condition. 59 pages. 210 x 150 mm (8¼ x 6 inches).
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Book ID: 3948More details Price: £50.00 -
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 -
Crossman. The Pursuit of Power.
London: Jonathon Cape, 1990. First edition. Original black cloth in pictorial dust wrapper. Both clean and tidy. Now in clear protective wrap. A little darkening to the page edges only. Tiny nick to head of wrapper. xiv, 370 pp. 240 x 160 mm (9½ x 6¼ inches)
Book ID: 2326More details Price: £12.00 -
Das Dritte Reich im Spiegel der Weltpresse: Historische Documente über Den Kampf des Nationalsozialismus Gegen die Ausländische Lügenhetze
Leipzig: Armanen, 1934. 1st Editions. Soft covers (No dust wrapper). The wrapper looks as if it was once integral but has been removed - presumably to make anonymous an undesirable publication. This act is perhaps as interesting as the books itself. Details in pencil to the front cover. A little foxing to the paper edges. Library discard stamp to the title page - otherwise clean and tidy glossy pages throughout. An analysis of foreign press reports about the Nazi Party, its policies and its leaders. Numerous political cartoons. Published on behalf of the NSDAP. Bomer was the head of the Press department of the Foreign policy department of the Nazi party. 173, [i] pp. 230 by 160mm (9 by 6¼ inches).
Book ID: 3641More details Price: £120.00 -
De Weegschaal 1821
Leyden: L. Herdingh & Zoon, 1821. First Edition. A complete year of this periodical, bound in hardback. Marbled paper boards, with label to spine giving date in gilt. Engraved title page. Diverse subjects are covered; everything from Spanish debt, to sugar refinery, Catholicism in Ireland, reclaimed land, freemasonry, and the liberation of Greece! We have other complete years of this scarce periodicals too. Boards a little rubbed but overall good and clean. Manuscript quotations to verso of title page. 466 pages. 220 x 130 mm (8¾ x 5 inches).
Book ID: 4810More details Price: £150.00 -
De Weegschaal 1822
Leyden: L. Herdingh & Zoon, 1822. First Edition. A complete year of this periodical, bound in hardback. Marbled paper boards, with label to spine giving date in gilt. Engraved title page. Diverse subjects are covered; everything from The case of Douglas Loveday, prohibition of the import of grain, Belgium and Batavia, the High Council of Nobility, Profanity and Church songs, and information about the Dutch colonies! We have other complete years of this scarce periodicals too. Boards a little rubbed but overall good and clean. Very slight bowing to the boards. Ownership stamp of the Rijskarchief of Noord-Brabant to verso of title page. 446 pages. 220 x 130 mm (8¾ x 5 inches).
Book ID: 4851More details Price: £150.00 -
De Weegschaal 1823
Book ID: 4813More details Price: £150.00 -
Decision-Making in the White House. The olive branch or the arrows Foreword by John F. Kennedy
Book ID: 4866More details Price: £50.00 -
Desiderata Curiosa Hibernica: Or, A Select Collection of State Papers; [Two Volumes]
Book ID: 3028More details Price: £500.00 -
Dr. Huelsenbeck am Ende Galleria Giulia Roma - Dicembre 1981- gennaio 1982.
Book ID: 4710More details Price: £75.00 -
Drunken farmer Jones to buy the old Nan's entire stock of wooden tools. [Old Squint-ey'd Nan]
Book ID: 4740More details Price: £100.00 -
Eastern Approaches
London: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1949. This book follows Maclean's extraordinary adventures, most often incognito. Which included fighting in the Western Desert campaign, and leading commando raids behind enemy lines. It has been speculated that Ian Fleming may have partially used Maclean as one of the characters to base the spy James Bond upon. First Edition. Hardback red cloth boards, with gilt title to spine. Has the name Eddy Gilmore, Moscow written in the front - dated 1949. Probably Eddy Gilmore - the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist. Who would have been in Moscow at the same time as the book was published. 543 pages. 200 x 140 mm (7¾ x 5½ inches).
Book ID: 4797More details Price: £30.00 -
Edward Boyle. His life by his friends.
Book ID: 4320More details Price: £60.00 -
Eikōn basilikē, vel, Imago Regis Caroli, in illis suis aerumnis et solitudine [Bound With] Defension Regia Pro Carolo I [Bound With] Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio
Book ID: 3504More details Price: £750.00 -
El Cardenismo
Book ID: 4319More details Price: £40.00 -
Elections Abroad
London: Macmillan and Company Limited, 1959. First edition. Blue cloth hardback in original dust jacket. Studies of four elections: France 1958, Poland 1957, Ireland 1957, and South Africa 1958. 280 pages - including index. Book and jacket in good condition. 220 x 145 mm (8¾ x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 3588More details Price: £20.00 -
Electoral facts, from 1832 to 1852, impartially stated, including the local position, nature of the constituency, prevailing influence, registered electors, annual value of real property paying income tax, amount of assessed taxes, population, prevailing trades, noted members, noted elections, newspaper politics and sale, together with the polls for the last twenty years at every place returning a member to Parliament.
London: Whittaker and Co, 1852. First Edition. Once part of the Fiske Collection, Morningthorpe, Norfolk - with their ex libris to front pastedown. Burgundy buckram boards with gilt vignette to front board. Nicely re-backed. Internally clean, with a Law Society Library stamp to edge of title page, and on top of first page of Preface. Overall very good and very scarce. A fascinating summary of each seat in the United Kingdom, with number of voters, newspapers, salient facts, and the results of elections between 1832 and 1852. A must for any politics obsessive quiz master! ix, [3], 374 [1] pp. 170 x 110 mm (6¾ x 4¼ inches).
Book ID: 4689More details Price: £150.00 -
Eoin O'Duffy: A Self-Made Hero.
Oxford: University Press, 2005. First edition. 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. Fine in fine, unclipped dust jacket. Now in removable clear protective wrapping. 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.
Book ID: 2346More details Price: £60.00