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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: £10.00 -
CUBA
Book ID: 4108More details Price: £30.00
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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 -
Desiderata Curiosa Hibernica: Or, A Select Collection of State Papers; [Two Volumes]
Book ID: 3028More details Price: £500.00
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Edward Boyle. His life by his friends.
Book ID: 4320More details Price: £60.00
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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
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El Cardenismo
Book ID: 4319More details Price: £40.00
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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 -
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 -
Fifty Caricatures.
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1913. Lovely copy of this first American edition. Clean and bright green cloth covers, with gilt titles and design. Tipped in illustrations throughout. Some of Beerbohm's most memorable caricatures of the likes of Shaw, D'Annunzio, Hardy, Asquith, Rostand, Caruso, etc and etc. Unpaginated. 230 by 170mm (9 by 6¾ inches).
Book ID: 3245More details Price: £60.00 -
First Among Equals.
Prime Ministers in Westminster Systems.
Sydney, London, Boston: George Allen & Unwin, 1985. First edition, in original dust jacket. Hardback in black cloth with gilt title to spine. Inside and out both in very good / fine condition. 228 pages. 220 x 145 mm (8¾ x 5¾ inches).
Patrick Weller examines how prime ministers exercise power, and the factors that assist or constrain them.
Book ID: 3596More details Price: £35.00 -
Fishing in Troubled Waters. Or how to hold out a bait.
Book ID: 3026More details Price: £75.00
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General Sir Arthur Cotton; His Life and Work by his daughter Lady Hope,
with some famine prevention studies. Portraits, maps and illustrations.
Calcutta: The Institution of Engineers (India), 1964. First Thus. Biography originally printed by Hodder & Stoughton in 1900. Reprinted here by The Institution of Engineers (India) to honour Sir Arthur Cotton - the Father of Irrigation. In dark green hardback boards, with gilt titles to spine. Frontis portrait, and several other b/w photos. Also a fold-out map of of the Godavari Delta, and in a pocket the the rear of the book, a large folded map of Irrigation and Navigation of India. Boards and book all in very good condition. 530 pages. 220 x 140 mm (8¾ x 5½ inches).
Book ID: 3987More details Price: £30.00 -
Gordon Brown.
London: Harper Collins, 2004. First edition. Black cloth with pictorial dust wrapper, in clear protective wrap. Signed by the author to the title page. A very nice example. xx, 492 pp. 240 x 155 mm (9½ x 6 inches).
Book ID: 2327More details Price: £25.00 -
Great Men.
London: Grant Richards, 1901. First Edition. Hardback book with illustrated cover and red cloth spine. Boards are a little grubby, and lightly bumped at edges. Inside the front endpapers have some age toning, and a very small previous owner's name. The rest of the contents are fresh and bright. 51 pages. 275 x 215 mm (10¾ x 8½ inches).
Book ID: 3363More details Price: £25.00 -
Grievances in Ireland
Dublin: James Duffy & Co. Ltd. A propaganda pamphlet issued against the Home Rule bill in 1913. Fifth Edition. Contains six 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". A clean and tidy booklet. A touch of darkening to the wrappers only. 32 pages.
Book ID: 1836More details Price: £320.00 -
Großer Zank
zwischen einem Mann und seiner Frau: wer von beiden die Hosen tragen und im Haus die Ober-Herrschaft haben soll. Die zwietracht
Book ID: 4305More details Price: £200.00
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Histoire de la Caricature.
2 tomes - Antique au moyen age.
Book ID: 3536More details Price: £140.00