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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 -
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 -
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Book ID: 4462More details Price: £150.00 -
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: £225.00 -
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 -
Histoire de la Caricature. 2 tomes - Antique au moyen age.
Book ID: 3536More details Price: £140.00 -
Human Scandals Introduction by Tom Wicker
Book ID: 4183More details Price: £50.00 -
Hypocrisy
Book ID: 4731More details Price: £100.00 -
Industrial Engineers from Liège
Book ID: 4777More details Price: £200.00 -
Ink & Blood: A Book of Drawings.
Book ID: 3925More details Price: £500.00 -
John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character. From the Collection of Mr. Punch. Volume 3.
London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co, 1887. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked, red cloth covered bevelled boards. Artistically dedicated with elaborate hand painted inscription to front end paper. Very well preserved overall. All page edges gilt. 286 pages. 310 x 255 mm (12¼ x 10 inches). Très bon exemplaire dans les planches biseautées d'origine, couvertes de tissu rouge et dorées. Dédié artistiquement avec une inscription peinte à la main sur le papier de garde. Très bien conservé dans l'ensemble. Toutes les tranches des pages sont dorées. 286 pages. 310 x 255 mm (12¼ x 10 pouces).
Book ID: 3064More details Price: £70.00 -
King Leopold's Ghost. A Story of Greed,Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa
Book ID: 4225More details Price: £40.00 -
King Monmouth. Being A History of The Career of James Scott "The Protestant Duke" 1649-1685.
Book ID: 4348More details Price: £40.00 -
L'Anarchie, sa Philosophie, son ideal. numéro 9 - Bibliotheque Sociologique.
Book ID: 3592More details Price: £90.00 -
L'Avant-garde de Saumur L'Avant-garde journal politique, littéraire, artistique, agricole, industriel et des intérêts locaux "puis" journal de l'arrondissement de Saumur, politique, littéraire, artistique, agricole, industriel et des intérêts locaux
Book ID: 4057More details Price: £25.00 -
L'Ecumoire, histoire japonoise. [Tansaï et Neadarné]. Nouvelle edition.
Book ID: 4349More details Price: £550.00