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Paris: Librairie Valois, 1928. Limited edition of 3,300 copies. This is copy number 00031, which is printed on velin Navarre paper. The limitation page has a handwritten dedication to Jean de Bavier and is signed by Gaston Riou. Hardback. 184pp. Bound in contemporary quarter leather with raised bands and gilt to spine. Marbled paper boards and marbled end papers. Top edge gilt and silk page marker. Original paper covers bound-in. Foreword by Raymond Poincare. Riou's eloquent argument for a pacifist and federal Europe. Text in French. Book in good condition. Spine a little faded with some rubbing to extremities and around the hinge. Boards lightly soiled. Paper generally a little toned with some light sporadic spotting.

London: Continuum, 2003. First edition, 2003. Hardback. xi, 156pp. Publisher';s original orange binding with silver titles to spine. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. In a personla tour de force, Shirley Williams, one of Britain's leading post-war politicians, considers the on-going role that religion still has to play in a modern society. Book in good condition. Very light marking to board edges and some staining to lower board close to the bottom edge. Very small area of staining to leading edge of text block. Internally very clean and bright. Dust jacket very good and unclipped. Minor edge wear. A little light soiling and some slight discolouration to spine.

Paris: Editions Baudiniere, 1926. Limited edition of 500 copies. This is copy number 22 with a statement on the limitation page that this copy was printed especially for Madame De Bavier. Hardback. 318pp. Contemporary quarter leather with raised bands and gilt to spine. Marbled paper boards. Top edge gilt and marbled end papers. Original paper covers and spine cover bound-in. Leading edges untrimmed and quite a number of pages unopened. Silk page marker. Text in French. Book in good condition. Spine a little faded. Some rubbing to extremities of spine and edges. Boards lightly soiled. Half-title page a little tanned as is the final page. there is also a band of toning to the untrimmed surplus on the final few pages. Sporadic spotting throughout.

Paris: Bibliotheque Charpentier, 1926. Limited edition of 650 copies, this being number 463 and one of the copies printed on papier de Hollande. Hardback. 217pp. Contemporary leather over marbled paper covered boards. Gilt to spine and top edge gilt. Marbled end papers. Original covers bound-in. Leading edges untrimmed and quite a number of the pages are unopened. Black & white frontispiece drawn by Charles Doudelet. Maeterlinck's celebrated analysis of totalitarian systems compared to the life of an ant colony. Text in French. Book in good condition. Some rubbing to boards and spine, which has a little wear at the extremities and hinge. Some spotting throughout.

Hammersmith: Hammersmith Publishing Society, 1903. First edition, 1903. Hardcover. 34pp. Vellum spine with brown paper covered boards. Black titles to spine. This is the text of an Address given in the William Morris Labour Church, at Leek, the fifth of October, 1902. Book in good condition. Paper covering to boards slightly cockled and vellum spine soiled. Top edge a little soiled. Light foxing and soiling to endpapers and a small closed tear (10mm approx) to ffep. Some cracking at gutter but text block sound. Internally free of notes and annotations etc.

Paris: Librairie Valois, 1929. One of 3,300 copies printed on velin Navarre paper. This copy is not numbered. Handwritten dedication to Jean de Bavier and signature of the author on the half title page. Hardback. 191pp. Bound in contemporary quarter leather with raised bands and gilt to spine. Marbled paper covered boards and marbled end papers. Top edge gilt. Original covers bound-in. Free end papers a little tones. Sporadic spotting throughout. This is Gaston Riou's follow-up to his earlier 'Europe Ma Patrie'. Foreward by Aristide Briand, Ministre des Affaires Etrangeres. Text in French. Book in good condition. Spine a little faded with some slight rubbing to extremities. Boards lightly soiled. Paper generally a little toned with some light sporadic spotting.