Search Results: History and Society - Chesil 1" from Chesil Books

Soft cover. Good. Amalgamated Press, London; 120 x 187mm, pp 144, light card covers, signatures of 32pp but also glued in parts; base of spine a little torn, some light browning, front and back free end papers carelessly glued resulting in some adhesion to the cover, nevertheless in good condition. Contains a 5pp page story by Bertrand Russell, "The Queens of Sheba's Nightmare" from his fiction book "Nightmares of Eminent Persons". NOTE: on account of the size and weight of this item the postage cost will be LESS than the default amount (which must be) shown and will be advised before an order is confirmed.

Soft cover. Good. 205x277mm, 96pp + covers; back cover detached, but present, spine ragged and relevant staples rusted but, subject to that, in decent condition; contains "A Life of Disagreement", being the transcript of an interview with Bertrand Russell by Romney Wheeler of NBC and filmed in London on the occasion of Russell's 80th birthday. In addition there are articles by several writers including Osbert Sitwell and Thornton Wilder and a poem by Adrienne Riches. NOTE: on account of the size and weight of this books the postage cost will be LESS than the default amount (which must be) shown and will be advised before an order is confirmed.

Hardback. Fair. Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer. London, 1873, first edition, first issue with the misprint on page 13 reading "successively"; large 8vo, pp vi, 313, [iv, being erratum and list of books by the same author]; original green pebbled cloth, spine gilt, covers and spine a little dulled and rubbed at the corners and spine ends; chocolate brown end papers, hinges cracked internally and hinges therefore a littleweak in consequence but generally a reasonable, clean copy; a few pencilled notes on the last page list referring to other books by Mill.

Paperback. Fair. G Portielje, Amsterdam, 1830, only issue; tall 8vo, pp xii, 177, [16, being tables]; original paper wrappers completely covered with see-through plastic fully stuck down on the end papers and with some now discoloured sellotape; original spine missing, presumably partly why the book was covered in this way; sheets uncut (but all opened) and with some light foxing or browning throughout but in good condition; a few instances of a neat library mark and with the remains of old library labels on the front. Lobatto was a mathematics professor at the University of Delft and this work is a treatise on life assurance, with chapters on relevant matters such as calculating annuities, widows' pension table and mortality tables as well as more generally considering theories around life assurance.

Hardback. Very Good. Watts & Co., London, 1960, 1st edition; 8vo, pp [ii], 87; original red cloth, spine text in silver; corners and edges a little rubbed in places but a very good copy. Purcell was a prolific and accomplished writer, a sinologist, colonial civil servant, a lecturer at Cambridge on Far Eastern History, a specialist on Malaya, a poet and, as here, a satirical dramatist sending up British snobbery and the unco'guid. His rebuttal of the distaste of a certain type of snob for Bertrand Russell takes the loose form of "Macbeth", interspered with explanatory comment and brings in not only the three sisters of the title but the likes of the ghosts of Samuel Wilberforce and T H Huxley as well as numerous historic and imaginary figures including bellicose generals ("I have always believed in keeping the warlike spirit alive in peacetime"), prominent Christians such as Hilaire Belloc or others of imagined note such as the Archbishop of Tooting Bec. Russell,… Read More

Paperback. Very Good. Palma de Mallorca, 1961; 8vo, pp 82, [10, being contents and illustrations lists and other material]; handsomely produced book with lapping cream covers, the edges slightly torn at the head in consequence, the contents printed on thick cream paper with generous margins and a couple of vignette illustrations by the author and and also a tipped-in folding view of the Cartuja de Valldemosa, all printed in burnt umber; 10 photographic and other plates; slight dust marking on the covers but all in very good condition; faint blue mark and an impressed ex libris seal of St Luke's Farm on the half title. George Sand was the pseudonym of Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, typically known simply as "Aurore", lover of Chopin and Alfred de Musset among many others.

Hardback. Good. Knopf, New York, 1946, new edition; 8vo; pp lxvi, 249; spine dulled and a few small spots on the front cover but otherwise in good condition. Has a 6pp preface by Bertrand Russell referring to his delight and pleasure in coming across the first edition of the book many years before and commenting on how much he had learned from it in his study of mathematics.

Hardcover. Good. MacMillan Company, New York, first edition 1938; 8vo, pp 190; covers a little spotted front inner hinge a little weak but a good copy otherwise. Russell's contribution is an article titled "Science and Social Institutions". Other contributors are Vernon Bartlett, G D H Cole, Stafford Cripps, Herbert Morrison and Harold Laski.

Hardback. Good. Seeley and Burnside, London, 1843; small 8vo, pp xxviii, 372; full calf gilt, marbled end papers and edges, binding a little rubbed and with a little light foxing mainly at the beginning and end but nevertheless a sound, handsome copy; engraved frontispiece of the relevant rectory (Turvey) and three further engravings; neat early ownership signature on the front end paper. Apparently first published in 1833 and also in later editions, albeit often wrongly identified as "12mo".

Hardback. Good. The Dublin Review (not to be confused with the modern literary journal) was the leading Catholic periodical of its time, having begun in 1836 as a quarterly, continuing until its demise in 1969. It was founded by the barrister and journalist Michael Joseph Quin who brought in Daniel O'Connell and Cardinal Wiseman to the project. The aim was "to provide a record of current thought for educated Catholics and ... to be an exponent of Catholic views to non-Catholic inquirers" and to this end it recruited eminent and well-regarded writers on religious, historical and literary topics and with much focus on science. Despite its name the Review was printed and published in London. Issue four, April 1837, 344pp plus opening Contents leaf; bound in blue-green cloth, spine titled gilt, no specific title page as the original wrappers are not bound in; slightly rubbed at the extremities and with a very few stamps of the Franciscan Convent Library, Wexford, scattered around but… Read More

Soft cover. Good. 260x330mm, pp 32, self-covered; b&w and coloured illustrations throughout; staples rusted, magazine fragile and rubbed here and there but generally in good condition. Contains an article by Bertrand Russell, "Hope and Fear" where he looks back over his life of 85 years and considers the changes and development in the UK and elsewhere. NOTE: on account of the size and weight of this books the postage cost will be LESS than the default amount (which must be) shown and will be advised before an order is confirmed.

Paperback. Very Good. Printed at the Government Printing Office, Kuching, 1962; 8vo, pp 30, 8pp of photographs; burgundy paper wrappers, spine a little faded and staples rusted but otherwise in very good condition. This has been reprinted from Sarawak's Annual Report. Tom Harrisson was that Tom Harrisson, polymath, sometime anthropologist and founder of Mass Observation.

Soft cover. Good. 258x300mm, pp 32, self-covered; b&w and some coloured illustrations; staples rusty but a clean, good copy. With a 3pp article by Bertrand Russell "The Next 50 Years". Sadly his predictions were a bit wide of the mark - "Our most eminent living philosopher forsees the possible end of hunger and poverty if only war can be outlawed and science, harnessed to freedom of thought, allowed to be used for the good of mankind instead of for evil." - as, despite his friendship with Keynes, he failed to allow for neoclassical economics and its pernicious political offshoot, neoliberalism. NOTE: on account of the size and weight of this books the postage cost will be LESS than the default amount (which must be) shown and will be advised before an order is confirmed.

Hardback. Good. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1927, original edition; large 4to, pp xv, 243, v; 90 figures in the text and with 47 plates; blue cloth gilt, a little rubbed but a good to very good copy, very clean inside. Randall-Maciver was a British archaeologist who later became a citizen of the US. His excavations at Great Zimbabwe were important in showing that the site was built by the Shona peoples. He worked also in north Africa and moved to Italy in 1921 to focus on Etruscan architecture.

Hardback. Very Good. Cornish Brothers, Birmingham, 1880, [first edition, privately printed]; 8vo, pp [viii], (9)-577; good later binding in half brown pigskin, green marbled boards and end papers, spine decorated gilt and with raised bands, top edge gilt; lacks half title; slight browning or dust marking in places but nevertheless a very good copy of what was to become a minor Victorian classic, the story set in the time of Charles I. Shorthouse, 1834-1903, came from a Quaker manufacturing family in Birmingham (actually Edgbaston), duly entering the family business. However, he and his wife moved to the Church of England in 1861 identifying themselves with the "Oxford School of High Churchmen". He also began to suffer from epilepsy and duly left his industrial work to write, spending the decade to about 1876 working on "John Inglesant". As he was unable to interest a publisher Shorthouse decided to have the book printed on his own account and it appeared in 1880 in a… Read More

Hardback. Good. Société d'Edition Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 1934, first thus; 8vo, pp x, 26, plus Contents and imprint; published with orange paper wrappers, now bound in dark green cloth, the front board stamped with a gilt image of a she-wolf; spine dulled and the front board slightly faded at the foot but nevertheless a good to very good copy with some pages opened rather carelessly and with others unopened. This work is a French translation of the Latin of (purportedly) Seneca the Younger's political satire on Claudius, the Apocolcyntosis (divi) Claudii here with the Latin on facing pages.

Soft cover. Good. 140 x 215mm, pp 144, light card covers, signatures of 32pp but also glued in parts; base of spine a little torn and somewhat loose for the lower third, some light browning, particularly at both ends, nevertheless in good condition. Contains a 9pp page essayby Bertrand Russell, "On Catholic and Protestant Sceptics" as well as other contributions by David Garnett, André Maurois and others. NOTE: on account of the size and weight of this item the postage cost will be LESS than the default amount (which must be) shown and will be advised before an order is confirmed.

1st Edition . Paperback. Very Good. Run of 36 issues over almost a decade from Vol. LXXIII No. 292 (October 1964) through to Vol. LXXXII No. 327 (July 1973); issues 292 to 320 (December 1971) are edited by Ryle, the rest by Hamlyn; issues 292 to 296 are published by Nelson & Sons, Edinburgh and the remaining issues by Basil Blackwell, Oxford, in both cases for the Mind Association; original grey paper wrappers, 8vo, generally around 160pp plus 14pp of book advertisements or notices in each issue. The early issues through to 302 have wrappers lapping the contents and are consequently slightly ragged on the edges in places while the remaining issues are cut flush and generally in very good condition though two or three of the volumes have small tears or fraying on the spines and in a few cases there are neat ownership initials in ink on the upper right corner. Mind began in 1876 and now concerns itself particularly with analytical philosophy, the Mind Association describing its focus as… Read More

Paperback. Good. Theosophical Society, London, 1932, first edition; small 8vo, pp 84 plus a single page of bibliography; green paper wrappers, sun-lightened on the spine and a couple of edges but a good copy overall. "It is the purpose of this present work to show that the Aryan Race is the natural successor of those that have preceded it ... we can say ... that a New Age is now dawning in the world ... caused by the emergence of a new level of consciousness ... ". Note, however, that this reference to an "Aryan Race" is used very differently to its use by the NSDAP in Germany and that Theosophical aims are in turn very different, seeking instead a "Universal Brotherhood of Humanity without distinction of race, creed, sex, caste or colour". Note that the weight of the booklet, 90g, means that postage will be less than the default shown.

Hardback. Very Good. R Gosling and others, Fleet Street, London, 1730, first thus; four volumes, folio, engraved frontispiece to each volume, pp [iii], [ii], [iv], [3] to 224, [viii, being the index to Book I], 394, [xxxviii, being the index to Book II]; [iv], 564, [iv, being folding tables of creditors], [xxviii, being the volume index]; [vi], 586, [xlvi, being the volume index]; [i], 707, [xxviii, being the volume index], [i, bookseller's catalogue]. Full contemporary calf gilt, labels gilt; some wear to the bindings, generally light, but including cracking of some hinges (cosmetic only, not affecting the binding overall which remains firm and tight); lacks the spine label to vol III and with that to v ol I slightly defaced; very light occasional browning but otherwise an exceptionally crisp and clean copy, firmly bound. Each volume has the armorial bookplates of Charles Bathurst of Lydney Park (MP and government minister in various roles from 1790 to 1823). Francis Bacon, Viscount St… Read More