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Hardback. Good/Very Good. Cave, Estella. John Murray, London, 1933, first edition; small quarto, pp 115; green paper boards and spine, slightly discoloured under the dustwrapper which is itself slightly frayed at the edges, but still a good to very good copy. As the dust wrapper comments "For many years Lady Cave has taken a special interest in the high character and domestic virtues of the ant. She has acquired much quaint information about them, and her enthusiasm has impelled some of her friends to break out at her behest into (often most unaccustomed) verse. Prime Ministers and Professors, Men of Business and Men of Leisure, all contribute to this very real ant-hology." Contributors include Rudyard Kipling, Julian Huxley, Beverley Nichols, James Barrie, Owen Seaman, Stanley Baldwin, Laurence Housman, Baden-Powell and Humbert Wolfe. Estella Cave was the wife of George, later Viscount Cave, a lawyer and a Conservative MP, Home Secretary under Lloyd-George and also Lord Chancellor.

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.

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. 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.

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.

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

Soft cover. Good/Not relevant. C A Watts & Co. Ltd., 1946; 8vo, 94pp including publisher's advertisements at the end; good copy; this is the paperback version of the 1946 edition. Includes an article "Mind and Matter in Modern Science" by Bertrand Russell and other articles by J B S Haldane, Julian Huxley, C E M Joad and others NOTE: on account of the weight of this volume the postage cost will be LESS than the default amount (which must be) shown and will be advised before an order is confirmed.

Hardcover. Good/Good. C A Watts & Co. Ltd., 1946; 8vo, 94pp including publisher's advertisements at the end; good copy. Includes an article "Mind and Matter in Modern Science" by Bertrand Russell and articles by J B S Haldane, Julian Huxley, C E M Joad and others NOTE: on account of the weight of this volume 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/Not relevant. C A Watts & Co. Ltd., 1954; 8vo, 88pp including publisher's advertisements at the end; good copy. Includes articles by Bertrand Russell ("Are the world's trouble due to decay of faith?"), JBS Haldane and others NOTE: on account of the weight of this volume 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/Not relevant. C A Watts & Co. Ltd., 1946; large 8vo, 94pp including publisher's advertisements at the end; good copy. Includes an article "Has religion made useful contributions to civilization?" by Bertrand Russell and other articles by J B S Haldane, Harold Laski, C E M Joad and others NOTE: on account of the weight of this volume 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. This, the first edition of Smalridge's sermons, was published by William and John Innes in London in 1726 but this copy lacks both the title page and the engraved portrait frontispiece although it does have the 4pp publisher's catalogue at the end, dated 1725. Folio, pp [6, remaining prelims], [xx, subscribers to the work], [xix, Contents], 616, [iv, publisher's catalogue]. Contemporary panelled calf, spine gilt and with six raised bands, the covers rubbed and torn and with both boards detached; some older water staining on the inner corners of the last few leaves but otherwise internally in good, clean condition, albeit with a little browning here and there, and tightly bound. This is essentially a reference or binding copy which, were it repaired in the binding would become a very acceptable copy of the work. Smalridge, 1662-1719, was Bishop of Bristol from 1714-1719 and was esteemed on account of the quality of his sermons, Samuel Johnson considering them to be of… Read More

Hardback. Good. Riverside Press, Cambridge, MA, 1960. Large 8vo, 180x246mm; pp ix, 381; blue cloth gilt, gilt dulled and back cover a little water-spotted. The work consists of writings from a range of relevant philosophers from Kant, Hume and J S Mill through to the present. There's an entry by Bertrand Russell title "Non-Demonstrative Inference and Induction" taken from his "Our Knowledge of the External World" but including also some previously unpublished material. The book has a reasonable index and an 8pp bibliography arranged by subject chapter.