Search Results: Politics from Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA

London: John Milne [1901]. 12mo. vii, 183 pp. Cloth spine with original illustrated boards. Rubbing to extremities and general discolouration. Small losses to a few corners of boards. Publisher's stamp to title page and light creasing to corner of pages, though internally clean and bright. Includes chapters on training of the soldier, the strategy of the war and the despatches of the generals. . Good. Original Boards. Ninth Edition. 1901.

London: Quality Book Club no date circa 1960. 8vo. pp v + 189, dark blue cloth with white title label and gilt lettering. Paper a little darkened otherwise very clean tight copy. Dust jacket has a little wear to edges and corners and is a little dusty on rear. Otherwise very good in very good copy. Wildeblood was imprisoned in 1954 for homosexual offences. The case was controversal, and as a result this, and cases against Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, Michael Pitt-Rivers, John Gielgud and Alan Turing, the British Government set up Committee to enquire, in what became the landmark Wolfenden Report . Very Good. Publisher's Cloth. 1960.

London: Atlantic Press / Thames and Hudson 1957. 8vo. xiv, 389 pp. Blue cloth in printed dust wrapper. Jacket spine darkened with slight nick to paper on front panel. Cloth clean. Internally clean. . Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 1957.

London: Secker & Warburg 1945. 8vo. 92 pp., Recently rebound in beautiful full dark green morocco with gilt lettering and lines. Top edge gilt. Small stain to the final leaf and faint water staining to the tail, not affecting the text. Otherwise internally clean with no ownership marks. . Very Good. Full Morocco. First Edition. 1945.

London: Constable and Company Ltd. 1930. Small 8vo. First Edition. xxix, 79 pp. Green cloth in jacket, not price clipped. Minor yellowing to jacket spine and edges, but otherwise jacket and boards exceptionally clean and unworn; slight offsetting to endpapers, spots to fore-edge but otherwise internally clean. Pages uncut. Political satire comedy play. . Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 1930.

Dublin: Union 1924. 8vo.Pamphlet. Scarce pamphlet. xxxi, 170 pp. Green wraps. The case against James Larkin published by his political rivals at the the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union (ITGWU), especially William O'Brien, who were suing him for leadership of the Union; contains letters, evidence, and fierce invective against him. With advertisements on the rear for The Voice of Labour. Wraps slightly worn, with minimal tearing to spine, but clean and firm, as is the case internally too. . Very Good. Wraps. 1924.

London: Frank Cass 1990. 8vo. 325 pp, some wear to dustwrapper 0714633879 . Very Good. Hardcover. 1990.

London: Lawrence & Wishart 1977 / 1974. 8vo. 3 volumes (volumes 2 and 3 published 1974). 767; x, 551; xi, 948 pp. Blue hardcover with gilt lettering to spine and boards and embossed portrait of Marx to the latter. Some rubbing and bumping to spine and boards. Gilt dulled a bit on all volumes. Light foxing to edges. Ffep. of vol. 3 clipped. Internally clean. A pleasant set. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1977.

Oxford: Ashmolean Museum 2007. 8vo.Illustrated. xv, 159 pp. Illustrated softcovers. 127 Chinese prints and chronology of modern Chinese printmaking. Softcovers slightly creased. Clean inside and out. 1854442287 . Very Good. Softcover. 2007.

London: A. C. Fifield 1909. Small 8vo. 61, (2) pp., Orange paper cover boards. Boards stained with wear to the extremities. Some staining to the endpaper with pencil notes to the rear. . Fair. Paper Covered Boards. 1909.

Oxford: Clarendon Press 2003. 8vo. ix, 329 pp. Paperback. Unused. Very Good to Near Fine condition. 0198293054 . Very Good. Paperback. Reprint. 2003.

Oxford: Oxford University Press 2011. 8vo. ix, 230 pp. Hardback in dust jacket. Clean copy. No ownership marks. With 12 essays. 9780199593842 . Near Fine. Hardback. 2011.

Oxford, United Kingdom: Berg Publishers 1995. 8vo. xi., 303 pp. 0854963944 . Near Fine. Laminated Boards. 1995.

London: Published by the Author 1869. 8vo. viii, 377 pp. Brown cloth blind stamped decoration; missing spine and front board detached. Xenos offers a public defence of his actions and an attack on Overend Gurney & Co. in the aftermath of the Panic of 1866, a banking crisis. Formerly of the Barclay's Bank Director's Library, and bears its bookplate on ffep. Wear to corners and marks to boards. Internally clean. . Fair. Cloth. 1869.

New York: The Macmillan Company 1902. 8vo. Uncommon book. xvi, 300, [2] pp. Green-brown cloth with gilt lettering and borders on spine; pages uncut. A historical overview of how the British cabinet and Parliamentary system emerged and developed, of which copies are uncommon. A New York owner's inscription on ffep, and an address (Roselle, New Jersey) on title page. Otherwise very clean internally, and binding very firm. . Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 1902.

London: Chapman and Hall 1924. 8vo. xii, 225 pp. Maroon cloth with lettering to the spine. Split at hinges of spine, rubbing to corners and staining to cloth. Some markings to prelims. First free endpaper bears the blue ink ownership inscription of the author's wife, Vera Rattigan - the pair were parents to playwright Terence Rattigan. This volume came from the actor Richard Briers' collection. . Poor. Cloth. 1924.

London: Jonathan Cape 2005. 8vo. xii, 785 pp. Hardback in dust jacket. Dj slightly edgeworn. Leaves slightly age-darkened. Clean copy with no ownership marks. A VG copy in VG dj. 9780224040228 . Very Good. Hardback. 2005.

Lyon: J. B. Delamolliere 1790. 8vo. French language. [iv], 268 pp. Full brown leather with gilt borders, raised bands, black title label, gilt lettering to spine; marbled endpapers, all edges red. Minor wear to extremities, slight watermarks to boards. Ink name to prelim, slight yellowing to pages but generally internally clean. One of Rousseau's and the Enlightenment's most important works, discussing how to establish legitimate authority in a political community, this book profoundly impacted poltical discourse and Western philosophy forever after it was published in 1762 - laying the theoretical groundwork for the 18th and 19th century revolutions, as well as modern democracy. This early edition in very good condition was published during the second year of the French Revolution. . Very Good. Full Leather. 1790.

London: Hodder & Stoughton. 8vo. xiv, 191 pp. Cloth spine over boards. Title labels. In publisher's dw. Dw edgeworn. Bookplate to front paste-down. Internally clean. . Very Good. Hardback.

Satiago: Imprenta De La Epoca 1890. Small 8vo. 191, vii pp., SPANISH TEXT. Full brown, tree calf binding with red title label. Some rubbing to the extremities and minor loss to the rear board. Binding firm and internally clean, with inscription to the title page and bookplate to the front pastedown bearing the motto Incorupta Fides. Gift inscription to English Diplomat Sir Drummond Wolff the ambassador to Madrid from 1892 to 1900. English translation of the title: The Local Government; Decentralization (Europe - United States - Chile) . Very Good. Full Tree Calf. 1890.