Resultados de búsqueda: Biography - politics from Godley Books

London: Leo Cooper, 1977. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked light blue cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn wth tiny crease to foot of slightly sunned spine. 311pp. Considered with Churchill as one of the twp outstanding soldier authors of the 20th century, Spears found himself at war not only with the Germans and the Vichy French but equally with the Free French and the Foreign Office ! In this work he describes his gradual disenchantment with the monster he had created - De Gaulle - who he had brought from France to England and virtually created him leader of the Free French.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good (+). 9.25 x 6 inches.

London: Franklin Watts, 1984. Very faint marking to ffep. No other inscriptions or marks. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked laminated boards and no bumping to corners. 87pp. Biography of the man who won independance for India from the Britsh Empire. . Hard Cover. Very Good. 9.25 x 6 inches.

London: Wayland Publishers, 2002. Ex-library with minimal marks and stamps. In fact the book looks unread. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 48pp.. Hard Cover. Very Good (+). 10.75 x 8.75 inches.

London: Century Publishing Co, 1985. Inscribed by author to title page. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very minor traces of storage. 242pp. An earlier Speaker of the House of Commons was George Thomas who served in the role from 1976 to 1983. In this account he tells his story.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 9.5 x 6.25 inches.

London: Chatto & Windus, 2004. Signed 'To Tom with love Cherie xxx' on title page. No other marks or inscriptions.. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with light rubbing/creasing to upper edge. 321pp. Cherie Booth, Tony Blair's wife, tells the stories of seven previous Prime Minister's wives based on interviews, diaries, letters and the accounts of surviving spouses. Scarce signed in the UK.. Signed by Author. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 9.25 x 6.5 inches.

London: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1988. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, tanning to pages and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased, with trace of label removal to front and sunning to spine. 286pp. The true story of the author's experience in the brutal conditions of a Soviet labour camp, to where she was sent on being arrested for her poetry aged twenty-eight.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good (+). 9.5 x 6.25 inches.

London: Faber & Faber, 1968. Ex-library book with usual marks and stamps. Front end paper missing. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A clean very tight copy with very slightly tape-marked boards, dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. 260pp. Born in 1871 in Alport Dale in Derbyshire, Hannah Maria Webster left home for good in 1885, walking the seven miles to Glossop. She eventually became a Manchester City Councillor and Magistrate and played a very active role in Socialism and as a suffragette. The editor is her grandson. First Edition.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good (-)/No Jacket. 7.75 x 5.25 inches.

London: Atlantic Books, 2010. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and very tiny bump to upper front corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with minor rubbing/creasing to upper and lower edges. 435pp. An autobiography of Christopher Hitchens, an intellectual of the poitical left and later of secular liberalism.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 9.5 x 6.25 inches.

New York: Alfred A Knopf, Inc, 1996. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight foxing to page fore-edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with a little rubbing to front. 181pp. The grandaughter of Israeli politician Yitzhak Rabin reflects on her life and on the key role which her grandfather played in it and on the world stage.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 7.75 x 5.25 inches.

London: The National Labour Press Ltd, 1916. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, creasing and slight rubbing to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked sunned boards and no bumping to corners. 85pp. Biography of the founder of the Independent Labour Party, James Keir Hardie. Illustrated. Undated ca 1916. Scarce.. Soft Cover. Very Good. 7.25 x 4.75 inches.

London: Pelham Books, 1980. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slightly dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 176pp. A series of short biographies and racing histories of a number of prominent jockeys from the 1970s, starting with Lester Piggott.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good (+)/Near Fine. 8.75 x 5.5 inches.

London: Macdonald and Co Ltd, 1983. No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, faint traces of foxing to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very minor traces of handling. 176pp. Detailed study of President Kennedy of America. Well illustrated.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 10 x 7.75 inches.

London: Macdonald & Co, 1983. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn or creased with sunning to spine. 176pp. Biography of American President John Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 10 x 7.5 inches.

London: BCA, 1985. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and minor bump to lower front corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with a few tiny nicks to edges and corners. 565pp. The saga of America's Kennedy dynasty. Illustrated.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8 x 5.25 inches.

London: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1991. Signed on front end paper by Tom Pendry, then an MP and now Lord Pendry. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 408pp. Autobiography of Margaret Thatcher's Press Secretary for most of her years in office. First edition, second printing.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. 9.5 x 6.25 inches.

London: The English Universities Press Ltd, 1942. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slightly dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with clean cream front and rear, slightly sunned spine, and a few nicks and chips to edges and corners. Now protected in a fully-removable transparent sleeve. 324pp. Biography of Kurt von Schuschnigg, the last Chancellor of free Austria before it was absorbed within Germany in the 1930s. Scarce with dust jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good (+)/Very Good. 9 x 6.25 inches.

Aurangabad, India: Shri Ankushrao Kadam, 1990. Probablu unread. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with laminated unmarked black card covers, slight (publisher's) twist to spine, small amounts of rubbing boards and spine ends and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with creasing to spine foot and general traces of storage. 308pp. The story of Gandhi at the time of Partition in India in 1947, which took place against his wishes but was imposed by the British and up to his assasination in 1948. Undated ca 1990. Extremely scarce.. Half-Leather. Very Good/Very Good. 8.5 x 5.5 inches.

London: William Collins, 2014. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked red cloth boards, bumping to spine foot and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with traces of creasing to upper and lower edges and long repaired tear down front edge. 432pp. Biography of Santiago Carrillo who became secretary general of the Spanish Communist Party by 1960, was a hero of the long struggle against Franco and by the time of his death in 2012 was a national treasure of Spain.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Good. 9.5 x 6.25 inches.

Brighton, England: The Alpha Press, 2000. Inscribed by the author on half-title page. Also a little ink highlighting in the margin of some pages. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 102pp. The author tells of her escape from Czechoslovakia to England at the height of the Gold War. She describes the hardships and life without basic freedoms under Communism.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good (+). 9 x 6 inches.

Newcastle Upon Tyne: Frank Graham, 1983. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked orange cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with tiny nick/crease to lower front corner. 212pp. Biography of Thomas Spence, born in Newcastle in 1750 who made a big contribution to radical and working class thinking and who was well ahead of his time.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8.5 x 6 inches.