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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.

Aldershot and Brookfield, VT: Gower Publishing Company Limited, 1984. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, pp xvii, 345; detailed index, five maps and numerous tables in the text; review copy of the first edition and a very good copy. This is a series of specialist essays, field-based country case studies by both ecoomists and engineers, being a study prepared for the International Labour Office within the framework of the World Employment Programme.

1st Edition . Hardback. Good. London, Smith, Elder and Co.,1861, first edition; 8vo, pp 226, [2] plus 16pp of publisher advertisements dated December 1862; original embossed green cloth, spine gilt, yellow end papers, engraved frontispiece; spine dulled and corners bumped, binding somewhat shaken and a two-signature unit (pp65-96) loose; frontispiece and title page a little soiled but generally otherwise clean throughout; firm ownership inscription dated '79 and with two bookplates (Herbert A Strong, and C S Currie) on the front end papers.

Hardback. Fair. Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1901, 11th impression; 8vo, pp x, 555, five folding maps; plum calf prize binding with the front board gilt stamped with the crest of Sir Roger Manwood's School, Sandwich, Kent and with a note on the front end paper by the headmaster, Harold B Ryley, awarding the book for maths and science to A V Chaney in July 1903; marbled end papers and edges; the front board is detached and the covering of the spine missing but apart from some foxing of the blank leaves at the beginning and end internally the book is in good condition; offered waf as a binding copy.

Paperback. Very Good. Membership booklet of The Heretics, 1912-1913, with a list of the society's meetings including a reference to "The Philosophy of Bergson", a lecture on March 11 by Bertrand Russell. 120x160mm, cover of pale blue laid thicker paper and 16pp of text, all variously deckle-edged and uncut. A little dust marked on the back cover but in very good condition. An interesting curiosity rather than anything particularly profound but of interest for the list of frequent meetings and of the honorary members. The Heretics was a Cambridge debating and discussion society attached, I believe, to Trinity.

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.

Hardback. Fair. MacMillan, London, 1903 reprint of the third edition of 1901; 8vo, pp xx, 644 plus 4pp adverts and review comments on his "Moral Ideas"; original olive green cloth, spine dulled, lower front covers of both boards with damp marking but still a quite reasonable reading copy of this classic and important analysis of the social institution of human marriage; extensive bibliography and index running to 144pp at the end.

Paperback. Good. Dover Publications, New York, 1956, first thus, from the authosied English translation of the second German edition; B-format paperback, pp xv, 393, followed by a 21pp Dover Books catalogue; spine and back cover somewhat rubbed and dust stained but a good reading copy.

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.

Oxford and New York: OUP, 1999. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo, pp [x], 325; very good copy in dust wrapper. The book consists of 14 academic essays from a range of sinologist contributors, the entries grouped as Introduction, Enterprise Behaviour and Efficiency, Macroeconomic Instability, and, Conclusion. The key questions raised and considered are around China's economic performance and its move toward a more market-orientated economy.

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 private edition of 75… Leer más

Paperback. Good. Published National Labour Press Limited, Manchester & London, nd (1915); small 8vo, pp vi, 87; grey-green paper wrappers, spine somewhat frayed in parts and the front cover torn along parts of the front hinge; a little foxed in places but overall a good copy of the original printing of a scarce political booklet consisting of a collection of essays on the topic of the title.

Basingstoke and London: Macmillan Press Limited, 1997. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo, pp xiv, 269; with numerous tables and figures in the text; very good copy in dustwrapper. Published in association with St Antony's College, Oxford. This is a series of academic essays analysing the changes taking place in Korea, and most particularly South Korea, from around 1953 and the partition of the peninsula. These are collected under the headings Comparative Economic Development, Regime change and Continuity, Foreign Policy, and, Korea in the International System. Kim is Professor of Economics at Inha University in South Korea and Kong is a lecturer in Politics and Development at SOAS, London.

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.

Hardback. Good. MacMillan, London, 1887 reprint of the 1870 first edition; 8vo, pp xi, 300; original red cloth gilt, spine faded and a little frayed at the head, with damp marking beginning at the foredge of both covers and affecting around a third of each; small tears to the edges of three or four leaves at the start but internally otherwise a very good, tight copy; ownership inscription in ink of a Frederick Willmer, 1889 and below the more recent one of Charles W Willmer. Fourteen essays by "Darwin's bulldog" published originally between 1854, the year he became Professor of Natural History at the Royal School of Mines aged 29 and 1870, and including the famous review of "On the Original of Species" in 1860 and responses to certain criticisms of Darwin's book four years later.

Hardback. Very Good. small 8vo, pp [iii]-xi, 412; rebound at some point in oatmeal buckram with a red leather label title gilt; no title page is present but this appears to be a copy of the 1928 edition rebound relatively recently; very good copy. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian-born anarchists who were arrested for and convicted of murder and armed robbery in 1920 and eventually executed in August 1927 despite worldwide opposition to their sentencing and serious doubts as to guilt expressed by a very wide range of supporter in the US and elsewhere in the world. Both steadfastly insisted they were innocent and claimed that their sentence was in retaliation for their anarchist beliefs, charging that after seven years in jail they had become an embarrassment to the judicial and political authorities who determined to remove them. Fifty years later Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis issued a proclamation exonerating the pair, saying that they had been unfairly tried and executed.

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.

Hardback. Very Good/Good. Blackwell, Oxford, 1963, fifth impression; 8vo, pp vii, 206; good copy in somewhat dust marked green wrapper and with a discreet cancelled mark on the inside back cover end paper. With essays by Flew, Gilbert Ryle, Margaret Macdonald, and others.

Hardback. Very Good. Trübner, London, 1869, vol 1 only of a two-volume work; 8vo, pp xx, 369, coloured map of the North Western Provinces; dark brick red cloth, spine gilt, end papers a little marked and with some pages marked with the stamp of the Behrend Memorial Library but a very good copy with the pages mostly still uncut. Henry Miers Elliot, British civil servant and historian was employed in Bengal by the East India Company, producing several important papers and a couple of books in the process, these being edited for general publication after his death in his mid-forties in 1853. This particular volume goes into detail on the castes, tribes, customs, rites and superstitions, much of the book being concerned particularly with the NW provinces.