History And Society - Chesil 1 from Chesil Books

Paperback. Good. Published by the No-Conscription Fellowship, London, shortly after the conclusion of the proceedings. Small 8vo, pp 23, original blue paper wrappers with black text; some foxing, staples rusted, covers a little browned and with some light fraying at the spine but generally a good copy. Russell was strongly pacifist during the first world war and… Saber más sobre este artículo

Hardback. Fair. Gardner, Darton, London, no date [1896]; 8vo, pp viii, 288, [10, being publisher's adverts]; original fawn buckram gilt decorated in Arts & Crafts style, somewhat dulled, particularly on the spine; internally generally firm but pages a little foxed and dust or other stained occasionally; Sunday School presentation label dated Easter 1897 inside on the front board.… Saber más sobre este artículo

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… Saber más sobre este artículo

Hardback. Fair. Printed for J M Richardson and J Hatchard, London, 1810, fourth edition; 8vo, pp [viii], xxx, 624; full polished tree calf, spine gilt, marbled end papers; front board detached but present, internally cracked on pp 190/191, first two and last two blank leaves browned but otherwise a firm, clean copy; armorial bookplate of Minto Wilson.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Large 8vo, pp [xix], 344; with extensive index, 11 figures and numerous tables; very good copy in dust wrapper. "Much of the conflict between North and South proceeds from a struggle for control of resources, enterprises, markets and institutions. ... Biersteker evaluates the sources of… Saber más sobre este artículo

Soft cover. Good. Allen & Unwin, London, 1959, 1st edition; small 8vo, pp 93, orange paper wrappers; some light foxing, paper wrappers dust marked and with an ownership signature in ink on the front cover but a good copy. "The purpose of this book is to suggest that the danger of nuclear war is not one which is… Saber más sobre este artículo

Soft cover. Very Good. Freedom Press, London, 1970; 140 x 214mm, pp 32; paper wrappers; staples rather rusted but otherwise a very good copy The cover story is a 10pp feature by Vivian Harper "Bertrand Russell and the anarchists". This draws on earlier material, including on an unsigned review in Anarchy in 1918 of Russell's book "Roads… Saber más sobre este artículo

No Binding. Good. Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan, London, 1772; small folio, 4pp including the title page and blank verso; disbound from a larger collection; good condition although with some print offset on both versos, particularly on the second; dated 21 January 1772.

Paperback. Good. Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1961 reprint of the first publication of 1927; B-format PB, pp [xv], 283; covers a little dust marked but a good copy of Malinowski's critique of psycholanalysis drawing on his anthropological field work among the Trobriand islanders and elsewhere, arguing that contrary to Freud's view it's power and not sexual jealousy… Saber más sobre este artículo

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… Saber más sobre este artículo

Hardback. Very Good. MacMillan, New York, 1946; two volumes, quarto, pp xiv, [i], 1-414 and [vi], 306, 33 (being an index and a register of museums and collections). Red buckram, covers gilt, spines and cover edges slightly lightened but otherwise a very good copy. This copiously illustrated work consists of one volume of general… Saber más sobre este artículo

No Binding. Good. pp [4] being a leaflet as a single folded sheet, folded size approx 220x278mm. In addition to Russell's article - occupying around a page and a quarter - there's a similarly sized piece by A Barratt Brown titled "Revolution and Non-Resistance, An Appeal for an Unarmed Revolution", a slightly shorter one by Edith M Ellis… Saber más sobre este artículo

Paperback. Very Good. Free Press, New York, 1960; C-format PB, pp x, 342; good copy. Wilson was a philosophically conservative political scientist working at UCLA and Harvard and the originator of the "broken windows" theory around urban vandalism and anti-social behaviour taken up enthusiastically some time later by Giuliani in New York. This book… Saber más sobre este artículo

1st Edition . Hardback. Fair. Allen & Unwin, London, 1st edition, nd, 1927; 8vo, pp vi, 317'. Dark blue buckram gilt, extremities rubbed, library label and stamps on the inside back cover, remains of a library identifier at the foot of the front cover but o/w in reasonable, fair condition.

MacMillan Press Limited. Paperback. Good. Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1960; B-format PB; pp viii, 342; back cover rather dust marked and some such marking also on the front but overall a good copy of these papers from 1903 to 1921, first published in book form in 1922.

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… Saber más sobre este artículo

Hardback. Fair. Amsterdam, August 1818; 12mo; four sections: Het Nieuwe Testament ofte alle Boeken des Nieuwen Verbonts onses Heeren Jesu Christi (1818, pp [1] being the engraved title, 2-360);/ Het Boek der Psalmen, nevens de Gezangen (1836, pp [1-3], 4-408;)/ Evangelische Gezangen om nevens het Boek der Psalmen bij den openbaren Godsdienst (1836, pp [viii,… Saber más sobre este artículo

No Binding. Good. 4pp publication, 225x278mm, being a single folded sheet; printed by Cunningham and Salmon, 110 [or 119] Fleet Street, London and published by W Strange, 21 Paternoster Row. Once folded to a quarter size and therefore both creased and marked along the folds; slightly frayed at the edges and somewhat dustmarked but in quite fair or… Saber más sobre este artículo

Hardback. Good. Archibald Constable and Company, Edinburgh, and Cadell and Davies, London, 1816, volume II, second edition; 8vo, pp xv, 595 plus errata sheet; early quarter dark green cloth gilt, light green paper boards; covers somewhat rubbed, binding tight and firm; some scattered foxing but overall in good condition. Stewart's works titled "On the Philosophy of the… Saber más sobre este artículo

Hardback. Good. Allen & Unwin, London, 1950, first edition; 8vo, pp vii, 197; original burgundy cloth, spine gilt, some slight damp marking on the front and back covers, dustwrapper slightly torn at the foot of the spine but generally a very good copy. Barbara Wootton, later becoming Baroness Wootton in 1958 as one of… Saber más sobre este artículo