Search results for: 'the works'
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MARX, Karl, & Friedrich Engels - DIXON, Richard, & others. Collected Works.London : 1975-2005
First edition, first impressions, all with the London imprint except for vol. 5 and 22 (New York), and vol. 26 (Moscow). It was published in conjunction with the Institute of Marxism-Leninism and Progress Publishers, both Moscow, and International Publishers Inc., New York. "This edition will provide for the first time to the English-speaking world... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 119043
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TINDAL, Matthew. A Defence of our present Happy Establishment; and the Administration Vindicated;London : 1722
First edition of Tindal's reply to the republican-inclined "Cato's Letters", published pseudonymously by John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon in the London Journal from 1720 to 1723. Though a freethinker and controversialist, Matthew Tindal (1657-1723) was nonetheless a strong support of the Whig establishment and the British constitution as established... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 135228
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COMMONS, John R., & others. History of Labour in the United States.New York : 1918
First edition, first printing, of this history of the labour movement as a social and political force with distinct conditions and philosophies. "The work of John R. Commons and his colleagues dominated research in labor history and inquiries about working-class formation in the United States until very recently. Insisting that by the Civil War workers... Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 119900
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CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS - WOOD, R. Theodore. Theo Wood in Wartime and After.London : 1930
First edition of an entertaining anecdotal account of Wood's anti-war work. "Experiences of a crippled pacifist during WWI; No More War and left-wing activities; trouble with police; illnesses & unhappy love affairs" (Matthews). Uncommon: only BL, NLS, IWM, TCD, and Oxford on Library Hub, to which WorldCat adds just Hoover Institute and NYPL. Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 73168
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TUCKWELL, Gertrude M., & others. Woman in Industry from Seven Points of View.London : 1908
First edition of this important resource on women's social history, a collection of expanded lectures "of special value to those who are engaged in the work of attempting to elevate the position of the working woman" (preface). The work comprises the following contributions: the British trade unionist and magistrate Gertrude Tuckwell on the regulation... Learn More£85.00Stock Code: 131231
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THE PILGRIMS SOCIETY. Set of five pamphlets recording speeches given at Pilgrim Society occasions.[London] : 1925-1952
First editions, first impressions. This collection of pamphlets dates from 30 January 1925 to 14 October 1952, preserving speeches from Pilgrims Society events held at the Savoy or Hotel Victoria in London. Established in 1902, the objective of the Pilgrims Societies of Great Britain and the United States was, and remains, to encourage and preserve... Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 116863
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HOLDSWORTH, Ethel Carnie. This Slavery.London : 1925
First edition in book form, first impression, a rare survival of Holdsworth's best-known work, "a combination of Marxist-feminist rhetoric and adaptation of the popular rags-to-riches romance" (Goodridge & Keegan, p. 324). It first appeared in print as a serialisation in The Daily Herald (October 1923) and, like all of Holdsworth's fiction, was published... Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 130069
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MACHIAVELLI, Niccolò. The Works.London : 1720
Though styled the third edition on the title page, this is the fourth collected edition in English, following the editions of 1675, 1680, and 1694. The book contains translations of all of Machiavelli's best known works: The History of Florence, The Prince, The Discourses, and The Art of War.
The translation... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 139061
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BENTHAM, Jeremy. The Works,Edinburgh : 1843
First collected edition of Bentham's works, compiled under the supervision of his disciple and editor, John Bowring, assisted by John Hill Burton, who wrote the lengthy "Introduction to the study of Bentham's works". The collected works were first issued in 22 parts, at 9 shillings each, between the years 1838 and 1843. "The Works are not complete,... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 126241
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SMITH, Adam. The Works. With an Account of His Life and Writings by Dugald Stewart.London : 1811-12
First edition of the complete collected works of Adam Smith, with a biography of the author by the Scottish philosopher and mathematician Dugald Stewart. Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 107885
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LYTTELTON, George, Lord. The Works.London : 1776
Third and best octavo edition (with the index), first published in 1774 and gathering various political pieces, Lyttelton's "Letters from a Persian in England to his friend in Ispahan", his very popular Dialogues of the Dead, co-written with the bluestocking Elizabeth Montagu, a smattering of poems, and a collection of letters to his father Sir Thomas... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 116436
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WEBSTER, Daniel. The Works [together with] The Private Correspondence.Boston : 1858
Eleventh edition. Daniel Webster (1782-1852), US Senator and Secretary of State, was one of the most important figures in US politics in the first half of the 19th century. An attractively bound set preserving speeches, legal arguments, diplomatic papers touching on and influencing all the important events of the first half of the 19th century. Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 114126
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ACT OF UNION. The Journal of the Proceedings of the Lds Commissioners of Both Nations, in the Treaty of Union, …London : 1706
First London editions of both of these works, relating to the Act of Union. The first work is the record of the proceedings of the Lord Commissioners of both Scotland and England, who met from the 16 April to the 22 July 1706, the day the English Parliament ratified the Union with Scotland Act. The Scottish Parliament passed the Union with England Act... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 125292
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[WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary.] A Vindication of the Rights of Men, in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke; occasioned by his Reflections on the Revolution in France.London : 1790
First edition of each work, a highly interesting assemblage of three works relating to Burke's controversial Reflections on the Revolution in France, also published in 1790. "Mary's fervour for the principles of the Revolution developed rapidly and was unmixed with any doubts; having learnt her politics from the Dissenters, she continued to adopt their... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 110724
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COPLESTON, Edward. A Letter to the Right Hon. Robert Peel; [bound with:] A Second Letter to the Right Hon. Robert Peel.Oxford : 1819
First editions of Copleston's economic treatises on the gold standard and the poor laws. "In his First Letter he attributed the economic dislocation of post-Napoleonic war England to the depreciation of the currency, and urged the government to remove such obstacles as it was able to the self-correcting mechanism of nature. In his Second Letter, although... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 127336
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WILLIAMS, Helen Maria. Letters on the events which have passed in France since the Restoration in 1815.London : 1819
First edition of the celebrated bluestocking's evaluation of the Bourbon Restoration, her last completed book on current French conditions. Williams (1759-1827) was both much admired and much maligned by her contemporaries: her works were favoured by Wordsworth and her literary salon in Paris was attended by the likes of Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft,... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 130544
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DAVENPORT, Herbert Joseph. Outlines of Economic Theory.New York & London : 1896
First edition, first printing, for which Davenport is credited as "one of the first respectable economists to give serious attention to unemployment", suggesting that "the best ameliorative device was to be found 'in the postponement of all works of national or municipal improvement to seasons of labor stagnation'". Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 108304
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SIDGWICK, Henry. The Principles of Political Economy.London : 1883
First edition, along with The Elements of Politics (1891), one of two works representing "Sidgwick's attempt to bring professorial rigour and detachment to bear upon the major questions of policy and legislation. The Principles of Political Economy (1883) was an intellectually conservative work in two ways: first, its analytical or deductive method... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 108268
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(ECONOMICS.) CLARKE, Sir Richard William Barnes. The Socialisation of Iron and Steel.London : 1936
First edition, first impression. Sir Richard William Barnes Clarke (1910-1975) journalist and civil servant. At the time of publication Clarke was working at the Financial News, later amalgamated with the Financial Times, where his most lasting achievement was to devise the ordinary share index - still, as the FT index, the principal measure of its... Learn More£40.00Stock Code: 96270
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. The Collected Essays.London : 1976
First editions, first impressions, one of 3,000 sets, originally issued only to owners of the Centenary edition of the Collected Works, and available in either full vellum or the present binding. Contents include Churchill's periodical contributions as well as his prefaces and introductions to works by other authors. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 129555
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ORWELL, George. The Road To Wigan Pier.New York : 1958
First US edition, first printing, originally published in London in 1937. Orwell's account of poverty in the North of England in the 1930s is firmly established among his best known and most compelling non-fiction works. Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 143700
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SINCLAIR, Sir John, & Thomas Attwood. The Late Prosperity, and the Present Adversity of the Country, Explained;London : 1826
First edition of the published correspondence between agricultural improver and politician John Sinclair (1754-1835) and currency theorist Thomas Attwood (1783-1856). After he launched the Birmingham Political Union in 1830 Attwood was considered by many to be "'the most influential man in England'" (ODNB), and he was a leading figure in the public... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 117670
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. [Complete collection of major works, all first editions:]1898-1961
First British editions, first impressions, of all of Churchill's major works, in handsome matching bindings by Bayntun of Bath, altogether an imposing and comprehensive collection. Collections of Churchill's first editions in uniform bindings are scarce in commerce.
Churchill was a prolific writer in the fields of history, biography and politics,... Learn More£37,500.00Stock Code: 139079
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. The Laying of the Foundation Stone of the New Chamber of the House of Commons by the Speaker 26th May 1948.London : 1948
First and only edition. The limitation statement at the rear reads: "twenty-four copies printed on hand-made paper for presentation to His Majesty the King, the Library of the House of Commons and those who took part in the ceremony". Library Hub shows just five locations in the UK: BL, Oxford, Cambridge, Guildhall, and Chartwell; WorldCat adds Houghton... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 121025
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HARRINGTON, James. The Common-Wealth of Oceana.London : 1656
First edition of Harrington's masterpiece, describing "a Utopian State with a written constitution, providing for a bicameral legislature, rotation in office, the indirect election of a president, secret ballot, and other ideas much in advance of their time, some of which influenced the framers of the U.S. Constitution" (Walker, the Oxford Companion... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 142407
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DISRAELI, Benjamin. Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales.London : 1871-81
Second collected edition, following the first of 1870-71, issued in 10 volumes but here including the 1881 one-volume of Endymion (first published as a three-decker in 1880). This handsome library set comprises all the major works. Disraeli's novels came to have a clear political intent, aiming to shift Victorian public opinion and consequently the... Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 130857
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COBBETT, William. Rural Rides in the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hampshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Somersetshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Hertfordshire:London : 1830
First edition in book form of this masterpiece of description and political journalism, deservedly the best known of Cobbett's works. The Rural Rides were originally a series of letters which began in the Political Register, the weekly periodical Cobbett established in 1802 and conducted until his death in 1835. Cobbett wanted to maintain Britain's... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 124549
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ENGELS, Friedrich. The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844.New York : [1887]
First edition in English of Die Lage der arbeitenden Klasse in England (1845), Engels's masterful survey of Worker's conditions. "In 1842, Engels left for England to work in his father's Manchester firm his father was a textile manufacturer in Westphalia. Already converted by Moses Hess to a belief in 'communism' and the imminence of an English social... Learn More£17,500.00Stock Code: 132006
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(HAYEK, Friedrich August von.) Leather briefcase owned by Friedrich Hayek.c.1965
A briefcase owned and used by Friedrich Hayek, dating from the time of his professorship at the University of Freiburg (1962-1968), and showing all the signs of sustained use. Hayek has mounted his business card to the inner lid, as an identificatory label in the event of loss. The briefcase remained in Hayek's possession until his death in 1992, thereafter... Learn More£10,000.00Stock Code: 134840
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BONAR, James. Philosophy and Political Economy in Some of their Historical Relations.London : 1893
First edition of this study of how economic analysis has been closely influenced by the course of political philosophy. A Scottish civil servant, James Bonar's (1852-1941) other writings include works on Malthus and Ricardo, as well as the catalogue of Adam Smith's Library. Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 127159
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(RUSSIAN MILITARY REFUGEES IN HOLLAND.) The Russian Committee for Escaped Military Officers in Rotterdam. 1918-1919.Rotterdam : 1919
No other copy traced, the letterpress cover-title suggests a published item, the manuscript captioning a very small-scale issue. Fascinating visual record of relief services for Russian officer refugees in Holland. By the end of the First World War thousands of Russian prisoner-of-war escapees and deserters were scattered in cheap lodging-houses throughout... Learn More£950.00Stock Code: 78018
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BRISSOT, Jacques Pierre. J. P. Brissot, Deputy of Eure and Loire, to his Constituents, on the Situation of the National Convention;London : 1794 & 1789
First edition in English of Brissot's tract, first edition of Mémoires Secrets. Brissot, a key figure in the Girondist faction in the French Revolution, originally published this work in France in 1793, a few months before he was guillotined. Taking the form of an open letter his constituents, it warns of the "anarchism" of the Jacobin faction, and... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 125491
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THATCHER, Margaret. The Downing Street Years; The Path to Power; Statecraft. Strategies for a Changing World; The Collected Speeches.London : 1993-2002
First editions, first impressions. All signed on the title page by Margaret Thatcher. Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 98887
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FRANKLIN, Benjamin. The Writings.New York : 1907
A handsomely bound set, rare in a contemporary binding. Includes a comprehensive introduction to his works by Albert Henry Smyth covering Franklin's manuscripts, printed editions, works, philosophical, political and economical works, satires and bagatelles, and his correspondence. Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 117529
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FRANKLIN, Benjamin. The Writings.New York : 1905
A handsomely bound set which includes a comprehensive introduction to his works by Albert Henry Smyth covering Franklin's manuscripts, printed editions, works, philosophical, political and economical works, satires and bagatelles, and his correspondence. Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 96403
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BURKE, Edmund. An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs, in Consequence of some later Discussions in Parliament, Relative to the Reflections on the French Revolution.London : 1791
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed on the half-title in a secretarial hand to Thomas Costello (1744-1831), bishop of Clonfert: "The Bishop of Clonfert From the Author".
Burke published his appeal following his public split from Charles James Fox and his faction; "Burke's separation from his party is frequently portrayed as a personal... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 143745
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TROTSKY, Leon. The Revolution Betrayed.New York & London : 1937 & 1938
First US edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed from Trotsky to Benjamin Stolberg on the front free endpaper, "devotedly yours, Leon Trotsky, 21/11 1937, Coyoacan".
The American journalist and labour activist Benjamin Stolberg (1891-1951) was a member of the Dewey Commission and had strong association links to Trotsky. The Revolution... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 118029
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![Papers relative to Codification and Public Instruction: including Correspondence with the Russian Emperor, and divers constituted Authorities in the United States. [With:]](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/0/101508.jpg)
BENTHAM, Jeremy. Papers relative to Codification and Public Instruction: including Correspondence with the Russian Emperor, and divers constituted Authorities in the United States. [With:]London : 1817
First edition. The Papers contain early indications of a train of thought which was eventually to lead to Bentham's great Constitutional Code and which was to occupy him for the rest of his life. They consist mainly of letters from Bentham, written from 1811 to 1815, offering his own services as a codifier, especially to America and Russia. Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 101508
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PETHICK-LAWRENCE, Frederick William. Women's Fight for the Vote.London : 1910
First edition, first impression, wrappered issue. There is also a casebound issue, with the Press advertisements printed here on the wrappers bound at the rear, and the price of "sixpence net" not included in the front cover illustration. No priority has been assigned between the two. This work is based on a number of articles Pethick-Lawrence first... Learn More£325.00Stock Code: 128633
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(SLAVERY.) An Address to the Members of the New Parliament, on the Proceedings of the Colonial Department,London : 1826
First edition. The anonymous work, pro-slavery and fearful of abolition, advocates a parliamentary resolution declaring that further investigations be made before any changes affecting the planters' interests are made, and that their current rights be protected. It argues that the slaves would cease to work if freed and that the properties would fall... Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 129894
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(DIBDIN, Thomas Frognall.) MORE, Sir Thomas. A most pleasant, fruitful, and witty Work, of the best State of a Public Weal, and of the new Isle called Utopia.London : 1808
First Dibdin edition of More's Utopia, a very attractive edition by the great bibliophile, which includes a bibliography of the early editions, and uses the text of the first English translation of 1551. Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 138538
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BLACK, Duncan. The Theory of Committees and Elections.Cambridge : 1958
First edition, first impression. "Because many of the basic ideas in his 1958 classic, The Theory of Committees and Elections, appear so 'obvious' in retrospect that it is hard to believe that they have not always been part of the stock of general human knowledge, and because this work understates by its silence the magnitude of Black's originality,... Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 143830
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PETHICK-LAWRENCE, Frederick William. Women's Fight for the Vote.London : 1910
First edition, first impression, casebound issue. There is also a wrappered issue, with the same Press advertisements printed on the rear wrapper and the price of "sixpence net" being the only difference to the front illustration. No priority has been assigned. Though both are relatively scarce in commerce, this is the first casebound issue we have... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 129435
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[PULTENEY, William.] The Case of the Sinking Fund, and the Right of the Publick Creditors to it considered at large.London : 1735
First edition. Robert Walpole had sought to reduce the interest on the national debt by creating a national sinking fund. William Pulteney, The Earl of Bath (1684-1764), published a strong criticism of Walpole's use of this fund in his 1734 treatise An Enquiry into the Conduct of our Domestic Affairs. Walpole then published his rebuttal in his pamphlet... Learn More£425.00Stock Code: 117472
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CAMPBELL, Lawrence Dundas. A Reply to the Strictures of the Edinburgh Review;London : 1808
Third edition. This work is a reply to an allegedly "unprecedented attack" on Richard Wellesley's administration as Governor-General of Bengal by the Edinburgh Review in 1807. The Edinburgh Review published a review of Robert Orme's Historical Fragments of the Mogul Empire (1805) in which the editors "passed some strictures on the general policy of... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 118093
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MOOR, John Henry. Notices of the Indian Archipelago, and Adjacent Countries;Singapore : 1837
First edition of one of the earliest books published in Singapore, comprising of articles first published in the Singapore Chronicle, Singapore's first newspaper, between 1824 and 1834. The proposed second part was never published. This valuable resource includes articles which would now otherwise be lost, as there are no known surviving copies... Learn More£28,500.00Stock Code: 132433
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DOBB, Maurice. Studies in the Development of Capitalism.London : 1946
First edition of Dobb's "most influential work" (Blaug), "designed to demonstrate that Marx was as good an economic historian as he was an economist" (ibid). Uncommon in the jacket. Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 129163
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(SOUTH SEA COMPANY.) An Essay For Discharging the Debts of the Nation, by Equivalents: In a Letter to The Right Honourable Charles, Earl of Sunderland.London : 1720
First edition. The work is split into two treatises. The first, written in February 1719, proposes a method for discharging the national debt by re-assigning the debt to the Bank of England, South-Sea Company, Royal African Company, East India Company and other companies, in return for new trading privileges. The latter section of this treatise veers... Learn More£400.00Stock Code: 117456
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SAKI, pseud. of Hector Hugh Munro. The Westminster Alice.London : [1902]
First edition, first impression, well represented in institutional libraries but scarce in commerce. Munro (1870-1916) adopted his pen name of Saki in 1900 "before beginning his collaboration with political cartoonist F. Carruthers Gould on the Alice sketches for the Westminster Gazette. These sketches marked the beginning of a brief but significant... Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 143728
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WALPOLE, Robert. Some Considerations concerning The Publick Funds, The Publick Revenues, and The Annual Supplies, Granted by Parliament.London : 1735
Second edition. Robert Walpole had sought to reduce the interest on the national debt by creating a national sinking fund. The Earl of Bath publishing a strong criticism of Walpole's use of this fund in his 1734 treatise An Enquiry into the Conduct of our Domestic Affairs. The present work is Walpole's rebuttal, and a defence of his management of the... Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 117470
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WALPOLE, Robert. Some Considerations concerning The Publick Funds, The Publick Revenues, and The Annual Supplies, Granted by Parliament.London : 1735
First edition. Robert Walpole had sought to reduce the interest on the national debt by creating a national sinking fund. The Earl of Bath publishing a strong criticism of Walpole's use of this fund in his 1734 treatise An Enquiry into the Conduct of our Domestic Affairs. The present work is Walpole's rebuttal, and a defence of his management of the... Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 117457
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BENTHAM, Jeremy. Church-of-Englandism and its Catechism examined: Preceded by Strictures on the Exclusionary System, as pursued in the National Society's Schools:London : 1818
First edition. "The format shows that this volume consists of two distinct bodies of work, i.e., one that is the unfinished work on the church written about 1809-1813, the other the stricture on the National School Society, apparently drafted later as an appendix to the Chrestomathia" (Chuo). Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 104633
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WALSH, Edmund A. The Last Stand:Boston : 1931
First edition, first printing. The Jesuit priest Edmund A. Walsh (1885-1956), whose fierce anti-communism had been reinforced by his work for the Vatican's Russian famine relief mission in 1922, had already achieved success with his account of Russian Revolution in 1928. The present work, an account of the Five-Year Plan, at that point in its third... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 125561
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[SHARP, Granville.] The Claims of the People of England.London : 1782
First edition. Granville Sharp (1735-1813) is best known for his work as an abolitionist and reformer. This short treatise proposes political reform, including elections for every session of Parliament, removing limitations on the franchise, ending rotten boroughs, and reducing the power of the crown in Parliament. Sharp's treatise was popular, going... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 117464
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COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor. On the Constitution of the Church and State,London : 1830
First edition of Coleridge's final prose work, his contribution to the controversy over Catholic emancipation. "The work, remembered particularly for advocating the establishment of a 'clerisy', an educated class between the laity and the ordained clergy that should further the purposes of the church in a Christian society, confutes the supposition... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 102332
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BAKUNIN, Mikhail. God and the State.New York : [1916]
First edition thus of Bakunin's most famous work, the "Mother Earth" edition published by Emma Goldman's press.
The first edition of God and the State appeared in French in 1882, with a preface by two of Bakunin's most devoted disciples, Carlo Cafiero and Elisée Reclus. In September 1883 the New England anarchist Benjamin Tuckercredited with... Learn More£70.00Stock Code: 130068
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THOMPSON, E. P. The Making of the English Working Class.London : 1963
First edition, first impression. Thompson "felt that he had much to learn from the life experiences of his working-class students. The whole tone of his most celebrated work, The Making of the English Working Class (1963), which made his reputation, testifies to this. It was fittingly dedicated to one of these students, and for all its international... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 119673
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[MELBOURNE, William Lamb, Viscount.] Essay on the Progressive Improvement of Mankind.London : 1799
First edition of the future prime minister's first work, his prize declamation as a student at Cambridge, privately printed when he was just nineteen. The speech attracted Charles James Fox's attention and was commended by him in the House of Commons. Uncommon, with ESTC locating eight copies. Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 132833
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CLARENDON, Edward Hyde, Earl of. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England,Oxford : 1707 & 1759 [Life]
Second folio edition of the History, large paper issue; together with the first edition of Clarendon's autobiography, also a large paper issue; all uncut, and uniformly bound in an imposing Victorian binding.
Originally written in the 1640s and revised in 1671, the History was first published in folio between 1702 and 1704, and in octavo from... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 138605
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WALLACE, Robert. The Doctrine of Passive Obedience and Non-Resistance Considered.Edinburgh : 1754
First edition. Robert Wallace (1697-1771) was a Church of Scotland Minister, best known for his writings on population. This treatise was produced in response to a work of the same year entitled Lord Dun's Friendly and Familiar Advices, written by the Jacobite sympathiser David Erskine, Lord Dun (1673-1754). Dun's work defended passive obedience to... Learn More£550.00Stock Code: 117454
