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Rex v Bertrand Russell, Report of the Proceedings before the Lord Mayor at the Mansion House Justice Room 5 June 1916
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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… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Great Boer War
by Doyle, A[rthur] Conan
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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… Read more about this item Item Price
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Rotterdam en de Zee, De geschiedenis van de haven van Rotterdam
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No Binding. Very Good/Fair. Neither publisher nor date is given and I've so far been unable to trace either but internal evidence suggests mid 1950s to possibly early 1960s - one of the later plans includes an outline of the "Maasvlakte project" (the extension of Europoort and built during the 1960s on land reclaimed from the sea) while… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Secret History of the Cabinet of Bonaparte; including his private life, character, domestic administration, and his conduct to foreign powers: together with secret anecdotes of the different courts of Europe and of the French Revolution ...
by Goldsmith, Lewis
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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.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Multinationals, the State and Control of the Nigerian Economy
by Biersteker, Thomas J
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- 1987
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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… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Structure of Scientific Thought, An Introduction to Philosophy of Science
by Madden, Edward H (Editor)
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Hardback. Good. Riverside Press, Cambridge, MA, 1960. Large 8vo, 180x246mm; pp ix, 381; blue cloth gilt, gilt dulled and back cover a little water-spotted. The work consists of writings from a range of relevant philosophers from Kant, Hume and J S Mill through to the present. There's an entry by Bertrand Russell title "Non-Demonstrative Inference and Induction"… Read more about this item Item Price
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Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare
by Russell, Bertrand
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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… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Rationalist Annual, 1954
by Hawton, Hector (editor)
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Soft cover. Good/Not relevant. C A Watts & Co. Ltd., 1954; 8vo, 88pp including publisher's advertisements at the end; good copy. Includes articles by Bertrand Russell ("Are the world's trouble due to decay of faith?"), JBS Haldane and others NOTE: on account of the weight of this volume the postage cost will be LESS than the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Anarchy, number 109, March 1970
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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… Read more about this item Item Price
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An Act for the more effectual proceeding against Persons standing Mute on their Arraignment for Felony, or Piracy
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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.
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Sex and Repression in Savage Society
by Malinowski, Bronislaw
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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… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Heretics
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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… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Atlantic, August 1952
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Soft cover. Good. 205x277mm, 96pp + covers; back cover detached, but present, spine ragged and relevant staples rusted but, subject to that, in decent condition; contains "A Life of Disagreement", being the transcript of an interview with Bertrand Russell by Romney Wheeler of NBC and filmed in London on the occasion of Russell's 80th birthday. In addition there… Read more about this item Item Price
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John Inglesant, A Romance
by [Shorthouse, Joseph Henry]
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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… Read more about this item Item Price
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Pacifism and Revolution
by Russell, Bertrand
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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… Read more about this item Item Price
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Negro Politics, The Search for Leadership
by Wilson, James Q
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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… Read more about this item Item Price
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An Outline of Philosophy
by Russell, Bertrand
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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.
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Philosophical Studies
by Moore, G E
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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.
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Some Putative Facts of Hard Record, or, He Commences Authour Aetatis Suae 19-20, Excerpts from 1923 MS Diary and a Few Notes
by Cozzens, James Gould
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Hardback. Near Fine. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York and London, 1978; 8vo, pp 16; fawn linen boards gilt, printed on purported hand made paper (it's not) with artificial deckle edges but nevertheless an attractive copy in first class condition. This is a private printing for friends, number 168 of 250 copies, published on the occasion of Gould's 75th… Read more about this item Item Price
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Industrial Reform and Macroeconomic Instability in China (Studies on Contemporary China)
by Kueh, Y Y
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- 1999
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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… Read more about this item Item Price
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