![An Easy Outline of Modern Socialism [cover title]. Herbert MORRISON](/pictures/medium/21018.jpg?v=1534355966)
New York: Rand School Press, [1936]. A short, simplified guide to the post-WWI socialist history and movement as explained by Morrison, British Labour politician, here adapted for an American readership. "Reprinted from second [sic] British edition," 8vo (21cm.); original white printed staplebound wrappers; 29,[2](ads)pp. Upper cover top and spine edge..... More
London: Taylor & Francis, 1986. First Edition. Octavo (23cm); medium blue cloth, stamped in foil, in blue pictorial dustwrapper; viii, 198pp. Dustwrapper mildly toned, with shelf wear and gently rolled edges. Textblock clear and sound. Near Fine in Very Good dustwrapper. In 1977, Sir Nevill Francis Mott (with Phillip Warren Anderson..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1917. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed card wrappers; 16pp. Mild wear; red-pencil mark to front cover; text clean and unmarked - Very Good. Ownership stamp of the War Committee of the Union League Club on front cover; complimentary slip laid in from Professor W. Macneile..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1962. First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); original cloth in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket by T. Ritchie, Book Society Choice belly-band; 348pp. Small dampspot to belly-band, else Near Fine. A romantic tragi-comedic novel, the author's sixth. "Not recommended for those who seek a positive rendering of human possibilities"..... More
Ithaca: New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations / Cornell, 1981. First Edition. History and survey of Ruskin College, Oxford - the oldest residential labor college in the world (founded 1899 and still in existence). Octavo. Original printed wrappers (softcover, as issued); 139pp. Brief ownership signature, else fine..... More
N.p. National Council of British Socialist Sunday Schools, n.d., ca. 1915. First Edition. Small broadsheet (19x12.75cm). Very light wear from handling, else Near Fine. Collection of eleven steps to follow for the instructors of Socialist Sunday Schools, beginning with the "Opening Aspiration (children rise and repeat after superintendent)" and ending..... More
London: National Peace Council, [1943]. First Edition. 12mo (18cm.); original white staplebound wrappers printed in red; 68pp. Wrappers toned, tiny crease to lower fore-edge corner of upper wrapper and preliminary leaves, else Very Good and sound. Contents consist primarily of directories for various peace-related organizations; also includes bibliographies. More
London: National Peace Council, 1946. First Edition. 12mo (18cm.); original blue decorative staplebound wrappers; 88pp. Minor dust-soiling, else Very Good and sound. Contents consist primarily of directories for various peace-related organizations; also includes bibliographies and a chronology. More
London: National Peace Council, 1941. First Edition. 12mo (18.25cm.); original orange printed staplebound wrappers; [2],59pp. Wrappers a bit dust-soiled, else Very Good or better. Contents consist primarily of directories for various peace-related organizations; also includes bibliographies. More
London: National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, 1928. Eighth edition. Staple-bound pamphlet. Octavo (22cm). Mild external soil and wear; ink ownership mark to front cover ("M.S.M."); notations in same hand inside rear wrapper; Very Good. Resumé of the accomplishments of the post-WW1 British Conservative government in the areas of..... More
![Do You Want Health and Happiness? [...] This circular should be read carefully by every voter. It...](/pictures/medium/47220.jpg?v=1579105393)
London: National Unionist Association, N.d. [ca 1918]. Bifolium leaflet. Octavo (21cm). Printed on thin paper; 4pp. Hole punched at upper margin; overall staining and creasing; complete and Good. Campaign leaflet for the 1918 British General Election, calling on voters to support the coalition government of Lloyd George, promising to sustain..... More
Upton-upon-Severn: Self Publishing, 1991. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 186pp. Fine, unmarked copy in unworn dustwrapper. Memoir of early 20th-c. life on the Isle of Wight, including the author's brief tenure with the RAF in WW2. More
Edinburgi: Robert Allan, 1796. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); removed but retaining half title; [8],49pp. Some light foxing, most heavily to E1, else Very Good or better. Medical thesis on smallpox, text entirely in Latin. ESTC N6282. More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1961. First American Edition. Octavo. Pictorial cloth boards; dustjacket; 128pp; illus. A fine copy in price-clipped, else fine jacket. A companion volume to Nichols's "Cats' A.B.C." (1960), illustrated Derrick Sayer. A lovely copy. More
London: Modern Books Ltd., 1931. First Edition. Ocatvo. Brown card wrappers with illustration from a still by Workers Film Society, French flaps; 45pp. Tight, unmarked copy in about fine condition. More
[London]: Labour Party, [1939]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); photo-illustrated staplebound self-wrappers; 14pp. Rear cover slightly chipped along top inch of fore-edge, light toning, else Very Good or better. Address first delivered in the House of Commons December 7, 1938. More
Cork: Cork Workers' Club, 1975. Reprint. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's yellow pictorial staplebound wrappers; 19pp. Light wear, small soil spot to p. [1], else Very Good or better. Reissue of the original 1920 pamphlet. No. 12 in the Cork Workers' Club "Historical Reprints" series. More
Belfast: Glandore Publishing, 1999. First Edition. Personal journal of a Republican woman activist and one-time Belfast City Councilwoman, with detailed accounts of the so-called "Blanket Protest" at Long Kesh prison. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial card wrappers; 59pp; illus. Near Fine. More
Belfast: Glandore Publishing, 1999. Second Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial card wrappers; 52pp. Near Fine. More
Bridgford, Nottingham: Women Now! [1971?]. First Edition. 5 quarto issues (30.5cm), all in pictorial self-wrappers, unbound (as issued). Some light wear, else Near Fine. Periodical produced by the same Women's Liberation group which issued the journal Socialist Woman, though this journal "aimed at woman [sic] who are, at the moment..... More
Edinburgi: Adamus Neill et Socii, 1803. First Edition. 12mo (19.5cm.); removed but retaining half title; [6],72pp. Light soil, else Very Good or better. Medical thesis on hepatitis. OCLC locates one copy in North America as of April, 2020, at U. Wisconsin. More
New York? Julian Press, [1931]. First American Edition. 12mo (18.5cm.); publisher's salmon staple-bound wrappers; 14pp.; illus. Just a hint of wear, else Near Fine. An uncommon O'Flaherty work, originally published in London under the anarchist publisher Charles Lahr's "Blue Moon" imprint. A Swiftian satire on the Conservative Party's economic approach..... More
Buffalo: Charles A. Wenborne, 1889. First American Edition. A mystical treatise on religion and sexuality; much of the work is purported to be directly transposed from the spirit-communications of the author's late wife. Oliphant (1829-1888), a South-African born English mystic Zionist and sexual reformer, and acolyte of the California charismatic..... More
New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1895. First American Edition. Octavo (19.5cm); light brown publisher's cloth, decoratively stamped in brown and red; 452+[16]pp. Spine tanned, material rubbed at heel and crown, lettering dulled; mild soiling and wear to boards; text block split at pages 236-237; foxing and dampstains intermittent throughout..... More
Philadelphia: Crissy & Markley, [1841]. First Edition. Three tall octavo volumes. Publishers blind- and gilt-stamped cloth boards; 500+497+498,(2)pp. Text in two columns. 2 pp ads at end of text. Endpapers foxed, with scattered thumb-soil; mild tugs to crowns; board edges rubbed (through, on v.2), but generally a sound, Very Good..... More
