Politics 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… Read more about this item

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.… Read more about this item

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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… Read more about this item

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

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

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

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… Read more about this item

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

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

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.