Search Results: Politics and Government from Leaf and Stone Books

Farnham, England: Ashgate Publishing Ltd. Good in Good dust jacket. 2009. Hardcover. 0754671828 . xviii, 568pp + 4 unnumbered pages. References, index. Signed by editor Joseph Masciulli. Book has black cloth hardcover with gold text on spine. Dust jacket is purple with white and black text on covers and spine. Text is clear and unmarked. ; 9.9 X 7.1 X 1.7 inches; 590 pages; Signed by Editor .

Cape Town: Tafelberg Publishers Ltd. Good with no dust jacket. 1999. First Edition. Softcover. 0624037290 . KB 8. Xxi, 368 pp + 3 unnumbered pages. Octavo Book has white paper softcover with black and red text on covers and spine with illustration on front cover. Slight marks on covers and spine, sticker on back cover. Some occasional ink underlining, otherwise good. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 368 pages .

Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. KB41...xi, 113 pp. Bibliographical note. Small octavo. Black cloth with blindstamped title and blazon to front cover, dark gilt title to spine. Spine cover lightly sunned, some normal shelf wear to covers. Interior has scholarly owner's name on first free end paper with 1952 date, paper a bit creamy, otherwise clean and unmarked. Surprisingly hard to find. Also printed at London by Humphries/OUP. ; Harvard Historical Monographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 113 pages .

London: T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies. Good with no dust jacket. 1799-1800. Second Edition. Hardcover. 517 pp, 512 [9] pp, 500 pp. This is a three volume set, volumes 2, 3 and 4, in good antiquarian condition. In what appears to be the original very attractive tree calf full leather bindings with 5 raised bands on the spine, floriated gilt compartments as well as red and black morocco labels. Moderate wear to the bindings, joints and corners, some rubbing, one red label has a chip and a crack. Interiors have the signature of a father, then later the signature of the son (the family were descendants of Joan of Beaufort and John of Gaunt). Some minor foxing, spotting and wear to the interiors, but in general sound and clean. The English edition is very scarce in commerce - we could find no record of any other copies for sale or at auction - and relatively scarce in holdings. Most libraries have only the digital resource, not the actual books (Worldcat's recordkeeping on this is abysmal).… Read More

Lewiston; Queenston; Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Pr. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. 0773476830 . KB17...xxiii, 351 pp, [3]. Bibliography, Index. Octavo. Linen cloth boards with grey, image of a caduceus in blue and gold. Covers are clean and unmarked, minimal shelf wear. Gift inscript from the author on the first blank, otherwise clean and unmarked. A very technical work with lots of information about the laws and the work that was done. Real copies are quite scarce, this happens to be an actual copy that we will ship to you when you buy it from us. "In March, 1992, the provincial health minister announced an overhaul of the health care system in New Brunswick. This legislation threatened the Church's integral mission of providing health care in the province. The Hospital Act of 1992 terminated the collaboration, co-operation and partnership between Government and Church. The take-over of the Catholic hospitals, the dissolution of the individual hospital… Read More

Opladen, Berlin, Toronto: Barbara Budrich Publishers. Good with no dust jacket. 2012. Softcover. 3847400002 . KB 8. 420 pp. Index. Octavo. Book has orange, grey, and black paper softcover with grey and black text on covers and spine. Very slight marks on covers and spine. Text is clear and unmarked. Good copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 420 pages .

Blackwell. Good with no dust jacket. 1993. Paperback. 0631186433 . + (14) 434 pages, contains footnotes, maps, plates, appendices, glossary, chronology, bibliography, addendum and index, glossy blue covers with white and black lettering and plate on front cover, minor wear to head, tail, spine, corners and covers, page 347-348 ripped and bent on bottom outer corner, otherwise pages clear and unmarked; 8.98 X 6.14 X 1.02 inches; 434 pages .

London: J. Streater for Liverwell Chapman. Good with no dust jacket. 1656. First Edition. Hardcover. [6], 239, [1], 255-286, 189-210 pp. A small folio. Title in red and black has been crudely repaired and remounted. Modern brown buckram rebinding with gold spine title, new end papers, small bookplate of Italian writer Aldo Maffey. Paper is browned with some general wear and chipping at the edges but textually complete and legible with a few old ink corrections/marginalia. Last leaf has old repairs and remounting affecting the top line of text on 210. Lacking 3 preliminary leaves after the title (dedication, epistle and errors) and the final unnumbered leaf (the colophon) , all supplied loose in facsimile. ESTC calls this a variant of the "printed for D. Pakeman" imprint and calls for a frontis plate but no one seems to have it, including the Princeton and Huntington copies. ESTC R18610. Harrington's magnum opus, Oceana is an exposition on an ideal constitution, designed to… Read More

Good with no dust jacket. Hardcover. xxvi, 502pp + 2 unnumbered pages. Frontis, plates, bibliography, index, deckled pages. Book has blue cloth hardcover with gold text on spine and embossing on front cover. Sunning and wear on spine, minor wear on covers. Bookplate on front pastedown and signature on front flyleaf. Text is clear and unmarked. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Paris: Honore Champion. Very Good. 2001. Hardcover. 2745305727 . 771 pp. Table of contents and 3 indexes at rear. French text. Orange/brown cloth boards. Book is in very good condition, very clean with no marks. ; Textes De Littérature Moderne Et Contemporaine 55; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 771 pages .

Paris: Honore Champion. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2002. Hardcover. 804 pp. Table of contents and 3 indexes at rear. French text. Orange/brown cloth boards. Book is in very good condition, very clean with no marks. Isbn 2745306852; Textes De Littérature Moderne Et Contemporaine 55; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 804 pages .

Paris: Honoré Champion. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2003. Hardcover. 2745307606 . 688 pp. Table of contents and 3 indexes at rear. French text. Orange/brown cloth boards. Book is in very good condition, very clean with no marks. ; Textes De Littérature Moderne Et Contemporaine 65; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 688 pages .

Paris: Honoré Champion. Very Good. 2003. Hardcover. 2745309056 . 999 pp. Table of contents and 3 indexes at rear. French text. Orange/brown cloth boards. Book is in very good condition, very clean with no marks. ; Textes De Littérature Moderne Et Contemporaine 66; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 999 pages .

Burlington, VT: Routledge. Good with no dust jacket. 2008. Hardcover. 0754649849 . KB28...xiii, 206 pp. Index, bibliography. Octavo. Dark blue glossy hardcover with white, minimal shelf wear, interior clean and tight, very nice copy. Looks at various failed federalist experiments including West Indies, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Rhodesia, Nyasaland, F. R. Of Cameroon, Pakistan, Republican China, Arab federalism, Yugoslavia, Czechslovakia, the Soviet Union, etc. ; Federalism Studies; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 220 pages .

Edinburgh: G. Hamilton and J. Balfour. Good with no dust jacket. 1750. 1st Thus. Full-Leather. Two volumes, octavo, xxvi [iii]-vii, 453; vi, 390 [391-436 index] pp. ESTC T84216. The two volumes are octavos in fair antiquarian condition. Original sheep boards are rubbed, corners worn, boards are weak and joints/hinges cracked, covers worn and tips worn and chipped. Endpapers and title page foxed, interiors browned but otherwise unmarked. There is an amusing old face drawn on the fore-edge of one volume. Alphabetical table at the end of volume 2. There are no other copies of this edition available for sale that we could find . Algernon Sidney or Sydney (14 or 15 January 1623 – 7 December 1683) was an English politician and member of the Long Parliament. The works of Algernon Sidney, along with those of contemporary John Locke, are considered a cornerstone of western thought. Sidney's most famous work, Discourses on Government, cost him his head. However, the ideas it put forth… Read More

Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Good with no dust jacket. 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. 0802092160 . KB6 x, 217 pp. Notes, index. Gift inscription on the dedication page to the late Canadian scholar of federalism, Richard Simeon. Black cloth with silver gilt is clean and unmarked, very handsome. Interior has ink underlining in the introduction and occasional pencil underlining elsewhere, presumably by Simeon. Otherwise clean and sturdy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 240 pages; Signed by Author .

Springer. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2016. Hardcover. 3319328433 . Xvi, 216 pp. Index Bibliographies at end of each article. Some illustrations. Octavo. Glossy dark blue hard paper covers are clean, slight bit of bumping to bottom corners, interior clean and tight, virtually unopened. ; Water Security In A New World; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 216 pages .

Paris: Videcoq Pere Et Fils. Fair with no dust jacket. 1846. Softcover. Cxxvi, 432 and 521 pp. Glossary, errata. Small octavos, bound in original paper wraps. Vol. I spine is splitting and book has been cased in Mylar to help hold it together, interiors are darkened but otherwise clean and presentable. Quite scarce 2 volume set of the esteemed 1846 edition of this work on French institutions and rules. First published in the 1600s, to this day "the Paris edition of 1846 remains undoubtedly the most complete of all. " A bit fragile but still complete and venerable. Entirely in French. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Halifax, Nova Scotia: Fernwood Publishing and Saint Mary's University. Very Good. 1997. Softcover. 1895686911 . Viii + 260 pp. Index at rear. Edited volume with 21 articles by different contributors. English text. Light green/blue softcover. Book is in very good condition, very clean with no marks or wear. ; 8.90 X 5.90 X 0.60 inches; 268 pages .

Halifax, Nova Scotia: Fernwood Publishing and Saint Mary's University. Very Good. 1997. Softcover. 1895686911 . Viii + 260 pp. Index at rear. Edited volume with 21 articles by different contributors. English text. Light green/blue softcover. Book is in very good condition, very clean with no marks or wear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 268 pages .