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Blairgowrie: Perth and Kinross Fabian Society, N.d.. First edition. Broadside. Very good copy. 20 pp. stapled into paper wrappers. Inscribed by the author and dated in November 1974.

First edition. 8vo. Two-tone boards. Pp. 292. Notes. Index. Fine copy in dj.

First edition. 8vo. Two-tone boards. Pp. xiv, 498. Selected Bibliography. Near fine copy in price-clipped dj.

Burns, William J.: The Back Channel, A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal.
Random House. New York: 2019.
First edition. 8vo. Two-tone boards. Pp. (viii), 504. Illustrated: (8) pp. of plates. Appendix [facsimiles of diplomatic cables and e-mails]. Bibliography. Notes. Index. Fine copy in dj.
ISBN 978-0-525-50886-1

First edition. 8vo. Two-tone boards. Pp. (xii), 292. Includes an 82-minute DVD of some of the author's interviews, such as with Lyndon Johnson, Ronald Reagan, Malcolm X. Fine copy in dj.The author began at a local New York City radio station in the 1950s with a talk program called Night Beat which he says "was a radical departure from the usual pablum of radio and television interviews." Later, of course, he was long associated with Sixty Minutes.

New York: Random House, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine copy/fine. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. xviii, 526. Illustrated: (16) pp. of plates. Appendix. Index.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. Some underlinings and marginal notations in ink. Else very good copy/very good. 8vo. Boards. Pp. 352. Index. In the years after the War the issue of Imperialism was still alive in Britain. The author, whose forebears were much involved in the creation of the British Empire, discusses its development and considers whether it is relevant any longer.

London: Harper Press, 2013. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Boards. Pp. xvi, 400. Illustrated: (16) pp. of plates. Notes. Index. The first eight chapters of this book introduce us--if we have forgotten--to the brilliant cast for the great scandal of the 1960s: Prime Minister (Harold Macmillan), War Minister (John Profumo), Lord (Bill Astor), Doctor (Stephen Ward), Good-time Girls (Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies) and so on. What happened in 1963 marked the end of a deferential England where hypocrisy, snobbishness, bullying and class superiority began, finally, to come to an end. It was--and remains--a fascinating drama.

London and New York: Verso, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Boards. Pp. xii, 400, (iv). Illustrated: 8 pp. of plates. Index. Gellner was a passionate advocate of reason against any form of relativism. His background was Jewish and Czech. Later he taught at the London School of Economics and Cambridge University. The author says this about him: "Gellner's mind was equipped with a broad range of intellectual resources, the versatility of which was surprising and elegant."

First edition. 4to. Boards. Pp, 192. Illustrated. Index.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo. Cloth. Pp. 446. Illustrated: (16) pp. plates. References. Index. The Fabians were a circle of intellectuals which included George Bernard Shaw, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Bertrand Russell, and H. G. Wells. Their ideas had a great influence on the development of society in the early 20th Century.

New York: Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1996. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. xxviii, 404. Maps. Notes. Index. A study of Fascism which includes particularly its intellectual roots in the 19th Century.

First edition. 8vo. Two-tone boards. Pp. xxvi, 422. Illustrated: 16 pp. of plates. Facsimile. Source Notes. Index. Fine copy in dj.

London: Robson Books, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Inscription and owner's signature on first free end-paper, else fine/price-clipped. 8vo. Boards. Pp. xxii. 346. Illustrated. Bibliography. Index. Assistant Editors: David Prosser and Andrew Pierce. With a Foreword by the Rt Hon. David Mellor QC MP. The author, Matthew Parris, was himself a member of Parliament and later, notably, wrote about politics for The Times. For his former role he was elected because, he claims, he rescued a dog from the Thames, and his greatest achievement was an effort to end the imprisonment of prostitutes. In this book he writes, most entertainingly, about some of Britain's juiciest scandals, such as the one which has recently been dramatized for TV starring Hugh Grant and Ben Whishaw: Few twentieth-century scandals rival the Profumo affair, but the humiliation of Jeremy Thorpe comes close.

New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Reader's marks throughout, else very good/fine. 8vo. Boards. Pp. xiv, 658. Illustrated: (16) pp. of plates. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

New York: Nation Books, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Black remainder mark on bottom edge, else fine/fine. 8vo. Boards. Pp. (x), 182. Index.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. x, 294. Notes. Index.

First edition. 8vo. Two-tone boards. Pp. xx, 302, (ii). Notes. Index. Fine copy in dj.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Cloth. Pp. xxx, 130. The Godkin lectures at Harvard University in 1970. Inscribed by the author for V. S. Pritchett.

Oxford: Robert Maxwell, Publisher, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Very good copy/very good. 8vo. Cloth. Pp. xvi, 344. Illus. Index. Inscribed by the author on first free end-paper. Includes the author's companion volume of autobiography: "Exploits of a Politician" (London: 1973).