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| This selection contains 44 title(s) on 2 pages. This is page 1 with nrs. 1 to 25 |
| ALLARD, AMANDA. BROWN, GRAEME AND SMITH, ROGER. What the People Want. Families Making Family Policy. London: The Children's Society. 1992. 1st ed. "The early 1990s are a time of growing concern about the state of provision for families and children in the UK...This document is a response to these problems...The families whose views are represented here are users of family and neighbourhood centres throughout England and Wales...Many of the centres are sited in areas or on estates where there is some evidence of poverty". 20cms x 20cms. Pp 49, some b/w illustrations. P/b. VG. GBP 3.50 [Appr.: EURO 4 US$ 5.81 | JP¥ 514] Book number: 25863 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books. | ||
| ALTON, DAVID. What Kind of Country? Basingstoke: Marshall Pickering. 1988. 1st ed. "Challenges the orthodoxies of all political parties and promotes an alternative which comes from neither Left nor Right. It transends party politics in advocating a new society of justice, equality and freedom". Pp 276, slight toning to pages. P/b, slight scuffing to spine, illustrated cover. G+. GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.64 | JP¥ 587] Book number: 25422 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books. | ||
| ARNOT, R. PAGE. The General Strike. May 1926: Its Origin & History. London: Labour Research Department, 1926. 1st ed. "This book is centred upon the events of May 1st to May 12th in Great Britain in the year 1926."(Author's foreword). Pp.7/245, inkstamped name( Please return - Tom Dudley) to fep. Blue cloth, original paper label to front board, spine slightly darkened, covers rubbed. G+. GBP 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 US$ 19.93 | JP¥ 1761] Book number: 28732 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books. | ||
| BERGH, TONY VAN DEN. The Trade Unions. What are They? Oxford: Pergamon Press. 1970. 1st ed. Contents Include:- A Brief History of the Trade Union: Famous Trade Union Law Cases: Recent Events and Various Statistics. Pp 261. Name to fep. P/b. G+. GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.29 | JP¥ 1174] Book number: 18450 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books. | ||
| BIFFEN, JOHN. Inside the House of Commons. Behind the Scenes at Westminster. London: Grafton Books, 1990. Rep. "To the public, parliamentary procedures may seem bewildering; he has therefore written a book which reveals exactly what they mean and why they enable laws to be made." 25.4cms. x 17.7cms. Pp. 10/225, 60 b/w illustrations & 8 pages of colour, 2 diagrams. Grey cloth, gilt title to spine, illustrated d/w. VG/G+. GBP 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 US$ 16.61 | JP¥ 1467] Book number: 24849 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books. | ||
| BROADY, MAURICE. Tomorrows Community. The Development of Neighbourhood Organisations. London: Bedford Square Press. 1979. 1st ed "Contains a review of the development of neighbourhood work since the war and of the successes and failures of community associations in achieving their objectives". Pp 86, some b/w illustrations, marginal mark to page 17. P/b G+. GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.29 | JP¥ 1174] Book number: 25877 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books. | ||
| BROWN, KENNETH D. Labour and Unemployment 1900-1914. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971. 1st ed. ".. they presented governments, both Liberal and Conservative, with newly revealed problems, and Dr. Brown shows that the ways in which they were tackled formed the basis of today's Welfare State." Pp. 219, 6 b/w illustrations. Brown cloth, gilt title to spine, illustrated d/w. VG/G+. GBP 6.50 [Appr.: EURO 7.25 US$ 10.8 | JP¥ 954] Book number: 29135 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books. | ||
| CARRINGTON, C.E. An Exposition of Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1947. 1st ed. Current Problems, 28. "Historical background to some current problems of the Commonwealth". Pp. 5/140. Slight spotting to fep. Blue cloth, d/w. G/G. GBP 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 US$ 19.93 | JP¥ 1761] Book number: 13430 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books. | ||
| CONSERVATIVE POLITICAL CENTRE. Great Conservatives. London: Conservative Political Centre, 1953. 1st ed. Six studies. Pp. 72, marginal marks affecting pps. 10-15. Dark blue cloth, gilt title to spine, illustrated d/w has small closed tear and chipping. G/G+. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 9.97 | JP¥ 880] Book number: 24858 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books. | ||
| COATES, KEN. Clause IV: Common Ownership and the Labour Party. Nottingham: Spokesman, 1995. 0851245749. Analysis of the issues involved in the controversy over Clause IV which erupted at the Labour Party Conference of October 1994. By Ken Coates (MEP) with chapters by Clement Attlee, Michael Barratt Brown, John Hughes, and Sidney Webb. Pp.100. Pbk. VG. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.31 | JP¥ 734] Book number: 34587 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books. | ||
| COATES, KEN AND BARRATT BROWN, MICHAEL. Community Under Attack. The Struggle for Survival in the Coalfield Communities of Britain. Nottingham: Spokesman. 1997. "It is clear that the coalfields have not received a fraction of the monies promised in 1993. Local economics have suffered badly...This book examines some of the alternatives created by local people and some of the difficulties which they have experienced". Pp 112, 1 sketch map, compliment slip from the author loosely inserted. P/b. VG. GBP 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 US$ 24.92 | JP¥ 2201] Book number: 25890 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books. | ||
| COATES, KEN. The Crisis of British Socialism. Essays on the Rise of Harold Wilson and the Fall of the Labour Party. Nottingham: The Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation Ltd, 1972. 1st p/b ed. "A ripe and highly readable account." Pp. 243, owner's name to fep. P/b. G+. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.31 | JP¥ 734] Book number: 29653 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books. | ||
| COLE, G.D.H. G.D.H. Cole on Labour's Foreign Policy. (New Statesman Pamphlet). London: New Statesman and Nation. 1946. Contents Include:- The Foundations: The Unity of Western Europe: The Problem of Germany: France and Britain: British Power and Its Limits: Problems of the Near and Middle East: Some Problems of Western Unity. Pp 47. P/b, scuffing to spine. G+. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.31 | JP¥ 734] Book number: 26165 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books. | ||
| COLERAINE, LORD. For Conservatives. A Study of Conservative leadership from Churchill to Heath. London: Tom Stacey, Ltd, 1970. 1st ed. "This is more than an original and entertaining book: it is a great book and should be read." Pp. 160, owner's name and embossed address to half-title. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine, d/w has slight rubbing to edges. G+/G+. GBP 6.50 [Appr.: EURO 7.25 US$ 10.8 | JP¥ 954] Book number: 14989 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books. | ||
| DYNES MICHAEL & WALKER DAVID. Guide to The New British State. The Government Machine in the 1990s. London: Times Books, 1995. 1st ed. "The way Britain in the 1990s is governed and to chart the new Whitehall". Pp. 360. P/b. VG. GBP 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 US$ 14.95 | JP¥ 1321] Book number: 5093 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books. | ||
| DAVIES, GAVYN. Governments Can Affect Employment. Foreword by Sir Douglas Wass. London: Employment Institute, nd. (c.1985). nd. A Critique of Monetarism - Old and New. Pp. 110. P/b. Inscrip. to front cover. VG. GBP 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 US$ 16.61 | JP¥ 1467] Book number: 9266 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books. | ||
| DAVIES, A.J. We, the Nation. The Conservative Party and the Pursuit of Power. London: Little, Brown & Co, 1995. 1st ed. A study of the Conservative Party. Pp. 10/532. 16 b/w illustns. between pps. 244 and 245. P/b. Illustd. cover. VG. GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.29 | JP¥ 1174] Book number: 7437 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books. | ||
| DAVIS, W.J. The British Trades Union Congress: History and Recollections. London: Co-Operative Printing Society,1910. 1st ed. Written by the General Secretary National Society of Brassworkers and Metal Mechanics. Pp.8/158/1(ad), 13 b/w portrait illustrations, owners details to verso front board, toning to endpapers. Maroon cloth, gilt title to spine. VG. GBP 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 22.25 US$ 33.22 | JP¥ 2935] Book number: 26586 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books. | ||
| PARLIAMENTARY PRESS GALLERY. The Story of the Press Gallery in the British Parliament. Parliamentary Press Gallery/Kelmsley Newspapers, nd. (c.1950). Foreword by Graham Cawthorne. Contents includes: The Press Gallery by William Barkley; The Lobby by Guy Eden; Hansard by T.H.O'Donoghue; Benefits & Benefactions by Geoffrey Morley; and A Few Impressions by George Turnbull. Pp.32, 3 b/w photo illustrations showing the new gallery, and the House before and after the bombing. Pbk, slightly toned with cover illustration of St Stephen's Towers drawn by Hanslip Fletcher. VG. GBP 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 US$ 16.61 | JP¥ 1467] Book number: 32581 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books. | ||
| GREAVES, H.R.G. The British Constitution. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1948. 2nd ed. "A lively, realistic study of the working of the constitution, written from a radical point of view ..". Pp. 296. Toning to fep. Brown cloth, d/w has rubbing. G+/G. GBP 6.50 [Appr.: EURO 7.25 US$ 10.8 | JP¥ 954] Book number: 13443 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books. | ||
| GRIMOND, JO. A Personal Manifesto. Oxford: Martin Robertson, 1983. 1st ed. "A Personal Manifesto distils Grimond's experience as barrister, politician and writer into the positive and radical policies he believes the Alliance should pursue .." Pp. 8/177. Maroon cloth, gilt title to spine, d/w. VG/VG. GBP 6.50 [Appr.: EURO 7.25 US$ 10.8 | JP¥ 954] Book number: 24868 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books. | ||
| THE BOW GROUP. Britain in Europe. London:Conservative Political Group on behalf of the Bow Group,1962. Rep. Pamphlet by the Bow Group advocating the future entry of Britain to the EEC. Contributors include: William Russell, Jock Bruce-Gardyne, John Macgregor, Patrick Jenkin, Robert Erith and Talbot Hainault. Unfortunately some pages in this booklet have not been printed. Pp.72, printing absent from pages 7,10-11,62-63,66-67. G. GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.29 | JP¥ 1174] Book number: 25804 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books. | ||
| THE GUARDIAN. Windscale. A Summary of The Evidence and The Argument. London: Guardian Newspaper. nd (c.1978). "Ethical questions and scientific answers, a hundred days of them, finally came to an end with the winding up of the inquiry". Pp 105, 3 b/w illustrations. P/b. Illustrated cover. G+. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.31 | JP¥ 734] Book number: 22794 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books. | ||
| HAILSHAM, VISCOUNT. The Conservative Case. Harmondsworth: Penguin. 1959. "Gives the most comprehensive re-statement of the Conservative attitude since Lord Hugh Cecil's Conservatism in 1912". Pp 171. Toning to pages. Name to fep. P/b. G+. GBP 3.00 [Appr.: EURO 3.5 US$ 4.98 | JP¥ 440] Book number: 18477 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books. | ||
| HAILSHAM, LORD. The Door Wherein I Went. Glasgow : Collins, 1978. 1st in this ed. Lord Hailsham's book has an unusual combination of a spiritual and philosophical Odyssey with some highly down to earth reminiscences about the law and politics." Pp.311, gift inscription to half-title, toning to pages. P/b, toning to spine G.+. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.31 | JP¥ 734] Book number: 11590 Click here to order or inquire at Beckham Books. |
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