TREVELYAN Humphrey

Diplomatic Channels. [Illustration by Osbert Lancaster]. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY WITH ORDER OF SERVICE

Macmillan,, [1974]. 8vo. First Edition; grey cloth gilt back a very good bright clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. LOOSELY INSERTED IS A COPY OF THE ORDER OF SERVICE AT THE FUNERAL OF HUMPHREY THE LORD TREVELYAN OF ST. VEEP HELD AT ST. MARGARET'S CHURCH WESTMINSTER 19

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[UK CONSERVATIVE PARTY]

Advance magazine. Vol. 1 No. 3. April-June 1947. A RARE SURVIVAL

[Conservative Central Office],, 1947. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. The lead article is 'The Industrial Charter' by R.A.B. Butler; also includes 'Speakers' Department' by Joan Dodd. A RARE SURVIVAL, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.

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VINCE Charles Anthony

Mr. Chamberlain's Proposals. What they mean and what we shall gain from them.. With a Preface by Joseph Chamberlain. Third Impression. BRIGHT, CLEAN, CRISP COPY

Grant Richards,, 1903. 8vo., Third Impression, free endpapers mildly browned, tiny signature on front free endpaper; red boards lettered in black, red cloth back, a bright, clean copy.

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WALLAS Graham

The Life of Francis Place 1771-1854. BRIGHT, CLEAN, CRISP COPY

Longmans Green & Co.,, 1898. 8vo., First Edition, with engraved portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), tiny signature on front free endpaper; navy cloth, gilt back, black endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy. With the author's compliments slip mounted on black prelinary. SCARCE.

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WHEELER-BENNETT John W.

John Anderson, Viscount Waverley. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR

Macmillan,, 1962. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates, tiny contemporary signature on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, red top, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON HALF-TITLE. Bright, crisp copy of the standard biography of one of the leading civil servants of his generation. Following an already extensive diplomatic career, Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, 1st Viscount Waverley (1882-1958), rose to greater promnence during WWII, serving successively as Home Secretary, Lord President of the Council and Chancellor of the Exchequer. He played an important role in the establishment of the home front, initiating the development of the well-known Anderson shelters, and gaining the nickname 'the Home Front Prime Minister'. Later in the war he headed the UK's efforts to build an atomic bomb (the 'Tube Alloys' project) and worked in close liaison with the US Manhattan Project. Sir John Wheeler-Bennett (1902-1975) was a leading conservative historian of German and diplomatic history, and official biographer of George VI. A SPLENDID PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR AND HIS WIFE RUTH RISHER.

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WHITE Dan S.

The Splintered Party. National Liberalism in Hessen and the Reich 1867-1918. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA,, 1976. 8vo., First Edition, with map as frontispiece, tiny signature on front free endpaper; orange cloth, backstrip lettered in blue, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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WHYTE John H.

Catholics in Western Democracies. A Study in Political Behaviour. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Gill & Macmillan, [Dublin],, [1981]. 8vo., First Edition; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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WILLIAMS Francis

Magnificent Journey. The Rise of the Trade Unions. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Odhams,, 1954. 8vo., First Edition, tiny contemporary signature on front front free endpaper; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped, lightly browned dustwrapper.

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WITHERS Hartley

Pioneers of British Life Assurance. Edited by Conan Nicholas. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Staples Press,, [1951]. 8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With the compliments slip of the United Kingdom Provident Institution loosely inserted.

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WOOD Dr. Neal

Communism and British Intellectuals. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Gollancz,, 1959. 8vo., First Edition, contemporary signature on front free endpaper; plum cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, crisp copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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