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London: Viking. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2000. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Minor shelf wear to price clipped DJ. ; First edition, first printing, 2000. Black cloth boards with silver gilt lettering to spine. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. ; B&W Photographs; 230 pages; The story of the news reporter who became the MP in the White Suit, by standing as an Independent candidate against Neil Hamilton in the Tatton election. .

London: Robson Books. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1982. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Light scratches to unclipped DJ, otherwise in very good condition. ; Mustard cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. ; 160 pages; More revelations from the irreverent Punch Column. .

London: Hamish Hamilton Ltd. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket; Minor shelf wear to unclipped DJ. ; . Back cloth boards with white lettering to spine. Nice tight copy, no names . or marks inside, appears unread.. 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. 8.58 X 5.59 X 1.26 inches . First Printing; Photographs and Maps; 320 pages; A fascinating eyewitness account of the crucial months in Berlin at the time of the opening of the Wall as the two parts of the city reunited after twenty-eight years of isolation. The time when the GDR ran out of ideas and the border guards ran out of instructions leaving the peple of East Berlin the chance to pour through the checkpoints, stare at the shops, and then return home with their purchases. ; 0241130727 .

Manchester: Manchester University Press. Good+; Ex library copy with usual stamps and marks inside, pencil . anotations. Some reading creases.. 1993. First Edition. Paperback. Ex-Library . First Printing; 294 pages; An analysis of the 1992 election result and it's consequences on the major political parties of the day. ; 071903048X .

London: Hutchinson. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket; Minor edge wear and tear to unclipped . DJ. ; Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Nice tight copy, no . names or marks inside.. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. B&W Photographs; 266 pages; A racy but truthful account of life at Westminster by the former Conservative cabinet Minister and candidate for Mayor of London. ; 0091802121 .

Prospect Heights, Illinois: Waveland Press Inc. Very Good-. 1982. Reprint; First Printing. Paperback. Slight ripple to reading block with small closed tear to front cover, ink stamp to rear endpaper. ; Nice tight copy, no names inside. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; 376 pages; The story of how a talented American diplomat's career and reputation was destroyed by the McCarthy witch hunt. .

London: Penguin Books. Very Good-. 2005. Reprint; First Printing. Paperback. Light reading creases and shelf wear, slight loss of cover gilding, small cup ring to front cover. ; Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. ISBN 0141017007. ; 386 pages; Is America the New World Empire? Presidents from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush may have denied it but, as Niall Ferguson's brilliant and provocative book shows, the US is in many ways the greatest imperial power of all time. But is today's American colossus really equipped to play Atlas, bearing the weight of the world on its shoulders? The US, Ferguson reveals, is an empire running on empty, weakened by chronic deficits of money; manpower and political will. .

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode. Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1960. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Ex-Library . Ex library copy with usual stamps and marks inside. Slight wear and tear to unclipped DJ, some shelf wear to boards, fly shadows to endpapers, gutters cracked and slightly shakey in binding, some foxing to edges of reading block. ; First edition, first printing with no other printings listed, 1960. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. DJ protected by clear library sleeve. Reading copy, no names inside. DJ design uncredited. Very heavy book and priced accordingly. ; 646 pages; The author was the Reader in Russian Government and Politics at University of London and this work was the first fully documented history of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Now somewhat dated, the main part of the book is devoted to the period from the seizure of power in 1917 up to the death of Stalin. But is still a usual work on the subject, specifically for the early years… Read More

London: Country Life. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1980. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Annual sized hardback, with DJ, Small closed tear to top corner, not price clipped. ; Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Very heavy book and priced accordingly. ; 176 pages; The first 150 years. With introduction by The Rt Hon Margaret Thatcher. .

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Light shelf wear to unclipped DJ, original price on front fly light struck through in biro. ; Green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. ; B&W Photographs and Cartoons; 240 pages; From boyhood to the general election of 1987, David Owen (now Lord Owen) talks frankly of his private and public life, his plans, hopes and beliefs. Of particular interest is the actions he took between 1977-1979 as Labour Foreign Secretary regarding his view that Argentina would invade the Falklands Islands if UK forces in the area were reduced. Actions that did indeed occur when Margaret Thatcher's government anounced cuts a few years later. .

London: Picador. Fair. 1985. First British Edition. Paperback. Trade PB . Missing front endpapers, some self wear and grime, large marker pen initials inside front cover. ; Nice tight flat copy. ; 352 pages; Account of the bureaucratic in-fighting within the Reagan administration at the time of the arms control talks with the Soviet Union. .

Auckland, New Zealand: Penguin Books. Very Good+; Minor shelf wear, some foxing to covers. ; Nice tight flat . copy, no names or marks inside, appears unread. Cover design by Dexter Fry.. 1986. First Edition. Paperback. First Printing; B&W Illustrations; 272 pages; The full inside story of the sensational bombing of the Greenpeace vessel the Rainbow Warrior in July 1985 which led to the biggest police investigation in New Zealand and the eventual jailing of two French secret agents. Telling for the first time the story of the "third team" the divers who actually undertook the sabotage and got clean away. ; 0140097384 .

London: Hodder and Stoughton. Very Good. 1994. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Large format softback. Small chip to base of spine, and light creases to some corners. ; B&W Illustrations and Photographs; 248 pages; Published with the open university. An important book for anyone wanting to understand what makes American politics 'tick'. .

London: MacMillan. Very Good. 1990. Third Edition; First Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB . Some reading and cover creases, original price and bar code stickers to rear cover, previous owner details to inside covers and York University ink stamp to inside front cover. Some foxing to inside covers, endpapers and edges of reading block. ; First printing of MacMillan third edition,1990. Nice tight copy. Cover design uncredited. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; 416 pages; A useful book on how British Politics stood as it entered the 1990s looking back on a deade of Thatcherism. .

Markham, Ontario: Penguin Books. Very Good+; Light shelf wear, paper starting to tone at edges. ; Nice . tight flat copy, no names or marks inside, appears unread. Cover artwork . by Helen MacKenzie.. 1986. Reprint. Paperback. First Printing; The Salem Novels; Vol. 1; 256 pages; The first of the Salem novels, a family saga set on a farm in the fictional community of Salem, Ontario. Detailling the conflict between an older generation firmly rooted in the reality of the soil and nature with the younger one, who've exiled themselves from the land, but have become disinherited and rootless in the process. ; 0140093036 .

London: B T Batsford. Very Good+. 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Minor shelf wear to price clipped DJ. ; Maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. ; Past Into Present Series; B&W Illustrations and Photographs; 94 pages; A history of every Parliamentry election in the UK from 1784 to 1970, well illustrated and a fascinating read. .

Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Pelican Books. Very Good. 1950. First Edition; First Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB . Minor reading creases and edge wear, light cover grime. ; Pelican A208. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. ; B&W Photographs; 208 pages; A study of the nature and historic development of the Mother of All Parliaments. Showing how parliament has come to be what it is and to explain why it works in the way it does. .

Oxford: Oxford University Press. Very Good. 1981. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Paperback. Trade PB . Scruff marks on back, corners rubbed and one light crease on front, small ink numeral to front endpaper, pages yellowing. ; 280 pages; Written in the same year that David Owen founded the Social Democratic Party in Britain, the first new national party for 80 years, later merged with the Liberals to form the Liberal Democrats. This paperback edition has been abridged and revised with a new preface and final chapter. .

London: Michael Joseph. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1990. Third Printing. Hardcover. Minor shelf wear to unclipped DJ. ; Third printing, Octoberr 1990. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside, appears unread and near as new. Cover photo detail of the door knocker at 10 Downing Street. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; 384 pages; An investigation into the intricate relationship between power, class and money in Britain at the end of the twentieth century. .

Pontefract: Pontefract Press. Very Good. 1999. First Edition; First Printing. Paperback. Trade PB . Some reading and cover creases, spine corners lightly bumped, original cover price ink obscurred. ; First edition, first printing with no other printings listed, Nice tight copy, no names inside. Cover design uncredited. Very heavy large format book and priced accordingly. ; Photographs; 296 pages; Second volume of autobiography of the son of a farm labourer from Yorkshire, who went down the local pit when he was fourteen, but went on to become an MP and Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons. Foreword by Betty Boothroyd MP, Speaker of the House of Commons. .