Politics from Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd 1959. Small 8vo. First edition. 94 pp. Hardcover in unclipped jacket. Very slight crushing or curling to jacket extremities. Slight bumping to head of spine. Clean externally and internally. The hardback is less common in such nice condition. This work argues that the only way to escape the common peril of nuclear war 'is… Read more about this item

London: Secker & Warburg 1941. 16mo. First edition. 127 pp. Original cream-coloured boards with green lettering to spine in dust jacket. Dust jacket slightly edgeworn with a few marks and tanning, and a small tear to back panel. Binding a little slanted. Orwell's essay on socialism, patriotism and the class system in wartime Britain. Clean copy. . Very Good. Hardcover.… Read more about this item

Washington: Government Printing Office 1863. Large 8vo. Volume 3 only. 659 pp. Purple/cream cloth with blind stamped devices to front board and spine. Discolouration to front board and spine, rubbing to spine ends and corners. Light foxing to endpapers and prelims. Some text bleed to pages, but otherwise in good, clean condition. The third volume of the report investigating President… Read more about this item

London: John Milne [1901]. 12mo. vii, 183 pp. Cloth spine with original illustrated boards. Rubbing to extremities and general discolouration. Small losses to a few corners of boards. Publisher's stamp to title page and light creasing to corner of pages, though internally clean and bright. Includes chapters on training of the soldier, the strategy of the war and the despatches… Read more about this item

London: Collins and Harvill Press 1968. 8vo. First edition. Uncommon. 128pp. Purple hardback with silver lettering to spine, in dust jacket (not price clipped). Clean boards and pages, like new internally. Jacket has minimal signs of rubbing to edges and a few small scratches to the surface. There is a slight inconsistency in the lamination on the front panel but… Read more about this item

Basingstoke: Privately Printed by Macmillan 1984. Small 8vo. Privately printed for Macmillan Publishing staff. 41 pp. Cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. This memoir of Harold Macmillan was published to mark his ninetieth birthday in February 1984, with the late Prime Minister being the grandson of the co-founder of the publishing company, Daniel MacMillan.… Read more about this item

London: Henry G. Bohn 1858. Small 8vo. [6], lxxx, 338 pp. Full calf. Double gilt ruling to boards with corner floral devices. Raised bands to spine. Gilt decoration, green leather title label with gilt lettering. All edges gilt. Vibrant combed marbled endpapers. Sophisticated floral dentelles to edges and interior. Some scuffs to surface of boards and two small losses to… Read more about this item

London: Philip Allan & Co. 1925. Small 8vo. First Edition thus. xi, 163 pp. Recently rebound in 1/4 morocco binding with gilt lettering and devices to spine. Minor spotting to edges of text block, with slight denting along the fore-edge. Boards clean and gilt bright. Light scattered foxing. . Near Fine. 1/4 Morocco. First Edition Thus. 1925.

London: J. M. Dent & Sons / E. P. Dutton & Co. 1950. 16mo. xvi, 3-290 pp. Recently rebound in 1/4 dark blue morocco over marbled boards with gilt lettering and devices to spine. Very slight spotting and indentations to bottom edge. Internally clean. The Everyman's Library edition. . Near Fine. 1/4 Morocco. 1950.

London: T. C. & E. C. Jack N.d. [1912]. 12mo. 94, (2) pp. Original pictorial green cloth with black lettering to front board & spine. Two-page publisher's list at rear dated February 1912. Number 47 in The People's Books. A near fine copy, with some discolouration to the spine and very light rubbing to its base. Fawcett had long been… Read more about this item

London: The Folio Society c. 2011. 8vo. xviii, 270 pp. Cloth with an illustration by Yann Le Bec based on a design by Gavin Morris, brown slipcase. Light fading to top edge of slipcase. With an introduction by A. N. Wilson. Includes 7 plates reproducing photographs from the Mitford family archives. . Near Fine. Cloth. 2011.

London: Bradbury and Evans 1852 / 1853. 12mo. Two volumes in one. viii, 280; viii, 280 pp. Half calf over marbled boards, with raised gilt-decorated bands and gilt lettering to spine. Wear across spines and boards, with bumping to extremities. Internally quite clean, with only occasional light marking. From Dickens Journal Online (itself from Drew, 'Dickens the Journalist', 2003): 'The… Read more about this item

London: Lawrence & Wishart 1977 / 1974. 8vo. 3 volumes (volumes 2 and 3 published 1974). 767; x, 551; xi, 948 pp. Blue hardcover with gilt lettering to spine and boards and embossed portrait of Marx to the latter. Some rubbing and bumping to spine and boards. Gilt dulled a bit on all volumes. Light foxing to edges. Ffep. of… Read more about this item

London: T. C. Newby 1848. 8vo. xii, 272 pp. In English and French dual text format. Uncut original cloth with sympathetic modern re-spine and paper title label. Some bumping to boards which has resulted in slight curvature of the text block and a minor dent to the same for the first 20 pages. Some wear to edges and corners and… Read more about this item

London: Constable and Company Ltd 1928. 8vo. xxxvi, 495 pp. Green gilt decorative boards, t.e.g. Minor marking to rear board and minor bumping to spine ends. Some foxing to edges and light foxing throughout. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown, ink inscription to ffep. and pencil ownership mark to dedication. . Very Good. Gilt-decorated Boards. 3rd Printing. 1928.

London: J. Johnson 1798. Small 8vo. Second Edition, Corrected. [vi], 206 pp. Recent half brown speckled calf over marbled boards with raised bands, red title label, gilt lettering and devices; marbled endpapers, early top edge gilt, others uncut. Minor spots throughout, lacks advert leaf. Portrait of Wollstonecraft by Opie, engraved by Heath as frontispiece. William Godwin's biography of his late… Read more about this item

London: Methuen & Co Ltd 1970. 8vo. xii, 468 pp. Hardback with gilt lettering in a price clipped jacket. Slight fading, marks and chipping to jacket. Minor marks to boards. Ink name to ffep., occasional pencil annotations, otherwise internally clean. An analysis of the political theory of Plato, arguing against his identification with the Right or Left. . Very Good.… Read more about this item

Munchen [Munich]: Franz Eher Nachfolger G. m. b. H. 1933. 8vo. German language. xxvi, [v], 782, [10] pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and Nazi swastika crest to front board. Marks to boards and spine. Spotting to fore-edge, otherwise internally clean. Frontispiece portrait of Hitler, webbing showing at this point. Lettered in the Fraktur Gothic blackletter font -… Read more about this item

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd 1952. 8vo. Second Edition, revised. 2 volumes. xi, 318; v, 375 pp. Black hardbacks with gilt lettering to spines. Minor marks to boards and rubbing to extremities, spine faded of volume II. Light spots to prelims, endpapers and fore-edge, one or two within but generally internally clean. One of the most popular defenses of… Read more about this item

Lyon: J. B. Delamolliere 1790. 8vo. French language. [iv], 268 pp. Full brown leather with gilt borders, raised bands, black title label, gilt lettering to spine; marbled endpapers, all edges red. Minor wear to extremities, slight watermarks to boards. Ink name to prelim, slight yellowing to pages but generally internally clean. One of Rousseau's and the Enlightenment's most important works,… Read more about this item