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Published by Associated Newspapers 1946
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Condition: Fair. 1946. No Edition Remarks. Unpaginated. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout, heavier at end-papers, paste-downs and text-block edges. Some occasional mild cracking to gutters throughout, binding remains reasonably firm. Cracking to hinges, no damage to end papers.… Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Sunning to front board.
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Published by Scientia Ag., Zurich 1939
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Previous owner's name and date (1940) inside front cover. Old bookstore stamp from Rascher in Zurich, otherwise unmarked. Maroon cloth in excellent condition. Spine lightly faded, corners curved in but not bumped. No jacket. Book.
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Published by Scientia AG, Zürich 1939 1939
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Ln. 300 S. guter Zustand.
More imagesPublished by Eyre and Spottiswoode 1939
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Condition: Good. Boards have some wear, toning to spine. Content has light toning. No DJ. Owner text to end paper.
Published by Zürich, Scientia AG () 1939
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300 S. Orig.-Leinen. Erste deutsche Ausgabe. - (Name a.V.).
Language: English
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode Ltd, London 1939
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Hardcover. Condition: Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. Black cloth hard boards iwith white spine in unclipped dust jacket. Pp xi, 190; b/w frontis plate and seven others.The spine is browned and nottled but covers have good colour; the endpapers are also browned but thereafter all within is clean and clear with… no previous names; the jacket has piece missing from front panel [c. 20% and edhewear nicks and losses a small loss to lower edge and some edgewear but is predominantly clean and and sound and doing its job. Images/further information available on request.
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Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book is a damning critique of the post-WW1 British government's reckless and extravagant spending in the years immediately following the war. Its projects were expensive, unnecessary, and often counterproductive. Through the use of concrete examples and analysis, the author argues… that this spending led the nation to the brink of economic collapse and personal bankruptcy. The author suggests a return to pre-war spending levels and a cessation of frivolous and wasteful national and military projects in order to avert national financial disaster. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.
Language: German
Published by Scientia, Zürich, 1939
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300 Seiten Zustand: keine Beschädigungen, mit Bleistiftanstreichungen, verstaubt. Rücken, Ecken, Kanten gut. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 600 Hardcover Leinen ohne Schutzumschlag.
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode 1939
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. boards are edge worn and chipped. foxing and marks. ex-library copy with stamps and stickers. binding has been repaired. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Published by Methuen, London, 1911 1911
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. [1st ed., 1st printing] ; xi, 304 p : ill., maps ; 23 cm. ; 8vo .; OCLC 1556769982 ; red cloth with decoration designs on spine with lettering in gold ; spine shows exposure to damp in its past ; Signature of Esmond Cecil Harmsworth, 2nd Viscount Rothermere (1898-1978), a Briti…sh Conservative politician and press magnate., on the front endpaper ; He became a director of The Rank Organisation in 1962 ; Joachim Murat has come to epitomise the beau ideal cavalryman. Indeed, in the decades following the Napoleonic era, as a horse soldier excelled to extraordinary prominence, the name of Murat was often considered as analogous. In reality nobody could come close in stature and performance. Murat was one of many young men who saw the French Revolution as an opportunity to prosper in influence, power, status and wealth. An unabashed self publicist, his gorgeous uniforms were singular and exceptional even in an age when the dandy in military uniform was the norm. His ambition was insatiable and in this was the root of his downfall, for he lacked the intelligence and moderation to consolidate his advantages. Yet, Murat rose to be a soldier of the highest rank, through marriage a member of Napoleon's own family, he was elevated to the aristocracy as Duke of Berg and in time crowned King of Naples. Though, like many of his calling, he was no military mastermind Murat was a reliable lieutenant to Napoleon often achieving-through deeds of daring-far more than other senior officers could for their emperor. Above all there could be no doubt about the quality of Murat's personal courage. He led from the front and latterly rode into the fiercest melees armed only with a riding crop. Though he came from a different and lesser mould than his master Napoleon, Murat fatally shared his weakness for conceits and hubris and, as with Napoleon himself, poor judgment ended his career ignominiously before a firing squad of his former subjects.--Leonaur Limited ; "This biography, although somewhat too full of unnecessary words, is interesting as a new study of one of Napoleon's ' creations.' The whole work shows how difficult it is to credit that Joachim Murat, brilliant soldier that he was, would have risen to anything like the position he afterwards held, had it not been for the favour and influence of his Imperial brother-in-law. We trace in this book Murat's rise from the people, first by the stepping stone of the seminary, then by the ladder of the army ; and it is interesting to note that in the days of The Terror he sheltered him- self from the charge of ' Aristocracy ' by pointing out that his father, the old inn-keeper, was a ' travailleur. In this account of his early life we get many instances of his real affection for his family, and it is pleasing to think that his mother saw him in full glory when, in 1803, he revisited La Bastide. The author does not excuse Murat from his share in the murder of the Duc d'Enghien, and wishes that he had withstood Napoleon, but Murat's facile southern nature, vain, greedy, generous, and emotional, soon got over the shock, and perhaps the most interesting part of the book for the military campaigns can be read as well elsewhere-is Murat's extraordinary behaviour when he became Grand-Duke of Berg, and imagined himself a sovereign beyond the power of Napoleon. The Neapolitan portion of his life is well told also, although more might have been said about his relations with his wife, and the connection between her acts and the tragedy of Pizzo. There is some information in this book about Murat's nephews and nieces (one of whom became Princess Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, and ancestress of many Royal houses), difficult to get elsewhere, the work is on the whole well done. We must, however, take exception to the forms of French names the author uses at times, and condemn ' De Polignac ' and ' De Rivière ' ; and we wish that the book had been illustrated by better pictures ." --Scottish Historical Review, 1912 ; FAIR. Book.
Published by Eyre and Spottiswoode 1939
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Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN.
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Scienta Vlg. Zürich. 1939. 300 S. (etwas fleckig). Ln.-2/3).
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Published by Longmans, Green and Co., Paternoster Row, London 1921
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Hbk, x pages, 1 leaf, 160 pages. Leather binding scuffed around spine and corners, some foxing to blank end-papers o/w text clean unmarked and in very good condition, all edges guilt. "This book is bound in Scotch deer-skin, which has been specially tanned and dyed for Messrs. Hatchard, 187…, Piccadilly, W.1 . " [Finance Great Britain - Great Britain Economic policy] f1757 / m16249.
Published by On letterhead of 8 Stratton Street W.1. London 8 April 1948
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1p., 4to. In fair condition, lightly aged, with two punch-holes in margin. He has been reading Brooks's book ('Devil's Decade: Portraits of the Nineteen-Thirties') 'during a few days' holiday in Norfolk', and finds it 'excellent': Brooks has 'drawn a very accurate picture of Rothermere'. He proposes a time for them to 'meet agai…n and have lunch'. He wonders whether Brooks 'ever came across that photograph of Northcliffe with Cecil Rhodes which I remember you mentioned you thought you had somewhere or other', asks for a sight of it.
Typed Letter Signed "Rothermere" to George Bilainkin, diplomatic correspondent.
Esmond Cecil Harmsworth, Newspaper Proprietor, 2nd Viscount Rothermere)
Published by Printed heading The Daily Mail London Northcliffe House. EC4 12 Sept. 1945
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One page, 8vo, fold marks, good condition. He thanks him for his letter, and looks forward ot reading Bilainkin's Diary "dictated in Berlin when it is ready". "I should be very pleased ot meet the Yugoslav Ambassador sometime, but I am unable to suggest dates at the moment as I am going away within a week or two and have an extr…emely heavy list of engagements to fulfil before I go [.]".
Language: German
Published by Scientia/Zürich 1939
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300 S., OLn., leichte Lagerspuren. 35 Sprache: Deutsch.
More imagesArming In The Air The Daily Mail War Campaign Warnings Of Three Wasted Years [ INCLUDES TIPPED IN UNSIGNED LETTER FROM EDITOR ON DAILY MAIL STATIONERY ]
Rothermere, Viscount & Baldwin, Mr + Groves, P R C ( Brigadier General, preface )
Published by The Daily Mail London 1936
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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition. Large 8vo. 80pp. Several photos and maps in text. Extracts from series of articles in the Daily Mail about the necessity for aerial rearming. Includes unaddressed but typed letter from the Editor of the Daily Mail dated '19th August 1938'. One page corner turnover and c…reased, slight browning around edges. Attractive tight unclipped copy. VG+.
Published by Eyre and Spottiswoode, UK 1939
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-good. None issued. 1st. 190pp, spine sunned & foxy, pp clean, binding (sewn-in pp) vg. An eye-opening book by the proprietor of The Daily Mail, written shortly after the outbreak of the war, in which he recounts his uphill struggle in support of rearming. Churchill wrote the forword as he also fel…t this a struggle they shared. Bound in black cloth with white spine Size: 22cm. Book.
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Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Good. Small number written in ink on back endpaper, Some black and white photos throughout. Churchill sums up the book when he states that it is well that Viscount….
Published by Scientia AG. Zürich 1939 1939
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Titel der englischen Originalausgabe: Warning and Predictions, übersetzt von Dr. Fritz Fiedler, Leinen mit Schutzumschlag, 14,5 x 21,5 cm gut erhalten, eingeklebtes Exlibri Innenseite Vorderdeckel, Schriftzug auf der Titelseite de 300 S. 600 g.
Language: English
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Contact seller5-star sellerLeatheBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 238. A perfect gift…for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1939 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 238.
Published by Zürich, Scientia (1939) 1939
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8°. 300 S. Original-Leinenband. Erste deutsche Ausgabe. Der Autor berichtet über seine Erfahrungen mit Politikern, bewundert den Realismus Chamberlains und verteidigt A.Hitler. - Buchblock etwas schief.
Published by Zürich, Scientia (1939) 1939
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8°. 300 S. Original-Leinenband. Erste deutsche Ausgabe. Der Autor berichtet über seine Erfahrungen mit Politikern, bewundert den Realismus Chamberlains und verteidigt A.Hitler. - Leinenbezug am hinteren Deckel etwas gelockert, gutes Exemplar.
[ Fleet Street in the Thirties: Sir Robert Donald of United Newspapers and Ernest Outhwaite, editor of Leeds Mercury, Viscount Rothermere, Lord Harmsworth, Ernest Benn. ] TLsS from Donald and Outhwaite; copies of Rothermere and Benn letters.
Sir Robert Donald (1860-1933), editor, Daily Chronicle, and Managing Director, United Newspapers; Ernest Outhwaite, editor, Leeds Mercury [ Viscount Rothermere; Lord Harmsworth; Ernest J. Benn ]
Published by Donald: on letterhead of 12 Thorney Court Palace Gate W.8. London 24 March Outhwaite: on letterhead of La Dragonniere Cap Martin A.M. 8 April 1930. Rothermere copies from 1929 and 1930. Benn copy from 1932 1932
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Six items from the Rothermere papers, on disparate subjects, casting light on the workings of 1930s Fleet Street. In good condition, lightly aged. The six are described below in chronological order. ONE: Typed Copy of letter, '(sgd) ROTHERMERE', to Donald. Hotel Splendide, 105 Piccadilly, W.1. 12 November 1929. 1p., 4to. The let…ter begins: 'My dear Donald, | I quite understand all the peculiar difficulties with which you are surrounded in connection with the Anglo-Foreign Newspapers Ltd. | As you are a director, and are going to be made chairman, I wish to help you in every possible way.' He describes a share option he is willing to make, and concludes: 'I am a large shareholder in Anglo-Foreign Newspapers Limited, and this is in consideration of your remaining a director of the Company.' TWO: Typed Letter Signed from Ernest Outhwaite (director of the Leeds Mercury and described by Richard Bourne as 'a director and factotum of Rothermere') to 'Sir Robert'. On letterhead of La Dragonniere, Cap Martin, A.M. 8 April 1930. 1p., 4to. He quotes a long telegram he sent him regarding offers by Rothermere regarding 'Camrose' and the Newcastle Evening World, Newcastle Chronicle, Bristol Evening World, 'Bristol paper' and 'Derby paper'. He asks him to acknowledge receipt and 'pass on the suggestion'. THREE: Typed Copy of letter, 'signed) Rothermere', to Donald. Hotel Splendide. 3 June 1930. 1p., 4to. Requesting him to 'obtain from Lloyds Bank detailed particulars of the Hull and Grimsby Newspaper Company'. FOUR: Typed Copy of letter from the libertarian publisher Ernest J. Benn (1875-1954) to 'The Rt. Hon. the Viscount Rothermere, | The Daily Mail, | London.' Bouverie House, Fleet Street, E.C.4. 30 June 1930. The letter begins: 'Dear Lord Rothermere, | There can be no doubt as to the gravity of the coming economic crisis. For my own part I prefer those sections of your programme which deal with economy and freedom rather than this protective business whatever it may be called. | I was evidently wrong. I credited you with the controlling voice in Anglo Foreign Newspapers and through them Industrial Newspapers, and have thus looked upon you as to some extent responsible for a troup [sic] of publications that I would be very glad to have.' FIVE: Carbon copy of Typed Letter [from Rothermere] to unnamed recipient. 4 December 1930. 1p., 4to. Giving the conditions for granting 'an option on Forty Thousand Ordinary Shares in Northcliffe Newspapers Limited'. SIX: Typed Letter Signed from 'Robert Donald' to 'The Hon. Esmond Harmsworth, | Northcliffe House, E.C.4.' On letterhead of 12 Thorney Street, Palace Gate, W.8. 24 March 1932. 1p., 4to. With a few autograph corrections. He begins with the wish that Harmsworth has 'returned quite recovered' from his recent illness. 'I have had several talks with Sutton regarding the "Dispatch". I am quite ready to begin the Causerie which we have discussed. I would not like it to be confined to politics. I am quite sure I can get exclusive political news when it is going, but it is not always available. In any case a gossipy newsy Causerie should be more comprehensive. At the same time, of course, I would not deal with social or society matters.'.
[Home Secretary prepares Press for Ministry of Information on eve of World War Two.] 'Private and Confidential' typescript of 'Meeting between the Secretary of State for Home Affairs [Sir Samuel Hoare] and the Newspaper Proprietors Association etc.'
Sir Samuel Hoare [Viscount Templewood]; Newspaper Proprietors Association [Ministry of Information; E. C. Harmsworth, Viscount Rothermere; Daily Mail; Lord Burnham; Daily Telegraph; Fleet Street]
Published by 'Home Office Whitehall S.W.1. London | Wednesday 29th March' 'Transcript from the Shorthand Notes of Treasury Reporter' 1939
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Secret duplicated Home Office document, no other copy of which has been discovered (none on OCLC WorldCat, for example) and no reference to the meeting found. The document is a transcript of a highly significant meeting, called by a busy Hoare (he would have an important cabinet meeting on the same day) to explain to press repre…sentatives the remit (on the basis of 'voluntary Censorship') of the newly-formed Ministry of Information, and also including discussions of 'the questions of transport, labour, and so on' that the press would face in the case of war, as well as the planned nature of future meetings, and the need for secrecy (with reference to the operation of D Notices). The meeting is a frank one, including an exchange during which Hoare declares 'This rather depresses me. I am beginning to wonder whether this meeting is of any use. [] I did not in the least want this meeting: I imagined I was doing it for your convenience.' At the beginning Hoare explains that he has called the meeting at the request of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, and declares that he is 'the Minister dealing with the skeleton organisation of the Ministry of Information'. (This 'skeleton organisation' with Sir Stephen George Tallents (1884-1958) as 'Director General Designate' had come into being a few months before the meeting, after the German annexation of the the Sudetenland in 1938, and around seventy staff had already been employed censoring press reports surrounding the Munich Agreement.) [1] + 29pp, foolscap 8vo, on thirty leaves. Complete. In fair condition, with the text (paginated 1-29) on lightly-aged leaves, and the covering page on a loose and worn leaf, with light damage along two edges. The covering page is headed: 'Private and Confidential | Meeting between the Secretary of State for Home Affairs and the Committee of Newspaper Proprietors Association etc. | Home Office, Whitehall, S.W.1. | Wednesday, 29th March, 1939.' At foot of covering page: '(Transcript from the Shorthand Notes of Treasury Reporter)'. The rest of the page lists the twenty-one individuals present, with ten in Sir Samuel Hoare's party, and eleven from the press, with Esmond Harmsworth of the Daily Mail as chairman. The government list begins with: 'Sir Samuel Hoare [(1880-1959), later Viscount Templewood] (Secretary of State) | (in the Chair) | Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd [(1902-1984), later Lord Geoffrey-Lloyd] (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Home Office) | Sir Alexander Maxwell [(1880-1963)] (Permanent Under-Secretary) | Mr. A. S. Hutchinson [Arthur Sydney Hutchinson (1896-1981), later knighted] (Private Secretary to the Secretary of State)'. The press list begins with four from the 'Newspaper Proprietors Association': 'The Hon. Esmond Harmsworth [(1898-1978) of the Daily Mail, later Viscount Rothermere] (Chairman) | Brigadier The Hon. E. F. Lawson [Edward Frederick Lawson (1890-1963) of the Daily Telegraph, later Lord Burnham] (Vice Chairman) | Mr. Stanley Bell, Managing Director, Associated Newspapers | Mr. F. J. Cook, General Manager, Daily Herald and People'. The four NPA members are followed by the NPA 'Secretary to the Committee', three from the 'Newspaper Society'; a 'Scottish Daily Newspaper Society' representative; and two from the 'Periodical Trade Press and Weekly Newspaper Proprietors Association'. Hoare begins by giving the 'two or three reasons' why he has been 'anxious to have a meeting of this Committee', the first being that 'the Prime Minister [Neville Chamberlain, of whose appeasement policy Hoare was a leading supporter] has asked me to take over the questions connected with the Ministry of Information on that side of the work of the Press, and also to be the Co-Ordinating Minister for the various other questions that we discussed when you came here about A.R.P. [the Air Raid Precautions Department, Hoare's pet project, begun in 1935], and that you have since discussed with several of the Departments the Ministry of Transport, the Minist.
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Contact seller5-star sellerLeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1921 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd repri…nt. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 188 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 188 Language: English.
