Foreword Laski (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First US Edition. Discoloration to DJ and throughout, many tears to DJ with moderate paper loss.

78p., first edition 7.5 x 5 inch cardstock wraps with a printed sur-wrapper, a bright copy showing mildest edgewear. First mystery: why was this printed on acid-free paper when paperstocks were so very poor in UK throughout the war and long after. Second, Laski: an important man indeed to have dragooned into wording a preface. He was then teaching at LSE and get-attable, but still! Third, Laski's little landmines in the foreword: "Its prizes are few, its rewards relatively low, and most entrants must face the fact that large areas of its work [the civil service] are necessarily monotonous and dull. It is therefore unlikely to satisfy the eager, experimental mind.And it is important for it to be frankly stated that the Civil Service reproduces all the characteristics of British democracy outside of Whitehall; which is really to say that its claim to be a democracy does not mean, and never has meant, the career open to the talents." And of L. C. White's text he says, "Mr. White has, of course, the tact to let his pages speak for themselves. I only warn the reader that he must search those pages with care if he wants to find the nuggets of gold hidden there, always with skill, and not seldom, I suspect, with genuine pleasure at the art with which they have been concealed. But here it is the business of an amateur [Laski himself] to be silent." I will propose that keeping creative battle-hardened minds, ready and able to do some spadework, out of the garden that's very nice just the way it is, might have been seen as a plus. Look what happened in the US, where the GIs had to be placated expensively for several decades.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Reprint Edition. Private library label on the front endpaper. ; Reprint of the 1928 edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Photos (illustrator). First Edition. VERY GOOD CONDITION.solidly bound, . clean, solid, bright. ; Gold spine titles on glossy blue cloth spine strip.tan cloth hardcovers. ; 818-1650 pg pages; Memoir, Correspondence nearly twenty year correspondence between two prominent & influential men .legal , law, history supreme court.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Photos (illustrator). First Edition. VERY GOOD CONDITION.solidly bound, .bit fade spine titles.OW clean, colid, bright. ; Gold spine titles on glossy blue cloth spine strip.tan cloth hardcovers. ; 358+335ps pages; Memoir, Correspondence nearly twenty year correspondence between two prominent & influential men .legal , law, history supreme court.

First Edition. First Printing. Owner signature. Very Good condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Book softcover First Edition Left Book Clubfive foldout charts pp383. Condition Near Fine in removable plastic sleeve, light tan to edges. inserts of 2 publicity leaflets for Left Book Club.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. PAPERBACK 1937. SPINE HAS MINOR DAMAGE. Clean & tight. TANNED PAGES. No inscriptions. Flat pages. LAID IN: Yellow Left Book Club leaflets. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref SH5. The Problem of The Distressed Areas by Wal Hannington. Foreword by Harold J. Laski.

Condition: Very Good. First edition publisher's original limp orange cloth covers, black lettering to spine and upper panel. 8vo 8½" x 5¼" 383 pp. Fold-out charts to rear. Without any fraying to cloth, slight wrinkling of cloth to spine and in Very Good clean and bright condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. GERMANY [Language, History].

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 220pp. Spine slightly faded.