Peter Maurice Girodias Singleton Gates (25 results)

Condition: Good. 1959. Hardcover. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear with some wear and tear to dustjacket. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Minor shelf wear to binding. Light wear and soiling to edges of text block. Text and images unmarked. Price clipped dj shelf worn & toned in a mylar cover.

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. Acceptable dust jacket. (ireland, britain, politics) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Dust Jacket. This old book with dust jacket is clean, solid and in great shape! This is a larger style hardcover book with 536 pages including many photos. The binding is strong with all pages firmly attached. The pages are clean with no soiling, writing, or tears. The copyright page shows 1959 as the published date. This is definitely Not a former library book. The white dust jacket has a photo of Roger Casement. The dust jacket is also in great shape with just a hint of edgewear (No Chips). I have placed the DJ in a fresh mylar jacket and this old book looks and feels great! We always ship in a sturdy cardboard box!

Condition: Good. 1959. Hardcover. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear with some wear and tear to dustjacket. . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. NICE as pictured a First Edition, in Spanish a very good condition hardcover no dust jacket, price present clean, pages.

Condition: Good. First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. 1st US edition. Dust jacket price clipped. (Ireland, Erotic Literature, Diaries, Biography).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First English language edition. Royal 8vo. 536pp. Black cloth-covered boards with silverstamped title to spine. Bottom corner of upper cover bumped. Cloth rubbed at bottom edges with some board exposed. Textblock edges toned; textblock interior lightly toned. Errata slip pasted-in. Limited, numbered edition: 207/2000. B&W photos throughout. Red/blk dj. edgeworn with chipping to top spine extreme & upper top corner. Dj. covered in protective mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Publisher is Grove Press. Dj is price clipped. Clean book otherwise.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Good plus. Ex library with some residual marks. A good sound clean copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Limited edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Moderate wear to the boards. Sound binding. Clean interior pages. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 0.99.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American edition. Large octavo. Name and stamp of a noted psychologist on the first blank else fine in very good or better dust jacket with a small stain and a bit of soiling.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Black and white photographs. First edition thus. Previous owner's book-plate on front paste-down, else very good in a very good (light foxing and age toning) dust jacket. B000M0OILA.

Cloth. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. 1st Us Edition. Octavo. Black cloth with silver titles in price clipped dust jacket that is worn and chipped at the extremities. With Massey College Library bookplate indicating this book was a gift in 1968 from the library of Robertson Davies who was then Master of the College. Wear to edges and soiling to jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1959 ('special edition')/ 1959. Tall octavo, 536 pages with numerous illustrations (from photographs) and a map plus an errata slip mounted on the verso of the half-title, and endpaper maps. Cloth slightly bumped at the top corners; edges a little discoloured, with the top edge foxed; a very good copy with the good unclipped dustwrapper a little worn, and moderately sunned on the spine. A small label mounted on the verso of the title page states this is number 711 of a maximum of 2000 copies of a 'special edition' issued by Sidgwick & Jackson. The edition comprises copies of the first US edition (Grove Press, 1959), with a variant dustwrapper and a 'London | Sidgwick & Jackson' label mounted over the original publisher's details at the foot of the title page.

hardcover. Condition: very good(+). Dust Jacket Condition: good. Illustrated with black & white photographic illustrations. 536 pages, tall thick 8vo, black cloth, edgeworn d.w. New York: Grove Press, (1959). A very good(+) copy in a good dust wrapper.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Limited edition. Limited edition. Limited to 1500 numbered copies, this being #1193. A Very Good copy in Fair dust jacket. 8vo., 626 pp., illustrated with map end papers, and b&w photographs. Bound in black cloth in black, grey and white dust jacket. The dust jacket is chipped, worn and soiled. The text block edges are beginning to fox. The dj is now protected in a mylar sleeve. "This Special Edition of THE BLACK DIARIES (The Only One To Contain Roger Casement's Diary For the Year 1911) Is Limited To 1,500 Numbered Copies"-limitations page.

Condition: Buone. inglese Condizioni dell'esterno: Manca sovracopertina Condizioni dell'interno: Buone.

rilegato. Condition: Good. 0. Copertina: in piena tela, ingiallita lievemente. Legatura: editoriale. Dorso: con impressioni in oro. Pagine testo: ingiallite, brunite ai margini. Interno in ottime condizioni. Buono (Good) . Book.

Gr.-8°, Gebundene Ausgabe. Condition: Gut. Auflage: Limited. 626 Seiten Nr. 403 einer auf 1500 Exemplare limitierten Sonderausgabe. Einband gut und fest, am Rücken leicht berieben, Schnitte nachgedunkelt. Seiten hell und sauber. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1678.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Limited edition of 1,500 numbered copies (this is copy no. 1233). A large book, bound in black hardcovers. Frequent pencil brackets in margins of pages. Mottled patchy browning to fore-edge. Ex-owner's name penned on front prelims 'Paris, 1959'. Endpapers are colour maps. A solid, firmly bound copy with durable archival qualities. *HEAVY BOOK RATE! OVERSEAS SHIPPING EXTRA AT ACTUAL COST!*.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: Good-. Limited - 1st Edition. Limited Edition; #426/1500.626 pages in very good, clean condition. Illustrated with photographs. Mapped endpapers. Black cloth with gilt titles on the spine. Corners lightly bumped. Grey/white DJ with black titles. Chips and tears on the corners and edges. Lightly soiled. Tight binding. VG/GOOD-. Book.

Large Octavo (17.2 cm wide x 25.5 cm). 626 pages with numerous photographs throughout. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector's mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. The very rare Olympia Press Edition. Chapters in this monumental publication are: Irish Childhood / Africa / The Congo Report / The 1903 Diary / The Putumayo / The 1910 Diary / The Putumayo Report / The Awakening of Ireland / The Trial / The Aftermath / Appendix: The 1911 Diary Roger David Casement (Irish: Ruairí Dáithí Mac Easmainn; 1 September 1864 3 August 1916), known as Sir Roger Casement, CMG, between 1911 and 1916, was a diplomat and Irish nationalist executed by the United Kingdom for treason during World War I. He worked for the British Foreign Office as a diplomat, becoming known as a humanitarian activist, and later as a poet and Easter Rising leader. Described as the "father of twentieth-century human rights investigations", he was honoured in 1905 for the Casement Report on the Congo Free State and knighted in 1911 for his important investigations of human rights abuses in the rubber industry in Peru. In Africa as a young man, Casement first worked for commercial interests before joining the British Colonial Service. In 1891 he was appointed as a British consul, a profession he followed for more than 20 years. Influenced by the Second Boer War and his investigation into colonial atrocities against indigenous peoples, Casement grew to mistrust imperialism. After retiring from consular service in 1913, he became more involved with Irish republicanism and other separatist movements. During World War I, he made efforts to gain German military aid for the 1916 Easter Rising that sought to gain Irish independence. He was arrested, convicted and executed for high treason. He was stripped of his knighthood and other honours. Before, during and after the trial, British security agents and police showed typescripts prepared by the Metropolitan police to influential persons. These were said to be official copies of his private journals which detailed homosexual activities. Given prevailing views and existing laws on homosexuality, this material undermined support for clemency. Disputes have continued about these diaries; a private handwriting comparison study in 2002 concluded that Casement had written the diaries, but this was contested by several scholars. Casement worked in the Congo for Henry Morton Stanley and the African International Association from 1884; this association became known as a front for King Leopold II of Belgium in his takeover of what became the so-called Congo Free State. Casement worked on a survey to improve communication and recruited and supervised workmen in building a railroad to bypass the lower 220 miles (350 km) of the Congo River, which is made unnavigable by cataracts, in order to improve transportation and trade to the Upper Congo. During his commercial work, he learned African languages. In 1890 Casement met Joseph Conrad, who had come to the Congo to pilot a merchant ship, Le Roi des Belges ('King of the Belgians'). Both were inspired by the idea that "European colonisation would bring moral and social progress to the continent and free its inhabitants 'from slavery, paganism and other barbarities.' Each would soon learn the gravity of his error." Conrad published his short novel Heart of Darkness in 1899, exploring the colonial ills. Casement later exposed the conditions he found in the Congo during an official investigation for the British government. In these formative years, he also met Herbert Ward, and they became longtime friends. Ward left Africa in 1889, and devoted his time to becoming an artist, and his experience there strongly influenced his work. Casement joined the Colonial Service, under the authority of the Colonial Office, first serving overseas as a clerk in British West Africa. In August 1901 he transferred to the Foreign Office service as British consul in the eastern part of the French Congo. In 1903 the Balfour Government commissioned Casement, then its consul at Boma in the Congo Free State, to investigate the human rights situation in that colony of the Belgian king, Leopold II. Setting up a private army known as the Force Publique, Leopold had squeezed revenue out of the people of the territory through a reign of terror in the harvesting and export of rubber and other resources. In trade, Belgium shipped guns and other materials to the Congo, used chiefly to suppress the local people. 2014 Faroe Islands stamp depicting Casement and Daniel Jacob Danielsen, his Faroese boat captain and assistant. Casement travelled for weeks in the upper Congo Basin to interview people throughout the region, including workers, overseers and mercenaries. He delivered a long, detailed eyewitness report to the Crown that exposed abuses: "the enslavement, mutilation, and torture of natives on the rubber plantations".[22] It became known as the Casement Report of 1904. King Leopold had held the Congo Free State since 1885, when the Berlin Conference of European powers and the United States effectively gave him free rein in the area. Leopold had exploited the territory's natural resources (mostly rubber) as a private entrepreneur, not as king of the Belgians. Using violence and murder against men and their families, Leopold's private Force Publique had decimated many native villages in the course of forcing the men to gather rubber and abusing them to increase productivity. Casement's report provoked controversy, and some companies with a business interest in the Congo rejected its findings, as did Casement's former boss, Alfred Lewis Jones. When the report was made public, opponents of Congolese conditions formed interest groups, such as the Congo Reform Association, founded by E. D. Morel with Casement's support, and demanded action to relieve the situation of the Congolese. Other European nations followed suit, as did the United St.

AN EXCEPTIONAL COPY, WITH TWO UNIQUE AND IMPORTANT LETTERS CITED IN THE STANDARD OLYMPIA PRESS BIBLIOGRAPHY. One of 2,000 copies of the first British edition. (Actually this "British edition" was created by taking 2,000 copies of the first American (Grove Press) edition to England, putting a sticker over the imprint, and issuing a new dustjacket.) LAID IN ARE TWO EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TYPED LETTERS SIGNED--ABOUT 1,000 WORDS--FROM THE EDITOR, SINGLETON-GATES, on his letterhead, to a correspondent in Nothern Rhodesia (later Zambia) (!). In these unpublished letters, written during the 1960s, Singleton-Gates describes his feelings towards Casement. He also describes, in passionate terms, the fascinating circumstances surrounding the publication of these scandalous diaries, and the numerous obstacles he faced, including copyright and censorship issues. He furthermore explains his various other projects relating to Casement, none of which came to fruition. It is fair to say that these letters shed considerable light on the limits of press freedoms in Britain during the late 50s and 60s, as well as on the way Casement's heirs felt about his legacy. THESE LETTERS ARE CITED--and briefly excerpted--on pp. 60-61 of Patrick Kearney's bibliography, The Paris Olympia Press (Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2007). Also laid in are numerous newspaper clippings from 1959 and 1960, all relating to the publication. 4to. Publisher's cloth. Fine and bright, in a very good price-clipped dj.

Condition: Sehr gut. 1. Aufl. 626 S., schw./w. Fotos, farbige Karten vorne und hinten, 24cm x 16cm Nr. 1336/1500, OGLn o. SU, dieser mit minimalen Gebrauchsspuren, wenig berieben, Papier und somit Schnitt altersbedingt wenig nachgedunkelt, ansonsten sehr guter Zustand. Unzugeordnet Aufgrund der aktuellen Zoll-Situation ist zur Zeit kein Versand in die USA möglich. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 1800.