Temperley a C (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content has toning to page ends. DJ with some edge wear, tears, loss and fading. Clipped.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean but has toning and some foxing/spotting. DJ with some edge wear, toning and creasing. Owner pencil signature to prelim page.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content has toning to page ends. No DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Good tight condition, soiling on fore edge, inscription on end page, green boards, corners bumped, shelf wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition. Hardback. 192pp, plus adverts. Near Very Good condition, no dust jacket. Yellow cloth. Original owner's inscription dated 1937 on front free end paper.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Royal8vo, second impression, pp,359, gilt titled blue cloth, bookseller's ticket on the leading paste-down endpaper, early name on the leading free endpaper, leading hinge cracked but tight, scattered foxing.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 359. Signed by AC Temperley on title page. Post-war history, League of Nations, Disarmament Conference, etc. Good long contempoarary newspaper eview of the book by Keith G Feiling loosely insterted. Front endpapers very slightly browned, fore-edges and prelims a little foxed otherwise sharp near fine in near fine dust jacket. Signedes.

2nd imp. chipped dust jacket Near Fine octavo 359pp., index, Author contends that allowing Germany a level of moderate rearmament would have prevented the Nazis coming to power.

FIRST EDITION. A candid insider account of the diplomatic culture that failed to prevent the crises of 1914 and the renewed disasters of the 1930s. Major-General Arthur Cecil Temperley held senior positions in the War Office before retiring from the military and becoming military correspondent for the Daily Telegraph in 1935. The book blends political analysis with sharply etched portraits of the individuals, including ambassadors, generals, intermediaries, and unofficial envoys, who operated behind the formal machinery of statecraft. Temperley argues that modern European history has been shaped as much by private conversations, misunderstandings, and rumour as by treaties or public statements, and that the interwar collapse of old-world diplomacy left the continent dangerously exposed to manipulation and miscalculation. With foreword by Anthony Eden. BOOK: Original teal cloth boards square and straight; page edges a little toned and spotted; some very sparse foxing to end-matter, offsetting to endpapers, neat gift inscription to ffep. DJ: Unclipped jacket worn to extremities; spine ends and corners reinforced with black paper strips, verso. Presents well overall.