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FIRST EDITION, ASSOCIATION COPY. 8vo, pp. xix, [1], 308. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, blind single ruled border to upper board. Fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. Lightly rubbed and soiled, extremities bumped. Edges toned. POI to ffep: "F. Seymour Cocks/ 1929". Scant foxing to front and end, some pencil and pen scoring, very occasional briefest notes, else, clean. Envelope, addressed to 'F.S. Cocks Esq, M.P./ House of Commons,' with 2 1/2p stamp and '3 Jan 1946' postage mark, laid in: torn and empty. Good+ An interesting association copy of this procedural guide to the House of Commons, with the ownership inscription of Frederick Seymour Cocks (1882-1953), dated 1929, the year he was elected Labour MP for Broxtowe, Nottinghamshire, and featuring scoring by an engaged reader - likely the new MP - and very occasional notes, including: "Churchill didn't." against "Lord Palmerston, when appointed Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, vacated his seat (May, 45)" (p.38). Darlington-born Cocks had earlier authored tracts for the Independent Labour Party and the anti-war Union of Democratic Control, as well as a 1920 biography of his fellow Labour MP E.D. Morel, who campaigned against the exploitation of the Congolese peoples in the Belgian rubber trade. Cocks held his Broxtowe seat until his death at 70 in 1953. Foreword by Sir T. Lonsdale Webster, K.C.B, Clerk of the House of Commons. Seller Inventory # 876
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