What are the Social Effects of Trades Unions, Strikes, and Lock-outs?

Watts, John. / London/Manchester: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co./A Ireland and Co., 1878
21, [1] pp, library markings, corner chipped off with loss of page numbers, text complete but a poor and disbound copy in self wrappers; author applauds union activities that cost employers nothing but cannot understand why workers do not patiently wait for pay increase and better working conditions to flow "naturally" from above while they enjoy the "mutual respect" gained from their passivity. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Great Britain, trade unions, Labor, Labour

Item #: 571956

$9.25

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Colliery Engineering. Twenty-Fourth Volume. From January to December, 1947.

Colliery Engineering. / London: 1947
Volume 24 only; large quarto (29 cm. tall), later cloth, [425] pp. of text, the pictorial paper wrappers and advertising material (larger in bulk than the text) is gathered at the end; library markings but good. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: coal mining, collieries, Great Britain

Item #: 570136

$23.91

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Colliery Engineering. Twenty-sixth Volume. From January to December, 1949.

Colliery Engineering. / London: 1947
Volume 26 only; large quarto (28.5 cm. tall), later boards with cloth tape spine, 456 pp. of text, the pictorial paper wrappers and advertising material (considerably larger in bulk than the text) is gathered at the end; library markings but else very good. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: coal mining, collieries, Great Britain

Item #: 570137

$22.50

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Clayton and Bulwer Convention. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting A report from the Secretary of State ,,,

Clayton-Bulwer Treaty. / Washington: 1856
1 page; issued as 34th Congress, 1st Session, HEWD 75; one leaf with light extrction roughness at margin; a simple notification that the related correspondence has been printed. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: United States, Geat Britain, diplomacy

Item #: 566535

$10.44

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Germany's Move and Britain's Answer. Speech by the Right Hon. Earl Curzon of Kedleston on December 19th, 1916.

Curzon, George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquis of. / London: Hayman, Christy & Lilly Ltd 1916
18 pp, library markings, fore edge tattered with no loss, spine trimmed also with no loss but now disbound in self wrappers; a response to peace feelers from the Central Powers to "end this reign of Satan which is turning half the world into a hell" but Britain will not allow them to negotiate from a position of strength; "This generation has suffered in order that the next may live, and that the next one may be free.",. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: World War I, Great Britain

Item #: 566467

$4.78

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London Historical & Picturesque.

London, England. / NP: 1920
large oblong quarto, 25 full page sepia photogravures with no text other than captions, a smaller illustration of the Hotel Rubens mounted on front cover, original paper wrappers lightly frayed but overall very good. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: London, England, Great Britain

Item #: 557784

$15.66

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Le Grand Frederic. Traduit de l'allemand.

Hegemann, Werner. / Paris: Gallimard, 1934
small octavo, 425 pp, text and paper wrappers browned, complete but good only. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Frederick II, King of Prussia, Frederick the Great, FBB

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Item #: 554512

$8.41

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La politica preferenziale britannica. Raccolta di studi a cura dell'Istituto di Politica Economica e Finanziaria della R. Universita di Roma.

Valenziani, Carlo. / Milano: Fratelli Treves Editori 1931
first edition; x, 408 pp, paper wrappers dark at spine, only light general age toning tp text and mostly unopened, inserted is an autograph note, signed, from Urbain Mengin presenting the book to Italian historian Guglielmo Ferrero. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Great Britain, preferential tariffs, FBB, QMJ

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Item #: 552635

$11.20

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Charles Alvin Gillig's London Guide. With the important Suburban Districts.

Gillig, Charles Alvin. / London: Charles Allen Gillig, 1899
London: Charles Allen Gillig, 1899; small octavo, 254 pp., portrait frontis., small illustrations in text; original red cloth badly stained and worn at spine with front hinge broken through and front free endpaper detached and chipped, lacks pages 3/4 (an ad), general age toning, working copy only. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: travel, Great Britain, London, guidebooks

Item #: 550803

$12.34

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Leicestershire and Rutland Notes and Queries and Antiquarian Gleaner. An Illustrated Quarterly Magazine. (Parts 1-12)

Spencer, John, & Thomas Spencer, eds. / Leicester/London: J. & T. Spencer/Elliot Stock, 1889
Volume 1, Parts 1-8, complete, [viii], 311, [1] pp., plates Volume 2, Parts 9-12, 151, [1] pp., plates; library book plates and markings, later half leather bindings, dry, worn, and need replacement, one plate in first tattered at margin with no loss, general age toning to text but not fragile, good. Volumes Included: 2

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Great Britain, England, Leicestershire, Rutland, SAM57

Item #: 550742

$24.02

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Punch, or the London Charivari. (Volumes 114 and 115)

Punch / London: 1898
Volume 114 (January 8 through July 2, 1898) with Punchs Almanack for 1898, [general volume title leaf], iv (preface), [36] (Almanack), 312 pp. Volume 115 (July 9 through December 31, 1898), [general volume title leaf], iv (preface), 312 pp, both quarto and both profusely illustrated; matching half leather bindings worn and chipped, some bottom margins shaved with occasional loss of the repeated publisher's information on back covers or bottom border of front cover, no actual text or illustration touched, one leaf has a neat corner repair but overall a very good and clean text with all covers and advertisements present. Volumes Included: 2

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: popular literature, Great Britain, British humor

Item #: 549412

$36.10

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Punch, or the London Charivari. (Volume 184)

Owen Seaman (editor) Punch Publications Ltd. / London: 1933
Volume 184 (January 4 through June 28, 1933) only; large quarto, 728 pp., numerous cartoons with a few political; later cloth damp stained and faded at spine, text has a light general warp but no staining, only the front cover of the first issue retained, no other covers present. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: popular literature, Great Britain, British humor

Item #: 549411

$23.50

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The Excursionist's Guide to the Environs of London with Topographical, Historical, Biographical and Descriptive Notices, Routes, Distances and Fares.

Emerson, George R. / London/Liverpool: George Philip and Son/Philip, Son, and Nephew, 1869
16mo, viii, 163, [1] pp, library and ownership markings, paper wrappers taped at spine but still chipped at tail, front hinge strengthened, general light age toning, reading copy. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: travel, Great Britain, guidebooks

Item #: 547963

$51.32

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A Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to North Wales (Northern Section). Six District Maps and Five Town Plans. Sixty Illustrations.

Ward, Lock's Guides. / London: Ward, Lock, & Co., 1924
London: Ward, Lock, & Co., 1924; Nonth Edition, Revised; not consecutively pagination but substantial, folding maps and plans, plates; original cloth covered stiff paper wrappers darkening, near very good. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: travel, Great Britain, Wales, guidebooks

Item #: 547960

$21.66

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Companion to the Calendars for the year 1831; being a List of all the Changes in Administration from the Commencement of the Present Century ... with a complete abstract of the Election Laws.

James Ridgway / London: James Ridgway 1831
12mo, 151, [1] pp, a bright text but extraction roughness at spine and now partially disbound in self wrappers. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Great Britain, Parliament, registers

Item #: 545980

$49.54

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A Digest of Cases Decided in France Relating to Private International Law.

Pellerin, Pierre. / London: Stevens & Sons, 1914
London: Stevens & Sons, 1914; 134 pp, ex library in original stiff paper cover, text tanned but still a sound and good copy; "A selection of the most interesting and recent decisions rendered in France upon points of private international law in cases in which British, American and French parties have been concerned.",. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: France, United States, Great Britain, international law

Item #: 543741

$13.21

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How Britain Can Abolish War

Maclagan, O. F. / London: E. R. Duke & Co., Ltd. 1914
Third Edition, previously published as "War Abolished" and "Britain's Opportunity"; 47, [1] pp, minor library markings, lacks back cover of paper wrappers and spine trimmed with no loss, now entirely disbound but a clean text. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: World War I, Great Britain, peace

Item #: 543725

$12.71

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The BEAMA Catalogue, 1952-53. Second Edition.

British Electrical & Allied Manufactures' Assn. / London: Iliffe & Sons for BEAMA, 1952
large quarto; xvi, 1001, [1] pp. with seven unnumbered and tabbed section divider sheets, illustrated throughout; library book plate and markings, early leaves have vertical creases, still overall very good; aimed at the export market, includes entire power plants and other industrial equipment along with a smaller section on consumer goods. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Great Britain, electrical equipment industry, business history,

Item #: 562919

$88.26

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An Open Letter to an English Officer and Incidentally to the English People.

Hansen, Ferdinand. / Hamburg: Overseas Publishing Co., 1921
Hamburg: Overseas Publishing Co., 1921; 92 pp, library markings, age toned and needs careful handling, original paper sides present but spine trimmed and now entirely disbound, complete text but working copy only: Hansen, the President of the Romanoff Caviar Company, is outraged that during the war the British propaganda machine spewed lies, the English clergy urged "their flocks, their herds of murderers in uniform and in mufti to 'kill! kill! kill!'", that the peace has been "born a monster", etc. etc.. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: World War I, Great Britain, propaganda

Item #: 543724

$5.09

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England's Dealings with Ireland.

Watson, (Robert) Spence. / Manchester: National Reform Union, 1887
75 pp., issued as a Nation Reform Union Pamphet; library markings, text browned with one corner of title gone, needs careful handling and a working copy only; a historical overview of the relationship between Ireland and Great Britain. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Ireland, Great Britain

Item #: 541911

$5.67

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