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New York: Frederick A. Praeger. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1958. Tenth Printing. Hardcover. 214 p. 21 cm. Sound and square binding in cloth-covered boards. Slight wear to the corner tips. Top edge of the text block a little dusty. Inside pages are clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has heavy wear to the spine ends, less wear to corners. Spine has some moisture staining. Soil and foxing to the white panels. Price clipped. A critique of the Communism by a former party member. The author was an influential leader of the Yugoslav Communist Party who came to attack the Communist system and was sentenced to hard labout in Mitrovica prison as a result. .

London: Ernest Benn Limited. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. 307 p. 24.5 cm. Sound and square binding in cloth-covered boards. Rub wear to corner tips and spine ends. Bottom fore-corners softened. A little light soil to the text block edges. Glue remains from bookplate on the front pastedown endpaper. Inside pages are clean and unmarked, but toned. The dust jacket has heavy wear to the spine ends, and a stain and darkening to the spine. Corners also show wear. The paper has tanned. An essay on civil rights by Gordon Hewart, 1st Viscount Hewart and the Lord Chief Justice of England. The author asserts that the rule of law in Britain was being undermined by the executive at the expense of the legislature and the courts. The book created "a constitutional and political storm". It was rumoured that Whitehall "considered an attempt to boycott it". In response the British Government appointed the Donoughmore Committee (chaired by Lord… Read More

Montreal: Publications (1943) Limited. Good+. 1945. Hardcover. 55 p. 22 cm. Light wear and bumping to corners. Some rubbing and scratches. Former owner's name on endpaper. An anti-socialist publication, in which the author warns of the dangers of the Canadian Socialist-CCF party to the Canadian people. .