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My Life
by Clinton, Bill
NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 2004. Stated First Edition. 1. Hard Cover. 0375414576 . Publisher's full blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine, author's name blind-stamped on cover. Illustrated with 32 pages of B&W photographs. Includes extremely detailed Index. This is an unmarked, seemingly unread copy. . Page edges show little shelf-wear, top front corner gently bumped, else, tight, square and clean. Unclipped dust jacket has some creases top edge, cover has...
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NZ$42.80
Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Clinton, Bill
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2007. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0307266745 . A Fine first edition/first printing in a like dust-jacket; In Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World, Bill Clinton argues that every individual has the power to make a positive impact on the world. He provides readers with inspiring examples of everyday people who have made a difference in their communities and the world at large. Clinton encourages readers to use their personal...
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NZ$119.84
Why Courage Matters - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by McCain, John; Salter, Mike
New York: Random House. Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket. 2004. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1400060303 . A most beautiful and scarce first edition/first printing in Very Fine condition in alike dust-jacket, SIGNED by author, 2008 Presidential Candidate and Arizona Senator John McCain on the title page; U. S. Senator John McCain and long time staffer Mike Salter meditate about courage and how facing adversity makes us better people. By giving examples of the ordinary and the great, McCain...
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NZ$171.20
Six Minutes in May - How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister
by Shakespeare, Nicholas
London: Harvill Secker, 2017. An As New unmarked copy with an As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. viii + 508 pages. 35 illustrations. Norway campaign map. Endpapers Neville Chamberlain speaking in the Norway debate, 7 Mayj 1940. London, early May 1940: Britain is under threat of invasion and Neville Chamberlain's government is about to fall. It is hard for us to imagine the Second World War without Winston Churchill taking over the helm, but in this book the author shows how easily...
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NZ$25.48
Burgess and MacLean
by Purdy, Anthony and Sutherland, Douglas
London: Secker & Warburg, 1963. No marks or inscriptions to contents. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked navy cloth boards, foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with tiny tears and nicks to edges and a little rubbing. Now protected in a fully-removable transparent sleeve. 191pp. An account of the story of Burgess and Maclean, the British diplomats who were spys for the Russians, including the story of their previous lives.. First...
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NZ$14.33
August and Rab - A Memoir
by Butler, Mollie
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987. A VG+ unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket which is not price clipped. A captivating memoir which describes an unusually full and adventurous life, shared for the most part with two famous men; the Arctic explorer August Courtauld and the stateman R.A. (Rab) Butler. Mollie Montgomerie became engaged in 1930 to her childhood friend August Courtauld, their honeymoon was spent camel trekking in the remote Sudan, and she was one of the first women to visit eastern...
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NZ$14.87
The Life and Times of Thomas Spence
by Ashraf, P. M
Newcastle Upon Tyne: Frank Graham, 1983. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked orange cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with tiny nick/crease to lower front corner. 212pp. Biography of Thomas Spence, born in Newcastle in 1750 who made a big contribution to radical and working class thinking and who was well ahead of his time.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8.5 x 6 inches.
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NZ$25.38
Keeping Faith - 1st Edition/1st Printing (Limited)
by Carter, Jimmy
New York: Bantam Books. Fine+. 1982. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0553050230 . A special Limited edition in Very Fine condition in the original dark blue cloth in Fine matching slipcase, SIGNED by US President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter with his full signature "Jimmy Carter" on the limitation page; The problems that Jimmy Carter faced in the White House were tremendous. This book gives a very thorough and honest review of the major challenges confronting...
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NZ$1,266.88
Memorial Addresses and Other Tributes on the Life and Contributions of Carl T. Hayden - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Ninety-Second Congress
Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. Very Good. 1972. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A first edition/first printing in Very Good condition with bumped corners and other general wear to the boards; Memorial addresses and tributes in the Congress of the United States to the late Carl T. Hayden, Senator from Arizona; 8vo; 174 pages .
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NZ$102.72
DISRAELI
by Bradford, Sarah
NY: Stein & Day. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1983. 1st American Edition (stated). First Printing. Hard Cover. 0812828992 . Quarter bound in publisher's red cloth ovr black boards, gilt lettering on spine, publisher's mark blind-stamped on cover. Illustrated with eight pages of B&W photographs. Includes extensive Notes, Bibliography and Index. . This is an unmarked copy in excellent condition except for a small bump on the bottom of the front board, else fine+. The dust jacket, now...
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NZ$25.68
The Path to Power
by Margaret Thatcher
London: HarperCollins, 1995. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and minor bump to lower front corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with a little indenting to spine and minor traces of storage. 656pp. Margaret Thatcher's own account of her early years before she became Prime Minister and her thoughts and feelings as she left Downing Street in 1990 and about the course Britain, Europe and the rest of the world took over...
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NZ$15.40
The True History of Lord Beaverbrook
by Wood, Alan
London: Heinemann, 1965. Gold title on black boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally foxing to closed edges else a clean, tight and unmarked copy. Dustjacket has a little wear to top and is price clipped. A masterful and very readable biography of the politician and newspaper magnate with 17 illustrations. With a postscript by Sir John Elliot. Because the author died in 1957, his book has been brought up to date by Sir John Elliot, who next to Lord Beaverbrook's family and Sir...
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NZ$16.99
China Diary: Senator and Mrs. Magnuson's Journey to the People's Republic of China
by Jermaine Magnuson
N/A, N/A, 1974? . Hardcover . VG/none. SIGNED/INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Limited edition, numbered 16 of 100. Bit of soiling.
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NZ$68.48
Ain't Gonna Study War No More
by Milton Meltzer
NY, Harper & Row, 1985, 3rd . Hardcover . VG+/VG+. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. DJ in in new Brodart protecter.
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NZ$25.68
Bonnie Prince Charlie
by Maclean, Fitzroy
London: Guild Publishing, 1988. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight bump to top of spine and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very light creasing to upper front edge. 386pp. An authoritative biography of Bonnie Prince Charlie which throws new light on the life of this legendary figure. Illustrated.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 9.5 x 6.5 inches.
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NZ$10.51
Revolutions Revisited: Two Faces of the Politics of Enlightenment - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Lerner, Ralph
Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1994. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0807821365 . A stunning first edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dust-jacket; This book provides a fresh, new perspective on the politics of the Enlightenment, by examining the contrasting views of two of its most celebrated proponents, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Immanuel Kant. Drawing on a wealth of primary source material, Revolutions Revisited...
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NZ$102.72
The Real War
by Nixon, Richard M
New York: Warner Books. Fine. 1980. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 044651201X . A beautiful edition limited to 2,500 copies in Fine condition, minor scraping to bottom, SIGNED by author and former US President Richard M. Nixon on the limitation page, this copy being copy 718 of 2,500; The Real War, written in 1979, was a rallying cry for a declining and struggling United States. President Nixon spells out the realities of the Cold War conflict, the nature of the Soviet adversary, and the...
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NZ$1,198.40
Churchill : The Rise to Failure 1874-1915
by Morgan, Ted
London: Triad/Panther Books, 1984. No marks or inscriptions. Minor creasing to covers, faint crease to arched spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 672pp. Biography of the early years of Winston Churchill as his career seemed doomed to failure.. Soft Cover. Very Good. 7.75 x 5 inches.
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NZ$13.27
Beacon Lights of History, Volume VI: Part I - American Founders; Part II - American Leaders
by Lord, James, Ll. D
New York: WM. H. Wise & Co.. Good+. [1921]. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. A bright Reprint edition in Good+ condition with starting front hinge, rubbed boards, and previous owner's stamp to front pastedown; Beacon Lights of History, Volume VI: Part I - American Founders; Part II - American Leaders is a comprehensive and detailed account of the lives of the American Founders and American Leaders. The book is divided into two parts, the first focusing on the American Founders and the second on...
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NZ$85.60
Kinnock
by Leapman, Michael
London: Unwin Hyman, 1987. A Fine uninscribed copy with Fine complete dustjacket. A biography of Neil Kinnock who was elected leader in 1983 of the party, which was soon engulfed in problems from a miners' strike, rebellion by local councils and the rise of the 'Loony Left'. Yet by 1987 Labour was regularly achieving 38% in opinion polls and from a party split by disputes between right and left, Kinnock had welded together a force with a real chance of coming to power. The author has followed...
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NZ$16.99
Before the Trumpet: Young Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1905 -1st Edition/1st Printing
by Ward, Geoffrey C
Paulo, Singapore, Sydney: Harper & Row, Publishers. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1985. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0060154519 . First edition/first printing in Near Fine condition, top and bottom edges lightly sunned in alike dustjacket, minor wear to top edge; Drawing upon thousands of original documents, many of them never before examined, the former editor of American Heritage magazine presents an entirely new picture of Franklin Roosevelt's early life and of the forces...
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NZ$85.60
Life and Public Services of Hon. Benjamin Harrison
by Wallace, Ge. Lew
Edgewood Publishing Co.. Fair with no dust jacket. 1892. Cloth. Brown boards with gold lettering is scuffed with corners worn, text is acid toned; A biographical sketch, co-authored with Hon. Murat Halstead; 8vo; 530 pages .
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NZ$136.96
Like No Other Time: the 107th Congress and the Two Years That Changed America Forever - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Daschle, Senator Tom with Michael D'Orso
New York: Crown Publishers. Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket. 2003. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1400049555 . This Very Fine copy with alike dust jacket is signed and dated (11/10/03) by Senator Daschle on the second flyleaf; The US Senate minority leader offers his perspective on the 107th Congress that faced challenges from the 2000 presidential elections to 9/11, corporate scandals, and dissension over the war on terror. Daschle's assessment of how the US Government met-and sometimes...
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NZ$119.84
Politics and Progress : Renewing Democracy and Civil Society
by Blunkett, David
London: Politico's Publishing, 2001. No marks or inscriptions. Tiny crease to upper corner of front cover, none to rear or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 170pp. David Blunkett's agenda for political and social renewal. From the Personal Library of the late Emeritus Professor Peter Townsend of Bristol University and the London School of Economics, Founding Professor of the University of Essex and founder of the Child Poverty...
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NZ$10.51
