Search Results: Authors starting with U from Christian White Rare Books Ltd.

Peradeniya: University of Ceylon, 1970. 220 x 143 mm. Very Good. Offprint from Modern Ceylon Studies: A Journal of the Social Sciences, vol 1, Number 1, January 1970, pp 94-114. In very good condition in pictorial card wrappers, with rust marks from the staples to the covers and internally. Signed by the author to the upper cover. From the collection of Kenneth Robinson (1914-2005), a distinguished civil servant who became an expert on colonial government and administration. He was closely involved in international aspects of postwar planning, including former colonies, in south-West Africa (now Namibia), and became the Commonwealth Office expert on French West Africa. He became assistant secretary in the CO in 1946 (and head of the West African department), but resigned in 1948 to become reader in Commonwealth government at Oxford and subsequently director and professor of commonwealth affairs at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in London. He was vice-chancellor of the University of Hong Kong… Read More

United Kingdom: Unpublished, 1897. Hardcover. Good. ff 245; 535 photographs. Massive folio journal recording the evangelical 'Beach Missions' and indefatigable preaching to poor children of George and Montgomery Goodman who were members of the Children's Special Service Mission, later the Scripture Union. Bound in half red morocco with the backstrip leather largely absent, upper hinge slightly tender. Goodman, was has used a Partridge and Cooper ledger (label inside upper cover) about 3 inches thick with the manuscript title page: 'Illustrated Diary of Passing Events Containing 535 Illustrations' and a mixture of black ink entries and small and large original photograps taken by Montgomery who makes repeated reference to his interest in photography, as on Relief of Mafeking Day: 'Outside the Mansion House was a huge crowd many thousands strong cheering and singing patriotic songs all day - it was hopeless to attemt to use a camera in it so I got permission to stand at the window... From this… Read More

New York: United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, 1954. 220 x 143 mm. Fine. Vol7 no4 of a monthly magazine for Local Union officers and stewards of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America(UE). This small octavo publication is fine in photographic card wrappers, no tears or marks as it has been protected by a stiff card envelope. This book comes from the Franklin Delano Roosevelt collection of Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr, 1910 - 2001, the son of Ellen Walters Delano who was a first cousin to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Adams became a passionate bibliophile who served as director of the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City for two decades and compiled a significant personal collection relating to F.D.R.. In 1969 he married his third wife who was a Swedish princess and with whom he shared the final years of his life in France. Adams' move to France explains the presence of his books in the United Kingdom. Fine 1954

New York: United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, 1946. 220 x 143 mm. Fine. Publication no 262, an anniversary issue reprinted from the UE Steward, a monthly magazine for Local Union officers and stewards of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America(UE). This small octavo publication is fine in photographic paper wrappers, no tears or marks as it has been protected by a stiff card and cellophane envelope. This book comes from the Franklin Delano Roosevelt collection of Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr, 1910 - 2001, the son of Ellen Walters Delano who was a first cousin to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Adams became a passionate bibliophile who served as director of the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City for two decades and compiled a significant personal collection relating to F.D.R.. In 1969 he married his third wife who was a Swedish princess and with whom he shared the final years of his life in France. Adams' move to France explains the presence of his… Read More

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965. 220 x 143 mm. Very Good. Very good pamphlet in printed card wrappers, one stain and browning to the upper cover; the stab sewn pages are crisp if a little creased. This book comes from the collection of Walter Stein, a British writer, literary critic and Catholic moral philosopher. Born in 1922, Stein was a Jewish refugee from pre-war Austria, educated by the Quakers in York and eventually a Catholic convert who worked in the Department of Extramural Studies at Leeds University. Very Good 1965

Cambridge and London: F hodson for J Deighton, 1812. Hardcover. Near Fine. xvi, pp304 Cambridge calendar updated with university business until March 1812, the date of the advertisement. Modern buckram binding with green morocco spine label; large fold out plate of university honours, browned with tissue repairs. This duodecimo volume is a mine of fascinating information, each College offering a list of fellows and undergraduates. Near Fine 1812

London: Augustus Applegarth and Edward Cowper, 1810. Unopened and apparently unrecorded chapbook printed on blue paper around 1810 by the innovative printers Applegarth and Cowper. Woodcut to the title page, priced at one penny, unread condition. The spine fold between the outer two of the four leaves has separated: pp8. A version of this text was printed for the Tract Society (one copy at Cambridge University Library); no copy of this version located. Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item 1810

London: Taylor and Walton, 1845. Hardcover. Very Good. [12] pp 1-378 A four hundred page commonplace from the mid 19th century which reveals a demanding scheme of reading by its Victorian author. The writer does not reveal his or her identity although the author seems to have been bilingual in French and English and reads and writes in both languages. The manuscript which dates from 1837-1852 is written in a single cursive forward sloping hand which is easily legible and develops a more individual style as the years progress which seems to suggest a young writer. The author mentions her parents several times, for example in January 1843 "Papa has just finished reading to me Lord J Russell's History of the English Constitution". The detailed index to the rear includes many French subjects such as "Caractere de Charles 12" and "Lettre de Bonaparte" along with lighter reading such as a review of Walter Scott's Ivanhoe. The manuscript is in very good condition, and the binding firm although the marbled… Read More

France: Unpublished, 1950. 45 original drawings of 'Enlumineurs', printing offices and early printers compiled by a French scholar. Oblong quarto in pretty shiny cloth covered boards. 3 typed pages to the rear offer a 'Table des Planches' including images of Sebastian Brant, a Durer and others. A highly individual volume. Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item 1950

Collins: T V Boardman, 1963. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition in red cloth, a very good copy, no ownership inscriptions in very good jacket, not price-clipped, closed tear along top inch of hinge between front panel and spine. A British bloodhound mystery. Very Good 1963