Peter singleton gates (31 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. Acceptable condition. Acceptable dust jacket. (ireland, britain, politics) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.…

Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. Acceptable dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, paper age-toned, bookplate of a previous owner to the front pastedown, the body of text is clean and unmarked, the unclipped pictorial dust wrapper is chipped at the head of a darkened spine and strengthened to the verso, b&w plates, 328pp.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. A very good copy in brown cloth binding, b&w frontis portrait and other illstns. Just a touch of tanning in the endpapers The dust jacket is slightly faded at the spine, in a clear film protective sleeve.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. The book has mild foxing to the prelims and page edges. The jacket has very shallow chipping to the head of the spine and some light scratching and rubbing.

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 328 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Subjects: Freyberg, Bernard Cyril baron 1889-1963. World War One, 1914-1918, WW1, WWI, First World War, Great War, World War Two, 1939-1945, WWII, WW2, Second World War, Middle East, 1940-1943, Italy (1943-1945), 1943-1945, Sicily. 1 Kg.…

Super octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (tatty); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.…

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 328 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Subjects: Freyberg, Bernard Cyril baron 1889-1963. World War One, 1914-1918, WW1, WWI, First World War, Great War, World War Two, 1939-1945, WWII, WW2, Second World War, Middle East, 1940-1943, Italy (1943-1945), 1943-1945, Sicily. 1 Kg.…

first edition, octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. First English language edition. Royal 8vo. 536pp. Black cloth-covered boards with silverstamped title to spine. Bottom corner of upper cover bumped. Cloth rubbed at bottom edges with some board exposed. Textblock edges toned; textblock interior lightly toned. Errata slip pasted-in. Limited, numbered edition: 207/2000. B&W photos throughout. Red/blk dj. edgeworn with chipping to top spine extreme & upper top corner. Dj. covered in protective mylar. …

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 8vo.,536pp. this copy printed in USA for Grove Press, title page has Sidgwick & Jackson label applied over the Grove Press line. top edge lightly browned with some light foxing map endpapers have faded edges, ownership text to verso of front free endpaper, errata label pasted to verso of the half title, very good in original black cloth with silver gilt titlesto spine, top and tail of spine has faded patches coresponding to dustwrapper losses otherwise light shelfwear, very good. in original UK dustwrapper unclipped, worn all edges, small losses top of faded spine, small tears, good now in removable cello sleeve Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 328 pages. dj ripped and chipped and taped to endpapers. Text edge foxed.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 328 pages. missing dj, some foxing, light shelf wear.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 328 pages. dj ripped and chipped and taped to endpapers. Text edge foxed.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Limited edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Moderate wear to the boards. Sound binding. Clean interior pages. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First American edition. Large octavo. Name and stamp of a noted psychologist on the first blank else fine in very good or better dust jacket with a small stain and a bit of soiling.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. d/j edge wear & plastic cover taped to endpapers . name on ffep.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Dust Jacket Included. Dust jacket in severely worn, as shown in photo. Cloth binding is in otherwise good condition with only slight shelf wear obtained around the edges. Internally inscribed from previous owner on publisher page. Slight yellowing of paper from age. Copy 1175 of 1500 printed.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1959 ('special edition')/ 1959. Tall octavo, 536 pages with numerous illustrations (from photographs) and a map plus an errata slip mounted on the verso of the half-title, and endpaper maps. Cloth slightly bumped at the top corners; edges a little discoloured, with the top edge foxed; a very good copy with the good unclipped dustwrapper a little worn, and moderately sunned on the spine. A small label mounted on the verso of the title page states this is number 711 of a maximum of 2000 copies of a 'special edition' issued by Sidgwick & Jackson. The edition comprises copies of the first US edition (Grove Press, 1959), with a variant dustwrapper and a 'London | Sidgwick & Jackson' label mounted over the original publisher's details at the foot of the title page.…

Gr.-8°, Gebundene Ausgabe. Zustand: Gut. Auflage: Limited. 626 Seiten Nr. 403 einer auf 1500 Exemplare limitierten Sonderausgabe. Einband gut und fest, am Rücken leicht berieben, Schnitte nachgedunkelt. Seiten hell und sauber. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1678.

Zustand: Sehr gut. Large Octavo (17.2 cm wide x 25.5 cm). 626 pages with numerous photographs throughout. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector's mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. The very rare Olympia Press Edition. Chapters in this monumental publication are: Irish Childhood / Africa / The Congo Report / The 1903 Diary / The Putumayo / The 1910 Diary / The Putumayo Report / The Awakening of Ireland / The Trial / The Aftermath / Appendix: The 1911 Diary Roger David Casement (Irish: Ruairí Dáithí Mac Easmainn; 1 September 1864 3 August 1916), known as Sir Roger Casement, CMG, between 1911 and 1916, was a diplomat and Irish nationalist executed by the United Kingdom for treason during World War I. He worked for the British Foreign Office as a diplomat, becoming known as a humanitarian activist, and later as a poet and Easter Rising leader. Described as the "father of twentieth-century human rights investigations", he was honoured in 1905 for the Casement Report on the Congo Free State and knighted in 1911 for his important investigations of human rights abuses in the rubber industry in Peru. In Africa as a young man, Casement first worked for commercial interests before joining the British Colonial Service. In 1891 he was appointed as a British consul, a profession he followed for more than 20 years. Influenced by the Second Boer War and his investigation into colonial atrocities against indigenous peoples, Casement grew to mistrust imperialism. After retiring from consular service in 1913, he became more involved with Irish republicanism and other separatist movements. During World War I, he made efforts to gain German military aid for the 1916 Easter Rising that sought to gain Irish independence. He was arrested, convicted and executed for high treason. He was stripped of his knighthood and other honours. Before, during and after the trial, British security agents and police showed typescripts prepared by the Metropolitan police to influential persons. These were said to be official copies of his private journals which detailed homosexual activities. Given prevailing views and existing laws on homosexuality, this material undermined support for clemency. Disputes have continued about these diaries; a private handwriting comparison study in 2002 concluded that Casement had written the diaries, but this was contested by several scholars. Casement worked in the Congo for Henry Morton Stanley and the African International Association from 1884; this association became known as a front for King Leopold II of Belgium in his takeover of what became the so-called Congo Free State. Casement worked on a survey to improve communication and recruited and supervised workmen in building a railroad to bypass the lower 220 miles (350 km) of the Congo River, which is made unnavigable by cataracts, in order to improve transportation and trade to the Upper Congo. During his commercial work, he learned African languages. In 1890 Casement met Joseph Conrad, who had come to the Congo to pilot a merchant ship, Le Roi des Belges ('King of the Belgians'). Both were inspired by the idea that "European colonisation would bring moral and social progress to the continent and free its inhabitants 'from slavery, paganism and other barbarities.' Each would soon learn the gravity of his error." Conrad published his short novel Heart of Darkness in 1899, exploring the colonial ills. Casement later exposed the conditions he found in the Congo during an official investigation for the British government. In these formative years, he also met Herbert Ward, and they became longtime friends. Ward left Africa in 1889, and devoted his time to becoming an artist, and his experience there strongly influenced his work. Casement joined the Colonial Service, under the authority of the Colonial Office, first serving overseas as a clerk in British West Africa. In August 1901 he transferred to the Foreign Office service as British consul in the eastern part of the French Congo. In 1903 the Balfour Government commissioned Casement, then its consul at Boma in the Congo Free State, to investigate the human rights situation in that colony of the Belgian king, Leopold II. Setting up a private army known as the Force Publique, Leopold had squeezed revenue out of the people of the territory through a reign of terror in the harvesting and export of rubber and other resources. In trade, Belgium shipped guns and other materials to the Congo, used chiefly to suppress the local people. 2014 Faroe Islands stamp depicting Casement and Daniel Jacob Danielsen, his Faroese boat captain and assistant. Casement travelled for weeks in the upper Congo Basin to interview people throughout the region, including workers, overseers and mercenaries. He delivered a long, detailed eyewitness report to the Crown that exposed abuses: "the enslavement, mutilation, and torture of natives on the rubber plantations".[22] It became known as the Casement Report of 1904. King Leopold had held the Congo Free State since 1885, when the Berlin Conference of European powers and the United States effectively gave him free rein in the area. Leopold had exploited the territory's natural resources (mostly rubber) as a private entrepreneur, not as king of the Belgians. Using violence and murder against men and their families, Leopold's private Force Publique had decimated many native villages in the course of forcing the men to gather rubber and abusing them to increase productivity. Casement's report provoked controversy, and some companies with a business interest in the Congo rejected its findings, as did Casement's former boss, Alfred Lewis Jones. When the report was made public, opponents of Congolese conditions formed interest groups, such as the Congo Reform Association, founded by E. D. Morel with Casement's support, and demanded action to relieve the situation of the Congolese. Other European nations followed suit, as did the United St.…

First Edition. Limited to 1500. Near fine copy in the original cloth. Bumped corners. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 536 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. Subjects; Casement, Roger, Sir (1864-1916). Casement, Roger, Sir (1864-1916) Diaries. Nationalists Ireland Biography. Revolutionaries Ireland Biography. Ireland History 1910-1921. 1 Kg. …

Zustand: Buone. inglese Condizioni dell'esterno: Manca sovracopertina Condizioni dell'interno: Buone.

First Edition. Limited to 1500. Near fine copy in the original cloth. Bumped corners. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 536 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. Subjects; Casement, Roger, Sir (1864-1916). Casement, Roger, Sir (1864-1916) Diaries. Nationalists Ireland Biography. Revolutionaries Ireland Biography. Ireland History 1910-1921. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. The English-issue of the first edition, limited to 2,000 numbered copies (this being #288). Royal 8vo. 536pp. Black cloth lettered in silver at the spine. With map-illustrated endpapers and scores and scores of photographs and manuscript reproductions. Errata slip pasted to the half-title verso. A virtually fine copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with some considerable fading to the publisher's red spine panel colouring, a touch of wear to one or two extremities, and a short internally repaired edge-tear. Several related newspaper clippings laid-in.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. Limited Edition. 626 pages in near fine condition. LIMITED #500/1500. Pages are clean and unmarked with black and white illustrations throughout. Page edges are lightly darkened and spotted. Bound in black cloth with gilt titles on the spine. Lightly bumped on the edges. White and grey dustjacket in fair condition with black titles. A large section of the back of the jacket and the spine is torn and missing. Heavily worn around the edges with chips and tears. Lightly scuffed and smudged. A puncture hole on the front flap. NF/FAIR. Book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: VG. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good-. Limited - 1st Edition. Limited Edition; #426/1500.626 pages in very good, clean condition. Illustrated with photographs. Mapped endpapers. Black cloth with gilt titles on the spine. Corners lightly bumped. Grey/white DJ with black titles. Chips and tears on the corners and edges. Lightly soiled. Tight binding. VG/GOOD-. Book. …

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. A smart first edition biography of diplomat and Irish nationalist Roger Casement, illustrated, with dust wrapper. A smart copy of the first edition. One of a limited edition run: 'the special edition of The Black Diaries (the only one to contain Roger Casement's diary for the year 1911), is limited to 1,500 numbered copies, this being number 57'. Casement's printeddiary entries appear as an appendix. The Black Diaries are alleged to be of the diplomat and Irish nationalist Roger Casement is most remembered for his execution following an accusation of treason during WWI. Pages of Casement's diaries which detailed meetings with male prostitutes were circulated by the British government, in a bid to cement a negative perception of Casement. The chapters within include description of Casement's 'Irish childhood'; the Congo report; the Putumayo; the trial; the aftermath and more. The joint publication of Peter Singleton Gates and French publisher and founder of the Olympia Press, Maurice Girodias. Bound in publisher's originalblack cloth. Featuring colour illustrated map endpapers, an illustrated half title, and frequent monochrome vignette illustrated throughout. Bound in original black cloth. In original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart. Very mild shelf wear. Moderate damp staining to boards. Dust wrapper generally smart. Moderate chipping and rubbing to extremities. Moderate closed tears to dust wrapper tail and spine. Moderate handling marks and spotting to dust wrapper covers. Moderate losses to spine. Small loss to dust wrapper front cover. Significant age toning and spotting to dust wrapper reverse. Internally, firmly bound, with infrequent and very mild strain. Pages generally very bright and clean, with the odd mild spot. Moderate spotting and handling marks to text block edges. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

AN EXCEPTIONAL COPY, WITH TWO UNIQUE AND IMPORTANT LETTERS CITED IN THE STANDARD OLYMPIA PRESS BIBLIOGRAPHY. One of 2,000 copies of the first British edition. (Actually this "British edition" was created by taking 2,000 copies of the first American (Grove Press) edition to England, putting a sticker over the imprint, and issuing a new dustjacket.) LAID IN ARE TWO EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TYPED LETTERS SIGNED--ABOUT 1,000 WORDS--FROM THE EDITOR, SINGLETON-GATES, on his letterhead, to a correspondent in Nothern Rhodesia (later Zambia) (!). In these unpublished letters, written during the 1960s, Singleton-Gates describes his feelings towards Casement. He also describes, in passionate terms, the fascinating circumstances surrounding the publication of these scandalous diaries, and the numerous obstacles he faced, including copyright and censorship issues. He furthermore explains his various other projects relating to Casement, none of which came to fruition. It is fair to say that these letters shed considerable light on the limits of press freedoms in Britain during the late 50s and 60s, as well as on the way Casement's heirs felt about his legacy. THESE LETTERS ARE CITED--and briefly excerpted--on pp. 60-61 of Patrick Kearney's bibliography, The Paris Olympia Press (Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2007). Also laid in are numerous newspaper clippings from 1959 and 1960, all relating to the publication. 4to. Publisher's cloth. Fine and bright, in a very good price-clipped dj.…

The Olympia Press, 1959. Hardcover (clothbound). 25 x 16 cm. With illustrations in b/w. 626 pag. Numbered copy. 418. - Good condition. [Biography / international [(Auto)Biografieën] Geschiedenis (History) / Algemeen / General [Algemene Geschiedenis] ].