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THE PRINCES OF INDIA
Written by William Barton.
Stock no. 1829251
Published by Nisbet & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1934. Very good condition.

With a Chapter on Nepal. The question of whether the Indian States should join the rest of India in a Federation... Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine, vignette to front board. B/w plates. xvi and 327 pages including index. Spine browned and stained. Boards a little grubby. Foxspots to text block, endpapers and prelims. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. All plates present. Some browning to contents.

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MEN WHO RULED KENYA: THE KENYA ADMINISTRATION 1892-1963
Written by Charles Chevenix Trench.
Stock no. 1829209
Published by The Radcliffe Press. 1st 1993. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A study of the Kenya Administrative Service from its beginning in 1892 until Kenyan independence. An unusual story in British colonial history in that much of Kenya was long regarded as a 'white man's country' and attracted a mixed bag of settlers, mainly hardworking farmers but a few playboys. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xi and 316 pages including index. ISBN: 1850435715. Small date written in ink to front pastedown. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine, rubbed at corners, small dampstain to base of spine, publisher's price label to front flap.

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THE FEDERALIST OR THE NEW CONSTITUTION (THE 100 GREATEST BOOKS EVER WRITTEN)
Written by Alexander Hamilton; James Madison; John Jay; Carl Van Doren.
Stock no. 1829198
Published by Easton Press. 1st thus 1979. Nearly fine condition.

Introduced by Carl van Doren. Papers by Hamilton, Madison & Jay. Collector's edition. Bound in genuine leather. Navy blue leather boards with 4 raised bands to spine, gilt title to spine, gilt tooling to boards. Peach coloured moire endpapers and matching ribbon page marker. Colour frontis. All edges gilt. xxii and 600 pages including index. A lovely copy.

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ANATOMY OF A DICTATORSHIP: INSIDE THE GDR 1949-1989
Written by Mary Fulbrook.
Stock no. 1829188
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1995. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The German Democratic Republic. Combining careful archival research with broader theoretical and historical interpretation, a major contribution to debates on recent German history and the character of contemporary Germany. Black boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. 307 pages including index. ISBN: 0198203128. Pencil erasure marks to front endpaper. Light blue pen marks to vertical edge of text block. Contents clean. Black dustwrapper is scuffed.

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WAR, POLITICS AND FINANCE IN LATE MEDIEVAL ENGLISH TOWNS
Written by Christian D. Liddy.
Stock no. 1327812
Published by The Royal Historical Society. 1st 2005. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Bristol, York and The Crown, 1350-1400. Grey boards, gilt title to spine. 264 pages including index. ISBN: 0861932749. Minimal bumping to spine. A couple of small dents to spine edges of dustwrapper.

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THE ARMY, JAMES II, AND THE GLORIOUS REVOLUTION
Written by John Childs.
Stock no. 1828074
Published by Manchester University Press. 1st 1980. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w frontis. ISBN: 0719006880. Minor tape marks to boards. Foxing to text block. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is unevenly faded.

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THE INFLUENCE OF SUB-STATE ACTORS ON NATIONAL SECURITY: USING MILITARY BASES TO FORGE AUTONOMY
Written by Minori Takahashi.
Stock no. 1327671
Published by Springer. 1st 2019. Nearly fine condition.

Springer Polar Sciences series. This book sheds light on the process in which the sub-state actor of Greenland has expanded its autonomy and strengthened its de jure participation in the national security of Denmark. Due to the accelerated melting of sea ice and the increase in the accessibility of natural resources and water lanes, the security situation in the Arctic has been changing rapidly, and this book helps meet the need for understanding the political and military factors behind those changes. Green glazed boards. ISBN: 9783030016760. Minimal bumping to spine and slightly rubbing to corners. Contents fine.

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THE INFLUENCE OF SUB-STATE ACTORS ON NATIONAL SECURITY: USING MILITARY BASES TO FORGE AUTONOMY
Written by Minori Takahashi.
Stock no. 1827822
Published by Springer. 2019. Nearly fine condition.

Springer Polar Sciences series. This book sheds light on the process in which the sub-state actor of Greenland has expanded its autonomy and strengthened its de jure participation in the national security of Denmark. Due to the accelerated melting of sea ice and the increase in the accessibility of natural resources and water lanes, the security situation in the Arctic has been changing rapidly, and this book helps meet the need for understanding the political and military factors behind those changes. Green glazed boards. ISBN: 9783030016760. This is a physical print on demand copy printed by Printforce, Netherlands. Boards slightly scuffed. Contents fine. Appears unread.

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STALINISM AND THE SOVIET-FINNISH WAR, 1939-40
Written by Malcolm L.G. Spencer.
Stock no. 1327554
Published by Palgrave Macmillan. 1st 2018. Nearly fine condition.

Crisis Management, Censorship and Control. St. Antony's Series. Red pictorial boards. 229 pages. A physical Print On Demand book printed by Lightning Source UK Ltd. ISBN: 9783319946467. Slight rubbing to corners. Barcode label to rear cover.

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HUMAN NATURE AND THE CAUSES OF WAR
Written by John David Orme.
Stock no. 1827784
Published by Palgrave Macmillan. Circa 2018. Nearly fine condition.

This book examines the effects of six types of regime on foreign policy, monarchy, republic and sultanistic, charismatic and military and totalitarian dictatorship.Light brown pictorial boards. ISBN: 9783319771663. Lower corners lightly rubbed. Still in original shrinkwrap which is starting to split on spine.

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THE POLITICS OF THE BRITISH ARMY
Written by Hew Strachan.
Stock no. 1327421
Published by Oxford University Press; The Clarendon Press. 1st 1997. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Black boards, gilt title to spine. 311 pages. ISBN: 0198206704. Spine slightly bumped. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Dustwrapper is just a little edge creased.

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CIVIL WAR AND RESTORATION IN THE THREE STUART KINGDOMS
Written by Jane Ohlmeyer.
Stock no. 1327360
Published by Four Courts Press. 2nd 2001. Very good condition.

The Career of Randal MacDonnell, Marquis of Antrim. Four Courts History Classics series. Second edition. Cardwraps. 363 pages. ISBN: 1851826262. Slight creasing to covers and slight fading to spine. Remains of a label to rear cover.

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