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Clement Attlee
Ex Libris Clement Attlee.
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Having the Last Word.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1950. [Etymology] FIRST EDITION, EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.132. Publisher's green cloth with black titles to spine and upper. Attlee's distinctive monogram bookplate to front pastedown. Toning to edges; spine toned with some rubbing to cloth. Very good. The sixth in Brown's popular..... More
Say the Word.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1947. [Etymology] FIRST EDITION, EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.127 [1]. Publisher's green cloth with black titles to spine and upper. Attlee's distinctive monogram bookplate to front pastedown, and a blue ink gift inscription addressed to his wife to flyleaf: 'Violet H. Attlee |..... More
The Garter Town.
London: The Fortune Press, no date [1953]. [Topographical Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.64. With eight illustrations by Gurney. INSCRIBED in blue ink to fly-leaf: 'To the Rt Hon. C.R. attlee | with the author's compliments. | 2/1/54.' With Attlee's distinctive monogram bookplate..... More
The Bride Wore Black.
London: John Gifford, 1942. [Wartime Novel] FIRST EDITION, EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.247 [1]. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. Attlee's distinctive monogram bookplate to front pastedown, over a removed library bookplate. The blurb from the jacket flap pasted to fly-leaf. Both hinges repaired..... More
The Right of the Child: A Chapter in Social History. With a Foreword by Countess Mountbatten of Burma and an Introduction by Captain L.H. Green.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1951. [Humanitarianism] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.159 [1]. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to V.H.A. (Violet Attlee) to fly-leaf. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine. A new bookplate detailing provenance to front pastedown. Spine sunned with..... More
A Commentary.
London: Duckworth & Co., 1910. [Short Stories] EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE, a later edition. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.264. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge blue, others untrimmed. An early iteration of Attlee's distinctive monogram bookplate to front pastedown. Half-title and title page leaves heavily browned..... More
The Dark Flower.
London: William Heinemann, 1913. [Literature] FIRST EDITION, EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[16] 302 [18]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Attlee's distinctive monogram bookplate to front pastedown. Toning to edges. Rubbing to cloth and toning to spine; lower joint starting. Good. From the library..... More
The Patrician.
London: William Heinemann, 1911. [Literature] EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE, the second impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[8] 339 [5]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Attlee's distinctive monogram bookplate to front pastedown. A label removed from just above. Light offsetting to endpapers; edges heavily toned with..... More
Harvest in the North.
London: J.L. Hodson, 1955. [Modern Literature] INSCRIBED TO CLEMENT ATTLEE, ninth edition reprinted by the author. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.447 [1]. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to title page: 'For the Rt. Hon. C.R. Attlee O.M., | with every good wish and | congratulations on his recovery..... More
Spirit Lake.
Cleveland, OH: The World Publishing Company, 1961. [American Literature] FIRST EDITION, EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.957 [3]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Top edge red. Blue ink Christmas gift inscription from Attlee's daughter Janet (1923-2019) to fly-leaf: 'Mummy & Daddy |..... More
The Community of the Future.
London: Oxford University Press, 1950. [Law and Ethics] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.[4] 828 [2]. With a frontispiece portrait of the author, and two double-sided black and white photographic plates. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to fly-leaf: 'To the..... More
Right Royal.
London: William Heinemann, 1920. [Horse Racing Poetry] EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE, the second printing. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[8] 120. Publisher's green paper over boards, with gilt titles to spine and upper. Attlee's distinctive monogram bookplate, and a bookseller's label, to front pastedown. Offsetting to endpapers and toning to edges..... More
Citizen of Westminster.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1940. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION, EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.318 [2]. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. New bookplate detailing provenance to front pastedown. Browning to edges. Spine heavily marked, and faded to grey. Very good. A novel set in..... More
Highlands and Backwoods: The Legend and the Hero. With a foreword by Chief Scout Lord Rowallan.
London: Christopher Johnson, 1957. [Pedagogy and Travel] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.183 [1]. With seven half-tone plates, including a frontispiece, as well as a few in-text maps and illustrations. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to flyleaf: 'with the author's | every..... More
Battle for Egypt, The Summer of 1942. Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-45.
Wellington, NZ: War History Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, 1955. [Second World War] FIRST EDITION, EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.xvi; 400 [4]. With many maps, including six folding, as well as two suites of eight double-sided black and white photographic plates, and a frontispiece. Publisher's red..... More
I Met a Lady.
London: Collins, 1961. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION, EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.448. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Blue ink gift inscription to 'Clem' to flyleaf. A new bookplate detailing provenance to front pastedown. Spine sunned to grey, with gilt completely dulled and some..... More
Jubilee.
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1966. [Historical Fiction] EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE. First edition, third printing. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[14] 497 [1]. Publisher's green cloth with silver titles to spine and upper, maps to endpapers. Blue ink gift inscription from Attlee's daughter Janet (1923-2019) to half-title: 'Daddy | with..... More
Silver Stream. With a foreword by the Rt. Hon. Lord Inman of Knaresborough.
London: The Epworth press, 1947. [Child Welfare] PRESENTATION COPY TO MRS ATTLEE. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.160. With eight half-tone plates and a chromolithographic frontispiece. Deluxe binding of blue full calf with gilt titles to spine and white watered silk endpapers, with a silver strip to hinges. Bookplate..... More
Hart and the Chinese Customs.
Belfast: W.M. Mullan & Son, 1950. [Chinese Trade] FIRST EDITION, EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.xvi; 949 [3]. With 17 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge navy. Attlee's distinctive monogram bookplate to front pastedown. Toning..... More
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