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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. Staples Press [Published date: 1957]. Hard cover, 160 pp. No other printings listed. Good in acceptable dust jacket. Black cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges and corners. Binding tight. Previous owner's name inked out with thick black ink on front paste-down. Pages lightly aged but otherwise clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has several 1" or less chips and tears and creasing along the edges. Moderate overall scuffing to jacket as well with the color rubbed off along the edges and spine. NOT price clipped. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. [From jacket flaps] Henry St John, later Viscount Bolingbroke, grew up in colourful Restoration England. Before he had reached his majority he saw the ignominious flight of James II, but the licentious example set by the late Merry Monarch suited young Henry far better than the staid manners of William of Orange's court. Like his father before him, he soon earned a reputation for riotous loose living among the fashionable young bloods of the day. Yet a brilliant career was ahead of the youthful Henry St John. In his early twenties he joined the Tory party, and soon became as notorious in Parliament for the violence of his public partisanship as he was for the excesses of his private life. Clever, ambitious, a free-thinker and a born orator, before long he was deeply embroiled in the political and international turmoil. Appointed Secretary at War at the age of twenty-five, he saw the great Marlborough's victories in the War of the Spanish Succession, and six years later rose to be Secretary of State. This was the zenith of his career. In the next four years he was the chief instrument in negotiating the Treaty of Utrecht which was to give peace (Continued from front flap] to Europe for nearly half a century. This was to be his main contribution to history and his lasting monument. But from that time onwards Bolingbroke's fortunes, as well as his behaviour, deteriorated. On the death of Queen Anne his Jacobite sympathies came to light, England became too hot to hold him, and he fled to the Pretender's court at St Germains. But now Bolingbroke's chief object in life was to get himself back into power. Finding insufficient scope for his ambitions at St Germains he returned to London, and tried unsuccessfully to ingratiate himself with the Whigs. Thus the man whose early promise had been so great and whose achievements had been so outstanding in middle age, spent his declining years in vain personal scheming and backstairs intrigue. He died painfully in 1751, a disillusioned man.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Hardcover. No jacket (as issued?). Binding sound, text clean, mild shelfwear. 180 pages. Illustrated. Hard-to-find title. Heavy book: priority or international shipping may require a surcharge. Book.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Very good hardcover. First edition. Text clean. Rubbing to black cover.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. First Edition. ISBN . Trade Paperback. No Statement of later printing on the copyright page. Tight sound unmarked copy in Very Good plus condition. Signed by the author Glen Edwards on the bottom of the title page. Signed by Authors.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Price NOT clipped, DJ nicely in wraps with chips taken, heavy wear and soiling; pages dusty with light age toning; remnants of bookplate on inside front cover. Illustrated. Uncommon biography. Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678 - 1751) was an English politician, government official and political philosopher. He was a leader of the Tories, and supported the Church of England politically despite his anti-religious views and opposition to theology. He supported the Jacobite rebellion of 1715 which sought to overthrow the new king George I. Escaping to France he became foreign minister for the Pretender.

softcover. Condition: Fine copy. Profusely illustrated (illustrator). 1st. 4to, 140 pp., "The First American Research Using Stored Energy".

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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. B/W Photographs (illustrator). SUBTITLED : ` A History of Orthopaedic Surgery in Alberta '. The province of Alberta was 9 years old when she sent her first surgeon for `overseas training'. The man was Dr. Frank H. Mewburn and the training ground was a WWI hospital. His newly graduated son, Hank, followed him. Conditions for surgery in Alberta hospitals was olny slightly better by WWII. None-the-less names like Deane, Huckell and Rostrup rose to naqtion wide prominence. 180 pages. B/W photographs as illustration. Stories are gathered from Fort Norman to Medicine Hat. Read more about Kypo Scoliosis, Galt Hospital, and Nellie Kaitak. Cover is white; lettering green. Cover illustration of a tree is embossed. Volume is bright, clean and square - no marks. Giftable ! ! Quote (p. 56) : " One of Dr. G. D. Stanley's frontier improvisations was on an unusual patient, a beloved saddle-pony with a fracture of a fireleg between the ankle and the knee-joint. Dr. Stanley had never done ._._._. ." Size: 8vo.