Preface Harold Laski (16 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Very good condition Oxford University Press hardback and jacket, in the World's Classics series. 344 pages. 1963 reprint. Condition: Considerable spotting to top edge of text block. A little wear and small tear to jacket, with 2 small marks of front of jacket. Please see the photos for more condition information.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. 422 pp. Clean, unmarked pages. Binding shows wear, starting to pull away from pages. Book in French. / Pages propres et non marquées. Les expositions contraignantes portent, commençant à tirer à partir des pages. Livre en français.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Previous owner name inked on front free page and dated 1931. No other markings in book. Binding is fine. Binding is fine. No DJ.

Pamphlet. Condition: Good / Very Good. 29 pp, printed light card covers. Slight creasing to corners and sides, staples rusty but holding well.

Card Covers. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Card covers. Unofficial Committee of Inquiry into disturbances which took place on March 22nd 1936 in London when a BUF ( Black Shirt meeting) and a counter meeting took place and resulted in claims of Police brutality. Members included J.B.Priestly. 1st Edition 1936 31pp., map.

Condition: VG. London c. 1933 New Statesman. Fears that a big war lies ahead. Octavo, 55pp., original red printed wraps. VG.

Paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Paperback in acceptable condition for its age. Covers, page block and page edges are heavily tanned and marked throughout. Covers are creased, and a few page edges are dog-eared. Pencil marginalia evident in places. Text is otherwise clear and bright throughout. LW. Used.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. NO JACKET. HARDBACK 1947. Marks to boards. Internally clean. Tight. No inscriptions. NO JACKET. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref 82:18. The Introduction: Twice within the last quarter of a century I have seen it stated - once by a Lord Chancellor, and on the other occasion by Sir John Anderson, when he was Under Secretary to the Home Office - that there was no danger in this country of mentally irresponsible people being hanged for the crime of murder. Prompted by memory, I thought those statements a little wide of the mark. Now, supported by the results of a search through the records of murder trials from 1919 to 1939, I assert they have no foundation in fact. This book is comparable to most murder trials in that it contains the arguments for and against my assertion; and the cases themselves represent the factual, circumstantial and inferential evidence that is given in most criminal trials. As Prosecutor, I have brought every factor to bear in my attempt to prove the need for a material change in the law, and the Defence has been given every opportunity of rebutting it. There is a development - a second book in which I intend to attack the law for its treatment of those mental and moral irresponsibles who make periodical appearances in our courts, and for whom the law has no other cure to offer than that of punishment. The reform needed in the procedure connected with trial for murder cannot be achieved without its application to the criminal code generally, and even then it will be useless without revolutionary changes in our prison system. Both reforms are long overdue, and it is time the public conscience was awakened to its own responsibility for many major errors in administering not only law but justice. if you, the jury of readers, find the law guilty, you are passing sentence on yourselves. You will sentence yourselves, and your children, to decades of reform, in which prisons and asylums will have to be rebuilt, their staffs trained in a new concept of their duties, and law and medicine will have to become partners instead of rivals. You have read the evidence, the collective speeches of Prosecution and Defence, and you have read, in the criticisms, analyses, preface and " Last word," what might be termed a composite summing-up. Ladies and gentlemen, you will - I hope - retire to consider your verdict. March 1947, E. Robinson.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. NO JACKET. Hardback 1947. Clean & tight book. No inscriptions. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref SH46 The Introduction: Twice within the last quarter of a century I have seen it stated - once by a Lord Chancellor, and on the other occasion by Sir John Anderson, when he was Under Secretary to the Home Office - that there was no danger in this country of mentally irresponsible people being hanged for the crime of murder. Prompted by memory, I thought those statements a little wide of the mark. Now, supported by the results of a search through the records of murder trials from 1919 to 1939, I assert they have no foundation in fact. This book is comparable to most murder trials in that it contains the arguments for and against my assertion; and the cases themselves represent the factual, circumstantial and inferential evidence that is given in most criminal trials. As Prosecutor, I have brought every factor to bear in my attempt to prove the need for a material change in the law, and the Defence has been given every opportunity of rebutting it. There is a development - a second book in which I intend to attack the law for its treatment of those mental and moral irresponsibles who make periodical appearances in our courts, and for whom the law has no other cure to offer than that of punishment. The reform needed in the procedure connected with trial for murder cannot be achieved without its application to the criminal code generally, and even then it will be useless without revolutionary changes in our prison system. Both reforms are long overdue, and it is time the public conscience was awakened to its own responsibility for many major errors in administering not only law but justice. if you, the jury of readers, find the law guilty, you are passing sentence on yourselves. You will sentence yourselves, and your children, to decades of reform, in which prisons and asylums will have to be rebuilt, their staffs trained in a new concept of their duties, and law and medicine will have to become partners instead of rivals. You have read the evidence, the collective speeches of Prosecution and Defence, and you have read, in the criticisms, analyses, preface ref " Last word," what might be termed a composite summing-up. Ladies and gentlemen, you will - I hope - retire to consider your verdict. March 1947, E. Robinson.

Hardcover. 8vo. pp 216. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered gilt on spine. Ownership signature on the front endpaper of the British Labour cabinet minister, Roy Jenkins (1920-2003). Very good.

Paperback, good condition, card covers (spine little creased during manufacture), pages & covers lightly toned, rear cover lightly foxed, minor edgewear corners. 381 pp. Melvin Rader describes the struggle between two worlds: democracy and fascism. He is a lecturer of philosophy, University of Washington. He leaves the traditional themes of philosophy to write about the dangers of fascism for the survival of philosophy, and for democratic society in general.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Dark blue boards and spine, the latter, lettered in gilt, with a slight lean. Unclipped jacket just a tad rubbed. Internally no faults.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. (1924). A Very Good copy. 12mo., 343 pp., plus 8 pp. ads. Bound in publishers green cloth with titles in gilt on spine. Tips and edges slightly rubbed; gilt on spine darkened. Binding tight, text clean and unmarked. Sir Humphrey Sumner Milford (1877-1952) was an English publisher and editor who from 1913 to 1945 was publisher to the University of Oxford and head of the London operations of Oxford University Press. Part of the publisher's series, "The World's Classics".

Condition: Good. USED. Hardcover. Book Condition: Good. No Dustjacket. The World's Classics edition (No.262), first published in 1924 [originally published in 1873]. With an appendix of hitherto unpublished speeches and a preface by Harold J. Laski. 343 pages, 16 pages publisher list of World's Classics. Owner's name and markings.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in black cloth boards with gold gilt lettering to spine, no dustjacket. 286pp. 32 B/w photographic plates to centre. Not library copy, no inscriptions, light foxing. (39/3).

Sir Albert Charles Seward's copy, with his printed bookplate to the front pastedown and scattered pencil annotations in his hand throughout. These largely compose marginal lines, although there are also ten pages with verbal annotations ("the gloom", Seward notes besides a passage on Malthus's population principle; elsewhere he perceives "the elements of Nat'l Socialism" in the ideas of John Austin, and ponders whether "Bentham & Jas. Mill [would] have been what they were if they had had women in their lives"). He also adds an interesting note to the front free endpaper, stating his admiration for the work, beginning "I have never read a more interesting book". Albert Seward (1863-1941) was a British botanist and geologist who worked as a lecturer, later professor, in botany at Cambridge University. There, he became a founding member, and then chairman, of the university's Eugenics Society, and collaborated on the publication of a volume of Charles Darwin's letters with Darwin's son, Francis. He was elected as fellow of the Royal Society in 1898 and was awarded the Murchison Medal of the Geological Society of London in 1908. The autobiography of the leading nineteenth-century liberal philosopher, political economist, and politician, John Stuart Mill (1806-1873). First edition thus. Publisher's original green cloth with titles in gilt to the spine. Red ribbon page marker bound-in. 8pp. publisher's advertisements at the rear. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with dulling to the spine titles and a little rubbing to the extremities. The contents with minor toning to the endpapers are otherwise in very good order throughout. Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item.