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Ernest Benn Limited, 1929. Hardcover. Spine and top edges of covers sunned, a touch of fraying to ends of spine, a touch of foxing to RH edges, otherwise contents good. 308pp. .

London: Ernest Benn Limited. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth spotted, jacket chipped & browned; contents nice; 308 pages .

London: Ernest Benn Limited. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. 307 p. 24.5 cm. Sound and square binding in cloth-covered boards. Rub wear to corner tips and spine ends. Bottom fore-corners softened. A little light soil to the text block edges. Glue remains from bookplate on the front pastedown endpaper. Inside pages are clean and unmarked, but toned. The dust jacket has heavy wear to the spine ends, and a stain and darkening to the spine. Corners also show wear. The paper has tanned. An essay on civil rights by Gordon Hewart, 1st Viscount Hewart and the Lord Chief Justice of England. The author asserts that the rule of law in Britain was being undermined by the executive at the expense of the legislature and the courts. The book created "a constitutional and political storm". It was rumoured that Whitehall "considered an attempt to boycott it". In response the British Government appointed the Donoughmore Committee (chaired by Lord… Read More

London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1929. 308 pages. Pages, endpapers clean, good condition. Previous owner's name, gift inscription on ffep. Book coming loose at p. 142. Red cloth, black title on spine. Edges lightly worn. Head/tail of spine and corners bumped. GOOD. Hard Cover.

London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1929. Hardcover; 4to; 305 pages. First U.K. edition. Orange cloth hardcovers with black titles on spine. Sunned spine. Rubbed and fraying edges. Bumped corners. Soiled and stained cloth. Yellowing edges, but the pages themselves are bright and clean pages. P/--. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Poor/No Jacket.

COSMOPOLITAN BOOK CORPORATION, 1929 HARDBACK BOOK IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.

GB: Benn, 1929. Publisher's green cloth, gilt with publisher's device on front cover. Book is in near very good condition with minor but just noticeable signs of wear and/or age. Spine rather faded but gold lettering still quite clear. . 1st Edition. Hardback. VG-/No DW.