Search Results: Speeches

Century Company, 1924. Hardcover. Acceptable. Fair hardcover. No DJ. Ex-Library (college) with usual markings. Text is clean and unmarked. Hinge cracked but binding intact.Covers show edge wear and rubbing.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

G. P. Putnam's Sons. Good; There is some tearing on the spinal strip.. 1922. Hardback. 283 pages .

The Century Co., New York. Good. 1925. Hardcover. Book is in good condition and does show some edge wear. There is a collector's name on the inside front cover and inside back cover, also some page yellowing. Please See Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 0 pages .

London: Chapman & Hall. Very Good; Uncut Pages & Decorative Boards. N.D.. Hardback. Volume 4 only; 272 pages .

Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1964. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. preface by author. Black and white photographic card cover with dark orange and white coloured titles to the front panel and black and white coloured titles to the backstrip. In 1964 the British Labour Party was elected to power. In a series of speeches, its leader Harold Wilson, gave a series of speeches on his and his party's vision of Britain under their government. A little creasing to the book corners with rubbing of book edges and panels. There is a small split to the top left hand corner of the backstrip. Browning of the text block edges and pages. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). 134, [2]. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Politics & Government; Speeches; Britain/UK; Inventory No: 0119224. .

Century Company. 1925. Hardcover. good condition with minor soiling xlibrary with usual markings; xlibrary with usual markings; NOVI001372 .

New York: John Day, n.d. (1942). First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Small 8vo, 55 pages, vg pink cloth; darkened dj spine nicked at heel Includes, "My boys, the Flying Tigers", "China Emergent," "Of Women and Men," "East Speaks to West"

Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1970. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition. introduction by A. N. W. Saunders, glossary of technical terms, map, chronological table of events between 510 and 336 B. C. and bibliography. At the rear of the book is a map showing the early Mediterranean and major cities and regions. Photographic paperback binding with white coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. "... most Greek oratory resembles Lycias' speech against Eratosthenes and Andocides' self-defence – speech is delivered in law-courts where orators used their rhetorical skills to secure a specific verdict." – from the rear panel blurb. A selection of these speeches. Creasing to the book corners with rubbing of the book edges and panels. Age toning of the text block edges and pages. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). [6], 7 - 271, [1] pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams.… Read More

Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Sydney, 1979. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Photographic paperback binding with red coloured titles to the front panel and black coloured titles to the back strip. "A series of six talks by scholars in Australia on various aspects of Asian religions with special emphasis on the impact on the contemporary world." -- from the half title page. Speeches include: – The Guru / Ian Kesarcodi-Watson; Buddha Points to the Mind / Phra Kantipalo; The Sound of One Hand Clapping / John Cooper; Islamic mysticism / Saleem Akhtar; To Hinduism Through Gandhi / Eric Sharpe and The Impact of Asian religions on the West / Arthur Basham. Rubbing to the book corners and of the book panels. The front panel has started to curl and there is age toning of the text block edges and pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 78 pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped… Read More

Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1940. First Edition. Paper. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. 90pp., foreword by J.G. Latham, Chancellor, University of Melbourne. Buff coloured covers with maroon decoration and maroon writing on the front panel and spine. Heavy foxing to the front panel particularly to the top 0.25 ". Foxing has also occurred generally to the rest of the covers. Scuffing and creasing of the corners has occurred and there has been bumping to the head and to the heel of the spine. Foxing and browning to the paper edges. Foxing and browning has also occurred to the endpapers and to the internal pages, but more heavily concentrated in the first few and last few pages of the book. "These addresses by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne have been delivered in the troubled and troubled years 1939 and 1940. They are all, in varying degree, designed to show that we cannot hope to save ourselves and our children from debts against not only our way… Read More

Quercus Publishing, London, 2008. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic. Introduction by Simon Sebag Montefiore and index. Black coloured end pages. The text is illustrated with colour and black-and-white photographs, and colour and black-and-white illustrations. Black coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the backstrip. Colour photographic dustwrapper with yellow and white coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. In this book over 50 of the greatest speeches ever given, and the stories behind them, with a small biography of the speaker also present. Included: – is the speech given by Napoleon Bonaparte farewelling his army in 1814; Clarence Darrow's seven-hour defence argument for Henry Sweet – a Black man on trial for murder after a white mob tried to evict him and his family from their house in 1926; Winston Churchill's speeches to the House of Commons during World War II; and, John F Kennedy's inauguration… Read More

Cassell, London, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 430 g.; X, 258 pages, last two pages blank, intentionally, preface by editor, acknowledgements. Orange coloured boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. A little rubbing and bumping to backstrip edges and to the lower book corners. Browning to the text block edges with faint foxing. Offset scanning, browning and foxing to the endpapers and age toning to the internal text. Photographic front cover, showing Winston Churchill, with a red background and white and black titles to the front panel and backstrip. Rubbing and chipping to the dustwrapper corners and to the backstrip edges. The dustwrapper panels have become quite rubbed, marked and the rear panel shows handling marks. Browning to the verso of the dustwrapper. Original bookseller's sticker to the lower right-hand corner of the front fold over panel. This is a collection of the finest British speeches from Queen Elizabeth I speech at Tilbury in 1588 on the eve of the… Read More

George Routledge & Sons, London, 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Introduction. Illustrated end pages, being further publications from the publishers and advertisement for a oak bookcase. Blue coloured cloth covered boards with black coloured illustration and titles to the front panel and black coloured titles to the back strip. Two speeches about conciliation with America; and, to letters about the "Irish Question" written and spoken by this 19th century Anglo-Irish statesman and philosopher. The book is showing a little age related wear: – softening and rubbing of the back strip edges with a hint of fraying also present; bumping, rubbing and fraying of the book corners. Patchy fading of the back strip and to the top edge of the front panel. The book shows rubs, marks and stains. Tanning to the text block edges and pages with ghosting of the free front end page to the half title page. Previous owners name across the title page.… Read More

Boston: Ginn and Company. Good+. 1897. Hardback. The complete title is, A REPORT OF THAT SESSION OF THE FIRST AMERICAN CONGRESS OF PHILOLOGISTS, WHICH WAS DEVOTED TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE PROFESSOR WILLIAM DWIGHT WHITNEY, OF YALE UNIVERSITY: HELD AT PHILADELPHIA,DEC. 28, 1894; 153 pages .

NY: Self Published. Very Good with no dustjacket. 1925. Hardcover. Ex-library copy; usual marks. Otherwise very good, clean and sound. ; 8vo; 441 pages .

New York: Library of America. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2006. First Printing. Hardcover. 1931082979 . Previous owner's name. ; Silk bookmark ribbon. ; Library Of America; 832 pages .

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1996. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0374131384 . First edition stated. ; 53 pages .

New York: Pathfinder. Fine. 1989. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. 0873485432 . Malcolm X Speeches & Writings; 180 pages .

New York: Day, 1943. Hardcover. Very Good. Third edition. Very good hardcover. Light pencil writing on margins of pages. Corners rubbed. Edges of spine bumped. Shelf rubbing. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

ILL: Scott Foresman & Co, 1965. Softcover. Good. First edition. Good in wrappers. Has smudged cover, light ly bumped corners. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.