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CB: a life of Sir Heny Campbell-Bannerman
Edition: First US issue
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1974. Grey boards. pp 718 + plates; index. Ink owner name, else fine in fine, price-clipped jacket. Sir Henry was the Liberal Prime Minister 1905-07. 1.5 kg parcel.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 48768More details Price: USD $24.95 -
CHURCHILL: the end of glory. A political biography
Edition: First Canadian issue
Toronto: Macfarlane Walter & Ross, 1993. The paper issue. Card covers. pp viii, 742, [4]. Notes, bibliography, index. Fine copy. 1.25 kg parcel
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 52763More details Price: USD $14.95 -
COUNTRY SKETCHES FOR CITY DWELLERS.
Edition: First Edition
Condition: Binding: Hard Cover
Book ID: 8654More details Price: USD $50.00 -
COUNTY AND TOWN IN ENGLAND Together with Some Annals of Churnside. With an Introduction by Frederick York Powell.
Edition: First printing
London: Grant Richards, 1901. Smooth brown buckram, spine gilt lettered, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Presumed first issue binding. (xvi), 274, [2] + frontispiece map inserted. Mottled yellowing to endpapers, page edges yellowed, cracked front inner hinge neatly repaired, else a VG+ clean and unworn copy, no owner names. An uncommon book, posthumously published. Watters p. 600. "This book was put together by GA's friend F.Y. Powell from 44 essays (37 located) on local history and topography which according to his introduction 'were first printed in the Pall Mall Gazette, 1881-82' (sic: actually both there and in the St James's Gazette). Powell slightly edited the essays with small additions and alterations shown in square brackets in the text." - Peter Morton.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 50737More details Price: USD $95.00 -
CRIME AND INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY IN THE 19TH CENTURY
Edition: First Edition
London: Batsford, 1967. Black cloth. pp 288. Bibliography, index. Ink owner name at front, else a VG+ copy. Dust jacket has some edge wear, corner creases to front flap, internal tape reinforcements; good.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 44226More details Price: USD $18.00 -
DEVON. A Survey of it's Coast, Moors, and Rivers with some Suggestions for their Preservation.
Edition: First edition.
London University Pres, 1932. Folio. Red cloth, xx, 144 pp, frontispiece , 3 illustrations in text, 44 plates inserted (numerous photos, maps and reproductions), six large folding maps (5 in colour). Aug., 1932, ink name on front free endpaper; inner margin of rear pastedown browned from binding materials; ink note to bottom margin of page 23; minor wear to corners of spine tips; else a fine, tight copy. Dust jacket has large chips to spine tips, lesser chips and tears to panels; just good. Written for the Devon Branch of the Council for the Preservation of Rural England, with a Preface by Sir John Fortesque. Note: 2 kg parcel, extra postage will be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 20987More details Price: USD $60.00 -
DIPLOMACY
Edition: First printing
London: Butterworth, 1939. Green cloth. pp (256). Index. Green top page edges lightly sunned, other edges lighly yellowed, minor foxing to fore edges; tanning to inner margins of free endpapers; else fine. Cream non-pictorial jacket has a darkened and panels, foxing, chips and tears; just good, flap price intact. Jacket flap states "Library Edition". A volume in the Home University Library series, "designed as a text-book for the budding diplomat." Uncommon book.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 51768More details Price: USD $75.00 -
DOWN THE YEARS
Edition: First printing
London: Cassell, 1931. Green cloth. pp 322 + frontispiece portrait and three other plates. Ink owner name at front, small clip from front free endpaper, else a VG clean & unworn copy. "Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain, KG (16 October 1863 -17 March 1937) was a British statesman, son of Joseph Chamberlain and half-brother of Neville Chamberlain. He stood for the Liberal Unionist Party, which merged with the Conservatives in 1912, and led the Conservatives in the Commons in 1921-22. As Foreign Secretary, he negotiated the Locarno Pact (1925), aimed at preventing war between France and Germany, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He was one of the few MPs supporting Winston Churchill's appeals for rearmament against the German threat in the 1930s." - Wikipedia.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 48319More details Price: USD $14.95 -
Elizabeth I: The Word of a Prince. A Life from Contemporary Documents
London: Folio Society, 1991. Second printing. Quarto, maroon cloth and cream boards, illustrated, some colour. Very small bump to one outer corner, spine only faintly sunned, else fine. Slip case has small bump to lower rear corner, mild rubbing, VG. 1.5 kg parcel.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 39927More details Price: USD $14.95 -
ELIZABETHAN RECUSANCY IN CHESHIRE.
Manchester [UK]: Chetham Society, 1971. Blue cloth. viii, 200 pp. Folding map at rear. Crease to lower outer corner of several leaves near front; else fine, no owner names. Dust jacket has short creased tears at head of slightly sunned spine, sunning to margins of panes, near fine otherwise. "This study begins in 1559, with the enactment of the Elizabethan religious settlement, and traces the activities and fortunes of recusants in Cheshire up to 1603." - jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 19414More details Price: USD $25.00 -
ENGLISH LIFE IN THE MIDDLE AGES
London: Oxford, no date, 1929. Second printing. Blue cloth. pp (288). Many illustrations, index. Tidy ink owner name and two small tape residues at front, clipped front panel of jacket laid in, VG+ clean and unworn copy otherwise.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 50188More details Price: USD $18.95 -
ENTERPRISING WOMEN: the Garretts and their circle
Edition: First printing
London: Francis Boutle, 2002. Card covers. pp 341. B&w illustrations. Index. Fine copy. Inscribed by the author. 2.2 kg parcel
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 51982More details Price: USD $29.95 -
Facsimile of the "Explanation" of Ogilby & Morgan's Map of London 1677 (cover title) (London Survey'd)
Blades, East & Blades, for the London & Middlesex Archaeological Society, 1895. Narrow quarto, 32 x 13 cm, buff printed card covers. pp (2), (x), (14), 59, (3). Small chips and longer tears to spine ends neatly repaired; rubber stamp of a noted Canadian book collector inside front cover; small corner chips and edge nicks to covers; VG clean and tight otherwise. Issued to accompany a facsimile of the unique copy in the British Museum of the large 1677 map of London. A reduced facsimile of the map is used as a frontispiece after the Introduction (which contains a life of John Ogilby and a description of his map).
Condition: Book: Very Good, Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 33395More details Price: USD $45.00 -
FAIRINGS. A Yorkshire Miscellany.
Edition: First edition.
London: John Lane The Bodley Head. Edition of 1000 numbered copies, this is # 11. With an Xmas, 1928, ink inscription by Charles F. Ratcliffe on the limitation page. Orange cloth, (viii), 178, [4, pub ads] pp, 10 colour plates inserted (including frontis), b/w drawings in text. Slight sunning to spine, else a near fine jacketless copy. Verse, short stories, drama. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Condition: Book: Very Good, Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 21089More details Price: USD $25.00 -
FIVE GENERATIONS OF THE BIGNOLD FAMILY 1761-1947.
Edition: First Edition
London: Batsford, 1948. Blue cloth. (2), (xviii), (320) pp + numerous plates. Fine in near fine jacket. History of the Norwich Union Insurance Societies. Contains some previously unpublished letters of the Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel, Disraeli, Daniel O'Connell, Lord Salisbury, and others. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Condition: Book: Fine, Dust Jacket: Near fine
Book ID: 4598More details Price: USD $19.00 -
GENERAL GROENER: soldat und staatsmann
Frankfurt: Societäts, 1955. Black cloth. pp 406. Illustrations and maps in text. Small bruise to lower edge of front cover, else fine. Dust jacket has small tears and nicks, VG otherwise. Groener was an able commander in WWI and a politician of the Weimar Republic. Text is in German.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 48301More details Price: USD $18.95 -
GEORGE CANNING: three biographical studies
Edition: First printing
London: Macmillan, 1965. Red cloth. pp (x), 276. Index. Ink owner name, page edges yellowed, soft bump to foot of spine, else fine in VG jacket. Canning (1770-1827) was a British statesman who was Prime Minister for four months in 1827.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 48054More details Price: USD $18.95 -
GREAT BRITAIN AND THE TAIPINGS
Edition: First US issue
New York: Praeger, 1969. Blue cloth. pp 271, notes, bibliography, index. Ink name at front else fine in fine jacket. British policy and the Taiping Rebellion in China, 1840-64.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 47937More details Price: USD $24.95 -
HALDANE 1856-1915: the life of Viscount Haldane of Cloan 1856-1915 [and] 1915-1928 (two volumes)
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 48378More details Price: USD $39.95 -
HERITAGE AND NELSON. A Salute to Both.
Edition: First Edition
Bunham Thorpe, Norfolk: Winters of South Creake and Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, no date (ca. 1980). Blue boards. [8], 229, [3] pp. Illustrations in text. Fine copy. Dust jacket has slight rubbing, one small tear, VG otherwise. Inscribed by the author in 1980 to important Shakespearean actor, theatre director, and film actor John Neville. A book about Lord Nelson and local history by this Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, pub-keeper.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 16060More details Price: USD $15.00