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London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1912. First edition. [iv], 376, [16] adverts: colour frontis with tissue guard. Early ownership name to front free endpaper: back endpapers and adjacent page stained at top edge. Contents otherwise clean. In the original binding of red cloth, ruled in blind, decorated and titled in gilt. Boards bright, with a few marks to front; spine dulled, with indentations, some crimping and fraying at ends, and a short tear at the head. Good firm copy. Good.

Price: £40.00

London: Nisbet, 1917. First edition. [viii], 436, [3] adverts. 1920 ownership name to half title and light tanning to endpapers. Minor adhesion or soiling to pastedowns, and final blank page is soiled. Pages otherwise clean. In the original binding of dark blue-green cloth, ruled and titled in black. Firm and bright, with some pale marks: rubbed at joints and edges, and extremities blunted. Fair used copy. Good.

Price: £24.00

London: Cecil Palmer, 1929. First edition. xiii, 110pp + (2) adverts. Spotting on a few pages, otherwise clean and unmarked. In the original pink paper-covered boards with printed spine label: neat repair at base of spine, extremities slightly blunted, otherwise firm and clean. In the protected scarce period pictorial DUST JACKET by Eileen de Marqey, done in red and black on white: this has several one-inch edge chips, not affecting the illustration, and the only text lost is the publisher's name at the base of the spine. Jacket slightly soiled, spine darkened and faded. Very Good+ in good+ dust-jacket.

Price: £42.00

London: Constable, 1929. First edition. [iv], 281pp, (i), [ii] adverts. Faint soiling or foxing to a few pages, contents otherwise clean. In recent binding of charcoal grey cloth with labels to front and spine made from original russet cloth titles. Very Good.

Price: £75.00

London: Constable, 1931. First edition. 224pp, with numerous drawings by Gilbert Rumbold. Comic period piece. Contents clean and unmarked. Rebacked at some time with new endpapers and green cloth spine, and retaining the original pictorial boards, showing a knight on a prancing horse: these are bright, with a little minor soiling, and a few scuffs to the edges. VG.

Price: £24.00

London: William Heinemann, 1931. First English edition. [4], 323pp. Lacks front free endpaper. Half-title is foxed, and bears a faint 1931 pencil gift inscription as well as a later neat ink ownership name. While the prelims are foxed, the text pages are notably clean, although towards the end of the book there is some foxing to the closed edges, which does not encroach onto the margins. In the original binding of straw-coloured cloth with a pronounced texture, spine decorated with a red tree and titled in black, in extremely fresh condition, bright and sharp. The protected unclipped pictorial dust jacket is bright and clean to the red front and white spine, rather foxed to the lower (advertisement) panel and the inner flaps. An exceptional copy. ['This novel unfolds the broad and brilliant panorama of the Great Elector of Prussia, of the Roi Soleil of France, and of William of Orange. Ambition, though on different planes, is the driving force in each group of characters, from the hunch-backed heir of the Great Elector on one side, to the two tragic lovers upon the other. Here are the wars and the statecraft, the controversies and the rebellions that lie at the foundation of the modern world. The kings, diplomats, courtiers, serfs, parsons, scholars and moods of the seventeenth century are called up in the imagination with an absorbing reality.'] VG contents, binding Fine, in very good+ dust-jacket.

Price: £40.00

London: Cape, 1933. First edition. 279pp. Neat early ownership name to front free endpaper, and a little faint foxing to prelims. Contents clean. Dark mark to uncut bottom edge of text block. In the original binding of russet cloth, spine titled in white: a few marks, corners bumped, spine title largely eroded: faint trace of former label to upper board. A rusty mark in the gutter at pp136-7 confirms label hint that this was once a Boots library book: no other indications. Good firm copy of a title now scarce. Good.

Price: £40.00

London: Collins, 1934. Second impression of the UK edition. 251, (i), [4] adverts. Contents generally clean, a few pages with the odd foxing spot or small soil mark. Endpapers very neatly replaced. Obtrusive foxing to closed fore-edge. Clean and firm, in the original binding of maroon cloth titled in silver. Slight sunning to spine and front board edges. Spine ends slightly crimped. Good copy. The UK printings of this title are scarce. Very Good.

Price: £50.00

London: John Murray, 1938. First edition. 347, (i), [4] adverts. Unread copy: pages exceptionally fresh and bright. Tanning to endpapers from improvised jacket, and some very faint foxing to the adjacent blank pages. Closed edges also peppered with a little fine foxing. The orange cloth titled in black is bright and clean, corners sharp, like new, though the base of the spine is puckered. It has been conserved all this time in a brown paper jacket, on the spine of which has been neatly laid down the spine of the original dust jacket, of which nothing else remains. It is slightly frayed at the foot, and the green print of the title appears sunned. Exceptional copy of a scarce title. Near Fine in poor dust-jacket.

Price: £120.00

Blackie, London, 1940. First Edition. 319pp, with 4 monochrome plates by Leo Bates. Contents firm and very clean. In original orange cloth slightly faded at spine, with clear black lettering and a little minor soiling. Scarce. VG.

Price: £28.00