London: John Murray, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. xviii, 326, illustrated, including two foldouts - a genealogy and a panorama, and with an addendum slip tipped in at p.vii. Faint pencilled 1936 gift inscription to front fly (readily erased). An account centred on the life of Katherine Willoughby, Duchess of Suffolk... More about A Woman of the Tudor Age
London: Longmans, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. xiv, 442pp, illustrated with photographs. This is a prepublication copy with the publisher's job label on the front pastedown, giving the specification for the binding, and each of the plates has been checked with a biro slash or cross. Text clean and unmarked. Faint... More about Plough My Own Furrow: The Story of Lord Allen of Hurtwood as told through his own writings and...
London: Heinemann, 1966-1988. First editions (except final Companion vol). Hardcover. Very good set in protected dust jackets. All vols are clean and unmarked internally, bindings firm and clean. A few jackets are sunned, and three have small closed tears. All volumes are first UK printings except the Companion Volume V.... More about Winston S. Churchill: 21 Vols: 8 volumes, 1966-1988; together with the 13 companion volumes...
London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. xii, 436, illustrated. Contents clean and unmarked, toning slightly. In the original black cloth-textured binding titled in silver, clean, bright and sharp, with slight blunting to foot of spine. In the protected unclipped pictorial dust jacket, bright and sharp, with small scuffs to extremities... More about Tito: And the Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia
London: Macmillan, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. xiv, 397pp, illustrated. Unread copy, contents fresh, clean and unmarked. In the original black cloth-textured binding titled in gilt, clean, bright and firm, corners sharp. In the protected pictorial dust jacket, fresh and crisp, as new. More about The Life and Times of Sydney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905: The Formative Years
London: Politico’s, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. xviii, (iv), 664pp. As new, in the original red cloth-textured binding lettered in gilt. In the protected dust jacket, equally fresh and sharp. Unblemished fine copy. [Heavy Item]. More about Dictionary of Labour Biography
Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. x, 268pp. Small neat ownership name to front free endpaper. Contents clean and fresh, appears unread. In the original cloth-textured binding, title label to front board, spine titled in gilt, bright and firm, corners sharp, foot of spine slightly blunted, some dark marks... More about John Lambert, Parliamentary Soldier and Cromwellian Major-General, 1619-1684
Brussels, Oxford, etc: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2011. First English edition. Paperback. 642pp, [i]. Unread copy. Contents mint. 22x15cms, in black pictorial covers with faint handling marks when these catch the light, and small knocks to the tips of the corners. One of the founding fathers of the European Union. A...... More about Mansholt: a biography. Series 'Memories of an Evolving Europe' No. 2
London: Bantam Press, Transworld Publishers, 2013. First edition (first printing). Hardcover. x, 494pp, (ii), [i]. Illustrated, some in colour. Contents very clean and fresh, unread copy. In the original blue cloth-textured binding titled in gilt, clean, bright and firm, corners sharp, very slight blunting to spine ends. In the protected... More about Not for Turning: The Life of Margaret Thatcher
Washington DC: Mage Publishers, 2006. First English edition. Hardcover. 507pp, illustrated with a few photographs. 24x16cms, in the original binding of blue cloth titled in gilt. In the pictorial dust jacket. All as new, fresh and bright and unmarked. Ghani was a highly civilised polymath who was at the centre... More about A Man of Many Worlds: The Diaries and Memoirs of Dr. Ghasem Ghani
