DAVID LLOYD GEORGE: THE GREAT OUTSIDER
Written by Roy Hattersley.
Stock no. 1831624
Published by Little, Brown. 1st 2010. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

In this fascinating biography of an authentic radical, Roy Hattersley charts the great reforms - the first old age pension, sick pay and unemployment benefit - of which Lloyd George was architect, and also sheds light on the complexities of a man who was both a tireless champion of the poor, and a restless philanderer. Brown boards, cream title to spine. Photographic illustrations to endpapers. B/w photos. x and 709 pages including index. ISBN: 9781408700976. Top & tail of spine lightly shelf-worn. Boards clean. Text block grubby. Frontispiece has faintly imprinted on to facing title page. Else contents clean. Cream pictorial dustwrapper is grubby, has some surface paper loss (snails?) and a few damp stains mostly visible to verso.

RICHARD III
Written by Charles Ross.
Stock no. 1831623
Published by Eyre Methuen Ltd.. 1st 1981. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Richard III ruled England for a mere twenty-six months, yet few English monarchs remain as compulsively fascinating, and none has been more persistently vilified. In his absorbing and universally praised account, Charles Ross assesses the king within the context of his violent age and explores the critical questions of the reign. Black cloth boards, gilt title in red title block to spine. B/w illustrations. liii and 265 pages including index. ISBN: 0413295303. Boards clean. Text block lightly browned. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is heavily sunned/faded to spine and lightly worn at corners.

LONG SUNSET: MEMOIRS OF WINSTON CHURCHILL'S LAST PRIVATE SECRETARY
Written by Anthony Montague Browne.
Stock no. 1831621
Published by Cassell Publishers Ltd.. 1st 1995. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

As a young man Anthony Montague Browne fought in the Second World War as a pilot with distinction and was awarded the DFC, and after 1965 he served in the Royal Household. But it is the figure of Winston Churchill which dominates these memoirs (to which his daughter Mary Soames contributes a Foreword) and as the final member of what he called 'my circle' to have written an autobiography, Anthony Montague Browne represents a last link with the greatest Englishman of the century. Navy blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. xii and 376 pages including index. ISBN: 0304344788. Faint grease spot to lower edge of front board else boards clean. Name & date in ink to front pastedown, inscription in ink to front endpaper. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed else clean.

HENRY VI
Written by Bertram Wolffe.
Stock no. 1831620
Published by Eyre Methuen Ltd.. 1st 1981. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

In this widely acclaimed biography, Bertram Wolffe challenges the traditional view of Henry VI as an unworldly, innocent, and saintly monarch and offers instead a finely drawn but critical portrait of an ineffectual ruler. Black cloth boards, gilt title on red title block to spine. B/w illustrations. 400 pages including index. ISBN: 0413320804. Text block slightly grubby/dusty. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is heavily sunned/faded to spine and has a small label to front flap.

EDWARD IV
Written by Charles Ross.
Stock no. 1831619
Published by Eyre Methuen Ltd.. 1st 1974. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

This classic study by Charles Ross places the reign firmly in the context of late medieval power politics, analyzing the methods by which a usurper sought to retain his throne and reassert the power of a monarchy seriously weakened by the feeble rule of Henry VI. Peach cloth boards, gilt title on green title block to spine. B/w illustrations. xvi and 479 pages including index. Top edge green. ISBN: 0413286800. Boards clean. Top edge dusty. Text block foxed with some bleeding to page margins. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Some browning to endpapers. White pictorial dustwrapper is browned, a little grubby, author's' name in red has faded on spine, price-sticker to front flap has surface paper damage.

THE MAGIC APPLE TREE: A COUNTRY YEAR
Written by Susan Hill. Illustrated by John Lawrence.
Stock no. 1831603
Published by Long Barn Books. 1st 1982. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The Magic Apple Tree is Susan Hill’s memoir of her life in the Fen country of England where she and her husband bought a cottage in the village of Barley. She tells of their life in an old cottage, of finding logs for the fire, fighting the clay soil and insects and weather in the garden, raising chickens, watching the birds and local wildlife, participating in the community life in the village, cooking in each season, going for walks with her dog through the local countryside, and of the magic apple tree, a tree growing in their back garden which gives them new views and comforts throughout each season. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w headers and footers and 4 full page b/w chapter illustrations. 269 pages. ISBN: 9781902421254. Base of spine and lower corners lightly rubbed. Small knock to lower edge of boards. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-worn and sunned/faded to spine and a little scuffed.

JAMES WATT: CRAFTSMAN & ENGINEER
Written by H.W. Dickinson.
Stock no. 1831597
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1st 1935. Almost very good condition.

This book examines the career of James Watt as a craftsman and engineer, rather than offering a purely narrative biography. Watt began his life as a maker of mathematical instruments, and throughout his working life enjoyed the challenge of such skilled work. Red cloth, gilt titles. 12 b/w plates and numerous b/w illustrations. xvi and 207 pages including index. Spine sunned/browned iwth some foxing. Boards are faded, grubby and foxed. Text block browned with foxing, foxing bleeding on to page margins. Endpapers a little browned and grubby. A few foxspots to contents.

GLADSTONE VOLUME ONE 1809-1865
Written by Richard Shannon.
Stock no. 1331405
Published by Hamish Hamilton. 1st 1982. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Orange/brown boards with gilt title to spine. 580 pages including index. Some b/w plates. ISBN: 0241107806. Spine slightly bumped. Small mark to front cover. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Textblock is a little grubby. Dustwrapper is edge worn and slightly faded to spine.

WINTER KING: THE DAWN OF TUDOR ENGLAND
Written by Thomas Pennant.
Stock no. 1331404
Published by Allen Lane. Circa 2011. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The story of the tragic, magnetic figure of Henry VII - controlling, paranoid, avaricious, with a Machiavellian charm and will to power. Blue boards, silver title to spine. Red endpapers. 448 pages including index. Some colour plates. ISBN: 9781846142024. 2nd printing. Heavy foxing at inner margins and to textblock. Dustwrapper is slightly rubbed at edges.

VENDETTA: HIGH ART AND LOW CUNNING AT THE BIRTH OF THE RENAISSANCE
Written by Hugh Bicheno.
Stock no. 1331403
Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1st 2008. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A story of unbridled lust, treachery and murder featuring an extraordinary cast of characters who fought, poisioned, betrayed and cheated their way from the late middle ages into the modern era, and in the process produced some of the most enduringly beautiful works of art ever seen. Red boards, gilt title to spine. 290 pages including index. B/w text illustrations and diagrams plus colour plates. ISBN: 9780297846345. Heavy foxing throughout. Dustwrapper is ever so slightly edge creased.

GLADSTONE HEROIC MINISTER 1865-1898
Written by Richard Shannon.
Stock no. 1331402
Published by Allen Lane. 1st 1999. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Black boards, gilt title to spine. Some b/w photos. 702 pages. ISBN: 0713992530. Spine slightly bumped. Foxing to textblock and endpapers. Textblock is slightly grubby. Dustwrapper is lightly edge creased.

ERASMUS THE REFORMER
Written by A.G. Dickens; Whitney R.D. Jones.
Stock no. 1331400
Published by Methuen. 1st 1994. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Tracing the impact of Erasmus upon the movement for religious reform in early sixteenth-century Europe, as well as delineating a most unusual and arresting personality. Black boards, gilt title to spine. Red endpapers. 367 pages including index. B/w plates. ISBN: 0413334805. Spine slightly bumped. Page browning and textblock slightly grubby else contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge rubbed and slightly faded to spine.