GEORGE III AND THE HISTORIANS
Written by Herbert Butterfield.
Stock no. 1831207
Published by Collins. 1st 1957. Almost very good condition.

A biography, which addresses the historical view of the monarch George III, and also discusses the scholarly controversy that centres on the King and his reputation as an unconstitutional tyrant. Turquoise cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 304 pages including index. Slight lean to spine. Boards are grubby, spine browned. Text block and endpapers browned. Some foxing present, mainly to text block.

GEORGE III AND THE MAD-BUSINESS
Written by Ida Macalpine; Richard Hunter.
Stock no. 1831206
Published by Allen Lane The Penguin Press. 1st 1969. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

George III and the Mad-Business, argues that George III was not mad as was once thought. Instead, the author's claim that George suffered from the inherited metabolic disease, acute intermittent porphyria, a diagnosis they later amended to the milder, though even rarer disorder, variegate porphyria. This book is a fascinating combination of medical, pshychiatric and historical detection. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. xv and 407 pages including index. ISBN: 0713901063. Text block lightly browned and lightly foxed. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: AN AMERICAN LIFE
Written by Walter Isaacson.
Stock no. 1831203
Published by Simon & Schuster Paperbacks. Circa 2004. Almost very good condition.

This biographical work details the life and times of prominent U.S. statesman and Founding Father Benjamin Franklin. Pictorial cardwraps. A few colour & b/w illustrations. xii and 586 pages including index. ISBN: 074325807X. Cover edges rubbed and worn, rear cover a little scuffed. Spine is a little concave. Text block grubby. Contents clean.

PITT VERSUS FOX: FATHER & SON 1735-1806
Written by Erich Eyck.
Stock no. 1831199
Published by G. Bell And Sons, Ltd.. 1st thus 1950. Good condition.

The political history of England 1735-1806 as illustrated by Henry and Charles James Fox and the Elder and the Younger Pitt. Translated from the original in German, the history has a decidedly "liberal" German perspective. Eyck uses a series of coincidences to give unity to his ambitious tale: The elder Pitt and Henry Fox, destined like their sons to be political rivals, entered the House of Commons the same year, 1735. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w plates. viii and 396 pages including index. Boards mottled and scuffed. Spine is faded/sunned, scuffed and worn at top & tail, title is rubbed. Text block and endpapers browned. A few foxspots present.

SURPRISED BY JOY: THE SHAPE OF MY EARLY LIFE
Written by C.S. Lewis.
Stock no. 1831198
Published by Geoffrey Bles Ltd.. 1st 1955. Good condition.

Lewis recounts and remembers his early years with a measure of amusement sometimes mixed with pain. However, while he does describe his life, the principal theme of the book is Joy as he defined it for his own purpose. Lewis ultimately discovers the true nature and purpose of Joy and its place in his own life. Grey cloth boards, title to spine. 224 pages. Boards a little grubby and scuffed. Title to spine has completely faded, no longer readable. Spine has a slight lean. Text block browned. Inscription in ink to front endpaper and date in ink to rear endpaper. Some foxing throughout. A decent reading copy.

GARIBALDI AND THE THOUSAND
Written by G.M. Trevelyan.
Stock no. 1831196
Published by Longmans, Green & Co.. 1909. Almost very good condition.

This third volume in the famous trilogy covers Giuseppe Garibaldi's role in the events of June to November 1860, the decisive year in the making of Italy ending with his conquest of Sicily and Naples and his acknowledgement of Victor Emmanuel of Piedmont-Sardinia as king of a united Italy. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w plates and 5 maps. xv and 395 pages including index plus publisher adverts to rear. 3rd Impression. Spine faded, boards slightly scuffed and slightly mottled. Text block and endpapers browned. Inscription ink to front endpaper. Foxing throughout.

JOHN KEATS: THE MAKING OF A POET
Written by Aileen Ward.
Stock no. 1831195
Published by Secker & Warburg. 1st 1963. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

This biography follows Keats, one of the English Romantics, from his childhood, through his education and training as a surgeon, to his untimely death of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-five. Purple cloth boards, red & silver title to spine. A few b/w illustrations. xii and 450 pages including index. Boards clean. Text block browned. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Half-title page and last page to rear are browned. A few foxspots present else contents clean. Purple dustwrapper is faded/sunned to spine, a little scuffed, grubby to rear panel.

ANTHONY TROLLOPE: A VICTORIAN IN HIS WORLD
Written by Richard Mullen.
Stock no. 1831188
Published by Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1990. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A biography of the famed 19th century novelist. The author intermixes details about Trollope's life with discussions such as the reading habits of the novel-reading public. He also describes and analyzes many of Trollope's forty-seven novels. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. xiv and 767 pages including index. ISBN: 0715622935. Boards clean. Text block slightly grubby. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Else, contents clean. Dustwrapper is faded/sunned to top edge of front panel and spine, is a little grubby and lightly creased.

IVOR GURNEY: COLLECTED LETTERS
Written by Ivor Gurney; R.K.R. Thornton.
Stock no. 1831183
Published by The Mid Northumberland Arts Group. 1st 1991. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Composer, poet of the First World War, incurable psychiatric patient. After the outbreak of the First World War he enlisted as a private soldier with the Gloucester Regiment. It was during the war where he began to write poetry... These Collected Letters give the fullest picture yet available of the nature of this fascinating writer, who looks set to rank with the greatest English song-writers, and the finest poets of the First World War. Edited by R.K.R. Thornton. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xxvi and 579 pages including index. ISBN: 0904790657. Boards clean. Text block a little grubby, minor foxing to top edge. Inscription in ink to half-title page. Black pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

JOHN MILTON: LIFE, WORK AND THOUGHT
Written by Gordon Campbell; Thomas N. Corns.
Stock no. 1831182
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 2008. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A biography of the great seventeenth-century English poet. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. xiii and 488 pages including index. ISBN: 9780199289844. Slight lean to spine. Boards clean. Text block slighty grubby. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is faded/sunned to spine.

RALPH RICHARDSON: THE AUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY
Written by John Miller.
Stock no. 1831177
Published by Sidgwick & Jackson. 1st 1995. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Ralph Richardson was a contradictory genius who remains a legendary power and presence dominated stage and screen for over 50 years. Richardson eschewed most of the romantic heroes that made his two friends, Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud, famous; he was the only one of the three thought capable of playing the ordinary man. Foreword by John Gielgud. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. xv and 384 pages including index. ISBN: 0283062371. Text block very slightly grubby else a clean copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is faded to spine (sunned) and lightly scuffed to rear panel.

THE LIFE OF HENRY BROUGHAM TO 1830
Written by Chester W. New.
Stock no. 1831171
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1961. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, PC, FRS was a British statesman who became Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain and played a prominent role in passing the Reform Act 1832 and Slavery Abolition Act 1833. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w frontis portrait. xi and 458 pages including index. Minor foxing to text block. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Contents otherwise clean. Blue dustwrapper is foxed, lightly browned to spine with some heavier foxing.