WINSTON & CLEMENTINE: THE TRIUMPH OF THE CHURCHILLS
Written by Richard Hough.
Stock no. 1831462
Published by Bantam Press. 1st 1990. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The intimate portrait of the epic achievement and unshakeable values of two fascinating people whose love withstood the tests of war and family tragedy --- and whose fierce, irreconcilable differences were essential to their triumph. Grey cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. xvii and 590 pages including index. ISBN: 0593018265. Boards clean. Text block is a little grubby/foxed. Personal inscription in ink to top edge of front pastedown and '5190' written small in ink to free front endpaper. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is crease with a closed tear (no loss) to base of spine, a few grubby marks.

MR. SECRETARY PEEL: THE LIFE OF SIR ROBERT PEEL TO 1830
Written by Norman Gash.
Stock no. 1831461
Published by Longman, Green And Co.. 1st 1961. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Sir Robert Peel was twice Prime Minister for Great Britain. Mr Secretary Peel carries its subject's story from birth through his entry into politics in Ireland, his early positions in Tory governments, his tenure as Home Secretary from 1822 (which included his establishing of the Metropolitan Police Force) and up to the struggles over the issue of Catholic Emancipation. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xiv and 693 pages including index. A few minor scuffs to boards. Text block is browned and foxed. Personal inscription in ink to front endpaper. Some foxing throughout (mainly to margins). Pictorial dustwrapper is edge-worn, lightly sunned/faded to spine, creased to rear panel with a large closed tear which does not affect any text.

THE RISE OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Written by Edmund Morris.
Stock no. 1831460
Published by Collins. 1st 1979. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The story of seven men - a naturalist, a writer, a lover, a hunter, a cowboy, a soldier, and a politician - who merged at the age of forty-two to become the youngest American President in history. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 886 pages including index. ISBN: 0002167166. Boards lightly mottled. Vertical reading crease to spine and top headband has become unglued from the spine. Foxing to text block. Contents clean. Black pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-worn, has a few minor marks, and is scuffed.

LADY JANE GREY: A TUDOR MYSTERY
Written by Eric Ives.
Stock no. 1831459
Published by Wiley-Blackwell. 1st 2009. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

When Edward VI died, his cousin Jane Grey was proclaimed queen, only to be ousted 13 days later by his illegitimate half sister Mary and later beheaded. In this radical reassessment, Eric Ives rejects traditional portraits of Jane both as hapless victim of political intrigue or Protestant martyr. Instead he presents her as an accomplished young woman with a fierce personal integrity. Burgundy cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. xiv and 367 pages including index. ISBN: 9781405194136. Boards clean. Endpapers lightly marked. Text block has minor foxing/browning. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper has a tiny closed tear (no loss) to top front flap edge and is a little scuffed to rear panel.

EDWARD HEATH: A BIOGRAPHY
Written by John Campbell.
Stock no. 1831457
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1st 1993. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A biography. The son of a carpenter, Edward Heath broke the mould of upper-class Tory leaders and suffered years of snobbish mockery. With accomplishments outside politics, in music and international sailing, he is a veritable Renaissance Man. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. xx and 876 pages including index. ISBN: 0224024825. Boards clean. Text block just a little grubby with a few foxspots. Gift inscription in ink to front endpaper. Else contents clean. White pictorial dustwrapper is lightly foxed at horizontal edges.

HAROLD WILSON
Written by Ben Pimlott.
Stock no. 1831456
Published by BCA. 1992. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The life and career of one of Britain's most controversial post-war statesmen. Harold Wilson is one of the most enigmatic personalities of recent British history. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. xv and 811 pages. Light shelf wear to top & tail of spine. Text block a little grubby. Personal inscription in ink to front endpaper. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-creased and lightly scuffed.

THAT MAN: AN INSIDER'S PORTRAIT OF FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
Written by Robert H. Jackson; John Q. Barrett; William Edward Leuchtenburg.
Stock no. 1831452
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 2003. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

An intimate memoir which reveals Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency through key events like Court-packing and aiding Britain, while showing his personal side during poker games and breakfast meetings. Edited and introduced by John Q. Barrett with a foreword by William E. Leuchtenburg. Black cloth spine with green foil title, grey paper boards. B/w photos. xxviii and 290 pages including index. ISBN: 0195168267. Minor damp mottling to cloth spine, light browning to text block, else a lovely, clean copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

DR BENTLEY: A STUDY IN ACADEMIC SCARLET
Written by R.J. White.
Stock no. 1831451
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode. 1st 1965. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Richard Bentley (1662-1742) was the turbulent, despotic, brilliant and almost legendary Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. He was the greatest classical scholar, according to A.E. Housman, "that England or perhaps Europe ever bred". Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 303 pages including index. Some pale damp mottling to boards. Text block browned and lightly foxed. Personal inscription in ink to verso of free front endpaper. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is worn at corners and has a small chip to top rear edge, is browned and a little grubby.

ROBERT HARLEY, PURITAN POLITICIAN
Written by Angus McInnes.
Stock no. 1831450
Published by Victor Gollancz Ltd.. 1st 1970. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Robert Harley was prime minister of Great Britain in the early years of the eighteenth century. He was raised to the peerage of Great Britain as an earl in 1711. Between 1711 and 1714 he served as Lord High Treasurer, effectively Queen Anne's chief minister. He has been called a prime minister, although it is generally accepted that the de facto first minister to be a prime minister was Robert Walpole in 1721. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w frontis. 223 pages including index. ISBN: 0575005211. A few minor marks to rear board, browning to top edge of spine. Foxing to text block. Personal inscription in ink to front endpaper. Else contents clean. White pictorial dustwrapper is a little grubby and browned.

CARAVAGGIO: A LIFE SACRED AND PROFANE
Written by Andrew Graham-Dixon.
Stock no. 1831448
Published by The Penguin Group. Circa 2011. Slightly better than very good condition.

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio lived the darkest and most dangerous life of any of the great painters. The worlds of Milan, Rome and Naples through which Caravaggio moved and which Andrew Graham-Dixon describes brilliantly in this book, are those of cardinals and whores, prayer and violence. In the course of this desperate life Caravaggio created the most dramatic paintings of his age, using ordinary men and women - often prostitutes and the very poor - to model for his depictions of classic religious scenes. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour plates. xxviii and 514 pages. ISBN: 9780241954645. Third printing. Red title to spine lightly faded to pink, light reading creases to spine. Covers lightly scuffed. Text block slightly grubby. Else contents clean.

CALLAGHAN: A LIFE
Written by Kenneth O. Morgan.
Stock no. 1831446
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1997. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Biography of Jim Callaghan. Starting in humble circumstances and then moving into trade union office and parliament at a young age, he went on to hold all the major offices of state: Chancellor of the Exchequer, Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary and, for three tumultuous years, from 1976 to 1979, Prime Minister. Navy blue boards, gilt title to spine. A few b/w plates. xvi and 800 pages including index. ISBN: 0198202164. Couple of minor marks to rear board. Light shelf-rubbing to base of spine. Text block a bit grubby. Contents clean. Black pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-creased and lightly scuffed.

PRINCE OF THE RENAISSANCE: THE LIFE OF FRANCOIS I
Written by Desmond Seward.
Stock no. 1831444
Published by The History Book Club. 1973. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Biography. The life and character of Francois I, his manifold activities, his relations with the great men about him, and the turbulent events of the time are vividly described by a writer who loves the period and has made it his special study. Peach cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour & b/w illustrations. 264 pages including index. Top edge peach. Text block lightly browned, top edge peach colour has faded towards spine (sunned). Front joint is nicked to lower edge. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-worn, faded to spine, foxing to verso (not visible to front). Musty odour present.