THE LAST KING OF POLAND
Written by Adam Zamoyski.
Stock no. 1815040
Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1st thus 1997. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The rich and enthralling story of a personal dream with all the elements of grand tragedy, while at the same time an important chronicle of the birth and death of liberalism in Poland and the establishment of Russian power in Europe. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w plates. ISBN: 029781821X. Text block a little grubby. Light pencil erasure to front endpaper. Pictorial dustwrapper has a few scuff marks.

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DINUZULU: THE DEATH OF THE HOUSE OF SHAKA
Written by C.T. Binns.
Stock no. 1814844
Published by Longmans. 1st 1968. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

The story of the Dinuzulu, son of Cetshwayo king of the Zulu Kingdom 1873-1879. Dinuzulu and the final dissolution of the great military empire which the tyrant Shaka had founded. Black boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. Browning to text block and musty odour to contents. Pictorial dustwrapper is slightly faded to spine and edge-worn with tape repair.

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ROALD DAHL
Written by Jeremy Treglown.
Stock no. 2123721
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1994. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Black boards, white title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0571165737. A few marks to covers. Page browning. Wrapper is edge-creased.

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REMBRANDT
Written by Mortimer Menpes; C. Lewis Hind. Illustrated by Rembrandt.
Stock no. 1814271
Published by Adam & Charles Black. 1st 1905. Very good condition.

Large format, Brown cloth. Mounted colour illustrations. Edges lightly rubbed. Free endpapers browned. All plates present. New pastedowns, some professional strengthening of sections using cloth.

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KLONDY: A DAUGHTER OF THE GOLD RUSH
Written by Klondy Nelson; Corey Ford.
Stock no. 1814134
Published by Robert Hale Limited. 1st 1958. Very good condition.

Biography of a woman caught up in the Klondike Gold Rush 1897. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. A few minor marks to boards. Minor foxing to endpapers and text block.

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RICHARD PARKES BONINGTON 'ON THE PLEASURE OF PAINTING'
Written by Patrick J. Noon. Illustrated by Richard Parkes Bonington.
Stock no. 1813533
Published by Yale Centre For British Art. 1st 1991. Slightly better than very good condition.

Published to accompany an exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven (13 November 1991-19 January 1992) and at the Petit Palais, Paris (5 March 1992-17 May 1992). Large format. Pictorial cardwraps. Colour & b/w illustrations throughout. 315 pages. ISBN: 0930606671. Corners lightly rubbed. Spine faded.

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RICHARD DOYLE'S JOURNAL 1840
Written by Richard Doyle; Christopher Wheeler. Illustrated by Richard Doyle.
Stock no. 1506855
Published by John Bartholomew & Son Limited. 1st 1980. Slightly better than very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Reproduction of the journal kept by Doyle throughout 1840. Large format. Brown boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. Hand-written text. ISBN: 0702882801. Spine lightly bumped. Odd fox spot to text block. Dustwrapper is unevenly browned and faded, laminate cracking in folds, brown mark to front panel.

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WHAT ELSE DO YOU DO?
Written by Mel Calman. Illustrated by Mel Calman.
Stock no. 1506718
Published by Methuen London Ltd. 1st 1986. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Some sketches from a cartoonist's life. Grey boards with gilt titles to spine. B/w illustrations. 105 numbered pages. ISBN: 0413588408. Signed by author, with inscription, on front endpaper. A little fading to base of spine and edges of covers alongside. Faint erased pencil writing to front endpaper otherwise contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn with a few small marks, very light browning to spine area.

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SAGITTARIUS SURVIVING
Written by Cecil Lewis.
Stock no. 2122641
Published by Leo Cooper. 1992. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Blue boards, gilt title to spine. 150 pages. Autobiography of an RAF commander. ISBN: 0850524482. Wrapper is faded to spine with a little creasing.

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CHASING THE BEAST
Written by George Greenfield.
Stock no. 2122537
Published by Richard Cohen Books. 1st 1998. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A War Memoir. B/w photos. ISBN: 1860661289. Heavy bump along bottom edge of front cover. Wrapper is edge-creased with some fading.

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A WESTMINSTER CHILDHOOD
Written by John Raynor. Illustrated by Dennis Flanders.
Stock no. 2122454
Published by Cassell & Company Limited. 1st 1973. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

When John Raynor, composer of nearly 700 song settings, died so tragically in a road accident in 1970, he left behind not only his lifetime's musical work, but the manuscript of this enchanting account of the years of his childhood. ISBN: 0304291838. A few marks to outer page edges. Wrapper is price-cut with a little edge-creasing.

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WINSOR MCCAY HIS LIFE AND ART
Written by John Canemaker; Maurice Sendak. Illustrated by Winsor McCay.
Stock no. 2122440
Published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc.. 1st thus 2005. Fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Colour & b/w illustrations. Revised and Expanded edition. Foreword by Sendak. This the only biography of one of America's greatest and most influential cartoonists, Winsor McCay (1867-1934), the universally acknowledged first master of both the comic strip and the animated cartoon. Although invented by others, both genres were developed into enduring popular art of highest imagination through McCay's innovative genius. He attributed his considerable success to "an absolute craving to draw pictures all the time." ISBN: 0810959410. Wrapper is a little edge-creased with small nick to edge of rear panel.

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