WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR
Written by L. Du Garde Peach. Illustrated by John Kenney.
Stock no. 1331280
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. 1969. Very good condition.

Ladybird Series 561. Blue pictorial paper boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0721401600. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Contents fine. Tally 250.

BORN AN OPTIMIST
Written by Jean Lee.
Stock no. 1331262
Published by M.I.P.I. PUBLISHING. 2nd 2000. Slightly better than very good condition.

The Story of Geoffrey Groves, Inventor. Second (revised) edition. Card wraps. B/w photos. ISBN: 095405590X. Tiny spot to lower edge of textblock by spine and minimal rubbing to cover edges. Contents fine.

DARWIN
Written by Adrian Desmond; James Moore.
Stock no. 1831418
Published by Michael Joseph Ltd. 1st 1991. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

This biography of Charles Darwin attempts to capture the private unknown life of the real man - the gambling and gluttony at Cambridge, his gruelling trip round the globe, his intimate family life, worries about persecution and thoughts about God. Grey cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos & illustrations. xxi and 807 pages including index. ISBN: 0718134303. Light bump to top rear corner. Text block a little grubby. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. A few foxspots present, mainly to endpapers and prelims. Pictorial dustwrapper is clean.

ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE: A BIOGRAPHY
Written by Hugh Brogan.
Stock no. 1831417
Published by Profile Books Ltd.. 1st 2006. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Alexis de Tocqueville was one of the greatest political thinkers of all time. Born a French aristocrat, he lost nearly his entire family in the Reign of Terror, and he spent most of his adult life struggling for liberty under the unsuccessful regimes of nineteenth-century France. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Cream pictorial endpapers, a few b/w plates. 724 pages including index. ISBN: 9781861975096. Light shelf wear to base of spine. Text block browned and has a few minor marks. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly sunned/faded to spine and is lightly scuffed.

JONATHAN SWIFT: A SHORT CHARACTER (MASTERS OF WORLD LITERATURE)
Written by Nigel Dennis.
Stock no. 1831416
Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1st 1965. Very good condition.

In this book, attention is focused as much on the complex personality of Swift as on his works, relating him to his age and to his time. Here is the bitter moralist, the restless politician, the rigid churchman, the great satirist. Black cloth boards, silver title to spine. 160 pages including index. Top & tail of spine lightly shelf-worn. Rear board lightly marked. Foxing to top edge of text block, endpapers and last page of index. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Contents clean.

THE SERJEANT-MAJOR
Written by James Leasor.
Stock no. 1831415
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1955. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

The life-story of R.S.M. Ronald Brittain, M.B.E., Coldstream Guards - "The man with the loudest voice in the Army". Foreword by Sir Oliver Leese. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. 191 pages. A few minor marks to boards. Gilt title to spine has dulled. Text block a little grubby. Gift inscription in ink to front endpaper. A few foxspots to margins else contents clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is edge-worn and creased, sligth loss to edges, a little grubby to rear panel.

SIR WILLIAM JARDINE: A LIFE IN NATURAL HISTORY
Written by Christine E. Jackson; Peter Davis.
Stock no. 1831395
Published by Leicester University Press. 1st 2001. Very good condition.

Biography. Sir William Jardine (1800-1874) of Jardine Hall near Lockerbie, was a Scottish baronet and landowner. He was also a magistrate, Convenor of the Church of Scotland, and Deputy Lieutenant of Dumfriesshire in 1841, but, above all, he was an eminent naturalist in several fields, knowledgeable about birds, fishes, insects, plants and geology. Matt boards. B/w illustrations. xii and 244 pages including index. ISBN: 0718501640. Edges of boards sunned/faded. Light bumping to top & tail of spine. Contents clean.

ELIZABETH FRY
Written by L. Du Garde Peach. Illustrated by Roger Hall.
Stock no. 1831371
Published by Ladybird Books Ltd. 1st 1973. Very good condition.

Ladybird Series 561. Red pictorial paper boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0721403379. Spine & corners lightly rubbed. Rear board a little scuffed and small pressure point to lower spine edge. Contents clean. Tally is 320.

CHARLES DICKENS
Written by L. Du Garde Peach. Illustrated by John Kenney.
Stock no. 1831370
Published by Wills & Hepworth Ltd.. 1st 1965. Slightly better than very good condition.

Ladybird Series 561. Yellow pictorial paper boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0721401783. Tiny piece of surface paper loss to top of spine. Rear board lightly grubby. Contents clean. Tally is 140.

THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY: RUGBY AND THE WORLD CUP 1995
Written by Stuart Barnes.
Stock no. 1331247
Published by Richard Cohen Books. 1st 1995. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A lively account of a thrilling rugby season and a refreshing perspective on an historic year. Red boards, gilt title to spine. 247 pages (including index). ISBN: 1860660274. SIGNED by the author to verso of half title-page. Spine and corners bumped. Pale page edge browning. Dustwrapper is edge creased.

GARETH
Written by Gareth Edwards.
Stock no. 1331246
Published by Stanley Paul. 1st 1978. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The autobiography of Gareth Edwards the youngest rugby player to captain Wales at age of 20. Red boards, silver title to spine. 176 pages. B/w photos. ISBN: 0091348005. Some slight discolouration to cover edges and spine very slightly bumped. Inscription in ink and some pencil erasure to front free-endpaper. Light page edge browning and foxing else contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn with small tear to top front corner.

JPR AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Written by J.P.R. Williams.
Stock no. 1331245
Published by Collins. 1st 1979. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Autobiography of the famous Welsh Rugby player. Red boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0002160382. Spine slightly bumped. Small white mark to front cover. Textblock is foxed. Erased pencil writing to front free-endpaper. Price-cut wrapper is lightly browned and edge rubbed.