DR JOHNSON & MR SAVAGE
Written by Richard Holmes.
Stock no. 1331089
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st 1993. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The strange alliance of Richard Savage and Samuel Johnson. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. 260 pages (including index). Red endpapers are maps of the Thames (London) area. ISBN: 0340529741. A couple of small foxspots to textblock. Dustwrapper is a little sunned to spine.

GEORGE IV REGENT AND KING
Written by Christopher Hibbert.
Stock no. 1331084
Published by Allen Lane. 1st 1973. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Navy blue boards, gilt title to spine. Light pink endpapers. 430 pages (including index), pull-out family tree to rear of book. B/w photos. ISBN: 0713904879. Minimal bumping to spine. Light scratch mark to front cover. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Foxing to textblock and some page margins. Dustwrapper is slightly edge worn and faded to spine.

BERTIE - A LIFE OF EDWARD VII
Written by Jane Ridley.
Stock no. 1331081
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1st 2012. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A magnificent and exhaustively researched book, drawing on numerous new discoveries and primary sources, which gives Bertie due credit while painting a vivid portrait of an age in all its excess and eccentricity. Black boards, gilt title to spine. Burgundy endpapers. 608 pages (including index). B/w photos. ISBN: 9780701176143. Some foxing. Front joint cracked. Dustwrapper is just a little creased at edges.

THE PURSUIT OF ITALY
Written by David Gilmour.
Stock no. 1331079
Published by Allen Lane. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A History of the Land, its Regions and their Peoples. Black boards, gilt title to spine. Red endpapers. 447 pages (including index). Colour photos. ISBN: 9781846142512. 6th printing. Minimal bumping to spine. Foxing to textblock and verso of wrapper. Light spotting to wrapper.

POLITICAL PARTIES (SOURCES OF HISTORY)
Written by John W. Derry.
Stock no. 1831269
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1968. Very good condition.

A history of political parties. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w illustrations. 80 pages including index. SIGNED by the author twice. Covers a little grubby. Contents clean.

THAMES: SACRED RIVER
Written by Peter Ackroyd.
Stock no. 1831268
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1st 2007. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

In short, lively chapters Ackroyd writes about connections between the Thames and such historical figures as Julius Caesar and Henry the VIII, and offers memorable portraits of the ordinary men and women who depend upon the river for their livelihoods. Matt pictorial boards. B/w and colour photos. xxi and 490 pages. ISBN: 9780701172848. SIGNED by the author (no dedication) to title page. Top edge of text block a little grubby. Else contents clean. Pictorial wrap-around has a 'signed copy' circular sticker to front panel.

VICTORIAN CITIES
Written by Asa Briggs.
Stock no. 1831267
Published by Odhams Press Limited. 1st 1963. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A comparative study in urban history, Victorian Cities examines the 19th-century history of four developing cities in England in a period of rapid growth, with chapters on London and Melbourne and references to Los Angeles and Chicago as well. Orange cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 416 pages including index. Lower corners and spine lightly bumped/shelf-worn. Text block very dusty to top edge. Pale foxing to endpapers and prelims. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Else contents clean. Orange pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-creased and is sunned to spine.

THE FATAL IMPACT: AN ACCOUNT OF THE INVASION OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC 1767-1840
Written by Alan Moorehead.
Stock no. 1831257
Published by Hamish Hamilton. 1st 1966. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The late Alan Moorehead evocatively recounts the almost inevitable tragic consequences for the native people and cultures of the South Pacific when Western man "discovered" them, even when the discoverer, Cook, was no conquistador and had come with high hopes of peaceful and productive co-existence. Green cloth boards, gilt title on red title block to spine. B/w photos and illustratilons. xiv and 230 pages including index. Top edge green. Boards clean. Text block browned. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Some foxing and browning to contents. Pictorial dustwrapper is a little grubby and lightly edge-rubbed.

AUTHORITY AND THE INDIVIDUAL: THE REITH LECTURES FOR 1948-9
Written by Bertrand Russell.
Stock no. 1831256
Published by George Allen & Unwin Ltd.. 1st 1949. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A series of six lectures exploring the balance between social order and individual freedom in modern society. Delivered in 1949, Russell examines how institutions like government, education and religion shape behaviour, often at the expense of personal liberty. Pale yellow cloth boards, green titles. 125 pages plus publisher adverts to rear. Top edge green. Spine lightly browned, some foxing to boards. Text block lightly browned. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Some scattered foxspots present. Green dustwrapper is browned, stained and marked, title barely visible to spine.

BARE RUINED CHOIRS: THE DISSOLUTION OF THE ENGLISH MONASTERIES
Written by David Knowles.
Stock no. 1831254
Published by Purnell Book Services Limited. 1st thus 1976. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The book examines the changing economic and religious climate as a prelude to the sombre story of the Suppression. The fate of the monastic buildings and lands and of the religious themselves is described in full, and numerous engravings and photographs illuminate this account of the transition from splendour to desolation. An abridged edition of The Religious Orders in England, III: The Tudor Age first published in 1959. Book Club Edition. Light brown cloth boards, gilt title in burgundy title block to spine. B/w photos and illustrations. 329 pages including index. Text block lightly browned. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Some minor foxing present and a musty odour. Pictorial dustwrapper is sunned to spine and lightly browned to rear panel.

GODLINESS AND GOOD LEARNING: FOUR STUDIES ON A VICTORIAN IDEAL
Written by D. Newsome.
Stock no. 1831252
Published by John Murray. 1st 1961. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

"Rootless, godless, ignorant and lost," the adjectives used by an eminent scholar to describe the rising generation of our times, could never be applied to the generation that grew into manhood at the time of the Great Exhibition of 1851. For this was an age of dedicated lives, of men who were proud of the past and confident of the future, of a ruling class which was both purposeful and devout. Includes two biographical studies, one of an idealist Victorian headmaster and one representing the exemplar of the ideal, a Winchester schoolboy. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. xii and 291 pages including index. Light rubbing and minor discolouration to top & tail of spine. Text block browned with some foxing. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Endpapers browned. A few scattered foxspots. Purple patterned dustwrapper is edge-worn with a few small tears and chips.

NEVER CALL RETREAT (THE CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR VOLUME THREE)
Written by Bruce Catton.
Stock no. 1831230
Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc.. 1st 1965. Almost very good condition.

This book is the final installment of Bruce Catton's Centennial History of the Civil War trilogy. It covers the period from late 1862 to the surrender of Lee's army and Lincoln's assassination in April 1865 to the end of the Confederacy in May 1865 with the surrender of the last rebel army. Green cloth spine with black titles and silver title on black, grey cloth boards with silver title to front. Maps. xi and 555 pages including index. Top edge red. Boars grubby. Top & tail of spine lightly worn. Text block grubby. Inscription in ink to half-title page. Contents otherwise clean.