THE HOUSE OF COMMONS 1754-1790: INTRODUCTORY SURVEY (THE HISTORY OF PARLIAMENT)
Written by John Brooke.
Stock no. 1831627
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st thus 1968. Very good condition.

This book provides an introduction to and analysis of the biographies and constituency surveys. It also discusses each of the elections held during the period, and provides a brief discussion of the House of Commons and its procedure. An Oxford Paperback No. 147. Originally published in 1964 by HMSO. viii and 312 pages including index. Covers lightly rubbed and edge-worn. Foxing to text block, inside front cover and title page. Neat inscription in ink to title page. Else contents clean.

DAVID LLOYD GEORGE: THE GREAT OUTSIDER
Written by Roy Hattersley.
Stock no. 1831624
Published by Little, Brown. 1st 2010. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

In this fascinating biography of an authentic radical, Roy Hattersley charts the great reforms - the first old age pension, sick pay and unemployment benefit - of which Lloyd George was architect, and also sheds light on the complexities of a man who was both a tireless champion of the poor, and a restless philanderer. Brown boards, cream title to spine. Photographic illustrations to endpapers. B/w photos. x and 709 pages including index. ISBN: 9781408700976. Top & tail of spine lightly shelf-worn. Boards clean. Text block grubby. Frontispiece has faintly imprinted on to facing title page. Else contents clean. Cream pictorial dustwrapper is grubby, has some surface paper loss (snails?) and a few damp stains mostly visible to verso.

PATTERNS OF POWER IN EARLY WALES
Written by Wendy Davies.
Stock no. 1831584
Published by Oxford University Press; Clarendon Press. 1st 1990. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

This book is an exploration of the nature of power in early medieval Wales. Wendy Davies examines the distribution of power, territorial and social, and traces the ways in which contemporaries defined this fundamental concept. O'Donnell Lectures delivered in the University of Oxford 1983. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. 103 pages. ISBN: 0198201532. Hinge between half-title page and title page is pulled at top half but binding is tight. Contents clean. Green dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

GLADSTONE HEROIC MINISTER 1865-1898
Written by Richard Shannon.
Stock no. 1331402
Published by Allen Lane. 1st 1999. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Black boards, gilt title to spine. Some b/w photos. 702 pages. ISBN: 0713992530. Spine slightly bumped. Foxing to textblock and endpapers. Textblock is slightly grubby. Dustwrapper is lightly edge creased.

THEODORE REX
Written by Edmund Morris.
Stock no. 1331399
Published by Harper Collins Publishers Ltd. 1st 2002. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The sequel to "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt". Black boards, gilt title to spine. 772 pages including notes and index. ISBN: 0002177080. Spine slightly bumped. Textblock is slightly grubby. Corner tip of rear free-endpaper torn off and last few pages have corner creases. Contents are clean. Dustwrapper is just slightly edge rubbed and creased and is lightly scuffed to rear panel.

THE GROWTH OF POLITICAL STABILITY IN ENGLAND 1675-1725
Written by J.H. Plumb.
Stock no. 1831517
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1967. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

In this series of lectures Professor J.H. Plumb examines the question of how almost abruptly England achieved political peace in the early eighteenth century. Terracotta cloth boards, gilt title on black title label to spine. xviii and 206 pages including index. Board edges lightly rubbed. Text block browned with some foxing. Name & date in ink to front endpaper. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is browned and worn at corners, grubby. Musty odour present.

ENGLISH MEN AND MANNERS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (A GALAXY BOOK)
Written by A.S. Turberville.
Stock no. 1831464
Published by Oxford University Press. 1961. Almost very good condition.

This vivid portrait of an exuberant era peopled by forceful and colorful personalities is a social and political history of the eighteenth century that is a happy blend of information and entertaining illustrations. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w illustrations. xxiii and 539 pages. Second printing of this edition. Covers are a little grubby, creasing to rear cover. Reading wear vertically to spine. Joints pulled but binding still tight. Text block is browned and grubby. Contents clean.

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.

FORGED IN WAR: CHURCHILL, ROOSEVELT AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR
Written by Warren F.. Kimball.
Stock no. 1831455
Published by Harpercollins Publishers. 1st 1997. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

This is a detailed study of the relationship between Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and its role in shaping the course of World War II. It shows how they were both realists and idealists, consistent and inconsistent, calculating and impulsive. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 422 pages including index. ISBN: 000215482X. Boards clean. Personal inscription in ink to front pastedown and '554-8' written small to top of free front endpaper. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly rubbed at top corner and a little scuffed.

EMINENT CHURCHILLIANS
Written by Andrew Roberts.
Stock no. 1831454
Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1st 1994. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A controversial account of the Churchill years by a bestselling historian, tackles six aspects of Churchilliana and uncovers a plethora of disturbing facts about wartime and post-war Britain. Blue cloth boards, silver title to spine. B/w plates. xii and 354 pages including index. ISBN: 0297812475. Slight lean to spine. Text block heavily foxed. Personal inscription in ink to front endpaper. Else contents clean. White pictorial dustwrapper is very lightly scuffed and slightly grubby.

DISRAELI
Written by Robert Blake.
Stock no. 1331313
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode. 1st 1966. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

A lively portrait of an extraordinary man and of the age he lived in. Green cloth. Black title label to spine with gilt title. 819 pages (including index). Some b/w photos. Spine bumped. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Small mark to front pastedown. Textblock is foxed and grubby. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is well edge worn.

RICHARD III AND THE DEATH OF CHIVALRY
Written by David Hipshon.
Stock no. 1331241
Published by The History Press. 1st 2009. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

How the power of politics of the conflict between the Stanley's and the Harrington's, and Richard's motives in supporting the latter, led to the king's death on the battlefield, the succession of the Tudors to the throne of England, and 'death of chivalry' and the end of the Middle Ages. Red boards, gilt title to spine. 224 pages. ISBN: 9780750950749. Some foxing to textblock else a fine copy. Dustwrapper has a small tear to centre.