THE ADVENT OF THE LABOUR PARTY
Written by Philip P. Poirier.
Stock no. 1831200
Published by George Allen & Unwin Ltd.. 1st 1958. Very good condition.

Accounts for the emergence of the British Labour Party as a political force between 1900 and the general election of 1906. Red cloth boards, silver title to spine. 287 pages including index. Top edge red. Spine is very slightly dulled. Text block browned and a little dusty. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. A few foxspots present and annotation in the form of pencil marks to margins.

PITT VERSUS FOX: FATHER & SON 1735-1806
Written by Erich Eyck.
Stock no. 1831199
Published by G. Bell And Sons, Ltd.. 1st thus 1950. Good condition.

The political history of England 1735-1806 as illustrated by Henry and Charles James Fox and the Elder and the Younger Pitt. Translated from the original in German, the history has a decidedly "liberal" German perspective. Eyck uses a series of coincidences to give unity to his ambitious tale: The elder Pitt and Henry Fox, destined like their sons to be political rivals, entered the House of Commons the same year, 1735. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w plates. viii and 396 pages including index. Boards mottled and scuffed. Spine is faded/sunned, scuffed and worn at top & tail, title is rubbed. Text block and endpapers browned. A few foxspots present.

WILKES, WYVILL AND REFORM: THE PARLIAMENTARY REFORM MOVEMENT IN BRITISH POLITICS 1760-1785
Written by Ian R.. Christie.
Stock no. 1831175
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1962. Almost very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A detailed history of the "Wilkes and Liberty" movement and the association movement that followed it. This study is an attempt to answer certain questions about the agitation for parliamentary reform in Great Britain during the age of the American Revolution. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xi and 247 pages including index. Boards damp mottled. Text block lightly browned with some foxing. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Front joint pulled between front endpaper and half-title page but binding is tight. Endpapers lightly browned, some browning to contents.

SAMUEL JOHNSON
Written by J.C.D. Clark.
Stock no. 1330914
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1st PB 1994. Slightly better than very good condition.

Literature, religion and English cultural politics from the Restoration to Romanticism. Cardwraps (paperback edition). 270 pages including index. ISBN: 0521478855. Minimal rubbing to edges. Some light grubby marks to textblock (contents not affected).

JOURNEY INTO SILENCE
Written by Jack Ashley.
Stock no. 1831035
Published by The Bodley Head. 1st 1973. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Detailing MP Jack Ashley's early years, and his election to parliament; but which begins (with a silent bang...) with the sudden loss of hearing that then marked him out as one of the most courageous, honest, inspirational, blunt and hard-working MPs this country has had (in recent history, anyway). Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 191 pages including index. ISBN: 0370013840. Boards clean. Slight lean to spine. Text block browned with light foxing. Endpapers lightly browned, inscription in ink to front endpaper. Contents generally clean. Dustwrapper is lightly browned.

JOHN ADAMS
Written by David McCullough.
Stock no. 1330882
Published by The Free Press. 1st thus 2002. Very good condition.

The adventurous life of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot. Paperback edition. Some colour and b/w plates. 751 pages including index. ISBN: 0743232291. Textblock is slightly grubby and foxed. Spine is lightly creased from the book being held open to read.

THE DEBATE ON THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1761-1783
Written by Max Beloff.
Stock no. 1330881
Published by Nicholas Kaye. 1st 1949. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The British Political Tradition series edited by Bullock and Deakin. This volume edited by Beloff. A selection of contemporary contributions, in speeches and writings, to the debate of the constitutional and political rights and duties of the American colonies. 303 pages including index. Brown cloth, red and gilt title to spine. Spine and corners bumped. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Foxing to endpapers and textblock. Dustwrapper is foxed and slightly edge worn with browning to spine and rear panel.

LINCOLN
Written by David Herbert Donald.
Stock no. 1330878
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1st 1995. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

This compelling biography presents a moving, original portrait of a man who did not seek fame, but who rose reluctantly and spectacularly to the occasion. Blue cloth spine with silver title, pink boards. B/w photos. 714 pages. ISBN: 022404222x. Spine slightly bumped and rubbed. Some foxing to contents. Top edge of textblock is a little grubby. Dustwrapper is slightly edge rubbed.

THE TROUBLE MAKERS - DISSENT OVER FOREIGN POLICY 1792-1939
Written by A.J.P. Taylor.
Stock no. 1330877
Published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd. 1st 1957. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The Ford Lectures delivered in the University of Oxford in Hilary Term 1956. Black boards, gilt title to spine. 207 pages including index. Minimal bumping to spine and corners. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Foxing to textblock, heavy at top. Dustwrapper is slightly edge worn and grubby with foxing on verso.

CHARLES JAMES FOX: A MAN FOR THE PEOPLE
Written by Loren Reid.
Stock no. 1831000
Published by Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd.. 1st 1969. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Charles James Fox was one of the most colourful, complex and controversial figures of eighteenth-century England. The book grows out of a professional interest in Fox's talents as a parliamentary speaker. The scope, therefore, is that of a biography, with Fox's attainments as a speaker coming to the foreground at frequent intervals. Light brown cloth boards, dark brown title block with silver title to spine. xiv and 475 pages including index. Boards clean. Text block browned with some foxing. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Light foxing to endpapers. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly browned to flaps. Musty odour present.

THE SECOND TORY PARTY 1714-1832
Written by Keith Grahame Feiling.
Stock no. 1830999
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1938. Very good condition.

Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. vii and 451 pages including index. Boards are faintly mottled by damps. Text block browned and has minor foxing. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Minor foxing to endpapers. Contents clean.

LLOYD GEORGE: FROM PEACE TO WAR 1912-1916
Written by John Grigg.
Stock no. 1830998
Published by Methuen London Ltd. 1st 1985. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The third volume of John Grigg's highly acclaimed biography of Lloyd George. Covering the period 1912-16, From Peace to War begins when Lloyd George is at the pinnacle of success and achievement. Yet in the following two years he is plunged into turmoil in both his personal and political life. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. 527 pages including index. ISBN: 0413466604. Boards clean. Slight lean to spine. Text block a little grubby and lightly foxed. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is foxed to flaps, lightly browned and lightly scuffed, slightly faded to spine.