ANTHONY EDEN
Written by Robert Rhodes James.
Stock no. 1830996
Published by George Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1st 1986. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A portrait of Anthony Eden, Neville Chamberlain's foreign secretary in the 1930s, who held the same position under Churchill during World War II and succeeded the latter as prime minister in 1955. A sympathetic but not uncritical historiography. Purple cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. xiv and 665 pages including index. ISBN: 0297789899. Boards clean, light rubbing to base of spine. Text block a little grubby with a few small foxspots. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Else contents clean. Dustwrapper is lightly rubbed at corners, minor foxing to flaps.

MACMILLAN 1957-1986: VOLUME II OF THE OFFICIAL BIOGRAPHY
Written by Alistair Horne.
Stock no. 1830995
Published by Macmillan London Limited. 1st 1989. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A masterly account of Harold Macmillan's Prime Ministership (1957 - 63) and emergence as one of the most influential international statesmen of the 20th century. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. xvii and 741 pages including index. ISBN: 0333496213. Boards are clean. Text block a little grubby to lower edge and a little foxing to top edge. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Foxing to endpapers, prelims and last few pages. Pictorial dustwrapper is heavily foxed to flaps and a little scuffed.

BILL CLINTON: MASTERING THE PRESIDENCY
Written by Nigel Hamilton.
Stock no. 1830994
Published by Century. 1st 2007. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

An insightful, prodigiously researched, and wonderfully readable account of Bill Clintons first term in office. It shows how a well-meaning but naive new president failed to assert true leadership in his first two years, and then illustrates how, in an astonishing act of self-reinvention, the president turned defeat into victory. A gripping tale of hubris and redemption-and a chronicle of one of the most dramatic reversals of fortune in modern American politics. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. XV and 766 pages including index. ISBN: 9781844132096. Light crease to top & tail of spine. Minor white spots to boards. Text block browned. A few minor foxspots present. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly creased and scuffed.

JOHN STUART MILL: VICTORIAN FIREBRAND
Written by Richard Reeves.
Stock no. 1830992
Published by Atlantic Books. 1st thus 2008. Very good condition.

A biography of John Stuart Mill, an English philosopher, political economist, politician and civil servant. Richard Reeves covers Mill's political and social activism in detail. Mill identified problems with Victorian London, and he wanted to fix them. He was driven to make Victorian London a better place with less poverty, less overcrowding, and more prosperity. Pictorial cardwraps. A few b/w illustrations. 616 pages including index. ISBN: 9781843546443. Light reading creases (vertical) to spine. Corners a little creased and lightly rubbed. Text block a little grubby. Some foxing to contents else clean.

PERSONALITIES AND POWERS
Written by Lewis Namier.
Stock no. 1830991
Published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd. 1st 1955. Almost very good condition.

The author examines the various factions and interest groups that existed within the British political system, and how they interacted with each other to shape policy and decision-making. Burgundy cloth boards, silver title to spine. vii and 157 pages. Spine very lightly faded, a few minor marks to boards. Foxing to text block and page margins. Lengthy inscription in ink to front endpaper (neat). A few foxspots to prelims and a tiny closed tear to lower edge of prelims.

THE LAUREL AND THE IVY
Written by Robert Kee.
Stock no. 1330836
Published by Hamish Hamilton. 1st 1993. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The story of Charles Stewart Parnell and Irish Nationalism. Black boards, silver title to spine. Green endpapers. 659 pages (including index). A few b/w photos. ISBN: 0241128587. Slight bumping to spine. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Light foxing and fingermarks to textblock, top edge of textblock slightly grubby. Dustwrapper is slightly edge creased.

THE PASSING OF THE WHIGS 1832-1886
Written by Donald Southgate.
Stock no. 1330835
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1965. Very good condition.

Portraying Whiggery in its last generations. Papermac 114. Cardwraps. 488 pages (including index). Some b/w photos and pull-out tables. Cardwraps are a little marked at edges and browned to spine. Foxing to textblock, also affecting some page margins.

THE YOUNG LLOYD GEORGE
Written by John Grigg.
Stock no. 1330834
Published by Eyre Methuen. 1st 1973. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Covering Lloyd George's life from his birth in 1863 to the end of the Boer War in 1902. Brown cloth, gilt title to spine. 320 pages. B/w photos. ISBN: 0413256901. Minimal shelf wear to spine and corners. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Foxing to textblock and top edge a bit dusty. Dustwrapper is just a little rubbed at edges.

RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON: THE INVINCIBLE QUEST
Written by Conrad Black.
Stock no. 1330830
Published by Quercus. 1st 2007. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A thrilling and masterly re-appraisal of the most controversial president in US history. Grey boards, gilt title to spine. Red endpapers. B/w photos. 1152 pages (including index). ISBN: 184724209X. Spine and corners bumped. Small mark to lower edges of front endpapers, also affecting the lower edges of the prelims and the lower edge of the textblock. Textblock is lightly fingered, top edge is grubby. Dustwrapper is slightly edge creased.

THE ORIGINS OF THE LABOUR PARTY 1880-1900
Written by Henry Pelling.
Stock no. 1330829
Published by Oxford University Press. 2nd 1965. Very good condition.

Second edition (first published by Macmillan). Blue cloth, git title to spine. 256 pages (including index). Some b/w plates. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Some light and neat pencil annotations to page margins. Light foxing to textblock.

THE OLD CAUSE: THREE BIOGRAPHICAL STUDIES IN WHIGGISM
Written by John Carswell.
Stock no. 1330828
Published by The Cresset Press Ltd.. 1st 1954. Almost very good condition.

The lives of Wharton, Dodington and Fox which span the century and a quarter that elapsed between the Restoration and the Regency. Black cloth, gilt title to spine. 402 pages (including index). B/w plates. Spine slightly bumped. Light spotting to covers. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Foxing to textblock and pale page browning. Light musty smell to contents.

KING GEORGE III AND THE POLITICIANS: THE FORD LECTURES DELIVERED IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD 1951-2
Written by Richard Pares.
Stock no. 1830945
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st thus 1954. Very good condition.

This study of British politics from 1760 to 1832 deals with the reasons why people went into politics, the functions of party and patronage and the balance of power between King, Lords and Commons. George III is the central figure of the work and the author discusses the King's conception of his mission and his struggles with "that hydra faction". Reprinted lithoghraphically from corrected sheets of the first edition of 1953. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 214 pages including index. A few tiny air bubbles between cloth and boards. Top & tail of spine lightly shelf-rubbed. Top rear edge of board knocked. Text block browned with a few minor foxspots. Endpapers browned. Personal inscription in ink to front endpaper. A few foxspots mainly to prelims.