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Sir Winston Churchill
Book ID: 4768More details Price: £450.00 -
Souvenirs du Siége de Paris les défenseurs de la capitale
Book ID: 4517More details Price: £110.00 -
Star Strangled Banger.
London: Harrap, 1987. First edition. Blue hardback in dust wrapper. Both wrapper and book are in very good, unblemished condition. A touch of bumping to the edges of the wrapper only. A very nice copy. Unpaginated. 295 x 220 mm (11½ by 8¾ inches).
Book ID: 3352More details Price: £30.00 -
Substance of the Speech of the Rev. J. P. Jones, of North Bovey, Delivered at a County meeting, held at the Castle of Exeter, on Friday, the 16th day of March, 1821 Convened by the High Sheriff, Pursuant to a Requisition, to Consider the Expediency of Petitioning Parliament Against any alteration of the Laws, as they now exist, relating to His Majesty's Roman Catholic Subjects.
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 1304More details Price: £60.00 -
Substance of the Speech of the Rev. J.P. Jones, Vice-President of the Devon County Club, At the half Yearly Meeting of the Club, held at the Globe Tavern, Exeter, August 1st 1828
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 1305More details Price: £60.00 -
Suburbia caricatured.
Book ID: 4932More details Price: £45.00 -
Sur Rails
1 ére Année. No 5, et dernier numéro. Décembre 1915.
Book ID: 5313More details Price: £250.00 -
Tat Gegen Tinte
Hitler in der Karikatur der Welt Neue Folge
Book ID: 4480More details Price: £50.00 -
Testament Politique du Marquis de Louvois
Premier ministre d'etat sous le regne de Louis XIV
Book ID: 4460More details Price: £275.00 -
The Artist's edition of the Works of John Greenleaf Whittier.
Illustrated with Steel Portraits and Photogravures. Complete in nine volumes
Book ID: 5181More details Price: £750.00 -
The Baronage of England or An Historical Account of the Lives and most Memorable Actions of Our English Nobility.
Book ID: 4791More details Price: £475.00 -
The Battle for the Labour Party.
London: Kogan Page Ltd, 1982. Signed First edition. Hardback in original unclipped dust jacket. The Labour Party in turmoil. Drawing on hitherto unpublished interview material and documents. An original and fascinating account of The Labour Party in the early 1980s. Signed dedication to front by David Kogan. Book and jacket in very good condition. 160 pages. 225 x 140 mm.
David Kogan OBE is a British media executive, historian and journalist, who is an expert on the history of the Labour Party.
Book ID: 3697More details Price: £80.00 -
The Bolshevik Poster.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. First edition, clean and tidy dust wrapper, with a little edgewear to the wrapper only. Clean and tidy red hardback boards, with gilt titles. Book itself is in excellent condition, with almost no wear. Colour illustrations throughout. 152 pages. 295 by 230mm (11½ by 9 inches).
Book ID: 3344More details Price: £30.00 -
The Bruiser
London: G. G. & J. Robinson, 1800. A large engraving showing Charles Churchill as a bear, holding a wooden club and a tankard of beer. Hogarth's dog, Trump, urinates on a copy of Churchill's "Epistle to Hogarth" This is a large format engraving. The print is 38 x 28.5cm and the sheet is 49.5 x 36cm. ((19½ by 14¼ inches). Most copies we have seen for sale are 19cm x 26cm. Very good condition with no significant edgewear. A few small stains only to the edges. There is a small repaired enclosed tear to the top border. Print area is very good.
Book ID: 3649More details Price: £180.00 -
The Cad to the Man Wot Drives the Sovereign
London: Thomas McLean, 1829. A lovely copy of this hand coloured engraving. A political satire, mocking Sir William Peel as being Wellington's fixer. Clean impression, and nice bright colouring. The sheet is fixed to a backing paper which is slightly stiffer. Blank verso. Image is 36cm x 26cm. Backing sheet is 42cm x 32cm.
. Un bel exemplaire de cette gravure coloriée à la main. Une satire politique qui se moque de Sir William Peel, considéré comme l'homme à tout faire de Wellington. Impression propre et belles couleurs vives. La feuille est fixée sur un support légèrement plus rigide. Verso vierge. L'image mesure 36 cm x 26 cm. La feuille de support mesure 42 cm x 32 cm.
Book ID: 4883More details Price: £150.00 -
The Devil to Pay. The Mutiny of the Connaught Rangers, India, July 1920.
London: Leo Cooper, 1991. First edition. Hardback black cloth with original dust wrapper. Author's gift inscription to the front end paper and signature to the title page. Wrapper is clean and tidy, with a touch of marking only. Now covered in archival film. The book itself is clean and tidy with a touch of darkening to the edges only. Overall a very nice copy. ix, 208 pp.
The Mutiny of the 1st Battalion, Connaught Rangers in 1920 was a direct response to the brutalities being inflicted on the Irish by the Black & Tans in the period immediately before Irish Independence. This account also covers the other events leading up to the establishment of the Free State.
Book ID: 1843More details Price: £30.00 -
The Form of Prayer, with Thanksgiving to Almighty God, to be used daily by devout people throughout the realm, for the happy deliverance of Her Majesty Queen Caroline from the late most traitorous conspiracy.
London: William Hone, 1820. Third Edition. Disbound (abstracted from a larger volume with stab marks to the spine). Clean and tidy with a touch of foxing to the rear panel only. 16 pages. Queen Caroline was popular with the English public, despite (or perhaps because of) estrangement from her husband, George IV. 215 x 130 mm (8½ x 5 inches).
Book ID: 3347More details Price: £30.00 -
The Free-Holder [Freeholder] or Political Essays.
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 1921More details Price: £325.00 -
The French Economy and State
A Rand Corporation research study.
Book ID: 4224More details Price: £30.00 -
The Imperial Presidency
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1975. Very nice copy of thir first edition with a warm gift inscription from the author to the politician and journalist Woodrow Wyatt. Clean, slightly darkened dust wrapper, now protected with a mylar cover. Clean, slightly rubbed grey boards. Internally clean and tidy. Inscription in red ink to the front end paper, and Wyatt's bookplate to the inside front board. X, 505 pages. 235 by 160mm (9¼ by 6¼ inches).
Wyatt was initially a Labour politician and MP from 1945-1970 Afterwards he became a broadcaster and journalist. Over time he moved away from the Labour party, and on becoming friends with Margaret Thatcher, moved significantly to the right. His memoirs were described as "Mischievously indiscreet diaries" (Andrew Neill).
Book ID: 3620More details Price: £65.00































































