FROM SKETCH-BOOK AND DIARY
Written by Elizabeth Butler. Illustrated by Elizabeth Butler.
Stock no. 2137357
Published by Adam & Charles Black. Circa 1909. Almost very good condition.

Blue cloth, gilt titles to spine and front cover. 28 colour plates + b/w illustrations. A & C Black 10 Shillings Series. 2 page original booklist + 4 page additional booklist to rear. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Browning to covers, especially spine and edges. Some fraying to cloth at edges. Foxing throughout. Light browning to plates.

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WINGS OVER WATER
Written by Jonathan Glancey.
Stock no. 2137274
Published by Atlantic Books. 1st 2020. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

The Story of the World's Greatest Air Race and the Birth of the Spitfire. Red boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 9781786494191.

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DESERT WARFARE
Written by Bryan Perrett.
Stock no. 2137272
Published by Pen & Sword Military. 2015. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

From Its Roman Origins To The Gulf Conflict. Originally published by Patrick Stephens Limited in 1988. This format is a reprint. B/w photos. ISBN: 1473847451.

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SOLDIERS: GREAT STORIES OF WAR AND PEACE
Written by Max Hastings; et al.
Stock no. 2137198
Published by William Collins. 1st 2021. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Dark grey cloth with gilt title to spine. Chosen, edited and Introduced by Hastings. Colour & b/w illustrations. ISBN: 9780008454227. Wrapper has some light edge-creasing.

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THE HOMES OF TENNYSON
Written by Arthur Paterson. Illustrated by Helen Allingham.
Stock no. 2137119
Published by Adam & Charles Black. Circa 1906. Good condition.

Green cloth with gilt titles and gilt, pink and green decorations. Top edge gilt. 20 tissue-guarded colour plates. 7/6 series. Black's Beautiful Books booklist to rear (4 sides). Some books to booklist were published 1906. Spine is faded. Some marks to covers. Bumping. Fraying to cloth at base of spine. Name in ink to front endpaper. Front joint is a bit cracked. Page browning and heavy foxing. Newspaper clipping stuck opposite page 53. Tissue guard is torn to plate page opposite page 56.

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WORLD PICTURES
Written by Mortimer Menpes; Dorothy Menpes.
Stock no. 2136948
Published by Adam & Charles Black. Good condition.

A & C Black 20 Shilling Series. 9 x 6.5 ins. Red cloth with black and gold decorations to front board. 50 colour and 50 black and white plates. Joints are broken! 1" split to cloth at base of spine; some chipping and nicks with fraying to cloth on spine and corners. Heavy bump to bottom corner of rear cover. Remains of bookplate to front pastedown. Front endpaper is nearly detached, browned and torn. Page edges are browned. All plates present.

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SKYSCRAPER: THE SEARCH FOR AN AMERICAN STYLE 1891-1941
Written by Roger Shepherd.
Stock no. 2136791
Published by McGraw-Hill. 1st USA 2003. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Black boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and illustrations. Annotated extracts from the first 50 years of 'Architectural Record'. ISBN: 0071369708.

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THE ORIGIN OF HUMAN SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS
Written by W.G. Runciman.
Stock no. 1322648
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 2001. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

These papers bring an interdisciplinary approach to bear on what is arguable the central question in the study of human social evolution. Burgundy boards, gilt title to spine. 259 pages. B/w diagrams. Published for The British Adademy, this is Proceedings of the British Academy 110. ISBN: 0197262503.

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A SOLDIER'S TALE: THREE NINETEENTH CENTURY STORIES OF LIFE AT WAR (3 VOLUMES)
Written by B.H. Liddell Hart; Marc Raeff; Christopher Hibbert; Jakob Walter.
Stock no. 2136702
Published by The Windrush Press. 2000. Slightly better than very good condition.

Card wraps. Contains: The Letters of Private Wheeler 1809-1828 edited by Hart; The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier Jakob Walter edited by Raeff and The Recollections of Rifleman Harris edited by Hibbert. Contained in original pictorial slip case which is very good - some scuffing and wear.

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SCHARNHORST: THE FORMATIVE YEARS, 1755-1801
Written by Charles Edward White.
Stock no. 2136687
Published by Helion & Company. Circa 2020. Very good condition.

Card wraps. B/w maps. From Reason to Revolution 1721-1815 No. 57. ISBN: 9781913118990. Light edge-wear.

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THE HANDWRITING OF ENGLISH DOCUMENTS
Written by L.C. Hector.
Stock no. 1322417
Published by Kohler And Coombes Ltd.. 1st thus 1980. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Blue boards with gilt title to spine. The chief object of tis book is to moderate as far as possible the hands written in England for administrative, legal or business purposes during the past eight or nine centuries. The invaluable series of 36 plates shows 56 examples of English handwriting from c. 700 to the middle of the 19th century. Originally published in 1958 (1st) and 1966 (2nd), this is the facimile edition. ISBN: 0903967162. Spine bumped. Light browning to front fly-leaf. Dustwrapper is lightly browned with small hole to centre of spine and small tear to top front corner.

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LAST OF THE PIRATES
Written by Bob Noakes.
Stock no. 1322311
Published by Paul Harris Publishing. 1st 1984. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A Saga of Everyday Life on Board Radio Caroline. B/w photos. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 0862280923. Spine and corners bumped. Some light marks to endpapers, top corner tip of front free-endpaper very slightly creased. Dustwrapper is slightly edge creased, some tiny white spots to front panel.

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