PHILIP SNOWDEN
Written by Colin Cross.
Stock no. 1831628
Published by Barrie & Rockliff. 1st 1966. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden, PC was a British politician and Chancellor of the Excehquer in the first two Labour governments of Great Britain. A strong speaker, he became popular in trade union circles for his denunciation of capitalism as unethical and his promise of a socialist utopia. Peach cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. x and 356 pages including index. Top edge red. A few small, pale stains to front board, base of spine lightly rubbed. Inscription in ink to free front endpaper. Contents clean. White & green dustwrapper is a little grubby and lightly scuffed.

CB: A LIFE OF SIR HENRY CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN
Written by John Wilson.
Stock no. 1831626
Published by Constable and Company Ltd.. 1st 1973. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman was a British statesman and Liberal Party politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1905 to 1908 and Leader of the Liberal Party from 1899 to 1908. He had known the extremes of political failure and success. At one time he was execrated as a man who was said to sympathise with the enemies of his country. Grey cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 717 pages including index. ISBN: 009458950X. Boards clean. Text block grubby, some page edges grubby. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Otherwise contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is a little grubby and sunned/faded to top edges and spine.

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.

LONG SUNSET: MEMOIRS OF WINSTON CHURCHILL'S LAST PRIVATE SECRETARY
Written by Anthony Montague Browne.
Stock no. 1831621
Published by Cassell Publishers Ltd.. 1st 1995. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

As a young man Anthony Montague Browne fought in the Second World War as a pilot with distinction and was awarded the DFC, and after 1965 he served in the Royal Household. But it is the figure of Winston Churchill which dominates these memoirs (to which his daughter Mary Soames contributes a Foreword) and as the final member of what he called 'my circle' to have written an autobiography, Anthony Montague Browne represents a last link with the greatest Englishman of the century. Navy blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. xii and 376 pages including index. ISBN: 0304344788. Faint grease spot to lower edge of front board else boards clean. Name & date in ink to front pastedown, inscription in ink to front endpaper. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed else clean.

GLADSTONE VOLUME ONE 1809-1865
Written by Richard Shannon.
Stock no. 1331405
Published by Hamish Hamilton. 1st 1982. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Orange/brown boards with gilt title to spine. 580 pages including index. Some b/w plates. ISBN: 0241107806. Spine slightly bumped. Small mark to front cover. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Textblock is a little grubby. Dustwrapper is edge worn and slightly faded to spine.

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.

JFK: RECKLESS YOUTH
Written by Nigel Hamilton.
Stock no. 1831518
Published by Century. 1992. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The first volume of Life and Death of an American President. The book follows Kennedy from his birth and childhood in suburban Boston to his education at elite boarding schools, Princeton, and eventually Harvard, from his relationships with his parents, siblings, and many lovers to his military career. Black cloth boards, silver title to spine. A few b/w photos. xxiv and 898 pages including index. ISBN: 0712625712. Text block is browned and grubby. Gift inscription in ink to top edge of free front endpaper. Front joint pulled but binding tight. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-worn and slightly browned. Slight musty odour present.

WINSTON & CLEMENTINE: THE TRIUMPH OF THE CHURCHILLS
Written by Richard Hough.
Stock no. 1831462
Published by Bantam Press. 1st 1990. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The intimate portrait of the epic achievement and unshakeable values of two fascinating people whose love withstood the tests of war and family tragedy --- and whose fierce, irreconcilable differences were essential to their triumph. Grey cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. xvii and 590 pages including index. ISBN: 0593018265. Boards clean. Text block is a little grubby/foxed. Personal inscription in ink to top edge of front pastedown and '5190' written small in ink to free front endpaper. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is crease with a closed tear (no loss) to base of spine, a few grubby marks.

MR. SECRETARY PEEL: THE LIFE OF SIR ROBERT PEEL TO 1830
Written by Norman Gash.
Stock no. 1831461
Published by Longman, Green And Co.. 1st 1961. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Sir Robert Peel was twice Prime Minister for Great Britain. Mr Secretary Peel carries its subject's story from birth through his entry into politics in Ireland, his early positions in Tory governments, his tenure as Home Secretary from 1822 (which included his establishing of the Metropolitan Police Force) and up to the struggles over the issue of Catholic Emancipation. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xiv and 693 pages including index. A few minor scuffs to boards. Text block is browned and foxed. Personal inscription in ink to front endpaper. Some foxing throughout (mainly to margins). Pictorial dustwrapper is edge-worn, lightly sunned/faded to spine, creased to rear panel with a large closed tear which does not affect any text.

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.

EDWARD HEATH: A BIOGRAPHY
Written by John Campbell.
Stock no. 1831457
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1st 1993. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A biography. The son of a carpenter, Edward Heath broke the mould of upper-class Tory leaders and suffered years of snobbish mockery. With accomplishments outside politics, in music and international sailing, he is a veritable Renaissance Man. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. xx and 876 pages including index. ISBN: 0224024825. Boards clean. Text block just a little grubby with a few foxspots. Gift inscription in ink to front endpaper. Else contents clean. White pictorial dustwrapper is lightly foxed at horizontal edges.