LABOUR IN CRISIS: CLEMENT ATTLEE AND THE LABOUR PARTY IN OPPOSITION, 1931-1940
Written by John Swift.
Stock no. 1831217
Published by Palgrave. 1st 2001. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

An examination of how Labour, from being driven from office as unfit to govern, recovered to be seen as essential to the effective prosecution of the war, and how Attlee emerged from relative obscurity to become a central figure in the War Cabinet. Grey cloth boards, silver title to spine. ix and 209 pages including index. ISBN: 0333800877. A lovely copy. Dustwrapper is lightly scuffed to rear panel.

POLICY AND POLICE: THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE REFORMATION IN THE AGE OF THOMAS CROMWELL
Written by G.R. Elton.
Stock no. 1831215
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1st 1972. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The book examines what actually happened during Henry VIII's break with Rome, the widespread resistance which necessitated constant vigilance on the part of the government, and the role of Thomas Cromwell, whose surviving correspondence permits a detailed insight both into the purposes of government and the manner in which it was experienced by the people. Light brown cloth boards, gilt title on red title block to spine. xi and 446 pages including index. ISBN: 0521083834. Boards clean. Minor foxing to text block. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Grey dustwrapper is foxed to flap folds, lightly browned to spine and a little grubby to rear panel.

GEORGE III AND THE HISTORIANS
Written by Herbert Butterfield.
Stock no. 1831207
Published by Collins. 1st 1957. Almost very good condition.

A biography, which addresses the historical view of the monarch George III, and also discusses the scholarly controversy that centres on the King and his reputation as an unconstitutional tyrant. Turquoise cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 304 pages including index. Slight lean to spine. Boards are grubby, spine browned. Text block and endpapers browned. Some foxing present, mainly to text block.

GEORGE III AND THE MAD-BUSINESS
Written by Ida Macalpine; Richard Hunter.
Stock no. 1831206
Published by Allen Lane The Penguin Press. 1st 1969. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

George III and the Mad-Business, argues that George III was not mad as was once thought. Instead, the author's claim that George suffered from the inherited metabolic disease, acute intermittent porphyria, a diagnosis they later amended to the milder, though even rarer disorder, variegate porphyria. This book is a fascinating combination of medical, pshychiatric and historical detection. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. xv and 407 pages including index. ISBN: 0713901063. Text block lightly browned and lightly foxed. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

THE ENGLISH RADICAL TRADITION 1763-1914
Written by S. Maccoby.
Stock no. 1831204
Published by Nicholas Kaye Ltd.. 1st 1952. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Book five of The British Political Tradition series. Brown cloth boards, red title and title block to spine. xiii and 236 pages including index. Boards clean. Text block and prelims foxed and browned. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Contents clean. Grey dustwrapper is browned to spine and a little grubby.

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.

CAMBRIDGE COMMEMORATED: AN ANTHOLOGY OF UNIVERSITY LIFE
Written by Laurence Fowler; Helen Fowler.
Stock no. 1831190
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1st 1984. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The daily lives of dons and students, town and gown relations, change and continuity are unfolded in letters, diaries, memoirs, novels, college records, newspapers and magazine articles. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. xiv and 384 pages including index. ISBN: 0521257433. Boards clean. Text block slightly grubby. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Light page edge browning else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly browned and lightly edge-creased.

142 STRAND: A RADICAL ADDRESS IN VICTORIAN LONDON
Written by Rosemary Ashton.
Stock no. 1831181
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1st 2006. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

An extraordinary circle gathered at 142 Strand - George Eliot, Thomas Carlyle, Charles Dickens, John Stuart Mill - the brightest lights of radical Britain, drawn by the charismatic John Chapman, a publisher like no other. Navy blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. xiv and 386 pages including index. ISBN: 9780701173708. Front hinge pulled but binding is tight. Pictorial dustwrapper is grubby, especially to rear panel.

AN HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF ENGLAND BEFORE A.D. 1800
Written by H.C. Darby; et al.
Stock no. 1831180
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1951. Almost very good condition.

Fourteen Studies, edited by H.C. Darby. Burgundy cloth boards. Gilt title to spine. B/w maps and diagrams. xii and 566 pages including index. Reprinted with corrections. Boards faded, spine browned and gilt title has lost the gilt. Two inscriptions in ink to front endpaper. Text block browned with a few foxspots. Foxing to prelims and endpapers. Margin of page 525/526 has a small tear which has been repaired with clear tape, now yellowed with age. Contents otherwise clean.

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.

WINGS ACROSS THE BORDER: A HISTORY OF AVIATION IN NORTH WALES AND THE NORTHERN MARCHES VOL III
Written by Derrick Pratt; Mike Grant.
Stock no. 1831165
Published by Bridge Books. 1st 2005. Very good condition.

This third volumes of Wings Across the Border, complete in itself, covers the period 1940-1, a period of experimentation as the RAF and other armed services tried to tackle the problems of countering the Luftwaffe. Large format. Card wraps. B/w photos and maps. 256 pages. ISBN: 1844940101. Cover corners lightly rubbed, covers a little scuffed. Minor mark to top edge of text block. First section pulled. Contents clean.