TWILIGHT OF THE HABSBURGS: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF EMPEROR FRANCIS JOSEPH
Written by Alan Palmer.
Stock no. 1831528
Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1st 1994. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Alan Palmer's authoritative biography tracks Josef's long life from cradle to grave, describing in the right level of detail the conservative administrator who kept his multi-ethnic nation together for over 70 years from 1848 until 1916. Burgundy cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. xii and 388 pages including index. ISBN: 0297813463. Boards clean. Text block lightly browned/grubby. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly sunned/faded to spine.

GOD'S FUNERAL
Written by A.N. Wilson.
Stock no. 1831447
Published by John Murray. 1st 1999. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A magisterial, colorful narrative illuminating the central tragedy of the nineteenth century: that God (or man's faith in him) died, but the need to worship remained as a torment to those who thought they had buried Him. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w plates. xi and 402 pages including index. ISBN: 0719557615. A few minor scuffs to boards. Foxing/browning to text block. Contents clean. Black dustwrapper is a bit scuffed.

THE FALL OF THE WEST: THE SLOW DEATH OF THE ROMAN SUPERPOWER
Written by Adrian Goldsworthy.
Stock no. 1831443
Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1st 2009. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A sweeping narrative of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour & b/w plates. x and 531 pages including index. ISBN: 9780297845638. Light vertical reading crease to spine. Slight lean to spine. Text block lightly foxed. Couple of spots to front endpaper. Glossy plates have stuck together due to damp, prised apart leaving some minor imprint to facing pages. Yellow pictorial dustwrapper has damp mottling to verso (not visible to front).

THE DEATH OF THE PAST
Written by J.H. Plumb.
Stock no. 1831329
Published by The History Book Club. 1st thus 1969. Very good condition.

This book is based on the Saponsnekow Lectures the author gave in the City College, New York, in 1968. J.H. Plumb investigates the way that humankind has moulded the past to give sanction to their institutions of government, their social structure and morality. The past has also been called upon to explain the nature of our destiny in order both to strengthen the objectives of society and to reconcile us to our lot. Blue cloth boards, gilt titles. 153 pages including index. Spine faded and has a slight lean (through use). Light foxing to text block, endpapers and prelims. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Else contents clean.

HISTORY AS THE STORY OF LIBERTY
Written by Benedetto Croce.
Stock no. 1831327
Published by George Allen & Unwin Ltd.. 1949. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A brilliant and penetrating discussion of history and the writing of history it is Croce's contention that history must be considered first as the history of liberty, one of the greatest possessions of the human race.Beige cloth boards, red titles. 324 pages including index, plus publisher adverts to rear. Top edge red. Third impression. Some mottling/browning to board edges. Text block grubby and foxed. Name & address in ink to front endpaper. Foxing to endpapers and prelims else contents clean. Burgundy dustwrapper is lightly edge-rubbed, rear panel is browned and grubby.

THE DISCOVERY OF MANKIND: ATLANTIC ENCOUNTERS IN THE AGE OF COLUMBUS
Written by David Abulafia.
Stock no. 1831326
Published by Yale University Press. 2008. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Book Club Edition. Emphasizing contact between peoples rather than the discovery of lands, and using archaeological findings as well as eyewitness accounts, David Abulafia explores the social lives of the New World inhabitants, the motivations and tensions of the first transactions with Europeans, and the swift transmutation of wonder to vicious exploitation. Lucid, readable, and scrupulously researched, this is a work of humane engagement with a period in which a tragically violent standard was set for European conquest across the world. Dark grey paper boards, silver title to spine. A few b/w plates. xxvi and 379 pages including index. ISBN: 9780300125825. Light concave reading crease to spine. Slight lean to spine. Text block grubby. Contents clean. Pictorial dustswrapper is lightly edge-worn and scuffed.

THE FATAL IMPACT: AN ACCOUNT OF THE INVASION OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC 1767-1840
Written by Alan Moorehead.
Stock no. 1831257
Published by Hamish Hamilton. 1st 1966. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The late Alan Moorehead evocatively recounts the almost inevitable tragic consequences for the native people and cultures of the South Pacific when Western man "discovered" them, even when the discoverer, Cook, was no conquistador and had come with high hopes of peaceful and productive co-existence. Green cloth boards, gilt title on red title block to spine. B/w photos and illustratilons. xiv and 230 pages including index. Top edge green. Boards clean. Text block browned. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Some foxing and browning to contents. Pictorial dustwrapper is a little grubby and lightly edge-rubbed.

AUTHORITY AND THE INDIVIDUAL: THE REITH LECTURES FOR 1948-9
Written by Bertrand Russell.
Stock no. 1831256
Published by George Allen & Unwin Ltd.. 1st 1949. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A series of six lectures exploring the balance between social order and individual freedom in modern society. Delivered in 1949, Russell examines how institutions like government, education and religion shape behaviour, often at the expense of personal liberty. Pale yellow cloth boards, green titles. 125 pages plus publisher adverts to rear. Top edge green. Spine lightly browned, some foxing to boards. Text block lightly browned. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Some scattered foxspots present. Green dustwrapper is browned, stained and marked, title barely visible to spine.

BYRD TO BRITTEN: A SURVEY OF ENGLISH SONG
Written by Sydney Northcote.
Stock no. 1831228
Published by John Baker Publishers Limited. 1st 1966. Very good condition.

Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 152 pages including index. Spine sunned/faded. Boards very slightly grubby. Name & date in ink to front pastedown and '3903' written in ink to front endpaper. A few minor foxspots to text block. Contents clean.

CITIES & PEOPLE: A SOCIAL AND ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY
Written by Mark Girouard.
Stock no. 1831225
Published by Yale University Press. 1st 1985. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

In an inimitable feat of social history, Girouard analyzes how the development of fashionable society, the increase in trade, the growth of population, and the widening of power of the nation state influenced seventeenth- and eighteenth-century cities, and how the Industrial Revolution affected cities of the nineteenth century. Large format. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour double-spread title page and colour & b/w illustrations throughout. vii and 397 pages including index. ISBN: 0300035020. Lower edge of boards lightly knocked (very minor). Corner bumped. Boards a little stained (faint). Top edge of text block a little grubby. A few minor foxspots to prelims else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper has a 2" split to lower front corners and a few marks. Musty odour present.

THE ATLAS OF LITERATURE
Written by Malcolm Bradbury.
Stock no. 1831224
Published by De Agostini Editions. 1st 1996. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

This book explores the fascinating connection between writers and place. This ambitious and exciting book focuses on writers and works that are intimately bound up with a place and a time, capturing a town, a city, a region, in its literary heyday. More than 80 essays edited by Malcolm Bradbury. Large format. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour & b/w illustrations. 352 pages including index. ISBN: 1899883673. Lower edge of boards lightly knocked and rubbed. Verso of endpapers and prelims lightly browned. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper has a few minor marks and a small closed tear to top rear edge of spine. Musty odour present.

THE SOUTH SEA BUBBLE
Written by John Carswell.
Stock no. 1831212
Published by The Cresset Press. 1st 1960. Almost very good condition.

The South Sea Bubble was a significant financial crisis that occurred in the early 18th century, primarily driven by the South Sea Company, which was established in 1711 to monopolize British trade with South America. The company was granted this monopoly in exchange for taking on a portion of the national debt, which had been exacerbated by the costly War of the Spanish Succession. The company's promise of immense profits from trade, particularly involving enslaved Africans, attracted a surge of speculative investment, driving stock prices to unprecedented highs and ultimately the world's first financial crash. Burgundy cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. xii and 314 pages. Boards a little marked/stained. Spine faintly sunned. Text block browned and sunned with heavy foxing, some foxing bleeding on to page margins. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Some foxing to contents, mainly to margins.