LECTURES ON MODERN HISTORY
Written by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton; Lord Acton.
Stock no. 1330887
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1952. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Burgundy cloth, gilt title to spine. 362 pages including index. Spine bumped. Cover edges slightly dusty. Browning to endpapers. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper is grubby and browned (especially to spine) with some slight chipping to top and tail of spine.

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THE CAMBRIDGE PLATONISTS
Written by C.A. Patrides.
Stock no. 1330885
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1st thus 1980. Very good condition.

The selected discourses of four seventeenth-century philosophers. Paperback edition. 343 pages including index. ISBN: 052129942X. Light vertical creases to spine where book has been held open. Light foxing and slight grubbiness to textblock. Name and date in ink inside front cover else contents clean.

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JOHN ADAMS
Written by David McCullough.
Stock no. 1330882
Published by The Free Press. 1st thus 2002. Very good condition.

The adventurous life of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot. Paperback edition. Some colour and b/w plates. 751 pages including index. ISBN: 0743232291. Textblock is slightly grubby and foxed. Spine is lightly creased from the book being held open to read.

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THE DEBATE ON THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1761-1783
Written by Max Beloff.
Stock no. 1330881
Published by Nicholas Kaye. 1st 1949. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The British Political Tradition series edited by Bullock and Deakin. This volume edited by Beloff. A selection of contemporary contributions, in speeches and writings, to the debate of the constitutional and political rights and duties of the American colonies. 303 pages including index. Brown cloth, red and gilt title to spine. Spine and corners bumped. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Foxing to endpapers and textblock. Dustwrapper is foxed and slightly edge worn with browning to spine and rear panel.

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IN PURSUIT OF REASON: THE LIFE OF THOMAS JEFFERSON
Written by Noble E. Jr. Cunningham.
Stock no. 1330879
Published by Ballantine Books. Very good condition.

A concise, comprehensive one-volume biography of one of the greatest Americans who ever lived. Paperback edition. 414 pages including index. B/w photos. ISBN: 0345353803. 12th printing. Covers are slightly edge worn with slight lifting of laminate at edges. Contents are edge browned and slightly foxed else clean.

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LINCOLN
Written by David Herbert Donald.
Stock no. 1330878
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1st 1995. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

This compelling biography presents a moving, original portrait of a man who did not seek fame, but who rose reluctantly and spectacularly to the occasion. Blue cloth spine with silver title, pink boards. B/w photos. 714 pages. ISBN: 022404222x. Spine slightly bumped and rubbed. Some foxing to contents. Top edge of textblock is a little grubby. Dustwrapper is slightly edge rubbed.

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THE TROUBLE MAKERS - DISSENT OVER FOREIGN POLICY 1792-1939
Written by A.J.P. Taylor.
Stock no. 1330877
Published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd. 1st 1957. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The Ford Lectures delivered in the University of Oxford in Hilary Term 1956. Black boards, gilt title to spine. 207 pages including index. Minimal bumping to spine and corners. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Foxing to textblock, heavy at top. Dustwrapper is slightly edge worn and grubby with foxing on verso.

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THE SICILIAN VESPERS
Written by Steven Runciman.
Stock no. 1330876
Published by Penguin Books Ltd. 1st thus 1960. Almost very good condition.

A Pelican Book, Blue paperwraps. The rising which brought about the overthrow of the universal papal monarchy. 3 b/w maps. Genealogical tables folded inset at end of book. 384 pages including index. Spine and corners slightly edge worn. Covers foxed, especially spine. Page browning and foxing. Name and date in ink inside front cover.

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THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ERNEST BEVIN (VOLUME TWO) MINISTER OF LABOUR 1940-1945
Written by Alan Bullock.
Stock no. 1330873
Published by William Heinemann Ltd.. 1st 1967. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Second volume of The Life and Times of Ernest Bevin. The events of Bevin's years as Minister of Labour during the war, when he was appointed by Churchill to mobilise Britain's manpower. Red cloth, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. xii and 406 pages including index. Spine and corners bumped. Light browning to endpapers. Heavy foxing to textblock. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Dustwrapper is price-cut by publisher with new price sticker above, is edge-worn and browned to spine with scuffing to rear panel and foxing to spine on verso.

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GEORGE III LORD NORTH AND THE PEOPLE 1779-80
Written by H. Butterfield.
Stock no. 1330872
Published by G. Bell And Sons, Ltd.. 1st 1949. Very good condition.

Red cloth, gilt title to spine. 407 pages (including index). Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Foxing to endpapers and textblock.

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CHARLES JAMES FOX: A MAN FOR THE PEOPLE
Written by Loren Reid.
Stock no. 1831000
Published by Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd.. 1st 1969. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Charles James Fox was one of the most colourful, complex and controversial figures of eighteenth-century England. The book grows out of a professional interest in Fox's talents as a parliamentary speaker. The scope, therefore, is that of a biography, with Fox's attainments as a speaker coming to the foreground at frequent intervals. Light brown cloth boards, dark brown title block with silver title to spine. xiv and 475 pages including index. Boards clean. Text block browned with some foxing. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Light foxing to endpapers. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly browned to flaps. Musty odour present.

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THE SECOND TORY PARTY 1714-1832
Written by Keith Grahame Feiling.
Stock no. 1830999
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1938. Very good condition.

Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. vii and 451 pages including index. Boards are faintly mottled by damps. Text block browned and has minor foxing. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Minor foxing to endpapers. Contents clean.

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