PARIS: CITY OF LIGHT 1919-1939
Written by Vincent Cronin.
Stock no. 1831524
Published by Harpercollins Publishers. 1st 1994. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

This is an intellectual, artistic, political and moral history of Paris after World War I to 1939, said to be one of the most creative decades in history, important in itself and by virtue of its influence on our culture today. It was a period of both intense political rethinking and of "folly". Blue cloth boards, silver title to spine. A few b/w photos. xvii and 334 pages including index. ISBN: 000215191X. Boards clean. Text block lightly foxed and very slightly grubby. Foxing to endpapers else contents clean. White pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed. Musty odour present.

G.M. TREVELYAN: A LIFE IN HISTORY
Written by David Cannadine.
Stock no. 1831521
Published by Harpercollins Publishers. 1st 1992. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

G.M. Trevelyan was a widely read historian. The author skillfully describes the life of this privileged man from his birth in the British intellectual aristocracy through his smooth progress in the academic and literary spheres until his death in 1962. Navy blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. A few b/w photos. xvi and 288 pages including index. ISBN: 0002158728. A few minor marks to rear board, reading crease to spine. Text block browned. Else contents clean. Black pictorial dustwrapper is a little scuffed and lightly marked.

THE CIVILIZATION OF EUROPE IN THE RENAISSANCE
Written by John Hale.
Stock no. 1831458
Published by Harpercollins Publishers. 1st 1993. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The author examines the dramatic changes during the period between 1450 and 1620 in religion, politics, economics and global discoveries. And throughout his book approaches the art of war and the art created for princes from the point of view of their impact on the imaginations, sensibilities and lives of ordinary people. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. xx and 648 pages including index. ISBN: 0002153394. A few light marks to boards. Text block a little grubby. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly sunned/faded to spine and a little scuffed, minor foxing to verso not visible to front.

FORGED IN WAR: CHURCHILL, ROOSEVELT AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR
Written by Warren F.. Kimball.
Stock no. 1831455
Published by Harpercollins Publishers. 1st 1997. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

This is a detailed study of the relationship between Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and its role in shaping the course of World War II. It shows how they were both realists and idealists, consistent and inconsistent, calculating and impulsive. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 422 pages including index. ISBN: 000215482X. Boards clean. Personal inscription in ink to front pastedown and '554-8' written small to top of free front endpaper. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly rubbed at top corner and a little scuffed.

COLERIDGE: SELECTED POEMS
Written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Richard Holmes.
Stock no. 1831324
Published by Harpercollins Publishers. 1st 1996. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

With this collection, renowned Colridge biographer Richard Holmes casts new light on the poet's sensibilities and accomplishments. Holmes divides the poems into eight categories of theme and genre, dispelling the myth of Coleridge as the metaphysical dreamer and rediscovering him as a Romantic autobiographer of tremendous power and range. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xxxiv and 357 pages including index. ISBN: 0002555794. SIGNED by the author, Richard Holmes (no dedication), to title page. Boards clean. Text block slightly grubby. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is faintly sunned/faded to spine and a little scuffed.

THE FRIENDSHIP: WORDSWORTH AND COLERIDGE
Written by Adam Sisman.
Stock no. 1831258
Published by Harpercollins Publishers. 1st 2006. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Wordsworth and Coleridge's passionate intimacy, shared ambition and subsequent estrangement contribute to a tragic tale. Sisman's wonderful biography of this most remarkable friendship seeks to re-examine the orthodox assumption that these two poets flourished as a result of their relationship. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. xxv and 480 pages including index. ISBN: 9780007160525. Vertical reading crease to spine. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is sunned to spine.

LAKELAND: THE WILDLIFE OF CUMBRIA (NN 92)
Written by Derek Ratcliffe.
Stock no. 1829996
Published by Harpercollins Publishers. 1st 2002. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

New Naturalist series no. 92. The story of the whole region of Cumbria from the perspective of its natural history, and from the personal view point of the author. Green cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Colour and b/w photos. 384 pages including index. ISBN: 000711303X. A lovely copy, looks and feels unread! Very light scuffing to dustwrapper. Spine is NOT faded (as is often the case).

DOUBLE LIVES: STALIN, WILLI MUNZENBERG AND THE SEDUCTION OF THE INTELLECTUALS
Written by Stephen Koch.
Stock no. 1829804
Published by Harpercollins Publishers. 1st UK 1995. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The secret tale of the twentieth century, a tale steeped in fanaticism, betrayal and the blood and dreams of the innocent and the guilty. Grey cloth boards, silver title to spine. A few b/w photos. xii and 419 pages including index. ISBN: 0002555166. Light shelf wear to base of spine. Contents clean. White pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-rubbed.

SOCIAL STATISTICS USING SPSS
Written by Nelson C. Dometrius.
Stock no. 685145
Published by Harpercollins Publishers. 1993. Very good condition.

A lucid introduction to statistics and computer applications for graduate and undergraduate students, using SPSS software to produce the statistics discussed in the text. Cardwraps. xx and 540 pages including index. ISBN: 0060417145. 3rd printing. Spine lightly faded. Text block browned and a little grubby. Contents browned but clean.